Speaker 1: Laura, Come on, hello girls, Hello, heymach.
Speaker 2: Big week for you.
Speaker 3: Hey, it is Marti Gras Week officially.
Speaker 4: Do you know it started on the weekend though I
Speaker 4: could hear all the celebrations last weekend around my house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a big party down your way.
Speaker 1: It was officially like the two week period that we
Speaker 1: call Gay Christmas.
Speaker 5: What have you got planned for Gay Christmas?
Speaker 3: I have a lot of plans. I'm walking in the
Speaker 3: parade this year.
Speaker 2: Are you floating?
Speaker 3: I was not floating the parade?
Speaker 5: No, you walk in front of the floats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I walk behind. I think in front like a
Speaker 1: whns has it? If you get you get.
Speaker 5: Distracted in between them, you're a floating.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Correct, I'm a floating this year. This is my
Speaker 3: fourth float ever. I love them. The Marti Gras Parade
Speaker 3: for me is like God, it's so nice.
Speaker 1: My first year I ever came out, which was six
Speaker 1: years ago, I walked in the Mardi.
Speaker 3: Gras flow and it's so exciting.
Speaker 1: That's so much to me, and it means so much
Speaker 1: to like the queer community. I'm so excited to be
Speaker 1: doing it, but I'm kicking it off. The only prep
Speaker 1: I'm doing at the moment is just sitting down and
Speaker 1: watching like hours and hours of RuPaul's Drag Race.
Speaker 3: It's on stands.
Speaker 4: You should get up and walk around in circles at
Speaker 4: least while you're doing it, so you get your step
Speaker 4: can up so at least you're in the mood.
Speaker 5: But you're also getting the walk part.
Speaker 3: In preparation for the flow you because.
Speaker 2: You you are gay. I don't know if you need
Speaker 2: to prep.
Speaker 3: Why are you prepping for it? You're like you already
Speaker 3: there me, you don't need to day in my DNA.
Speaker 3: But I just like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's something about RuPaul's Drag Race and this new season
Speaker 1: as well, is like it's like, yeah, the best there is.
Speaker 1: I was texting Britta and you wore. I'm like, you
Speaker 1: girls need to watch drag Race. It's it's streaming, it's
Speaker 1: on stand you got to watch it.
Speaker 2: We've had some of the funnest nights which when you
Speaker 2: come over and we've just had Maultesus and watch drag Race.
Speaker 3: It's been I want to put Britain a wig. I
Speaker 3: think she looks so good.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with my hand?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, I don't know if she needs it?
Speaker 2: Do you need it. We'll get you to walk. Do
Speaker 2: I need a wig?
Speaker 3: We should start the show?
Speaker 2: Ye?
Speaker 1: Hey today? Oh your chance at another row of Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift tickets. We're sending you to Singapore before the end
Speaker 1: of the show. Your chance to win flight's accommodation to
Speaker 1: an entire row at the airs to in Singapore.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 4: Just when you think that the Tailor Swift thing is
Speaker 4: all over, it just keeps going and it keeps going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know it's going all over the world.
Speaker 5: She's only halfway through her tour.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: Crazy.
Speaker 3: Now we'll get you there.
Speaker 2: Hey. Speaking of love, I love love, I love love,
Speaker 2: love love so much. And in two days time, Mitch
Speaker 2: and Laura you might not be aware, but Australia you
Speaker 2: might not know. Very special day is coming up that
Speaker 2: doesn't come around very often. And it's a day. Well,
Speaker 2: finally we get a day dedicated to women.
Speaker 4: Doing something new, so abstract, and I can't wait to
Speaker 4: hear where you're going with that.
Speaker 1: Other society is like, we'll give women and the game
Speaker 1: man a day, but it's in the same week.
Speaker 2: Only one day, one day every four years, all right.
Speaker 3: It's covered up here at the pickup.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Tuesday, Mitch, Laura Australia. I want to take
Speaker 2: you back in time.
Speaker 3: Oh oh gosh, she's got a help, Laura, ye have.
Speaker 5: It's so dreamy.
Speaker 2: I want to take you back to the year twelve
Speaker 2: eighty eight, and I don't want to introduce you to
Speaker 2: Queen Margaret of Scotland. Now back in twelve we're doing
Speaker 2: a full history lesson. I came to the pickup. What
Speaker 2: bear with me? So back in twelve eighty eight. This
Speaker 2: is a love story in a weird way. In twelve Eda,
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you. In twelve eighty eight, Queen
Speaker 2: Margaret brought in a law that said, on the twenty
Speaker 2: ninth of February, which is in two days, women are
Speaker 2: allowed to propose to men, because back in the day
Speaker 2: men were only ever allowed to propose. Now, she said,
Speaker 2: the twenty ninth of feb I'm gonna let you women
Speaker 2: go out and do what you want to do. Do
Speaker 2: your thing. But the thing is twenty ninth the feb
Speaker 2: and he comes around once every four years because it's
Speaker 2: a leap year.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: The interesting thing is, so she gave women one day
Speaker 2: every four years if the woman proposed and the man
Speaker 2: said no, he had to give her like it was
Speaker 2: almost like a fine for say no, and he had
Speaker 2: to buy her like a new dress or give her
Speaker 2: a kiss, or like some sort of compensation for the
Speaker 2: embarrassment of humiliations.
Speaker 4: That's the interesting Okay, I'm sorry, but if I proposed
Speaker 4: to someone and they said no, I don't want to
Speaker 4: kiss from them in that moment, that's not the time.
Speaker 5: Give me address, thank you, I'll take that.
Speaker 3: So who was his queen? Margaret?
Speaker 2: A feminist?
Speaker 5: Clearly she was a feminist ahead of a time.
Speaker 2: Probably was feminism in its time because that was so
Speaker 2: not the dune thing for her. That was like, you
Speaker 2: know what, I'm going against the grain.
Speaker 4: But also, when you think about it, this is for
Speaker 4: women who have waited too long, Like if you've had
Speaker 4: to wait for four years for your partner to propose
Speaker 4: to you, they were like, okay, I'm going to take
Speaker 4: matters into my own hands.
Speaker 5: We don't see it enough. That's all I want to
Speaker 5: say about it.
Speaker 1: People actually follow that rule now, like women can propose.
Speaker 1: It's twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Of course, I think it's just a bit of fun.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there are plenty of women that I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe still stick to this for fun. But of course
Speaker 2: women are proposing, like some of our biggest stars. Do
Speaker 2: you know Rita Aura proposed to her husband.
Speaker 4: Do you know who else proposed? Pink just here, what
Speaker 4: was here in the country, But she proposed as when
Speaker 4: she proposed, I don't know the details of the proposal.
Speaker 1: Of course, you hold on you, let's go back, let's
Speaker 1: go back to peace proposal.
Speaker 2: Kerry Hart her motocross husband. He was cutting laps in
Speaker 2: a competition and on his like third lap, she held
Speaker 2: up a sign that said marry me, and he didn't stop.
Speaker 2: He scootered past her. So she wrote another sign that
Speaker 2: sat next lap. It was like, seriously, like, I think that.
Speaker 4: Was really cute, but also he's trying to do a race,
Speaker 4: very distracting.
Speaker 3: Judge Duty proposed to her husband.
Speaker 4: Judge Duty, No, Judge Dudy. I can imagine that makes sense.
Speaker 2: There's no man that's.
Speaker 5: Going to propose it. She's scary. He's like, I'm going
Speaker 5: to wait because I don't know if what she's going
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 1: You get a couple of coffee, you're gonna get a bagel,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna marry me. You're gonna marry marry me
Speaker 1: now would have gone on?
Speaker 2: You guys are going to if you've proposed, If you're
Speaker 2: a woman, you propose, calls up and let's no, we
Speaker 2: want to hear about it thirty one oh six five.
Speaker 2: Or maybe if you're thinking about proposing in a couple
Speaker 2: of days term, maybe you could.
Speaker 3: Do it on your leave here or do it on
Speaker 3: the pick up. We'll happily let you propose on the show.
Speaker 1: If you're listening and you want to propose to your
Speaker 1: partner thirteen one o six five or DMS.
Speaker 4: Nothing does scream romance quite like proposing to your husband
Speaker 4: or your husband to be on the radio.
Speaker 2: Would you propose Laura to Maddie Like? I know that
Speaker 2: it's obviously gone past, But do you feel like you
Speaker 2: would happily do that as a woman.
Speaker 4: I don't know if. Like I was never someone who
Speaker 4: was very not so bad, but I wasn't that excited
Speaker 4: about getting married or having a wedding. I am excited
Speaker 4: and I'm so glad that I married my husband. I
Speaker 4: don't want that to turn into a headline. But no,
Speaker 4: I don't think I ever would have done it myself,
Speaker 4: because I never ever was a little girl who dreamed
Speaker 4: like the white big dress or anything like that.
Speaker 5: I just kind of was happy to be in a relationship.
Speaker 2: Would you just help me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just kind of happy to go on a
Speaker 1: national TV show and win your husband via a lottery. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't believe in women proposing, but I
Speaker 2: will fight twenty five other women to the desk.
Speaker 5: It doesn't really screen feminism, does it, Okay?
Speaker 1: Next on the show, speaking of feminism, it's a real
Speaker 1: rounded out content show.
Speaker 3: Today we're discussing hair. How often should you wash it?
Speaker 1: And I'm not joking now, because the internet is truly divided?
Speaker 1: How often should you wash your hair?
Speaker 2: It's not divided for me.
Speaker 1: No, I've got a very clean answer. That clean answer.
Speaker 1: I've got a clean answer.
Speaker 2: I've got a hairy answer.
Speaker 3: All ours go.
Speaker 1: Against each other, interestingly enough, don't mate. There's a reason
Speaker 1: why I can smell the oil from here. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm going to say, Laura Burn that discussion. Next on
Speaker 1: the Pickup. Now, I was scrolling Twitter this morning or
Speaker 1: x whatever it's called. These days, so much everyone is arguing,
Speaker 1: and they argue over the dumbest stuff, And today they're
Speaker 1: arguing about shampoo, and I thought.
Speaker 5: Oh, get alive, touch some grass.
Speaker 3: Well, it kind of got me thinking. So a Twitter
Speaker 3: user re shared this video.
Speaker 1: So in this videos it's a woman admitting how long
Speaker 1: it's been since he's washed her hair.
Speaker 3: Have a listen, when was the last time.
Speaker 2: You washed your hair?
Speaker 5: Saturday?
Speaker 6: Who washed your hair.
Speaker 2: Sunday? And today is Friday. When was the last time.
Speaker 7: You washed your hair?
Speaker 5: I think it was Tuesday. For a horrible four days
Speaker 5: that four day, When was the last time you washed
Speaker 5: your hair?
Speaker 3: I don't even know. They're asking people in the street
Speaker 3: how often do you wash your hair?
Speaker 1: Genuinely not not Well, the average was about four days
Speaker 1: to a week.
Speaker 3: That was the batting average.
Speaker 5: That is shocking to me.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the internet. This is this is the argument.
Speaker 3: The Internet's divided.
Speaker 1: They're not happy because people are saying you have to
Speaker 1: wash it every day, which is insane.
Speaker 2: No, you don't need to wash it every day. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure there's science behind the fact that it's actually
Speaker 2: more unhealthy to wash your hair every day because it
Speaker 2: strips it of all its natural like whatever it needs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm feeling personally victimized.
Speaker 2: Too, because you wash your hair, like twice a day.
Speaker 5: I wash my hair every time I have a shower.
Speaker 2: It's so it's actually really bad, lot.
Speaker 5: Or that's actually like, where did you learn that my
Speaker 5: hair's falling out?
Speaker 2: So it makes your hair greasier. The more you wash it,
Speaker 2: the greasier it makes it.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you for the science list and everyone.
Speaker 1: No New York Harol, New York, Pharrell Sorry told lad
Speaker 1: Bible the ship that they're a hair salon. They said
Speaker 1: that washing your hair every day can strip the scalp
Speaker 1: of natural oils, which can lead to dry brittle Laura
Speaker 1: burneque care.
Speaker 4: Yes, it does, but I mean, but once you're in
Speaker 4: the loop, it's a cycle. It's a vicious cycle. I
Speaker 4: can't get out.
Speaker 2: I don't want you to ever feel like you can't
Speaker 2: get out of that hair. I can't break it.
Speaker 5: I can't can You.
Speaker 2: Don't have to break those hairs anymore. You can break
Speaker 2: free from the world.
Speaker 3: Tell us why you do it every day and be honest.
Speaker 5: Because I don't like feeling like my hair is dirty.
Speaker 2: And if you have, don't you wash your feet in
Speaker 2: the sink. But you don't really, you don't shower. You
Speaker 2: actually don't shower before bed. You can't. I can't dirty.
Speaker 5: It's not true.
Speaker 4: No, because look, your daughter public park, for God's Okay,
Speaker 4: this is not about my children. Don't bring them into this.
Speaker 4: Ges was pooh pooh, my children wasn't sorry?
Speaker 5: No, okay.
Speaker 4: I go swimming in the ocean most days, and so
Speaker 4: I feel as though if you go swimming in the
Speaker 4: ocean you got salty hair.
Speaker 5: I think you got to wash it afterwards.
Speaker 2: Okay, I can agree with salt hair. If you're going
Speaker 2: to swim every day, I understand it because that just
Speaker 2: feels gross. But if you're not actually swimming, and let's
Speaker 2: be real, I'm calling bs. You do not swim every
Speaker 2: single day?
Speaker 5: Or chlorine? Okay, hold on, if you in chlorina.
Speaker 1: Every day, I want to preach to the country. If
Speaker 1: you're a reformed daily washer, call us on thirteen miles
Speaker 1: sixty five, because I truly think we need someone that
Speaker 1: has lived the Laura Burn unhealthy, slippery slope lifestyle to
Speaker 1: call us and let.
Speaker 5: Us do we really need them to call?
Speaker 1: Well, Amanda is apparently a hairdresser. Amanda, why don't you
Speaker 1: talk to Laura? We consider this an intervention?
Speaker 3: What what what do you get taught? In cutting school.
Speaker 3: Is the appropriate time to wash your hair in a week?
Speaker 8: Definitely? Hi guys, Hi hairdresser, You actually are better off
Speaker 8: to shampoo your hair twice a week. But if you
Speaker 8: have had like any chemical service done, as in like
Speaker 8: spoiling or anything like that done, it's actually best to
Speaker 8: only wash it once a week. Breathe and beanie, so
Speaker 8: that you just don't cause like to prevent any break
Speaker 8: into or spilibans in the hair.
Speaker 5: What if you're washing it every day, it makes it well.
Speaker 8: You shouldn't be washing your hair because your hair naturally
Speaker 8: produces oils, and those oils are actually good for your hair.
Speaker 8: When you do shampoo your hair, you're going to go
Speaker 8: on shampoo your hair two shampoos to three shampoos every
Speaker 8: time you wash it. Are you're doing it perfect?
Speaker 2: What I do is I do it every three and
Speaker 2: four days and in between a little bit of dry shampoo,
Speaker 2: spruce up, get chemist chemiswear.
Speaker 3: How's that batiste?
Speaker 1: But teas from Hold On, Hold On Aisha has called
Speaker 1: she's a I think we've got a reform daily shampoo.
Speaker 3: Are are you a reform daily poor? Poor?
Speaker 7: Yes? I am. I used to wash my hair daily,
Speaker 7: every single day and follow ended up following hairdresser's advice
Speaker 7: and reduced that to about two times a week and
Speaker 7: saw a big change in my hair.
Speaker 5: Well, I would love to know how has this affected
Speaker 5: your life?
Speaker 2: I told you she's in a big changeing her hair.
Speaker 1: She said she's how long to depressed and she's having
Speaker 1: great sex now.
Speaker 2: She's she's found the love of her life from her
Speaker 2: luscious hair, and she won the water got to pay rise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, guys, I honestly no, I can't keep up with this.
Speaker 4: One day, I don't wash my feet enough. One day,
Speaker 4: I don't share enough. Now I washed too much every then.
Speaker 4: So there's so many rules around what part of you
Speaker 4: needs to be the cleanest.
Speaker 2: You tell me I got to brush my teeth, I
Speaker 2: do every day, telling me I need deodor it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Laura, we're just challenging me. Brittany and the hair
Speaker 1: dressing community want to challenge you. Don't wash it for
Speaker 1: a couple of days, and we'll report back later in
Speaker 1: the week on the natural oil.
Speaker 4: Now you will be disgusted, you'll be discussed to try it, right.
Speaker 5: No, that's where this show's gone.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, well, look coming up, I don't know
Speaker 4: about you, guys, but I have gotten addicted to a
Speaker 4: show recently.
Speaker 5: It is Love on the Spectrum.
Speaker 4: I know that it's been around for a little while,
Speaker 4: but he's honestly the most beautiful, heartfelt, warmest, sweetest TV
Speaker 4: show in the world of Maths and the other reality
Speaker 4: TV shows. We have joining us relationship expert Jodie Rodgers,
Speaker 4: who is I mean, she is the kindest of relationship
Speaker 4: experts and she's the one who stars on Love and
Speaker 4: the Spectrum.
Speaker 5: She's joining us next, so exciting after this on the
Speaker 5: pick up. All right, guys.
Speaker 4: In the world of trashy reality TV, there is a
Speaker 4: lot of it on the TV at the moment.
Speaker 5: I mean Maths, we're seeing the drama, drama, drama.
Speaker 4: But there is another reality TV show that when it
Speaker 4: first came on the screens, it absolutely stole everyone's heart.
Speaker 4: And I have gotten addicted to it again because it
Speaker 4: has just been released on Netflix and now the Australian
Speaker 4: version that is there, the US version, and it's called
Speaker 4: Love on the Spectrum.
Speaker 3: Oh my love, this wholesome.
Speaker 2: TV show that has ever exists.
Speaker 4: It's honestly so beautiful and I think also it's such
Speaker 4: an insight into how other people date, how other people live,
Speaker 4: and how everyone kind of interacts. But some of the
Speaker 4: stats around this is so interesting. So one in seven
Speaker 4: Australians are on the autism spectrum. And also this TV
Speaker 4: show is Emmy Award winning now it's brilliant. If you
Speaker 4: haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend going and watching it.
Speaker 4: But we have joining us today Jody Rogers. She is
Speaker 4: a sex ologist. She's one of the counselors and the
Speaker 4: she's the relationship coach that's on this TV show. And
Speaker 4: like I said, it's very different to math's relationship coaches,
Speaker 4: where they're there and they're creating the drama.
Speaker 5: She's there really helping these.
Speaker 4: Individuals on the show date and find real love and
Speaker 4: real connections.
Speaker 5: It's so special.
Speaker 3: God, what a job I know.
Speaker 5: Jody. Welcome to the pick up.
Speaker 6: Hey Jody, Hello, how are you going? Thank you for
Speaker 6: having me on.
Speaker 2: It's so nice to speak to you again. And we
Speaker 2: spoke to you a little while ago on our podcast
Speaker 2: Life on Cut.
Speaker 6: That is right. I just thought, how quickly the world
Speaker 6: turns is the last time and.
Speaker 2: Now we're speaking to you here in the radio. We
Speaker 2: love love on the spectrum even more now than we
Speaker 2: did when we spoke to you. Why do you think
Speaker 2: Love on the Spectrum has catapulted to one of the
Speaker 2: most watched reality TV shows.
Speaker 6: I think there's a couple of reasons. I think one
Speaker 6: because people really relate to it. So, you know, even
Speaker 6: though where it's really educational for the broader community about
Speaker 6: the diversity of autism, but it allows people to see themselves,
Speaker 6: allows that connection with people that they may not have
Speaker 6: even thought that they had things in common with. And
Speaker 6: I think all of us know how complex gating is,
Speaker 6: so you know, many people just come out and say, oh,
Speaker 6: that's like me, or I do that, or that's where
Speaker 6: I've experienced. So I think that's one. But the other
Speaker 6: one is all the people who were on the show,
Speaker 6: the autistic people who are on the show. It's just
Speaker 6: so authentically themselves, and I think people can really see that.
Speaker 4: It's really different, isn't it When you see so many
Speaker 4: people these days go on reality TV shows for Instagram followers,
Speaker 4: and then you watch Love on the Spectrum and people
Speaker 4: are actually there for relationships. So to make connections Tody
Speaker 4: with your experience, I mean coming from being a sexologist
Speaker 4: and then being a relationship counselor what made you want
Speaker 4: to work with people who in you were a divergent.
Speaker 6: I've really worked with people with disworld is my whole life.
Speaker 6: But probably the biggest thing for me is the fact
Speaker 6: that when I started hanging out with autistic people, I
Speaker 6: was learning so much about a different way of seeing
Speaker 6: the world or a different perspective, and it allowed me
Speaker 6: to just open my eyes up completely to just how
Speaker 6: truly diverse we all are. And so I'll just keep learning.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm thirty years in and I'm still going.
Speaker 7: Oh, I never do that.
Speaker 6: I never thought that, I never knew. So yeah, I
Speaker 6: just love the fact that every single day I'll get
Speaker 6: my mind open to.
Speaker 8: A different the world.
Speaker 2: I think genuinely, like I've watched all the Aussie seasons,
Speaker 2: I've watched all the American seasons because I genuinely loved
Speaker 2: the show, and I think we can all learn a
Speaker 2: lot from the way people on the spectrum interacts. Like
Speaker 2: I often I watch their interactions when they're like, Hey,
Speaker 2: I don't like you anymore, so like let's just be friends,
Speaker 2: And I'm like, man, if only every guy I ever
Speaker 2: dated just said that instead of goes to me, But
Speaker 2: I have relationships in my life with people that are
Speaker 2: on the spectrum, and I learned so much from the
Speaker 2: shows in helping me understand them better and the way
Speaker 2: that I connect with them better. And you have just
Speaker 2: written a new book called Unique. What autism can teach
Speaker 2: us about difference, connection and belonging is that who have
Speaker 2: you aimed that at? Have you aimed at that at?
Speaker 2: Literally anybody that is interested in forming those connections?
Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody, But in one way, you know, I read
Speaker 6: somebody had written the other day saying, I think this
Speaker 6: is Jodie's Love Better to Autism, and it really is.
Speaker 6: It's a celebration of all the autistic people in my life,
Speaker 6: but it's really for everybody because in my lifetime what
Speaker 6: has also happened with me is that autistic people have
Speaker 6: allowed me to understand one myself, but also every person
Speaker 6: in my life. And so it's really a book where
Speaker 6: it's all short stories, like you literally could pick it
Speaker 6: up at any point and just look at part of
Speaker 6: the way humans interact all of us. But it's really
Speaker 6: a story to say, you know, this is an experience
Speaker 6: I've had as an autistic person which has made me
Speaker 6: rethink all of my relationships with every single person I'll
Speaker 6: come across, and how beautiful and wonderful that is. The
Speaker 6: teachers in my life are people that many many people
Speaker 6: would consider to be so different. But yeah, there've been
Speaker 6: the people that have taught me about connection and relationships.
Speaker 1: A good read, so beautiful, that's required reading. I think
Speaker 1: unique available tomorrow, Jodie. People can grab it very soon.
Speaker 7: Oh no, it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: Go and pick it up, Jodie Rogers. Everyone from Love
Speaker 1: on the Spectrum, Thanks for coming on the pickup.
Speaker 3: We adore you.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Let's get out of here. We're done for the day, guys.
Speaker 3: She's so cute, isn't she.
Speaker 5: She's so remarkable. Honestly, the show is brilliant.
Speaker 3: It's so much fun. All right, let's go. We'll see tomorrow. Goodbye, guys,