Speaker 1: A good pickup with Britt Hogley and Laura.
Speaker 2: Burn Radio Worth. Our windows down, my worldris in the
Speaker 2: dust only good.
Speaker 3: I don't much, but ya our big get and what
Speaker 3: I want it don't matter where.
Speaker 4: This is the pickup, Hi guys, It's.
Speaker 2: Written Laura from the pickup.
Speaker 3: And it's Monday. You had a very big weekend, Laura Burn.
Speaker 2: I have just done the most well wind trip with
Speaker 2: two kids, flying solo back and forth to South Africa.
Speaker 3: You took long weekend to the next level, like to
Speaker 3: the extreme. You almost were in the air for the
Speaker 3: whole time, and it's like you, what, what did you go?
Speaker 2: Safari?
Speaker 3: For two minutes? Saw an elephant filmed.
Speaker 2: To be fair, we had the most amazing safari. If
Speaker 2: this is sounding very strange to everyone, So my husband
Speaker 2: Maddie j he's been in the I'm a Celebrity jungle
Speaker 2: and we did the most ridiculously round trip to get
Speaker 2: there be there for the finale family reunion. I flew
Speaker 2: the kids overseas and then I flew them straight back
Speaker 2: and they we woke up this morning and it was
Speaker 2: like nine thirty when I left the house and they
Speaker 2: were still in bed.
Speaker 3: How did you go? Because I was praying for you
Speaker 3: the whole time. How did you go flying so far
Speaker 3: alone with two little kids?
Speaker 2: I we were fine until we got to our middle
Speaker 2: transfer and then I have never experienced or witnessed such
Speaker 2: as stage five breakdown from my kids. The fight that
Speaker 2: they had. One kid was almost naked because she was
Speaker 2: so filled with rage, which is a whole other story.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was. It was a lot, but it
Speaker 2: was worth it. And if you watched last night's show
Speaker 2: you would know Sam Friday, he was the winner of
Speaker 2: I'm a Celebrity. We've got him on the show later today.
Speaker 2: But the runner up is someone who we both feel
Speaker 2: very fondly about, me in particular because he's my husband
Speaker 2: and he's now home. You're more fond. I'm particularly fond
Speaker 2: of the man, Maddie Jay. He's going to be joining
Speaker 2: us on the show next and telling us everything about
Speaker 2: what that jungle experience was. Now we are fresh, really
Speaker 2: fresh out of the South Africa jungle. And I say
Speaker 2: we because Matt has been away doing I'm a Celebrity,
Speaker 2: Get me out of here. Last night was the final
Speaker 2: that me and the girls were also over there, and
Speaker 2: it was a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I stayed back. I didn't get to go on Safari,
Speaker 3: but you had quite a wild ride because Sam was
Speaker 3: announced King of the jungle. But we have our own king,
Speaker 3: our homegrown king, your husband.
Speaker 2: King of the pickup. Okay, I would like to say
Speaker 2: it king of my household, and it's my husband, Maddie J.
Speaker 2: He welcome home, honey.
Speaker 1: I like the name, like prince, Prince.
Speaker 2: Matty J instead of king.
Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, Duke, Duke, Duke matt Nah, we need a
Speaker 3: little bit more than that.
Speaker 1: Duke's a bit The Dukes are weird.
Speaker 2: How are you feeling today? I mean, last night was
Speaker 2: the final, we got to watch it together. It's so
Speaker 2: hard sitting there not knowing what's about to happen.
Speaker 1: Can I just say it's a miracle I didn't crash.
Speaker 4: Driving is so hard after thirty days and not being
Speaker 4: behind a wheel being like.
Speaker 3: A maybe do say that. Don't let anyone know that my.
Speaker 1: Head's still spinning.
Speaker 4: It felt like a couple of minutes ago, I was
Speaker 4: all stuck in a campsite, starring at a fire for
Speaker 4: fourteen hours a day, and now I'm here on radio.
Speaker 3: Do you think it was harder or easier than you think?
Speaker 3: Because so many people tell you what to expect when
Speaker 3: you go.
Speaker 4: In the whole time, I was like, God, damn it, Brit,
Speaker 4: you set me up to fail because we had a chat.
Speaker 1: Britt talked about it like.
Speaker 4: It was honestly like a glamping trip away for a
Speaker 4: weekend at Easter.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought it was going to be like.
Speaker 1: And then the whole time I just.
Speaker 4: Was constantly going, why didn't Britt manage my expectations just
Speaker 4: a bit better and tell me that this is.
Speaker 1: Hell on earth?
Speaker 3: Okay, so hear me out. I did give you some warning.
Speaker 3: I genuinely loved it.
Speaker 4: You said the camp is a little bit smoky at times,
Speaker 4: and that's it.
Speaker 1: That's all I had.
Speaker 3: No I did say, I imagine all the parents said
Speaker 3: that it was way harder for them when you've got kids.
Speaker 3: So I was just like having the time of my life.
Speaker 3: But I imagine when you've got kids, it's ten times worse.
Speaker 3: And I did tell you that I imagined that every time.
Speaker 1: I honestly, I don't think you did. I think it
Speaker 1: was so much harder.
Speaker 4: I look back, and I think, God, I was so
Speaker 4: naive going into it. I also thought that, you know,
Speaker 4: when you watch reality TV, and people are in tears
Speaker 4: and you're like, come on, like stopping ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of being in tears, we do have some
Speaker 2: audio from last night's episode because your reaction when you
Speaker 2: very first saw Marley, Lola and I guess myself walking
Speaker 2: to the jungle, I actually thought, oh, how much therapy
Speaker 2: were we you going to have to pay for this man?
Speaker 1: She said to me, She's like, can you stop crying?
Speaker 3: You're embarrassing, You're scaring the children.
Speaker 2: It's like, stop bubbles coming out and have a listen
Speaker 2: to this. Miss You're again.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy to see you.
Speaker 2: Fucking from my daddy day. No, when you come home,
Speaker 2: you just stay home forever and don't go andre else
Speaker 2: when you come home. Lots of daddy days. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: I'm grind. It's so wholesome. Like once we got through
Speaker 2: the blobbery.
Speaker 1: The gasping forever like I'm drowning.
Speaker 3: Can I just say you might not be King of
Speaker 3: the Jungle, but the most and I think the biggest
Speaker 3: take home from this, the thing you should be most
Speaker 3: excited about is the fact that Lola, our second daughter,
Speaker 3: our youngest, now likes you because when you left she
Speaker 3: did not care and now you cannot get rid of her.
Speaker 2: She's absolutely obsessed with you.
Speaker 1: It's weird. It's done a full one eighty.
Speaker 4: I remember after we filmed the finale and we're up
Speaker 4: in the studio with Robin Julia. We had some of
Speaker 4: the other camp mates, the final six were all there
Speaker 4: and I was so excited to see them as well,
Speaker 4: and I couldn't because I just had Lola on my
Speaker 4: hip and I put it down for a second.
Speaker 1: She was like, pick me up? What are you doing.
Speaker 2: She's always been the child that's very much like mummy, mommy, mommy.
Speaker 2: I only want mummy, not daddy. And then now I
Speaker 2: know what it's like to be on the flip side
Speaker 2: of that love because she looks at me now and she's.
Speaker 3: Like, not you makes the heart grow fonder. All you
Speaker 3: needed to do if anyone's playing at home is go
Speaker 3: away for a month and make your child like you.
Speaker 1: It's that simple. Why did I leave for Africa like
Speaker 1: months before?
Speaker 2: Look now I'm devastated because who's been there doing the
Speaker 2: heart slog for the past five weeks?
Speaker 1: Me, I'm not Maley. You got Marley, you can take out.
Speaker 3: What do you think that was the hardest thing like
Speaker 3: lack of food, the bottom, the food eating challenges, being
Speaker 3: away from the fam, being away from me, no sexy time,
Speaker 3: only having mengos.
Speaker 4: What are the easiest? The easiest parts was the no
Speaker 4: sexy time. It's it's funny that when you're in that environment,
Speaker 4: right settled down, which has just gone.
Speaker 2: Off because I wasn't there, I understand now it's just
Speaker 2: dead inside.
Speaker 1: You just did that.
Speaker 4: One of the questions that I asked before I went
Speaker 4: in the set me down, I said, do you have
Speaker 4: any questions at all about your experience that you're about
Speaker 4: to go into? And I was like, where do you
Speaker 4: do you know your jungle Jacks Jesus? And you asked
Speaker 4: that yeah, And they were all like so.
Speaker 2: Proud of this man achiever.
Speaker 4: And the executive producers were looking at each other and
Speaker 4: they're like like, Keith, do you want to answer this one?
Speaker 4: And he's like, oh god, I'll try and answer this one.
Speaker 4: And when you're in there, you do you have zero's
Speaker 4: sex drive at all? Which is and then you come
Speaker 4: back and you're like, it was that's being generous.
Speaker 1: It's about forty five seconds of my best work.
Speaker 2: But I had a great time.
Speaker 1: Everyone before I was like, Laura, I just want to apologize,
Speaker 1: this is going to be over very quickly, or you
Speaker 1: just put your pants down.
Speaker 3: You're like sorry.
Speaker 4: The idea of it, but the hardest part was it
Speaker 4: was just being away from the family and not having
Speaker 4: any contact. Yes, you're starved of food, you're starved of
Speaker 4: any kind of excitement for the majority of the day,
Speaker 4: but then you're just completely starved. You're deprived of any
Speaker 4: contact with your family. And I underestimated just how impossible
Speaker 4: that was going to be because you always have contact.
Speaker 4: You know, the longest that you normally have is like
Speaker 4: an hour or two that you don't speak to your family.
Speaker 4: So I have thirty days.
Speaker 2: It was surprising how productive I was without having Matt
Speaker 2: call me every forty five minutes. You are needy, your face,
Speaker 2: you are very needy.
Speaker 3: We all know that here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I missed it. I missed it.
Speaker 4: I started off as the king of the pickup and
Speaker 4: now you guys are like, you suck.
Speaker 1: You're desperate, little man. They're so needy and pathetic.
Speaker 3: What you can't even.
Speaker 2: Hold it down in sex.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I started off this interview such high hope. I
Speaker 1: cut out being spat on.
Speaker 2: We love you we love you, and you are the
Speaker 2: king of the pickup and you are the king of
Speaker 2: our household, and I am so unbelievably happy to have
Speaker 2: you home, and we are incredibly proud of you.
Speaker 1: Will not be coming back onto this radio show for
Speaker 1: a very long.
Speaker 3: Time, and I apologize for making it sound way better
Speaker 3: than it was.
Speaker 1: Oh that's okay.
Speaker 2: We love you, Matt.
Speaker 1: I love you guys too.
Speaker 2: We are very very proud of you.
Speaker 3: Selena Gomez. I love her. She's amazing, she's beautiful. I've
Speaker 3: been rooting for her for a long time to find
Speaker 3: love because she had that really like toxic breakdown from
Speaker 3: Justin Bieber. But that's another story. She recently got engaged
Speaker 3: to Benny Blanco and they've been having this like quite
Speaker 3: a public relationship. So for Valentine's Day, Bennie posted on
Speaker 3: his Instagram what he did for her to surprise her. Now,
Speaker 3: apparently Selena isn't a flowers girl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fair, I think a lot of people are not
Speaker 2: flowers girls.
Speaker 3: Totally, one hundred percent. I'm all for it. I got
Speaker 3: protein powder.
Speaker 2: I loved it.
Speaker 3: So what he did was he did, like you know
Speaker 3: how you would normally do rose petals through the house
Speaker 3: that lead you to like a beautiful romantic bath and
Speaker 3: you sit back and you have a bath together with
Speaker 3: like incense. So he did this trail of what would
Speaker 3: have been the rose petals, but it was a trail
Speaker 3: of like corn chips on the bathroom floor through the
Speaker 3: house on the bathroom floor, and then it led to
Speaker 3: the bath and in the bathtub it was filled to
Speaker 3: the brim of melted cheese.
Speaker 2: It was like cheese fondu, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: What's that cheese? You know the American like thick, gooey hot.
Speaker 2: It's just cheese fondu. It's disgusting. I don't know whether
Speaker 2: I love this or I this like I made this.
Speaker 2: Love never find me. I don't know how I feel.
Speaker 3: The internet was divided, Laura, So you're not alone there.
Speaker 2: I saw some of the comments. It was like, think
Speaker 2: about the plumber, But I mean, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: How are you getting the cheese out of the bar?
Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking. You're not eating your way
Speaker 2: through that? Are you sitting in it?
Speaker 3: There's two ends here, right, You either have a bath
Speaker 3: in cheese or you sit on the bathroom floor and
Speaker 3: dip the corn chips off the floor into the geese,
Speaker 3: so neither is openly romantic. I like the effort, it's
Speaker 3: obviously a personal joke of some sort.
Speaker 2: But the poor Christias scream screams, we have too much money,
Speaker 2: That's what that screams. I once received This was not
Speaker 2: from my ex boyfriend, but my ex boyfriend's mum, who
Speaker 2: was a beautiful woman. She gave me, and it was Christmas.
Speaker 2: She gave me a framed professional photo of herself to
Speaker 2: put up in my house, of her, but not to him.
Speaker 2: She didn't give it to him. She gave it to me,
Speaker 2: your mother in law, but well not my mother in law. Now,
Speaker 2: my ex boyfriend's mum gave me a framed professional photo
Speaker 2: of herself.
Speaker 3: Question, yeap a four which a fourwig? Enough like a mause?
Speaker 3: This was like zoomed in? Was it high quality?
Speaker 2: There were no pause because it was a professional photo
Speaker 2: that had been photoshopped, very glowy. What did you say
Speaker 2: when she gave it to you? I think she was
Speaker 2: just so proud that she'd gone and had these headshots
Speaker 2: done like glamor photos.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, we've got a couple of calls coming through summer.
Speaker 2: What is your worst gift? What were you given.
Speaker 5: It was Secret Santa. We were at the office and
Speaker 5: I received a half eating mango what mango? Yes, wrapped
Speaker 5: in a paper towel, And then I looked further and
Speaker 5: it came with a note as to how to grow
Speaker 5: a mango tree.
Speaker 2: No, you can't give someone your leftovers and pretend that's
Speaker 2: a present.
Speaker 3: Someone forgot Secret Santa and just went to the bin.
Speaker 3: The office bin was like, what's left over you?
Speaker 2: I don't even think they went to the office bin.
Speaker 2: I think they had that they ate that mango for
Speaker 2: lunch and then they gave it to you.
Speaker 5: It said, PS, Mama, mango was delicious.
Speaker 3: Did you plant the seed? No, you could have had
Speaker 3: a mango tree by now.
Speaker 2: Someone basically call somemer Jamie. What was your terrible gift?
Speaker 6: So I got homemade nipple tassles?
Speaker 2: Chris Kringle, Do you scream someone that likes to wear
Speaker 2: nipple tassels?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Is that the energy you're giving in life?
Speaker 6: I have no idea. It was this oddest thing, and
Speaker 6: it's supposed to be like Chris Kringle, and you're not
Speaker 6: meant to know who it was that gave it to you.
Speaker 6: But he was like, so excited me.
Speaker 2: This hasn't that he told that.
Speaker 3: He told you it was from him, dude, that's creepy. No,
Speaker 3: that is creepy. Is he a colleague or a boss
Speaker 3: or what?
Speaker 6: Oh he wasn't. He wasn't a boss, but he was
Speaker 6: a colleague. But yeah, I was like, so are you
Speaker 6: staring at my brooms measuring up my nipples?
Speaker 2: That is so wrong? So you like, try them on,
Speaker 2: send me a photo, let.
Speaker 3: Me know how they go.
Speaker 6: It was so weird. I was just like and it
Speaker 6: was one of those people that you just didn't suspect
Speaker 6: it to be. And I was just like, where is
Speaker 6: this even worse?
Speaker 2: Did you take it to HR or were you just
Speaker 2: like okay, cool things?
Speaker 3: She put them on at the office by and she's
Speaker 3: like whea.
Speaker 6: It got wild later and I took my and I'm drinking. No,
Speaker 6: I just got home and I just talked him into
Speaker 6: things so much because anyone embarrassed, And even though he
Speaker 6: clearly wasn't embarrassing, why don't do.
Speaker 2: That as women?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 2: Like I'd be like, why nipple tassle? Like you have them?
Speaker 2: You put them on.
Speaker 6: I should have called him out on it, but you know,
Speaker 6: you're just young. And a marketing company and it was
Speaker 6: all kind of cool and everyone was like cool, and
Speaker 6: I was like, Okay.
Speaker 3: Oh that's that's terrible.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, Jamie. Now, the show that we
Speaker 2: have been talking about an awful lot over the last
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, every day for the last five weeks,
Speaker 2: every single day is I'm a celebrity. To get me
Speaker 2: out of here now. If you didn't see it, last night,
Speaker 2: we finally crowned our winner of the whole series. The
Speaker 2: King of the Jungle was crowned and it was Sam.
Speaker 3: Fighter spoiler wasn't your husband, Mammy Jay wasn't.
Speaker 2: And we watched it together last night. But honestly, we
Speaker 2: could not be more like I could not be happier
Speaker 2: for Sam. It's such an incredible achievement. Sam is an
Speaker 2: ex Broncos superstar, so many of you will know exactly
Speaker 2: who he is. And also this season had the most
Speaker 2: record number of votes, so which is crazy because like
Speaker 2: there was over something like six hundred thousand votes for
Speaker 2: each well for Sam in particular, but we have the
Speaker 2: winner of the Jungle, Sam Thaday on the phone, Sam,
Speaker 2: welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Hello, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: Congratulations legend how does it feel, because it is quite
Speaker 3: the slug. Isn't it such a journey?
Speaker 7: It is a journey. Yeah, it is a It's a
Speaker 7: rollercoaster of emotion, of hunger, of tiredness. It's yeah, it's
Speaker 7: a pretty hectic twenty nine days in camp and yeah,
Speaker 7: I enjoyed the experience. There's a lot of takeaways from it,
Speaker 7: but it is a tough, grueling slog.
Speaker 2: Everyone's been saying that they've been having different epiphanies. I
Speaker 2: was talking to Hughesy because we were all over in
Speaker 2: Africa together for a couple of days, and he was
Speaker 2: sort of talking about the different epiphanies you have off
Speaker 2: the back of the show. Was there any life changing
Speaker 2: moments for you or are you like, nah, I'm done,
Speaker 2: I'm back to the normal.
Speaker 7: Samthata, Well, I think Australia thoughts Hughsey lost a plot, but.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day found.
Speaker 7: Yeah he did. He really came into his own I
Speaker 7: think because he's probably the world's worst vegan, so all
Speaker 7: he really eats at home is like avocado and potato.
Speaker 7: He got introduced to some new vegan proteins in camp
Speaker 7: and I think actually Hughes's health check when we left
Speaker 7: was better than when he went.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said never been.
Speaker 7: His blood pressure was down, so yeah, he absolutely enjoyed
Speaker 7: the experience. But for myself, I just have a new
Speaker 7: found respect for the simple things in life, like some pepper.
Speaker 3: It's just I was going to say the same.
Speaker 7: Thing seasoning on food.
Speaker 2: Yeah I did.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 3: I did the show last year and I made it
Speaker 3: till the second last day and everyone was having these
Speaker 3: like profound moments. But for me, it was like the
Speaker 3: appreciation of food. Like I realized I didn't need sugar
Speaker 3: and I was like, Oh, I'm going to be so
Speaker 3: clean now. Anyway, blasted about four yeares.
Speaker 2: It never does. It's like going to Tony Robbins conference
Speaker 2: and you think I'm going to change my life and
Speaker 2: then the next week you're like, oh, it's back to normal.
Speaker 2: But Sam, I mean I was over in Africa waiting
Speaker 2: for the final and everything as well, and I got
Speaker 2: to spend some time with your beautiful wife and your
Speaker 2: incredible kids like Gracie and Elsie. They are absolute standout children,
Speaker 2: which is such a testament to your parenting. What was
Speaker 2: it like seeing them for the first time after going
Speaker 2: that twenty nine days without any contact.
Speaker 7: Oh that was crazy. It didn't pull at the heart strings,
Speaker 7: it literally ripped at the heart strings. I think I
Speaker 7: got the bum steer too. So Mattie was literally sitting
Speaker 7: on the bed in camp watching their ice cook ready
Speaker 7: was down by the creek. I had to walk almost
Speaker 7: a kilometer to the waterfall. Oh yeah, I was a
Speaker 7: sweaty mess by the time I got there. So I
Speaker 7: ended up being a sweaty, blobbing mess. But you love
Speaker 7: your kids, but then when you're without them for almost
Speaker 7: a month and then you get to stamp so incredible
Speaker 7: and to hear their feedback and what they saw and
Speaker 7: what they loved and what they endured about the whole
Speaker 7: experience was brillan as well. I did have apologize to
Speaker 7: Gracie and my oldest daughter who's a part of an
Speaker 7: elite dance school here in Brisbane. She was very embarrassed
Speaker 7: by my dance move mat Hopefully I don't get it
Speaker 7: kicked out of that dance program because of my dance moves.
Speaker 2: Well we know that she doesn't get it from a dad.
Speaker 2: We did see a bit of working in there. Do
Speaker 2: you have it's about to do dancing with the stars?
Speaker 2: Do you have any advice.
Speaker 7: For Uh, yeah, it's all in the hips. It's all
Speaker 7: in the hip.
Speaker 3: That's what they keep telling me, Sam, is what they
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll see you on Dancing with the Stars next
Speaker 3: year after they've seen you tworking skills.
Speaker 7: Who knows you well, Sam.
Speaker 2: It was such a joy to watch you. The biggest
Speaker 2: congratulations from our family and from everyone who had to
Speaker 2: pick up to you. You were an absolute standout in
Speaker 2: the show and we just hope you get a good
Speaker 2: meal and spend some quality time with your family now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, thank you very much. I appreciate it. I'm
Speaker 7: looking forward to a really good Australian coffee.
Speaker 2: Yeah I can. I bet someone get the man some
Speaker 2: salt and pepper. Although although everyone's had some pretty bad
Speaker 2: updates of how it's treated them after having twenty nine
Speaker 2: days with no coffee, they've spent some time on the toilet. Up,
Speaker 2: I guess let me tell you that not.
Speaker 3: Even that you'll get heckic diarrhea for the next week.
Speaker 2: So that's what I meant, without being as graphic.
Speaker 3: Now you know what, because you haven't had anything in
Speaker 3: your body for so long and then it just explodes.
Speaker 2: Just ride the roll of poor Hughesy was in a
Speaker 2: bad state on the way home. But anyway, sure he
Speaker 2: can tell that story.
Speaker 7: Sea said, thanks for having me