Speaker 1: Laura, come on there. Habby Birthday, Hi, guys, how are
Speaker 1: we You're great?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good? I'm I'm really good. I got my boyfriend
Speaker 1: Stephen gave me one year anniversary present today. He custom
Speaker 1: pressed a vinyl record with our favorite songs pressed into
Speaker 1: this record.
Speaker 2: What is pressed in me? Just like embossed.
Speaker 1: He got a vinyl record melted you know how it's
Speaker 1: got good in bossed Yeah, in bossed yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like a really expensive wedding invitation. They embossed that stuff, just.
Speaker 2: Like making a mixtape.
Speaker 1: He pressed an making a mixtape, yeah, but instead of
Speaker 1: the actual songs. In one of our very first dates,
Speaker 1: we did karaoke in I've got a home radio studio
Speaker 1: to do the show from home if COVID or whatever.
Speaker 1: And now we did home karaoke and he recorded all
Speaker 1: the songs and has put them on the vinyl record.
Speaker 3: Wait wait wait wait wait wait When you said that,
Speaker 3: I thought you meant he got it like like a
Speaker 3: funny thing or something nice transcribed onto it. He actually
Speaker 3: made like picked all the songs and then got the
Speaker 3: record press made yeah, press record for Stephen.
Speaker 2: I love him. He is an overachiever and he's setting
Speaker 2: the bar too high for everyone else in a relationship
Speaker 2: because that is so romantic.
Speaker 3: He gives the most thoughtful presence. Yeah, some people are
Speaker 3: really good at presents and other people are gift voucher people.
Speaker 3: And I'm a gift voucher person. I hate present calls.
Speaker 3: Check out right at I was like, who needs a
Speaker 3: Bunnings vouch? Anyone?
Speaker 2: Me?
Speaker 1: I got one for you anyway. It's a beautiful gift.
Speaker 3: What is he going to do when it's your actual
Speaker 3: when you're anniversary in three months time?
Speaker 2: Well for him that is the real one. That's the fight, right,
Speaker 2: Mitch is like, it's not really our anniversary. What did
Speaker 2: you get here?
Speaker 1: A necklace?
Speaker 2: Was it a freebie that you got sent?
Speaker 1: It was.
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Speaker 3: Go and enter and coming up next, we are doing
Speaker 3: a show favorite.
Speaker 2: It is Ask gun.
Speaker 1: Cut the pick up right, Australia, Welcome to Thursday. Let's
Speaker 1: do this.
Speaker 2: Ask Uncut all right?
Speaker 3: So Ask Guncut is something that we do every week
Speaker 3: on lifeun Cut, our podcast, and it's where you guys
Speaker 3: call up with your biggest, deepest, darkest problems and we
Speaker 3: do our absolute best to answer them. And on today's show,
Speaker 3: we have Billy and Billy has a real friendship conundrum.
Speaker 2: How do you break up with a friend?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 2: Billy?
Speaker 4: Hi? Bill?
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Hill? There's a lot, but I can narrow it down
Speaker 5: a little bit. So I have a friend that I
Speaker 5: met about seven months ago, but over the past few
Speaker 5: months we've been spent kind have a lot more time,
Speaker 5: like one on one outside of the little friend group
Speaker 5: we have, and over I guess the past like two
Speaker 5: three weeks, it's just dawned on me that every time
Speaker 5: after we hang out, I'm absolutely drink and exhausted and
Speaker 5: just like, this doesn't feel good anymore. The more I'm
Speaker 5: getting to.
Speaker 2: Know her, really, are you really American? Or is this
Speaker 2: a combat? So she doesn't he know who you are?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, no, I'm pure textan.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, confirms I've roped out here.
Speaker 4: That would be funny.
Speaker 5: Hold on, let me put on my other accents.
Speaker 1: Well, you sound like a fun friend. So clearly she's
Speaker 1: the problem because you saw.
Speaker 3: Wait, what is the problem? Is the problem that you
Speaker 3: don't know how to distance yourself from it? You want
Speaker 3: to break up with approblely like, what is the what's
Speaker 3: the issue?
Speaker 5: So the real issue is like, if I want to
Speaker 5: end the friendship, what do you guys think is the
Speaker 5: best way to do that? Because I have friends telling
Speaker 5: me we'll do the slow fade, you know, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: that's all to work. I'm going to do a slow fade.
Speaker 5: Do I go or do I just directly say.
Speaker 2: Nah, you do not sit it down and break up.
Speaker 2: It's a slow fade.
Speaker 3: I think you break up with a romantic relationship like
Speaker 3: you have a one on one chat with her, you
Speaker 3: can't slow fade or romantic relationship, but.
Speaker 2: A friendship you can slow fade. I think you can
Speaker 2: say I'm busy this week, there's a lot going on.
Speaker 3: Get a bit like less frequent with the taps replying it.
Speaker 2: It's not that tox It is than sitting them down
Speaker 2: and saying, hey, look this is ending that is way work.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because that does feel like a breakup and I'm
Speaker 5: afraid of kind of hurting her ego just based off
Speaker 5: of like problematic behavior.
Speaker 2: The problem also is is if you're in the same
Speaker 2: group of friends and you're always going to be around
Speaker 2: each other in a group, you can't have that really
Speaker 2: weird conflict of you saying I don't want to be
Speaker 2: friends anymore because you're always going to be around each other.
Speaker 2: But you can slow fade the one on one time
Speaker 2: at the end of the day. As adults, which I'm
Speaker 2: assuming you are. As adults, we are very time poor,
Speaker 2: so you do need to be selective with like who
Speaker 2: you are giving your time to. Time is such like
Speaker 2: a precious commodity, and it's pretty easy to say, hey,
Speaker 2: I am flat out at the moment, like I don't
Speaker 2: have a lot of spare time, and then you just
Speaker 2: they're going to read the room.
Speaker 5: I hope, Okay, yeah, I think so. I think if
Speaker 5: I just kind of slowly do it and try to
Speaker 5: be a little meticulous, I think if it gets a
Speaker 5: point where the boundaries keep getting cross, maybe that's when
Speaker 5: I should sit down with her. But you would just
Speaker 5: hope that a slow fade when it work.
Speaker 3: What's your fear of slow fade? Like, why do you
Speaker 3: think she's not going to get it?
Speaker 5: I think I just fear that it will take a
Speaker 5: lot of my energy.
Speaker 1: I know what you need to do is at least
Speaker 1: tell them, Billy, you need to at least just say, hey,
Speaker 1: I think you're a bit much. Not break up with them,
Speaker 1: but I think you need to say, like, this is intense,
Speaker 1: this is too much.
Speaker 2: No, no, don't listen to me.
Speaker 3: I have never had that conversation with a friend, and
Speaker 3: I have slow faded a couple.
Speaker 1: You're not too much?
Speaker 2: Well, where is the queen of slow fade? I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm just sorry.
Speaker 5: He brought up a great point. It was a great
Speaker 5: point about the social group that we have because we
Speaker 5: will be around each other a lot. And yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: I feel like a follow like friend breakup could be
Speaker 5: pretty muchy would it gets for everyone?
Speaker 2: The whole group is like, Oh, we want to have
Speaker 2: a birthday party, but we can't invite Frank and Sally
Speaker 2: because they're fighting.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean to break and we'll give you.
Speaker 5: I'm all about it.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope that helps you work with that. And
Speaker 1: I reckon. I wries you can get in touch if
Speaker 1: you want to ask us a question as well.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a big thing though, right, there's so
Speaker 3: many tools out there for how to break up with
Speaker 3: romantic relationships, but no one tells you how to, like
Speaker 3: how to, you know, put some distance between you and
Speaker 3: a friend.
Speaker 2: It's very hard. Hey, coming up, we want to know
Speaker 2: what your biggest secret is about your profession, something that
Speaker 2: the general public wouldn't know or that be really shocked about.
Speaker 2: Because there is a thread that has me hook line
Speaker 2: and sinker. Someone is spilling the tea online in radio.
Speaker 1: How we steal some of the prizes that are left over?
Speaker 2: We don't you do?
Speaker 1: It's amazing.
Speaker 2: I don't think that that's an industry, think it's personal.
Speaker 1: I'm going to federal prison. That's after this, Mitch and Laura.
Speaker 2: I went down like this proper rabbit hole on the internet.
Speaker 2: There's a thread where someone posed a question, what's the
Speaker 2: secret about your profession that the general public doesn't know?
Speaker 2: Of course that piqued my interest because I was like,
Speaker 2: I love a secret.
Speaker 3: About the profession, or like what happens within a workplace
Speaker 3: or the occupation, So what's no we're not not.
Speaker 2: What's happening like, oh, there are affairs something about your occupation.
Speaker 2: I'll give you some examples because it was pretty shocking. Hi,
Speaker 2: I'm an it guy. I google half of my problems.
Speaker 2: I buy your computers from a place that you could
Speaker 2: buy them from, and then I mark them up thirty
Speaker 2: five percent or more. Well, he just sounds like a
Speaker 2: crappy it guy. I think that's probably most people about
Speaker 2: the IT industry in general.
Speaker 1: I say it probably could be.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I don't know. Okay, another one more
Speaker 2: and more A bout hotel that I pouci boche POUCHI
Speaker 2: fancy hotel, tea hotel, a bowl tea hotel I worked out,
Speaker 2: didn't wash the comforters unless necessary.
Speaker 3: They wouldn't wash the Okay, this is my bad. It's disgusting. Now,
Speaker 3: this is my biggest fear going to a hotel. I
Speaker 3: don't trust that they've actually washed the pillowcases, the sheets.
Speaker 3: I think they just kind of check them, they and
Speaker 3: if they're fine enough, they just good to go.
Speaker 2: Well, this fancy hotel, it can be confirmed that they
Speaker 2: do not wash the comfort. Think of what goes down
Speaker 2: on a bed. I am sorry, but is the comfort
Speaker 2: with the doner? Is that what the county is? It's
Speaker 2: like the top the comforter goes under the sheet to
Speaker 2: make the bed more comfortable. Are you sure that's what
Speaker 2: a comforter is. I'm really not sure. I'm telling you
Speaker 2: that's what it.
Speaker 1: Was, details comfort.
Speaker 2: Why don't we ask the it guy to google it? Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm going to google it. I worked. This is funny.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: Be aware. I worked in a bakery. The French bread
Speaker 2: and Italian bread are exactly the same, just with different
Speaker 2: scoring designs on the top. But one is two dollars
Speaker 2: and fifty cents more. They are faking their bread. That's
Speaker 2: an Italian bread, two dollar difference, same bread. You can't
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: I'll go on. This is from an inbound call center.
Speaker 1: We are currently experiencing an unusual high call volume. Is permanent.
Speaker 1: They just didn't staff a proper of course or something
Speaker 1: something that get turned on when they actually have an influx.
Speaker 1: They just play that to everyone.
Speaker 2: Now you know that that's the case.
Speaker 3: That is like they're trying to budget cut. They don't
Speaker 3: have enough people on the phones. I used to work
Speaker 3: in a restaurant and they would like I don't want
Speaker 3: to donate out the restaurant, but like anything that didn't
Speaker 3: so like crembroulets or anything that was like.
Speaker 2: Not gonna go off overnight. Yeah, not gonna go I
Speaker 2: don't even know how.
Speaker 3: To describe it, because you would say, like just putting
Speaker 3: it back in the fridge, but it was stuff.
Speaker 2: That you that you just shouldn't put back in the
Speaker 2: fridge for the next day.
Speaker 3: And they would really stretch that out until it's absolute
Speaker 3: last legs and you look at it and be like, oh, reckon,
Speaker 3: that's gonna make someone see if it's something they do
Speaker 3: it anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but sometimes you can tell, you know how Sometimes
Speaker 2: you go and get a croissant from somewhere and you're like, that's, yes,
Speaker 2: that's not today's croissant, that is twenty twenty three croissants.
Speaker 2: So I think about it.
Speaker 3: One thing that comes to mind was like mashed potato specifically,
Speaker 3: So we had this one dish and they'd make a
Speaker 3: massive batch of mashed potatoes and it goes under all
Speaker 3: the steaks.
Speaker 2: If that mashed.
Speaker 3: Potato, if you can get used one day it would
Speaker 3: just go into the fridge and then the next day
Speaker 3: they'd drag it out and mix it with the new
Speaker 3: mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2: I don't always potatoes. Fine, that's how they survive famines
Speaker 2: and stuff potatoes diurdy.
Speaker 1: Potatoes like soil in a plant. You yeah, what about
Speaker 1: this one? So this is a friend that I'm not
Speaker 1: going to name in shame. And they used to work
Speaker 1: for customer care for a company. And they said, you know,
Speaker 1: when you go on a website and you type in
Speaker 1: the live chat like talk to a customer service agent
Speaker 1: right now, that's a bot. No, no, it's a real person.
Speaker 1: In some companies, they can see what you're typing before
Speaker 1: you press end, so they have access to what you're typing.
Speaker 1: So he said, the racist sometimes the homophobic rule.
Speaker 4: Just right.
Speaker 2: Okay, that is so wild. That is actually a really
Speaker 2: good lesson for everyone. That's actually so interesting. Do you
Speaker 2: know what I worry about? I worry about like when
Speaker 2: you're on hold and stuff that they can actually listen.
Speaker 2: You know how you have you know how you can
Speaker 2: be on hold for three hours you can be having
Speaker 2: personal conversations going about your life.
Speaker 1: I reckon they listen totally. There's a course if couruse
Speaker 1: a if you listen, but be if you've got an
Speaker 1: industry secret that you're willing to anonymously admit we want. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll sense your name and your location and will take
Speaker 1: your calls.
Speaker 2: Might not go there.
Speaker 3: None of us, none of us gave away any radio
Speaker 3: secrets because we don't want to get fired.
Speaker 1: Oh, Jackie's actually a manequin, she's fake, she's not real.
Speaker 1: And Kyl Sanderalan's he's a puppet, he's an alien. Well
Speaker 1: I'm scared.
Speaker 6: Get out of here.
Speaker 2: We've been talking industry secrets. There's a thread that's going
Speaker 2: around online where people are outing like the things that
Speaker 2: go on in their professional occupation that people would be
Speaker 2: shocked about. I'm talking like an it guy said that
Speaker 2: he had he actually googles all of his problems. He
Speaker 2: buys computers for the same price everyone else does, then
Speaker 2: just marks him up thirty five percent like stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Surely people are literate enough, though, to know that they
Speaker 3: can just go online and do the same thing.
Speaker 2: Well, no they're not. That's why people have jobs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh look, I mean in every industry there are
Speaker 3: things that happen that I think we would be shocked
Speaker 3: to be found out the truth.
Speaker 2: That's what we want to now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I give us a call here on the show,
Speaker 1: go to who we have we got Maggie, Hey, Maggie,
Speaker 1: what's your little secrets?
Speaker 2: Bill?
Speaker 4: I used to be a house keeper and we wouldn't
Speaker 4: change quilt covers.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't change the quilt covers.
Speaker 4: Yes, keep it in the hotel in a mind sight.
Speaker 2: Oh so like a mind site, Like they have a
Speaker 2: hotel where you stay on site. So like they still
Speaker 2: it's not a hotel, but there's accommodation.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you.
Speaker 4: Because we had too many rooms to do a day.
Speaker 4: We had to do eighty plus rooms a day, so
Speaker 4: we would just check the quilt covers, like we would
Speaker 4: change the sheets, but we would check the quill covers
Speaker 4: and if they were fine, we would just make spit
Speaker 4: and get a move on.
Speaker 2: What did you have to see to quantify a change?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: What did you have to see on that quil?
Speaker 1: We don't, So what would you do? You just walk
Speaker 1: in and fluff them up?
Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: This is terrifying.
Speaker 3: I am convinced that this is what happens hotels as well.
Speaker 3: Check your check your doners, everyone, check your duvets.
Speaker 1: Leicia, Hey, what happens in your industry? Spill spill.
Speaker 6: I work in in cafes for years, have done it,
Speaker 6: and basically whenever you go in to buy anything like
Speaker 6: a cake or a sandwich or whatever, I'll always get
Speaker 6: it from the very front, like at the right, like
Speaker 6: touching the glass, because everything at the back is the
Speaker 6: oldest and the stuff they're trying.
Speaker 7: To get rid of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes that makes sense though, doesn't it? How old?
Speaker 2: Like what's the oldest that you've you know has been
Speaker 2: in there?
Speaker 6: Well, usually if they have some sort of special, like
Speaker 6: cake of the day or that's the stuff that's going
Speaker 6: to be thrown in the bin either that day or
Speaker 6: should have gone the day before.
Speaker 2: Take of the Day is a rock cake?
Speaker 3: Do you think it's the same If you go to
Speaker 3: a restaurant and they have a special, do you think
Speaker 3: that that's usually they've just made something out of the
Speaker 3: ingredients that are going bad. Do you think that is
Speaker 3: just that they got limited special or something?
Speaker 2: I think both, Yeah, especially if it's like a seafood dish.
Speaker 2: I reckontrons and stuff for like a real limited time,
Speaker 2: so I reckon they just pump them out in a special.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if it's a perishable if it's like eggs, soufle
Speaker 1: a with a sighte of caviar and prawns.
Speaker 3: Like it's it's a restaurant, it's all perishpal It's really
Speaker 3: not that special and mackens.
Speaker 1: Through, Yes, I am right. Lastly, Casey, Hey, what's your
Speaker 1: what's your industry secret? Tell us the goss.
Speaker 7: When I was a teenager, I worked at a donut
Speaker 7: shop and they did the hot cinnamon donuts and it
Speaker 7: comes it comes in like a powder form, and on occasion,
Speaker 7: weavels would get in there like they do in your
Speaker 7: flower in the cupboard.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, are you kidding me? And you just
Speaker 2: use it anyway, wouldn't you.
Speaker 7: We had to sift it out and then mix up
Speaker 7: the mix.
Speaker 2: Oh no you didn't. I am sure because I used
Speaker 2: to line up for the you know, watching a hot
Speaker 2: cinnamon donut PLoP out in real time. He's like, want
Speaker 2: to make Yeah, it plops out of the doughnut. Wait,
Speaker 2: is are the weavils in the sugar or they're in
Speaker 2: the batter?
Speaker 7: No, so the batter before it's made, because it comes
Speaker 7: like in a bag sort of thing, and they like
Speaker 7: much like a flower bag in your cupboard, and they
Speaker 7: can get in there. So yeah, it would just be
Speaker 7: sifted out as to not waste the product.
Speaker 3: That stresses me out less because they at least get cooked, Laura,
Speaker 3: they're not in there anymore.
Speaker 2: They're sifted out.
Speaker 4: No, I know.
Speaker 2: But like the bacteria is cooked in the boiling oil.
Speaker 1: And you know when a moth or like a weavil
Speaker 1: like hits glass, it's got a powdery coating on it.
Speaker 1: That is what is in the cinnamon sugar, you know what.
Speaker 1: You hit them off and he goes, what is that?
Speaker 1: By the way, we get a scientist on one day.
Speaker 1: If you ever hit them off against the window, then
Speaker 1: there's like an outline of a off, like it's a
Speaker 1: crime scene that I killed bogan moth.
Speaker 2: You also eat them with your donuts?
Speaker 1: Yeah, clearly, thanks my day, Casey. There you go. The
Speaker 1: mystery is solved. We will crazy. If you've got any more,
Speaker 1: hit us up on the pickup dot com dot you
Speaker 1: and we're gonna go. We'll see you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And Mitchell remind us tomorrow that it's his birthday on Monday?
Speaker 1: Is it I forgot?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No you didn't.
Speaker 1: Twenty third the will and ready to drive your home
Speaker 1: next see you guys.
Speaker 2: See guy