Speaker 1: Laura, come on.
Speaker 2: Tuesday. Pickup is on. Hi, I Sam, How are we
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 1: Now? You guys were at my house the other day.
Speaker 1: We had a very important team meeting. Yes, the three
Speaker 1: of us.
Speaker 2: You finally got toilet paper. I did and could use.
Speaker 1: Toilet paper you. I brought toilet paper over to her
Speaker 1: house with me. She invited me over and I know
Speaker 1: joke packed toilet paper.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know.
Speaker 1: She never We often run out in our household, and
Speaker 1: that's because there's two kids and a Matthew Johnson who
Speaker 1: uses a lot of squares.
Speaker 3: But that is not what I was going to update
Speaker 3: you on.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when you're at my house I did
Speaker 1: that little milky feet treatment.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Laura was walking around the house with two
Speaker 4: glad bags full of sou silic acid on her feet.
Speaker 3: It was disgusting. She was trying to melt her feet off.
Speaker 1: You know why because someone said she could make some
Speaker 1: cash only.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about starting an only fans my feet so as.
Speaker 3: Trying to like milk milk.
Speaker 2: The jewelry business that bad at the moment.
Speaker 1: Look, times are tough in retail. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: it has not been a good year.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I was like gonna make my feet or silky and smooth,
Speaker 1: and I just want it on the record. It was
Speaker 1: the worst decision I have ever made. Do not do
Speaker 1: milky feet, because all it's done is make my feet
Speaker 1: so unbelievably dry but not dry enough to peel.
Speaker 3: Hold hold your feet up, No, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hold it up. Hold that hook
Speaker 2: for it up.
Speaker 3: Even you gotta scab it a band it.
Speaker 1: No one's paying you to see those feets.
Speaker 4: It looks like five miniweeds have been taped to the
Speaker 4: sole of your foot.
Speaker 2: Dry little toy.
Speaker 3: It actually hurts.
Speaker 2: They've split and now they've been bleeding.
Speaker 3: And I'm so toughed. He She's like, I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: the best feet, not a bundle.
Speaker 2: You're a public figure. How can you do this to yourself?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was trying to save some money. Like I said,
Speaker 1: it's been a bad retail year.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, listen, hopefully I can put your feet
Speaker 4: out in misery because I have a tactic to get
Speaker 4: us to only work four days.
Speaker 3: Is it my only feet?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going to show our boss photos of you're
Speaker 4: on toes and he's going to make us all redundant.
Speaker 2: No, no, but the four day work week.
Speaker 4: Science has backed it to a point of it being
Speaker 4: the best way to increase productivity. And I'm going to
Speaker 4: call our boss next because I've got a picture him.
Speaker 4: We'll do it on the way. You're at the pickup. Oh,
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Speaker 4: Laura and Mitch here or thanks to Chemists Warehouse. Why
Speaker 4: don't your head in today? You get great savings every
Speaker 4: day now here at the pickup. It's a great, fantastic
Speaker 4: show adored by the nation. I'm just reading the press
Speaker 4: that's in front of me, my.
Speaker 3: Wee headlines every day.
Speaker 4: True. Now we are on air every day. We're on
Speaker 4: air three to four Monday to Friday. But I think
Speaker 4: that could change because new studies out of Australia are
Speaker 4: saying that companies in Australia that trialed four day work
Speaker 4: weeks haven't looked back. So ten Australian businesses who were
Speaker 4: trialing the four day work week, all ten have said
Speaker 4: we love the four day work week.
Speaker 2: Can you believe that? Yes?
Speaker 1: I mean it's not shocking, No, I can't believe it
Speaker 1: because so many people And I was guilty of this
Speaker 1: when I worked to you know, it was ninety five.
Speaker 2: It was an eight until six job.
Speaker 1: But I used to probably work at about thirty percent productivity.
Speaker 3: I reckon i'd walk in.
Speaker 1: There, I would have Facebook minimized down in the corner.
Speaker 1: And yes, I was in the office, but I was
Speaker 1: working at like half blast.
Speaker 2: Well here's the thing.
Speaker 4: The interesting part is despite all the reduced working hours,
Speaker 4: only four days seventy percent experience and increase in productivity,
Speaker 4: while the other thirty percent said productivity just remained the same.
Speaker 2: So there's no loss at all.
Speaker 1: How do we, as a live radio show decrease our productivity?
Speaker 3: Were like, we're tapping out now, fifteen minutes early.
Speaker 2: I've thought about it. Ai.
Speaker 4: Between the three of us, we have given the world
Speaker 4: enough words to create a radio show with AA every Friday,
Speaker 4: and people won't even.
Speaker 2: Know eyes out of a job.
Speaker 1: No, But I also don't know if that's how this works.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's about not doing your job anymore
Speaker 1: and getting robots to do it. I think it's more
Speaker 1: about the fact that people work at such a like
Speaker 1: a pathetic capacity.
Speaker 3: That they could just take a day off and still
Speaker 3: get as much work done.
Speaker 1: If everyone else gets to decrease their workload to eighty percent,
Speaker 1: maybe we should try to as well.
Speaker 2: Why don't we call our boss. I'm sure he's gonna
Speaker 2: love this, Tony. He's the boss of the radio station.
Speaker 4: And what just the three of us will put our
Speaker 4: high of mind together and pitch a four day work week,
Speaker 4: no pick up on Friday.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna go down well. But I also think, look,
Speaker 3: the stats are there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's universities who are doing the studies, and if
Speaker 1: it's good enough for these ten businesses, it should be
Speaker 1: good enough right here.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm gonna play good copt your bad cop. Sorry,
Speaker 4: by default I've died, so I've done a bad cop.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't laugh like that, Tony.
Speaker 1: It's your favorite show, Tony, the man that mid the legend,
Speaker 1: the best boss that there ever was.
Speaker 2: High Afternoon?
Speaker 1: Oh God, what do you want?
Speaker 4: As you know, it's it's the afternoon, so we are
Speaker 4: on air. We just want to let you know that
Speaker 4: we're on air, but we have a little pitch for
Speaker 4: you for the show.
Speaker 1: Look, there has been some studies that have happened across
Speaker 1: the nation. And now have you heard of the four
Speaker 1: day work week?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Of course, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So it's been proven now that a four day work
Speaker 1: week is just as productive as a five day work week,
Speaker 1: and we think that it's something that we should trial
Speaker 1: to pick up.
Speaker 5: What industries have said that it's productive.
Speaker 1: Well, look ten Australian businesses. It doesn't exactly specify the industry.
Speaker 5: So are you saying to me, you're gonna give me
Speaker 5: every reason under the sun why you should do a
Speaker 5: four day working week.
Speaker 3: Well, we think what we could do.
Speaker 1: We could just extend Thursdays to an extra hour and
Speaker 1: take the Friday off. It'd be better for everyone, have
Speaker 1: a little little rest. We'll come in on Monday. We'll
Speaker 1: feel great, refreshed and ready for the three pm.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll take over a Will and Woody show on
Speaker 4: a Thursday. Perfect, and then they get a four day
Speaker 4: work week.
Speaker 5: Two Ah, okay, okay, right here we go. Here's a
Speaker 5: question for you. When you do your radio show. Who
Speaker 5: am giving it three o'clock to four o'clock? Who dominantly listens?
Speaker 1: Mum's in cars really small everyone across the stra.
Speaker 2: They're going to school to pick up the kids. Yeah,
Speaker 2: to pick up the kids.
Speaker 5: So with that in mind, when are schools on you, I'm.
Speaker 2: Going to stop you in your tracks because I know
Speaker 2: where you're going with this. Yeah, yeah, give him time.
Speaker 3: Listen, Tony, listener, we.
Speaker 1: Knew you were going to say this, so we've we've
Speaker 1: thought of a way around this.
Speaker 3: What we're going to do is.
Speaker 1: An extra fifteen minutes a day at the end of
Speaker 1: the show and on a Friday, we're going to run
Speaker 1: a highlights. We would never leave the people without it.
Speaker 2: The best of the best, so much to choose.
Speaker 5: You feel as though you're not cheating your listeners on
Speaker 5: a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 3: Because we're only giving them. We're giving them the best bits.
Speaker 3: They're gonna love that. If anything, we're giving more.
Speaker 2: Not all heroes wear capes, Tony, Yeah, but we are.
Speaker 3: So does that mean we're going to trial it?
Speaker 2: I'll pitch you. I'll put it in a different way.
Speaker 5: What if I was to say yes, but it's a Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Fine wet in writing and I want an Infriends pays
Speaker 1: ten twenty more.
Speaker 2: Thank you, boss, Tony.
Speaker 3: Hang up on him before he changes his We are
Speaker 3: not doing this. I love coming up three pms. My
Speaker 3: favorite time of day.
Speaker 1: I love being home in the spot to kiss, but
Speaker 1: I'm not kissing Tony's butt. I just love doing the
Speaker 1: radio show with you, guys.
Speaker 3: I love you.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: Anyway, we might have just lost our jobs.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, guys, guys, Will and Woody
Speaker 5: is my favorite show.
Speaker 2: By the way, told you.
Speaker 3: Still do the Wednesday. Tony is such a buck.
Speaker 4: Kit h outside the studio, so we need to We've
Speaker 4: got a meeting. I think let's get out of here.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: I've got a bone to pick with Laura, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to do it here where it's on a national platform. Okay,
Speaker 1: she stole something from my house and I know.
Speaker 3: I didn't you. I asked you and I took me
Speaker 3: and it was mine.
Speaker 2: Argue with me in the court of law after the break.
Speaker 2: It is a pick up around Australia, Britt, Laura and Mitch.
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Speaker 1: I have a bone to pick with my good friend,
Speaker 1: my my work wife, Laura Burn.
Speaker 2: God, I that could have gone either way.
Speaker 3: It was a real fifty to fifty split, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: No, But I'm gonna need an unbiased opinion from you, Mitch,
Speaker 1: to set all this debate.
Speaker 3: Okay, I've done.
Speaker 2: Now, So is this a criminals? Do we need to
Speaker 2: go full? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What could I have possibly done to you? So to
Speaker 3: set this.
Speaker 1: Up, I Brittany moved into Laura's old house. So Laura
Speaker 1: and her partner Maddie Jay lived in an apartment. They
Speaker 1: moved into a bigger house and it was perfect for
Speaker 1: me because I'm perpetually alone. So I moved into the house.
Speaker 1: But when Laura moved out, it was all very chaotic.
Speaker 1: She had the two little kids and she had a
Speaker 1: three legged dog. She was moving herself out and all
Speaker 1: the shit. So there was some stuff that she left behind.
Speaker 1: I had a mural of chalk on all the outside
Speaker 1: walls that her kids had done. Anyway, irrelevant, she didn't
Speaker 1: wash the walls, Auntie, Brittany, they drew especially four years
Speaker 1: someone grateful and did not. So there was this one
Speaker 1: particular plant, right, There was quite a lot of plans,
Speaker 1: but there was one particular plant that was almost dead.
Speaker 3: It was on his last legs.
Speaker 1: Over the last two years, I have been in this
Speaker 1: house for two years, right, and I have nursed this
Speaker 1: plant back to life.
Speaker 2: I've got a lot of plants in your backyard.
Speaker 3: They're all dead. They are not it's in jungle. I
Speaker 3: had bought plant healthcare for it. It's exactly what it
Speaker 3: sounds like.
Speaker 4: And no embellishing, please in my court, and you hold
Speaker 4: your Laura.
Speaker 1: So I brought it back to life right, and it
Speaker 1: does look great now. And see this little pot well
Speaker 1: do sitting out on the yard. So Laura came over
Speaker 1: on the weekend and as she was to do some work,
Speaker 1: and as she was leaving like a hawk, she spotted
Speaker 1: the plant for two years and she goes, oh, that
Speaker 1: looks good.
Speaker 3: She's like, that's actually mine.
Speaker 2: I'm going to take that.
Speaker 1: So she picked it up and I was like, Laura,
Speaker 1: you gave that to me two yars ago. One was
Speaker 1: dead and now she goes, it's mine, it's meaningful, and
Speaker 1: she took it. Absolutely not how this happened. And I
Speaker 1: feel like I am being framed and it's untrue to
Speaker 1: know it's all incorrect. The plant your side, It was
Speaker 1: into my garden. Okay, Britt doesn't take care of plants.
Speaker 1: She doesn't know how to take care of a plant.
Speaker 1: Plant in her house is either plastic, if it's alive,
Speaker 1: or it is at several different degrees of decaying and dead.
Speaker 1: You had your chance to speak their very first birthday.
Speaker 1: That was my husband's birthday when we first started dating.
Speaker 1: I bought him this plant. It used to sit in
Speaker 1: our bathroom. It's a succulent and it died because it
Speaker 1: didn't get enough light. It was dead in a plastic
Speaker 1: pot and it was put into the garden. Anyway, as
Speaker 1: I was leaving BRIT's house. The plant has not been
Speaker 1: tended to. No one has watered it or taken care
Speaker 1: of The thing was still exactly in the spot in
Speaker 1: the plastic pot where I left it when it was
Speaker 1: dead when I moved out, and it has sprung new
Speaker 1: little leaves. I will post a picture of this on
Speaker 1: the pickup, but it is not a beautiful plant.
Speaker 2: But why did you? Did you take it or did
Speaker 2: you leave?
Speaker 1: And I said, this is the plant that I bought
Speaker 1: Matt for his birthday seven years ago. Do you mind
Speaker 1: if I take this? And Britt didn't answer, and I
Speaker 1: took that as a yes. So I took it home
Speaker 1: and I've planted it in the backyard where it rightfully
Speaker 1: belongs and it's family home.
Speaker 2: Wait, so it's out of the plant and she can't
Speaker 2: even get it back.
Speaker 3: No, the in the garden.
Speaker 1: If it was so important to you, why did you
Speaker 1: leave it?
Speaker 2: Because it was dead? Now it's back to life and for.
Speaker 1: Two years I've nursed your back to Mitch. My question is, yes,
Speaker 1: can you take back something you've given someone that was.
Speaker 2: In the garden. I don't think that's ever going back.
Speaker 3: I judge you have to.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm presiding. I think it is a dog act
Speaker 4: from you, Laura. I think it was a gift given
Speaker 4: to britt and six months after if you had thought, God,
Speaker 4: I miss Maddie's little succulent so to speak. Sorry, that's
Speaker 4: that's what I meant. I think with the six months
Speaker 4: you could have. But two years later, Brittain has formed
Speaker 4: a bond and I ruled that plant to be dug up,
Speaker 4: embalmed and given back to brit in that court.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to take a photo of the plant.
Speaker 1: Please go to the pickup socials so you can see
Speaker 1: the weed that Brittany is saying she knows back to life.
Speaker 1: It is still half dead. Do you even want to
Speaker 1: It's no part of brit that wants this plant.
Speaker 2: It's a lie.
Speaker 1: It's the principle. I cannot wait to post this photo.
Speaker 1: Please go and look at it on the pick up right.
Speaker 2: Also post photos of Mattie ssuculent. All right, well we
Speaker 2: are back after this.
Speaker 4: I'm a pickup. He hates the pick up right around the country. Britt,
Speaker 4: Laura and Mitch here thanks to Chemists Warehouse.
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Speaker 1: I had something so scary happened to me this morning
Speaker 1: and it has rocked me all day. So I was
Speaker 1: on my way taking the girls to daycare and I
Speaker 1: was driving past. It's probably about four hundred meters from
Speaker 1: where the local primary school is. And as I was
Speaker 1: driving down, it was just before morning drop offs. Now
Speaker 1: this was just before the area where it turned forty,
Speaker 1: so we were still a little bit from the school,
Speaker 1: but not too far. And as I was kind of
Speaker 1: driving in, there's one area where there's a pedestrian crossing
Speaker 1: and this little boy, he would have only been maybe
Speaker 1: in year one, maybe year two, he ran out right
Speaker 1: in front of the car to cross the road and
Speaker 1: it was so close to hitting him. Close you were driving,
Speaker 1: I was driving, I had the two girls in the car.
Speaker 1: I don't even think that this little kid realized how
Speaker 1: dangerous that could have been. And you know, when someone
Speaker 1: crosses the road like fifteen meters in front of where
Speaker 1: the pedestrian crossing is, so you're not you're not thinking
Speaker 1: about slowing down until you get to the pedestrian crossing.
Speaker 1: So it was just this like it could have been
Speaker 1: oh my god, I can't even think about it could
Speaker 1: have been so bad.
Speaker 3: But it got me thinking.
Speaker 1: I was like, this little kid was too young, I
Speaker 1: would say, to be walking to school by himself. And
Speaker 1: maybe he got the bus and he got off or
Speaker 1: stop early, who knows exactly. But I'm like, what age
Speaker 1: is it where it becomes appropriate to let your kids
Speaker 1: walk to school? Because I saw this and I was like,
Speaker 1: surely year one, year two, surely.
Speaker 3: He was too young.
Speaker 1: Surely he was too little to be on his own
Speaker 1: and not have someone escorting.
Speaker 2: All the way to the game. I think he won
Speaker 2: year too.
Speaker 4: It's way too young to walk to school, not even
Speaker 4: for it, not even for a car hitting situation, but
Speaker 4: just safety and stranger dangerous.
Speaker 2: Too young.
Speaker 1: What if maybe his parents or they lived up the road,
Speaker 1: like maybe it was only a couple of blocks. You know,
Speaker 1: I was talking to school from like kindergarten. But that
Speaker 1: was with my older brothers and sisters. Sorry, my sister's younger,
Speaker 1: so my older brothers who are three years older than me, so.
Speaker 3: They're still pretty young.
Speaker 1: It was also important Macquarie not the city, which makes
Speaker 1: a big difference. It's not the traffic and the hecticness
Speaker 1: that the city is. And we didn't live an hour away, like,
Speaker 1: we lived quite close to the school, so we I
Speaker 1: was fine.
Speaker 2: I always walked to them from school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the same, like I was the same
Speaker 1: when I was little, Like you know, we kind of
Speaker 1: we walked from where the bus stop stopped, and it
Speaker 1: stopped quite far from the school. But then I wondered,
Speaker 1: was that just normal when we were kids and now
Speaker 1: we have to be a lot more protective or like
Speaker 1: where does the line sit now for parents who have
Speaker 1: young children? And I think it must be such a
Speaker 1: hard thing to make a decision about because on one hand,
Speaker 1: you've also got to think about safety, like you know,
Speaker 1: kids being unsafe as in, like you know, you hear
Speaker 1: horrible things about kids getting abducted and whatnot, and then
Speaker 1: all those thoughts go through your mind. But I'd never
Speaker 1: really considered the safety around like just getting hit by
Speaker 1: a car.
Speaker 2: Like I kind of think that.
Speaker 1: Kids that are old enough to walk to school would
Speaker 1: have enough road sense about them that they wouldn't be
Speaker 1: in danger for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But then at the end of the day, I guess
Speaker 1: you can drill something into a kid as much as
Speaker 1: you possibly can.
Speaker 3: They still are.
Speaker 1: Kids, and their brain functioning is still learning, they're still growing,
Speaker 1: so they're still gonna make silly mistakes.
Speaker 4: You know what my mom did grown up. I remember
Speaker 4: it was like year four, year five. You're six, So
Speaker 4: how old would i've been? Eight, seven, seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 4: six twelve? See, okay, so maybe even a bit older
Speaker 4: maybee nine or ten. My mum would walk me to school,
Speaker 4: and she'd get lot some of the kids that lived
Speaker 4: in the neighborhood to walk with us, and she'd organize
Speaker 4: a group and sometimes some of the other mums that
Speaker 4: lead the group, and then like day by day, she'd
Speaker 4: start leaving and it would just be the kids. But
Speaker 4: we had the group of kids, so we were all together.
Speaker 4: All the neighbors could walk together. It was never alone.
Speaker 4: It was never two kids.
Speaker 2: That was a pack.
Speaker 4: And then you kind of have that herd mentality you
Speaker 4: look out for each other and you're bigger, safer in
Speaker 4: a pack.
Speaker 2: I like as well, yeah, yeah, I do like that.
Speaker 2: Well there.
Speaker 1: I did do a bit of research into this because
Speaker 1: it's something that kind of rocked me this morning. So
Speaker 1: Patty Fitzgerald, she's a child safety expert, and now she
Speaker 1: kind of says, anything under the age of ten is
Speaker 1: just too young to be.
Speaker 3: Doing it on their own.
Speaker 1: But also you've got to think about the size of
Speaker 1: your child, like do you have a particularly tall kid,
Speaker 1: because a tall child is going to be far more
Speaker 1: visible to drivers than if your child is really little
Speaker 1: who might go unseen, you know. And this little boy
Speaker 1: was just in my blind spot. Maybe he was older,
Speaker 1: but he was small. But there is also some research
Speaker 1: that's come out of Finland that says that if you're
Speaker 1: able to let your kids walk to school, it builds
Speaker 1: this sense of confidence in them and really helps them
Speaker 1: in terms of their academia at school. It makes them
Speaker 1: smarter because.
Speaker 3: They because.
Speaker 2: That's what makes sense.
Speaker 1: It makes sense because they had this sense of purpose.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I feel like it's a really hard
Speaker 1: one and I think my kids are too young to
Speaker 1: have to worry about this yet to Molly'll be starting
Speaker 1: school in a year, and I think, like, when is
Speaker 1: that line? And how does a parent know what feels
Speaker 1: comfortable for their kids?
Speaker 4: I think you made a great point, T Grimshort, Sorry,
Speaker 4: just do you think that was very a current affair?
Speaker 5: It was?
Speaker 3: And also all the great research of the world comes
Speaker 3: out of Finland.
Speaker 5: Why is that?
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm traumatized by this morning. So of course,
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