Speaker 1: The Pickup with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn. Radio Work,
Speaker 1: our windows, my world risen the dust, only good babs
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Speaker 2: I don't much, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah I'm not. I'll big get and what I want.
Speaker 3: It don't matter where that goes.
Speaker 1: This is the pickup. Happy Thursday, everybody, It's the Pickup
Speaker 1: with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn.
Speaker 3: You know one thing, I'm really proud of Laura.
Speaker 1: If you say dancing with the Stars, I wasn't, but
Speaker 1: now that you've brought it up, no, that's.
Speaker 3: Not what I was gonna say.
Speaker 4: Dance Proud that I have never played a game on
Speaker 4: my phone.
Speaker 3: I've never been one of those people that like get
Speaker 3: addicted to an app. I am picking my drop off
Speaker 3: the ground.
Speaker 4: Our producer, Grace, I just like heard some beeping going
Speaker 4: over in the corner like like, and I was like,
Speaker 4: what are you doing?
Speaker 1: I mean, Grace under a bus.
Speaker 4: This is how addicted she She took a couple of
Speaker 4: minutes before we started. Tell everyone what you're playing?
Speaker 1: What this is slander for starters? If it's real, absolute slander.
Speaker 5: I have this game that I'm a bit addicted to
Speaker 5: on my phone. I've been playing it for a couple
Speaker 5: of years. It's called gardenscapes. Is it the same as
Speaker 5: candy Crush or is it similar?
Speaker 1: It's like candy crush, but look at it. Hold away.
Speaker 5: When you like finish the levels, you get little rewards
Speaker 5: and you.
Speaker 1: Can help this butler build his garden.
Speaker 3: You're such a nerd and I'm on.
Speaker 1: Level of thirteen, eight hundred and ninety.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what this explains a lot o brit
Speaker 3: You can't talk.
Speaker 1: You always talk about how your mum's playing candy crush,
Speaker 1: like my mom with this, Leave my mom out of it. Well,
Speaker 1: while we're slandering people, I just thought I dragged Nikki
Speaker 1: in as well. My mom's not. Is there anyone else
Speaker 1: out there who would like to be offended? Call up
Speaker 1: the pickup? Well you could.
Speaker 3: You could probably play with my mom if you want.
Speaker 1: Oh, maybe we can become friends. You could be in
Speaker 1: she'd love that. Yeah, she needs more. Well, well, look
Speaker 1: if you guys, if you guys need any help, maybe
Speaker 1: it's because you have a phone addiction or something else
Speaker 1: going on in your life. We've got ask gun cut
Speaker 1: coming up next where we answer your deep dark and
Speaker 1: you're burning questions And look here it is. Here's a
Speaker 1: big dilemma that we've probably all been faced with. But
Speaker 1: what do you do when you get someone a really
Speaker 1: good gift and then you find out that they don't
Speaker 1: actually like it they're selling it a marketplace?
Speaker 3: Well that's so rough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the dilemma we're dealing with, and it.
Speaker 4: Is time for us to solve all of your problems.
Speaker 3: It's ask gun Cut.
Speaker 4: We do this every week on our podcast Life on
Speaker 4: Cut podcast. You calling or you're writing with your deepest,
Speaker 4: darkest burning questions, we do our best to answer them.
Speaker 4: And today we have a really tricky conundrum. We have
Speaker 4: Brendan on the line. Brendan, what is going on?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so about six months ago, I got a friend
Speaker 6: of mine for their birthday really lovely glassware. There's some
Speaker 6: quite expensive glass where. I thought she'd really love them.
Speaker 6: I thought they really suited her style and personality. I mean,
Speaker 6: she seemed to really like them. When I gave it
Speaker 6: to her.
Speaker 7: She was like, oh my god, this's a beautiful.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much. But I've just seen yesterday that
Speaker 6: she's put them on marketplace, and I feel really like
Speaker 6: betrayed and upset list things.
Speaker 1: On marketplace don't you hide it from your direct friends?
Speaker 1: Like isn't that just like marketplace one O one?
Speaker 6: That is an option that like comes up?
Speaker 7: But she must have.
Speaker 6: She just didn't do it because I could see them.
Speaker 6: I could see that they were attached to her profile.
Speaker 6: And they're definitely the glasses that I cave.
Speaker 1: Okay, how expensive other glasses?
Speaker 3: Relevant?
Speaker 1: I think it's relevant because like it goes into like
Speaker 1: the efforts like was it fine crystal?
Speaker 6: There was a thrend of dollars set?
Speaker 1: Oh it's expensive okay? And is she going through a
Speaker 1: financial hardship at the moment? So that could explain a lot.
Speaker 6: Oh well, I don't think so. Not that not that
Speaker 6: she's brought me across.
Speaker 3: Does she drink alcohol?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Does she drink anything alcohol?
Speaker 6: And it's not they would look lovely on a shell.
Speaker 3: We don't want glasses for a shell if we want
Speaker 3: to use them.
Speaker 1: What do you want to do? Like what are you thinking?
Speaker 1: What are you calling you?
Speaker 2: I know?
Speaker 1: But like what are you weighing up here? Are you worrying?
Speaker 1: Like you're going to confront her about it? Are you're
Speaker 1: going to buy them? Offer? Like what are you going
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I kind of feel like confronting her. I kind of.
Speaker 6: I feel they were really nice, cused, and that she
Speaker 6: seemed to really like them, and it's a bit a
Speaker 6: bit off that she's reselling them and reselling them and
Speaker 6: letting me see that.
Speaker 3: Nah, I feel really uncomfortable by that.
Speaker 4: You can't, No, I'm saying, no, I don't think you
Speaker 4: can confront her at the end of the day. I
Speaker 4: understand it's not great and it makes you feel shitty,
Speaker 4: but at the end.
Speaker 3: Of the day, they belong to her now she wants.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that there's a way that you
Speaker 1: can do this that isn't extremely passive aggressive, like you're
Speaker 1: going to send her a screenshot and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: so I suppose you didn't like those glasses I gave you, Like,
Speaker 1: there's no nice way that this is going to unfold.
Speaker 3: However, how much is she selling them for?
Speaker 1: She making them profit, she's.
Speaker 6: Only selling them for I think I think it was
Speaker 6: two hundred I saw, so she's less than they actually were.
Speaker 6: But I mean, but should I ask her, like, if
Speaker 6: the gift was a bit off and then she prefers
Speaker 6: something different.
Speaker 1: You could have exchanged it.
Speaker 3: Could you passively aggressively just like the post. You know,
Speaker 3: I kind of like that, like just give it a
Speaker 3: like or maybe.
Speaker 4: Be like just try what location like, just do a
Speaker 4: little passive aggressive.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I feel incredibly uncomfortable thinking about the whole thing.
Speaker 1: To be fair, though, she's not I mean, market place
Speaker 1: is all about a bargain. She's not getting two hundred
Speaker 1: dollars for ur news glasses. It's too high. She's go lower.
Speaker 3: No, if they're crisp, fine crystal.
Speaker 6: Like, they're really nice glasses. And so I was kind
Speaker 6: of that's why I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, Oh, I think unfortunately, in this instance, you're just
Speaker 1: gonna have to accept that your friend hated your gift.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm really sorry.
Speaker 5: Romend.
Speaker 4: So she possibly loved them for six months and now
Speaker 4: they don't service her anymore, but also possibly not. So
Speaker 4: maybe one night when you're drunk, you can ask her
Speaker 4: about it when you're over there, be like, hey.
Speaker 3: Where are those glasses, Let's use the glasses.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, that's totally going to happen. I'm so
Speaker 6: totally going to happen.
Speaker 1: I'm actually soorry.
Speaker 6: I'll let you know how it goes.
Speaker 1: Oh please do please give us a call back Brendon,
Speaker 1: Thanks guys. See, now this one is a bit of
Speaker 1: an odd one for you guys, but it is something
Speaker 1: that I have been following pretty closely across social media.
Speaker 1: You might be aware that in the States they've brought
Speaker 1: out some new legislation around family vlogging and paying your
Speaker 1: children for appearing in content. So this is specifically for
Speaker 1: like influencers who make their money of having their kids
Speaker 1: like mummy influence. Yeah, mummy influencers. Now, the thing with
Speaker 1: the US is that laws are created state by state,
Speaker 1: So laws that are being passed in say California, are
Speaker 1: very very different to what might be passed in s Tennessee.
Speaker 1: So recently there was a law that was passed, basically
Speaker 1: it was a Californian bill which requires content creators who
Speaker 1: feature minor children in at least thirty percent of their
Speaker 1: content to set aside sixty five percent of their earnings
Speaker 1: into a trust fund, which then the child would be
Speaker 1: able to access at eighteen years old. Sixty five percent long,
Speaker 1: it's huge, it's a huge amount. So basically, if a
Speaker 1: child is appearing in any more than thirty percent of
Speaker 1: the content, they get sixty five percent of the earnings
Speaker 1: The thing is, though, is that there seems to be
Speaker 1: some very famous Californian families who have made millions upon
Speaker 1: millions of dollars off the back of their families and
Speaker 1: their children who are now leaving California and moving to
Speaker 1: other states. Most of them are under the guise of
Speaker 1: like wanting to have you know, a farm change or
Speaker 1: move somewhere with her calma and more relaxed lifestyle, like a.
Speaker 3: Sense of community space.
Speaker 1: But the thing is is like a lot of it
Speaker 1: has been very oddly timed. And there's one influencer in
Speaker 1: particular who's come under fire. Her name's at Britney Xavier.
Speaker 1: She's got five point one million followers on TikTok. She's
Speaker 1: a really really like, well loved sort of family vlogger
Speaker 1: who she shares her own stuff, but she really does
Speaker 1: lean into the fact that she's a mom and her
Speaker 1: kids are often in her content, far more than thirty percent.
Speaker 1: And she moved just two weeks after these laws came
Speaker 1: into place. So people are calling around and saying that
Speaker 1: the move has to do with her not wanting to
Speaker 1: remunerate her kids, but she's saying, well, no, it was
Speaker 1: just bad timing and you know, we had molded our
Speaker 1: place in California, so we had to get out. I
Speaker 1: mean we spoke by this so many times.
Speaker 4: I definitely think that children should be paid, but sixty
Speaker 4: five percent is a lot, like if they are just
Speaker 4: in the content, but the parents are still the people
Speaker 4: that are, like I guess, doing the work, doing the editing,
Speaker 4: taking them where they need to go, making brand deals.
Speaker 4: Sixty five percent is a lot to be putting into
Speaker 4: a trust fund for the child. I don't know what
Speaker 4: I believe the laws and regulation should be, but like
Speaker 4: without doubt one hundred percent of these influences, the reason
Speaker 4: they are moving is not to grow food. The reason
Speaker 4: that they are moving is to avoid paying sixty five
Speaker 4: percent of their earning.
Speaker 1: Lis. I don't know if we can say one hundred
Speaker 1: like you know, but it is interesting because it's come
Speaker 1: off the back. There's a really famous case in the States,
Speaker 1: Ruby Frankie. She's been convicted for thirty years for child abuse.
Speaker 1: Fantastic Disney plus documentary that's available now around it. But
Speaker 1: these changes have come about because of families who have
Speaker 1: exploited their children. So there had to be some legislation
Speaker 1: that was brought in. But I would say that the
Speaker 1: vast majority of parents who do genuinely care about their
Speaker 1: children are safeguarding their children's future. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think about it from our perspective because my husband and
Speaker 1: I we've got two kids. We often post them online,
Speaker 1: not in terms of like we're very mediated with how
Speaker 1: we do it, but they have appeared in our online content,
Speaker 1: and they do sometimes appear in brand partnerships that we
Speaker 1: do across you know, the network or the radio shows
Speaker 1: or whatever. But we have separate bank accounts for them.
Speaker 1: I'm careful about saying this because I don't actually want
Speaker 1: the kids to know this, because I don't want them
Speaker 1: to grow up thinking that they're growing.
Speaker 3: They don't listen to the radio at pre school.
Speaker 1: I know Molly's in school, she could know this now,
Speaker 1: but like growing up on a silver spoon is like
Speaker 1: a real worry I have for them. But we put
Speaker 1: money away every year as though that they I mean,
Speaker 1: if they've done the work, they earn the money, and
Speaker 1: when they do turn you know, the right age. And
Speaker 1: the thing that's really cool about that is it's not
Speaker 1: money that we've set aside for them that we're giving them.
Speaker 1: It's theirs. They earned it, it's their money, and also
Speaker 1: we're able to put it in like a really great
Speaker 1: compounding interest bank account, so they're going to have a
Speaker 1: lot more than what they would have had had they
Speaker 1: were accessing it every year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but then we're banking on the fact that everybody
Speaker 4: that is in this position is doing what you're doing
Speaker 4: and as good a person as you're doing and saying, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm going to safe god their future. Having said that,
Speaker 4: there'd be a lot of people that aren't doing that,
Speaker 4: but the child is still benefiting.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of people that would.
Speaker 4: Be using that income so that they live in a
Speaker 4: nice house and their families gone nice holidays and their
Speaker 4: kids go to nice school. So it might indirectly be
Speaker 4: going back into the children's upbringing. But there's no way
Speaker 4: to regulate that unless you literally put.
Speaker 3: A law down like they have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think it's a really hard thing to
Speaker 1: quantify what is the right amount, like you know, sharing
Speaker 1: someone's childhood online, exposing them without them being able to
Speaker 1: have consent to it, and saying well I sent you
Speaker 1: to a nice school, Well you lived in a nice house.
Speaker 1: Does that equate? Is that monetary value a fair value.
Speaker 1: You know, I guess like it is tricky when the
Speaker 1: decisions is completely left up to the parents and there
Speaker 1: aren't enough regulations around it.
Speaker 4: I would have grown up and been like, well, I
Speaker 4: would have preferred you to send me to a public
Speaker 4: school and had fifty thousand dollars right now.
Speaker 1: Totally, totally, So I think that this push in California
Speaker 1: that's happened is really exceptional, and I actually hope that
Speaker 1: within Australia we have rules that come into place that
Speaker 1: make family vlogging a more responsible space so the kids
Speaker 1: aren't being exploited online.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be talking to tattoo regrets. So if you
Speaker 4: are out there listening right now and you've got a
Speaker 4: tattoo that you wish you didn't get, give us a
Speaker 4: call and let us know.
Speaker 3: Because Pete Davidson.
Speaker 4: Pete Davidson had something like two hundred tattoos on his body.
Speaker 1: Whole body was covered. It was sort of like what
Speaker 1: he was known for.
Speaker 4: But he look at him now, Laura, he has had
Speaker 4: every single tattoo laser removed.
Speaker 3: I reckon, he's really hot now.
Speaker 1: I don't mind a tattoo like I'm quite I quite
Speaker 1: like a tattooed.
Speaker 4: Man, I don't want a tattoo either, but like, this
Speaker 4: is two hundred tattoos is a lot.
Speaker 1: It is. But also if you've the two hundred tattoos,
Speaker 1: is two hundred decisions to get tattoos, Like, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of time that you could have changed your mind
Speaker 1: along the way. So in twenty twenty to around and said, actually,
Speaker 1: I'm going to get them all lasered off. I know
Speaker 1: you can laser tattoos off. I didn't think you could
Speaker 1: laser off this many.
Speaker 4: My fiancee Ben is laser in a tattooth at the moment.
Speaker 4: Which one not Gladiator, not Russell Crowe. He's got Russell
Speaker 4: Crowe tattooed on his thigh, which is cute.
Speaker 1: This needs so much like BRIT's fiance has a Gladiator
Speaker 1: scene tattooed to his thigh.
Speaker 4: It's the detail on Russell Crowe's face quite close to
Speaker 4: his nether region, is an interesting choice.
Speaker 1: When I first saw it, what did you think? The
Speaker 1: very first time you said, were you like, is that
Speaker 1: Russell Crowe?
Speaker 4: I was like, hey, Russ, I didn't see the detail
Speaker 4: of Russell Crowe's face. And it wasn't until a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks later, I was like, hang on a minute,
Speaker 4: is that gladiator?
Speaker 1: Is that gladiator?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, he's just getting a little He had a quote
Speaker 4: written on his arm.
Speaker 1: What was it.
Speaker 4: I think it was something like always believe or something motivational,
Speaker 4: But he got it so young that it all bled
Speaker 4: into one another and you couldn't.
Speaker 3: Really read it anymore. So he's like, I'll just remove it.
Speaker 1: I have quite a big one down my side that
Speaker 1: I got when I was like twenty, and most people
Speaker 1: cut a fringe when they've gone through a bad breakup.
Speaker 1: I on this occasion decided I would get a side tattoo.
Speaker 1: And it is probably like it's twenty five centimeters long. Like,
Speaker 1: it's quite long, and it's a it's a harmster hand
Speaker 1: show Grace. So I don't want to show grace. I
Speaker 1: don't want to show she's looking for producer grace.
Speaker 3: It's exactly what she describes.
Speaker 1: Tell me, you tell me, how is it as long
Speaker 1: as I think it is? Oh, it's so much longer
Speaker 1: than I thought it was. It's really quite thick. Well
Speaker 1: it wasn't. When I got it done. It was really
Speaker 1: soft and detailed. But now from like sun exposure and age,
Speaker 1: and I've had two babies. Like it's just stretched now.
Speaker 1: I just have like a weird hand melting down the
Speaker 1: side of my body. And you've also got.
Speaker 3: Like a club stamp tattoo.
Speaker 1: And I'm also not Hindu, so it's just not appropriate.
Speaker 4: I you also just can't be bothered to get it
Speaker 4: laysered off, so you've just committed to it.
Speaker 1: It's not that I can't be bothered. It's because of
Speaker 1: the pain. It's so dark, it's so old, and it's
Speaker 1: so big. You gave birth to two kids with an
Speaker 1: EPI dural. If you could give me all the drugs
Speaker 1: in the world, I'll go and get it laysered off.
Speaker 1: But maybe we can make content out of it, but
Speaker 1: I I just don't think I could.
Speaker 3: Hey, we've got Phoenix on the line. Phoenix. If you've
Speaker 3: got a tattoo that you regret, what's your situation.
Speaker 7: Hey, so I've got a tattoo that my mum regrets
Speaker 7: me getting. A few years ago, I was traveling in
Speaker 7: Greece doing a KENTICKI and we were on our last
Speaker 7: night at a club and there was a tattoo parlor
Speaker 7: in the club and I was like, oh, my God,
Speaker 7: I really want to get a tattoo, but I don't
Speaker 7: know what to get. And I thought, oh, what did
Speaker 7: I have for dinner? And I went in and I
Speaker 7: got better written on my ass just the word fetter.
Speaker 3: So not a block of fair, just the worst.
Speaker 1: That's the word fetter on your ass, So stupid. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: do you?
Speaker 3: And you don't regret that?
Speaker 7: There's two other people that have it somewhere in the
Speaker 7: world as well, so I'm not sure how they're feeling,
Speaker 7: but kind of quirky.
Speaker 1: I do like that. You just kind of will like,
Speaker 1: you know, yolo, I want to get a tattoo today.
Speaker 1: I don't really care what it's about.
Speaker 4: You in a club in another country screams, doesn't scream
Speaker 4: like occupacial health safety.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not about what you get tattooed on you,
Speaker 1: it's the story surrounding it.
Speaker 3: Okay, listen with them.
Speaker 1: She doesn't know who they are.
Speaker 3: They were just on a Kentiki trip. She's like, somewhere in.
Speaker 1: The world, did they also eat fetter that night? That's
Speaker 1: the real question.
Speaker 7: They did. They had to seek it, but I was like, guys,
Speaker 7: better looks so much better than to seek.
Speaker 6: No one can.
Speaker 3: Spell to seeking.
Speaker 1: No one can spell it. Thank you. I regret that
Speaker 1: one for you as well.
Speaker 3: Okay, we've got Michayla on the line.
Speaker 4: Him, Mikayla, Helloka, what do you regret?
Speaker 2: My brother got our mum's brownie recipe tattooed on his back.
Speaker 1: Is it a particularly good brownie recipe?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean it's not bad, like a whole brownie recipe.
Speaker 4: He got the whole, like every ingredient and like the methods,
Speaker 4: every ingredient and the method, so it's like, oh, whatever
Speaker 4: it is.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, a cup of sugar, cup of milk,
Speaker 2: cup of flour talking together, like the shoulder blade covered.
Speaker 1: The whole shoulder blade is covered in your mum's brownie recipe.
Speaker 1: I feel like mum would either be really peace also
Speaker 1: incredibly flattered. It's going to go one or two ways.
Speaker 2: No, she loved it. He's also like a bit of
Speaker 2: a golden boy in the family, so that really helps
Speaker 2: him out there with getting to the favorite list when
Speaker 2: he's cooking.
Speaker 4: Now, does he follow the recipe?
Speaker 2: I don't think he would ever admit it. I think
Speaker 2: it was just a way to like approach girls when
Speaker 2: he was younger, to be like, Hey, I got my
Speaker 2: mum's brownie tattooed on my back, and then they'd be like, oh,
Speaker 2: really show me.
Speaker 1: Oh that's why I sort of love it. I also
Speaker 1: think he got it somewhere where he doesn't have to
Speaker 1: see it and someone else can make him brownie. So
Speaker 1: that's what that is. Sounds like a real tack exactly.
Speaker 2: He hates it now, Like if you bring it up
Speaker 2: with him, he'll be.
Speaker 7: Like, oh no, don't talk about it.
Speaker 2: He tries to be a respectful lawyer.
Speaker 4: Now, so respectful lawyer with a brownie recipe, Thank you
Speaker 4: for that.
Speaker 1: Look, well, it's the end of the show, guys,