Speaker 1: Are you ready? Good pickup with Britt Hockley and Laura.
Speaker 2: Burn Radio work, our windows, my wa rison the dust
Speaker 2: only good babs An, I don't much, but yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: o't and what I want.
Speaker 1: It don't matter where. This is the pickup, Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: it's the pickup with Britt Hackley and Laura Benday.
Speaker 3: It would be rude of us not to talk about
Speaker 3: the fact that Lady Gaga has just announced she's coming
Speaker 3: to Australia on her Mayhem Ball tour.
Speaker 1: Very exciting, isn't it? It is exciting.
Speaker 3: Do you know what we mainly knew about this because
Speaker 3: producer Grace.
Speaker 1: Is like she's so excited, like so excited. If Grace
Speaker 1: said I will buy tickets, I Am not going to
Speaker 1: just try and get them through radio. I will buy them,
Speaker 1: buy the get them through radio.
Speaker 4: No, I will be there front of the line. Paus up,
Speaker 4: little monster, ready to buy these tickets.
Speaker 1: We're all monster ready?
Speaker 3: I love the reference or hang on before we get
Speaker 3: into it. She is coming to Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne. Tickets
Speaker 3: are on sale April seventeen. Are you one of these
Speaker 3: people that are going to have like fifty computers open
Speaker 3: at once and all the websites to try and get
Speaker 3: the tickets.
Speaker 1: Are you camping outside to get a good spot?
Speaker 4: Don't know, because I'm not a concert person. Because the
Speaker 4: idea of buying tickets really stresses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this to me, like I'm excited, but this makes
Speaker 1: me feel stressed.
Speaker 4: Yes, so I think I'm gonna have to try have
Speaker 4: all the like a spy, have all the screens.
Speaker 1: Yes, you work in radio, surely there is some perks
Speaker 1: to this job, do.
Speaker 5: You know what?
Speaker 1: Surely?
Speaker 3: No, I'm gonna put this to bed right now, because
Speaker 3: I get asked all the time. The number of people
Speaker 3: that ask me if I could hook them up tickets
Speaker 3: to Taylor Swift when she was here. The post office
Speaker 3: man asked me, He's like, okay, my daughter loves Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: I'm like, bro, I can't get tickets.
Speaker 3: People think that when you're in radio it's like a
Speaker 3: frenzy free for all.
Speaker 1: This absolutely not. Some of the tickets are off there.
Speaker 1: I had to. I bought my ticket's secondhand by someone
Speaker 1: who was like scalping themis And also, if.
Speaker 3: We do get tickets given to us, like if the
Speaker 3: radio gets them allocated, not to throw the bosses under
Speaker 3: the bas but the bosses take them.
Speaker 1: We don't get them. I don't know if they do.
Speaker 1: They do, I've I've seen them in the suits. I
Speaker 1: know that they're taking them.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, look those tickets are on sale April seventeen.
Speaker 3: So the last few days we've been talking about Laura's renovation.
Speaker 3: You've been renovating this house for the best part of
Speaker 3: nine months, and.
Speaker 1: In case you're curious, it looks amazing. Everyone's been so
Speaker 1: supportive and they've said, Wow, what a beautiful, eclectic bathroom
Speaker 1: and kitchen you've so meticulously and thoughtfully renovated.
Speaker 3: Okay, that could be further from the truth. No, some
Speaker 3: people have said that. But if you have missed it,
Speaker 3: we've been talking about the fact that Laura has been.
Speaker 1: Gainst some pretty harsh criticism online.
Speaker 3: There's been some trolls that have been coming for you
Speaker 3: with very honest feedback.
Speaker 1: And yesterday I read out some of the comments that
Speaker 1: we've received. This is what people had to say. She wrote,
Speaker 1: love that for you. You were being stubborn with your style.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand how it works though it's ugly.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that marble is hideous. Ah, well, you
Speaker 1: would be ripped to pieces by SHANEA. Blaze. It's a
Speaker 1: no from me too. Someone wrote, you didn't pay me
Speaker 1: to stay here, and I was like, you'll never get
Speaker 1: to stay here. It's okay, Sharon, You're not invited. This
Speaker 1: was about the kitchen reveal better than your crap bathroom.
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 1: Someone wrote last night you couldn't pay me to shit
Speaker 1: in this bathroom and I was like, oh, we've reached
Speaker 1: a whole new low. Guys, leave me alone.
Speaker 3: Also, why do these people think they're invited to shit
Speaker 3: in the bar?
Speaker 1: I'm not paying you to do that in my bathroom. Okay.
Speaker 3: There have been some people that have also given you
Speaker 3: positive feedback as well, but likes funny.
Speaker 1: The trolls have been coming. But I did want to
Speaker 1: put this to bed, so I.
Speaker 3: Have contacted I slid into the dams the block judge
Speaker 3: and interior designer Darren Palmer. I have sent him photos
Speaker 3: of your house. He has been reviewing them overnight. I
Speaker 3: think he stayed up all night with his monocle, making
Speaker 3: sure he looked at every detail.
Speaker 1: He's gonna score me, He's going to score you.
Speaker 4: He's on the line.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the pickup Darren.
Speaker 5: I don't know what sort of judge you think I am.
Speaker 5: I don't work from the Supreme Court. I work on
Speaker 5: the Telly and I tell people where they're stuff is
Speaker 5: good or not. You've missed a few of those great quotes.
Speaker 5: By the way, there's like you two had a stroke
Speaker 5: watching this. I love that one.
Speaker 1: That was a good one.
Speaker 5: I love you guys, but I hate this was the first.
Speaker 5: This one I particularly like, Oh, it's getting worse.
Speaker 1: I think I wrote back to that one and said, no,
Speaker 1: this is us at our peak, at the kitchen's peak.
Speaker 5: I thought that was a cracking response.
Speaker 1: It's very funny. So you've been reviewing the photos, Darren, Darren,
Speaker 1: let me be honest, you would know this. I had
Speaker 1: never understood, or had no concept of how much anterior
Speaker 1: design makes people angry. They're so polarized by it.
Speaker 5: Yes, that is exactly right. The thing is, and you
Speaker 5: touched on it yourself in the comments, which I commend
Speaker 5: you for. Is you really have to think about when
Speaker 5: you're doing a house, why are you doing it? And
Speaker 5: are you doing it to sell it to a market?
Speaker 5: Are you doing it to satisfy yourselves and to live
Speaker 5: in for the next five, ten, fifteen years, or as
Speaker 5: you said, you'll have to by the keys out of
Speaker 5: my cold dead hand.
Speaker 1: Darren, can I tell you the theme for the house?
Speaker 1: So it's a holiday house? And I said, I just
Speaker 1: want it to be fun and I want everyone to
Speaker 1: walk in into it and feel that they're on holidays.
Speaker 5: You've done exactly that. This must be super peaky for
Speaker 5: you to be like, Okay, let's ask an expert on
Speaker 5: what they think on my hard work that I've just completed.
Speaker 5: I speaking of someone who's just finished a renovation that
Speaker 5: took me two years and where everything is basically beige.
Speaker 1: That's like my dream. I do like the marble you
Speaker 1: have in your house, though, Darren, don't worry. I've seen it.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful renovation. No one's doubting that.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you. I appreciate that. But the point is,
Speaker 5: I think a lot of people feel really comfortable with
Speaker 5: neutral palettes, and a lot of people feel comfortable with
Speaker 5: what they've seen before. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: you are designing a home that is for you guys
Speaker 5: to enjoy, and also you wanted to create a feeling
Speaker 5: and a mood of fun and holiday and get away
Speaker 5: and like, honestly, your house isn't a normal looking house
Speaker 5: from the outside. It's interesting, you know, it's got all
Speaker 5: those different shapes and it's a really great word. I
Speaker 5: love it well. As my Nana says, if I feed
Speaker 5: its something that's a little bit too flavorous and she goes, oh,
Speaker 5: that's different. Different means bad, But in this case, it doesn't.
Speaker 5: It just means it's different. And I think if you
Speaker 5: put a normal, predictable, you know, ampt and style, coastal
Speaker 5: interior in this house, it just wouldn't fit the exterior.
Speaker 5: So I reckon the person that's loving the exterior of
Speaker 5: your house will find a lot of joy on the
Speaker 5: interior of your house.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the first room, which is the bathroom, Darren,
Speaker 3: can you describe that and let us know what you think.
Speaker 5: Look, risks have been taken, and I think the things
Speaker 5: I love are the natural zone. I think it's beautiful.
Speaker 5: I really love the subway tiles in the stripe pattern.
Speaker 5: I think that's gorgeous. I really love the mirror. Now
Speaker 5: I do have notes. Do you want notes?
Speaker 1: I'm ready?
Speaker 5: Yeah. The bath, No bath took me through that decision.
Speaker 1: You couldn't fit it. You couldn't fit a bath.
Speaker 3: Not good choice for resale value. But I guess if
Speaker 3: you're not resailing.
Speaker 1: Then we talked about it a lot. It was a sacrifice.
Speaker 1: We were like, if we're gonna if we're gonna make
Speaker 1: it have space, it's going to have no bath. Otherwise
Speaker 1: the bath would have been one of those pokey little
Speaker 1: half baths. And I was like, who wants to sit
Speaker 1: in a half bath? A child?
Speaker 5: Nobody but your kids or your pets. That's what it's
Speaker 5: useful for.
Speaker 1: No pets, so good to wash with a shower handle.
Speaker 1: I refuse that getting a dog into I've got a
Speaker 1: forty kilo dog expert on. I'm sorry, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: convince that the thought process here, Okay, I've.
Speaker 5: Got one other note. It's the placement of your basin,
Speaker 5: particularly the tap in relation to that wall scumps. That
Speaker 5: distance seems little tie in that you kind of feel
Speaker 5: like that may be close to your face when you're
Speaker 5: going to use the tap. I would have bumped it
Speaker 5: away from the wall a little bit. I get where
Speaker 5: you've got lots of counterspace. I understand it's nice to
Speaker 5: spread everything out, especially if you don't have face level storage.
Speaker 5: Face level storage is also a really nice inclusion. But
Speaker 5: I love your mirror, so you've got heaps of storage underneath.
Speaker 5: I'm not too bothered by that.
Speaker 1: Great, I'm loving these. I feel validated.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so out of ten, I would give you a
Speaker 5: solid nine functionality.
Speaker 1: Take you that, so that and carry a side.
Speaker 5: Yeah, actually, maybe the bath to go half a point off.
Speaker 1: I reckon, you've got to knock a couple off for
Speaker 1: the bath. I know the bath was very enraging for
Speaker 1: some people. All right, we'll move to the kitchen. Now.
Speaker 1: The kitchen's also been controversial.
Speaker 5: So the kitchen. Did you get your color inspiration from
Speaker 5: your old laundry?
Speaker 1: Yes, we wanted to keep same colors, similar theme, but
Speaker 1: we wanted it to feel like it was more modern, maximimalist.
Speaker 1: That was kind of the thing we were going for.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what, if it ain't broke, don't fix
Speaker 5: it right. Your lay out work before it works. Now,
Speaker 5: very fond of the tiles on the floor. And is
Speaker 5: it a pantry inside with a beautiful stone. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 5: you need more powerpoints in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. We also have sliding doors so that it
Speaker 1: didn't just stay with the doors open. But that was also,
Speaker 1: Look first time.
Speaker 5: You know what, how many times have you done this? None?
Speaker 5: You're doing great. It's not easy, right, Like people think
Speaker 5: that it's really easy to create something from your mind
Speaker 5: and to just to design, and it's not. It's actually tricky,
Speaker 5: And it's even trickier when everybody and their dog decides
Speaker 5: that they have the ability to criticize your hard work online.
Speaker 5: You did ask for it, and you are asking for
Speaker 5: it again. I'm going to point it out so it
Speaker 5: doesn't hurt the people talk about it.
Speaker 1: It's true. Also, I kind of love how angry people
Speaker 1: get it about it, because you do love it. I
Speaker 1: just want to because I want to see their homes too.
Speaker 1: I want to, you know, when people get so angry,
Speaker 1: I want to see Sharon's homes. No I do. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: clearly you must live in a palace if you're going
Speaker 1: to get so cranky. But anyway, I feel like it's
Speaker 1: never gonna all right, hang on, let's wrap this up.
Speaker 1: We need what I scoring in the kitchen.
Speaker 5: Look, I think it's a cracker. I think it's beautiful,
Speaker 5: absolutely gorgeous. So I love what you're doing, Laura.
Speaker 1: I was expecting more meanness. Thank you. I am going
Speaker 1: to cut this down.
Speaker 5: I get to the wrong person. Although I did see
Speaker 5: that you'll get ripped to pieces by Shane and Blaze,
Speaker 5: so you probably should speak to her, do you reckon?
Speaker 1: She would rip me to pieces. She's at next. Let's
Speaker 1: get her next.
Speaker 5: I know her very well.
Speaker 1: You'll just have to see, all right, Darren, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. I'm very pleasantly surprised. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: tag every single person who left me in comment.
Speaker 5: Hey, you're so welcome. That was fun.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I want to talk about White Lotus now.
Speaker 3: Before or we get into it, I want to say
Speaker 3: this is no spoilers about the show. It was the
Speaker 3: finale this week, but we are not talking about the
Speaker 3: show itself.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it yet, so I can't spoil anything
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 3: Yeahs, No, what I wanted to talk about was something
Speaker 3: that I thought was really interesting. It's a really interesting
Speaker 3: pay conversation that has come off the back of White Loaders. Now,
Speaker 3: HBO has come out and said that all of the
Speaker 3: White Loadus stars are paid the exact same amount.
Speaker 1: So what this means is it doesn't matter if you
Speaker 1: are a veteran actor.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter if you are the George Cloonies or
Speaker 3: the Brad Pitts, or in this case, Woody Harrelson. And
Speaker 3: I say that because Woody Harrelson originally signed on to
Speaker 3: play a cast member, a main cast member.
Speaker 1: The reason he.
Speaker 3: Didn't do it is because he ended up being cast
Speaker 3: in another show. But he negotiated his salary all the
Speaker 3: way to the CEO of HBO. He was saying, like,
Speaker 3: there's no way I'm doing it for forty K. And
Speaker 3: they didn't even budge for him. They were like, every
Speaker 3: single actor, if it's your first ever acting job or
Speaker 3: it's your one hundred acting job, is going to be
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: It started a really interesting conversation because there are a
Speaker 3: lot of people saying, wow, this is setting the standard
Speaker 3: for the future of acting. Do we think every actor
Speaker 3: should sign on and be paid equal?
Speaker 1: Because what it.
Speaker 3: Means is and Mike White, the director HBO CEO, has
Speaker 3: come out saying, it means you're getting people sign on
Speaker 3: for the right reason. It's not a money grab for them.
Speaker 3: They're not just doing it to put money in their pocket.
Speaker 3: They're saying, hey, I actually feel so strongly about this project.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean it's a job. It's like coming
Speaker 1: to work in a radio network. Here we go and
Speaker 1: being the number one show in all the country and saying,
Speaker 1: but you shouldn't ask for a big salary, because you
Speaker 1: should do it for the joy of creating content. I
Speaker 1: guess my thing is if an actor has a proven
Speaker 1: track record, they've started in many films, they are a
Speaker 1: more experienced actor. They also have the recall, like people
Speaker 1: want to see them. They're the ones who are the
Speaker 1: stars that are bringing in the viewership. Then I would
Speaker 1: say that they deserve to be paid more. I think
Speaker 1: that it's like you earn your stripes in any industry,
Speaker 1: and the more experienced you are, the more you get paid.
Speaker 1: I agree with you.
Speaker 3: So the producer David Bernard said, everyone is treated the
Speaker 3: same on White Lotus. They get paid the same. We
Speaker 3: do alphabetical billing. So you're getting people who want to
Speaker 3: do the project for the right reasons. Not to quote
Speaker 3: The Bachelor, it's a system we developed in the first
Speaker 3: season because there was no money to make the show.
Speaker 3: So I understand how it started, and I guess I
Speaker 3: understand why there are people that are for it, But personally,
Speaker 3: how can you say to somebody that has twenty years experience,
Speaker 3: trained experience that bring in big dollars.
Speaker 1: They're bringing viewership.
Speaker 3: How can you say that you don't deserve anything more
Speaker 3: than somebody that might be quote unquote a new grad.
Speaker 1: Here's my question, what's the name of the guy who
Speaker 1: makes it? The creator, Mike White? Is Mike White earning
Speaker 1: the same amount for this series is what he did
Speaker 1: for the first series? Because I mean, highly unlikely. But
Speaker 1: that's the thing. If it's based on this altruistic want
Speaker 1: to just like create a great film, I know that
Speaker 1: they created a system in the first place. The series
Speaker 1: wasn't worth anything with the first season. They didn't know
Speaker 1: how it was going to go. So benchmarking a huge
Speaker 1: blockbuster that has now in its third season off the
Speaker 1: projected success of something that didn't exist. I think that
Speaker 1: they're just like money gouging. The people who are creating
Speaker 1: the film are making more money. They're putting it all
Speaker 1: in their own pockets. It's not going back to charities, like,
Speaker 1: it's not going back to anything except HBO. I think
Speaker 1: it's crap.
Speaker 3: I don't like it because you've seen it happening in
Speaker 3: other industries, especially in entertainment. This kind of thing happens
Speaker 3: a lot, like not just the movie making, but all
Speaker 3: aspects of entertainment. There's always this overlying or underlying threat
Speaker 3: that well, if you don't do it, even though you're
Speaker 3: worth more, if you don't do it, someone's going to
Speaker 3: do it for less.
Speaker 1: There's someone else is going to take it. So you
Speaker 1: take this low paying salary or not totally. It's the
Speaker 1: same with any industry. I mean you look at photographers,
Speaker 1: you look at graphic designers, any creative industry. People are
Speaker 1: expected to do their craft for not enough pay. And
Speaker 1: it's because, like, people can love their jobs, but they
Speaker 1: should be remunerated for what they bring to that job.
Speaker 1: And I think this is just a very very sneaky
Speaker 1: way of them being able to go, oh, we only
Speaker 1: want people who are excited about white loaders while making
Speaker 1: the maximounter of profits the show as possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And if you compare it to remember Friends, for example,
Speaker 3: so like if they did this eight episode season, they
Speaker 3: will get about five hundred and thirty thousand Australian dollars total,
Speaker 3: which is a great summer money.
Speaker 1: Per cast member. Yeah, per cast member for the whole season.
Speaker 3: When you think of Friends, they used to get a
Speaker 3: million dollars each per episode. Having said that, would I
Speaker 3: do for forty thousand dollars?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, You're like, I would do it for free. I
Speaker 1: will pay them. But also, you're not no offense on well,
Speaker 1: you're not a huge movie star who can demand the
Speaker 1: highest pay. You would be on the lowest end of
Speaker 1: the spectrum because it's a new thing, all right, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just wanted to clean that up.
Speaker 3: Well, I would negotiate it to forty two