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Speaker 1: Hi, guys, you're listening to the Pickup with Britt Hockey
Speaker 1: and Laura Ben. Big week coming up, Laura, do you
Speaker 1: know what? I'm just giggling it because I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so bad.
Speaker 2: It's a week week No, not Yeah, it's August coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is the thing we've been talking about it.
Speaker 1: We're like, it's coming. Couldn't have told you what date
Speaker 1: it was? Couldn't have told you the week?
Speaker 2: Well that's half the problem, right because did you know
Speaker 2: the week?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What is it?
Speaker 2: Oddest? What one?
Speaker 1: Be fair? I was pretty good. It's August sixteen to
Speaker 1: twenty third.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so twenty one falls into the week. I knew
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 1: Does it always fall around your birthday? Is that? Why
Speaker 1: is it the same? It must be the same week
Speaker 1: every year?
Speaker 2: I dress up as myself for a book Week.
Speaker 1: You did write a book once upon a time. No,
Speaker 1: it's look bookwek is coming. It is true.
Speaker 2: Why can't your kids go as.
Speaker 1: You and me? We have a book and last time
Speaker 1: they went as Matt. So my husband's written a kid's book.
Speaker 1: He managed to after two weeks of trying to convince him,
Speaker 1: he managed to convince Laula to dress up as dad.
Speaker 1: So she went to book Week kindergarten in like a Hawaiian.
Speaker 2: Shew, Well, next week it's you and me.
Speaker 1: Look, guys, this is your reminder. Bookweek is coming. Don't
Speaker 1: be like me and forget, because every single year I forget,
Speaker 1: and this year I've put it into my calendar with
Speaker 1: a one week reminders that I can't forget about it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, just to double down on that, what Laura
Speaker 3: does is wakes up, remembers on the morning, grabs like
Speaker 3: a cowboy hat on the way out the door, throws
Speaker 3: it on, and she goes, you're a cowboy.
Speaker 1: No, because it's like unjustifiable. In preschool, if your kids
Speaker 1: go to preschool, it is book week every single day
Speaker 1: of that week. So if your kid is in preschool
Speaker 1: for four days a week, that's four costumes.
Speaker 2: I guess that does, like it is book week, not Bookeday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but it's a lot anyway now. And
Speaker 1: also we want to see your costume. So all you've
Speaker 1: got to do is go and upload a photo on
Speaker 1: our wind page for your chance to win a five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars Spotlight voucher, which will come in very handy
Speaker 1: if you've got preschools. You've got to make four costumes.
Speaker 1: This is a very relatable thing for parents. I think
Speaker 1: that you reach a destination earlier than you expect to
Speaker 1: get there when it comes to kids, right, Like they
Speaker 1: ask questions and then sometimes they flow you and like hold.
Speaker 2: Out and what's Pythago's theory?
Speaker 1: No, like things that you're just not ready to answer,
Speaker 1: Like little kids ask big world questions, and then you
Speaker 1: have to try and navigate, like how am I going
Speaker 1: to answer that in a way that pitch is accurate
Speaker 1: but is also grated and appropriate for your age. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's about the birds and the bees. Sometimes it's about
Speaker 1: babies and how they got into your belly, like whatever
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 3: It's funny because when we were kids, I think that
Speaker 3: we used to go and ask our parents whatever, right,
Speaker 3: and even if they didn't know the answer. They could
Speaker 3: lie because there was no Google. We couldn't go and
Speaker 3: look it up, like we had to take.
Speaker 2: Their word for whatever they said. But you can't do
Speaker 2: that now.
Speaker 1: It's so true. But I mean to be fair, my
Speaker 1: kids are too young. They don't have phones. It's not
Speaker 1: like they can go on Google it. But Marley, anytime
Speaker 1: Marlly asks a question, I don't know the answer to it,
Speaker 1: she just goes, Mom, why don't you just spotify it?
Speaker 1: And I'm like close, but not quite the same thing. So, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm nine weeks away from having this baby. It's happening
Speaker 1: very soon, and it's it's been an interesting journey because
Speaker 1: like Mally, who's six, is now old enough to really
Speaker 1: understand that there's a baby in my belly, But then
Speaker 1: you can just see the cogs. There's questions, how did
Speaker 1: the baby get into your belly? Mum, what's the baby
Speaker 1: doing in there? Like what's happening? So she really want
Speaker 1: how does the baby come out of your belly? Like
Speaker 1: all of these questions we have kind of hit at
Speaker 1: different milestones. Right the first one was like I understand
Speaker 1: there's a baby in your belly, but how did it
Speaker 1: get in your belly, and so you know, I think
Speaker 1: I navigated that. Okay, I'm laying in bed the other
Speaker 1: morning and Molly walks in dead pan like she's on
Speaker 1: a mission, and she really seriously. She comes out and
Speaker 1: she gives me a cuddle, and she like starts rubbing
Speaker 1: my belly like I'm a Buddha, which she does every morning,
Speaker 1: and she goes, mom, I've been thinking, And I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: and she goes, is Poppy, that's the name that we've
Speaker 1: given the baby. Is Poppy gonna come out the same
Speaker 1: way that I came out.
Speaker 2: Out of the same canal?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I And she had this real look of concern
Speaker 1: on her face. And she's my little sensitive soul, right,
Speaker 1: so she looked really concerned, and you like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: how much do I tell her?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And also I'm of the opinion that you want
Speaker 1: to be kind of accurate with your kids, right like
Speaker 1: you want to be you want to call things by
Speaker 1: their proper names. You want to give them as much
Speaker 1: but also as little information as possible. So she says,
Speaker 1: is it's gonna come out the same way? And I said, oh,
Speaker 1: do you do you mean out of my vagina? And
Speaker 1: she looked at me horrified, horrified, and she goes.
Speaker 2: No, oh, bald, She physically look the same.
Speaker 1: She's so worried that the baby's gonna come out bald.
Speaker 1: She doesn't care about my vagina. The kid doesn't care
Speaker 1: if mummy's in pain. In fact, I didn't know how they
Speaker 1: came out, but she does now. Oh no, she kind
Speaker 1: of did. And that's why I thought that maybe she
Speaker 1: was worried that I was going to be in pain
Speaker 1: like that it was going to cause me some sort
Speaker 1: of turmoil. She could not care less. She doesn't want
Speaker 1: to have a bald sister. She's worried old kids. You
Speaker 1: have bald kids.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: Maybe this one will come out with heaps of hair.
Speaker 3: Have you seen it on the ultrasound yet?
Speaker 1: My run so far would suggest that it's going to
Speaker 1: be a totally.
Speaker 3: Bald child, because you know, you can see hair on ultrasound,
Speaker 3: can you yep?
Speaker 2: If you have like a head of hair, you can
Speaker 2: see it.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: Well, no one's told me that the kid has a
Speaker 1: head of hair. That's definitely not been said. And Marley's
Speaker 1: just so concerned because she wants it to look like
Speaker 1: a girl. And I was like, it's gonna look like
Speaker 1: a baby, and she's like like a princess baby, and
Speaker 1: I was like, it's gonna look like a baby.
Speaker 3: My sister's baby, Maya, she's ten months old now, but
Speaker 3: she was not born with any hair either, and it's
Speaker 3: been quite slow growing. And even if Sherry dresses her
Speaker 3: in pink, no matter what she does, she could be
Speaker 3: in a pink little thing with love.
Speaker 2: Hearts and frills and someone comes up and says what's
Speaker 2: his name?
Speaker 3: All the time show It's like, goddamn it, what have
Speaker 3: I got to do to say?
Speaker 1: As a girl. That was the same thing with Lola.
Speaker 1: Lola was just baled until she was two and a half,
Speaker 1: completely bald, and I was like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: this kid's ever going to grow hair. But the problem
Speaker 1: is my dad went bald at twenty four, So I
Speaker 1: don't think that we've got good genetics when it comes
Speaker 1: to hair density.
Speaker 2: Yours is thinning.
Speaker 1: Shut up, No, hang.
Speaker 3: On anyone listening that doesn't have the backstory the things.
Speaker 1: I mean, Laura Lauri speaks about her hairs all the time.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: Fair, she's always picking on me. It's won't plays harassment.
Speaker 2: Okay, look, I have a double crown, my hair sitting too.
Speaker 1: Okay, sure, dig up. So, Laura, I don't want to
Speaker 1: alarm you, but.
Speaker 2: I am thinking of a little bit of a career change.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: It's not by it's not by choice.
Speaker 3: It has been thrust upon me. I may have found
Speaker 3: my calling if you.
Speaker 1: Say that after Dancing with the Stars, I'm going off
Speaker 1: to join some sort of dance because I honestly, what
Speaker 1: would you do if you weren't doing this?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, can I tell you something that you
Speaker 3: can Okay, Okay, I forget that I'm on.
Speaker 2: Dancing with the Stars right now. But this is not
Speaker 2: this is not the story.
Speaker 3: But I just segued I'm on Dancing with the Stars
Speaker 3: as we speak. And so my husband Ben lives over
Speaker 3: in Italy and a teammate, one of his teammates yesterday
Speaker 3: came up to him and he must have been looking
Speaker 3: on Ben's page, seen me, clicked on me how to
Speaker 3: look at me?
Speaker 2: Anyway, his teammate came up to him and says, wait,
Speaker 2: is your wife on Dancing with the Stars? And Ben
Speaker 2: was like yeah, and he's like wow, I didn't know
Speaker 2: she was a professional dancer. She's really good, and I.
Speaker 3: Thought, what if he's like, she's not the dancer.
Speaker 2: He thought that I was the dancer. So I just
Speaker 2: needed to him. He must have looked at like a
Speaker 2: two second cliff.
Speaker 1: To be fair, you have done amazing like you do
Speaker 1: look like a professional dancer on there. Stop it and
Speaker 1: then stop it got slade.
Speaker 3: She got slade like a dragon. In fact to what
Speaker 3: I was talking about. I mean my like health and
Speaker 3: Wellness era. I've been in it for a while, but
Speaker 3: I love the sauna.
Speaker 2: It was my sacred place.
Speaker 3: I would sauna probably four times a week, maybe five
Speaker 3: if I can. And it's not an individual sauna. It's
Speaker 3: like a group sauna, but I would go at different times,
Speaker 3: and quite often i'd be on my own. And I
Speaker 3: imagine it's like the escape that mums feel when they
Speaker 3: get a bit of time away.
Speaker 2: Like headphones in, lay down and just like just zen out.
Speaker 1: So you lay down in a group sauna.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I've fallen asleep in this sauna.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel about groups saunas, like
Speaker 1: I've done it a couple of times, but I just
Speaker 1: feel like there's other people's sweat is so close to
Speaker 1: me and I feel encased in other people's ill.
Speaker 3: Yeah I get that too, but we wear a towel and
Speaker 3: it's cleaned. But my point is, like I often got
Speaker 3: times to the day. I know we're quite quiet.
Speaker 1: So I can like have that moment, not peak hour.
Speaker 3: But what has happened is loads of the people at
Speaker 3: the gym and this wellness center know what I do
Speaker 3: for a living. They know that we have Life Uncut
Speaker 3: the podcast, and they know we do ask on Cut
Speaker 3: and that it's like relationship based. They know who you
Speaker 3: ask and cut in the radio. And it started to
Speaker 3: become like a therapy session. So people come in now
Speaker 3: and they'll see me in there, and then they come
Speaker 3: in and they guys, not girls, I'm talking men, And
Speaker 3: then they start to ask me relationship advice.
Speaker 1: Are they trauma dumping in the sauna.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're trauma dumping, but it's not necessarily trauma dumping.
Speaker 3: I'm actually so fascinated by it. And it is literally
Speaker 3: like you could take bookings. I could be a psychologist
Speaker 3: therapist in the sauna.
Speaker 2: They come in one on one.
Speaker 3: Not intentionally, I'm not like wait outside everyone, but then
Speaker 3: they ask me all of their deepest darkest relationship questions,
Speaker 3: and I have to give them advice and then they
Speaker 3: literally say, Okay, I'll update you next week, and they
Speaker 3: circle back in a week to give me the update
Speaker 3: on the advice that I've given them in this sauna.
Speaker 1: I have a question for you. Have you told any
Speaker 1: of them that you're actually not qualified?
Speaker 3: They think, well, I haven't specifically said that. No, maybe
Speaker 3: they think that I am. I've not said I'm qualified.
Speaker 3: I think that they know I'm not. I don't know
Speaker 3: what it is. Maybe have a hard time asking their
Speaker 3: friends for certain advice, or maybe maybe it's different getting
Speaker 3: advice from like the opposite sex. I often ask guys'
Speaker 3: advice when I want a male's perspective, but it's sort
Speaker 3: of just become who I am in the sorda.
Speaker 1: Now, what's an example I need to know, like an
Speaker 1: example of something you've been asked recently?
Speaker 2: Yesterday?
Speaker 3: Yesterday's one was really really nice guy that his therapy
Speaker 3: session has been going on for quite a while. He
Speaker 3: hasn't been able to find the right person, and I've
Speaker 3: been guiding him and encourage him to date because he
Speaker 3: was giving up on dating.
Speaker 2: So this has been like going on for quite a while,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, you're such a catch.
Speaker 1: Get out there.
Speaker 2: It's not going to come and find you in your
Speaker 2: house kind of thing.
Speaker 3: And so we got the update recently that he in
Speaker 3: fact met someone amazing, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: And then it's turning into long distance.
Speaker 3: So you know, she's going to chase her dreams. And
Speaker 3: we had to unpack because he let her go chase
Speaker 3: her dreams. And we had to unpack like why he
Speaker 3: just let her go if he's constantly thinking about her
Speaker 3: now and wants to work it out and like wants
Speaker 3: that to be a thing. And then so we spent
Speaker 3: that session trying to work out like if he and
Speaker 3: go and voice to her how he really feels.
Speaker 2: And like chase it down and make something of it.
Speaker 1: I feel like you need to charge for this. This
Speaker 1: is lovely. It sounds like too much mental load. I
Speaker 1: don't want to go home and take on anymore. I
Speaker 1: want to go home and have a nap.
Speaker 2: And I can put one of those.
Speaker 3: You know when you go to the deli there's a
Speaker 3: ticket machine and you like, you take a ticket off
Speaker 3: the Delhi and get some ham and then you can
Speaker 3: troll my dumb I don't know.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm about it.
Speaker 1: And it is time for our little wins of the week.
Speaker 1: This is where you guys have a chance to win
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars spend a Chemists warehouse when you call
Speaker 1: up with your little win. And we're not talking about
Speaker 1: the big celebrations, not the birthdays, not the marriages, not
Speaker 1: the anniversaries. We're like, you know, when something just went
Speaker 1: okay and you kind of made it through the week.
Speaker 2: Like maybe you remembered it was book weik.
Speaker 1: That's great, yep, and you got your costume done early.
Speaker 1: Maybe you made a fantastic bolonnaise. I want to hear
Speaker 1: about it. Give us a call now we've got Tasha
Speaker 1: on the line. Tasha, what was your little win of
Speaker 1: the week. Oh, it felt so good to finally beat
Speaker 1: my son in Connect four. Yes, every time I smash
Speaker 1: my six year old at Uno, I'm so proud of myself.
Speaker 1: So I feel the sun. He's three and he beats
Speaker 1: you every week.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: I taught him the game and then I swear with
Speaker 1: the fluke, the pieces just magically land in the right spots.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a child genius is like rain man.
Speaker 1: I know it's so embarrassing. Also, though, Tasha, I think
Speaker 1: the true test of like a kid's spirit is how
Speaker 1: did he take the loss? Oh?
Speaker 3: She cried, and I really rubbed it in. I rubbed
Speaker 3: it in so hard it was great brutal.
Speaker 1: Wait there a minute. Oh, kids are never good, They're
Speaker 1: terrible losers.
Speaker 2: All right, well, let's go to Matt.
Speaker 1: Matt, what's your little winner of the week. I finally
Speaker 1: tamed the wild tupper. Weir draw every match.
Speaker 4: No mystery tubs, and the drawer actually shuts like I'm
Speaker 4: on top of the wheel.
Speaker 1: That's a true fat It's so annoying.
Speaker 2: Just this morning, I was trying to all my work.
Speaker 3: I was trying to find a lid to a shake
Speaker 3: so I could take a protein shake.
Speaker 2: Could not, for the life of me, find it. It
Speaker 2: has gone.
Speaker 1: How you're about to come over to come to a
Speaker 1: picture mood? It did cleaning your top wears or fixes
Speaker 1: your mood? Is that what you just said?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the picture mood if it's not all organized because
Speaker 4: you can't find what you want when you need it.
Speaker 1: It was the accent. Sorry, Matt. I thought you said
Speaker 1: it'll fix your mood, but you said it affects your
Speaker 1: mood and I yeah, I feel I think.
Speaker 2: Both are true.
Speaker 1: I'm originally from South Australia.
Speaker 2: It's the accent, it's the kiwe wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, that hold the line, Jess. What's your
Speaker 1: little end of the week.
Speaker 4: My little win is I got my dog Gary d
Speaker 4: sex or d nutted, and instead of him having to
Speaker 4: wear the cone of shame, I repurposed my ten year
Speaker 4: old son's undies into some little shorts.
Speaker 3: Oh well, Darry, but we got a win of heaven
Speaker 3: a laugh and he didn't have to wear the cone
Speaker 3: of shame.
Speaker 4: Really funny, I.
Speaker 1: Think wearing a kid's underwear as a shame for was
Speaker 1: he a humper?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Was he the one of those hum everything?
Speaker 4: Not? Yeah, but we have caught them doing it, which
Speaker 4: is a bit disturbing. But you know, hopefully this diner
Speaker 4: thing will help that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel sorry. I mean, I know it's a
Speaker 1: win for you, Jess, but I do feel like it's
Speaker 1: a bit of a loss for Gary. He's lost two
Speaker 1: things to the dog. Okay, hold there for one second,
Speaker 1: we have to deliberate. We've got connect four, we've got
Speaker 1: tup ofware, and we've got Gary the dog.
Speaker 3: I feel like I hate to do this to you, Laura,
Speaker 3: I pitched last week.
Speaker 2: I'm going to hand it over to you. Is there
Speaker 2: anything that like tugs at your soul?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 1: Do you know what took? To be fair? All of
Speaker 1: them are pretty deserving winners this week, unfortunately, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to give it to Matt. I'm Matt Tupaware, toup Aware. Firstly,
Speaker 1: we got your location wrong, so I feel like we've
Speaker 1: got to dig up a little bit from that. But Matt, congratulations,
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars house.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Guy.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: That's an awesome price.
Speaker 3: Can I just ask, are you, like, are you limited
Speaker 3: to the toup Aware container area or are you cleaning
Speaker 3: the rest of the house as well?
Speaker 4: I think next I'm going to go with my frank
Speaker 4: green lids and water bottle. Okay, So I always get
Speaker 4: sarcting with the mystery boxes.
Speaker 1: I really get you don't. The real problem is how
Speaker 1: much did you throw away? That's the real question, because
Speaker 1: you usually get well done, well done.
Speaker 3: I think that's what is impressed by. I think he's
Speaker 3: impressed by the fact that he found all the matches.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 1: I do think it's important. It really is a little
Speaker 1: winner of the week, that one. But we're proud of you, Matt.
Speaker 1: You're a good job well, and that is it for
Speaker 1: us today, guys.