WEBVTT - THE PICK UP - 4th Feb 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.800 Life Uncut acknowledges the traditional custodians of country whose lands 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.560 were never seeded. We pay our respects to their elders 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:07.600 past and present. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.160 Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land. This episode of 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.920 the podcast was recorded on Gadigal Land of the Orination. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.519 Hi guys, and are welcome back to our very first 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:38.159 episode of The Pickup. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.640 This is a little summation of the week, the best bits, 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.080 the highlights, and not none of the low lass It's definitely. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:44.319 Not the whole thing. 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:46.440 We cut the low lights, all of them. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.920 Which is so Mitch is in it all. You're the highlight. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.240 You all know that. Last year we got to do 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.600 our awesome Saturday show. We used to have so much 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.560 fun and Britt, myself, Mitch, the three of us on radio. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.120 And this year we have started our very first weekly 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.319 national show, The Pickup. It is on at three pm 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.360 to four every single day and this is this week's Pickup. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.119 Yeah, there were some great nuggets of gold in there, 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.840 some great interviews, some great laughs, and some a couple 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:14.480 of interventions even thrown in. 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.880 In the first week. We did far too many interventions. 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.679 Always with brit at the bottom of the awful it 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.160 was always me was that? 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:21.640 But I also had fun. Are you guys enjoying the 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:22.400 first week on air? 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.880 I loved doing radio with you guys, Yeah so much. 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:26.400 All right, let's get into the show. 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.120 It's the Pickup with britt, Laura and Mitch. Now Laura 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.240 went in to unpack something that our beloved Brittany Hockley's 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:32.480 up to. 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:33.240 What's the problem. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.679 It's the fact that you you recently needed to do 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:39.240 a call out for a dog walker. Yes, Now the 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.920 call out wasn't just a you know, ask your friends, 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:42.720 get a recommendation. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.319 I need someone for one walker day, you know, No. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:49.400 This turned into a full interview process. Correct, It was 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:50.480 the where's the problem? I'm sorry? 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.440 It was like you were looking for an O pair 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.559 for children for a yeah, yeah, all. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.160 Like you're hiring a CEO for the position like I have. 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.000 The Essentially that is exactly what it is. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.640 Was pacing around the studios on the phone going job 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.560 history exactly all right? And did you study there long? 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.160 And why did you leave the career at Telstra? 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.360 I'm like this, poor girl just just set the scene. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.920 Britt literally did zoom interviews for the dog walker before 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:16.440 meeting them in the flesh. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.640 But then do you want to know when I did so? 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.160 I actually then then I took it a step further, 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.040 And then I met the one that I thought was 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:28.720 going to the chosen one. We met for a for 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.840 a combat compatibility test. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.560 Compatibility with her and the dog or her And you like, 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:36.040 what does it. 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.160 Matter if it's you it's walking the dog. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:39.000 Well I wanted to. 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.400 I wanted to see how she interacted with Delilah. So 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.400 we met at the park, at the local park. Because 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:45.960 you can, I have done this in the past. This 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:47.880 is why I did it. I needed to get one, 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:49.800 probably six months ago, and I ended up with this 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.240 new person that I didn't go through a thorough interview 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.680 session with and it didn't work. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:55.519 She wasn't right. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:03:00.520 They didn't gel. I didn't trust her. Min at night 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.079 he thought something she was something wasn't wrong. She wasn't 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.720 the same, and as a really good mother, I picked 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.600 up on that. So I had a compatibility test. We 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.120 met at the local path. I watched the interaction. I 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.120 needed to make sure they had chemistry. I wanted to 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.880 ask her where she goes, how many walks, how many 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:17.440 dogs are there? 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.120 It was a job dry does she does? 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.720 She incorporate balls? Does she not incorporate balls? 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.320 What's what is the level? I'm not I wish I 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:25.760 was kidding. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:27.840 The poo pick up technique, that's very important. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:29.320 I watched her do it. I made Doyle do a 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.440 really big pick. I didn't watch that, but I actually 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:36.520 I know you guys laugh. But Delilah is like, you 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.480 want to know if you're taking your dog. I love 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.280 my dog. My dog is my best friend. I love 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.240 him more than anything. I don't have anything else, all right, 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.960 So then when I trust her with someone, I need 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:47.680 to know that this person's responsible. She's not gonna let 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.360 her run in front of a car, because that's a 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.640 really big deal to me. And Delilah has no road sense. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:52.880 She would run in front of a bus. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:53.640 So I needed to make. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.200 Sure this was a responsible, caring, loving dog walker. 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.480 I don't even think I go to that length to 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.560 find Maybe that makes me I think we need. 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.120 To have the intervention on you. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.400 Honestly, I've had people take care of my children who 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.680 I have done far less checks on what you're doing 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:10.119 right now. 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:11.800 Yeah, I think that says more about you to me. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.920 We're back after this is the pick up The Bachelor 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.960 finale air last night, and from all accounts, it was 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:19.799 a mess. Laura Burne, I know you watched it. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:21.799 It was a mess, but it made for very good TV. 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.160 You know what, The only couple that's still together is 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:25.040 Jed and Alysia. 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.360 But then you hear that she was kissing some other 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.039 people since they've left the show as well. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.040 Well, I mean this is why I want to know. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.040 So apparently they're together, but they've hooked up with other people. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:35.520 Litwen time here. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.120 Now we've got them on the phone, Jed and Alyssia 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:38.640 join us high guys. How does it feel to be 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.000 the only successful couple of the franchise this season? 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.599 Well, look, yeah, I think it's great. 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:45.960 We've you know, we've put a lot of work in 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.400 to get to the point where we're open and seeing 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:52.600 each other. Well the sorry open, that's triggered me. No, no, no, 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.720 we're not open. Let me get that clarified right now. 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.159 But no, look, we're in a good place. I think 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.200 it's been a while since we've been able to be normal, 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.320 so we're just sort of taking it by day and 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:04.160 I'm seeing there we go. 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.920 Speaking of open, I read something this morning that Alicia, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.240 you've kissed other people since the show finished. 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:11.200 Is that true? 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.800 Yeah? Yeah, so we so when the show finished, we 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:19.240 had our four night rendezvous, which is really nice. That's 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.440 when the walls came down and we really started to 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.920 get to know each other. And then after we left, 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:30.000 Jed ended up going through something pretty dark and we 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.840 sort of decided, let's not be together until we can 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:38.080 be together again. But we spoke every day like we 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.400 were there for each other every day, regardless of the 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.800 fact that we weren't officially together anymore, and always just 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.920 open and transparent. And now we're in a position obviously 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.280 where I've seen him for the second time. Last night 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.839 was you know, the second time we've spent the night together. 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:53.920 You're kidding show? 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.479 Yeah, yeah, So we've had to keep everything going by 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.400 just text and call all day every day. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:01.800 Happy to give a bit of context, because I think 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.680 it's o I had some traumas from my childhood come 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.400 up that I wasn't expecting to come up when I came. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:07.799 Off the show. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.679 I think I was sort of not doing my usual 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.640 day to day things when I came off, and that, 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.440 you know, allowed a bit of space for things to 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.920 come up that I didn't know I was clearly sort 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.880 of not wanting to deal with, but then happened, and 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.479 I think she held me so tightly through that entire thing. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.560 It's sort of at the time that was like our 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.800 sole focus was helping me heal from that situation. So 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.520 there wasn't a point where any love was lost or 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.279 it was like I don't like you or she doesn't 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:33.560 like me. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:35.040 It was just I think. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.880 It was more like, let's shift the focus from let's 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.200 not focus on you and I as a couple, Let's 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.360 focus on him as a person. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.120 The formula really can work and it can be a 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.920 beautiful thing. What is next for you, guys? Now now 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:49.720 that you can be together, does it mean you're doing 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.680 long distance? What does the relationship look like? 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.600 I think right now it looks like us going out 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.960 for dinner tonight for the first time and see how 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:58.520 that goes. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.520 There'll be tough, that's how that's going. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:02.160 Yeah, I know. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.920 No, we're just excited, like we are very close. I 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.400 think we've grown immensely throughout this and people would never 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.840 sort of quite understand the extent of how deep I think, 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.720 just how understanding of each other goes. Now, So for us, 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.920 it feels like a fairly peaceful, relaxed thing, like. 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.360 You know, not just taking a ring, just you know, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.200 to take a ring and all of that. I want 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:22.920 to come off and be as real as possible. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.240 I would take a ring, yeah, if it was to me, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:26.960 which it wasn't. 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:28.880 No, Laura was telling you. Laura was saying before that, 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.680 how much Because Laura, obviously you're on the batchy with 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.320 Maddie j. You got the ring. How much was it worth? 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:33.560 You're telling us before we have to. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.880 Say, well, I think this one was around twenty five thousand. 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.440 But I don't okay, don't hold me to it now. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.080 I'm worried that Larcens is going to come for me. 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.160 But okay, I heard a rumor if you didn't propose, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:44.840 you didn't get to keep the ring this season? 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:45.680 Is that true? 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:46.600 Exactly? 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:47.200 So I. 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:50.440 Knew she was going to say no. 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.240 But I knew if I could word it a certain 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.400 way and quickly get out of it, I could feel it, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.360 the gorgeous ring on it. So but I never got 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.720 to tell her that the whole I just thought I. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.840 Was I'm like my getting punked here, Like have I 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:04.920 been not speaking English to the last time? 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:05.280 Wait? 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.400 No, So actually you're a very smart man, Jed. Okay, 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.280 So there's been something that's been going down in my 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.679 household recently that I want to see how you feel 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.800 about this. My beloved Maddy Jay, my husband so weird 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:19.800 calling him my husband's weird. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.040 Hearing you say, now, we. 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.120 Only just had the wedding, like in November. It was God, yes, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:24.120 I think we like it was. 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.600 We all got marriage, you had it. That's how I feel. 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.160 Well, It's one of those things, right, you get into 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.560 a long term relationship and you think you know everything 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.320 that there is to know about your partner. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.040 You think that you've covered everything, all the ground I 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:37.320 can only imagine, but go on. 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:43.840 Yeah, except with Maddy Jay, because he's very into hobbies. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.680 So he goes through these like phases of different hobbies 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.800 that he wants to try. Right, we have just entered 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.920 a new phase of hobbies that he does. 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.160 This is sounded like the negative from you in this. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.040 I'm not not into it, but it's a it's a 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:00.800 really annoying what're you doing? 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:01.360 Okay? 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.280 So he's just decided to take back up something that 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.360 he used to do back in the nineties, which. 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:07.120 Is where it should stay. 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.600 He's really into beatboxing and now I. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:21.800 Love Are you talking like the Yeah, that was horrible 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:26.559 to listen to it. Yes, that he does it all day, 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.040 all around. That he is quite good. That it has 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.640 become obsessive, and I wish I was joking. 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.160 So he's actually pretty good, is he can? We can 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:36.000 we get him on the phone. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:37.960 Listen, I've got Maddie up here. I've got his number. 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.120 We've been texting all day. There's a bit of a 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.360 Maddie's on the show, Hollow Matts. Thanks for being here. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.559 Hey, Maddie, good afternoon. 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:46.679 How are we that? 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.680 I have just heard that this new hobby you're doing 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.280 apparently you're pretty good at it, but you're driving. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:53.280 Laura like up the wall. 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.520 She'sn't complaining about it all day, this beatboxing thing that 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:57.360 you've got going on. 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.320 Let me let me defend you and myself. I'm not 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:01.320 being driven up the war. 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.360 I just find it confusing that, as a thirty six 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:05.040 year old. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.959 Man, you've gotten really into me. It's an unusual hobby. Like, 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:10.239 I'm not alone in thinking. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.240 That, Laura. You told me you liked it when I 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.640 started doing it. I'm doing more of it is because 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:16.520 I thought you're into it. 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:18.559 That's not what she's been telling us off air. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.360 Matt, what do you yeah, she's not that into it. 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.120 I'm not I'm not not into it. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.680 I want to be supportive of everything that you throw yourself. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.559 Okay, so we're going to have to hear this, so 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.319 can we We're going to bring everything to silence. We're 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.240 alive on the air. You've got the stage, Matt. You 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:32.400 give us some of your beatboxing. 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:37.520 Okay, here we go. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:48.559 So it was actually pretty good. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:49.800 You started with the motor boat. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:50.880 Haven't heard that in a while. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:52.760 I think we can work this into the show something 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:54.400 or a new show. This is show too. I think 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.280 we could build this into one of a bit of 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:57.920 our production that we use in and out of the show. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.600 This started off as me being like, do you think 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:01.720 that this is a normal thing? 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.480 And now you have fully committed to encouraging. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.800 It, Mitch, I don't know. Hold give me a beat again, Matt. 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:08.520 I'm gonna try and spit some pickup lyrics, right, you 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:09.440 can jump into British. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:10.400 I'm going to give some background. 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.000 Okay, so did you lace a sick pick up beat? Matt? 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:14.079 And then and we'll jump. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.000 In and we'll not last one too fast, too slow 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:17.520 and bright. 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:22.920 We need a little bit more length. Okay length. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.600 If you want a lot of lengths to come to 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:26.080 the right. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:29.160 I hit it. DJ. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.280 This is the pick up with britt Law and your 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.360 afternoon pickup. If you're a mum in the car, we 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.240 know you'd rather be at the bar picks in the 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:49.240 back of the bat. 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:58.959 Crazy J is the three bucks and as a cray 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:01.880 God created one. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.560 Check that that Now, that was a masterpiece. 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:07.760 That doesn't get us all figned. I don't know what 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.240 will That was Mozart. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.000 Thank you, Maddie. I support and I think we've converted Laura. 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:12.880 We support the new hobby. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.280 Just confirming that wasn't free. That wasn't free. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:20.200 I'm charging royaltiead of yourself, Matt into that one. 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:24.520 Mad you ladies know you Sheridan right, Yes we do. Well. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.800 This is actually it's a really tragic story. So who 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.040 has opened up about a horrific experience that happened when 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.320 a couple spiked his drink that I. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.720 Was in Sydney a few years ago and I was 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:35.480 around Melbourne Cup. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:42.120 I actually got someone drugged me. Two people drugged me 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:42.400 and I. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.599 Was stuck for about eight hours truly awful. And the 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.000 reason I bring this up is because you don't often 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.520 hear it happening to men. It's often a female lad narrative. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.040 It's actually so frightening. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.120 I've been drugged three times, by the way. You yeah, 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.480 and I know that Laura's had a situation. I have 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.520 so many friends as well, female friends that have been 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.480 in this situation too, Like it is so problematic, but 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.920 it's so prevalent. And I think a lot of people 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.240 don't know how prevalent it is because it's not wildly reported. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:11.840 I know what happened to me. I didn't because there 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.280 was a part of me that was like, well, what 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:14.120 are they going to do about it? 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.080 Anyway? How are they going to prove it? Like you 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:16.600 just think that? 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.520 And I think that most women think that unless there's 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.520 a way for them to feel that they one hundred 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.760 percent can be heard and something can be done about it. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.360 And also, I mean, like, what has happened to you here? 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.680 Often you don't know. You don't remember because of the 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.319 whole situation because you don't have you know, you don't 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:32.359 have your cognitive. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:33.199 Ability, you've been drugged, you. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.720 Don't know, So it's really hard to then talk about 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.640 something when you don't know the specifics, but like you know, 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.440 even ris with what you're saying for it, like it's 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.679 happened to you three times, it's happened to me once. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.600 I know so many women, and I think that it's 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.160 it's something that we have to be conscious of as women. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.200 But you don't hear men like how many times have 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.240 you left the house and gone out and thought, well, 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.400 better be careful that my drink doesn't get spiked. 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.000 And not once. It is not a thought that is 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:57.600 top of mind for me when I go out clubbing 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.480 or drinking and with friends as well. Never think about it. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:00.520 I think about it all the time. 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.960 But this is the thing, right, like the scary part 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.240 of this story, and it's something that I hope that 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.920 everyone is really conscious about, is that it doesn't just 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.040 happen when you're at a nightclub or you're out with strangers. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.840 Like my experience was with someone who I thought was 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:15.760 my friend, so I think, you know, and in this 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.160 experience with Hugh Sheridan, it was someone who he thought 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.000 was his friends and people he knew. And I think 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.520 that that is something that's very underrepresented and not talked 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.960 about enough. So I mean, it is so brave of 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.000 you to come forward and share this story, but also 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.800 just to really highlight that not only is it strangers, 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.320 it's people that you know that can be the people 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:33.920 at the bottom of this. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:34.080 Well. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:35.720 I mean one of mine was on a date. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.880 One of mine was a barman, so that made me 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.720 very worried, disgusting. You can be as careful as you 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.200 want covering your drinks and you know, walking around a bar, 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.320 but if it's come from behind the bar when you ordered, 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:50.200 it's out of your control. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:50.720 And the other. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.600 One was a patron just at a nightclub kind of 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:54.280 like outdancing. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.000 Well, the other thing you hear is is you get 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:57.680 taught this. I mean, we got taught in school when 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.720 I was in school. And you tell your daughters and 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.880 pairs to tell your kids when they're going when that 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.400 age about to go clubbing when they're seventeen eighteen. But 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.040 this happened to Hugh when he was in his thirties. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.560 I mean, laws that happened to it happened to both 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.880 of you thirty. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.200 Yeah, but I also think on that you become so 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.280 because when you are eighteen, you're very hyper vigilant, you know, 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.280 you're eighteen and that you've heard all these horror stories 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.200 and you think, oh god, I'll cover my drink and 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:20.360 you walk around with your hand. 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.520 Over your vodka Cruz or whatever it is. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:24.720 But then when you get into your thirties, you think, 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.280 I'm way past this as being a possibility. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.480 This is completely irrelevant what I'm about to say, but 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.200 I'm going to say it on the person I was 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:33.960 on a date with that drugg me. He was the 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.080 biggest geek, right, I was like, this guy is the 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:37.160 biggest geek. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:38.920 Unassuming but very endearing. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.360 And what I mean by that is it was just 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.280 for the cliche who you think is going to drug you? 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.160 I do want to say to cliche, but who comes 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:46.680 to mind when you think of someone's going to drug 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.320 you out a nightclub? This person, for me was the 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.040 furthest thing that I would have thought it would have 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:53.960 happened with. And again, you can never judge a book 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:54.400 by its cover. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:55.040 We know that. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.680 I'm so grateful that Hugh felt confident enough to come 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.760 out and speak about this. I think it is such 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.160 an important reminder for everyone, not just parents, but for 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.400 anyone listening that you know you have to be so 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.440 conscious that this does happen. It still happens all the time, 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.960 and it is hugely underreported and underrepresented, and I just think, 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:16.880 you know, putting and shining a light on it is 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:18.720 like the only way to protect people. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.880