Speaker 1: Laura, come on, it's the pickup your Thursday Head of
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Speaker 1: Hello mids Cheery.
Speaker 2: It always makes me feel so happy listening to that
Speaker 2: little intro song.
Speaker 1: Well that's all you and I have when you get
Speaker 1: Brittany Hockley who's been sent a bouquet of roses to
Speaker 1: the studio. Did you see them coming in?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well that's what happens when your boyfriend lives in another
Speaker 2: country they actually celebrate Valentine's Day.
Speaker 4: Well do you know it's not even Valentine's Day? It
Speaker 4: literally it's a point. He's made a point which bless
Speaker 4: his soul. He's made a point of saying, I'm doing
Speaker 4: this not because I have to, because it's just a
Speaker 4: day I choose to do it.
Speaker 2: Does it mean that you get more roses come Valentine's
Speaker 2: Day next week? Bla, I hope so, yeah, I would.
Speaker 5: I don't think this. It's like when your birthday is
Speaker 5: the day before Christmas.
Speaker 4: You don't just get one present that goes for your
Speaker 4: birthday and Christmas.
Speaker 5: This is the same thing.
Speaker 1: Hey, on the show today, I have liaised with all
Speaker 1: the music labels in the country, some of the biggest
Speaker 1: beat makers in the nation. I've created a pickup song.
Speaker 2: Like an anthem.
Speaker 1: Wh're new to the airwaves, Let's introduce ourselves to the
Speaker 1: pick up listeners and it's a great way for people
Speaker 1: to learn about Britt Laura and me Mitch, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to play it for you in the world first
Speaker 1: at the end of the show to okay.
Speaker 4: Well, in more interesting news, we're also going to be
Speaker 4: speaking over this in the studio day and night. I
Speaker 4: cannot wait to hear it. And I know you have
Speaker 4: a beautiful opera voice. A lot of people don't know
Speaker 4: this about me. Thank you, but he has your opera train.
Speaker 1: You'll hear it later in the show.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't wait to hear it.
Speaker 5: But that's okay.
Speaker 4: What I was saying is an arranged marriage speaking an
Speaker 4: Australian woman that's in an arranged marriage, and it's an
Speaker 4: incredibly interesting story.
Speaker 2: I always wonder are they actually in love? Like, at
Speaker 2: what point do they fall in love after having an
Speaker 2: arranged marriage. Also, something I want to talk to you
Speaker 2: guys about is that there is a Facebook group that
Speaker 2: has been designed for out in cheatahs. Know if you
Speaker 2: think that's okay. Oh men, together sisters will conquered.
Speaker 1: Oh on paget. Next, it's the pick up for your
Speaker 1: Thursday around Australia. So pick up with Britt, Laura and Midge.
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Speaker 2: Oh guys, I have a spicy one for you. There
Speaker 2: is a new Facebook group that has popped up. There's
Speaker 2: a few of them, but the one that I wanted
Speaker 2: to tell you about is called are We Dating the
Speaker 2: Same Boyfriend? So this is a Facebook group that has
Speaker 2: been created where if you suspect that your partner's cheating
Speaker 2: on you, maybe they're having an affair, maybe it's a
Speaker 2: one night stand, whatever it is, you can go on
Speaker 2: to this Facebook group. You can put all their details
Speaker 2: in and other people who also maybe suspect that their
Speaker 2: partners in multiple relationships will go on there and they
Speaker 2: will do the investity of work for you or they
Speaker 2: will come out and say, yes, I'm also in a
Speaker 2: relationship with this person. So it's trying to out cheating.
Speaker 1: Is it for women to post about cheating boyfriends or
Speaker 1: is it vice versa? Can you post any gender?
Speaker 2: I think you can post any gender, But by large
Speaker 2: and far, the peace people posting in this group are
Speaker 2: women who are warning other women or trying to find
Speaker 2: out whether their male partners are cheating on them.
Speaker 1: This is great?
Speaker 2: Do you think it's great? Because I feel like Britt,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have a different opinion on this.
Speaker 5: I don't think this is great.
Speaker 4: No, Well, there are people taking screenshots of other people's
Speaker 4: dating profiles, putting it on and just having queries like, hey,
Speaker 4: is anyone else talking to this guy?
Speaker 5: I think that's cooked.
Speaker 1: That's different I do.
Speaker 5: And this is where my problem is.
Speaker 4: I'm all for if someone is an absolute turn burger
Speaker 4: and is like out there cheating, out there doing the
Speaker 4: wrong thing, he's abusive, he's very problematic. That is one
Speaker 4: kettle of fish, right, But there's something about this that
Speaker 4: it's very hard to police. So anyone can go and
Speaker 4: throw anyone under the bus for any reason. We all
Speaker 4: know how much how easy it is to believe a
Speaker 4: headline that's not true, to hear a rumor that's not true,
Speaker 4: and all of a.
Speaker 5: Sudden it sticks with you. So I just don't know
Speaker 5: how I feel about it.
Speaker 2: I'm straddled in both sides of the camp here, okay,
Speaker 2: because one side of me is like, as someone who
Speaker 2: has been cheated on in the past, there's a part
Speaker 2: of me that's like, well, if there's a community that
Speaker 2: could help someone from making the same mistake with that person,
Speaker 2: I would want to almost lean into it and be like,
Speaker 2: I want to warn people that this is not a
Speaker 2: good guy to date, right. I feel like it's a
Speaker 2: good community for being able to out people who are
Speaker 2: doing pattern bad behavior on eating apps or maybe Brittany's
Speaker 2: got a hand.
Speaker 1: Brittany, we're not in a lecture. You can speak what
Speaker 1: this is your radio show. She's risen her hand, she's ready.
Speaker 4: I understand what you're saying. Yes, but plenty of people cheat,
Speaker 4: and I'm not condoning it. I've been cheated on multiple
Speaker 4: multiple times. But plenty of people cheat. And I know
Speaker 4: you've spoken about on the podcast before, Laura. In your
Speaker 4: young days, you cheated, you got a second chance, and
Speaker 4: you'd never do it now. So if someone's cheated and
Speaker 4: it's pissed so on off, that's not to say for
Speaker 4: the rest of their lives they're going to be this
Speaker 4: crazy person.
Speaker 5: They could have been really young and done the wrong thing,
Speaker 5: and are we.
Speaker 4: Really going to stop them from going and meeting their
Speaker 4: penguin because maybe they made a mistake.
Speaker 1: Guys, can I just say, like this is exhausting. The
Speaker 1: gays have been doing this for years underground, like you
Speaker 1: straight people. We've got groups. I've got a file on
Speaker 1: David And what about Sam?
Speaker 2: Do you mean you've been doing it for forever? What
Speaker 2: are you doing that's different?
Speaker 1: It's part of gay culture. You just talk. Everyone talks. Sadly,
Speaker 1: the gay community isn't that big. So you've most likely
Speaker 1: been with your new boyfriend's boyfriends, so you know his history.
Speaker 4: So you're saying that you all constantly out each other
Speaker 4: on cheating.
Speaker 1: Exactly right. You'll know their name, you'll know their face.
Speaker 1: And if maybe that's what you're into, maybe match two
Speaker 1: cheaters up like we don't shame we go. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: better off with this cheat because Sitement's a cheater. Ben
Speaker 1: go with him?
Speaker 5: Oh, cheat City, Cheat City.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can add you to some group chats. They're
Speaker 1: really fun.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I still think that maybe
Speaker 2: maybe there needs to be a way for this to exist,
Speaker 2: but it needs to be policed a little bit better, like, well,
Speaker 2: if you've only been cheated on in the last six months,
Speaker 2: you can post it, but if it's a two years ago,
Speaker 2: we don't want to hear about it.
Speaker 1: It needs to be an expiry date on cheetahs.
Speaker 5: You two other problems to get your demerit points back.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh my god, after three years.
Speaker 5: Relations shipp to mirror points.
Speaker 1: All right. Well up next, speaking of relationships, we are
Speaker 1: talking to a listener of the show. Lena is in
Speaker 1: an arranged marriage. But here's the thing. She's been happily
Speaker 1: married for fifteen years and she thinks it's great. And
Speaker 1: why we want to talk to her is we all
Speaker 1: only ever hear the negative side of arranged marriages, never
Speaker 1: the good stuff. Lena joins us next here at the pickup.
Speaker 1: It's the pickup for your Thursday afternoon with Britt, Laura
Speaker 1: and midgehead into chemist Warehouse today, great savings every day.
Speaker 4: We have a friend of the show here today and
Speaker 4: I'm excited to introduce you all to her. Lena is
Speaker 4: her name, and Lena is in an arranged marriage.
Speaker 5: Now this is a really different story. So Lena welcome
Speaker 5: to the show.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 5: Firstly, how long have you been married?
Speaker 3: For? Fifteen years? We just said our fifteen year anniversary
Speaker 3: in December?
Speaker 1: Are you happily married?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: Are you guys?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Wow? Wow?
Speaker 3: Do you know?
Speaker 2: Okay? So, when it came to having this wedding or
Speaker 2: your marriage arranged, did you have a choice or was
Speaker 2: it an expectation that you would allow your family members
Speaker 2: to pick your husband for you.
Speaker 3: No, it was completely my choice, And I think the
Speaker 3: times have changed now where the traditional sort of arranged
Speaker 3: marriage only happens in smaller villages. It's very modernized now
Speaker 3: where the girl does get a say in the majority
Speaker 3: of the cases.
Speaker 5: If you had a choice. What part of it makes
Speaker 5: it arrange?
Speaker 3: The fact that the elders actually get together and let
Speaker 3: people know that there's a girl here, and then they
Speaker 3: arrange for the man and the families to come and meet.
Speaker 3: That could be several different men.
Speaker 1: Paint the picture of how it works, because the way
Speaker 1: it was described to us is that it was kind
Speaker 1: of a bit like speed data. Y.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there could be up to several men coming
Speaker 3: throughout the day. It's almost like an appointment and you
Speaker 3: can sort of judge them or try and judge them
Speaker 3: for the amount of time that you have there in
Speaker 3: front of them. And as an Indian woman, what you
Speaker 3: would do the one being married has to go and
Speaker 3: take them a glass of water and then you sit
Speaker 3: down and sort of not look at each other. But
Speaker 3: I took a really good stare because I mean, that
Speaker 3: could be the biggest of the rest of my life.
Speaker 4: So yeah, So some people don't take that thirty seconds,
Speaker 4: that minute. They avoid eye contact because it's awkward. What
Speaker 4: did you feel when you met your husband, You're sitting
Speaker 4: opposite him, You're looking into his eyes. What was it
Speaker 4: about looking into your now husband's eyes where you're like,
Speaker 4: this is.
Speaker 3: The one My husband was the first one I looked at.
Speaker 3: We didn't speak at all. I took them water and
Speaker 3: sat down, and then the family members just talked to
Speaker 3: each other. Really, two weeks went by and nobody asked
Speaker 3: me anything. So then I said to my grandma, said
Speaker 3: I actually liked the look of that guy.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: They got really excited because I was only nineteen at
Speaker 3: the time. And then they set up another meeting where
Speaker 3: they then sent us up to the balcony to then
Speaker 3: talk to each other, which was really awkward because he
Speaker 3: was really shy and didn't know what to really say.
Speaker 3: And all I really asked him was he ate meat
Speaker 3: and drank alcohol, and it was a yes. So it
Speaker 3: was a yes from me.
Speaker 2: So long after meeting there, do you then have to
Speaker 2: make the decision that you're going to get married? Do
Speaker 2: you get married very shortly afterwards? Are you essentially just
Speaker 2: saying yes to dating?
Speaker 3: No, that was a done deal on the day. So
Speaker 3: as we say yes, you.
Speaker 4: Took water, you looked into each other's eyes. You asked
Speaker 4: to me be eight meat and alcohol and day with
Speaker 4: the day with the checkboxes. Then you were like, this
Speaker 4: is the rest of my life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much. So within a month we had met,
Speaker 3: we got engaged and married or all in one month.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, congratulations, you've been married fifteen years, You've
Speaker 1: got two beautiful girls.
Speaker 2: How long did it take you to fall in love?
Speaker 3: For me? It was a love at first sight. It
Speaker 3: was love at first sight. It took both of our
Speaker 3: sides to really learn each other's ways. And my husband
Speaker 3: brought him to Australia here, so he's left his whole
Speaker 3: family and everything, friends and everyone back in India and
Speaker 3: I've now got a husband that I have to, you know,
Speaker 3: take care of, and being as independent as I was,
Speaker 3: it was really new to me. So it just takes
Speaker 3: a lot of understanding and a lot of suck. Provisors
Speaker 3: do have to be made for a relationship like this
Speaker 3: to work.
Speaker 1: Wow, And all it takes is seconds. That should be
Speaker 1: the name of your memoir if you ever right on
Speaker 1: thirty seconds. Well hopefully I'm talking about the look.
Speaker 5: Youst titles.
Speaker 1: No, I'm talking about the intro anyway. I congratulations, Lena.
Speaker 1: We're very happy for you. Thank you for coming on
Speaker 1: and sharing your story.
Speaker 3: No, thank you.
Speaker 1: Start all right, it's down by next everybody. I have
Speaker 1: written and produced the Pickup Anthem, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: be debuting it here on the Pickup in a world first.
Speaker 4: Oh God, be afraid, be very fact that this is
Speaker 4: the first we're hearing about it as a problem.
Speaker 1: Turn the volume up, everyone, It's on the air next Thursday.
Speaker 1: AV Britt, Laura and Mitch here at the Pickup. Hey,
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Speaker 1: on my phone's ringing. Sorry, it's Sony Music. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure I'm about to be signed to Sony Music, the
Speaker 1: record label.
Speaker 2: What if you're done now?
Speaker 1: Well, I thought, when you hear on the air waves,
Speaker 1: this is our second week of the pick Up Britt,
Speaker 1: Laura and Mitch and know I have studied theater and
Speaker 1: I'm a musical boy. It's in my bones.
Speaker 2: You've got a fantastic voice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, only is a little baritone, and only really in
Speaker 1: musical theater numbers. So what I did was, I thought,
Speaker 1: my way of showing love is to be creative. So
Speaker 1: I have written a song that perfectly introduces Laura, Britt
Speaker 1: and myself to the new audience listening now.
Speaker 2: So this is a song that you've written about us,
Speaker 2: just so I can get clear before I hear that
Speaker 2: is correct, Laura Burn correct.
Speaker 1: It's a way to introduce ourselves to the pickup audience.
Speaker 1: Let's roll the track. This is the Pickup performed by
Speaker 1: yours truly.
Speaker 5: Here's the story. You're a lovely lady.
Speaker 1: We've met six years ago.
Speaker 5: Of dreams. You met Laura on ours and now they
Speaker 5: have to the country's most beloved bat. You too.
Speaker 1: Between taking and Mom there's Telly times or one but Bob,
Speaker 1: and we're worried that you never get the sleep. This
Speaker 1: is a awful, lovely lady who we met Don't on TV,
Speaker 1: said goodbye to her honey badger, no looking back, and
Speaker 1: stabbed the dagger. How beautiful bridge was signal once again.
Speaker 5: The single life brought many tears, but God is being
Speaker 5: good content.
Speaker 1: Over the years, you found love in the Lalla, her
Speaker 1: dog and.
Speaker 5: Any Scottish boy. She loves a snog.
Speaker 1: That's why we love them.
Speaker 5: Love free, six foot three, big hair and sweating.
Speaker 1: Into time more than raised and shy.
Speaker 5: I hate you still had a.
Speaker 2: Great desire to run off the living Holley.
Speaker 1: Wood twelve months in New York City.
Speaker 5: Games that killers, and that's own.
Speaker 1: Style story.
Speaker 5: Enjoy everybody, Why I just here.
Speaker 2: We are so sorry. We take absolutely no responsibility for
Speaker 2: Mitch chery. This was done behind.
Speaker 5: Our backs, but but it was awful Mitch. What I
Speaker 5: would like to say is it is the.
Speaker 4: Effort that counts and the thought that counts. And I
Speaker 4: can tell you put many blood, sweat, tears and hours
Speaker 4: into that song.
Speaker 2: And you are sweaty to the touch.
Speaker 1: I am It's all true.
Speaker 5: That was the truest part of the song at your
Speaker 5: Clumminess was the part that really I really resonated with.
Speaker 5: Couldn't we have just introduced ourselves normally. Hi, I'm Laura,
Speaker 5: I have two kids.
Speaker 1: I'm a mom, not our stuff.
Speaker 5: I've got a dog Jahlilah, and finally got a boyfriend.
Speaker 1: I'm open to record deals if anyone's interested in all
Speaker 1: private songs, if you've got a sixteenth birthday or twenty
Speaker 1: first or right one.
Speaker 5: I love that Mitch wrote the song right. He can
Speaker 5: put anything he wants in it about him. He's like,
Speaker 5: I'm train actor, I went to New Yorker, I did this.
Speaker 5: This are my accolades. I'm very handsome, all the great things,
Speaker 5: and I.
Speaker 2: Have a three legged dog and can't wipe my own bump.
Speaker 5: Single.
Speaker 1: All right, that's the pickup. We're here for eternity everyone, now,
Speaker 1: you know, please come back next week and we're back
Speaker 1: on here tomorrow. Will and Woody are up next for
Speaker 1: the drive home. Otherwise we'll see you tomorrow. Three pmm Britney,
Speaker 1: Laura Mitchell back on.
Speaker 2: I promise this will be the last that he does that.
Speaker 2: I promise security take pass