Speaker 1: Listen, girls, at the moment, with the election going on,
Speaker 1: there's so much news in the air, and you go,
Speaker 1: where do I get my news from?
Speaker 2: What publication do we go to?
Speaker 3: Of course they come here listen to us. Why would
Speaker 3: you not come to the pickup to unpack all the
Speaker 3: great That's what.
Speaker 2: We do every Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I bring Brita Laura the biggest news stories of the
Speaker 1: middle of the week and then they decide whether we
Speaker 1: pick them up, we keep the conversation going, or we
Speaker 1: put it down.
Speaker 2: We never speak on the topic again. Are we ready, girls?
Speaker 4: We aren't ready?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 5: Pick up?
Speaker 2: Put down?
Speaker 1: Anthony Albanesi using his prime ministerial power to get free
Speaker 1: update upgrades on Quantus flights.
Speaker 4: Pick it up, pick it up.
Speaker 3: I was having this conversation with my mother in law
Speaker 3: surprisingly yesterday because like everyone was up in arms that
Speaker 3: Albo recently bought himself an expensive property. It was like
Speaker 3: a four million dollar property that was beachfront. You did, okay,
Speaker 3: And I understand that in the cost of living that
Speaker 3: seems crazy, but he also is the man that runs
Speaker 3: this country. And if it's not like a well paying job,
Speaker 3: who's gonna want.
Speaker 4: To do it?
Speaker 3: Like no one's gonna do that for free, so I
Speaker 3: do kind of expect that, like it comes with it's
Speaker 3: per Well.
Speaker 1: Here we go, the details have come out, He asked
Speaker 1: Alan Joyce, the then CEO of Quantas, for twenty two upgrades
Speaker 1: on economy tickets. Right, some were personal holidays to Hawaii,
Speaker 1: Europe in La there during his time as Transport Minister,
Speaker 1: not during his time as Prime minister.
Speaker 4: You have to transport to La you gotta get so
Speaker 4: checks out. I mean, if anyone's gonna.
Speaker 3: Have a perk when it comes to transport, it probably
Speaker 3: should be the Transport minister.
Speaker 6: Can I just say, I don't know many people in
Speaker 6: this world that if they have an opportunity to upgrade
Speaker 6: themselves in some way, that they would say no.
Speaker 2: But you know, we get we get free donuts every
Speaker 2: now and again.
Speaker 1: Like if you're a baker, you get to take home
Speaker 1: croissants at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: There are perks in your job. Give him a break. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think there's far worse things he could be doing.
Speaker 4: That's for sure.
Speaker 2: It's all allegedly of course as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't see us outbo.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's fucko busy to suit.
Speaker 4: The pick up in his beautiful beach front mansion.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about this pick up? Put down ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Sean Mendez finally addressing his sexuality.
Speaker 4: What I'm going to put it down. I'm going to
Speaker 4: pick it up.
Speaker 3: And I don't know whether you're angry about it or happy, Mitch,
Speaker 3: because you've kind of I don't know, Like, why is
Speaker 3: everyone up in arms about this?
Speaker 2: No one, No one's up in arms.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm only putting it down because I don't think
Speaker 6: we should have to be in a society where someone
Speaker 6: has to come out and address their sexuality.
Speaker 1: No, I agree, but I think we need to talk
Speaker 1: about it as someone who is gay and who struggle
Speaker 1: with their sexuality. I want to play you what Sean
Speaker 1: said at his concept overnight. This is pretty breaking news.
Speaker 1: He has faced the poor thing. Allegations are being gay,
Speaker 1: not even allegations. For God's sake, people have outed him
Speaker 1: four years because he's slightly more feminine, he's a.
Speaker 2: Musician, he looks after himself. This is what he's had
Speaker 2: to say after all these years.
Speaker 5: The real truth of all my life and my sexuality
Speaker 5: is that man, I'm just I'm just figuring it out,
Speaker 5: Like everyone, and I don't really know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes and I know other teams, and.
Speaker 5: It feels really scary because we live in a society
Speaker 5: that has a lot to see about that. And I'm
Speaker 5: trying to be really brief and just allowed myself to
Speaker 5: be a human and feel things. And yeah, I just
Speaker 5: that's all I really want to say about that for now.
Speaker 4: Mitch, how do you feel listening to that?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: It makes me so proud of him because I know
Speaker 2: how hard it is to come out.
Speaker 1: For some people, it's easy, and I know there's young
Speaker 1: kids listening to this, old parents that have gay kids
Speaker 1: that go as easy for my kids. He's twenty five,
Speaker 1: twenty six, you know, I'm twenty nine, different time, And
Speaker 1: I don't think it matters where you were raised, how
Speaker 1: old you are. Your own sexuality is your own journey.
Speaker 1: And I really struggle before I came out, everyone thinking
Speaker 1: I was gay already assuming putting a label on me.
Speaker 1: And that is why it delayed me for so long,
Speaker 1: because I hadn't come to the point myself, but everyone
Speaker 1: else wanted to tell me first. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I just think I could not in a bad way.
Speaker 6: I could not care less and if he yeah, you're
Speaker 6: figuring it out. He's an incredible artist, and that's where
Speaker 6: we should.
Speaker 2: Stop it totally.
Speaker 1: And you know what we owe to him now is
Speaker 1: to shut up about privacy and let him date who
Speaker 1: he wants to tell.
Speaker 4: I love that you said that, but you also brought
Speaker 4: it to discuss it.
Speaker 1: I know, but I brought it to discuss it because
Speaker 1: I think it's important to talk about and.
Speaker 2: Now shut up about Shawn Mendes. Yeah, we're gonna play
Speaker 2: Sham Mendes' song ironically next. I believe that's big up
Speaker 2: put down.
Speaker 4: We happy with the stories, girls, I'm happy with the stories. Mitch,
Speaker 4: well done today. Thank you so great to unpack them all.
Speaker 4: All right, all were coming up.
Speaker 3: I wanted to talk about something that you would think.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was heartfelt. It really was heartfelt, but
Speaker 3: also it didn't exactly go to plan. And that is
Speaker 3: on the weekend we scattered my grandparents' ashes. Let me
Speaker 3: tell you some things went down that probably shouldn't have
Speaker 3: the ashes.
Speaker 4: No, guys, it's just this.
Speaker 3: You have an idea about how something's going to go
Speaker 3: in your head, and it certainly doesn't always go to plan.
Speaker 4: I can't wait for that one.