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Speaker 4: This is the pick up, Hi, guys.
Speaker 3: It's the pick up with Bread Hockey and Laura Ben.
Speaker 3: And it's so exciting.
Speaker 5: Today.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, today is a very very big day.
Speaker 6: You may not have heard the news, and I will
Speaker 6: excuse you if you haven't.
Speaker 3: I got married yesterday.
Speaker 1: I am no longer a single woman. Actually I was
Speaker 1: a single woman before that.
Speaker 6: Anyway, I was, in fact engaged and off the market.
Speaker 3: We know, we know you're engaged. I got married.
Speaker 6: I actually can't believe if I'm saying, Liz, I'm married,
Speaker 6: Briz Segrest, Britt.
Speaker 3: Got married yesterday. Hey, are you going with secrets? Is
Speaker 3: that what we're changing to? It's the pickout with Britt
Speaker 3: Secrets and Laura Burn. No, that's weird. Yeah, it felt.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I'm gonna do?
Speaker 6: I think I'm going to be missus secret like in
Speaker 6: the private world, and like if we have kids and
Speaker 6: stuff like that, but publicly I think Britt Hockley.
Speaker 2: It's also like once you're established, once you've like got
Speaker 2: a I mean not to be like you've got.
Speaker 3: A name for yourself. I feel like thirty seven thirty eight,
Speaker 3: you're like attached to your name. Yeah. I was too
Speaker 3: attached to my name to change.
Speaker 2: I couldn't be bothered. I also hate paperwork, so I
Speaker 2: kept burn.
Speaker 3: But it's weird. I got married on a Wednesday. It's
Speaker 3: the cheapest day of the week. Cost it's it's a
Speaker 3: budget of time.
Speaker 1: No, it actually only had to do with what was available.
Speaker 6: To be honest, Wednesday was the only day that was
Speaker 6: available for the venue that we wanted, so we locked
Speaker 6: that bad boy in.
Speaker 1: We managed to sneak away and get it done.
Speaker 6: So we actually are like we're here in your ears now,
Speaker 6: but we're not actually going to be here. I know.
Speaker 2: This is like the first real trick of radio, isn't it.
Speaker 2: We are currently in Bali. We are celebrating BRIT's wedding
Speaker 2: and we're going to be back next week. So Monday's show,
Speaker 2: make sure you're listening because we're going to be unpacking
Speaker 2: every single detail all the best bits from the wedding.
Speaker 1: Yes, unfortunately I do get a two day honeymoon, but then.
Speaker 3: We will be back on Monday. We will be back.
Speaker 2: Now it is Thursday, which means it is time for
Speaker 2: what we do every Thursday, and that is ask Guncut,
Speaker 2: where you guys give us a call and you tell
Speaker 2: us you're deep as dark as problems, and even though
Speaker 2: we have absolutely no qualifications or skills, necessarily we do
Speaker 2: our best to answer them and give the life advice
Speaker 2: to save you a bit of money.
Speaker 1: We actually have qualifications. You say that every week or.
Speaker 2: We do this on our podcast, Life Uncut podcast, and
Speaker 2: that's been going pretty good for us specific so we
Speaker 2: thought we'd.
Speaker 3: Bring across an. We got Alisha on the phone.
Speaker 1: Hi Alisha, Hi guys, Alisha, what is going on in
Speaker 1: your house?
Speaker 5: My partner doesn't really like having my dog in our bed.
Speaker 2: How long have you been with your partner for and
Speaker 2: is this a new problem or is it a problem
Speaker 2: that's always existed.
Speaker 5: Well, we're reaching like a three year mark. It's been
Speaker 5: two and a half years. This is actually a new thing.
Speaker 5: We only moved in maybe like a year ago, so,
Speaker 5: but it's just happened and I'm kind of freaking out
Speaker 5: about it because like, whoa where did this come from?
Speaker 3: So like they've cheated?
Speaker 6: Hang on, where does this come from? So a few questions?
Speaker 6: Hang on, we need to set the scene. Are we
Speaker 6: talking Chihuahua or great Dane?
Speaker 4: No, it's brutles.
Speaker 5: So he's a little big.
Speaker 1: Oh, goodles are big, okay?
Speaker 3: And I don't even know what a goodle is. It's
Speaker 3: a groodle. They're big.
Speaker 1: They're very big Golden Retriever poodles.
Speaker 3: Sorry, sorry, I just did a quick google. There's three sizes, miniature,
Speaker 3: medium and standard.
Speaker 2: Miniature is fifteen kilos, twenty two kilos or thirty kilos.
Speaker 1: Fifteen kilo has been the smallest.
Speaker 3: That's still big. It is a standard okay, right, so
Speaker 3: twenty two kilos.
Speaker 1: So important question?
Speaker 6: Was the groodle a part of your life before you
Speaker 6: met your partner or did you bring it in to
Speaker 6: your life together as a couple.
Speaker 5: Well, here's my dog, so i've him for five years
Speaker 5: and he's just kind of getting on a bed.
Speaker 2: I mean, the gle, the grudle has slept in your
Speaker 2: bed for five years, and now your partner's decided that
Speaker 2: it's just too much.
Speaker 3: And the dog needs to go and sleep in a
Speaker 3: dog bed. I understand that to be do you know.
Speaker 2: I had a very similar situation, so I have My
Speaker 2: dog is much bigger than this. He's forty kilos and
Speaker 2: he used to sleep in bed.
Speaker 3: With me every single night.
Speaker 2: And then I met my husband, and then also my
Speaker 2: husband would start sleeping in bed with us. And at
Speaker 2: one point we've been together for about eight months, Matt
Speaker 2: woke up in the middle of the night and he said,
Speaker 2: I've had enough. He's like, I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 2: And this is the first time we'd ever had a
Speaker 2: conversation about it. He was like, it's me or the dog.
Speaker 2: The dog has to sleep in a dog bed. I
Speaker 2: can't sleep with a dog in the bed anymore. And
Speaker 2: unfortunately for Buster, the ultimatum did stick and Matt got
Speaker 2: to stay in the bed even though I threatened to
Speaker 2: put him in the dog bed.
Speaker 3: And Buster's now in a dog bed next to Can
Speaker 3: you not get a dogbed next to the bed?
Speaker 2: I feel like that's a good solution, so that the
Speaker 2: grudle's still in the room, but it's.
Speaker 1: Not in or you know, in your room.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess, so I guess it just feels funny
Speaker 5: because he moved into like my house.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but.
Speaker 6: Unless the bed is like one of those extra king beds,
Speaker 6: that's really really big. I understand because sleep is very
Speaker 6: important if you're getting broken sleep because you have a
Speaker 6: giant grudle licking you, moving around making noise. Grudles don't molt.
Speaker 6: But if there was another dog that like molten and
Speaker 6: hair was all through it, like for me, that's pretty gross.
Speaker 6: I think you need to move the groodle to the ground.
Speaker 6: It can still be close to you. You can keep
Speaker 6: your eye on it, but you can maintain your relationship.
Speaker 3: Where does the groodle go when you guys are being
Speaker 3: intimate with each.
Speaker 1: Other, just looks at them.
Speaker 5: He can go where he likes, you know, wherever he sits,
Speaker 5: he sits.
Speaker 3: Okay, look, the grudle needs to go on a dog bed.
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think it's worth it, the divorce or
Speaker 6: the split. I think, moves it to the bed.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: I get why this is hard, but I reckon for
Speaker 2: the sake of your relationship, it's time to pop.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: The pooch in the dog bed right next to the bed,
Speaker 2: he's very close, he's not going to feel too like
Speaker 2: he's been shafted.
Speaker 3: I think that that's your best solution. Okay, thanks for
Speaker 3: calling if you want.
Speaker 2: If you want some advice like that and also feel defeated,
Speaker 2: give us a call at the pickup.
Speaker 3: That was a great call.
Speaker 6: I don't even know how I'm going to say this
Speaker 6: out loud, it is so mortifying, but I do want
Speaker 6: to put a call out to you guys, what did
Speaker 6: you find your kid eating?
Speaker 1: Because there is a woman in the UK that.
Speaker 6: Ducked upstairs for a couple of seconds just to put
Speaker 6: some washing away, and when she came downstairs, she saw
Speaker 6: her two year old making quite the mess in the
Speaker 6: lounge room. And she looked at his shirt and he
Speaker 6: had something all over his shirt. Then she looked at
Speaker 6: the table and she saw something all over the table.
Speaker 6: And you're not going to believe what he was eating.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, when.
Speaker 4: Your son eat? She died as ushers my song Huzzy.
Speaker 2: And my Dad's lush years Briet. I saw this and
Speaker 2: I think I even I can't remember. I feel like
Speaker 2: I sent it to every single group chat that I'm
Speaker 2: in your.
Speaker 1: Son when your son is your dad?
Speaker 3: That was her radiocaption.
Speaker 2: I mean obviously, like from the audio, you can't visualize this.
Speaker 2: The ash is everywhere, It's all over the house. If
Speaker 2: anyone who's ever scattered an ash of a loved one
Speaker 2: knows just how like it is a very specific thing,
Speaker 2: like it's a white, ashy substance, and it just kind
Speaker 2: of plumes everywhere. It is all over her house, all
Speaker 2: over her chair, and all down her todd lune not
Speaker 2: straight now.
Speaker 1: The worst part is it's all over his face, It's
Speaker 1: all over his cheeks. He's literally been eating it.
Speaker 3: Anyway. The comments is Dad, I'll live on forever in
Speaker 3: that toddler.
Speaker 6: Everyone's like, I'm pretty sure this isn't how reincarnation works.
Speaker 1: Well, at least he's going to be part of your
Speaker 1: son forever, which he's not. He's going to be pooed out.
Speaker 1: Your son will pooh out your dad.
Speaker 6: The fact that she has had a laugh about this
Speaker 6: is I think is brilliant because this could go two ways,
Speaker 6: like your dad has been consumed.
Speaker 2: Also, I'm impressed that the todder was able to open it.
Speaker 2: If anyone who's ever had an urn, usually the hardest
Speaker 2: part is trying to crack the lid.
Speaker 3: Open the earth.
Speaker 6: Well, this looks more like this could be on the
Speaker 6: mom It does look tea pottish.
Speaker 2: You just take the lid off a little bit, so
Speaker 2: that to me looks like they've already cracked the urn
Speaker 2: before and they've separated it, so they just put part
Speaker 2: of it in that teapot. That needs to have a
Speaker 2: stad's legs. Yeah, that needs to be a lockable lid.
Speaker 2: I mean, I saw this when we were talking about
Speaker 2: in the car and my daughter was in the back seat.
Speaker 3: Marley, she's five.
Speaker 2: Last year, we spread my grandfather's ashes like her papa.
Speaker 3: He was a really, really big part of my life.
Speaker 2: But spreading ashes never really goes to plan, is what
Speaker 2: I've realized, especially if it's a slightly windy day.
Speaker 3: We like tipped him off a mountain.
Speaker 6: And the wind picked up, and I sorry, even though
Speaker 6: he said that we tipped him off.
Speaker 3: She just scattered him off, scattered him. We scattered Papa
Speaker 3: off a mountain.
Speaker 2: He would laugh about this, But the wind came and
Speaker 2: at the same time the bag flipped back over and
Speaker 2: it went in my mouth, down my shirt, into my pants.
Speaker 2: But as we were talking about this in the car, Marley,
Speaker 2: it was like it clicked for her and she was like, wait,
Speaker 2: that was actually Papa, and I was like, yeah, she grows.
Speaker 1: She thought it was.
Speaker 3: She goes, but how did he become dirt? And I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, we're not going into that right now.
Speaker 3: That is a conversation. Why did you eat him?
Speaker 6: Why we've had Sophie call up Sophie high what did
Speaker 6: you find your kid eating? Well, it was a friend's
Speaker 6: toddler and they came out a staying at a cabin
Speaker 6: and they just arrived and their toddler crawled out with
Speaker 6: the toilet brush in their mouth.
Speaker 3: O my god.
Speaker 6: For some reason, there's something worse about like a toilet
Speaker 6: brush from home, like your own poop.
Speaker 2: It's far worse when it's from a rental.
Speaker 3: Maybe they thought it was a chop top.
Speaker 5: You know, he can't be the level.
Speaker 3: It was not a chop top.
Speaker 1: If anything was a crumble, I can't, I can't, all right,
Speaker 1: So that is actually.
Speaker 3: Discussing kids aren't disgusting brit though.
Speaker 1: That's the thing, Phoebe, What did your kid put in
Speaker 1: their mouth?
Speaker 4: My kids?
Speaker 7: He was disappearing us to the side, and all of
Speaker 7: a sudden I saw this little thing in his hand.
Speaker 3: With its eyes shut. He licked a lizard, a dead lizard.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think that's that bad.
Speaker 2: My mom when my mum was a kid, she got
Speaker 2: known for licking the bottom of snails and she would
Speaker 2: bail her at like my uncle and Arnie up and
Speaker 2: make them lick the bottom of snails too.
Speaker 1: But to be fair, at least it was dead.
Speaker 3: I will say.
Speaker 1: We had some people on the.
Speaker 6: Text line just writing in saying that they found the
Speaker 6: kid with like live animals like snails and.
Speaker 1: Stuff that were still.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's yeah, it's because they Is it like that?
Speaker 6: Were you talking about like a tiny little gecko? Is
Speaker 6: this like a big blue toe?
Speaker 4: It was a little skung.
Speaker 5: And it looks so peaceful, And I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 5: get it out.
Speaker 2: Of your mouth.
Speaker 1: Do you think it was alive before he licked it?
Speaker 5: No? I was definitely it was well dead. Oh thank you.
Speaker 3: Isn't it disgusting? Kids are rain But you only know
Speaker 3: half of it.
Speaker 2: I'm sure my kids have done way worse, but I
Speaker 2: just don't I don't even commit it to memory anymore.
Speaker 6: Don't care a lot of text lines about the kids
Speaker 6: eating poop. Yeah, I mean, like they've all accidentally at
Speaker 6: some point that's a choice.
Speaker 5: It just no.
Speaker 3: I don't think a two year old two us.
Speaker 2: I think they just don't have very good motor skills
Speaker 2: and hands go flying and things go fine.
Speaker 6: Well, we have the man himself in the studio with
Speaker 6: us today. Sam, You've been a friend of us for
Speaker 6: so long. We've done many interviews with you. You even
Speaker 6: came on our Life on Cut podcast tour with us
Speaker 6: to every single show.
Speaker 3: We couldn't love you more. Welcome to the pickup.
Speaker 4: Ah, my girls, so good to be back together.
Speaker 2: Yes, you have some big, exciting things happening in your
Speaker 2: life at the moment.
Speaker 3: You've moved. You also have new head. But more importantly
Speaker 3: than that, you have a new single that is out now.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's called love Life, which the lyrics of this
Speaker 2: very sentimental.
Speaker 3: Why like, what was the reasoning behind it?
Speaker 7: It's been a crazy year and I am trying to
Speaker 7: focus on the joy in my life because I have
Speaker 7: a tendency to get quite negative when I talk about
Speaker 7: my career because a lot of just bs has happened.
Speaker 7: But being independent, moving to a new country, finding myself there,
Speaker 7: and really trying to hold on to the joy in
Speaker 7: my life instead of focusing on everything that has gone wrong.
Speaker 7: Has a real struggle for me, and so I just
Speaker 7: thought of love life because I want to love life
Speaker 7: and I want to find a way to be able
Speaker 7: to do that. And also I just thought, like I
Speaker 7: thought about my love life, it's about how a love life.
Speaker 7: And when I thought of that, I patted myself on
Speaker 7: the back and I said, you claver Basted.
Speaker 1: Were having some big changes.
Speaker 3: As you just mentioned though.
Speaker 6: You've moved to London and you've gone independence. So it's
Speaker 6: a really big thing for an artist to go independent.
Speaker 6: How has that transition being what's it look like?
Speaker 7: It was really scary at first, I think going from
Speaker 7: any kind of major label system with a full team
Speaker 7: with full budget. But I'm across everything now which I
Speaker 7: wasn't in the past, and that's what has kind of
Speaker 7: screwed me over.
Speaker 4: But that is what it is, and focusing on the future.
Speaker 7: Being able to be independent, to have total creative control
Speaker 7: is scarier than anything because every decision comes back on
Speaker 7: me and my team is amazing, But at the end
Speaker 7: of the day, the captain of the ship is the
Speaker 7: you know, the one that says in the boat to
Speaker 7: go down and that's.
Speaker 4: The analogy, right, guys, that's the same.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4: The cuptain goes down with the ship.
Speaker 3: It does go down, ye yeah, yeah great?
Speaker 4: Is this what I mean?
Speaker 3: It's a positive or negative? Now I'm not quite.
Speaker 4: Sure, you know, as in, like, I have so much
Speaker 4: pride in the boat.
Speaker 7: That you're saying that I'm on you know what, I'm
Speaker 7: building this boat by myself and if it sinks, well
Speaker 7: with the villages exactly, if that's really what it is.
Speaker 7: If it sinks, I will be sinking it.
Speaker 4: Oh yes.
Speaker 7: Being on the label and having the pressure of like,
Speaker 7: you need to get five thousand pre saves on a song,
Speaker 7: and then once you get to five thousand, they're like, okay,
Speaker 7: let's push for twenty thousand, and then you get to
Speaker 7: twenty thousand, you push for fifty thousand, and if you
Speaker 7: don't get to fifty thousand, then the labels like, oh,
Speaker 7: maybe this isn't going to work, and you're like, well,
Speaker 7: I hit all these other goals. So it was always
Speaker 7: goalpost being pushed and pushed and pushed, and now I'm
Speaker 7: celebrating the little winds and I'm just excited to get
Speaker 7: music out. And this year I'm putting out so much music,
Speaker 7: there's going to be consistent releases.
Speaker 2: Some of the songs and the lyrics that you write, like, obviously,
Speaker 2: they're very personal, and even when you talk about them,
Speaker 2: it's kind of like it's a personal discovery or like
Speaker 2: a little bit of a diary entry. How does your
Speaker 2: wife feel, who's also a musician, when she hears some
Speaker 2: of the vulnerable parts of songs, like it does it
Speaker 2: bring you guys together?
Speaker 3: Do you talk about it?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 3: How does that conversation fold out?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I mean, Aaron has been with me this whole journey,
Speaker 7: so she knows everything, and she's seen everything go down,
Speaker 7: and there's been a lot of stuff that the public
Speaker 7: doesn't know that's happened behind the scenes, which was devastating.
Speaker 4: I mean, to be totally transparent.
Speaker 7: The reason we left LA was because I discovered that
Speaker 7: I had no money and I was trying to figure
Speaker 7: out where that money had gone, and I realized that
Speaker 7: there was some bad faith actors messing about, and so
Speaker 7: we went through having to sell everything, pack up our
Speaker 7: little car and drive to Virginia and we were in
Speaker 7: her mum's place for a year and a half, living
Speaker 7: in Yeah, my mother in law's basement.
Speaker 2: And so crazy when you look at from suspectively your
Speaker 2: success and what's happening online and what you've created, who
Speaker 2: you've collabbed with, you downloads, your streams, like it seems unfathomable.
Speaker 6: I mean, even even I Love You, Please Don't Hate
Speaker 6: Me on Spotify alone has had nearly a billion streams.
Speaker 6: But you know, Sam, it doesn't sound like that is
Speaker 6: that uncommon, Like it seems like it's something that's sort
Speaker 6: of you have to be really careful about.
Speaker 4: You absolutely do.
Speaker 7: And I think I put too much faith in the
Speaker 7: people who I was supposed to.
Speaker 4: And that's the thing.
Speaker 7: As artists, as creatives, like we are as good as
Speaker 7: the people we the village we have around us. And
Speaker 7: it sucks that it's not a unique story and that
Speaker 7: it's happened to so many and you never think it's
Speaker 7: going to happen to you until it does, until you
Speaker 7: wake up and your credit card gets to claim you
Speaker 7: can't pay rent and move across country and live with
Speaker 7: your mother in law in Virginia for a year and
Speaker 7: a half.
Speaker 3: Highlight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes we did it. We made it.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so sorry this happened.
Speaker 7: It's okay, honestly character building, and I have an amazing
Speaker 7: team now and I've rebuilt and moved to London, and
Speaker 7: you know, I'm still building financially.
Speaker 4: And it's funny.
Speaker 7: The perception of me, I feel like, is that I'm
Speaker 7: well off because I've had this big hit and I've
Speaker 7: collabed with amazing, massive celebrities and whatever.
Speaker 4: But it's just not the case.
Speaker 7: And I think artists in general, we don't right now
Speaker 7: in this claimate with the way that Spotify and all
Speaker 7: that pay us, we don't really make that much money
Speaker 7: from our music unless you own your masters.
Speaker 6: Well, Lily Allen just was recently saying she makes more
Speaker 6: money on a foot only fans she does from her music.
Speaker 7: So yeah, that's what you need to do. No one
Speaker 7: wants to see my feet, but that way, they're great feet.
Speaker 7: But I'm not going to start.
Speaker 3: Maybe if we go a bit further up, you'll do
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 4: You know what I made? Okay, two or three inches
Speaker 4: will get me a long way.
Speaker 6: But if you guys haven't heard Love Life, please go
Speaker 6: and listen to it, Go and download Sim's albums. Let's
Speaker 6: support these local industrytis. But I hope that we see
Speaker 6: you again on another life on Cut tour as well,
Speaker 6: and congratulations and everything.
Speaker 4: I love you guys. I will come back every time.
Speaker 4: I love you.