Speaker 1: Are you ready? Good pickup with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn. Crady,
Speaker 1: your worth, our windows done?
Speaker 2: If my worries in the dust, only good, babug all down.
Speaker 3: I don't much, but yeah I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'll big get and what I want.
Speaker 3: It don't matter where.
Speaker 2: This is the pickup, Hi, guys, it's the pickup with
Speaker 2: Brit Huckley and Laura Burn.
Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday, Laura, you're not.
Speaker 3: Feeling too crappy. I am on the hump.
Speaker 2: Well well no, masters back hump day coming down the
Speaker 2: other side.
Speaker 3: No, because if you bear dromantics at home.
Speaker 2: I know I'm very happy to have him home, but
Speaker 2: unfortunately that has not been happening in our household.
Speaker 1: So I didn't know this.
Speaker 2: But if you fly back home from South Africa to Australia,
Speaker 2: it is like the one place where you get the
Speaker 2: worst jet lag. I can't sleep at nighttime. I'm sleeping
Speaker 2: all afternoon. My kids are awake at ten pm, midnight,
Speaker 2: one o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: You did say loss the plot.
Speaker 4: No, you said you vomited today. I don't think it's
Speaker 4: jet lag. I think you've got a South African stomach bug.
Speaker 4: I've got malaria. Everybody.
Speaker 3: No, genuinely.
Speaker 4: I mean I've had a lot of jet lag in
Speaker 4: my life and I don't wake up vomiting.
Speaker 2: No, that's true. I think the vomit bug has like
Speaker 2: hit me for something else. But it has been a
Speaker 2: wild few days. I'm hanging on by a thread.
Speaker 4: I did have a mind a panic attack this morning
Speaker 4: when Laura messaged and she's like, Hey, I'm really unwell,
Speaker 4: like I'm vomiting and stuff in my head. I was like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, am I gonna have to talk to
Speaker 4: myself for an hour on radio?
Speaker 1: I was like, am I gonna have a one way conversation?
Speaker 3: Welcome back. It's the Britt Hockey Show. We do have
Speaker 3: a very big show for you. Now.
Speaker 2: You guys might have seen on I'm a Celebrity recently
Speaker 2: Reggie Bird. She's one big Brother twice and she is
Speaker 2: an absolute national treasure. We're going to have her on
Speaker 2: the show shortly to talk to her. Now, you guys
Speaker 2: are very well aware that I was a big fan
Speaker 2: if I'm a celebrity this year. I watched every episode
Speaker 2: this well, particularly I was on it last year.
Speaker 1: Were you're not a fan last year? That's true, you
Speaker 1: didn't even watch it last year.
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 3: I was a fan last year.
Speaker 2: I'm particularly a fan this year because my husband Mattie
Speaker 2: Jay was on the show. But we did meet another
Speaker 2: celebrity again, Reggie Bird. Now Reggie Bird, she was the
Speaker 2: winner of Big Brother. She's won two separate seasons and
Speaker 2: I honestly felt, and I think most of Australia did,
Speaker 2: that she was just such a standout in this season
Speaker 2: of I'm a celeb and Reggie herself that she's vision
Speaker 2: impaired and she is going blind, but she really rewrote
Speaker 2: what it means to have a disability and to be
Speaker 2: able to show up and still do everything that every
Speaker 2: other person was able to do in that campsite, and
Speaker 2: it was so inspirational. I loved every moment that she
Speaker 2: was on the screen, and we have her on the show. Reggie,
Speaker 2: welcome to the pickup.
Speaker 6: Oh thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: Guys, how are you feeling now that you're at home
Speaker 2: and you're back to normal life? Are you missing the
Speaker 2: jungle or are you happy to be out of that
Speaker 2: hell hole?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Look, it is good to be back in your comfort.
Speaker 6: What is it creature comforts or whatever it's called. But
Speaker 6: I am missing everyone Thoughgi.
Speaker 4: Do you think it was harder or easier than you anticipated?
Speaker 6: Easier than what I've thought, Yes, because my past experience
Speaker 6: of being on Big Brother and doing you know, I
Speaker 6: spent what three months in Big Brother and being in
Speaker 6: there for a month was a breeze for me, Reggie.
Speaker 6: But not doing those challenges though, Oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you looked pretty upset when you had to eat
Speaker 3: that Kale. Reggie.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie, but you spoke so beautifully
Speaker 2: about well about so many things actually, but one thing
Speaker 2: in particular is what you were going through with being
Speaker 2: vision impaired. And I don't want to say it wrong,
Speaker 2: but is it retinitis pigments? Is that the retais pigmentosa pigmentosa?
Speaker 2: And can you describe to us, like what does that
Speaker 2: mean in terms of what's happening with your vision? Because
Speaker 2: you can still see a little bit, but you can't
Speaker 2: see as well as what you were able to.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 6: So, because I've just got nine degrees of pinhole vision
Speaker 6: and I explained to people it's just like looking through
Speaker 6: a straw.
Speaker 4: Is that going to stay like that going to deteriorate completely?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So they said to me, you've got a fifteen
Speaker 6: year time frame before you'll totally lose all your side.
Speaker 6: So I'm just very thankful that of what I've got left.
Speaker 6: That's why I just make the most of everything in life,
Speaker 6: because one day I am going to wake up and
Speaker 6: never ever see anything ever again.
Speaker 2: You were such an inspiration on the show, and I think,
Speaker 2: I mean, I can only imagine the questions you would
Speaker 2: have had about going in there and doing that show.
Speaker 2: Like everybody has reservations about doing it, but going in
Speaker 2: and doing that show without being able to see there
Speaker 2: must have been an additional pressure or fear factor there
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well I was shit scared anyway going in, especially you know,
Speaker 6: because I'm petrified of everything, you know, especially the height, spiders, bags, snakes.
Speaker 6: I only have one really good night sleeping there, because
Speaker 6: every night I'd sit there just worrying about a spider
Speaker 6: or some I'm all coming to get me because I
Speaker 6: can't see the dak at all, Like I've got no
Speaker 6: night vision at all.
Speaker 2: You had a really beautiful conversation with Matt at one
Speaker 2: point in the show, and he asked you what it
Speaker 2: was if you're going to miss the most when you
Speaker 2: when you lose your vision and you said it was
Speaker 2: seeing your kids, and I think every single parent.
Speaker 1: I'm not even a parent, and I upsets me.
Speaker 2: It's just I mean, how do your kids, I mean
Speaker 2: they understand what's happening. Obviously me is a little bit older,
Speaker 2: but how do they respond to this?
Speaker 6: Yeah, look to them as they've got older. That helped
Speaker 6: me a lot, and I guess that's all they've ever
Speaker 6: known with me. So yeah, I'm going to miss their
Speaker 6: faces for sure when I lose my sight. Yeah, that's
Speaker 6: the biggest thing.
Speaker 4: People really have no excuse to complain about that jungle
Speaker 4: again if.
Speaker 3: You have got in there.
Speaker 1: I mean like when I was in there, the people
Speaker 1: complaining left, right and center.
Speaker 4: Oh, we didn't get any mengo tonight, we didn't get avocado.
Speaker 2: And the worst thing is Reggie didn't koo for a
Speaker 2: whole week. I got in there and she was like,
Speaker 2: I'll I gone to the toilet over a week, But
Speaker 2: like you to.
Speaker 4: Go and navigate that the way you have, Reggie, It's
Speaker 4: like you've just won over so many hearts in Australia.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 4: I hope you know that by now, but you really have.
Speaker 6: Oh I thank you. Yeah, today it's the first day
Speaker 6: I've actually got on and looked at my social media,
Speaker 6: so oh man, there's some horrible comments as well out there.
Speaker 6: I'm just like wow, especially about my eyesight, because you
Speaker 6: know a lot of people saying she's faking ith right,
Speaker 6: she's in there for sympathy, you know, it's just fall
Speaker 6: on and I just thinking, Wow, there's so many people
Speaker 6: just are so quick to judge, and if they spend
Speaker 6: to day in my shoes, they would understand how I
Speaker 6: get about Reggie.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry that you have to put up with
Speaker 2: that type of commentary because all it really shows is
Speaker 2: that there is such a lack of understanding around what
Speaker 2: constitutes blindness, and people think it's black or white.
Speaker 3: You can see all you can't see. Nah, we're being
Speaker 3: too lean on them.
Speaker 4: There just trolls their bully. There's not the lack of
Speaker 4: education about what happens with blindness.
Speaker 3: That's not it at all.
Speaker 4: All I can say to you, Reggie is someone that
Speaker 4: has been in that reality world many many times. You
Speaker 4: will hold on to the negative things that people write
Speaker 4: to you, but try to ignore it and look at
Speaker 4: how much support and love and all the beautiful comments
Speaker 4: you've got. Because the negative comments stand out, but I
Speaker 4: would hate for you to go through this experience and
Speaker 4: you listen to these keyboard warriors like please don't yeah, weird,
Speaker 4: do all you?
Speaker 3: Reggie?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, my sisters, she can't stop reading.
Speaker 2: It as right, She's right, Reggie. We absolutely adore you.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on everything and for coming so incredibly close to
Speaker 2: getting the crown.
Speaker 3: We're just so sooked.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 4: Now, Laura, I know you usually every single year are
Speaker 4: so up to date on Maths.
Speaker 3: You are sick for it.
Speaker 1: I am getting up to date now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've missed a few episodes, but now I'm like
Speaker 2: I'm in there.
Speaker 4: Every year you think that the show can't be more rogue,
Speaker 4: or go more wild, or be more dramatic or more
Speaker 4: con traversial, and every year they never cease to surprise us.
Speaker 3: It gets worse.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a bit of a like mass Maths mutiny
Speaker 1: being described. I couldn't think of the word mutiny.
Speaker 4: Thanks, you're welcome back thinking of mutiny teenage mutant in journals.
Speaker 1: So there's a Maths. Thanks for telling us you're running
Speaker 1: internal monologue Britain.
Speaker 3: That was my total.
Speaker 4: There's a mass mutiny going on, and one of the
Speaker 4: contestants from last year's season, Ben Walters.
Speaker 3: If you remember, he was married.
Speaker 1: To Ellie Dix. So he's basically come out. Is that right?
Speaker 1: Why are you last funny?
Speaker 3: Last name? She's a great Dix d i X. You're
Speaker 3: so immature.
Speaker 1: She thinks it's funny because she's a lesbian.
Speaker 4: So he's basically come out, and he's sharing on TikTok.
Speaker 3: He's sharing his contracts.
Speaker 4: So you're supposed to sign your life away, but you're
Speaker 4: also not supposed to share the details around it.
Speaker 2: Well, part of the signing of the contract is that
Speaker 2: you will not talk about the signing of the contract,
Speaker 2: like the contract itself has an NDA around it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well he is giving no beeps. Have a listen.
Speaker 7: There is a Meretipase site mutiny going on right now,
Speaker 7: and to help their cause, I'm going to expose some
Speaker 7: of the juiciest parts of the metipase site contract they
Speaker 7: would have signed. These lies are my favorites to include
Speaker 7: any such information material, appearance depiction, portrayal, action or statement
Speaker 7: by the program and skipping on a point B transmit
Speaker 7: otherwise exploit the program material or advertisements containing such information, appearance, depiction, betrayal,
Speaker 7: action or statement in edited in any way, shape or
Speaker 7: form they bloody want. In other words, if it's out
Speaker 7: of context, they can snip it up for dramatic effect.
Speaker 2: Okay, look, I have conflicting feelings about this. Partly, I
Speaker 2: think it's it is unfair for a production company to
Speaker 2: completely misconstrue or completely take out of context something that
Speaker 2: you do or say. But I also think if you're
Speaker 2: signing up to a show like Maths and you're signing
Speaker 2: that contract, like you read the contract, you know that
Speaker 2: it's a possibilit that they're gonna do those things. Why
Speaker 2: is it that when they do them, you're so surprised
Speaker 2: and so angry? Like it happens every year, it's discussed
Speaker 2: every year. Shouldn't we, as contestants on these shows, take
Speaker 2: some agency that maybe the way that we're going to
Speaker 2: be portrayed is not desirable.
Speaker 3: I feel the same way.
Speaker 4: It was the same contract for us on The Bachelor,
Speaker 4: Like we signed literally almost the exact same thing, and
Speaker 4: I remember thinking like, wow, like they're gonna own.
Speaker 3: Me, they can do whatever they want with me, but
Speaker 3: they're going to destroy me.
Speaker 4: But then I remember like looking up to my imaginary
Speaker 4: future bubb when I was like, well, I'm gonna take
Speaker 4: the risk that I will fall.
Speaker 1: On the fifty percent of the good edit and not
Speaker 1: the bad edit.
Speaker 4: Like this part of you that thinks when you go
Speaker 4: into these situations that if you know you're a good person,
Speaker 4: you think that they're going to see that and they
Speaker 4: won't give you the bad edit.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't work like that.
Speaker 4: Sometimes good people get a bad edit. But at the
Speaker 4: end of the day, does this contract suck? Absolutely? Is
Speaker 4: it wrong that they can manipulate the situation?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Did you read sign and agree to it?
Speaker 3: Yes? Like you did that? I mean, I know, I said.
Speaker 2: I feel fifty fifty about the contraction in itself, but
Speaker 2: also feel a bit fifty to fifty about this whole.
Speaker 1: Idea that, like, really good people can get bad edits.
Speaker 2: I think that there are enough people on these shows
Speaker 2: that are behaving pretty poorly, that have questionable behavior or
Speaker 2: say questionable things that they don't need to make really
Speaker 2: nice upstanding, Like people who don't step out of line
Speaker 2: look like assholes.
Speaker 1: I don't think they do.
Speaker 4: Yes, I do agree that it's harder to make a
Speaker 4: really good person have an.
Speaker 1: Entirely bad edit.
Speaker 4: There's obviously moments that they can make look bad. And
Speaker 4: I've seen it happen to people I know. I've seen
Speaker 4: it happen to myself. I know it can happen. But
Speaker 4: I do know a producer that has worked on Maths,
Speaker 4: and I have had conversations with them where they've said,
Speaker 4: sometimes it's infuriating because the worst person on that show,
Speaker 4: the biggest bully, gets the really good edit, and sometimes
Speaker 4: it's hard for them to sit back and.
Speaker 3: Watch when they're that's interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like sometimes it's like that person shouldn't have got
Speaker 4: the edit that they got. And sometimes the better people
Speaker 4: maybe they were a good person but boring or not
Speaker 4: good content. So they're like, well, what, you can't be
Speaker 4: the hero of the show because you don't give enough.
Speaker 3: So there are so.
Speaker 2: Many can we get that producer on the show? No
Speaker 2: tell us who the biggest bully was.
Speaker 3: I can tell you off air.
Speaker 1: I think you already know. The other day, I've been
Speaker 1: meaning to tell you this story.
Speaker 3: I know, I have been waiting with baited breath. You're like,
Speaker 3: oh wait till I tell you.
Speaker 1: I'm worried because it's actually not that good.
Speaker 3: But I've really built it up so ran.
Speaker 1: This is the best story to ever land on the
Speaker 1: pick up.
Speaker 2: It's not, but it did get me into so much trouble.
Speaker 2: So last week you left after work and like we
Speaker 2: all said, goodbye, kiss, kiss, kiss, lovely day, enjoy everyone,
Speaker 2: have a great weekend as we kiss goodbye every day
Speaker 2: and always hug, and you left. You were out of here,
Speaker 2: and I walked out, but I realized I'd forgotten something
Speaker 2: that I needed. I'd forgotten my handbag, and like we
Speaker 2: something that I needed is in like I forgot that
Speaker 2: letter I needed to post your entire handbag. That does
Speaker 2: not surprise you about me, does it. The thing is
Speaker 2: so like we obviously finish at four o'clock.
Speaker 4: My shoes I was halfway to the cars and my
Speaker 4: pants went on.
Speaker 2: So we finish at four o'clock, which means, like most
Speaker 2: other people in the building are still working right like
Speaker 2: you know, people are having meetings and whatnot, and we
Speaker 2: work in a very busy, very tall building.
Speaker 1: There are many offices in this building, seventeen floors, yes,
Speaker 1: seventeen floors.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I was like, oh my god, my handbag,
Speaker 2: I need that. So I tried to get back into
Speaker 2: the studio, but you know.
Speaker 1: I also don't have a fob.
Speaker 3: You always lose your.
Speaker 2: Key to get in y so we have these little
Speaker 2: security tags that you buzz to get back into the studios.
Speaker 1: Fob was right, Yes, I don't have one. You had one.
Speaker 2: Three days I went to the front desk and there
Speaker 2: was no one at the front desk, and I was like,
Speaker 2: how am I going to get around these caves.
Speaker 3: Where this is gone?
Speaker 2: So the woman at the front desk always just presses
Speaker 2: a button and the door opens for me.
Speaker 1: So I was like, how hard can it possibly be?
Speaker 3: Magic?
Speaker 2: So I a button. Nothing happened, So I pressed it again.
Speaker 2: Nothing happened.
Speaker 3: So I pressed another button.
Speaker 2: Nothing happened, and then out comes running, out comes running one.
Speaker 1: Of our bosses, and he's like, who's in duress?
Speaker 3: And I was like what?
Speaker 2: And then I realized that I had set off the
Speaker 2: duress button across the entire building.
Speaker 3: And everyone was running around.
Speaker 2: I'm talking like every single radio network, the duress button's
Speaker 2: going off, every single floor, the duress button's going on.
Speaker 1: I just need my hand Baddy, like I'm having a problem.
Speaker 3: Woke up on my head, but.
Speaker 2: I'm in dressed because my pants are still inside the
Speaker 2: problem is though, the woman who works at the front
Speaker 2: desk has never ever had to press the gyress button,
Speaker 2: so she didn't know where the key.
Speaker 3: Was to stop it.
Speaker 2: So the duress button went on, and it went on,
Speaker 2: and then people arrived to try and save me. And
Speaker 2: so I was down here collecting my handbag and our
Speaker 2: bosses came down and was like, you.
Speaker 3: Pressed that button?
Speaker 6: Was it?
Speaker 1: Tony?
Speaker 2: I got in big trouble and I had to beg
Speaker 2: for forgiveness.
Speaker 4: That is actually so much funny, Yes, producing grace, I.
Speaker 5: Was saying, I got an email from someone in HR
Speaker 5: THOUGH about this.
Speaker 3: What do they say?
Speaker 5: And they were like, you know what is a beautiful
Speaker 5: silver lining of this. We've done drills. We've had people
Speaker 5: like go, hey, I'm pressing the duress button. Here's how
Speaker 5: you have to respond. We've never had an idiot press
Speaker 5: it for air. But they got to see that everyone
Speaker 5: actually actually know they don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: No, would you want person in this building?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 1: Well, now they do, so that's good.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: I'd be concerned that the only person that came to
Speaker 4: save me from in dress was that.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, sorry, is there someone more equipped?
Speaker 4: Like not that I don't want your help, but like
Speaker 4: if you guse someone might have some creditation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, it was bad, It was really bad. But
Speaker 2: I'm really glad that I helped out HR with that.
Speaker 2: They're welcome. They should thank me, send me that email.
Speaker 1: But was it a silent and level or the whole building?
Speaker 1: Why did you press it three times?
Speaker 7: Then?
Speaker 3: Why did you keep pressing it?
Speaker 2: Because I was like, surely one of these is going
Speaker 2: to open the door, like rest everyone.
Speaker 5: Like a child.
Speaker 1: You are, Actually it is actually so funny.
Speaker 3: Alright, guys, well look we've got to go home. I'm
Speaker 3: in duress.