Speaker 1: Laura, come on in.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, there's excitement in the air. Lady. What
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Speaker 1: Can you feel it pulsating through the room, brit can you?
Speaker 1: I can feel something pulsating, Laura, can you? I'm so excited.
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Speaker 4: One thing we are going to say, We've got a
Speaker 4: lot of guests all around the country. Every single place
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Speaker 1: Everybody promised to lip sync only.
Speaker 5: That's so exciting, guys, that's so fun. We're gonna have
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Speaker 5: The pickup starts now. Next, we've got an Ask gun Cut,
Speaker 5: which is a Life on Cut podcast favorite. We answer
Speaker 5: a listener's question they need help end today the age
Speaker 5: of old question. My partner doesn't get along with my friends?
Speaker 5: Is that make or break well?
Speaker 6: Boy?
Speaker 2: We'll answer that coming up here at the pickup.
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Speaker 3: Ask um cut, So ask uncut is a show favorite.
Speaker 3: We do it every week here at the pickup. It's
Speaker 3: where you guys, you're calling. You give us your deepest, darkest,
Speaker 3: biggest problems, and even if we might not have.
Speaker 1: The skills, we'll do our absolute best to answer that, We'll.
Speaker 2: Give it a shot.
Speaker 5: We've got Lea on thirteen one O sixty five. Hi Leah,
Speaker 5: what's your issue? How can we help?
Speaker 6: Hi? So I found the perfect man, but he doesn't
Speaker 6: really get along with my friends.
Speaker 1: Okay, well save me.
Speaker 6: They've spent some time together. It's always just really awkward.
Speaker 6: And every time I talk to him about it, asked,
Speaker 6: he just says that there is a weird Okay.
Speaker 4: So when you say it's awkward, is it awkward because
Speaker 4: he's just disinterested, couldn't careless back get to know them,
Speaker 4: he's bored? Or is it awkward because he has made
Speaker 4: it abundantly clear he does not like them.
Speaker 6: I'm really unsure to tell. But when I've talked to
Speaker 6: him about it. He's just he gets a bit quiet
Speaker 6: about it all whenever he's around them. When he talks,
Speaker 6: it just seems to come out as really judgmental when
Speaker 6: he does actually think.
Speaker 2: Thema Is it mutual?
Speaker 5: So does he say, God, babe, your friends are weed?
Speaker 5: And do they talk to you going, hey, your boyfriend's
Speaker 5: a bit weird? Or is it one sided?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I know it's it's very much mutual. I think
Speaker 6: they both have come to just not get along and
Speaker 6: don't like spending any time together.
Speaker 3: So what do you I mean when you do go
Speaker 3: out as a group, Like, what does he do? Does
Speaker 3: he just purposely not speak to them? Did he not
Speaker 3: put any effort in at the start?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: I think a bit of context around it is so
Speaker 3: important because it's a massive red flag to have a
Speaker 3: partner who just doesn't like any of your friends.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I thought if they spend a bit of time together
Speaker 6: they would be okay. But it's kind of been this
Speaker 6: way from the beginning, where he's naturally a pretty quiet person.
Speaker 6: But I think when he does speak, they tend to
Speaker 6: take it the wrong way. I think they just don't
Speaker 6: know him the.
Speaker 7: Way I know him.
Speaker 4: All Right, here's a question if you have to choose
Speaker 4: between your friends or your boyfriend, who you pick.
Speaker 6: In I can't choose.
Speaker 1: Well, You're going to have to figure something out.
Speaker 4: It's so important to have them all in the same
Speaker 4: room and the same function and events and everyone in
Speaker 4: your life get along. I think it's worryingly isolating when
Speaker 4: you have a partner who doesn't like your friends, And
Speaker 4: especially if you've had boyfriends in the past and your
Speaker 4: friends have always gotten along with them. If you all
Speaker 4: of a sudden have someone in your life who your
Speaker 4: friends don't like and he doesn't like them, I think
Speaker 4: it's a pretty big litmus for the fact that maybe
Speaker 4: there is something wrong there. And the fact that he's
Speaker 4: not putting it in any effort.
Speaker 3: To me, that's a huge red flag because your friends
Speaker 3: have your best interest at heart. They want you to
Speaker 3: be happy. So for me, I'm like, he should be trying,
Speaker 3: and in turning around and just being like it's because
Speaker 3: they're weird. I don't want to put in any effort.
Speaker 3: For me, that's a red flag about the partner.
Speaker 5: Oh, I think it's a I think would Julia, I'm
Speaker 5: not putting this back on you because I think he's
Speaker 5: a grown ass man. He can, he can make a
Speaker 5: conversation totally, but is there any way Maybe he's got
Speaker 5: to be of social anxiety. Anyway you can bring him
Speaker 5: in a little more. Maybe because I've been in relationships
Speaker 5: in the past where I felt my ex hasn't integrated
Speaker 5: me well enough into the friend group, because it can
Speaker 5: be awkward and intimidating to come into a partner's friend group.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're a really close group. So I'm thinking maybe
Speaker 6: what I need to do is make him more comfortable.
Speaker 6: Maybe do an activity that's more.
Speaker 4: In his forte twister play twister group twist.
Speaker 3: I'd be having some big conversations with him. I think
Speaker 3: if he can't try and put in some effort around
Speaker 3: your friends, I think that that's a really big that's
Speaker 3: for me is it's a big, big red flat.
Speaker 2: I agree, Lea, all right, I hope that helps. Listen.
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Speaker 2: Because you've got them in your pocket? Are you okay
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Speaker 4: I would love to be the one that gives it
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Speaker 3: Now, I know a lot of you know that it's
Speaker 3: bookweek happening. If you're a mum, you will be very
Speaker 3: well aware. And I have a story that I think
Speaker 3: you are going to relate to because I had the
Speaker 3: biggest Book Week parenting fail.
Speaker 5: All right, next on the pickup. Welcome to the pickup Britt,
Speaker 5: Laura and Mitch. Thanks to Chemist Warehouse head in Today
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Speaker 3: Every day, guys, it is the week, the week that
Speaker 3: every parent hates. We hate Bookweek and that's what this week.
Speaker 2: I love. Bookweek. Growing up, Bookweek was the bear.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're not a parent, You're not a mum. And
Speaker 3: you don't have to organize the costumes for all the
Speaker 3: little kids and a new book for every single day.
Speaker 3: So originally I thought bookweek was just one book and
Speaker 3: one costume.
Speaker 1: Totally is it not?
Speaker 3: Well, not my kid's daycare. It's one book, one costume
Speaker 3: a day. That is fourteen costumes.
Speaker 1: Sorry, no, that's wrong. That don't go on a weekend.
Speaker 4: That is ten costumes and ten books. Now, the reason
Speaker 4: why I've lost cout is because things were great on Monday.
Speaker 3: I you know, like I kind of forgot it was
Speaker 3: book Week, but I pulled together a pretty good costume
Speaker 3: and the kids were impressed.
Speaker 1: This is what happened on Monday, Ma, what do you lols?
Speaker 3: Frag wins Urnen, the penguin and the little unicorn.
Speaker 2: Are the confused.
Speaker 4: The costumes aren't very good. Molly May's four. She was
Speaker 4: a mermaid. The book wasn't about mermaids. It was about unicorns.
Speaker 4: And Lola was a penguin. But she thinks she's a
Speaker 4: cat and that's okay. She's too She can be whoever
Speaker 4: she wants to be in life and in book Week.
Speaker 4: That photo will have to go on the pick up Instagram.
Speaker 4: You gotta look and okay, it can absolute.
Speaker 1: It's very, very cute.
Speaker 3: I was so proud of myself because I pulled together
Speaker 3: Monday's costumes and it was an easy breeze.
Speaker 1: It was great.
Speaker 3: Tuesday they went as the tooth Fairy and some sort
Speaker 3: of princess found other books that related. But we walked
Speaker 3: in on Tuesday and there was like hardly anyone dressed up. Wednesday,
Speaker 3: same thing. Even less people were dressed up. So you
Speaker 3: don't have to well, I mean, kids just kind of
Speaker 3: lose steam for it, especially the younger they are. They
Speaker 3: just kind of, you know, it's all exciting on the
Speaker 3: first day. By day three four, I was like, they've
Speaker 3: forgotten about it. We walked in yesterday and there was
Speaker 3: almost no one. There was two kids that was it.
Speaker 3: One kid was a dinosaur and one kid had a
Speaker 3: little badge on a spider man, and I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: thank god. All the parents collectively we've decided that book
Speaker 3: week sucks and we're going to give up by Thursday.
Speaker 2: Nice, that's just what you do.
Speaker 3: So this morning I hadn't organized any costumes because I realized,
Speaker 3: you know, we're not gonna bother with this anymore.
Speaker 1: It's too much.
Speaker 3: I get the kids dressed, I get them to the door,
Speaker 3: and I need to leave to go to work. My
Speaker 3: beautiful husband, Matt, he's the one who has to do
Speaker 3: like the getting the kids in the car and getting.
Speaker 1: Them to day care.
Speaker 3: And that's when Maley remembered that it was book week
Speaker 3: and she didn't have a costume.
Speaker 1: And then this happened.
Speaker 2: Oh no, she's all right.
Speaker 1: Is she? Oh no, she's not, but she didn't have
Speaker 1: a costume. Went on for forty five minutes.
Speaker 3: Oh I mean I only know this because Matt called
Speaker 3: me forty five minutes after it started to tell me
Speaker 3: that I left him with this to deal with.
Speaker 4: Why did you throw a hat on them?
Speaker 1: Or I tried say there is something No, no, no, I tried.
Speaker 3: We had a hat with a line face on the front,
Speaker 3: and I stuck her on Molly's head, and I was like,
Speaker 3: you're like, you know that Zoo book.
Speaker 1: There's this dumb zoo book, which is like you know
Speaker 1: that they sent me a pet?
Speaker 2: Thinking it too much?
Speaker 5: When I went to school, my mom for bookweek made
Speaker 5: me captain underpants and I just wore jeans and a
Speaker 5: button up and then she put andies on my head.
Speaker 2: That's and I thought it was the best thing. And
Speaker 2: they weren't even washed.
Speaker 1: And you got teas for the next ten years of
Speaker 1: high school.
Speaker 4: I did. I think. I think my mom forgot my
Speaker 4: sister Sherry. She got some crepe paper that she definitely
Speaker 4: already had. It was brown crape paper, wrapped it around
Speaker 4: like as a mini skirt, and then wrapped it around
Speaker 4: as a boob tube, stapled it together so we couldn't
Speaker 4: get in and out of it. It was staple to
Speaker 4: your skin, toilet.
Speaker 2: Then she got.
Speaker 4: Heaps of leaves or and one around the head as well, Beanie,
Speaker 4: heaps of leaves from the garden, stapled the leaves on
Speaker 4: and we were little gumnut babies.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 3: You know what My real issue is that book week.
Speaker 3: It's gone too far. Parents are taking it too seriously now,
Speaker 3: and I think what an underachiever would say, Laura, But
Speaker 3: I am just setting my kids up for what life
Speaker 3: is full of disappointment, failure, failure.
Speaker 2: That's all right. Well, next on the show.
Speaker 1: I love you dearly, Mitch Jury. You know that.
Speaker 2: Thank you you do, Laurie. You want to say it too.
Speaker 1: You're a lovable, lovely man, Mitch.
Speaker 4: But I got some serious dirt delivered to me on
Speaker 4: you on the weekend, and I'm not going to protect you.
Speaker 2: I'm throwing you under the bus.
Speaker 1: You do it, Okay, Okay, here's an ad.
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Speaker 5: I'm feeling a bit anxious to be honest.
Speaker 4: Well, we love you, Mitch Jury. This is what I
Speaker 4: want to preface this with.
Speaker 1: We really really do love you.
Speaker 4: You're such a beautiful, wholesome, kind giving present.
Speaker 1: Thought chin I was gonna say about Britt. Now I'm worrying.
Speaker 4: The Chin has nothing to do with this, Laura burn
Speaker 4: I discovered something about our very own Mitch on the
Speaker 4: weekend that I never thought I would have heard in
Speaker 4: my existence. This is serious dirt, and we've got a reassess.
Speaker 4: Mitch and I went out to dinner on the weekend.
Speaker 4: There are a few people. There were four of us,
Speaker 4: but Mitch arrived first to the restaurant and I arrived
Speaker 4: second because.
Speaker 2: Britt texted me, going, don't be late. If you're late.
Speaker 2: Friendship over so I was like.
Speaker 1: There dramatic, you imagine me saying that.
Speaker 4: I walked in and I went I was about to
Speaker 4: give my name, say booking for Brittany, and I was like,
Speaker 4: I'm booking for And she goes the waitress she Mitch
Speaker 4: is already at your table.
Speaker 1: Let me take you through. And I was like, oh, Mitch,
Speaker 1: when did you become such a celebrity.
Speaker 4: She knows Mitch's name, she knows who I am. I
Speaker 4: was like, they've done air due diligence. This is amazing.
Speaker 4: So we walked down. Mitch's sitting there already.
Speaker 2: With a cocktail martini extra extra olive.
Speaker 1: Very thank you, very dirty.
Speaker 2: Fat James Bond.
Speaker 4: So I sit down and then the waitress comes back
Speaker 4: over with another martini and she says, here you go, Mitch,
Speaker 4: another for you. Puts it down and he said, oh thanks.
Speaker 4: Maria name dropped and I was like, oh, I thought
Speaker 4: I must have gone to school together.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, how do you guys
Speaker 1: know each other? This is so cute.
Speaker 4: And without skipping a beat, she goes, oh, I will
Speaker 4: never forget Mitch Chrue. He came in four years ago.
Speaker 4: He was the rudest person to me that I've ever
Speaker 4: had come in this restaurant.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, no, I said, I said, what what you so?
Speaker 1: Did I hear that?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Mitch was rude. She's like, Mitch was rude.
Speaker 4: And I said, I don't believe. I still thought it
Speaker 4: was a prank. And I said what happened? And Mitch
Speaker 4: was blushing And I said what happened? And she said,
Speaker 4: it was Valentine's Day four years ago. Mitch came in
Speaker 4: a request at a table and the tables directly behind us,
Speaker 4: So apparently she goes, I sat him on this table
Speaker 4: directly behind you, which was a high table, you know,
Speaker 4: the high ones.
Speaker 1: I mean, these details, brit are very specific.
Speaker 2: Degree.
Speaker 1: This happened four years ago.
Speaker 5: Considering I'm sitting right here, would you like the actual story?
Speaker 1: This is version's irrelevant. This is sorry.
Speaker 4: Mitch booked on a date a table and he got
Speaker 4: given a high table. And she said he absolutely cracked
Speaker 4: it because he wasn't happy with the table that he
Speaker 4: was given on Valentine's Day and China impress him.
Speaker 1: Boy.
Speaker 5: No, what happened was it was the first Valentine's Day
Speaker 5: with my partner at the time, and I wanted to
Speaker 5: impress him. And it was a very fancy restaurant we
Speaker 5: were at. It was a five star restaurant.
Speaker 3: There is nothing more impressive when you're on a date
Speaker 3: watching your partner be rude to wait stuff so impressive.
Speaker 2: No, but I was trying to throw my weight around.
Speaker 5: I said, Babe, I've got us a table at the
Speaker 5: hottest And it's a restaurant in town. And we walk
Speaker 5: in and she says, here's your seat at the bar,
Speaker 5: like a plub So I see you are a plan.
Speaker 5: So I held my partner's hand, he was shaking from
Speaker 5: the trauma, and I said, I said, don't worry, babe,
Speaker 5: I got this excuse you. I booked weeks in advance,
Speaker 5: and yeah, I was.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 5: I was trying to show off. That's not who I
Speaker 5: really am, and I apologize. But also we're friends now,
Speaker 5: so that there's not a problem.
Speaker 4: I think it went a little bit further than that.
Speaker 4: And I knew that you would debate this on me.
Speaker 4: So I have the very lovely waitress Maria on the phone.
Speaker 1: Hi Maria, you don't.
Speaker 6: Hello, Hi?
Speaker 2: How did you get Maria's number?
Speaker 1: Because now I'm friends with Maria.
Speaker 4: Now I'm the third reeling, Maria, what was it really like?
Speaker 1: It was there?
Speaker 7: Really?
Speaker 3: I mean, four years on, do you really remember Mitch's
Speaker 3: being one of the rudest customers you ever had?
Speaker 7: Definitely, especially since I saw you recently, you know now
Speaker 7: it's very fresh in my Memory's very much the way
Speaker 7: you describe it. It's very demanding, very disappointed, Maria.
Speaker 3: Maria, has has he gotten better over the years, because look,
Speaker 3: you know, he can be a little bit of an asshole,
Speaker 3: but we love him.
Speaker 1: He's a lovable one.
Speaker 7: No, we love him now. Yeah, he's great.
Speaker 2: No, no, Maria, But the story is also true, Maria.
Speaker 5: I want to take this moment and extend the olive
Speaker 5: leaf and say, I apologize for those four years ago,
Speaker 5: and I'm no longer with that partner. And he was
Speaker 5: the one that made me angry and toxic. It's his
Speaker 5: fault and I'm now I've shid that dead weight.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 4: Let's get to know what the best part is the
Speaker 4: best part is that Mitch was like on his best
Speaker 4: behavior because our friend Rebel Wilson was there, and Mitch
Speaker 4: was like, I'm going to impress Rebel Wilson.
Speaker 1: So he sits down, I think goes putting his best behavior,
Speaker 1: and the waitress walks up and she goes.
Speaker 5: You what.
Speaker 2: We tried? I tried my best. Thanks Maria for our
Speaker 2: Sunday lunch.
Speaker 5: Okay season see no bad Blood tried to damage my name.
Speaker 2: It's impossible.
Speaker 1: I did not try and damage.
Speaker 2: I was just shook.
Speaker 1: I didn't even believe it. I had to ask her
Speaker 1: three times.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go. We're done.
Speaker 4: See Ul tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Say ay,