Speaker 1: Come on in.
Speaker 2: Mixtory. How are you going this fine Wednesday?
Speaker 3: I'm good man, I'm good, great day, just had a
Speaker 3: second coffee. I'm feeling pumped.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, do you know what? You are lucky to
Speaker 1: be in my presence today? And I am not exaggerating that.
Speaker 4: I feel that every day.
Speaker 2: Bless you are.
Speaker 1: I am not exaggerating. I nearly or could have died
Speaker 1: last night in my sleep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you text me, Actually you text the pickup group
Speaker 3: chat and said I'm going to be in today, But
Speaker 3: I almost.
Speaker 1: Wasn't I this is crazy, right, So I actually took
Speaker 1: a sleeping tablet last night because I've been having trouble sleeping.
Speaker 2: But my house is so cold, not.
Speaker 1: Insulated, so I use a heater and I put it
Speaker 1: on for maybe like an hour at a time. I
Speaker 1: was asleep, and then at about two two thirty I
Speaker 1: was woken by the smell of I was so confused.
Speaker 2: I opened my eyes.
Speaker 1: Everything's pitched black, obviously, and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: something is really wrong.
Speaker 2: Like my whole room was smoke and burning.
Speaker 1: And I sat bolt upright and I looked down at
Speaker 1: the PowerPoint right next to my bed.
Speaker 2: I can reach it from bed. That's how close it is.
Speaker 1: And there are sparks, flames like coming out of the
Speaker 1: PowerPoint next to my head.
Speaker 2: Smoke filled the room. Look at the that's the PowerPoint.
Speaker 2: It's all black like a burnt yeah.
Speaker 4: And then the plastics melted.
Speaker 2: It's the plug, like it has all melted. There were proper.
Speaker 4: Flames like a bun heater.
Speaker 1: No, I think it's the socket. I think the soccer malfunctions.
Speaker 1: So I actually can't believe how quickly I reacted. I
Speaker 1: could barely see it was black, didn't have time to
Speaker 1: get to the light. I ripped it out with the
Speaker 1: sparks and flames, ran to the bathroom I having on suite,
Speaker 1: threw it onto the tiled floor so it couldn't catch anything.
Speaker 1: Then I had a bath towel that I quickly soaked
Speaker 1: and dropped on top of it, just to.
Speaker 4: Like quick quickly.
Speaker 2: I could not believe. I cannot believe my house stinks.
Speaker 2: It's like there has been a fire in my room.
Speaker 2: And I was like, imagine if I didn't wake up
Speaker 2: from that.
Speaker 4: Smell, do you know how lucky you are that you
Speaker 4: woke up?
Speaker 3: Because that's that's I mean, how it happens electrical electrical
Speaker 3: fires and people are asleep and they just and then
Speaker 3: it's the end.
Speaker 2: Especially because I had a sleeping tablet, I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god.
Speaker 1: I genuinely when I say I could have died, I
Speaker 1: could have died, Like I feel so lucky.
Speaker 3: Welcome to a Wednesday pick up. Next, we've got pickup
Speaker 3: put down, so we do it in the middle of
Speaker 3: every week. I bring you the big talking topics of
Speaker 3: the week, the stories that everyone's on about, right, and
Speaker 3: you decide, brit whether or not we pick up the conversation,
Speaker 3: keep them going or we put them down. Next, we're
Speaker 3: talking Prince Will breaking up with Princess Kate.
Speaker 2: Hang on, this isn't current to this, it's new news.
Speaker 3: Apparently he broke up with her in the most brutal
Speaker 3: way ever. Oh it's big news. We'll get to it next.
Speaker 3: Here at the pickup. Are you feeling culturally on the pulse,
Speaker 3: Britney Hockley.
Speaker 2: I was born on the pulse?
Speaker 1: Were you no? I was just born normally actually breach.
Speaker 1: But first, first, have you seen me pop my hips?
Speaker 4: Do you want to do it?
Speaker 2: I can pop them out on demand?
Speaker 4: Do we have time?
Speaker 1: Do we have.
Speaker 4: You can't i'll later. I want to see it so bad.
Speaker 3: Pick up socials, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I pick up put down the big stories of the week. Britt.
Speaker 3: You decide whether or not we pick them up, we
Speaker 3: keep talking about them, or we put them down, never
Speaker 3: to be spoken of again.
Speaker 4: Topic number one pick up put down.
Speaker 3: Doing your partner's laundry for them.
Speaker 1: I mean put it down, of course, if you want
Speaker 1: to help them out, and like I guess, if you're
Speaker 1: at home doing nothing all day because you got the
Speaker 1: day off and there at work.
Speaker 2: Then sure.
Speaker 1: But in my relationship, my fiancee Ben is like mannic
Speaker 1: with the laundry.
Speaker 2: I get it wrong all the time when I try
Speaker 2: and help him.
Speaker 3: When I stayed with you guys in Scotland, he did
Speaker 3: my laundry for me and I didn't even ask. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he did all my Like I went to the gym
Speaker 3: and my clothes are sweaty and I was traveling.
Speaker 4: He went. He didn't even ask, He just washed them all.
Speaker 2: I can't do it.
Speaker 1: I put the wrong colors in apparently, and I put
Speaker 1: the right softnery and I hang it incorrectly like he,
Speaker 1: So I just give it to him.
Speaker 2: He does mine.
Speaker 4: That's because this TikTok's everywhere. At the moment, it's quite divisive.
Speaker 5: I don't do my husband's wondering. Here's why. It's because
Speaker 5: when you get into a relationship, and as women, you
Speaker 5: start taking on domestic labor task without first having a
Speaker 5: conversation with your partner about equitably dividing those domestic tasks.
Speaker 5: It's very easily for the tasks that you start taking
Speaker 5: on to become expected of you. And then the next
Speaker 5: thing you know, it's ten years later and you're the
Speaker 5: only one doing those tasks and you're tired, and you're
Speaker 5: burnt out and you're resentful.
Speaker 2: I'm very personal, doesn't it does? Just really got to
Speaker 2: be in u bonnet.
Speaker 4: Sounds like she wanted a partner to hear that.
Speaker 2: I think so did she tag him he was personal?
Speaker 4: I think she did.
Speaker 3: In the comments all right, movie like pick up, put down,
Speaker 3: meat pie flavored shapes.
Speaker 2: Put it down?
Speaker 4: Oh no, I pick up?
Speaker 2: Do you see?
Speaker 1: I love shapes like, I'm a huge shapes fan. But
Speaker 1: meat pie I think belongs in a meat pie Like
Speaker 1: I don't want to think I've got this thin, crispy
Speaker 1: little thing in my mouth, but it's really a meat pie.
Speaker 3: Totally.
Speaker 4: It's honest.
Speaker 3: They're bringing back the the classic meat pie flavorites to
Speaker 3: do with the footy season. You know what, I'm with
Speaker 3: you on that. I think they're not gonna nail the
Speaker 3: meat pie flavor. It'll just be a it'll be beef right,
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be part.
Speaker 4: You can't get the taste.
Speaker 1: Of a pie and a cry to be fair on
Speaker 1: I'm a celebrity, to get me out of here. A
Speaker 1: couple of months ago, when I was on that show,
Speaker 1: we were having to drink meals in a drink and
Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how, and then guess what they are?
Speaker 4: They blended it all.
Speaker 1: They blended a full meal into a drink and we
Speaker 1: had a smoothie. We had a drink and guess what
Speaker 1: it was? I had oysters, which was disgusting. But did
Speaker 1: it taste like There was a caesar salad, an entire
Speaker 1: caesar salad that got put into a blender and one
Speaker 1: sip you will like see the salad.
Speaker 2: Same with Nichos. You knew exactly what it was, so
Speaker 2: I reckon they probably could replicate it all right.
Speaker 3: Finally, pick up, put down, dumping someone over the phone.
Speaker 2: I'm putting everything down this show. I'm putting that down.
Speaker 1: Have some respect unless you could not care less about
Speaker 1: them you've been dating for five minutes.
Speaker 2: No, you can't do a phone dump.
Speaker 4: Well, this is pretty big news.
Speaker 3: A new royal biography has been released in the UK
Speaker 3: or the Royal Correspondence and the people that work in
Speaker 3: the palace for one day end up writing a book.
Speaker 4: Right, so someone who's worked with tell all.
Speaker 3: They've revealed that the Prince of Prince William once broke
Speaker 3: up with Kate Middleton in a thirty minute phone call.
Speaker 3: He said he told her they both needed a bit
Speaker 3: of space to find their own way. He was unable
Speaker 3: to promise her marriage. It was a thirty minute phone call,
Speaker 3: emotionally charged. This was in two thousand and seven. And
Speaker 3: then they did break up, and then they reunited at
Speaker 3: a costume party a few months later.
Speaker 2: I've been dumped on the phone before, though it was.
Speaker 4: Horrible and national television.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I got dumbed on national television.
Speaker 4: But that was not on the phone. That was worse.
Speaker 2: It was the most public arena. That was a honey
Speaker 2: badger on The Bachelor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what would you rather being dumped again on national TV?
Speaker 3: Or being dumped by your fiance over the phone.
Speaker 2: Is the phone in privacy my own home. My dumping
Speaker 2: went viral around the world. It didn't really Yeah, that
Speaker 2: was the most famous I've ever been, so saying a lot,
Speaker 2: isn't it?
Speaker 1: All?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Back after this, I would pick.
Speaker 2: Up all right, Brittan Mitch.
Speaker 6: I have a big question mark for you guys, after
Speaker 6: something that I experienced yesterday, and I don't know whether
Speaker 6: it's okay or not.
Speaker 2: I don't know, and I need to help, all right.
Speaker 6: So yesterday I was on a flight and I was
Speaker 6: traveling by myself, and I got on the plane and
Speaker 6: you know where, you're walking up and you see your seat,
Speaker 6: and then you realize that the seat next door is
Speaker 6: still vacant. There was a guy on the aisle seat.
Speaker 6: I had the window seat, and then there was one
Speaker 6: seat between.
Speaker 4: Good feeling be ause you go, I can relax.
Speaker 2: I'm celebrating and I get to sit there. I get
Speaker 2: to relax.
Speaker 6: So the guy who's sitting there, he's reading a book
Speaker 6: and he's quite in the book as I'm approaching, and
Speaker 6: I had to kind of, you know, nudge and be like, oh,
Speaker 6: excuse me, that's my seat.
Speaker 2: Firstly, he wasn't going to get up. He tried to
Speaker 2: just shuffle his legs to the side. I hate that,
Speaker 2: and I went up and let someone in.
Speaker 6: I'm not sticking my backside in your face, mate, Can
Speaker 6: you please stand up?
Speaker 1: No? No.
Speaker 6: I kind of just stood there until he got up.
Speaker 6: So he got up with his book in his hand,
Speaker 6: and he got up and I went in. I sat
Speaker 6: down next to the window, and now I wasn't really
Speaker 6: paying too much attention to this guy.
Speaker 2: He was dressed nicely because wearing a suit.
Speaker 6: It was an early morning flight on a weekday, so
Speaker 6: I'm guessing he was going for a work trip or something.
Speaker 6: And he was reading this book pretty much the whole time,
Speaker 6: but he was kind of angled his body so it
Speaker 6: was angled away from me, and all I could see
Speaker 6: was the front cover of the book. He gets up
Speaker 6: and goes to the bathroom and he puts the book
Speaker 6: down between us on the spare seat, open on the
Speaker 6: page that he was just reading, with a card right
Speaker 6: in the middle as a little bookmark, and I kind
Speaker 6: of just glanced down and I was.
Speaker 2: Like, what does that say?
Speaker 6: And then as I was reading, I realized he was
Speaker 6: reading hard core.
Speaker 2: Romance fantasy I don't want to say the word.
Speaker 6: It was like erotica. It was more erotic than a
Speaker 6: Wiels and Boons. It was descriptivetre.
Speaker 1: She goes Wills and booms and like Mills and boo,
Speaker 1: very famous author.
Speaker 6: It was about hot breadth and big members and stuff
Speaker 6: and what was happening to.
Speaker 4: The purpose was on the cover? Was it a woman
Speaker 4: on a balcony?
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: The cover actually didn't have much.
Speaker 6: It just had like what looked like a bit of
Speaker 6: an illustration, and then it was I don't remember the.
Speaker 4: Name of it, arty stuff.
Speaker 2: It looked a little bit, yeah, like alternate aatsia. So
Speaker 2: what's my predicament is?
Speaker 6: Is it not inappropriate to be reading that in a
Speaker 6: public space?
Speaker 2: Laura? It didn't.
Speaker 1: He didn't put it there to get your juices flowing.
Speaker 1: He didn't put it there so hoping that you would
Speaker 1: look down and come back.
Speaker 6: He was Obviously, if you're reading that, you can't read
Speaker 6: that without being around.
Speaker 1: I think so he's sitting out, Laura, Sex and Relationship Podcast.
Speaker 6: This was a very descriptive sexual act that I was reading.
Speaker 2: You only read this stuff for a round.
Speaker 3: You chose to read You chose to read this The
Speaker 3: problem is the problem.
Speaker 2: The problem is you reading his stuff.
Speaker 1: He's open on the seat next to So if someone
Speaker 1: left their lunchbox open, did you just go and eat
Speaker 1: their sandwich?
Speaker 2: But I look inside.
Speaker 1: But you also made a point of saying that the
Speaker 1: front cover was non descript. There was nothing on there,
Speaker 1: So if there was a sexy position on there, then
Speaker 1: it's a problem.
Speaker 2: But it's a it's you read his re reiterate one thing.
Speaker 6: He was reading what was an extremely heavy page, extremely heavy.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to sound it out for you, and
Speaker 6: then he left it open and went to the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Let's read between the lines, people.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's ask the country.
Speaker 3: Is it okay to read your own book that you purchased?
Speaker 4: You write a ticket that.
Speaker 6: You purchased erotica? Is that's okay to read her saying erotica?
Speaker 6: And pointed I think she just genuinely likes to say
Speaker 6: the word.
Speaker 4: I agree, erotica.
Speaker 2: Anyway, let us know, are you team Laura or team and.
Speaker 4: Breads or the rest of the world?
Speaker 6: Next on the pickup, everyone, I am feeling attacked by
Speaker 6: Mitch and by bread because so yesterday this is what happened.
Speaker 6: I was on a plane and the man sitting next
Speaker 6: to me was reading very hardcore erotica novels and I
Speaker 6: Laura discovered this because he went to the bathroom and
Speaker 6: he left it open on the chair next to me,
Speaker 6: which I.
Speaker 2: Think was strategic. But everyone's telling me I'm insane and
Speaker 2: you read his eye.
Speaker 6: Leave it open, okay? But also my question was this
Speaker 6: because he didn't want.
Speaker 2: To lose his pace?
Speaker 4: Is a book, It's just maybe there was two kills
Speaker 4: and it flapped open. It's a book.
Speaker 6: He was at a really climactic moment. One might say, no,
Speaker 6: he left it there. It was open, and it made
Speaker 6: me ask the question, which I've been told I'm wrong.
Speaker 6: Is it okay to read hardcore and e rodica when
Speaker 6: you're in a public space or is that something that
Speaker 6: you should keep it home in private?
Speaker 3: We want to pull the nation, Tina, Is this man
Speaker 3: in the wrong? Can you read what you want on
Speaker 3: a plane?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Look, I think if it's just words and he's reading
Speaker 2: it to himself, then why not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you, Tina.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's not like there's pictures or anything.
Speaker 6: Maybe he has a vivid imagination though that's all you need,
Speaker 6: isn't it?
Speaker 5: That you're deliberately looking over.
Speaker 2: I wasn't trying to read it.
Speaker 6: He left the book open on the seat next to me,
Speaker 6: facing me as if you're not going to look down?
Speaker 4: Where did you wanted to put it?
Speaker 2: Close?
Speaker 1: It?
Speaker 4: Kat Hi, you think it's okay? Can you read it
Speaker 4: on a plane?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: To think there's anything wrong with it?
Speaker 3: You're arounded by it?
Speaker 2: Come on, thank you? I agree.
Speaker 1: Do you think the problem is do you think there's
Speaker 1: a problem with Laura reading other people's private things?
Speaker 3: I think she could mind her own business.
Speaker 7: It's he's just reading.
Speaker 3: It's not hurting anyone. I agree. Attack Now hold on, look,
Speaker 3: William Woodie, can we bring them in, Producer Grace, Let's get.
Speaker 4: Will enough the pylon.
Speaker 2: I reckon.
Speaker 4: I'd love to know if they think maybe they've read it.
Speaker 2: I want to know if they could read it and
Speaker 2: not be aroused. That's the real question. You can ask
Speaker 2: them yourself.
Speaker 4: They're coming boys getting hello?
Speaker 6: Okay, No, No, I'm feeling attacked. I've been told that
Speaker 6: I'm wrong, and I would like some more opinions on this.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 6: Yesterday I was on a plane and the man sitting
Speaker 6: next to me was reading hardcore erotic novels like how
Speaker 6: hard core books.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the name was.
Speaker 6: All I saw was he was reading something and then
Speaker 6: he went to the bathroom. He put the book down
Speaker 6: literally on the seat that was next to me, so it.
Speaker 2: Was facing me and open.
Speaker 6: So Laura read and so I looked down and I
Speaker 6: was like, oh my god, does that say what I
Speaker 6: think it says?
Speaker 2: And then I started reading it.
Speaker 6: My opinion is that for something that hardcore, it's not
Speaker 6: appropriate to read it in a public place.
Speaker 2: And I have been told I'm very, very wrong.
Speaker 7: As someone who loves erotic fiction, I'm sorry, Laura. But
Speaker 7: if there's no pictures and no set, and if I
Speaker 7: control my grunting and groaning, like I would fully appreciate
Speaker 7: you to have a guar at me.
Speaker 4: If I was like getting a bit guttural.
Speaker 7: With my enjoyment of my erotic fiction, then one hundred percent,
Speaker 7: you know you're there with the kids, I get it
Speaker 7: that's offensive.
Speaker 4: But if the blog's just there enjoying a bit of you.
Speaker 2: Know, eight am in the morning on a virgin flight.
Speaker 7: There's never a bad time to dip your toe into
Speaker 7: a little bit of erotic fiction.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 4: Will's shockingly quiet. What's your thought, Will, I'm just a
Speaker 4: little bit worried about what he's doing in the bathroom.
Speaker 4: Thank you, that was my I feel like he's just
Speaker 4: read page seventy eight. He's gone felt some turbulence, he thought.
Speaker 7: If he's gone to the bathroom, he's done the right thing.
Speaker 1: You're wrong, he's just taking awe on his flight. I
Speaker 1: think the problem here, correct me if I'm wrong. Is
Speaker 1: Laura looking over soone's shoulder reading the book and being
Speaker 1: offended by what he is reading.
Speaker 6: Okay, I think you guys are taking it too far. Firstly, Britt,
Speaker 6: you do not know what he was doing in that bathroom.
Speaker 6: And secondly, I did not look over anyone's shoulder. He
Speaker 6: opened it and presented it to me.
Speaker 3: Well, boys, we better go. We're gonna get out of here.
Speaker 3: The studio is all yours. Thanks guys.
Speaker 4: All right, the boys a right. Next, we'll see you
Speaker 4: tomorrow here at the pick. Goodbye.