Speaker 1: Come on here o Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Hello Friday. I have never been more happy to see
Speaker 2: you both. You Friday, you, Britt you Mitch. No, but Friday,
Speaker 2: because you know what that means your today is what
Speaker 2: Friday afternoon? It means no more book Week. It means
Speaker 2: I don't have to try and find another costume to
Speaker 2: dress my children, No more of this. I have a
Speaker 2: whole year now to plan costumes for next year, and
Speaker 2: I'm not going to make the same mistakes.
Speaker 3: Isn't it nice not having to worry about book week?
Speaker 2: Mitch?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Can I just say I woke up this morning, I
Speaker 4: had a coffee and I thought, thank god, book Week's over.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I was going to say, wh Laura is like,
Speaker 5: oh thank god. I was like, it hasn't even crossed
Speaker 5: my mind all week.
Speaker 2: Beating a parent is amazing. It is so fulfilling. It
Speaker 2: feels you with so much joy. It is the rule,
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, it's a very thankless job, and
Speaker 2: book week really sucks, but that's great.
Speaker 4: No, I can't wait for a twelve months time when
Speaker 4: Laura doesn't care about bookweek again and forgets. She's like,
Speaker 4: next week will be great and better and they'll I'll
Speaker 4: have Harry Potter and Hermione costumes.
Speaker 2: No, No, it's gonna be the same content next year.
Speaker 1: Rolls around the happy end of book week everyone.
Speaker 2: Thank you to all the mums and dads out then
Speaker 2: celebrating the end of book week. I feel you and isolute.
Speaker 1: You on the show today.
Speaker 4: Interestingly enough, I think everyone keeps little things from their partner.
Speaker 1: Would you say a little.
Speaker 2: Matt still doesn't know that I'm the one who I'm
Speaker 2: scratched his wheels on the car.
Speaker 1: I think that's a common one.
Speaker 4: Things like that, Yeah, but but potentially bigger. Yeah, he's
Speaker 4: listening in knows you're not alone if you keep secrets
Speaker 4: from your partner.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why.
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Speaker 4: are happily married to your beautiful Maddie Jay.
Speaker 2: Yes, as is a statement of moment concur.
Speaker 1: I'm just going through my tick, Liss.
Speaker 4: Correct, married, Britt, you are happily incoupled with your beautiful,
Speaker 4: gorgeous boyfriend Benjamin.
Speaker 5: Yep, definitely no marriage yet if he's listening. Not opposed
Speaker 5: to it, but yes, that's correct.
Speaker 4: I'm nearly single after your tumultuous breakup and just tick
Speaker 4: that I almost forgot and now I've reminded myself. The
Speaker 4: reason I'm asking is because there's this trend going viral online,
Speaker 4: and it is people talking about lies that they keep
Speaker 4: or little secrets that they share they don't share with
Speaker 4: their partner that are wholesome, that are small, they're not
Speaker 4: big enough, they're not cheating.
Speaker 2: It's not infidelity, just little white lies like the lies
Speaker 2: you tell your children are the same ones that you
Speaker 2: tell your partner.
Speaker 1: Exactly. We all have those lies that you just go
Speaker 1: they don't need to know. Sometimes you have to do that.
Speaker 2: Also, not all lies are created equal. I think it's
Speaker 2: okay to have some secrets from your partner.
Speaker 1: Well, here are some examples.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: One girlfriend says, my husband gets excited about bag fries
Speaker 4: when we get fast food. So when I pass out
Speaker 4: the food in the back, I always take a few
Speaker 4: of my fries out and sprinkle them into the bottom
Speaker 4: of the bag.
Speaker 2: Oh it's cute. Yeah, like she thinks that there's extra ones.
Speaker 4: He just thinks that they've fallen out, and he gets
Speaker 4: so excited bag fries, bag fries.
Speaker 1: But she does so he gets excited.
Speaker 5: Done that in reverse, like I would have quickly taken
Speaker 5: the bag fries and eaten them so he couldn't get them.
Speaker 1: What about this?
Speaker 4: Whenever someone else says whenever he's having a really bad day,
Speaker 4: I'll reach out to his mum and say that he
Speaker 4: misses her. She'll usually call him that day or the next,
Speaker 4: but it always makes him feel a lot better. He
Speaker 4: thinks that his mum has a special mum sense and
Speaker 4: knows when to call him when he's feeling bad.
Speaker 1: It's really cute.
Speaker 2: Oh these are so nice. I mean, I'm cute. He's
Speaker 2: a lovely I mean. I lied to my beautiful husband, Matt,
Speaker 2: and it was a white lie. But it was because
Speaker 2: I scratched the tires on his car and then I
Speaker 2: said that they was already like that when I over
Speaker 2: drove the car. I just denied it and gas led
Speaker 2: him into believing maybe he did it.
Speaker 1: That's just gaslighting.
Speaker 2: So is that just bad lying? Where's the line between
Speaker 2: what's a bad line a good life? I was hoping
Speaker 2: for some like more.
Speaker 3: Salacious white lies like that.
Speaker 2: Maybe aren't so, you.
Speaker 5: Know, like I ate the last block of chocolate quickly,
Speaker 5: and then I went and had to buy another one
Speaker 5: to replace it, so that they would never know.
Speaker 1: I've got one.
Speaker 2: I often tell Matt that I'm really tired and I'm
Speaker 2: going to bed, but really I lay in bed on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Oh we all do that for forty five We've all
Speaker 1: been there.
Speaker 2: And then I quickly turn it off when I hear
Speaker 2: him coming and pretend I'm asleep so we won't have
Speaker 2: sex with me. Just see when you're on lone sometime.
Speaker 2: Because I am tired and I wanted to go to sleep,
Speaker 2: but I got distracted.
Speaker 3: He's in the lounde room on Instagram looking at you're online.
Speaker 1: No, I do his cognito mode.
Speaker 2: That's not a f Instagram.
Speaker 1: Just have sex with your husband.
Speaker 2: No, don't make me.
Speaker 1: I'm tired and gorgeous.
Speaker 2: You know what happened last time. I have two children
Speaker 2: to prove it.
Speaker 1: He's a beautiful man.
Speaker 2: I I know, poor guy, but I might put.
Speaker 1: A wig on and put on some and line in
Speaker 1: your bed one night and so I'm ready something happened
Speaker 1: to you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just thinking if I share it or not,
Speaker 2: because Ben, I'll listen.
Speaker 5: I'm a really bad cork and I'm really bad in
Speaker 5: the kitchen and I hate it.
Speaker 1: I live alone.
Speaker 5: I never want to do it, so I usually eat
Speaker 5: pretty badly and I have a really bad habit of
Speaker 5: just having cocoa pops or a bowl of cereal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know the brit special is she has
Speaker 2: chicken and nugget dinosaurs.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: My partner, Ben is an athlete, a professional athlete. He's
Speaker 5: very healthy and very twist finish soccer. He plays football. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he always worries about me, and he doesn't live here.
Speaker 5: He lives over in Scotland, so he can't watch what
Speaker 5: I'm eating.
Speaker 2: Or cook for me.
Speaker 3: So he always hassles me and he's like, what are
Speaker 3: you having for dinner?
Speaker 5: Or what if you had for dinner? Let me know,
Speaker 5: talk with your it send me a picture. So I
Speaker 5: often will just like sit down with my bowl of
Speaker 5: coca pubs and I'll just find like a picture online
Speaker 5: of hallow fresh off a meal, and that someone else
Speaker 5: has taken and I'm to send it to him and
Speaker 5: I'll just pretend that I've cooked a hallow fresh Wait.
Speaker 1: You're googling hollow fresh finished meals.
Speaker 5: Or I'll go back through like my phone as if
Speaker 5: I've ever taken a photo of a meal, and then
Speaker 5: I just send it to him and I just pretend.
Speaker 2: Brit what did you send a double? And he's like,
Speaker 2: this is a recycled food pick that you sent me
Speaker 2: two months ago.
Speaker 1: I literally pictured this.
Speaker 5: I'm sitting on the lounge et in my Coca Pops
Speaker 5: and I'm just like, press send on a generic hollow
Speaker 5: fresh meal and that's it.
Speaker 2: And he's like, oh, that looks really good. Lots of veggies.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, that's a veggies.
Speaker 1: That's gold, that's gold.
Speaker 2: Oh oh well, if you want to have another laugh.
Speaker 3: I had to talk.
Speaker 5: My knees, my twelve year old niece through the Birds
Speaker 5: and the Bees on the weekend. Somehow this got dumped
Speaker 5: on me and I found myself talking birds and the bees,
Speaker 5: talking science, talking embryos, talking egg freezing, how things are made,
Speaker 5: not a lab. It didn't go down that well, all.
Speaker 1: Right, I can't wait to hear that went out, I'll
Speaker 1: do an eggs on the pickup.
Speaker 4: It's the pickup with Britt, Laura and Mitch here thanks
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Speaker 3: I had a real let's grow up, real quick.
Speaker 5: Moment on the weekend. I had to give the sex
Speaker 5: talk of sorts to my niece.
Speaker 2: To my twelve year old niece, how did you get
Speaker 2: given the time?
Speaker 1: She has a mom?
Speaker 5: So we're at a family reunion there was and there
Speaker 5: were six of us, like my mom and my dad,
Speaker 5: my brother, my sister in law, and my niece. And
Speaker 5: we're talking about my egg freezing process and I just
Speaker 5: made a comment about an injection.
Speaker 2: She was like, what are we injecting for?
Speaker 5: Like, what's going on?
Speaker 2: And she's twelve.
Speaker 5: And I sort of looked at my sister Stacey as
Speaker 5: pleading across the table as if like, is this the
Speaker 5: track we go down?
Speaker 2: Do we talk about this now?
Speaker 3: Do you want me to? And she sort of looked
Speaker 3: at me, lean back in a chair, put her arms
Speaker 3: behind a.
Speaker 2: Head, and she goes, it's all your spirit.
Speaker 5: So I started to try to explain so not the
Speaker 5: not how babies are made. She's across that, but I
Speaker 5: tried I had to start explaining the signs behind egg
Speaker 5: freezing and then embryo freezing and how it's all made.
Speaker 1: It's a big topic.
Speaker 2: This is because you're going through your second round of
Speaker 2: egg freezing as well, so like, yeah, she needed to
Speaker 2: kind of have the context of what's happening.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah.
Speaker 2: She asked me, what are you talking about? Why are
Speaker 2: you injecting those needles?
Speaker 5: So I explained it to her, and then she didn't
Speaker 5: understand how that and that would turn into a baby.
Speaker 5: So I had didn't talk about embryos anyway. It was
Speaker 5: like a comedy of erarors. I didn't I was panicking,
Speaker 5: but I was trying to actually like I'm the grown
Speaker 5: adult that knows what to do. I didn't know the
Speaker 5: language to use. I had these arms. Sperm were like
Speaker 5: shooting out everywhere. There were eggs. There was a glass
Speaker 5: of water that was the Petrie dish.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 5: At one point I think I turned into a gecko
Speaker 5: because I was like, and then it's frozen in time
Speaker 5: like a gecko.
Speaker 3: On a wall, and I'd like splattered myself on the wall.
Speaker 2: Wait, what part of the fertility journey is splattered against
Speaker 2: a wall?
Speaker 1: No, that's what I said.
Speaker 5: I said that, I said, and then they freeze it
Speaker 5: in time, and I went like this, and I put
Speaker 5: my hands out and I was like, like a gecko
Speaker 5: frozen on a wall, because you know how when.
Speaker 3: You walk in and a gecko just stops on the wall.
Speaker 2: I hadn't never been more confused about fertility in my life.
Speaker 3: Well, let me just say it was an absolute hit.
Speaker 5: She completely understood. She's going to pass her biology class,
Speaker 5: her sex education class.
Speaker 1: Everything.
Speaker 3: I nailed it, and I feel like I walked away
Speaker 3: and I'm ready for parenthood.
Speaker 2: Brand How old is your niece? She's twelve. She thinks
Speaker 2: that babies are made by geko in a couple of whiles. No, no,
Speaker 2: she's not passing any sort of biology testing. Four kids,
Speaker 2: more confused.
Speaker 1: Than ever, She's going to be terrified of the garden forever.
Speaker 2: No, it was amazing. Babies are made in glasses of
Speaker 2: water and then the gecko that comes along and magically fertilized.
Speaker 3: Asked me a caller, call my sister, ask her how
Speaker 3: it went.
Speaker 1: I'm going to call number. That's Stacy, your sister, and
Speaker 1: your sister. Okay, yeah, that's called Stacey. See what she thinks.
Speaker 2: You're going to be responsible for the therapy sessions that
Speaker 2: this poor child's going to have to have.
Speaker 5: Do you know what, I actually had a lot of confidence,
Speaker 5: but I didn't actually think we've got to call us now.
Speaker 4: See what she says, Hello, Stacey, it's Britt, Laura and
Speaker 4: Mitch on the pickup.
Speaker 5: Hey, Hey, sorry, if you've got a second, I.
Speaker 2: Just need you to hopefully back me up.
Speaker 5: I was just telling the guys about the impromptu sex education,
Speaker 5: egg freezing embryo creating talk.
Speaker 3: That I had to give my beautiful little niece on
Speaker 3: the weekend.
Speaker 2: I thought, were really.
Speaker 1: Well, I need to tell Laura.
Speaker 2: Don't said this up, Stacy. I want to know why. Firstly,
Speaker 2: you entrusted Britt with the Birds and the Bees conversation.
Speaker 7: So there's some pinnacle moments in her parents life, as
Speaker 7: you would know, Laura, of certain situations that you've got
Speaker 7: to kind of swallow and just explain to his and
Speaker 7: one of them is the birds of the bees. Right,
Speaker 7: So thank god that to the education system here in
Speaker 7: Queensland is well ahead we were starting from. So that
Speaker 7: was great. But brit wife Britt does she went off
Speaker 7: on a bit of a storytelling adventure and trying to
Speaker 7: make it a little bit pd for my very mature
Speaker 7: thirty year old. So she did really well though, guys,
Speaker 7: but I wasn't too sure whether the explanation was set
Speaker 7: for David Attenborough or if it was actually set for
Speaker 7: our thirteen year olds.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the story what I'm hearing there, what I took
Speaker 5: away from that is is Brittany is a great storyteller.
Speaker 2: Thanks days, Thanks for great storyteller for a fiction novel.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you guys do this with your fanily.
Speaker 7: Growing up, you'd sit around, you know, at the kids
Speaker 7: table like Christmas and things like that, and you'd have
Speaker 7: stories about like, you know, the crazy art for you know,
Speaker 7: what Grandma did and things like that. And this definitely
Speaker 7: be one of those moments that my daughter will be
Speaker 7: sitting around at Christmas with her cousin. So do you
Speaker 7: remember the time that only britt told us about all
Speaker 7: of the birds and bees and everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to be that crazy person, you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm going to own that. I'm going to be the
Speaker 2: cooler aunt you, Brett. You're not teaching my kids about this,
Speaker 2: that's for sure.
Speaker 4: To be honest, you taught me quite a bit I
Speaker 4: learned a lot, Britt, so Gecko's I'm writing that one down.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Stacy, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2: Thanks days.
Speaker 1: Oh your poor children.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I had the most epic of group text
Speaker 2: fails this week, truly horrendous and having an apparent in group.
Speaker 2: And I want to know what are your worst group
Speaker 2: text fails?
Speaker 4: All right, that's next on the pick up everyone, It's
Speaker 4: the Pickup with Britt, Laura and Mitch. Thanks to Chemist
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Speaker 2: Look, this week, I kicked off the week with possibly
Speaker 2: the worse group text fail that has ever existed.
Speaker 1: Yeah you told me.
Speaker 2: I was brought in onto a beautiful group message chat
Speaker 2: with all of the mums from daycare where they they
Speaker 2: love to exchange pleasantries about the kids, invite other kids
Speaker 2: to parties. It's a really lovely little group chat. And
Speaker 2: I've been just a fly on the wall in that
Speaker 2: group chat.
Speaker 1: And you never, you don't even buit it. You don't
Speaker 1: say I just like to watch.
Speaker 2: I just like to watch because I've not met many
Speaker 2: of the mums. But I sent a message in that
Speaker 2: group chat as my very first message, which was a
Speaker 2: message I was meant to send to you two for
Speaker 2: content for the radio show, all about a woman who
Speaker 2: farts too much and her husband is angry at her.
Speaker 1: Great content. We would have jumped at it.
Speaker 2: Right, and that was we did. We covered it all wednesday.
Speaker 1: It was so predictable.
Speaker 2: Anyway, It was very, very embarrassing, and I wanted to
Speaker 2: know what are the truly embarrassing things that you have
Speaker 2: done in the group text message chain that you have
Speaker 2: in your watschap.
Speaker 1: At thirteen six five, Josie's joining us. Hey Josie, what happened?
Speaker 1: What did you do?
Speaker 6: I was texting my boss in the morning to say
Speaker 6: that it was too unwell to come to work. But
Speaker 6: I was also texting my best ye at the same time,
Speaker 6: saying where can we meet? Can we go Chatston and
Speaker 6: go shopping or a movie and stuff? And I got
Speaker 6: and I got the two texts mixed up, and I
Speaker 6: text my boss saying, oh, I'm really sick, I'm not
Speaker 6: coming to work, and then the next IX said we'll
Speaker 6: go see Barby.
Speaker 2: What did your boss say?
Speaker 6: Then she texted me back and said, oh, you're well?
Speaker 6: Enough to go see a movie, even you can't come
Speaker 6: to work. And I said, no, no, no, no, I'm delirious.
Speaker 6: I've got a fever. I don't know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: She didn't believe me. She didn't believe me at all.
Speaker 6: So I did actually go into work that day.
Speaker 7: Of course.
Speaker 3: Oh that's even more because then you're not sick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she had to face it.
Speaker 2: Did you fake it? Did you just go?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: I said I had a temperature and I had stomach
Speaker 6: cramps and you know womanly problems.
Speaker 4: You know, I would have believed it, all right, Sarah
Speaker 4: on thirteen when I six, what was your fail in
Speaker 4: the group chat?
Speaker 1: Sara, Bah, Hey you going well?
Speaker 8: Basically I was having a chiky conversation my boyfriend and
Speaker 8: the family group chat was going off on Snapchat and
Speaker 8: I may have accidentally sent a chiky photo in the
Speaker 8: family group chat on Snapchat with my grandparents and my combs.
Speaker 2: Yeah you did not Who saw it? Can you see
Speaker 2: who opened it?
Speaker 8: I opened it with thirty seconds?
Speaker 1: What was the photo? What was being photographed?
Speaker 3: Maybe a topless photo was face in it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you can't say I got hacked.
Speaker 1: I got hacked and it was it was chat GPT.
Speaker 2: It was someone with beautiful mobies.
Speaker 1: It's not me. What did your dad say, Sarah?
Speaker 8: He has not mentioned anything. I removed myself from the
Speaker 8: family group Chat. I freaked out. This was about five
Speaker 8: days ago and we have not.
Speaker 2: Seen Oh my god, Sarah, it's so recent. You're gonna
Speaker 2: have to face it at some point.
Speaker 1: And when you do, let.
Speaker 2: Us family dinner on Sunday night.
Speaker 4: I think that's God. Well, let's give you the five
Speaker 4: hundred bucks a chemist Warehouse. I think well earned, Sam.
Speaker 3: But I don't think I think you need to go
Speaker 3: and make a mens with your family.
Speaker 5: I don't think you have to pretend it never happened
Speaker 5: and never speak to them again and find a new family.
Speaker 2: Why don't you just go buy them all some nice
Speaker 2: perfume from Chemists Warehouse and say sorry.
Speaker 8: I think he's the only one that's seen it because
Speaker 8: I quickly deleted it after, but he definitely opened it.
Speaker 8: I'm going to see them on Sunday, so all.
Speaker 1: Right, that'll be a fun family catch out.
Speaker 5: It buys you a sweater enjoy than you enjoy the
Speaker 5: chemist ware House cash.
Speaker 1: All right, we're done.
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