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Speaker 2: Okay, this is so funny, Laura. I haven't told you
Speaker 2: this yet. Mitch and I went to dinner on the
Speaker 2: weekend and it was Friday night and we walked in
Speaker 2: the restaurant.
Speaker 1: And you know what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2: We walked in the restaurant and this guy, probably between
Speaker 2: thirty five forty five, like a bit older. He stops
Speaker 2: us and he goes, jumps out in front of us
Speaker 2: and he goes, oh my god. And Mitch and I
Speaker 2: were like, oh, this is cutie, recognizes us and he's
Speaker 2: a fan of the podcast or the radio show. Because
Speaker 2: I love you guys. It's so nice to see you
Speaker 2: Mitch and Laura. And I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: he things I Laura and I went to say something.
Speaker 2: He goes, I absolutely love He doubled down. And then
Speaker 2: I was like, I can't embarrass him in tell him
Speaker 2: that I'm Britney.
Speaker 3: How hard did you lean into the lie? Were you like,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, god, baby, sit o, the kids are at home.
Speaker 1: He took us to our table and went, so you're
Speaker 1: out with you're out without Maddie tonight.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 2: And I was like and I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: left him at home with the kids, like I wanted
Speaker 2: a night off. I leant in so hard and now
Speaker 2: I am you.
Speaker 3: In his defense, radio and also podcasting are both audio mediums,
Speaker 3: he doesn't need to know what we look like.
Speaker 1: I was Laura and you weremitged. That would be even worse.
Speaker 4: He thought you were brick.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: Imagine if it was like, hey, Laura and Bridge, you
Speaker 3: know what, we have a very big show today.
Speaker 4: There's something I wanted to talk about.
Speaker 3: You might have heard about Umi Stein's and her very
Speaker 3: controversial sex education book that's come out everywhere. Has been
Speaker 3: some developments in that story. Someone has been arrested and
Speaker 3: it's not what you think.
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Speaker 3: You guys might have heard about the controversy that was
Speaker 3: surrounding Umi Stein's new book that she released. Now. She
Speaker 3: used to be a host on The Pickup and she
Speaker 3: created this book called Welcome to Sex.
Speaker 4: It's an education piece.
Speaker 3: It's meant to be like a a very no fuss
Speaker 3: and kind of all explaining guide, not even guide, but
Speaker 3: just a sex help book for teenagers and early teens.
Speaker 4: It has copped.
Speaker 3: Some pretty horrific reviews in terms of some people have
Speaker 3: thought that it kind of is too expuna and maybe
Speaker 3: shares too much and exposes to children too early to
Speaker 3: things that they're just not ready to learn about.
Speaker 1: What's it showing. It's showing different sex acts, how you
Speaker 1: can perform sex.
Speaker 4: It's a lot.
Speaker 3: It's the whole spectrum of what sex could entail, of
Speaker 3: self exploration, and this is for children who I guess
Speaker 3: when we were growing up there wasn't really any guide.
Speaker 3: You learned so much about sexual education. Yeah, but also
Speaker 3: in the playground, like friends from people saying things and
Speaker 3: you'd be like, oh, that's gross. It's meant to be
Speaker 3: an educational guide for children who have a lot of
Speaker 3: questions around what is sex. But the thing I wanted
Speaker 3: to talk to you guys about is what happened over
Speaker 3: the weekend. So you me shared a series of posts
Speaker 3: and these were private dms that she has been receiving,
Speaker 3: everything from racial slurs to death threats to people telling
Speaker 3: her that she should go kill herself.
Speaker 2: I was shook to the call when I was seen.
Speaker 1: Made me sick.
Speaker 3: It's absolutely revolting. You can't even read them out at
Speaker 3: this time. Slow on radio get canceled.
Speaker 2: A lot of things had nothing to do with the
Speaker 2: book itself. A lot of racial slurs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would say that the majority of these
Speaker 3: messages that were coming through. If anyone wants to check
Speaker 3: it out, you can jump onto Yumi's Instagram page because
Speaker 3: she's created a really amazing post around accountability. How you
Speaker 3: can't just anonymously troll people and get away with it.
Speaker 3: These days, so many of these threats were coming from
Speaker 3: people's actual accounts, from their business accounts. Now Yumi posted
Speaker 3: screenshots and off the back of that, a twenty three
Speaker 3: year old was actually arrested for chargers using a carriage
Speaker 3: service to menace, harass, offend. It's crazy to me, and
Speaker 3: I think this is a real lesson in terms of accountability,
Speaker 3: that you can't do things on a digital platform and
Speaker 3: get away with it anymore. But there's real world accountability
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: It'll be taken to the courts and there will be
Speaker 3: some sort of you know, accountability, criminal justice that'll be
Speaker 3: given to him. But the thing that I think is
Speaker 3: so crazy about this, this is a twenty three year
Speaker 3: old guy. He doesn't even have kids. He's not worried
Speaker 3: about the safety or protecting the children. He's just jumped
Speaker 3: on the bandwagon after seeing a few awful things. And
Speaker 3: I think so much of this conversation was actually really
Speaker 3: racially driven, which is what's really awful.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, I was clicking on
Speaker 2: a lot of their profiles to see who they are.
Speaker 1: I was gobsmacked.
Speaker 2: If you went on their profile and just looked, you'd
Speaker 2: be like, oh, these looked like just nice, normal people,
Speaker 2: and then when you read what they wrote. I was like,
Speaker 2: if I found out my partner had ever written that,
Speaker 2: I would be so quick out that door.
Speaker 3: But it's because they think that it's they think it's private,
Speaker 3: they think they're sending that to her and that no
Speaker 3: one's ever going to see it. I shared it on
Speaker 3: my Instagram and the number of people I had message
Speaker 3: to me and say, oh my god, I know that guy.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I went to.
Speaker 4: School with that. And I was like, this is what
Speaker 4: it is. And I loved the.
Speaker 3: Part like you me sort of signed off her Instagram
Speaker 3: post with welcome to accountability, shit bags, And I just
Speaker 3: think so many people do things and think that they
Speaker 3: can be anonymous online and this just goes to show
Speaker 3: that there are real life consequences for the things that
Speaker 3: you do on Instagram, for the things that you write,
Speaker 3: and for the things that you say about people.
Speaker 1: I get messages all the time telling me to do
Speaker 1: some awful things. They hear me on the radio and
Speaker 1: they go thought you were a chicks or photos of
Speaker 1: you you got man tits because I'm overweight. And I
Speaker 1: get that all the time. We're a public we're in
Speaker 1: the public eye. Like, you get it, britt you get it, Laura,
Speaker 1: And it's because it's hard and it's such a nuanced discussion.
Speaker 3: Do you ever feel though, compelled to out those people
Speaker 3: who say those things because they do it from their
Speaker 3: own accounts, it's their own words, And so do you
Speaker 3: ever feel like one day you're just going to be like,
Speaker 3: you know what here you deal with the consequences of
Speaker 3: the things you say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm also scared. I mean, these people are aggressive.
Speaker 1: The messages that I have in my DMS are scary.
Speaker 1: Some of the stuff that I've been threatened with, it's terrifying.
Speaker 2: And purely it's because you're gay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, purely because I'm gay and I've got great hair,
Speaker 1: and I think sometimes definitely, if I were to pose
Speaker 1: something like this, I don't want to put myself at
Speaker 1: arm I've got my family on my social media. It's
Speaker 1: just it's a tricky situation to be in. It really is.
Speaker 1: You'd be the same Britin You get messages, yeah.
Speaker 2: And it's funny because the response that she is getting
Speaker 2: does not fit the crime and does not fit writing
Speaker 2: a book on sex education. I'm not a marginalized group,
Speaker 2: and I get some horrific things written to me as well.
Speaker 2: I've never thought of calling them out because I don't
Speaker 2: feel like I can deal with the repercussions of calling
Speaker 2: them out, because it's not that you call it out
Speaker 2: and it's over. It usually keeps going. There's backlash, there's
Speaker 2: people on the fence of if you should have done it,
Speaker 2: but not as a non marginalized person, I get horrific things.
Speaker 2: I've had some really dark thoughts off the back of
Speaker 2: what some people have said to me.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess it just goes to show as well
Speaker 3: that so many people do receive such horrible messages and
Speaker 3: very rarely is it posted, and very rarely is there
Speaker 3: this level of accountability.
Speaker 1: If you're going through anything like this, So you want
Speaker 1: to chat to someone, Lifeline is always there thirteen eleven fourteen,
Speaker 1: So stop being a twat.
Speaker 2: Good message, thank you, welcome to accountability. Stopp being a twat.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Britt all right. Next on the show, Married at First
Speaker 1: Sight is changing the world? Massive breakthrough at Maps for
Speaker 1: the next season.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Map's famously known for its societal change.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, but there are big changes coming and then
Speaker 2: there's Maths to.
Speaker 1: Very different ends of the spectrum, and that's next on
Speaker 1: the pickup. It is the pickup around Australia Tuesday afternoon
Speaker 1: with Britain. Laura and Mitch head into Chemists Warehouse today,
Speaker 1: great savings every day. Married at First Site it's a
Speaker 1: staple in this country, like sausage sizzles and Scumo shitting himself.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a staple.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we we're pretty maths hungry, aren't we. But not,
Speaker 2: to be honest, not me.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Well, Married at First Sight is so big.
Speaker 1: It's an Australian institution. We came up with the concept.
Speaker 1: They sell it over the overseas UK loves, don't they. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And although we've just wrapped up the twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: season that was earlier in the year, the rumor mill
Speaker 1: is swirling about a potential casting on the next season
Speaker 1: that they're already filming. It got me excited because for
Speaker 1: the first time in maths history, apparently we're getting a
Speaker 1: gay couple, two gay boys.
Speaker 4: Oh it's about time.
Speaker 2: We had no in twenty I think it was twenty
Speaker 2: twenty they had a lesbian couple.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I won't get back. No, lesbians
Speaker 1: are great.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I feel like, like lesbians, it's
Speaker 3: more socially palatable. People like, oh, girls kissing, we like
Speaker 3: that totally. But then having two men on TV. I
Speaker 3: think that that's a little bit more controversial.
Speaker 1: I guess on, Yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, think about it when you're young and
Speaker 3: you're in your twenties, like you know, girls like, oh
Speaker 3: those girls they made out, whereas like it's very unusual
Speaker 3: to have two friends that are guys who are kissing.
Speaker 1: The male audience totally okay with watching two women kiss
Speaker 1: because they can record it on their foxtail and watch
Speaker 1: your bag line, that's what I mean, but men can't
Speaker 1: watch it. And now vomit. Yeah, how have we not
Speaker 1: thought about this? We have? I'm gay, this is my life.
Speaker 1: This is called gay.
Speaker 2: After what I'm about to say, your newly single why
Speaker 2: don't we get you on the show?
Speaker 3: Me?
Speaker 1: Yes, this is not why I bring this up. I'm
Speaker 1: not going on.
Speaker 4: Yes, No, that makes so much sense.
Speaker 3: And I have your tagline it's Mitch for maths. That's
Speaker 3: what we're doing.
Speaker 2: Bitch for Maps twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Because you know what if they haven't already cast the
Speaker 3: gay couple, you would be perfect.
Speaker 4: Oh I don't want to go on ma oh your single?
Speaker 4: What more could you need?
Speaker 2: Look at Mitch's face is like not in yes, he's
Speaker 2: like no year on.
Speaker 1: The side, I do look like lesbian. So perhaps audience
Speaker 1: is that a m I touch myself or not?
Speaker 4: Would you do this, Mitch?
Speaker 2: Would you if we could start a petition, because we've
Speaker 2: got some ins with the mass producers, if we could
Speaker 2: get you on the show, would you do it?
Speaker 4: Do it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Can we get one of the scientists, they're the
Speaker 1: math scientists that they talk to.
Speaker 4: You want to their therapist, the specialist.
Speaker 2: Do you want to speak to one and see if
Speaker 2: they can quiz you and put you on?
Speaker 1: Maybe you see if I could work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna I've actually got their number because I
Speaker 2: get therapy through them, so I will call them.
Speaker 4: Give us a little bit. What would you pitch be
Speaker 4: if you're going to go on maths? Oh, tell yourself.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm theatrically trained in theaters, so I'd look down
Speaker 1: the barrel of the camera and I'd say, Hi, I'm Mitch.
Speaker 1: I'm twenty seven. I am a radio presenter, from Sydney, Australia,
Speaker 1: and I'm known for my lovable attitude and my great hair.
Speaker 4: Look at Mitch flirting with the camera.
Speaker 2: You will like literally making eyes at exactly.
Speaker 3: And what are you looking for in a partner? This
Speaker 3: is also your audition. We're sending this in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, someone that someone that won't do me dirty and
Speaker 1: will love me, and someone that loves my family as
Speaker 1: much as I love them, and someone who can keep
Speaker 1: up with me.
Speaker 2: Okay, last what do you think you can bring to
Speaker 2: a relationship? Why should they choose you? Besides world peace.
Speaker 1: Wealth, money, sugar daddy, that is not Start with love,
Speaker 1: love and laughter. That's nice laughter, you know because somebody
Speaker 1: in the gay world not much laughter, a lot of
Speaker 1: skin and bone and Twiggy. I can bring love and
Speaker 1: great cuddles. Oh my god, this.
Speaker 4: Is gonna make a great TV. And then everyone's gonna
Speaker 4: be laughing and everyone's gonna be cuddling.
Speaker 1: Totally, your best friend you can have sex with.
Speaker 3: Okay, there's not a friends with benefits or not not
Speaker 3: us because they're female, but also marry.
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll pull not at out.
Speaker 3: All right, Look, I mean who knows. Maybe wh you're
Speaker 3: in next year, met you'll be on the screens.
Speaker 1: We'll find out TVC. All right, we're back after this
Speaker 1: on the Pickup. It's Tuesday with Britt, Laura and Mitch.
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Speaker 2: Very very important, serious question for you two. Okay, can
Speaker 2: you order a kid's menu when you're out, like a
Speaker 2: kid's meal when you're not a kid?
Speaker 1: This is journal?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean if you have kids.
Speaker 2: No, No, you're hypothetically speaking. You're a thirty six year
Speaker 2: old radio host. You've ordered, You've gone out to a pub.
Speaker 2: You're not that hungry. You're with thirteen other people that
Speaker 2: have ordered meals and drinks. You're not that hungry. So
Speaker 2: you like, I just want a small, bite sized meal.
Speaker 2: I'm going to order something off the kids meal and
Speaker 2: they say, no, you can't order that because you're not
Speaker 2: a child. What do you think you.
Speaker 1: Should be able to but they don't let you because
Speaker 1: I've tried many times.
Speaker 3: Doesn't it make you assess your life when you're like,
Speaker 3: I'm a thirty six year old woman on arm trying
Speaker 3: to order chicken yummy drummies for dinner.
Speaker 2: Okay, this might surprise you also, but this story is
Speaker 2: about me. I am the thirty six year old radio host.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I went out with a for a friend's birthday last
Speaker 2: week on the weekend. It was a thirtieth and there
Speaker 2: were so many of us at this pub. And you know,
Speaker 2: pub meals are huge, huge snitzls, huge steaks, chips, salad's
Speaker 2: like humongous meals. And I wasn't that hungry. I just
Speaker 2: wanted a tiny, little bite sized snack. So I tried
Speaker 2: to order the kid's chicken snitzle, which is, you know,
Speaker 2: obviously the size of your fist. And the lady said
Speaker 2: to me, she was an Irish woman, and she said,
Speaker 2: you cannot order that and I said why not. She said, well,
Speaker 2: do you have a child and I said no, not here.
Speaker 2: She said are you with a child and I said no.
Speaker 2: She said, you can't order it. I said, but it's
Speaker 2: just for me. I'm just not that hungry, and she said,
Speaker 2: we'll order something from the sides menu. The sides will
Speaker 2: let a bowl of Brussels sprout dude, broccoli beans like
Speaker 2: bollet chip carrots, bowl of chips. Yeah, sure, fine. I
Speaker 2: didn't want a bowl of chips. I wanted some protein.
Speaker 2: I wanted the small ldren's meal. And I said to her, look,
Speaker 2: it's just for me because I'm not hungry and I
Speaker 2: don't want a bowl of beans from the sides. And
Speaker 2: she said, I can't. I cannot sell you that. And
Speaker 2: I said, so you're telling me you would rather lose it,
Speaker 2: not sell the meal and lose the money, then sell
Speaker 2: me a kid's chicken snisel and she said correct.
Speaker 4: And she's like, yes, I can live without your eleven dollars.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: It's fourteen dollars. And I, out of spite, didn't order
Speaker 2: anything like that.
Speaker 1: So seriously, they almost id you, like, if you want
Speaker 1: these chicken Dino sausage nuggets, I'm gonna have to see
Speaker 1: your id. Please. Now you're over the age of twelve months.
Speaker 2: I cannot be on my own that I think that
Speaker 2: this is ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's that bad. And hear me out.
Speaker 3: The reason why I think that pubs and restaurants do
Speaker 3: it is because they don't make any money off the
Speaker 3: kid's meals.
Speaker 4: So the only reason why they sell.
Speaker 3: The kids meals is because there's usually an adult buying
Speaker 3: an adult meal alongside it.
Speaker 2: No, it's not true. They do make money. It's half
Speaker 2: the price because it's half the food and they've still
Speaker 2: got a mark up. They're still making money off the product.
Speaker 2: They don't just give kids free food.
Speaker 3: Same amount of effort though for a very small little
Speaker 3: like for two bucks to make it.
Speaker 1: Now, I'd be like, why don't you just do what
Speaker 1: I do when I park in the mums and bubbs parking.
Speaker 1: I just I said, it's run off again. I sort
Speaker 1: of like, pretend my child's run off. Just do that.
Speaker 1: Just go, oh, they're in the crash love, gim me
Speaker 1: the nuggies. The kids are just in the playpen.
Speaker 3: No, no, because okay, maybe she recognized you. Maybe she
Speaker 3: was like, oh I know who this woman is.
Speaker 2: She doesn't have me.
Speaker 1: I've heard about the journey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if she yeah, actually, do you know what?
Speaker 4: I had fifteen eggs on eyes.
Speaker 2: I have kids, but they couldn't make it because they're
Speaker 2: in the freezer.
Speaker 1: You go, you, I've got kids, here's a photo of them,
Speaker 1: and just show them an egg in a freezer. The
Speaker 1: debate continues. I'd be interested to know your thoughts dm
Speaker 1: s at the pickup on Instagram. I'd like to know
Speaker 1: where everyone's I want.
Speaker 3: To know if you work in hospitality and there's a
Speaker 3: reason why, tell us the real reasons.
Speaker 1: Have you missed any of the show? You can podcast it.
Speaker 1: I'm on iHeartRadio. Earlier in the show we were talking
Speaker 1: about all that Umi Stein's children book drama, So you
Speaker 1: can catch up on mat iHeart search the pickup. We're
Speaker 1: back tomorrow. Don't forget when cold and flu strikes. Demson
Speaker 1: gets it done. Always follow the directions for you. So
Speaker 1: I believe the boys are standing by, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Will and Woodre. They're going to be driving you
Speaker 4: guys home. What do you got for us today? Boys?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So a seventy three year old woman from Charlaville, eight
Speaker 5: hours inland from Brisbane who owns a bait and tackle
Speaker 5: shop with a naughty corner rood dude. One of the best, funniest,
Speaker 5: most outrageous people we've ever had on the show is
Speaker 5: going to the logis with you this weekend.
Speaker 1: Absolutely and today we're going to get it a call
Speaker 1: for host Sampang.
Speaker 2: That's going to be a wild chat.
Speaker 4: Sounds like a good show. Guys all right, see everyone
Speaker 4: you tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Bye.