Speaker 1: Come on in.
Speaker 2: Your day. Here the pickup begs a chemist warehouse.
Speaker 3: Hallo, ladies, We're back again in this freezing cold little
Speaker 3: studio room and Mitch Chury, I just wanted to say
Speaker 3: thank you so much for giving me your shirt, which
Speaker 3: I put on because I was cold, and I'm really
Speaker 3: enjoying the sweat patches that are under the arm.
Speaker 2: Oh no, he's there, sweat.
Speaker 4: It's wet shirt, wet fries.
Speaker 3: He is disgusting, and I'm going to persevere because I'm
Speaker 3: that cold that I'll handle a little bit of wetness
Speaker 3: under my eye.
Speaker 2: I did you a favorite, like giving you the jacket
Speaker 2: off my shoulder. I'man nothing but a bond's chesty bond singlet.
Speaker 1: I think he needs to be a little bit more
Speaker 1: grateful for the shirt that he's freezing his little nipples.
Speaker 4: No, he likes being cold though.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Mitch Chury, Mitchchury has developed a bit of
Speaker 1: a nick in your long term relationship.
Speaker 2: This is our fifty together and I thought we were
Speaker 2: well and truly beyond dicks. But something has happened over
Speaker 2: the weekend that is making me question the future of
Speaker 2: our relationship.
Speaker 3: Well, I want to hear all about this, but also
Speaker 3: on the Today's show, we are speaking to a woman
Speaker 3: who is currently having a baby by surrogacy. Now I
Speaker 3: have a lot of questions about how this even. How
Speaker 3: do you even find someone who's going to have a
Speaker 3: baby for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I might have to go down that route.
Speaker 2: I will have to. That's my only choice if I
Speaker 2: want baby surrocacy, So I might have to get a number.
Speaker 2: She'll be on the show. Also, we finally have an
Speaker 2: update on BRIT's dog walker situation. We're going to get
Speaker 2: her on the show because Laura and I have questions
Speaker 2: as to how ethical the hiring process was.
Speaker 4: You make it sound like a witch. No, we think
Speaker 4: you are just very thorough.
Speaker 2: The dog walker is on the show. Next, what a headline.
Speaker 2: Here at the Pickup around Australia. Welcome here at the
Speaker 2: Pickup with Britt, Laura and Mitch Rush into Chemistlare House
Speaker 2: today grab anc protein, set up powering Tomorrow Today. Last
Speaker 2: week on the show, we were unpacking BRIT's hire process
Speaker 2: to get a dog walker of her beautiful dog Delilah,
Speaker 2: and officially we can announce she's hired someone.
Speaker 4: Oh thank goodness, you can all sleep easy.
Speaker 2: Has been restored to the world.
Speaker 1: It's a really big thing because I've I've had a
Speaker 1: dog walker, Dodie for a long time. She's great, but
Speaker 1: she's gone on a bit of a vacate and it's
Speaker 1: not just a dog walker, it's a sitter extended periods
Speaker 1: of time.
Speaker 4: I needed to find a new one. And I do
Speaker 4: not take that lightly.
Speaker 3: Not only do you not take it lightly, there was
Speaker 3: quite the process of interviewing. There was the need to
Speaker 3: find whether they had a chemistry match between the dog
Speaker 3: and the dog walker, but not just the dog and
Speaker 3: the dog walker. The dog walker and Britt needed to
Speaker 3: also have a good chemistry match. So you made a
Speaker 3: decision though you've hired someone today Delilah is well and
Speaker 3: truly looked after by said dog walker.
Speaker 2: Who is she?
Speaker 1: Demi the dog Walker. It does help that I also
Speaker 1: love some alliteration, so that helped Demi Delilah's dog Walker
Speaker 1: helped all well.
Speaker 2: Britt, what Laura and I have done. We've contacted Demi
Speaker 2: the dog Walker and she joins us now on the show.
Speaker 2: We have some questions for it, don't we.
Speaker 4: Laura Demie, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Hi, Hi guys, how are you?
Speaker 1: My question just to kick straight off, is where is
Speaker 1: Delilah right now? If you're on the phone, are you
Speaker 1: not paying attention to Delilah.
Speaker 6: Is being very well looked after. We are just stopped
Speaker 6: at the side of the road, full aircorn on. She's
Speaker 6: actually currently having a snooze because she's been having so
Speaker 6: much fun. She's tucket herself out.
Speaker 3: How many interviews, how many phone calls, how many face
Speaker 3: to face the visits were there in order to get
Speaker 3: the very very prestigious job title of being Dalila's dog walker.
Speaker 6: I mean, look, there were a few, definitely a few
Speaker 6: face to face visits, you know, like an initial meeting.
Speaker 6: I'll follow up at the house. Let's have a trial
Speaker 6: at the park or I'm there, let's have a file
Speaker 6: at the park where I'm not there. So it's been
Speaker 6: a lengthy procedure. I was sort of like, is it
Speaker 6: going to be like a background check? The time number?
Speaker 6: Should I send you the photos of my house?
Speaker 2: Demi? You obviously would have known about Britt being in
Speaker 2: the public eye and you would have heard all the stories.
Speaker 2: Was there a certain level of apprehension and did she
Speaker 2: live up to her name? How was she to work
Speaker 2: with that closely.
Speaker 5: No, Look, she's been lovely.
Speaker 6: I don't really buy into all the stuff in the
Speaker 6: media because you know, people can write whatever they want.
Speaker 6: I don't want to set the benefit of the doubt
Speaker 6: because I wasn't really expecting anything untoward. But you know,
Speaker 6: when it comes to who's looking after your dog, I
Speaker 6: get it. I'm the same with being a crazy dog mum.
Speaker 3: It sounds like Demi knows exactly where her paycheck is
Speaker 3: coming from this week.
Speaker 4: Okay, I have How normal is this?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 4: Is this the same process?
Speaker 3: Where would you say this sits in terms of what
Speaker 3: other people have expected you to do.
Speaker 6: Look, if we're going on a scale, I'd say most
Speaker 6: other people are maybe like between us three to five,
Speaker 6: depending on how relaxed they are, if they've had someone before,
Speaker 6: and what was rebby Look at nine to ten?
Speaker 5: Up there.
Speaker 6: That the other end, Yes, I was up there.
Speaker 3: How many photos have you sent to brit today?
Speaker 6: I mean, look, the usual client gets like ten to fifteen.
Speaker 6: I think I've maybe sent like forty five the area, Yeah,
Speaker 6: to cover all the bases.
Speaker 4: And she does look like she's having a great time.
Speaker 2: To be fair, the very cute photos you're showing.
Speaker 6: It, Yeah, she's had a great time.
Speaker 3: But I am on the daycare app that I currently
Speaker 3: have where I can check in on my kids who
Speaker 3: are also being cared for it this very minute. And
Speaker 3: there are four photos, Demi, four photos of my two children,
Speaker 3: and that's combined.
Speaker 6: I'd be asking for more. That's yeah, that's not the scratch.
Speaker 4: I think I'm down on like a one two on
Speaker 4: the scale.
Speaker 2: Demi, do you do kids as well as dogs?
Speaker 6: Perhaps you know what I do. I used to work
Speaker 6: in childcare. So all the.
Speaker 4: Bases sign me up next week.
Speaker 2: You just got another job. They can all go together.
Speaker 6: You tell Mary and Laura to give me a call.
Speaker 4: I like that you already know their names. She's very thorough.
Speaker 4: I checked her for everyone that might ever come into
Speaker 4: contact with her.
Speaker 2: DEMI, can your milk as well? It may as well
Speaker 2: put you on my walk so we can all have
Speaker 2: the same dog walker. Thank you, Danny, congratulations on the gig.
Speaker 2: But she's a lovely, lovely higher britt Well done, well done.
Speaker 1: See if you do due diligence at the start makes
Speaker 1: the rest of your life easier.
Speaker 2: Very true. Up next for talking to a listener of
Speaker 2: the show who is having a baby. She's not carrying
Speaker 2: it herself. She has employed a surrogate to carry her child.
Speaker 1: I wonder her questions as thoroughly as igned did Delilah's
Speaker 1: dog walker questions.
Speaker 2: I doubt it. I truly truly doubt it. And we'll
Speaker 2: find out because she joins us next here at the pickup.
Speaker 2: It's the Pickup with Britt Laura and mid Tuesday afternoon,
Speaker 2: you got to head into Kenis's warehouse today. Great savings
Speaker 2: absolutely every day. Now, ladies, we've been contacted by a
Speaker 2: listener of the show. I love this.
Speaker 3: We have we have such an interesting story. So Lisa
Speaker 3: is a listener of the show and she is having
Speaker 3: a baby, but she's not currently pregnant, so she's having
Speaker 3: a baby through her best friend Sarah, who is carrying
Speaker 3: it via surrogacy for her. Lisa, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Hi, or you're having a baby, so congratulations, congratulation.
Speaker 4: It's a very exciting time.
Speaker 1: It obviously sounds like it's been a long time coming,
Speaker 1: because correct me if I'm wrong, but you've had eighteen
Speaker 1: rounds of IVF.
Speaker 5: Yeah, eighteen rounds over eight years, so it's been a long, long,
Speaker 5: long time coming, and we just announced it about four
Speaker 5: days ago, I feel very raw and very exciting.
Speaker 4: How many weeks along now? Is is? Sarah?
Speaker 5: We are fourteen and a half.
Speaker 1: That's so amazing, And so what's that been like for
Speaker 1: you over the eight years? With eighteen rounds of IVF?
Speaker 5: It's excruciating for anyone who's going through it. My hearts
Speaker 5: go out to you. Doing this has been like the
Speaker 5: hardest thing that I've ever been through. Every time it's
Speaker 5: at least thirty injections and then it's the hormones that
Speaker 5: go through you.
Speaker 3: Being your friend, she must have been very aware of
Speaker 3: your IVF journey. But how did you approach the conversation
Speaker 3: of asking her to be a surrogate for you?
Speaker 5: So it doesn't just happen overnight. Sarah and I met
Speaker 5: twelve and a half years ago. We remained like amazing friends.
Speaker 5: We worked on so many projects together. In twenty eighteen,
Speaker 5: when I was in my infancy of my IVS journey,
Speaker 5: she said to me, if you ever want a sarrogate,
Speaker 5: it would be my dream to carry a baby. And
Speaker 5: I was like, oh my god, another human would do that.
Speaker 5: And then fast forward last year, so March twenty twenty two,
Speaker 5: she texted me and said, Hey, how have IVF Collie.
Speaker 5: I was like, that's a great still to be a
Speaker 5: sorrygate and I'm text she was like, yes, absolutely, let's
Speaker 5: bring a baby in the world.
Speaker 1: Wow, it.
Speaker 4: Really happen, and organically.
Speaker 5: We're together for all the scanned we're like basically together
Speaker 5: together together, So it's incredible.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful story and it sounds great and it
Speaker 2: warms my heart. But then I think my brain goes
Speaker 2: to the logistics, like do you have to pay your
Speaker 2: you have to write a contract, you both have to
Speaker 2: go to a lawyer and sit down Like I'm sure
Speaker 2: it's not as easy as you're making it sound.
Speaker 5: It's not easy at all. And the reason that it's
Speaker 5: probably easier for me is because I'd been through eight
Speaker 5: years of absolute fricking health. I've been through many iterations
Speaker 5: of logistics and legalities. Before. You can't pay someone, it
Speaker 5: has to be out of the goodness of their heart.
Speaker 5: But it's actually not as complex as people may think.
Speaker 5: So basically, what we had to do with her and
Speaker 5: her husband David, me and my hobby to be Stiven
Speaker 5: had to do a three hour counseling session together to
Speaker 5: all get on the same page and kind of work through. Okay,
Speaker 5: how do we all feel about this? So you've got
Speaker 5: to be fairly, you know, in tune with your feelings
Speaker 5: and able to talk about everything and be comfortable. And
Speaker 5: then we had to get legal contracts drawn up on
Speaker 5: both sides just to any anomalies, you know, because as
Speaker 5: you said when you introduced, imagine if Sah had the
Speaker 5: baby and then were suddenly like, I can't let it go.
Speaker 5: So there's a whole lot of legal things. And then
Speaker 5: the surrogate has to have already finished their own families,
Speaker 5: so Sarah and David have three children already. And then
Speaker 5: we cover whilst we can't pay her, we cover every
Speaker 5: single extent for anything to do with her having to
Speaker 5: get transport to a scan or anything to do with medically,
Speaker 5: we cover for Sarah. So yeah, so it's just I
Speaker 5: feel like I've got not only a baby carrier, but
Speaker 5: also a very very very best best best friend, Like
Speaker 5: it's amazing.
Speaker 3: Wow. Well, I mean, speaking with feelings, what is it
Speaker 3: like going from having these eighteen rounds of IVF to
Speaker 3: having to experience somebody else carrying your baby?
Speaker 4: What does that feel like?
Speaker 5: Amazing? And in fact, they have shivers over my whole body,
Speaker 5: as you say. And again, it's all perspective, right if
Speaker 5: someone was starting today on their journey and they're like,
Speaker 5: I'm going to get a surrogate, like, there is no way.
Speaker 5: Six and a half years ago, I really could have
Speaker 5: even fathomed it. Whilst my partner Stephen has been amazing.
Speaker 6: Now I've got like a.
Speaker 5: Best fricking girlfriend. But every day we're like, is he kicking?
Speaker 3: Is he doing this?
Speaker 5: How are you feeling?
Speaker 6: It's just so beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's truly an incredible gift from your friend and your
Speaker 1: little baby boys.
Speaker 4: Do you on the second of August? So we just
Speaker 4: can't say a bigger congratulations to you.
Speaker 1: It sounds like it's been a long time coming, and
Speaker 1: we wish you all both families the absolute best.
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you so much, and thank you for such
Speaker 5: a beautiful kind injury. And I hope we can help
Speaker 5: a lot of other people that might be considering.
Speaker 2: This all right, standby, I might not need a sorry
Speaker 2: get after the experience that I had on the weekend.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I'm leaving my beautiful partner of almost
Speaker 2: five years, but I'm saying something crossed my mind. Something
Speaker 2: that he's doing that has made me really requestion our love.
Speaker 4: We've got the ick, I've got the baby.
Speaker 2: We'll do it next to the pickup. It's the pickup
Speaker 2: with Britt, Laura and Midge. Rush into chemist warehouse today,
Speaker 2: grab inc protein powering tomorrow today, Ladies, I haven't actually
Speaker 2: told you what happened to me over the weekend, but
Speaker 2: I've developed a new ick. How would you describe an ick?
Speaker 3: It's when you are suddenly turned off the person that
Speaker 3: you love.
Speaker 2: My beautiful partner, Hayden, of all almost five years, it's
Speaker 2: our fifty this year together. There is nothing more emasculating
Speaker 2: in the world than having to sign your partner's driving
Speaker 2: log book.
Speaker 4: Oh, because Hayden just got his life.
Speaker 2: I'm teaching him to drive and it makes me sick.
Speaker 3: So wait, Hayden's driving around with his l plates on
Speaker 3: and you're sitting in the driver's seat teaching him how
Speaker 3: to You're a terrible driving.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, first of all, that's another issue
Speaker 2: that I'm teaching him to drive, but me having to
Speaker 2: go babe that help plates on? But a power dynamics
Speaker 2: always a bit hot, keeps a relationship alive, but not
Speaker 2: when you're telling your partner how long to stop at
Speaker 2: a stop signed for.
Speaker 4: Two one and accelerate.
Speaker 3: I feel like this isn't power dynamics. This is a
Speaker 3: real daddy thing because it's an issually your dad or
Speaker 3: your mum who teaches you how to drive a car.
Speaker 1: When you think of in a relationships and you're trying
Speaker 1: to be sexy in a car, it's like you're getting
Speaker 1: going to get sexy in the car and you're not
Speaker 1: sitting in the car telling him to stop and start.
Speaker 2: We did a driving lesson on the weekend. He said
Speaker 2: to me, I'm exhausted after that. I can't imagine how
Speaker 2: you feel after driving in the relationship for four years
Speaker 2: and then he goes, you want to sort of, you know,
Speaker 2: have some fun in the bedroom, and I had absolutely
Speaker 2: zero ounce of desire.
Speaker 4: Well, at what point did the desire go?
Speaker 3: Was it when you heard the magnetic click of the
Speaker 3: l plate or was it when he had to put
Speaker 3: his indicator on and you were like, darling, you haven't
Speaker 3: put your indicator on. Probably it's the left one and
Speaker 3: he's like, which one's the indicator? And then he's got
Speaker 3: the windscreen wipers going.
Speaker 2: It was that when I had to google what a
Speaker 2: give way sign looked like because he couldn't picture it
Speaker 2: in his head.
Speaker 4: How old is Hayden, Just so we know, he's twenty
Speaker 4: six the age as me twenty six years.
Speaker 3: That's quite a long way into life to have not
Speaker 3: driven a car, isn't it.
Speaker 2: That's also the issue. I forced him to get the
Speaker 2: license because I thought this was so unfair that I'm
Speaker 2: having to drive my whole life and you're you get
Speaker 2: off scott free. You're an uber, You're an everly I'm
Speaker 2: glorified uber. And then now I'm having to teach him,
Speaker 2: and I didn't think about it. I'm telling you it's
Speaker 2: a real problem. And especially when you develop an ick
Speaker 2: this deep into a relationship, it takes you aback. Christen's
Speaker 2: called I'm thirteen one oh six y five. I think, Kristian,
Speaker 2: you've developed an e late into a relationship. What is it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So my partner and I have been together for
Speaker 7: eight years now. I've actually just had a babyshit, so
Speaker 7: it's like a long term, serious relationship.
Speaker 4: It's efficient, and I.
Speaker 7: Adore him, but then he shoes with his mouth open,
Speaker 7: and the noise it just gets to me and I
Speaker 7: like to give him jaggers. I stare at him and
Speaker 7: it grinds.
Speaker 3: But surely you've been together eight years. Surely this is
Speaker 3: something he's always done. Just overnight, just decided to start
Speaker 3: eating with the mouth open. Maybe he's got some daser problems.
Speaker 7: I feel like I never really noticed it until like recently.
Speaker 2: So wait, what I'm getting to solve this relationship? In
Speaker 2: my relationship, is I need to have a baby.
Speaker 4: No, it's it's not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to solve this issue, I need to go through
Speaker 2: the lengthy process of getting a baby via surracle.
Speaker 3: I think that Hayden just needs to get his license
Speaker 3: and then you'll be fine.
Speaker 2: All right, That's that's the end of the show for
Speaker 2: a Tuesday. We're done here, guys.
Speaker 3: Ah, Happy Tuesday everyone. We've got Willam, What are you
Speaker 3: coming up next?
Speaker 2: Yeah? The boys from the Imperfect podcast are into Diish
Speaker 2: kyleen Berg.
Speaker 4: He's wonderful. Oh he's my favorite.
Speaker 2: I love that podcast too. They're joining Will and what
Speaker 2: are you next? You tomorrow? Bye,