Speaker 1: Are you good?
Speaker 2: Pickup with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn.
Speaker 3: Bady, your work, our windows done?
Speaker 4: My world, reason the dust only good? Babs all down.
Speaker 2: I don't much, but yeah I know I'll big get
Speaker 2: and what I want.
Speaker 1: It don't matter where. This is the pickup.
Speaker 3: Hello a happy hump day, Happy day, Happy day afternoon.
Speaker 4: It's the pick up with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, happy post aper fools Day. Thank god that's over.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're actually we are talking about that on
Speaker 2: today's show. We have some very strong feelings about April Fols.
Speaker 2: Someone in the team.
Speaker 4: Got fooled pretty bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just over it. I've got some very neutral
Speaker 2: feelings about it. First though, what's his name?
Speaker 4: Not my kitchen rule, machine gun, call gun Kelly.
Speaker 1: But he's not called it anymore.
Speaker 3: He drops the gun because apparently it was bad.
Speaker 4: That's want to name.
Speaker 1: He's just machine previously known as machine gun Kelly, MGK.
Speaker 4: We could have just gone from his real name. Isn't
Speaker 4: his real name like Colon or something. I literally think
Speaker 4: he just goes machine anyway.
Speaker 2: Look, he's just recently had a baby with Megan Fox
Speaker 2: and they announced the baby. They're apparently amicably co parenting
Speaker 2: because they.
Speaker 4: Separated a while back.
Speaker 2: But they have this little baby that's come into the world,
Speaker 2: and they were celebrating the announcement and called the baby
Speaker 2: Celestial Seed.
Speaker 4: And there's been quite a bit of confusion because all of.
Speaker 2: Their fans thought that the baby's name was actually Celestial Seed,
Speaker 2: but that was just his very abstract description for a
Speaker 2: small child.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's also very believable because when you think
Speaker 3: about the names in Hollywood, that's probably one of the
Speaker 3: better ones.
Speaker 2: You would absolutely believe that someone who's named themselves machine
Speaker 2: Gun Kelly would name their child so, let's seed.
Speaker 3: Like that's that checks out a lot of like self inflation,
Speaker 3: isn't it like self love to say that your seed
Speaker 3: is so celestial and then name your kid after it,
Speaker 3: because that's what you're saying, is like, my sperm is
Speaker 3: so choice.
Speaker 4: That that's why that's so out of this world.
Speaker 3: Or if I'm misinterpreted what he means by seed, how
Speaker 3: would you respond?
Speaker 2: Like if I had a third kid and I name
Speaker 2: it the most whack out their name, like would we
Speaker 2: be okay with it? Will we just accept? Or would
Speaker 2: you call it on me? Like would you tell me
Speaker 2: that it's a terrible name.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it was terrible, but you know, i'd
Speaker 3: call you on it.
Speaker 1: I'd like to be asking questions.
Speaker 2: If I have a third kid and I'm like, I'm
Speaker 2: going to name it friend of Panny Rocket, where you
Speaker 2: go that's not no, don't do that.
Speaker 3: No, I would say, talk me through the choice, and
Speaker 3: what state of mine were you in when you did it?
Speaker 1: Were you still high on gas?
Speaker 3: But if you want to call your kid friend of Penny,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna call him Franjo if you're happy.
Speaker 4: With that, Actually I'm gotta call it friend.
Speaker 2: You know what, I did call my daughter Lola and
Speaker 2: you just call her Lola Derby.
Speaker 4: So that was a terrible choice as well.
Speaker 1: Panelol Lolador. There's a lot of things like Lola Coaster
Speaker 1: and there's.
Speaker 2: Been a few now. Something that I wanted to talk
Speaker 2: about which is really super important to me, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure that it's something that a lot of Australians across
Speaker 2: the country will resonate with. But that is fostering or
Speaker 2: taking on an adoption rescue animal, right. So I have
Speaker 2: a ten year old bull Arab. He was my rescue
Speaker 2: pet that I got when he was one year old.
Speaker 2: He only has three legs, and hester he has.
Speaker 4: A name, a yeah Buster.
Speaker 2: He's the goodest of all the good boys out there.
Speaker 2: But he was so overlooked for so long and had
Speaker 2: been in the foster system for almost a year. The
Speaker 2: reason for that is because I think, firstly, he's a.
Speaker 4: Really big dog.
Speaker 2: He's considered a giant dog because he's forty something kilos
Speaker 2: even with just three legs.
Speaker 1: He's also quite lean though that surprises me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a big dog.
Speaker 2: But also I think people kind of thought because he
Speaker 2: had three legs, he was going to cost a lot
Speaker 2: of money and it was going to be, you know,
Speaker 2: a real expense with vet bills. Now, the reason why
Speaker 2: I want to talk about this is this month just
Speaker 2: passed so much was the Petstock Foundation's National Pet Adoption Month.
Speaker 2: I've worked with them for the last couple of years
Speaker 2: and it's a really incredible charity which focuses on getting
Speaker 2: more rescue animals into homes. And I read a statistic
Speaker 2: which was just absolutely alarming, and that is that there
Speaker 2: is one hundred thousand animals every single year that are
Speaker 2: put down because the rescue homes are just completely flooded,
Speaker 2: like they're so overwhelmed with animals in need, and most
Speaker 2: of those animals one hundred thousand never even make it
Speaker 2: to the point of being up for adoption. They just
Speaker 2: get euthanized on the spot or on the day that
Speaker 2: they come in because there's nowhere to put them. And
Speaker 2: I guess the reason why it's something that I really like,
Speaker 2: want to talk about and care about so much is
Speaker 2: because I think that there is so much stigma around it.
Speaker 2: But also there's a lot of stereotypes that are just incorrect.
Speaker 4: And that was what I learned when I took Buster on.
Speaker 2: So I thought he was going to come with all
Speaker 2: this trauma, especially being a dog they've been hit by
Speaker 2: car and having three legs. I thought he was going to,
Speaker 2: you know, with that trauma, might be vicious, might be reactive,
Speaker 2: hard to train, all that sort of stuff. And I mean, britt,
Speaker 2: you know him, He's just the biggest, sweetest, most gentle giant,
Speaker 2: has the patience of a saint.
Speaker 1: He's very horny as well.
Speaker 3: But besides that, he does I say that he does
Speaker 3: he has a humping thing, but.
Speaker 4: He doesn't have a humping thing. He's never hummed. He
Speaker 4: just always has his red Rocket is always out look.
Speaker 1: We canfigure he is the gentlest of boys.
Speaker 3: You almost can't provoke him, like he's just so calm.
Speaker 2: And chill, which yeah, and I mean, you know, you
Speaker 2: always hear stories about people bringing kids into families and
Speaker 2: how that goes with, you know, trying to introduce them
Speaker 2: to dogs.
Speaker 4: And we just have had such.
Speaker 2: A really beautiful experience with him, so much so that
Speaker 2: we adopted another animal last year, which you guys are
Speaker 2: all familiar about. We took on a rescue cat named Raspberry,
Speaker 2: which Raspberry and they hear me out. Cats are a
Speaker 2: whole different kettle of fish than dogs, Like they don't
Speaker 2: need as much attention. But my goodness that they got
Speaker 2: some attitude and she's great, but like, they just love
Speaker 2: on each other so much, and it's been so rewarding
Speaker 2: having them both in the house.
Speaker 3: It's actually so sad to think about how many animals
Speaker 3: don't even make it to the point.
Speaker 1: Of being able to be adopted. Yeah, like, which.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people don't realize, but if
Speaker 3: you do have the space for it, it's such a
Speaker 3: beautiful thing to do. We've had rescue dogs our family.
Speaker 3: We have one now at the moment, I say, at
Speaker 3: the moment, we've had it for like eight years and
Speaker 3: we genuinely have not ever had a problem with them.
Speaker 3: Like every rescue we've ever had has been incredible, And
Speaker 3: I know that is not always the case, but I
Speaker 3: think the stigma and stereotype probably needs to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I guess like one of the big things is,
Speaker 2: you know a lot of people have an aesthetic in
Speaker 2: mind of the type of animal that they want or
Speaker 2: the dog that they want. They wanted to look a
Speaker 2: certain way, but it might not be the right suit
Speaker 2: for your family. And one of the really amazing things
Speaker 2: about getting a rescue animal, as like you know your preference,
Speaker 2: is that so many of the charities and the foundations
Speaker 2: that work with these animals spend so much time with them,
Speaker 2: getting familiar with their characters, their traits, and they fit
Speaker 2: them with families that actually suit their needs, and so
Speaker 2: you end up with a pet that's way better suited
Speaker 2: to your family than if you were to buy one
Speaker 2: through a breeder. But yeah, I just wanted to share
Speaker 2: some stats because last month was a really incredible month,
Speaker 2: and being that it was the National Pet Adoption Month,
Speaker 2: nine hundred and eighty pets were put into homes this month,
Speaker 2: and eight hundred and fifty of those sorry, Britt, we're cats.
Speaker 1: That surprises me.
Speaker 2: That's almost one hundred percent of them being cats. I
Speaker 2: think it's because cat's are low maintenance. They do take
Speaker 2: care of themselves in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're also a nightmare. Personal, that's a personal opinion. Personal,
Speaker 3: I don't it's not for me.
Speaker 2: Cat people are as strong as Taylors with people. They'll
Speaker 2: come for you, Britt, but they can come for me.
Speaker 2: But I'm not adopting a cat.
Speaker 1: Personally.
Speaker 3: In my life, I will adopt multiple animals. I will
Speaker 3: adopt anax A Lottel probably before an adopt a cat.
Speaker 3: I don't dislike cats, they're just not for me. But
Speaker 3: that is an incredible statistic. Actually, you know what, I
Speaker 3: really loved. The RSPCA got me really good yesterday on
Speaker 3: April Fool's Day. I always reshare the RSPCA's post to
Speaker 3: my Instagram stories trying to encourage people to adopt.
Speaker 1: Because they always put up like this is what's up
Speaker 1: for adoption this week.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I nearly got done yesterday. I was like, oh
Speaker 3: that's different. They posted like what animals need adopted. They're like,
Speaker 3: let's not forget the more unique animals that need adoption.
Speaker 1: And it was like an alligator, baby alligator.
Speaker 4: And you're like, how long can you keep it at
Speaker 4: a home for in the bathroom?
Speaker 1: I I can get no.
Speaker 3: But I thought, oh, that's really nice that they're trying
Speaker 3: to find these things home. But I was thinking it
Speaker 3: was like the Robert Irwin's or the zoo's or the
Speaker 3: bigger property farms that would like adopt them.
Speaker 1: And I really got sucked in.
Speaker 3: Until I started swiping and it was like Zebra's baby elephants,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, you got me for April Fools.
Speaker 4: I don't know how you managed to fall for that.
Speaker 3: We only from the second swipe the alligator got me.
Speaker 2: We are talking April Fools next though, guys, because there's
Speaker 2: a few people on the team who got really stung
Speaker 2: by them.
Speaker 1: And I tried to adopt a baby elephant.
Speaker 4: I'm just over them. I think we should cancel April Fools.
Speaker 4: I don't think we need it anymore. It's a stupid day.
Speaker 1: I agree. I'm well and truly over it.
Speaker 3: Well, it was April fools Day yesterday and I don't
Speaker 3: know about you, but I want to know why the
Speaker 3: hell were still doing it. I don't know if I'm
Speaker 3: a grinch. I don't know if people are going to
Speaker 3: come for me. I have a great sense of humor,
Speaker 3: but yesterday just annoyed me so much.
Speaker 4: I have a great sense of humored.
Speaker 3: I do love a prank as such throughout the year.
Speaker 3: I love to prank people and do little jokes on.
Speaker 4: Them, but yours is not so much pranks.
Speaker 2: You like to jump out and scare people from behind you.
Speaker 4: That's your version of a prank.
Speaker 3: I dripped to my film so bad all the time,
Speaker 3: but it got to the end of the day yesterday
Speaker 3: and I was just really angry at the Internet because
Speaker 3: I'm like, we working media.
Speaker 1: Our job is to look at what is happening in
Speaker 1: the news. You're like to believe it or not. We
Speaker 1: report on things.
Speaker 3: I know it doesn't seem that way, but I was
Speaker 3: really angry at the end of the day because I
Speaker 3: was like, I can trust no one. I believe nothing
Speaker 3: I've read. There was no point of being on the
Speaker 3: internet today, It's all lies.
Speaker 4: I felt very similar.
Speaker 2: I think that April Fool's really increased this year, Like
Speaker 2: It really ramped up I think every influencer, every media personality,
Speaker 2: every brand, even my husband.
Speaker 4: So Matt, he has a podcast.
Speaker 2: Which is called Two Doting Dads, So this is very
Speaker 2: brand aligned for them. But they put out a post
Speaker 2: which was a picture of like a pregnancy test package,
Speaker 2: so like not the pregnancy test itself, but like you
Speaker 2: could buy a box set of pregnancy tests and box set, you.
Speaker 1: Know, like it's like a Netflix stupide, like a.
Speaker 2: Box of four pregnancy tests, you know. And it had
Speaker 2: a picture of them on the front holding each other,
Speaker 2: and then it had like, okay, stop no, and then
Speaker 2: the caption said if you've ever wanted to piss on
Speaker 2: here's your chance, or something equally is ridiculous. Anyway, if
Speaker 2: you want to buy a pregnancy test, don't buy it
Speaker 2: from my husband.
Speaker 1: I will you want to piss on him?
Speaker 4: Anyway. It was obviously a April.
Speaker 2: Fool's joke, But the thing is now with AI and
Speaker 2: being able to create things so convincingly, some of the
Speaker 2: April Fools jokes are like, really really convincing.
Speaker 4: There's a creator in the States. Her name's Becka.
Speaker 2: She was on The American Bachelor quite a few years ago.
Speaker 2: Funnily enough, she is the American bachelorette who went on
Speaker 2: the show and her parents thought that she went missing,
Speaker 2: so they declared her a missing person whilst.
Speaker 1: The show was that's also not an April Fools.
Speaker 4: That's what I have that that really happened.
Speaker 2: But she created this entire piece of content, which was
Speaker 2: our full brand piece of content, saying that she had
Speaker 2: genetically esthetically chosen the genes for her newborn baby, and
Speaker 2: she she did it as though it was a brand collab,
Speaker 2: and everyone obviously was outraged, and then she came out
Speaker 2: afterwards it was like, guys, April Fools, I'm just like, well.
Speaker 4: I'm I make people mad for no reason. What's that point.
Speaker 1: I did almost get done by the RSPCA.
Speaker 3: I did love their post, but I almost bought a
Speaker 3: baby elephant.
Speaker 1: But then I realized that wasn't actually up for adoption.
Speaker 2: How many do you think you fell for? Because I
Speaker 2: don't think I fell for any.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that I probably dismissed a lot of
Speaker 3: real things as being April Fools, because by the.
Speaker 1: End of the day I was like, I'm not believing
Speaker 1: or anything, But you know what I think April Fools
Speaker 1: is good for I think April.
Speaker 3: I think April Fools should become the day of like proposals, because.
Speaker 4: No, you can't do that to your partner.
Speaker 1: No, not as an April Fools. Seriously.
Speaker 3: So you propose and if they say yes, brilliant. If
Speaker 3: they say no, you're like April Fools. I didn't mean it,
Speaker 3: and that's like your way to get out of it.
Speaker 3: You don't propose as the April Fools, but the April
Speaker 3: Fools is your backup in case they say no.
Speaker 4: There's a few things that I don't think you should
Speaker 4: joke about. One of them pregnancies.
Speaker 2: I saw a really bad April Fools pregnancy go down
Speaker 2: online and the backlash was swift and hard. Producer Grayce,
Speaker 2: you fell for a few April Fools.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was trying to put together a content email yesterday
Speaker 3: to send to you guys, and every.
Speaker 2: Day, every hour you're like, dadally, I felt for three.
Speaker 4: You actually send them to us.
Speaker 3: And I wrote back and I.
Speaker 4: Was like, that's not real. You literally send one in
Speaker 4: the group chat and I was like, that's it. Even
Speaker 4: says April Fool's on it. I had to be like, please.
Speaker 3: Ignore everything I've just sent I'm actually a really good producer,
Speaker 3: I swear.
Speaker 1: Actually it was funny.
Speaker 3: You know when you accidentally send the wrong message to
Speaker 3: someone and people really quickly write other messages to push
Speaker 3: the chain up. That's when you're doing your okay, moving on,
Speaker 3: don't worry about your bar I just ignore it wrong
Speaker 3: group chat and we were.
Speaker 1: Like, you're just sending April fools content. It was very funny.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, let's wind it back a beer.
Speaker 2: Is this No, It's only gonna get worse every year,
Speaker 2: It's going to increase. I feel like this is the
Speaker 2: pickup show, unsubscribing from April Fool's content. But I feel
Speaker 2: like it is only every year going to get bigger
Speaker 2: and worse and like more out there, and I think
Speaker 2: we're gonna.
Speaker 4: Have to just keep your eyes peeled next April one.
Speaker 3: Now the show that literally the world is talking about
Speaker 3: Netflix show Adolescence. It is a show where a thirteen
Speaker 3: year old boy in the UK fatally injures another school student,
Speaker 3: and it has started this conversation around the world on are.
Speaker 1: We doing enough with our children in the schools?
Speaker 3: Are we doing enough with our children at home to
Speaker 3: prevent this from happening because in the UK crime from
Speaker 3: teenagers against other teenagers is absolutely rife, Like.
Speaker 1: The statistics are huge.
Speaker 3: Now, off the back of this conversation about adolescents and
Speaker 3: the popularity, the British Prime Minister has actually backed the
Speaker 3: fact that this should be shown in schools around the country,
Speaker 3: that it should almost start to become a part of
Speaker 3: the school curriculum to educate and teach against misogyny and
Speaker 3: how kids can be a little bit more media literate.
Speaker 3: And I know that's a really big thing for a
Speaker 3: teenager to understand. But with the likes of people like
Speaker 3: Andrew Tate who are consuming our young men, who are
Speaker 3: teaching them absolutely are bhorrent things, how do we counteract
Speaker 3: the crime that's happening. How do we say, Okay, it's
Speaker 3: not enough anymore for a parent to say treat your
Speaker 3: kid with respect, Like these things aren't enough anymore. So
Speaker 3: in the UK they're going to say, hey, you know what,
Speaker 3: let's bring this into the school curriculum and try and
Speaker 3: start it from the education system out well.
Speaker 2: I think if anyone hasn't seen it, a lot of
Speaker 2: it kind of revolves around screen time, and it revolves
Speaker 2: around young boys in particular forming very problematic views about
Speaker 2: girls because of the content that they're consuming online. And
Speaker 2: you know, it's a big conversation that's happened here in
Speaker 2: Australia recently around raising the age.
Speaker 4: Of social media use.
Speaker 2: But also the thing that kind of gets left out
Speaker 2: of that equation is how easy it is for kids
Speaker 2: to access sexually explicit materials online as well. And I
Speaker 2: thought the show was incredible. I think everyone who's watched
Speaker 2: it walks away from it thinking, not only is it
Speaker 2: the way it's created is amazing, it's this one shot film,
Speaker 2: but what it makes you think as a parent, what
Speaker 2: it makes you think is how you're raising your children,
Speaker 2: I think is really profound and interesting. My take home
Speaker 2: from this wasn't just a about how there needs to
Speaker 2: be work done with kids, but I also think there
Speaker 2: needs to be worked on with parents. I don't think
Speaker 2: that we are in time when parents can be illiterate
Speaker 2: to what their children are consuming online anymore.
Speaker 4: I think that if.
Speaker 2: Your kids have a screen, if they have computers in
Speaker 2: their room, if they are young and impressionable, then there
Speaker 2: has to be an understanding of what it is that
Speaker 2: they could be consuming, and there has to be conversations
Speaker 2: that are happening with your kids at home, not just
Speaker 2: with kids at school.
Speaker 4: For that change to happen.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a woman named Somasara who has founded a
Speaker 3: charity which focuses on highlighting a lot of violence against children,
Speaker 3: and she has collected thousands of anonymous testimonies from women
Speaker 3: and girls that describe what happens at schools on school grounds,
Speaker 3: and that is the groping, assault, sexist name calling, inappropriate touching,
Speaker 3: and the fact that this is increasing. So you think
Speaker 3: of how much work we have been doing as a
Speaker 3: society to try and counteract this, yet we're seeing an
Speaker 3: increase in it. So I think the education system at
Speaker 3: a bit of a wits end. It's like, so, what
Speaker 3: are we actually going to do to stop this? Because
Speaker 3: it would be a really scary time for a parent.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of parents that are not doing the
Speaker 3: right thing. There's a lot of parents that are doing
Speaker 3: every single thing they can to teach their children and
Speaker 3: protect their children, and they're still seeing that it's not enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think, you know, and one of the
Speaker 2: things that this show showed so perfectly is that it's
Speaker 2: very easy to think that it's not your child.
Speaker 4: It's very easy to.
Speaker 2: Look at your own parenting and be like, but I'm
Speaker 2: a good parent. I love my kids, I care about
Speaker 2: my kids. I want the best of my kids. I
Speaker 2: provide for them. My kid's a good kid, you know,
Speaker 2: And we always think that, right, Like you always think
Speaker 2: your kid's a good kid because you raise them, you
Speaker 2: want to protect them. But like in this instance, it's
Speaker 2: like there was so many other things that were going
Speaker 2: on with this boy who is the main character of
Speaker 2: this show, that the parents just weren't aware of. And
Speaker 2: I would dare say that there are a lot of
Speaker 2: kids who do horrible things and their parents are like,
Speaker 2: I never would have expected it from my child, And
Speaker 2: I guess like that's the thing is knowing that, like
Speaker 2: there are things that our kids can be exposed to
Speaker 2: and can be doing that we might not be aware of.
Speaker 3: Well. The British Prime Minister has said whilst it was
Speaker 3: difficult to watch and he did watch it with his
Speaker 3: fourteen year old daughter and sixteen year old son, he said,
Speaker 3: I do believe if this is put into schools it
Speaker 3: will help students better understand the impact of misogyny, the
Speaker 3: dangers of online radicalization and the importance of healthy relationships.
Speaker 3: I think as much it is as it would be
Speaker 3: very confronting for a lot of people to watch.
Speaker 1: If you are in your late teens.
Speaker 3: I think you're old enough to consume this content, and
Speaker 3: if it is going to help with the things that
Speaker 3: they think it's going to help with, then I would
Speaker 3: absolutely be all for it shown in schools to kickstart
Speaker 3: that conversation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, And I also think if you're a
Speaker 2: parent and you're listening to this and you haven't watched
Speaker 2: it yet, I think watching it with your kids so
Speaker 2: that you can have the discussion. I don't think that
Speaker 2: there's any point a fourteen year old watching it on
Speaker 2: their own, because if they don't already understand, they're not
Speaker 2: going to just comprehend by watching a TV show. There
Speaker 2: needs to be that sort of adult intervention or you know,
Speaker 2: the school system, whatever it is. There has to be
Speaker 2: the support that goes with watching something like that. So
Speaker 2: definitely watch it with your kids and have discussions afterwards. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Having said that, it is time for us to get
Speaker 1: out of here. We're going to see you again tomorrow.