Speaker 1: Are the pickup with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn.
Speaker 2: Brady, your work, our windows done, my world risen the
Speaker 2: dust only good Babs all I've don't march, but yeah,
Speaker 2: our big get and what our it don't mattle?
Speaker 3: Where this is the pickup?
Speaker 4: Happy Monday afternoon everybody, It is the pickup with Britt
Speaker 4: Hockey and Laura Burn.
Speaker 3: What did you forget?
Speaker 5: Who?
Speaker 6: We worked?
Speaker 3: For a second. I was like to pick up with
Speaker 3: what's your name again? That's my name?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 1: I had the time of my life this past weekend.
Speaker 3: The F one was on. In case you guys missed it,
Speaker 3: I know it's been everywhere, like.
Speaker 1: On socials, on sports channels, on the news, like it's
Speaker 1: all we've been talking about.
Speaker 3: In Australia.
Speaker 1: Well, they had the record numbers this year to the
Speaker 1: F one in Melbourne, nearly half a million people.
Speaker 3: Crazy.
Speaker 4: Well we were two of those people that were there.
Speaker 4: We had very different experiences.
Speaker 1: Britt was in the Red Bull tan getting whined and dyed,
Speaker 1: and I had.
Speaker 4: My kids and I was on a ferris wheel, so different.
Speaker 4: We had pole opposite weekends. Both were great.
Speaker 1: I did get this money can't buy experience where the
Speaker 1: head of Australian Red Bull said, Hey, do you want
Speaker 1: to go into the garage And this is where Max
Speaker 1: Verstappen was going to be coming in and out and
Speaker 1: doing the tire changes and all that cool stuff. And
Speaker 1: Max is like a four times world champion and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, my actual.
Speaker 3: Boy and just be a flying on the war in
Speaker 3: the garage. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So essentially I reckon I could be an F one
Speaker 1: mechanic right now.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Really but it was it was incredible.
Speaker 4: Well, the views from the Fairest we were really good,
Speaker 4: brit Okay, I could see the whole race course from
Speaker 4: up there.
Speaker 3: Kids changes a lot, it really does. We did.
Speaker 4: Actually, I had a really cute moment as well. We
Speaker 4: took Marley and my oldest daughter to go and see
Speaker 4: Tones and I it was the very first concept that
Speaker 4: she's ever been to and it was she went to
Speaker 4: the Wingles No. But it was the first adult concept
Speaker 4: of like a you know, an adult pop star and
Speaker 4: it was really special. It was like a real kind
Speaker 4: of milestone moment, I think, and like a real core
Speaker 4: memory for her that she got to go and see
Speaker 4: her favorite artists and sing.
Speaker 3: Along to those songs. It was cool. It was very cute. Well,
Speaker 3: let's get into the show.
Speaker 1: Just when you think maths Married at First Site can't
Speaker 1: get any worse, it does.
Speaker 3: It shuts us up real quick and it's.
Speaker 1: Like, hey, you thought we were already cooked, We're about
Speaker 1: to be more cooked.
Speaker 3: There are all these rumors going around.
Speaker 1: Now this hasn't happened on the show, but everyone's talking
Speaker 1: about them. It's been released by a quote unquote insider
Speaker 1: that there's the biggest twist to ever happen on Married
Speaker 1: at First Site.
Speaker 3: It's never happened before. So what it is. It's a new.
Speaker 1: Challenge called is the Grass Always Greener? And what they
Speaker 1: do is they've given all of the maps contestants who
Speaker 1: are now they're so deep in the show, they're with
Speaker 1: their partners. They give them an envelope that has their
Speaker 1: backup spouse on it and they say, this is the
Speaker 1: person you are almost matched with. Do you want to
Speaker 1: see it? Do you want to meet this person? And
Speaker 1: they're asking them this question in a private room, so
Speaker 1: their partners don't know if they decide to meet them
Speaker 1: or not. So you don't know if your partner has
Speaker 1: said yes to meeting theirs. You don't know if you
Speaker 1: should say no to maintain your relationship integrity, or you
Speaker 1: don't know if you should say hey, should I just
Speaker 1: say yes? In case my partner says yes, I saw this.
Speaker 4: And also that's said that this has been the undoing
Speaker 4: of so many relationships, so obviously a lot of people
Speaker 4: have opened the envelope to check. We disagree, but I
Speaker 4: have strong feelings about this. If you have made the
Speaker 4: commitment to be in this relationship, if you are riding
Speaker 4: stay on that couch every day and someone hands you
Speaker 4: an envelope that says here could be a better match
Speaker 4: for you and you open it, you are clearly not
Speaker 4: that invested with your partner, And if you choose to
Speaker 4: open it, it is either you don't have a very
Speaker 4: high emotional EQ or secondly, it's a pretty clear indication
Speaker 4: about how that person feels about your relationship. So if
Speaker 4: your partner's going to open that envelope, I would be
Speaker 4: riding leave the next time I'm on the couch.
Speaker 1: Maths does not scream invest it. This show is a
Speaker 1: train wreck. It is not like The Bachelor or these
Speaker 1: other really wholesome dating shows. This show is constantly challenging relationships.
Speaker 1: I think firstly, this shouldn't even be a challenge. It's
Speaker 1: setting them up for failure. It's like Maps is saying,
Speaker 1: we genuinely do not want successful couples. But what I
Speaker 1: will say is I'd be pretty damn curious if I
Speaker 1: was on a show like this.
Speaker 3: Pretend that I am the.
Speaker 1: Really genuine person, right, I genuinely want to find love
Speaker 1: on it. You're two months in, You're with a partner
Speaker 1: who seems to be fine, they're great, you get along.
Speaker 1: If somebody came to me three experts and said, hey,
Speaker 1: we put so much time and effort into trying to
Speaker 1: find your soulmate in your perfect match. This is the
Speaker 1: person that we thought was pretty close but almost might not.
Speaker 3: Have made it. I'm going to tell you I'd be curious.
Speaker 3: I know you'd be curious.
Speaker 4: But my thing is is I don't think that you
Speaker 4: can blame the experiment for putting these types of obstacles
Speaker 4: in place that people are failing. So no, because the
Speaker 4: reality is you've got to take some personal responsibility. If
Speaker 4: you open that envelope, you have to know that it's
Speaker 4: going to hurt your partner. You have to know that
Speaker 4: when your partner finds out that the curiosity of finding
Speaker 4: out who was better than them is going to hurt
Speaker 4: their feelings and that maybe they weren't to.
Speaker 3: Be with you anymore.
Speaker 4: So for me, I'm like, you can blame it on
Speaker 4: the experiment throwing spanners at you, but life is gonna
Speaker 4: throw temptation at you at every point.
Speaker 1: It's different because in real life is the grass always greener?
Speaker 1: Means there could be someone walking down the street that
Speaker 1: you're like, well, they're hot. There could be someone online
Speaker 1: on Instagram, the post bikini photos, they're the temptations. This
Speaker 1: is different. These are three professionals that are saying they
Speaker 1: scoured Australia.
Speaker 3: To find your perfect match.
Speaker 1: So if you are genuinely like, oh I really want
Speaker 1: to find love, they come to you dangling n Carrott
Speaker 1: saying this could literally be your soulmate because we put
Speaker 1: so much of our resources, time and energy into it.
Speaker 3: As if you're not going to be like, oh what
Speaker 3: if they're the more most perfect person for me?
Speaker 4: Yeah, totally, But also brute, keep in mind it was
Speaker 4: the second choice.
Speaker 3: It was the person that.
Speaker 4: They thought was the backup to the person that they
Speaker 4: thought was perfect.
Speaker 1: Yes, but these contestants know the people that they have
Speaker 1: chosen are to make a TV show.
Speaker 3: The people that are chosen by maths, we all know
Speaker 3: when they feel the person in that envelope is to
Speaker 3: make a TV show.
Speaker 1: But the reason he wasn't chosen or she wasn't chosen
Speaker 1: he's probably too normal and they weren't.
Speaker 3: Going to cause enough.
Speaker 1: No, you know how reality TV were now they cast
Speaker 1: for drama.
Speaker 4: I think about this from my own experience, and maybe
Speaker 4: the reason why I kind of feel more strongly about
Speaker 4: it is because, you know, doing The Bachelor and meeting
Speaker 4: my husband on that show, I know that sometimes it
Speaker 4: does work out right, like we are a rare success story,
Speaker 4: but it did happen. I imagine if I had gotten
Speaker 4: three quarters of the way through the experiment of The Bachelor,
Speaker 4: if they had come to me and said, hey, do
Speaker 4: you know what. You're still competing against five other girls
Speaker 4: at the moment, but we have another guy who we
Speaker 4: think could be perfect for you.
Speaker 3: Do you want to meet him?
Speaker 4: There's no way I would have said yes to meeting him,
Speaker 4: because I was so sure that there was something special
Speaker 4: about my relationship with Matt that I wouldn't have jeopardized it.
Speaker 4: Because they don't think the grass is greener and so
Speaker 4: I think for me, when I see this, it is
Speaker 4: a really clear indication as to where these couple stand
Speaker 4: and whether they're going to make it in the real
Speaker 4: world or not. It's just fast track them to the
Speaker 4: breakup that was clearly inevitable.
Speaker 3: I so disagree. Anyway, we got to get out of it.
Speaker 3: I'm opening the envelope.
Speaker 4: Soz if I'm on Maths and you're getting broken up
Speaker 4: with your single for ten years on the Bachelor, I
Speaker 4: couldn't even get it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm time a hundred pcent open in the envelope.
Speaker 3: Luckily I'm getting married anyway.
Speaker 4: Can I tell you, Britt having children, they're a real liability.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's a weekly conversation with the art they are.
Speaker 4: And also they are very expensive, but not for the
Speaker 4: reasons that you might think.
Speaker 3: Like obviously, people are like, okay, school fees and putting clothes.
Speaker 4: On their back and feeding them, you know, keeping them alive,
Speaker 4: doing extracurricular activities, like all.
Speaker 3: That stuff's expensive.
Speaker 4: The thing that you don't think about is how much
Speaker 4: money you spend on the stuff that they lose.
Speaker 3: Now, something happened on the weekend we were away.
Speaker 4: My husband and I we went away to the Formula
Speaker 4: one and we were staying at a lovely hotel, and
Speaker 4: we decided that we would take the girls. Now Matt
Speaker 4: when he sleeps here, because my husband wears like quite
Speaker 4: a bit of jewelry. So he wears his cuffs, he.
Speaker 3: Has dark necklaces, he's got his big diamonds.
Speaker 4: No, but he's got jewelry that he wears, and he
Speaker 4: would take it off at nighttime and he puts it
Speaker 4: beside the bed usually, And it was the night before
Speaker 4: we were going to check out, so he took off
Speaker 4: all his jewelry, put it up beside the bed. We
Speaker 4: got up in the morning, we went for breakfast. We
Speaker 4: decided we'd have a little swim before we checked out.
Speaker 4: And now checkout time was at ten am, So about
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes before we have to check out, Matt goes
Speaker 4: over to the side table.
Speaker 3: To put on his jewelry and everything's there.
Speaker 4: He's putting it on, and then he realizes that one
Speaker 4: thing's missing.
Speaker 3: The wedding ring. His wedding ring. Oh my god. He
Speaker 3: couldn't have been like the chain with the cross on.
Speaker 3: It couldn't have been anything else. But no, my children
Speaker 3: are attracted to diamonds. They're like little bower birds.
Speaker 4: So he's like, oh my god, my wedding ring's not here.
Speaker 4: And firstly he thinks did the cleaner take it? Like
Speaker 4: that's crazy, So that was his first thought, not the
Speaker 4: three and four year old.
Speaker 3: And then he turned around.
Speaker 4: He looked at my children five and four, mind you,
Speaker 4: so they should know better.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and he was like, oh my.
Speaker 4: God, Marley May and we sat them down and he
Speaker 4: did this like kind interrogation and he was like, hey,
Speaker 4: did either of you pick up daddy's ring?
Speaker 3: And Mary was like, Lola did it?
Speaker 4: Her number one at the moment is to blame everything
Speaker 4: on her sister, even though she is one hundred percent complicit.
Speaker 1: No, Marley at five, wouldn't she She did?
Speaker 4: So Marley took the ring, gave it to her sister.
Speaker 4: Her sister is four. Lola, you cannot get any right
Speaker 4: rhyme or reason out of that kid. She will not
Speaker 4: tell you the truth. She won't tell you what she's
Speaker 4: done with it. She was just like, well, I don't know.
Speaker 4: And then we were like, hey, Lola, where did you
Speaker 4: put it?
Speaker 3: She was like, well, I don't know, but she knew
Speaker 3: she'd had it. She just could not remember what she'd
Speaker 3: done with it. Anyway.
Speaker 4: We walked out to the bed and she was like,
Speaker 4: I was just playing with it around here, guys, like around.
Speaker 3: This general area.
Speaker 4: We had to check out in fifteen minutes. We checked
Speaker 4: out two and a half hours late because we spent
Speaker 4: two and a half hours ripping the bedroom apart trying
Speaker 4: to find Matt's wedding ring.
Speaker 3: Where was it?
Speaker 4: We eventually found it and it was just by absolute
Speaker 4: stroke of luck. So I totally stripped the bed of everything,
Speaker 4: and Matt was like, I'm just going to put the
Speaker 4: mattress up off the bed. So he pulled the mattress
Speaker 4: up and it had fallen down between the mattress and
Speaker 4: the BedHead and there it was just slotted down there
Speaker 4: like it had fallen into.
Speaker 3: Like a little money slot. His wedding ring. Thank god
Speaker 3: we found it. It's probably not sure either, knowing you,
Speaker 3: of course not. That's not sure.
Speaker 4: But I want to know, Okay, have your kids lost
Speaker 4: something that was very important to you, because this stuff
Speaker 4: happens way more than what you would think. We've got
Speaker 4: Tom on the line, Tom, what did your kids lose?
Speaker 6: My little three year old daughter lost my passport two
Speaker 6: days before I had to fly out to my brother's
Speaker 6: wedding in London.
Speaker 3: Oh, like, god, where did she put it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: But like what happened it? Was it gone completely? Or
Speaker 4: did you find it somewhere?
Speaker 6: We managed to miraculously find it. We tore the house
Speaker 6: to pieces and found that she had buried it in
Speaker 6: a board game box in one of our culins. I
Speaker 6: don't know how we managed to find it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why would you even think to go through that?
Speaker 6: Once we found it, it had also been completely graffiti.
Speaker 1: Oh so, hang on, did you get to your brother's wedding?
Speaker 6: We did just luckily she used text over the face part,
Speaker 6: but that came off really well, and there was all
Speaker 6: pen through the rest of it. But that didn't matter
Speaker 6: as much.
Speaker 3: I didn't see she literally drew in your face.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so it was crazy And yeah, we realized that
Speaker 6: she basically found it, graffeeded it, and then went to
Speaker 6: bury the evidence so that when she went and hit
Speaker 6: it into the board game and even.
Speaker 4: At three, they know what they're doing. She was like,
Speaker 4: I need I need to hire the evidence. I've got
Speaker 4: to put it somewhere there. Mum and dad will never
Speaker 4: find it, and then I'll deny everything. They know they're smart.
Speaker 4: Thanks Tom, Mikayla, Hi Mikayla, What did your kids lose?
Speaker 5: My three year old misplaced my keys inside a bag
Speaker 5: of stuff toys inside of Salvos. No, it took an
Speaker 5: entire three hours and the entire store of workers and
Speaker 5: other random shoppers helping out because nothing is in order
Speaker 5: in a Salvo so to try and find it, I
Speaker 5: had no idea. I could not leave the store without
Speaker 5: my car keys. How did show that they were found?
Speaker 5: But it took half a day.
Speaker 1: How did you know that she'd put it into the
Speaker 1: Savo's bag? Like, how did you know that it was
Speaker 1: in there? Or did you just just take it a punt?
Speaker 5: I was delivering good so my hands were full walking
Speaker 5: into the store, So for some silly reason, I decided
Speaker 5: to let her carry the keys and then she walked
Speaker 5: around and put them in a bag.
Speaker 3: You're so lucky you got those back.
Speaker 5: So I was left in the store going where are
Speaker 5: my keys? Where are my keys? Trying to not have
Speaker 5: a melt down at her while she was going I
Speaker 5: don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Why do they have like two second memories? She did know?
Speaker 3: They know becaule. Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: Question, do you think it's okay to fake a proposal
Speaker 1: in a restaurant purely in hopes of getting like free
Speaker 1: drinks or a free dessert or something like that.
Speaker 3: I think it's ballsy.
Speaker 4: I don't hate it, though, because everybody has been at
Speaker 4: a dinner table where someone's faked birthday or faked some
Speaker 4: sort of celebration to try and get maybe free cake,
Speaker 4: maybe free little slice and cake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but also not a wedding. Okay, hang on, let
Speaker 3: me just set this up.
Speaker 1: There's a couple going viral online at the moment for
Speaker 1: going on a holiday to Honolulu, and they were they
Speaker 1: were in this beautiful restaurant, like, it's stunning.
Speaker 3: It's got a really nice ambience. One might say it's
Speaker 3: the perfect place to propose.
Speaker 1: No, I'd be devoted if I got proposed there, I'd
Speaker 1: be shouted. I don't want to get proposed in that restaurant.
Speaker 3: Pure such hard work.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry if you propose to me in this restaurant
Speaker 1: in front of a hundred people over my cordon bleu. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not frobbing it, alleged cordon bleu. So what happened
Speaker 1: was everyone's having that beautiful meal and then the husband,
Speaker 1: oh sorry, the now fiance gets down on one knee,
Speaker 1: causes this big scene proposes to his partner.
Speaker 3: She says, oh my god. Yeah, she's ecstatic. The restaurant
Speaker 3: goes wild.
Speaker 1: They're clapping, they're so happy for them, and they get
Speaker 1: engaged in this beautiful scene.
Speaker 3: Spoiler fake.
Speaker 1: They literally posted it to their social media. My husband
Speaker 1: fake proposed to us to get free drinks last night.
Speaker 1: Luffy fas left for face. Luffy Face four hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty two thousand likes. It's going off, but it's very divisive.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people in the comments being like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is stealing from the restaurant.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't be so proud that you post this to
Speaker 3: your people.
Speaker 1: I consider this theft to seeing people is not to
Speaker 1: seeing people is not throwing it you think it is.
Speaker 4: I like that they have such a similar sense of
Speaker 4: humor that they can do this stuff and find it funny,
Speaker 4: and they're both on the same page, like, that's the
Speaker 4: funny experience that they both went to this restaurant pretended to.
Speaker 3: They got one two margaritas.
Speaker 1: Who cares when the restaurant patrons were buying them.
Speaker 3: Other people that were there were like, this is so sweet.
Speaker 1: I will spend my hard earned holiday money on this
Speaker 1: couple to celebrate their love when it was fake.
Speaker 3: Now, look, I'm the first person to put my hand up.
Speaker 3: Have I faked an anniversary or a birthday?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I have.
Speaker 3: So why do you draw the line at a proposal?
Speaker 3: Is it clear? Why does it feel more sacred?
Speaker 1: I just feel like it's too much, like it takes
Speaker 1: away from the sweet geshes of proposals all over the world,
Speaker 1: makes a mockery of marriage. Not that I'm religious, I
Speaker 1: don't know. For me, there's a line and they crossed it.
Speaker 1: For me, the line is like, if you want to drink,
Speaker 1: fake that it's your birthday, Say it's your anniversary, SA's
Speaker 1: your honeymoon?
Speaker 3: Okay? Hear me out.
Speaker 4: Though, girls will pretend to be single in bars to
Speaker 4: get drinks from guys and they're not. They're then or
Speaker 4: they pretend to be interested in men that they're not
Speaker 4: interested in to get drinks.
Speaker 3: Why is that okay? And why is that totally fine?
Speaker 4: But this couple getting two margaritas from a patron and
Speaker 4: it being like, you know, a funny moment that they shared.
Speaker 3: So outraged, I just have kinded to the patriarchy. I know.
Speaker 3: I agree it's time for us to get even.
Speaker 1: We don't even get paid the same amount. That's why
Speaker 1: men have to buy us a drink.
Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong, I'm not raging. I'm not raging
Speaker 3: about any of this.
Speaker 4: I think it's relatively harmless, and I think the amount
Speaker 4: of vitriol that they're receiving for doing it. My only
Speaker 4: thing is is like I feel like at the moment,
Speaker 4: it's more so the case that everything is content.
Speaker 3: They've captured this and put.
Speaker 4: This on their social media because they're clearly content creators.
Speaker 4: They clearly are doing stuff for engagement, and guess what,
Speaker 4: it worked.
Speaker 3: They got the engaged that they wanted.
Speaker 4: But I would dare say that a lot of people
Speaker 4: have said, you know, when they booked a restaurant, have said, oh,
Speaker 4: it's a special occasion so that they could get a
Speaker 4: nicer table, or they've faked a birthday so that they could,
Speaker 4: you know, get a free piece of cake.
Speaker 3: I don't know it. Listen to the time of backfight
Speaker 3: on me.
Speaker 1: So I was at the circusile and I thought you'd
Speaker 1: get free drinks, and my friends and I all thought
Speaker 1: you'd get free drinks if it was your birthday, because
Speaker 1: they had said we'd been told ahead that they ask
Speaker 1: people if it's their birthday. So they said, is there
Speaker 1: anyone's birthday today? And my friends all pointed to me
Speaker 1: and so I just blent in.
Speaker 3: They were like, yeah, it's her birthday.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yess my birthday, like so embarrassed,
Speaker 1: like pretending thinking that we'd all get free rounds of drinks,
Speaker 1: and instead they pulled me up on the stage and
Speaker 1: I had to do like.
Speaker 3: Circus acts and stuff instead of everyone. At the end,
Speaker 3: I was like, Wow, this would really backfight. Didn't get
Speaker 3: a drink.
Speaker 1: This is why you're dirty about it because the one
Speaker 1: time you lied, you got pulled up and had.
Speaker 4: To do some acrobats, whereas this couple got two margaritas.
Speaker 3: I had to climb a rope. That's it.
Speaker 4: That's all this comes down to. This is just like
Speaker 4: a deep set trauma.
Speaker 1: I you think, do it if you want, if it's
Speaker 1: your birthday and your anniversary, but don't take away from
Speaker 1: the magic of Propose was a marriage said.
Speaker 4: From the person who recently got proposed to who clearly
Speaker 4: feels more strongly about it.
Speaker 3: Real, real proposal, Thank you very much. All right, well
Speaker 3: look that isn't it from US today, guys,