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Speaker 1: Hockley and Laura Ben Rady.
Speaker 2: Your work, our windows done, that's my world. Reason the
Speaker 2: dust only go fabs all down.
Speaker 3: I've done much, but yeah, I know I'll big get
Speaker 3: and what a lot.
Speaker 2: It don't matter where does? This is the pickup?
Speaker 1: Happy Friday everyone, you're listening to the Pickup with Britt
Speaker 1: Hackley and Laura Ben.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be a mood killer, but it's
Speaker 4: not actually a happy Friday for me.
Speaker 3: It's actually really sad Friday. So my husband Ben's been
Speaker 3: here for the last month and he lives overseas in Italy.
Speaker 3: We got married twice.
Speaker 2: It was wonderful, how many honeymoons.
Speaker 4: Three mini ones, but like only three days, you little
Speaker 4: turd burger.
Speaker 3: But today's the day, Like we have had the best
Speaker 3: six weeks of our life.
Speaker 4: Like yeah, it's been really beautiful, like the happiest I've
Speaker 4: ever been.
Speaker 3: And tonight he's leaving. He's going back to Italy.
Speaker 2: I thought he was leaving tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Well it's technically tomorrow, but it's two am. So for me,
Speaker 3: that's nighttime, that is in the middle of the night.
Speaker 2: Do you know how long it's going to be until
Speaker 2: you see him again?
Speaker 4: I think the moment Tember, so September, So what are
Speaker 4: we now, July August, like, that's a lot nearly three months.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's exactly three months because when you go and
Speaker 1: see Ben, I'm having a baby, so I'm counting down
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: Oh what a time to be long.
Speaker 1: It's literally we have timed both the holiday and also
Speaker 1: the coming of this pregnancy perfectly. I can only imagine,
Speaker 1: especially after coming from such a high of having your
Speaker 1: wedding to then having to go back to doing long
Speaker 1: distance now, I can only imagine how hard.
Speaker 2: That's going to be.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 2: It came in so hot with Happy Fridays. But for
Speaker 2: everyone else, happy Friday.
Speaker 4: But if you're everyone but Brittany, happy Friday. No.
Speaker 1: I do you know what, though, anyone who's ever done
Speaker 1: long distance will sympathize because it is it's so hard.
Speaker 3: People think the goodbyes get easier, and I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe before I got married, I would have said they did,
Speaker 4: but I think now they're harder.
Speaker 3: Like I would have said, yeah, you do get used.
Speaker 2: To it, it's like whatever.
Speaker 4: But now that we're in a different chapter, I feel
Speaker 4: like it is harder. For sure, I'm gonna cry like
Speaker 4: a little baby. Well, don't do that yet.
Speaker 3: Hold on to them now, Laura.
Speaker 4: I'm not one to usually want to highlight my competition.
Speaker 4: I am currently on Dancing with the Stars. But if
Speaker 4: there's one person I'm gonna get on this show to
Speaker 4: have a chat to, it's Sean mccaliff. Now, if you
Speaker 4: don't know Sean mccalliff, he's been in Australian TV for
Speaker 4: a very long time. He's a comedian, actor, writer, presenter,
Speaker 4: he's a lawyer. There's not a lot the man can't do,
Speaker 4: and he can now add dancer to his repertoire Sean mccaliff,
Speaker 4: my competition on Dancing with the Stars, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Ah, yes, Bruce, my nemesis, speak to you.
Speaker 3: Too, sen to you.
Speaker 1: I do like that we rattled off all the successes.
Speaker 1: I saw the quick step that you did. It was
Speaker 1: very impressive. Do you think that you can dance now
Speaker 1: and add dancer to this long list of success.
Speaker 5: No, I, in all conscience, I don't think I could
Speaker 5: add that to my CV. I think it's like a
Speaker 5: like a freak lightning storm. You know, it lights up
Speaker 5: the sky, quite impressive and awesome, but then you know
Speaker 5: it's gone in the in the blink of an eye,
Speaker 5: and then you forget about it.
Speaker 4: Johan, I, we were like doing our dance practice in
Speaker 4: the same studios, and sometimes I don't know if you
Speaker 4: know this, but I'd pick my head around and what
Speaker 4: you practice because I was like, I want to check
Speaker 4: what the competition is.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna light I thought I was going to
Speaker 3: be safe.
Speaker 4: I thought I was pretty good. And then first ques,
Speaker 4: first week you beat me. You got twenty four. I
Speaker 4: only got twenty one, and I thought, Wow, this guy's
Speaker 4: pulling out some secrets.
Speaker 2: You're bringing a lot of comedy to.
Speaker 4: Your dance, Like are you banking on that to get
Speaker 4: you through or do you have some secret dance skills
Speaker 4: you're gonna pull out.
Speaker 5: No, I have no secrets, no at all. That I
Speaker 5: think that very first dance that I did was probably it.
Speaker 5: Everything else that follows will be some some refaults. Gami.
Speaker 5: It's an a four piece of paper. We folded it
Speaker 5: into a swan, and that's what you saw in the
Speaker 5: first show. And then the next thing will be slightly
Speaker 5: more limp looking opera house, and then it'll be a
Speaker 5: servs and.
Speaker 2: We won't know what it is.
Speaker 5: I got nothing left.
Speaker 2: This is the problem though.
Speaker 5: Was On the other hand, I could always tell, because
Speaker 5: when britt did look around the corner, I made sure
Speaker 5: I was really bad, just to give her a sent
Speaker 5: she got too much confidence. Yeah, yeah, I did well.
Speaker 3: I was humbled, you know.
Speaker 1: But this is the thing that people don't realize unless
Speaker 1: you've done it. So you get so much time to
Speaker 1: practice the first dance. So often a lot of the
Speaker 1: celebs have the first dance down pat and then the
Speaker 1: wheels just stuff falling off the bandwagon.
Speaker 2: As you get further into the competition.
Speaker 5: Yeah, quite right. It's diminishing returns because you're guaranteed at
Speaker 5: least one appearance. You guarantee two appearances, so the first
Speaker 5: two are usually okay, and then as the Brittain I
Speaker 5: will experience you know this Sunday, you know someone's got
Speaker 5: to go. Yeah, it does get too serious.
Speaker 3: Then what I will say is I'm taking a piece
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 4: You were a delight to work with and watch, and
Speaker 4: you were actually such a good dancer. But why now,
Speaker 4: because I'm sure you've been last many times over the years.
Speaker 3: What's happening in your life, and you're like, oh, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna put the tap shoes on.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Look, I think, in all seriousness, I think I probably
Speaker 5: hit the point where it didn't matter anymore. I had
Speaker 5: done I had nothing to lose by doing it. It
Speaker 5: seemed like something that if I didn't do it now.
Speaker 5: I remember reading about Christopher Walken, you know, and Christopher
Speaker 5: Walken did that dance routine in Weapons of Choice. He
Speaker 5: was about my age, he was about sixty, and he
Speaker 5: actually had trained as a dancer in his early years,
Speaker 5: and he said, look, if I don't do it, if
Speaker 5: I dont get it on a film now, I'll be
Speaker 5: too old to do it. So there was a little
Speaker 5: bit of that in me. I thought, well, if I
Speaker 5: can do it, it'd be good just to see if
Speaker 5: I can. Anyway, and the habit done on probably the
Speaker 5: biggest dance stage on television. To do it. In fact,
Speaker 5: I reckon within two weeks of the show finishing, I
Speaker 5: wouldn't have been able to do it. So I'm done
Speaker 5: and dust it. There's no way I'm ever going to
Speaker 5: do it again.
Speaker 3: This is good as get and you have to ask
Speaker 3: yourself why not?
Speaker 4: I think when an opportunity presents itself, it's not like,
Speaker 4: don't write the reasons why? Maybe say why not? And
Speaker 4: you've probably thought, well, what else have I got gone on?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Exactly, Well, I mean I've done everything in my
Speaker 5: glittering career, and you know, never terribly well. I think
Speaker 5: that one of his dances mediocre.
Speaker 2: Like I am, that's absolutely untrue.
Speaker 5: Did you get a chance? No?
Speaker 3: But you Yeah, I didn't mean that the right way.
Speaker 5: Sorry, do the same thing forever.
Speaker 3: I didn't mean what am I got going on? I
Speaker 3: was speaking. I took that too personally. Sean and I
Speaker 3: were talking on the show about the shows.
Speaker 4: He's got upcoming and stuff like that, and then he
Speaker 4: had a time frame.
Speaker 3: I said that wrong.
Speaker 4: He had space in his schedule to do dance Digger Brittany.
Speaker 4: The way I said that, I was like, Wow, that
Speaker 4: came across like he's not doing anything.
Speaker 3: He had time in his schedule.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But also, Sean, what did your wife think of the
Speaker 1: whole thing? When you were like, do you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go away for thirteen hours a day
Speaker 1: and start dancing? Did like was it well received. Was
Speaker 1: it a moment of like, really.
Speaker 2: How did that go down?
Speaker 5: Well, she knew that I loved because I love those
Speaker 5: old MGM musics, and she kind of knew that I'm
Speaker 5: said that anyway. So she's always been very encouraging. In fact,
Speaker 5: she's the one who who said to me when I
Speaker 5: was a lawyer many years ago, she said, look, you
Speaker 5: know you keep talking about comedy and comedy shows, and
Speaker 5: you know, having all these opinions, why don't you just
Speaker 5: take a year off and do it. I wouldn't have
Speaker 5: done it had she not said so, it's all her fault.
Speaker 5: And she was equally supportive, equally supportive on this.
Speaker 1: Well, we can't wait to watch you on Sunday. And
Speaker 1: I mean, although it might have been said that you
Speaker 1: were technically rubbish, that was one of the comments.
Speaker 2: Of no, sure, the judges you were amazing.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I watched on the I watched on the
Speaker 1: couch with my mother in law and we both sat
Speaker 1: there and looked at each other and we were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was fantastic.
Speaker 2: We're your bigger fans.
Speaker 3: He's the one to watch.
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to Sunday too, and it's one of
Speaker 5: BRIT's Hurricane dancers. That's how she describes us.
Speaker 3: All of them are hurricanes.
Speaker 4: Thanks Shan, You're an absolute delight and I absolutely loved
Speaker 4: working with you. And if anyone wants to check it out,
Speaker 4: Dancing the Stars continue seven pm Sunday on seven and
Speaker 4: seven plus.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you, Laura.
Speaker 1: You guys might be familiar with the Reddit thread Am
Speaker 1: I the A Hole?
Speaker 3: Yes? I am. We get a lot of.
Speaker 2: Content from it, doing a lot of content from that
Speaker 2: through Are you laying down now? Britt give her? If
Speaker 2: this was a visual medium. Brittany's actually just laid down
Speaker 2: in her chair. She's say she's doing the rest of
Speaker 2: the show today Friday.
Speaker 3: You give it.
Speaker 1: Home, Okay, we'll hear this story out. Am I the
Speaker 1: A Hole? I want everyone's opinions on this. So this
Speaker 1: woman has been married to her husband for over twenty
Speaker 1: years and she's been dealing with the same issue from him,
Speaker 1: which I'm not really convinced it's an issue firstly, and secondly,
Speaker 1: I don't know whether her retaliation to.
Speaker 2: This issue is justified.
Speaker 3: Well, I do love to be judge and dura, so
Speaker 3: hit me.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So for twenty years, this woman has been asking her
Speaker 1: husband if he can switch the shower vout of rod
Speaker 1: you know, so like you know, imagine you get into
Speaker 1: a bath shower, so you're standing in the bath. You
Speaker 1: can either have different settings on your shower head, so
Speaker 1: either the water comes out of the shower head or
Speaker 1: you turn the valve and the water comes out of
Speaker 1: your bath I'm.
Speaker 3: Just like that butt shower.
Speaker 2: Yes, and so it can switch between right.
Speaker 1: Anyways, She's been asking her husband for years if when
Speaker 1: he finishes his shower, can he please switch it to
Speaker 1: the bath mode so that way when she gets in
Speaker 1: the shower and turns it on, she doesn't get sprayed
Speaker 1: by cold water. This has been going on back and forth.
Speaker 1: Apparently he will do it for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: then he'll forget. She hates getting blasted in the face
Speaker 1: by cold water. She gets upset by it. It's been
Speaker 1: a real point of contention in their relationship, which makes
Speaker 1: me think that they need better things to argue about.
Speaker 3: I know exactly what she's referring to.
Speaker 4: It is really annoying when you think it's on one
Speaker 4: setting and it's not and it blast you with.
Speaker 1: Cold w When you get startled, absolutely well, you know
Speaker 1: when you get in and you're like, didn't expect to
Speaker 1: get sprayed in the face by cold.
Speaker 2: Water in the middle of winter.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, can I bring you my verdict? Wait, I
Speaker 3: already decided that.
Speaker 2: You haven't even heard her retaliation.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, after twenty years of putting up with this,
Speaker 1: week in week out, her husband saying, sorry, I'll try harder,
Speaker 1: I'll be better.
Speaker 2: I'll remember.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this day, she gets in the shower, she gets
Speaker 1: sprayed in the face by cold water.
Speaker 2: She's freezing.
Speaker 1: She gets out, she gets a cup, she fills it
Speaker 1: with cold water. Now her husband is also naked in
Speaker 1: the kitchen. For some reason, it didn't go into details
Speaker 1: as to why that he was naked, And she walked
Speaker 1: straight up to him and she threw a cup of
Speaker 1: freezing cold water in his face, and she said to him,
Speaker 1: does the naked just.
Speaker 3: Have to do with the throw in the face?
Speaker 4: I thought she was gonna throw it somewhere else, because
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 1: If you're naked, it makes it worse if you get
Speaker 1: a couple of water thrown at you, because it goes
Speaker 1: down your whole body. Why are you shaking her head
Speaker 1: at me, Grace?
Speaker 3: I think it would be better to be thrown waters.
Speaker 2: Thanks Grace, I'm so good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because then no clothes get wet. Fair. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: think you just be colder.
Speaker 1: Imagine being naked and someone throwing cold water on your
Speaker 1: entire body in the morning. Anyway, whatever, we're bogged down. Okay,
Speaker 1: So she's gotten on to am I the a hole?
Speaker 1: And her question is did she overreact or should she
Speaker 1: just every morning that her husband now forgets, spray him
Speaker 1: like you do to a dog when they do the
Speaker 1: wrong thing.
Speaker 2: Let me spray bottle.
Speaker 3: Let me just go to the jury. Okay, I have
Speaker 3: my verdict. Yes, she's the a hole.
Speaker 2: I reckon, she's the a hole.
Speaker 4: You're saying it's up to you to switch the shower
Speaker 4: back when you're done, then it's equally up to you
Speaker 4: to make sure the showers on your setting. If it's
Speaker 4: that much of an issue that you're asking your partner
Speaker 4: to remember to switch it back, it's an equal issue
Speaker 4: for you to remember to do it. Like I think
Speaker 4: for you to put that on him, you're just angry
Speaker 4: that you forgot.
Speaker 3: You only that you forgot to do it. Like that's
Speaker 3: so silly to me.
Speaker 4: She's blaming him for something that she could easily fix.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then if you've forgotten something, you need someone
Speaker 1: to blame.
Speaker 2: It's hard to blame yourself. I'm joking.
Speaker 1: Obviously, I do think she's the eight hole in this situation,
Speaker 1: even though I do like to.
Speaker 2: Blame my husband for things he probably didn't do.
Speaker 1: But I think that the reaction that she's received online
Speaker 1: is absolutely not what she expected.
Speaker 2: I think she was expecting people to be like, yes.
Speaker 1: Get it, queer, the poor thing. You'd be putting up
Speaker 1: with this for twenty years. You've been startled with Cold War,
Speaker 1: and the entire internet was like, your poor husband.
Speaker 4: He's divorcing for sure, do you reckon one hundred percent?
Speaker 4: Imagine what she's reacting over when she finds out he's
Speaker 4: cheating on us.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend. Last weekend, it was my oldest daughter,
Speaker 1: Marley May. It was her six year birthday party.
Speaker 3: Six years.
Speaker 2: What it is, sixth six? It's her sixth year, just
Speaker 2: six on the planet. Yeah, she was six.
Speaker 1: We had a birthday party for her and we had
Speaker 1: a pinata. I think the pinadas are just like the
Speaker 1: most staple kid's birthday party. If you need something to
Speaker 1: do that's going to tie them over for ten minutes,
Speaker 1: and you also want to get all all these out
Speaker 1: of your own house. You stuff a pinada, you hang
Speaker 1: it up, and you let the kids whack it.
Speaker 3: For a while. I'm a pinard A super fan. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: You're a Pinada super fan.
Speaker 3: Every year. I pinada once a year, YadA. People don't
Speaker 3: know this about me.
Speaker 4: I am a secret pinata just by yourself for hi Pinada.
Speaker 4: It is my family's Christmas tradition since literally there's not
Speaker 4: a year we don't have a photo since we were
Speaker 4: like three years old. Like our whole family, all my
Speaker 4: cousins and Nannie's and everyone, pinard is every single Christmas.
Speaker 1: So I posted it on Instagram. Right there was a
Speaker 1: couple of photos from the birthday party that I put
Speaker 1: up and I posted one of my stories on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I never realized that pinadas were controversial. I didn't know this. Well,
Speaker 1: apparently they are. And the reason why I say this is.
Speaker 3: Because not you, I mean.
Speaker 2: Sorry, people like, just have some fun, let's go home.
Speaker 1: No. There was quite a few people in my dms
Speaker 1: who firstly, the question was raised.
Speaker 2: Around the violence of pinadas. There was also questions.
Speaker 3: About you're trying to get a lolly. You're getting a lolly.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I can't even I'm gonna go home.
Speaker 2: I even listen. It is okay. Let let me explain
Speaker 2: to you. And when it was raised.
Speaker 1: Firstly, I did read one of these comments that was
Speaker 1: sent to me and I was a bit like, oh,
Speaker 1: I see your point, but I think it's a stretch.
Speaker 1: So we always talk to our kids about not being violent,
Speaker 1: right about like never hit things, don't hit people, don't
Speaker 1: throw your toys, like behave in a way that's showing kindness,
Speaker 1: I guess, and that's the thing that you always try
Speaker 1: and uphold with your children. And then birthday parties or
Speaker 1: once a year, apparently if you're Brittany Hockley, you get
Speaker 1: your kid's favorite thing, like what's their most favorite thing
Speaker 1: in the entire word world?
Speaker 2: A unicorn.
Speaker 1: Let's stuff it, Let's fist it with lollies and then
Speaker 1: give it a noose and hang it up by the
Speaker 1: neck and get all the kids in the line to
Speaker 1: smack it with a pole.
Speaker 2: Now, this person, I know, I know, I know, and
Speaker 2: I agree with you. I was like, guys, I think
Speaker 2: that we've gone too far. The PC police need to
Speaker 2: calm down.
Speaker 1: However, someone then sent to me that there are a
Speaker 1: type of pinnata called a no hit pinada. So it's
Speaker 1: a pinada that's been specifically designed.
Speaker 2: For parents who want to have no violence.
Speaker 3: It's not violent, wait for it.
Speaker 1: And it comes with all these strings in the belly,
Speaker 1: and so it's kind of like a lucky dip. So
Speaker 1: it's got all these different strings that hang down from it,
Speaker 1: and the little kids go and they pull a string
Speaker 1: and then oh, that one didn't do anything. Another pull
Speaker 1: a string that one didn't do anything, And if you
Speaker 1: get the right string, you go boom, and then the
Speaker 1: belly the unicorn opens up and all the lollies rained
Speaker 1: down on the kids downing underneathun does.
Speaker 4: No kid wants to pull a string.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 4: I'm all for being progressive, but this is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Like, just okay, hear me out. You don't have to
Speaker 3: have a unicorn.
Speaker 4: Why don't you get a criminal a pinata in the
Speaker 4: shape of a house and call it renovation.
Speaker 3: Teach your kids young, we're knocking the house down, We're
Speaker 3: gonna rebuild.
Speaker 2: It's an episode of the block.
Speaker 3: It's not violent.
Speaker 4: You're literally trying to have fun to it's like like
Speaker 4: playing baseball. You're swinging about what we're gonna not play baseball? Like,
Speaker 4: what's the problem here? Stop taking away all the fun
Speaker 4: from the kids.
Speaker 2: Okay, well you heard it here first. Brittany's against it.
Speaker 1: I'm not giving I can see that, and no one,
Speaker 1: no one's ever gonna ask you to.
Speaker 2: I will never ever.
Speaker 1: Give you a no hit pinada. I don't I can't
Speaker 1: even believe they exist. Look, and I'm on your side
Speaker 1: with this. I got the messages and I was like, surely.
Speaker 4: Now you'll be shocked at how extreme we are with
Speaker 4: our pinada.
Speaker 2: We no, Brittay's got a pinata tattoo.
Speaker 3: No, wait too, hear this.
Speaker 4: We've always had multiple pinadas. We make them, and we
Speaker 4: make them at different levels. My grandpi Are used to
Speaker 4: make them so hard that the adults would have like
Speaker 4: baseball bats that couldn't crack them, because he thought it
Speaker 4: was hilarious to make it out of like proper cement
Speaker 4: and stuff.
Speaker 3: So we would have like easy pinadas for the little kids.
Speaker 3: Would have different levels to ensure that everyone at our
Speaker 3: Christmas party got a pinada. We built Pulley systems. They're
Speaker 3: on Pulley.
Speaker 4: Systems over the poles and stuff like we take pinata
Speaker 4: ing so seriously, I didn't realize that this was yeah,
Speaker 4: so I'm properly.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I was going up against someone
Speaker 1: who was a fully invested pinada person.
Speaker 3: But he raised me. One of my best friends Laura.
Speaker 1: Oh, guys, that's it from Uscow and enjoy your pinadas
Speaker 1: on the weekend.