Speaker 1: Laura, come on, we made it the last week of
Speaker 1: the last week, the last show of the first week
Speaker 1: of the pickup.
Speaker 2: You know where I was trying to go, the last
Speaker 2: day of the week, the last day of our first week.
Speaker 3: It's all happening today. It's Friday.
Speaker 4: That's what I wanted. I'm so glad at the end
Speaker 4: of the week.
Speaker 2: Don't sound surprised that we made it through the week. Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: I mean, do you know what, It's been a big
Speaker 2: week of shows. You know else, it's been a big
Speaker 2: week of married at first sight. Who is watching is
Speaker 2: sick for it? Like it's disgusting, how obsessed? Every season
Speaker 2: gets better and better. But the reason why I'm excited
Speaker 2: is because on today's show, we have John Aiken joining us.
Speaker 2: He is one of the relationship experts.
Speaker 5: I've got some questions for him, like how these people
Speaker 5: actually end up on that show?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And are you a trained expert? How do you get
Speaker 4: the expert title? I want to be an experts. Also,
Speaker 4: I have been banned from a social media and it's
Speaker 4: ruining my life coming up with a big pickup right
Speaker 4: around Australia, all thanks to Chemists, ware House TGF. Everyone
Speaker 4: it's in the vibe, It's in the air. It's the
Speaker 4: pickup with brit Laura and Mitch heading to Chemists ware house,
Speaker 4: purchase any new Ego qv Seramides product and go in
Speaker 4: the running to win a car. We got a car
Speaker 4: for you to win. The competition ends on the twenty
Speaker 4: second of February. Teas and seas. Apply it now, ladies.
Speaker 4: I was trying to tell you what's going on with
Speaker 4: my Facebook situation in the songs. But long story short,
Speaker 4: I've been banned from Facebook marketplace.
Speaker 5: How do you get banned from a marketplace? Is it
Speaker 5: what you were trying to sell?
Speaker 4: Listen? If you know me, you know I love a deal.
Speaker 4: Like My dad's a salesman, right and my mum was
Speaker 4: in sales. That's how they met. So it's in my blood.
Speaker 4: I'm just a haggler and we went on a trip
Speaker 4: to Balley together. Anytime I'm on Facebook Marketplace, I mean
Speaker 4: i feel like I'm in semon yak im like deal,
Speaker 4: give me this price.
Speaker 2: The thing is is that there's getting a bargain and
Speaker 2: then there's just haggling. For haggling's sake, You're telling me
Speaker 2: that you got to a point where you haggled so
Speaker 2: much that now you had to create a fake account
Speaker 2: because of the haggling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're on Facebook Marketplace, you'll know you have
Speaker 4: a five star you I got to half a star
Speaker 4: at a five and then I got a warning and
Speaker 4: then it said your band from selling on Facebook Marketplace
Speaker 4: as Mitch Jury.
Speaker 3: What were you do? Were you swearing at them.
Speaker 4: That someone wanted to sell an electric scooter for ten
Speaker 4: dollars under market price? And I told him he was joking.
Speaker 4: And I may have also said that his profile picture
Speaker 4: was ugly.
Speaker 3: You did not.
Speaker 2: You tried to tell me that you weren't a troll,
Speaker 2: but that is troll behavior, Mitchchu.
Speaker 4: He also did say I love listening to your radio show,
Speaker 4: and you said, and you're ugly, and you're ugly.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So what I've had to do is I've had to dyer.
Speaker 4: I've had to create a fake Facebook account. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 4: I love to introduce you to Elizabeth Libby Tree. Okay, hey,
Speaker 4: pototos on the pickup.
Speaker 2: We should be so annoyed by Vid looking.
Speaker 5: At this for you guys know we're looking at We've
Speaker 5: got the screen here with Mitch's fake profile Elizabeth, we've
Speaker 5: got okay, we've got some blue eye shadows. She looks
Speaker 5: about sixty odd. She has very short, short perms.
Speaker 3: She doesn't look like she could make a great Greek feast.
Speaker 5: No, she looks like a bit of a horder for me.
Speaker 5: Can She shops a lot on Facebook marketplace and keeps
Speaker 5: them all at a house.
Speaker 4: Listen, no one ever give a bad deal to a
Speaker 4: gorgeous old woman like Liby Tricketts.
Speaker 5: You just put a bikini photo off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm having fun with it. I needed to create
Speaker 4: the library. It's a bikini photo. But have a look here,
Speaker 4: I'm selling a pair of DJ decks right to Jamie
Speaker 4: and look, thanks for the offer. I'm having a civil conversation.
Speaker 4: I'm growing and I'm learning.
Speaker 2: So, okay, how is your star rating going when you're
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Libby Trickett turned out?
Speaker 4: Now I'll have to check. I'll have to check someone this.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at a message that says I totally feel
Speaker 5: your mate. Have you written that or have they written
Speaker 5: that to you?
Speaker 4: That's then what did I say?
Speaker 3: You're a six year old woman, have never written to you?
Speaker 4: I feel your mate?
Speaker 3: If you can do three nine hundred dollars, it's yours.
Speaker 3: What are you selling your car?
Speaker 4: My star rating on lib trickat is five out of
Speaker 4: five and that's exactly the reason why I have her.
Speaker 5: I can't I'm putting this on the record. I can't
Speaker 5: condone this. I think that you need to retire Liby.
Speaker 2: I can't condone it because marketplace is so great. I'd
Speaker 2: be really upset if I got kicked off there as well.
Speaker 4: Which the greatest loss in my life.
Speaker 2: Didn't make you realize how you have to Like, you know,
Speaker 2: when you lose something and you're like, I'm going to
Speaker 2: be better. I'm going to be a better man for
Speaker 2: because you realize what you've lost, you've regained it and
Speaker 2: you'll never make the same mistake.
Speaker 5: I had someone impersonating me though.
Speaker 3: This is why I've got a veto it.
Speaker 5: I had someone impersonating me on dating sites and stuff
Speaker 5: that it didn't go down well.
Speaker 3: I was like, Brittany, real Brittany would never say that.
Speaker 4: That's what. I give this woman a break. Libby's a
Speaker 4: beautiful old lady. And if you want to add her
Speaker 4: on Facebook because I need to add to the fake profile,
Speaker 4: please add Liabey Elizabeth Trickett on Facebook.
Speaker 3: Or if you'd like to find her on Tinder. Mitch
Speaker 3: also has a pro while set up on that.
Speaker 4: Unpack that next week. All right, it's a pick up
Speaker 4: around Australia. Up next to the maths expert John Aiken,
Speaker 4: not only talking about this season of Maps, but Britney's
Speaker 4: Doomed to Fail relationship.
Speaker 3: No, don't say it's a doom to fail relationship.
Speaker 1: It happened.
Speaker 5: Now if I get married, you're not invited.
Speaker 4: Oh please, you'll ask me to MC the day he proposes.
Speaker 4: I'm already. It's the pick Up. It's Friday edition of
Speaker 4: the Pickup with Britt, Laura and Mitch. Oh thanks to
Speaker 4: Chemist's Warehouse. Now the world has gone absolutely maths mad.
Speaker 4: It's back on on Channel nine. Laurie officially, You've got
Speaker 4: the you've got the bug you love married at first site.
Speaker 2: Oh like you've lost me every night of the week
Speaker 2: and it's it's my favorite show. It's good because it's
Speaker 2: all the things that you shouldn't do in a relationship.
Speaker 2: But we have today John Aiken joining us. He is
Speaker 2: one of the relationship experts who's on the show, who
Speaker 2: matches the couples and handholds them throughout the whole experiment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have so many questions.
Speaker 3: John, Welcome, Welcome to the pickup.
Speaker 6: Oh, it's good to be here. And look, Laura, I'm
Speaker 6: so glad that you've come out as a maths progic disgusting.
Speaker 6: But Fritz Britt, you and I need to talk. I
Speaker 6: can't believe you haven't watched it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't watch it because I know I'm going
Speaker 2: to get hooked into it. But I do keep up
Speaker 2: with what's happening, like I always go the next day
Speaker 2: and read all the news articles and I get the
Speaker 2: lowdown from Laura because I am interested in I love relationships.
Speaker 5: We have a relationship podcast. But I just know I'm
Speaker 5: going to lose hours of my life every night if
Speaker 5: I allow myself to.
Speaker 6: Well, it does tend to suck you in, and I
Speaker 6: think there are a lot of ingredients in Maths that
Speaker 6: makes it so compelling. I mean, it is a show
Speaker 6: that kind of appeals to both singles and couples. And
Speaker 6: I think it's also based on a fairy tale. And
Speaker 6: you know the experts, we sort of get in there
Speaker 6: and really try and hold them to account.
Speaker 2: Well, John, we know that there's like tens of thousands
Speaker 2: of people who apply for this show, and you have
Speaker 2: the job of helping to match people together.
Speaker 3: How do you go about actually matching these couples?
Speaker 2: Like some people seem particularly not well matched, which might
Speaker 2: come as no surprise.
Speaker 3: I think that's quite a diplomatic way of saying.
Speaker 4: What were you.
Speaker 6: Day, John, That's what I'm getting from that question. Absolutely. Look,
Speaker 6: people do look at it and are often confused. The
Speaker 6: bottom line, it's a quite exhausting two month process. We
Speaker 6: give them tests around things like communication, their values. We
Speaker 6: kind of put them together and then sit back and
Speaker 6: watch like everybody else, to see whether or not they
Speaker 6: can fall in love as complete strangers. We are matching
Speaker 6: them with the eyes on them getting over the line
Speaker 6: and finding the fairy tale. But in saying that, there
Speaker 6: are a lot of things that are uncontrollable, like chemistry.
Speaker 6: They can be difficult to date, let's be honest, and
Speaker 6: so when we put them together, a number of them
Speaker 6: simply do not work out well.
Speaker 5: There's one other women that I've seen, and I've seen
Speaker 5: her everywhere actually since the show ed. That's Melissa, the
Speaker 5: self proclaimed freak in the sheets. She loves to get
Speaker 5: freaky and I'm all about it, and I think there
Speaker 5: are everyone in a strateag is like singing her praises
Speaker 5: right now? How important do you think this matched intimacy
Speaker 5: and matched chemistry and sexual exploration? How important is that
Speaker 5: in a relationship?
Speaker 6: Yes, well, that's a very good question that I think
Speaker 6: a lot of people are going to be asking as
Speaker 6: they watch this season. You know, how you talk about sex,
Speaker 6: who initiates sex? How much is enough in a relationship
Speaker 6: to keep it healthy? All of that starts to become
Speaker 6: quite a conversation topic, not just between the couple, but
Speaker 6: also in the group. For me, sex is important because
Speaker 6: it's a good gauge of a temperature in a relationship.
Speaker 6: You know, if you're having it regularly, then you know
Speaker 6: you're connecting and you're reaffirming to your partner that they're special.
Speaker 6: When it's not around, you know, it can start to
Speaker 6: create a distance. It's not the only thing. You've got
Speaker 6: to have a lot more than just sex, but I
Speaker 6: do think it's got to be made a priority in
Speaker 6: a relationship for it to keep the connection going.
Speaker 4: Well, John, you mentioned distance there, and that's something that
Speaker 4: I wanted to bring up and lack of sex. I mean,
Speaker 4: those things go hand in hand. How very un Brittany
Speaker 4: Hockey has just entered into a long distance relationship. So
Speaker 4: not only is she not getting it daily, which I'm
Speaker 4: sure she'd love to do, but her new boyfriend is
Speaker 4: thousands of kilometers away living in Scotland. So do you
Speaker 4: have any advice for couples that are new ely long
Speaker 4: distance and can they last?
Speaker 6: Well? They can last, But I think what you've got
Speaker 6: to do, Britt, is to make sure that you have
Speaker 6: a number of things in place outside of that. Britt,
Speaker 6: what I would say is that you've got to know
Speaker 6: the time zones. You've got to be constantly contacting them
Speaker 6: at regular parts of the day. You also need to
Speaker 6: see them face to face on a regular basis, so
Speaker 6: you fly to him or he flies to you. So
Speaker 6: anytime you have a big calendar, you've got to really
Speaker 6: make it special. But I think, ultimately, Brett, if it's
Speaker 6: going to work, then you two have to have an
Speaker 6: end date in mind where he's either going to come
Speaker 6: and live here or you're going to live there.
Speaker 5: He's going to be listening to this, so it's probably
Speaker 5: pretty important that he's like consistently buying me presents and
Speaker 5: stuff as well. Is that right?
Speaker 6: Well? Absolutely, and feel very special.
Speaker 3: You don't have to agree with your expert, John, Brittany
Speaker 3: is a hijack. The is a therapy session for herself.
Speaker 2: I'm very sorry about that, but we are all I mean, well,
Speaker 2: actually I won't speak on behalf of britt. I am
Speaker 2: thoroughly enjoying mass and we can't wait to see what
Speaker 2: unfolds this season.
Speaker 4: All right, it's all going down. I married at first
Speaker 4: Sight on Channel nine and give it a watch, John
Speaker 4: Ak and there one of the experts. Thank you, buddy. Hey,
Speaker 4: next we are going to unback. We've asked the experts.
Speaker 4: But now what we've done is we've asked the pick
Speaker 4: up audience. Have you been in a long distance relationship
Speaker 4: and has it succeeded? Did it go the distance? Or
Speaker 4: did it fail? We have the responses on.
Speaker 5: The edge of my seat.
Speaker 4: The pickup pole next and the pick up around Australia.
Speaker 4: Friday afternoon on the pickup with britt, Laura and Mitch
Speaker 4: head into chemist warehouse, go purchase any new Ego qv
Speaker 4: Seramides product and go in the running to win a car.
Speaker 4: That competition ends on the twenty second of feb gees
Speaker 4: and sees apply Now, Laura, we got the results of
Speaker 4: our online competition.
Speaker 2: What an online competition it was? Hey, poor Brittany over here, Yes,
Speaker 2: poor Brittany.
Speaker 3: We got the maps relationship expert giving me grilly.
Speaker 5: We've got you guys, give me a grilling. We got
Speaker 5: the listeners, given me a grill. And I just want
Speaker 5: to be in my happy long distance relationship.
Speaker 2: Because we love you so much and we have seen
Speaker 2: how the past long distance relationship worked out.
Speaker 3: We were a bit worried put it that way, so
Speaker 3: we did a call out. We wanted to know.
Speaker 2: We just kind of wanted to canvas the audience and
Speaker 2: see who's done long distance, who did it work out for?
Speaker 3: And who didn't it work out?
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 4: Did your long distance last the distance? We put it
Speaker 4: up on the pickup website. We got Emily on thirteen
Speaker 4: one oh sixty five. What happened in your long distance relationship?
Speaker 7: Were together for about three years and I found out
Speaker 7: that my partner had moved on through Facebook when a
Speaker 7: friend contacted me during a lunch break and decided to
Speaker 7: tell me that my relationship was over. So they how
Speaker 7: did they find out his Facebook? Status had changed.
Speaker 3: Wait, did it change to being single or in a
Speaker 3: relationship with someone else?
Speaker 4: Complicated? It's competent in a relationship with someone else and
Speaker 4: you had no discussion about it? How long had you
Speaker 4: not spoken since that happened?
Speaker 7: A week?
Speaker 5: What a little ship?
Speaker 3: At least you gave it some breathing room, right, one week.
Speaker 4: Was the death of the relationship the long distance aspect?
Speaker 4: Or was the death of the relationship? That he was
Speaker 4: just a flop?
Speaker 6: Ah, he was a flop.
Speaker 7: I think he just thought he could have a woman
Speaker 7: in two states.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he really made it quite a grave
Speaker 2: error when he put it on Facebook, didn't he.
Speaker 3: That really foiled the plan.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well apparently he didn't even know about it.
Speaker 4: She did it?
Speaker 6: Did you?
Speaker 4: Oh what happened when you?
Speaker 5: Obviously you went to your partner and said, Yo, you're
Speaker 5: in another relationship.
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 6: What did he say?
Speaker 7: Well, he screened my calls for about a day and then.
Speaker 3: Well we had it a heart attack and I was like,
Speaker 3: what am I going to do?
Speaker 7: And then he denied it initially and then and then yeah,
Speaker 7: broke it to me, and I just sort of said,
Speaker 7: you know, we could have done this a different in
Speaker 7: a different manner.
Speaker 4: But okay, yeah, definitely could off. Oh listen, Emily, we're
Speaker 4: going to give you a five hundred dollar chemist way
Speaker 4: House gift card if I've been.
Speaker 5: Where you are before, so you definitely get the five
Speaker 5: hundred dollars. But I'm still feeling optimistic, guys. I'm feeling
Speaker 5: great about my relationship. I think man is an angel
Speaker 5: and I will eat my words if his Facebook status updates.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Emily. I think you've listening to the first
Speaker 4: week of the pick up done and dusted. That's our
Speaker 4: first week done.
Speaker 3: That is our first many more to come. Well, let's
Speaker 3: just see what the bosses say over the weekend.
Speaker 4: But it would be fine.
Speaker 3: That was great fun, guys, so much fun. And we'll
Speaker 3: be back next week.
Speaker 4: Guys. Yeah, big show. We'll see you Monday. Thanks for listening, guys,