Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 2: Australia.
Speaker 3: Hello, hi Bud.
Speaker 4: You know this week yesterday we were talking about how
Speaker 4: so many kids are back to school, but not all
Speaker 4: kids are back to school yet. I was speaking to
Speaker 4: my sister earlier and my nephew. He starts school next week,
Speaker 4: but he is so excited about starting kindergarten that he's
Speaker 4: been going to sleep every night wearing his school uniform.
Speaker 3: He's been wearing his socks, he's been wearing.
Speaker 2: The little shorts.
Speaker 4: He's even been wearing his hat to bed with its
Speaker 4: little school emblem on the front.
Speaker 3: And I am dying from cuteness.
Speaker 2: This is all backpack.
Speaker 3: Packed ready for the Monday for next week. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: a big day for kids.
Speaker 2: No, of course it is. And we're their show. The
Speaker 2: pickup is the show for the kids when they get
Speaker 2: picked up.
Speaker 3: That's so we do the show when they've finally made
Speaker 3: it to the end of the day. Yes, safely in
Speaker 3: the car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kids, just what Adults want to clock off and
Speaker 2: have a nice cold one, and kids want to listen
Speaker 2: to Britt Mitche and Laura. That's like the Australian way, don't.
Speaker 5: You think, Britt, Only if you had the motivation you know,
Speaker 5: I often think that now if I had the motivation
Speaker 5: of what little kids do when they start school, like
Speaker 5: maybe I should start sleeping in my uniform to come
Speaker 5: to radio.
Speaker 2: What just a Gucci belt and a low rise tank top.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've seen you sleep basically that anyway.
Speaker 5: And I can just roll out of bed and come
Speaker 5: straight into work.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 5: Other time of year, it is not the time that
Speaker 5: you knew his resolutions drops off, but it is Math's time,
Speaker 5: and man that comes around quickly. We are going to
Speaker 5: speak to the relationship expert John Aitken next and he's
Speaker 5: going to give us all of that juicy goss that
Speaker 5: you can't wait to hear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, last night was a big episode, so we'll unpack
Speaker 2: it live on the air next at the pickup. Hey,
Speaker 2: last night you would have seen it. It is back
Speaker 2: on our tellies. We love this. Married at First Sight
Speaker 2: has returned for its eleventh season.
Speaker 3: I'm obsessed.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. People love it and we watch it
Speaker 2: for the drama with the contestants. We also watch it
Speaker 2: for the amazing experts that we get to see on
Speaker 2: the couch every single night. John Aiken obviously been there
Speaker 2: since the start. He joins us now on the pickup.
Speaker 2: Welcome John, Hello, it's.
Speaker 1: Great to be here, and what an episode it was
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 3: Hi John.
Speaker 4: Do you know what every year this rolls around and
Speaker 4: we're here asking you for your relationship advice. But this
Speaker 4: year on the show you have one of the oldest
Speaker 4: couples or the oldest participant, Richard, he's sixty two. Was
Speaker 4: this something that was like a conscious Were you casting
Speaker 4: for an older couple or did it just kind of
Speaker 4: happened that way?
Speaker 1: Well, I think with any sort of reality show, you
Speaker 1: really are a little bit essentially at the at the
Speaker 1: behest of a you know who put their hands up
Speaker 1: for it. And we had an older couples this year
Speaker 1: that really wanted to be on it, and we thought, yeah,
Speaker 1: why not, And we need to evolve, we need to
Speaker 1: keep it fresh and a diverse cast is what we've
Speaker 1: come up with. We do have the same sex couple,
Speaker 1: we have older participants, and they're very relatable I think,
Speaker 1: and most people are going to find it very interesting.
Speaker 2: John, I loved watching last night that speech hunt that
Speaker 2: went down at the reception. Was that made me like,
Speaker 2: I've had uncles that have given speeches like that, and
Speaker 2: did that shock, all of you guys mean, was that
Speaker 2: bit too much booze? What happened there?
Speaker 6: Tim is a wonderful human being. He radiates charisma like
Speaker 6: the sun and Sarah, you can find solace in the fact,
Speaker 6: rants it or not, Tim will still eat you.
Speaker 1: It was shocking. It was one for the ages, And
Speaker 1: I guess what it shows you is that we get
Speaker 1: to know a lot of these couples, but we don't
Speaker 1: know their friends, and we don't know their family members,
Speaker 1: and so that's kind of like a great unknown. And
Speaker 1: in that episode, what we saw is the best man
Speaker 1: really almost completely derailed the entire relationship, which is a
Speaker 1: real world problem because you know, you are who you
Speaker 1: hang around with, and if you get married to someone
Speaker 1: who's got a best mate, who's going to say that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff? It creates a big question mark.
Speaker 5: John, there's always rumors that start before these shows, and
Speaker 5: apparently one of the grooms dumped his partner before he
Speaker 5: went on the show. Is this true?
Speaker 3: Does it happen often?
Speaker 5: And doesn't it just take away the sincerity in the
Speaker 5: validity of the whole thing.
Speaker 1: One of the aspects of this experiment which makes it
Speaker 1: so successful is that it's very unpredictable, and so we
Speaker 1: sit there and find out that one of the grooms
Speaker 1: that we've matched does a runner before the wedding even starts.
Speaker 1: We didn't see it coming. We've never had that before.
Speaker 1: But it lends itself to this whole idea that we
Speaker 1: are watching like you guys, and we don't know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. It's unscripted, it's unpredictable, and these things
Speaker 1: surprise us all the time.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know, dating in twenty twenty four is hard,
Speaker 4: but you'd be really upset if you sign up for
Speaker 4: a reality show and you get ghosted on a reality
Speaker 4: show before you know. I mean, you're like, of all
Speaker 4: the places this could happen to me on Tinder, I
Speaker 4: really didn't expect it to happen here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Know, I know, and you know I have to then
Speaker 1: go and break the bad news, and so it is.
Speaker 1: It is difficult. But then at the same time, you guys,
Speaker 1: you know it well. With relationships, you have your ups
Speaker 1: and downs. Some work, some don't. Matters of the heart
Speaker 1: can really hit you hard, and I think on this
Speaker 1: show we have all of that going on. We have
Speaker 1: and one of the big themes throughout this entire experiment
Speaker 1: is boundaries and particularly what's appropriate behavior and what's inappropriate behavior.
Speaker 4: So many people come out of mass now and have
Speaker 4: only fans or have social media careers. How do you
Speaker 4: make sure that the people you're choosing actually want to
Speaker 4: be in relationships.
Speaker 1: Well, the fact is what you've talked about there is
Speaker 1: exactly the truth that they have, to a greater or
Speaker 1: lesser degree, a comfort with the spotlight. You know, some
Speaker 1: will want it more than others, but all of them.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you didn't really want to be famous,
Speaker 1: why would you go on a reality show to find love?
Speaker 1: You know that there is an element of it that says,
Speaker 1: I want I'm comfortable with the camera on me twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven. So we understand that that is there,
Speaker 1: and they may want to have new lives after the show.
Speaker 1: What's really important is that they also want to have
Speaker 1: love that they are essentially looking. They are ready for commitment,
Speaker 1: and they're wanting to do what it takes while they're
Speaker 1: on the show to sort of expose the good, the bad,
Speaker 1: the ugly, to throw themselves entirely into it. And then
Speaker 1: after that, we don't know what they're going to do,
Speaker 1: but we'll find out fairly shortly. You know, how much
Speaker 1: should the spotlight they really want once the show finishes.
Speaker 2: Interesting, I just love the I've got Britain law here
Speaker 2: who are basically like you know, they're they're the first
Speaker 2: fleet of relationship reality show girls. You guys didn't go
Speaker 2: on because you wanted to have only fans. You wanted
Speaker 2: to go on because you wanted to know a YouTube
Speaker 2: channel or an ms A messenger. I don't know what
Speaker 2: was viral those years ago, but you did find love.
Speaker 2: But it's a new age now.
Speaker 3: It really is.
Speaker 4: And like I mean, of course, there was always the
Speaker 4: possibility of things when we did I mean we did Bachelor,
Speaker 4: what's seven years ago, But at the time there was
Speaker 4: no social media, so like most people didn't have social
Speaker 4: media accounts like that kind of that became a thing
Speaker 4: in the years afterwards. And like, so many people have
Speaker 4: done amazing things with their careers and have used the opportunity,
Speaker 4: But there's also so many people who do these shows
Speaker 4: and then they have to deal with the fact that
Speaker 4: their life goes back to normal, and so I think
Speaker 4: it can be a real disappointment for some people who
Speaker 4: think that this is going to change everything, especially if
Speaker 4: you do it and then it kind of doesn't really
Speaker 4: change anything.
Speaker 2: I've seen the videos you've show Britain. Your only fans
Speaker 2: is ready to go. You just have to hit publish
Speaker 2: and the day it does, all share it and no
Speaker 2: all support you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but mine is just my feet though, John, I
Speaker 5: we love it.
Speaker 4: I'm obsessed with the show and I can't wait to
Speaker 4: see how this season unfold.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's back. Ready for the drama, David thirty on
Speaker 2: Channel nine, the brand new season of Maps is returning,
Speaker 2: John Aken, thank you so much for coming back on
Speaker 2: the Pickup Buddy.
Speaker 1: Pleasure Guys Enjoy.
Speaker 3: Thanks John Hay.
Speaker 5: Speaking of terrible dating, apparently Ozsie men are the worst
Speaker 5: people to date in the entire universe. And I'm going
Speaker 5: to tell you how we know that after the break
Speaker 5: all right, it's next on the Pickup Mitch and Laura.
Speaker 5: You know that I was on the dating scene for
Speaker 5: quite a while, like a number of years, and I
Speaker 5: was on all of those online dating apps. I didn't
Speaker 5: have a lot of luck. So this is the reason
Speaker 5: this recent viral video on TikTokers has caught my attention
Speaker 5: because there's a girl at the moment. Her name is Jade,
Speaker 5: and her video is going bonkers because she has officially
Speaker 5: called Ossie men the worst people to date in the world.
Speaker 3: Have a listen to this.
Speaker 7: Hi, can someone please explain to me at million dating
Speaker 7: rules work?
Speaker 2: Because I don't get it.
Speaker 3: I do not understand.
Speaker 7: I feel like if you say one wrong thing, you're
Speaker 7: left on red, and then the amount of dates that
Speaker 7: have been organized and then the guy's just never texting
Speaker 7: me again.
Speaker 3: Has never happened anywhere else in the world.
Speaker 7: And every woman I speak to has the exact same
Speaker 7: horror stories about showing man.
Speaker 2: Someone please elaborate real it's so real.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize that this was I just thought that
Speaker 4: this was standard, this was just dating.
Speaker 5: Well, I would love to know what exactly is going
Speaker 5: down for her, so I've decided to get it on
Speaker 5: the line.
Speaker 3: Jane's joining us.
Speaker 7: Hi, Jade, Hi, guys.
Speaker 2: What's going on? You're Scottish. You've been here for about
Speaker 2: seven months. Give us you like track record. You haven't
Speaker 2: done well in the whole seven months.
Speaker 7: Honestly, no, it's tragic. It's a sin right now. I
Speaker 7: think I was in Byron for a few months and
Speaker 7: I'm not a surfer girl. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 7: if I'm not lucky here, that's all right. I was like,
Speaker 7: Sydney will be my place. And when I tell you
Speaker 7: it's been horrendous, I think I actually I went on
Speaker 7: six dates in three weeks and best date out of
Speaker 7: the two weeks was when I got tat fished. That
Speaker 7: was actually the best date.
Speaker 2: I had because he was hot. It just wasn't the
Speaker 2: right person. It wasn't him but the fake pill.
Speaker 7: Like he said he was a semi professional footballer, and
Speaker 7: I was like, okay, like we'll see, and I mean
Speaker 7: he wasn't, but he was still a very attractive guy.
Speaker 1: So that was fine.
Speaker 4: Okay, So for all the places that you dated, Like
Speaker 4: what has made Australian men the worst? Like what is
Speaker 4: the what's the reoccurring theme? Is it that they're not
Speaker 4: messaging back? Is it that you're not getting I don't know,
Speaker 4: if that you're getting catfish?
Speaker 3: Like what's the number one?
Speaker 7: I'd say it's the like they just don't care, like
Speaker 7: they're not ours. They I think back home like Scotland.
Speaker 7: I mean, Scottish men aren't known to be charming, but
Speaker 7: you know the stereotype of English boys, British boys, like
Speaker 7: they'll pursue you, they'll chase you, like the whole all right,
Speaker 7: darling with the chat here, it's really lacking. And yeah,
Speaker 7: so I organized. I had five dates organized as guys,
Speaker 7: and then they just did never text you again. And
Speaker 7: of course ghosting happens back home, of course, like people
Speaker 7: lose interest, but never before the first date. I was like,
Speaker 7: what have I've done? Like I can't kind of said
Speaker 7: anything that randous. But that's like the common thread between
Speaker 7: girls I know is they're like, yeah, I'll meet an
Speaker 7: Aussie guy and he'll just drop off the face of birth,
Speaker 7: like they I think, if you don't play your cards
Speaker 7: one hundred percent correctly, they're like, ah no, not bothered.
Speaker 5: So get on for people listening right now, because there
Speaker 5: might be a strapping young lad listening. Jade's TikTok is
Speaker 5: a I m eer s x Jade, What are you
Speaker 5: looking for for someone that wants to date you right now?
Speaker 7: Thank you? What am I looking for? Someone who's actually
Speaker 7: just genuinely kind of nice? And the start, I was like,
Speaker 7: I want a mullet it, I want a can, I
Speaker 7: want everything. Just gives me nice with an accent now
Speaker 7: I just want a nice man, okay, who might just say,
Speaker 7: like today.
Speaker 2: She laughs, Well, let's open the lines thirteen one or
Speaker 2: sixty five. We've got aussie's listening now. If you've had
Speaker 2: a terrible date with an Aussie, if you're an Aussie
Speaker 2: and you want to say, yeah, I'm a terrible data,
Speaker 2: or you've just got terrible date stories, because we've all
Speaker 2: been there. Thirteen one o six five, give us a
Speaker 2: call next at the pickup.
Speaker 5: Hey, if you're just joining us. We just recently had
Speaker 5: a Scottish woman by the name of Jade on the
Speaker 5: radio with us. She's been here for in Australia for
Speaker 5: a couple of months, and one of her tiktoks is
Speaker 5: going viral because she said Australian men are some of
Speaker 5: the worst men in the world to date because they
Speaker 5: don't call back, they don't message, they catfish, they ghost like.
Speaker 5: She had some pretty big claims, didn't you guys.
Speaker 2: She did. But also we kind of got to the
Speaker 2: point that it's not only just Ozzy mat it's Aussie women.
Speaker 2: I think it's an aussy thing.
Speaker 3: I think it's just dating in Australia is very hard.
Speaker 2: It sucks, sucks, so thirteen one o sixty five, call
Speaker 2: through to the show. Tell us your dating horror stories
Speaker 2: in this bloody country. Beck, Hello, what happened to you?
Speaker 8: Well, this actually happened to my sister, but it's I'm
Speaker 8: telling everybody because it's so awful. She'd been talking to
Speaker 8: this guy for a little while. She met him at
Speaker 8: a flower market where he actually worked. She thought it
Speaker 8: was quite a romantic way to me. You've been asking
Speaker 8: her out for a while, really cute. So they finally go
Speaker 8: out on their first date. They're at a wine bar.
Speaker 8: They're sitting at sort of one of those tables that's
Speaker 8: at the front of the restaurant, looking out on the street,
Speaker 8: having a really lovely time, and then halfway through the date,
Speaker 8: this woman she just saw a flick of a red
Speaker 8: dress in the corner of her eye, and then she
Speaker 8: looked up and this woman was standing in front of
Speaker 8: them and put her hand out to my sister's date
Speaker 8: and said, can I grab your car keys? My iPad
Speaker 8: is in your car and I need to get it,
Speaker 8: and she just went He looked completely guilty, his face
Speaker 8: went white. He handed her the keys, she walked away,
Speaker 8: and he just sat in silence. For a while, and
Speaker 8: my sister said, so I'm a bit confused, like you
Speaker 8: don't have any flatmates.
Speaker 7: Who is that?
Speaker 8: And it turns out it's his well, he said, ex girlfriend,
Speaker 8: but who's still living with him, And she left her
Speaker 8: iPad in his car to the rubbing, and it's just a.
Speaker 7: Little bit suspicious.
Speaker 8: Also, she would she found the iPad in the car
Speaker 8: from using to find my iPad up or you can
Speaker 8: track your phone, and where the restaurant is is amongst
Speaker 8: a lot of restaurants, so she would have had to
Speaker 8: find the car then track him down looking at each
Speaker 8: restaurant to see where he was his current girl.
Speaker 3: And came and got a right pad.
Speaker 2: Can I just say red flag? Adults with iPads? Grow up?
Speaker 2: What are you a toddler?
Speaker 3: I don't think she's the problem here there.
Speaker 2: I'm just sorry. Nothing gets me like more than an
Speaker 2: apple pencil.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe cheating mitche Maybe I just think that even if
Speaker 4: they're not together, that's just messy from the get go,
Speaker 4: like that's the thing that you go, Okay, I'm not
Speaker 4: I don't need this in my life.
Speaker 3: I'm going to exit here.
Speaker 2: Jamie called, Hi, Jamie, what happened? To you.
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, I went.
Speaker 8: On a date with this one guy before I met
Speaker 8: my now husband. We went to the movies. It was
Speaker 8: a bit awkward, but nothing too like weird for a
Speaker 8: first date. End of the date, I don't have his
Speaker 8: asleep or if he's pretending to be asleep.
Speaker 7: Right in the movie, well I had to do at
Speaker 7: the end of the movie, I wait until the life
Speaker 7: came on, and he was just making snoring noises the
Speaker 7: sound of one hundred percent fake.
Speaker 3: So I just got up and left, Like to come on,
Speaker 3: did you try and wake him?
Speaker 8: I like push his shoulder and he he was not moving,
Speaker 8: So either he was really asleep and he was faking
Speaker 8: it very well.
Speaker 3: Are you sure he wasn't dead he was snoring, Yeah.
Speaker 7: He was making tory noises.
Speaker 4: Yes. I think of this as like, this is real
Speaker 4: life ghosting. He couldn't just disappear, so he was like,
Speaker 4: I'll just pretend to be asleep, real life ghosting.
Speaker 2: I'm going to pass away a ghost.
Speaker 9: See.
Speaker 2: I just think that men. Producer Grace, you've dated, You've
Speaker 2: got a story, but it's not not just men. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I've dated men, I've dated women.
Speaker 5: I've dated everyone, and the worst date I've ever been
Speaker 5: on was with this girl.
Speaker 3: We made plans to rock up to the aquarium. I
Speaker 3: got there and she just never turned up. So wait
Speaker 3: that you were dating for like three months? Yeah, we
Speaker 3: met each other's families.
Speaker 5: I had to stare at these fish on my own,
Speaker 5: being like, what's happened?
Speaker 3: It was really sad. Wow, I'm sorry to laugh. It
Speaker 3: is really sad.
Speaker 1: At least she had.
Speaker 2: Something to do, like you got to see the fish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's better than being ghosted just in like a
Speaker 3: park or something like. Dating just sounds really hard. That's
Speaker 3: why I had to go on reality TV show. Guys,
Speaker 3: everyone that there was it was free.
Speaker 9: And then you know that's why you had to go
Speaker 9: on I had to had to try and reply yeah, yeah,
Speaker 9: look like I'd exhausted all my other options and so
Speaker 9: I was like the only thing left to do is
Speaker 9: a reality TV show.
Speaker 2: Brittany, you are the success story in Australia on a Wait.
Speaker 2: You didn't go for Australian men, you flew overseas and
Speaker 2: found a Scottish boy.
Speaker 3: I'm the one that had no success. Mean, thanks for
Speaker 3: rubbing that in.
Speaker 5: No success in real life, no success on the Bachelor,
Speaker 5: I had to fly to another country to fall in love,
Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm not the benchmark.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go, We're dance, See tomorrow, See you guys.
Speaker 1: I