Speaker 1: Laura, come on.
Speaker 2: Here we are Hello, Hello, Hello, bye, Barbie.
Speaker 3: I can who are you speaking to the two of you?
Speaker 2: You're Barbie.
Speaker 3: I think you're more Barbie than that web.
Speaker 2: Radio Barbie work, Yeah, working, mum, Barbie, exhausted Barbie.
Speaker 4: Bobby comes in all different shapes and flavors these days.
Speaker 4: Do you know what you gave my little Lola? She's
Speaker 4: two years old. You gave her a Barbie backpack and
Speaker 4: she is obsessed with that?
Speaker 2: Does she like it?
Speaker 4: Obsessed? I haven't yet explained to her that it was
Speaker 4: actually just some paraphernalia from a gay party that you had.
Speaker 4: Everyone was dressed very inappropriately.
Speaker 5: I don't think that's information she needs to ever.
Speaker 4: I did disinfect it, though, bef when you gave it
Speaker 4: to me.
Speaker 2: I think they did with it that part you were
Speaker 2: at the part now, I had a Barbie party with
Speaker 2: all my gay friends about six months ago. I had
Speaker 2: all this leftover Barbie stuff, so I gave it to
Speaker 2: your girls, Laura, and that is I think there might
Speaker 2: still be like half a bottle of tequila in that
Speaker 2: thing in the side pocket.
Speaker 4: You've got to turn it seventeen condoms.
Speaker 3: That's why she loves us so much.
Speaker 2: This is great. Yeah, everyone's talking Barbie at the moment.
Speaker 2: It's it's everywhere people are talking Barbie, and they're talking
Speaker 2: celeb breakups this week. I don't want to say I'm
Speaker 2: a trendsetter, but one celeb broke up and announced it
Speaker 2: on the Pickup only a few weeks.
Speaker 4: Ago aka Mitch Cheery. Oh thank you, that's so so
Speaker 4: kind and swere you celebrity loosely.
Speaker 2: But today and this week there's been a string of
Speaker 2: celebt breakups. I think there's a bit of a conspiracy
Speaker 2: theory in the air. So some of your favored couples too,
Speaker 2: So I'll see you all about it next. Also, Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift tickets. You've got them in your hand, right.
Speaker 4: Laura, waving them around a whole row.
Speaker 2: I know you're chance at a full row of Taylor's
Speaker 2: tickets to Eras the World tour coming up on the Pickup.
Speaker 2: Happy Wednesday. We're back on the pick Up Wednesday afternoon
Speaker 2: with Britt, Laura and Mitch rushing to Chemist House to
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Speaker 2: there's something in the air at the moment. People, it's
Speaker 2: not love. It's not love. It's the opposite of love.
Speaker 2: Couples dying left, right, and center. It is the era
Speaker 2: of the breakup. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4: Dying is a little bit traumatic, and the relationship's dying.
Speaker 4: Relationship is dead, buried rest.
Speaker 2: And I want to say I started this trend.
Speaker 4: Go away from me if it's catching.
Speaker 2: No. Who announced their breakup publicly? Me months ago? He did.
Speaker 2: It was emotional. I felt for him.
Speaker 1: I don't know about the third person thing. I think
Speaker 1: you could start to refer to yourself as I you.
Speaker 2: I was sad, but his spurred on a string of
Speaker 2: so of their breakups. Only in the last seven days.
Speaker 2: Sophiagara from Modern Family, she broke up with her husband
Speaker 2: of seven years, Joe men Janello yesterday. Wow, they're done.
Speaker 2: And that's sad for you, Laura.
Speaker 4: I love her. I don't really know much about him,
Speaker 4: but I just want her to be happy.
Speaker 2: Well, they were married. He's in true blood, he's in
Speaker 2: magic mind.
Speaker 3: She's pretty happy. She's the highestped actress in the world.
Speaker 4: She's doing all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the divorce. They officially announced their divorce. It is done.
Speaker 4: Wow, it's very sad. That happened quickly. What about Ricky
Speaker 4: Martin and his husband?
Speaker 2: Oh so, yeah, you heard about that. Ricky Martin and
Speaker 2: Juan Joseph they released a joint statement. Couples love a
Speaker 2: joint statement, don't they. They released a joint statement saying
Speaker 2: we are done after six years of marriage. They're done.
Speaker 4: Usually it's the conscious uncoupling, though, isn't it?
Speaker 3: That was though? That was they've got kids.
Speaker 2: I want drama though. Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez they
Speaker 2: split up baby after allegations of cheating.
Speaker 3: Who who cheated on?
Speaker 4: Whom?
Speaker 2: Dalton cheated on? Grande shut the front at a party
Speaker 2: apparently she's filming Wicked in the UK. He flew over
Speaker 2: to apologize and she said, you get.
Speaker 1: A cheat on, Ariana Grande.
Speaker 4: I mean it just goes. It's got nothing to do
Speaker 4: with looks, does it. Cheating's got nothing to do with looks?
Speaker 2: What about this is eleven couple? This will shake you.
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift and Matt Healy. We know that they broke
Speaker 2: up in the last month.
Speaker 4: Weren't they only dating for like three weeks?
Speaker 2: Still a breakup?
Speaker 3: They're still a breakup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we won't minimize that, But that was because all
Speaker 1: the swifties hated him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't like him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they didn't like heally for him.
Speaker 2: One of the biggest celeb couple yet Barricade, the woman
Speaker 2: married to EDWARDA the ghost. Oh, you guys, aren't Barricade.
Speaker 4: What happened to Barricade?
Speaker 2: You know about Barricade, the woman who married a ghost?
Speaker 4: That celebrity wedding about the woman who married a ghost?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Correct, don't you know about this?
Speaker 4: Did they break up?
Speaker 2: Oh? Barrecade sent shockwaves around the world when she married
Speaker 2: EDUARDA the forty year old, devilish, handsome soldier that she married.
Speaker 2: He's a ghost. He's not real.
Speaker 4: Oh where's he from?
Speaker 2: Everyone's talking about. Well, apparently a forty year old soldier
Speaker 2: burst into her room on a stormy night and they
Speaker 2: got married after only five months of knowing each other,
Speaker 2: and they had their wedding on Halloween of last year.
Speaker 2: It's the only one could talk.
Speaker 4: Did they break up because he ghosted her? It was
Speaker 4: too easy, wasn't it?
Speaker 2: That was very funny?
Speaker 4: Is so funny?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: But they got divorces. No, because she'd be going through
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 2: You know what she said? She said he got so
Speaker 2: drunk on their honeymoon he started getting very possessive.
Speaker 3: Do you reckon? She could just see straight through his ship.
Speaker 2: He developed an unsettling fascination with Marilyn Monroe. Then Barricade
Speaker 2: said that EDWARDA would disappear for days and then he'd
Speaker 2: come back smelling of Chanelle number five, which is Marilyn
Speaker 2: Monroe's signature. Sat he'd been having a ghostly affair, a
Speaker 2: gooly affair.
Speaker 4: I've got the sheep here. While she tried to put
Speaker 4: boundaries on her new husband, they only sent him into anger,
Speaker 4: So I don't have a Satay decided to return to
Speaker 4: the chapel where they exchanged their vowels, only to perform
Speaker 4: an exorcism.
Speaker 2: Correct, this is why. So they didn't get a divorced,
Speaker 2: they got exercised. So, which is what I'm doing at
Speaker 2: the moment too, So it must be.
Speaker 4: She's also in her hotel.
Speaker 2: Error now, if you want Taylor Swift tickets, she's single
Speaker 2: now and she's coming to Australia. Era's tour is heading
Speaker 2: down Under. If you want a full row of tickets,
Speaker 2: it is yours to back into this on the pick up.
Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, Britt, Laura and mitchead into the Chemist's warehouse
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Speaker 4: Now, this is a little bit more of a serious one,
Speaker 4: I feel like over the last few years, especially since COVID,
Speaker 4: there's been more and more conversations around loneliness and people
Speaker 4: feeling lonely. You know, COVID definitely didn't help with that,
Speaker 4: but it's not something that's just miraculously gone away. Now.
Speaker 4: There was an article that came out from ABC News recently.
Speaker 4: Doctor Michelle Lim, she studies loneliness, and she was talking
Speaker 4: about how it used to be described as this thing
Speaker 4: that we would experience, but they've done research now that
Speaker 4: shows just how much loneliness can actually affect your physical health.
Speaker 4: Studies have shown that loneliness can increase the risk of
Speaker 4: death by twenty six percent. It was so wild, twenty
Speaker 4: six percent. And they've likened it these feelings of loneliness,
Speaker 4: the impact it can have on your body, to being
Speaker 4: as deadly as smoking a half pack of cigarettes every day.
Speaker 2: That is crazy.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's crazy to me that you can kind
Speaker 4: of put like a physical effect of something like loneliness,
Speaker 4: but we all know what and how huge that feeling
Speaker 4: is when you're in the middle of it and your
Speaker 4: experience all consuming.
Speaker 2: It takes up every part of your being that in
Speaker 2: your stomach you feel with loneliness, and loneliness is a
Speaker 2: weird emotion because it's something that i've you know, I've
Speaker 2: felt recently in the last couple of months. You go,
Speaker 2: you get hit with the loneliness, right, you go, I'm lonely.
Speaker 2: But then when you start to unpack why you're lonely,
Speaker 2: that makes it worse because you go, why, I'm lonely
Speaker 2: because I'm working too much, or I'm lonely because I
Speaker 2: feel like I don't know enough friends, I'm lonely because
Speaker 2: I feel overweight, And then every part of that becomes
Speaker 2: even more depressing, and it's a death spiral.
Speaker 1: Well, I think the reason they link it to the
Speaker 1: like it's the same as half a pack of cigarettes
Speaker 1: to day is because physiologically, it completely impacts your body.
Speaker 1: It increases heart disease, high blood pressure, dementia, increases mental
Speaker 1: health issues like depression and anxiety, which I feel like
Speaker 1: we've known about the depression and anxiety for a long time.
Speaker 1: It's the actual physical impacts that really shook me. The
Speaker 1: fact that literally heart disease.
Speaker 4: Can develop from loneliness.
Speaker 3: It's a really scary thing.
Speaker 4: But I also tr I mean, we live in such
Speaker 4: a digital age. We live in an age that's meant
Speaker 4: to be completely connected. We have access to people whenever
Speaker 4: we want, whoever we want, whenever we want it right,
Speaker 4: it's so instantaneous. But I think it's also led to
Speaker 4: an even bigger caveat because instead of us having community,
Speaker 4: going out and seeing people face to face, we live
Speaker 4: so much of our lives behind screens. And I think
Speaker 4: that's why Traditionally, when we would think of loneliness, we
Speaker 4: would think of how much it affects the elderly people
Speaker 4: who are you know, they're being shipped off into homes
Speaker 4: and now they don't have any friends or family around.
Speaker 4: But the biggest and high rate of loneliness is actually
Speaker 4: around and amongst young people. So people between age fifteen
Speaker 4: and twenty four are reporting the highest rates of loneliness.
Speaker 4: And it makes you just think we're now going to
Speaker 4: have this whole generation of young people who are growing
Speaker 4: up in the world and feeling lonely and having these
Speaker 4: physiological effects.
Speaker 1: It doesn't surprise me the age thing at all, because
Speaker 1: I think it links quite highly to social media use
Speaker 1: and the people using social media, and the fact that
Speaker 1: social media keeps you connected. It's a bit of a
Speaker 1: double edged sword, keeps you need when you're at home
Speaker 1: and you're feeling lonely, But then you hang up from
Speaker 1: social media, you put your phone away, and you realize
Speaker 1: it's not real.
Speaker 3: They're not really there.
Speaker 1: Half those people don't know who you are or care
Speaker 1: about you, So it's a bit of a false sense
Speaker 1: of stegurey y.
Speaker 2: But those things aren't even connection. It's comparing. You compare yourself,
Speaker 2: and you think it's a false sense of connection. Half
Speaker 2: the people I follow I've never met, I'm never going
Speaker 2: to meet.
Speaker 4: It's also a false sense of validation as well. The
Speaker 4: people that you're getting likes and comments and stuff from,
Speaker 4: for the most part, are people that you don't know.
Speaker 4: They're not people whose opinions and feelings truly should matter
Speaker 4: to you. But we have a warped sense of where
Speaker 4: that priority sits now because we've been conditioned to think
Speaker 4: that likes, comments, and follows have any impact on our
Speaker 4: value as a person.
Speaker 2: So what do we do. What's the answer to this?
Speaker 2: Does it go out talk to more people have a conversation.
Speaker 3: I really think it is.
Speaker 1: I think it's about recognizing that you've gotten and then
Speaker 1: maybe seeking some kind of help for it a especially
Speaker 1: if it's the mental side. If you are getting depression
Speaker 1: and anxiety, speak to somebody.
Speaker 3: But I think there's a lot that we can do.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you have to force yourself outside of your.
Speaker 1: Comfort zone and you might be sitting at home being like,
Speaker 1: there is nothing I could think of worse than going
Speaker 1: out right now and socializing.
Speaker 3: But once you're there, you have a good time and
Speaker 3: you love it.
Speaker 1: So sometimes it's about making yourself do something you might
Speaker 1: not feel like doing, and putting yourself in an environment
Speaker 1: with other people, lean on your friends, meet your friend's friends,
Speaker 1: start a new hobby or a sport.
Speaker 4: And I also think it's being really aware of what
Speaker 4: your friends are going through and people in your life,
Speaker 4: because sometimes when you're already in that spiral of feeling
Speaker 4: lonely and all those other awful thoughts come in, you know,
Speaker 4: it's very hard to pull yourself out of it. So
Speaker 4: if you have friends or family members and you think
Speaker 4: maybe they're going through a little bit of a hard
Speaker 4: time at the moment, it's about reaching out. It's about
Speaker 4: being that one to really put in the effort and
Speaker 4: be there and show up in people's lives who we love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, agreed. And of course, if you or anyone you
Speaker 2: know is struggling with loneliness or depression, thirteen eleven fourteen,
Speaker 2: that's Lifeline's number. You can call them anytime, any day.
Speaker 2: All right. Next, brit what's going on with you and
Speaker 2: your dog? I feel like there's a divorce happening in
Speaker 2: your life.
Speaker 1: I'm yes, it's pretty touch and go at the moment.
Speaker 1: We are in a bit of a shared custody battle.
Speaker 4: Oo wow with her your ex.
Speaker 5: It's worse than that. It's more complicated than that. There's
Speaker 5: multiple people involved.
Speaker 2: It might lose her dog, Delilah. That's insane.
Speaker 3: That is a great book, Witch, Thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm very quite proud of it. The verdict. Next, I
Speaker 2: have a pickup. Welcome back to the pickup with Brett,
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Speaker 3: My dog is the apple of my eye.
Speaker 1: I love her very dearly, and you guys give me
Speaker 1: a hard time about how much she means to me.
Speaker 1: But there's a problem that I want to talk about
Speaker 1: because it's really bothering me. I'm currently like a child.
Speaker 1: I'm currently going through like a really big shared custody issue.
Speaker 4: And this is because you used to own Delilah with
Speaker 4: your ex. Is this the thing I would.
Speaker 5: Think that that is what the shed custody is about.
Speaker 1: No, that's not what it's about. Okay, let me just
Speaker 1: set the scene for a hot little second. Delilah has
Speaker 1: had an amazing dog walker, and the dog walker had
Speaker 1: to go away for six months, which is quite a
Speaker 1: long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, God forbid you walk your own dog.
Speaker 1: For six months at work, Mitch, because I would never
Speaker 1: leave her home alone.
Speaker 3: So she has a dog.
Speaker 2: She's a menace, a working dogs made. Have you ever
Speaker 2: seen her work?
Speaker 4: She's a working dog. She's a working dog who lives.
Speaker 2: That's what it's called a Christmas casual at working.
Speaker 3: This is why I can't come chy guys with my problem.
Speaker 2: No, I'm sorry if we Laura and I are upset
Speaker 2: for you. What's happened?
Speaker 3: How a dog walker? The dog walk went away for
Speaker 3: six months.
Speaker 1: I had to find a new dog walker for that time.
Speaker 3: Found the new dog walker. It's only two days a week.
Speaker 3: The new dog walkers amazing.
Speaker 1: Delilah slot write in she knows all the other dogs
Speaker 1: on the dog walkers like play.
Speaker 3: It's like playgroup for your kids.
Speaker 2: Where's the problem? This sounds great now?
Speaker 1: The dog walker came back six months later. She goes,
Speaker 1: I'm back and I was like, oh. She's like, I'm
Speaker 1: ready to take her back. And I was like, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to disrupt her schooling and her days
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So I was like, maybe I'll
Speaker 1: just keep her with who she is. She knows that
Speaker 1: I know it.
Speaker 4: It's easy.
Speaker 2: Oh no.
Speaker 1: Then she up said she's like, I really want her back,
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, you can have her. But
Speaker 1: then now the dog was like, but but I love
Speaker 1: her too.
Speaker 2: You dog walker goes, but I also love her, yes.
Speaker 1: And I just want what's best for Delilah At the
Speaker 1: end of the day right now that both dog walkers
Speaker 1: want her, and so it became this three way group
Speaker 1: chat about what we're going to do, who we're going.
Speaker 3: To have her, why we're going to have a surely.
Speaker 4: You just pick you're the dog's owner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I've said it and shared custody because I
Speaker 1: feel so bad and Delilah is so amazing.
Speaker 4: Everyone just wants her in their life. Delilah has three months.
Speaker 2: Now's awakened dog. She doesn't have time for this stress
Speaker 2: in her life and.
Speaker 1: Now she's got so I said, let's we had to
Speaker 1: go to the court of WhatsApp group chat with all
Speaker 1: of us and we decided on a settlement that who's
Speaker 1: going to take her when? So we're trialing that it's
Speaker 1: the settlement. The new said, I'm gonna started this week.
Speaker 4: How did you mediate this? Well, we just we just gave.
Speaker 1: Each other days, right, and they've got pickups, they've got
Speaker 1: the time ins, and everyone's amazing, like we're all friends.
Speaker 1: It was just this really like underlying like who wants
Speaker 1: to take Delilah? But now I'm getting it's like they're
Speaker 1: up in the ante with the photos of like how
Speaker 1: much fun Delilah has it each day. So I'm getting
Speaker 1: like all these like feedback about how much fun she's having.
Speaker 3: To date.
Speaker 1: The pictures I'm getting not just normal pictures. These are
Speaker 1: taken on portrait mode.
Speaker 4: Wait, so the two dog walkers are now competing to
Speaker 4: prove that they are the best of the two dog walkers.
Speaker 3: I think So I got a photo today.
Speaker 5: She was in a Mexican sombrero hat.
Speaker 3: She had a party. Yeah, she was in a burrito.
Speaker 2: Job. Actually she's working the But.
Speaker 3: Then I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is a problem, and now I have to sort
Speaker 1: out who has you.
Speaker 2: Need to pick someone? Yes, why can't you shed? I
Speaker 2: think what you need to do is classic, get them
Speaker 2: both in the room. Okay, one at the front door,
Speaker 2: one at the side door. Hold Delilah, who does she
Speaker 2: go to? Who does she go to? Who does she
Speaker 2: run to? And then me, Now you're the one holding
Speaker 2: and then you push your.
Speaker 4: Off and she will run away from you. She's clock
Speaker 4: on to a shift dog walk with sombrero.
Speaker 2: That's all right? Can you update us? I want you
Speaker 2: to do that and then let us know who she picks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm interested to see what happens week by week.
Speaker 4: It's going to get better.
Speaker 5: I love the everyone can have a piece of delight.
Speaker 4: You don't worried that one of them is going to
Speaker 4: kidnap her at some point in time. It's still sounding
Speaker 4: a little bit like it.
Speaker 5: It is a high possibility, yes, but I have to
Speaker 5: take that day as it comes.
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Speaker 4: What's on the show today?
Speaker 2: One day until we find out if Woody is the
Speaker 2: fastest parent in Australia to run with a PRAM. Talk
Speaker 2: about it more in a couple of minutes. Nice tomorrow, Yeah,