Speaker 1: Laura.
Speaker 2: Come on there, Hello Australia.
Speaker 3: We're on HALLO. Happy Tuesday, High ladies.
Speaker 2: Can you see my hands?
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm pointing to you, Britt, I'm pointing to you, Laura.
Speaker 1: I have French chips for the first time in my life.
Speaker 3: You have the stubbiest nails.
Speaker 4: And I say that with all love, But you have
Speaker 4: the nails of someone who has been biting the nails
Speaker 4: since they came out of the womb.
Speaker 1: I've been a very anxious kid. I was a very
Speaker 1: anxious baby too. No, I have been a nail bit
Speaker 1: in my whole life. And how this show works is normally,
Speaker 1: if we want to talk about something, we do it
Speaker 1: later in the show. But producer Grace said, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about the fact that you're no longer
Speaker 1: biting your nails. So I've said it without anything. I
Speaker 1: said it live, so no one can. I'm going like, really.
Speaker 2: Rogue, what made you stop?
Speaker 1: There was a bit of gun under it and I
Speaker 1: tasted it and it was frowl and I had to
Speaker 1: decide that's that's that's the line. So I actually went
Speaker 1: into chemists warehouse and I got some of that. Aunt
Speaker 1: read stop by stop By.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like the nails stop By. It's the best.
Speaker 2: It works, So my mouth tastes discussing. But I've got
Speaker 2: French tips, French tips, they are French dips.
Speaker 4: And I'm proud of her than having e COLEI underneath
Speaker 4: your nails.
Speaker 2: The radio bosses are walking in with pitchforks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, upset, I might not be able to do the
Speaker 4: show soon. And I say this because I am getting
Speaker 4: censored everyone. My mother in law, she has just recently retired,
Speaker 4: and she used to be a school teacher, so she
Speaker 4: never ever ever could listen to the pick. This is
Speaker 4: Mattie J's, my beautiful mother in law. We've had her
Speaker 4: on the show a few times. Well, she's now retired
Speaker 4: and she's now listening to every show. And I got
Speaker 4: a real dressing down after something I said that went
Speaker 4: very wrong.
Speaker 1: Oh god, all right, can't wait to hear about that.
Speaker 1: Let's go that's next. As we start to pick up
Speaker 1: for your Tuesday AVO. Here at Chemists Warehouse today, I
Speaker 1: get great savings every day. I'm just rubbing my nails
Speaker 1: together at Billy Parton because I've got friends. It's disgusting, Mitchell,
Speaker 1: back after this, you guys.
Speaker 4: Might remember the other day Britain mitche I was talking
Speaker 4: about when I was coming to work and how I
Speaker 4: almost died.
Speaker 3: And I don't mean that, lad, I remember so dramatic.
Speaker 1: So painful about it Too's me that was just like
Speaker 1: a lot like you didn't almost die.
Speaker 4: I did. It was my closest near death experience. I
Speaker 4: was almost run over in the street by maniac. Okay,
Speaker 4: I have listen to this all right.
Speaker 3: Picture this.
Speaker 4: I just dropped the kids off of daycare and I
Speaker 4: had a coffee in one hand, I had my phone
Speaker 4: on the other hand.
Speaker 3: I wasn't paying a lot of attention to the road.
Speaker 4: It was a pedestrian crossing, and so, believe it or not,
Speaker 4: I kind of assume that when you approach a pedestrian crossing,
Speaker 4: cars stop. It's like the Red Sea. You think they're
Speaker 4: just gonna part ways for you to cross it. Out
Speaker 4: of my periphery, it feels like the car that's coming
Speaker 4: is coming too fast. I look up and there it
Speaker 4: is this ninety year old lady in a Mercedes with
Speaker 4: all her windows down, fanging.
Speaker 3: It straight across the pedestrian cross and I was.
Speaker 4: Like, this is one of two things. She either probably
Speaker 4: shouldn't have a license, or she has such little time
Speaker 4: left she doesn't care.
Speaker 2: So you're rubbishly of the country.
Speaker 4: It was almost runnen down and flattened by a geriatric No,
Speaker 4: I was you went looking.
Speaker 3: It was your fault.
Speaker 5: You have to look left, right and left, even at
Speaker 5: a crossing.
Speaker 4: I don't know it was a pedestrian crossing anyway. Okay,
Speaker 4: that's not what happened here. So my beautiful mother in law, Ellie,
Speaker 4: she's moving in with us and she's just come down
Speaker 4: to stay with us for a little while. We love,
Speaker 4: we love Ellie. We've had her on the show many times.
Speaker 4: And I walked in I hadn't seen Ellie for a
Speaker 4: little while, and she said, Laura Burne, I have a
Speaker 4: bone to pick with you.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: What's happened is that Ellie has recently retired. She used
Speaker 4: to be a school teacher, so she never ever listened
Speaker 4: to the pickup before. So we have spoken about Ellie
Speaker 4: many times on the show. I get to tell stories,
Speaker 4: I can speak freely knowing that my mother in law
Speaker 4: is never going to hear. But the tables have turned
Speaker 4: because now she's listening to every single show, and she
Speaker 4: had some real feelings about the fact that I was
Speaker 4: on my phone and crossing a p.
Speaker 2: So what did she say to you? She's scolding you.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I got scolded like a teenager, like I
Speaker 4: was a naughty little girl, and she told me how
Speaker 4: wrong I was.
Speaker 3: And I still know. I stand by this. I know
Speaker 3: you shouldn't check.
Speaker 4: Your phone when you're near the road, but people need
Speaker 4: to stop if they're coming to a pedestrian crossing.
Speaker 3: That's why the lines are there.
Speaker 5: Laura, you can't constantly blame other people for your mistakes
Speaker 5: and also take this as a compliment.
Speaker 3: She likes you. She doesn't want you to die, she
Speaker 3: wants you to stay married.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, Ellie, Wait wait, Matt's mom's SAME's Ellie,
Speaker 1: Ellie and she listens to the pick up every day.
Speaker 1: Hold on, producer, Grace is just I think, as Ellie called.
Speaker 3: Through, We've got Laura's mother and Laura.
Speaker 4: Ellie mom, stop embarrassing me.
Speaker 6: If you no, no, no, no, no, you do not listen.
Speaker 6: I am so really, I'm so cross. First of all,
Speaker 6: my darling girl, you are now the mother of two
Speaker 6: beautiful girls to adore you, and you have a husband
Speaker 6: who'd be lost without you. So tell me, please, why
Speaker 6: you were walking across a road while looking at your phone.
Speaker 4: Yes, Laura, yeah, tell us because I didn't think it's
Speaker 4: going to be an intervention time, because it was a
Speaker 4: pedestrian crossing and I didn't.
Speaker 6: Laura Burn, you will stop there because it is not
Speaker 6: a magical accident free zone with some invisible armor plated protection.
Speaker 6: You do not realize how many insane drivers are out
Speaker 6: there who are probably looking at their own phones. Now,
Speaker 6: you know what, as much as I am cross with
Speaker 6: you because we love you too much for you to
Speaker 6: die some ridiculous death, and I'm not here to pick
Speaker 6: up the pieces, Laura Burn, no, I.
Speaker 3: Know, and also Matt would be very sad to lose me.
Speaker 6: What I do think though, I kind of pleased that
Speaker 6: you've raised it in a way because I think there
Speaker 6: is a valuable lesson here for young people. They can
Speaker 6: wear their headphones on the bus, on the train, in
Speaker 6: the park, skate park, whatever, on the beach, but when
Speaker 6: you are navigating busy streets, headphones don't have a place.
Speaker 4: Wow, Ellie, I love you to death. You are hopefully
Speaker 4: not to death. Hopefully I stay alive for a long time.
Speaker 5: Is what we'retablished, but no, you were trying to establish
Speaker 5: nobody dies.
Speaker 3: You are such a mom through and through.
Speaker 4: And now I'm a little bit scared to come home,
Speaker 4: like I'm to be in trouble in my own.
Speaker 1: Are you scared to interrupt? I want to let Ellie
Speaker 1: say everything she needs to say.
Speaker 5: I am literally hanging on every single word, and I
Speaker 5: feel like I'm being scolded Simultaneously, I'm like, what have
Speaker 5: I been doing wrong?
Speaker 3: Has Ellie been listening to me as well?
Speaker 2: Ellie? Do you have it? You listen to the show
Speaker 2: every day?
Speaker 7: Pree with you, britt Law.
Speaker 6: You cannot blame that geriatric driving.
Speaker 4: I stand by if someone needs to take her license away.
Speaker 4: But Ellie, if you keep this up, we'll take you
Speaker 4: all away as well.
Speaker 1: You I don't get love Ellie.
Speaker 6: Now you must promise me, Laura Burns, that when you
Speaker 6: approach a road, your mobile phone is not in your hand.
Speaker 6: Can you promise me that.
Speaker 2: Put your hand on your heart.
Speaker 4: I promise Ellie Johnson, mother in law, my lovely mum, that.
Speaker 3: I will not be on my phone anymore.
Speaker 4: And I also, if I ever have a story to tell,
Speaker 4: where I think I'm going to get in trouble on
Speaker 4: the pick up.
Speaker 3: Myself from now on that.
Speaker 2: She's still Ellie.
Speaker 1: We don't have a time where people have to be
Speaker 1: picked up from school. I love you, I love you, Ellie.
Speaker 1: That is Mattie Jay's mother Ellie. There everyone, Wow, britt
Speaker 1: was that was a lot.
Speaker 5: Mitch and Laura speaking of geriatrics the Gold Coast. Don't
Speaker 5: call Ellie that I'm not. I'm about to tell you
Speaker 5: about one. The Gold Coast Volunteer of the Year last
Speaker 5: year has started a petition and written into the mayor
Speaker 5: to ban something from our Ozzie Beaches, something that I
Speaker 5: don't think should be banned.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to tell you all about it after
Speaker 3: the break.
Speaker 2: All right, next on the pickup, Mitch and Laura.
Speaker 5: There is a fierce debate going on around Australia today,
Speaker 5: but it is centered around the Gold Coast beaches.
Speaker 3: Now, there is this man. His name's Ian.
Speaker 5: He was the Volunteer of the Year in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 5: so this is like an upstanding citizen and he has
Speaker 5: recently started a petition. He's written into the Mayor of
Speaker 5: the Gold Coast. He wants to ban wait for it,
Speaker 5: he wants to ban g sturing bikinis from our beaches
Speaker 5: because he feels inappropriate when he looks at them and
Speaker 5: he thinks they're a bit much. Now, not only does
Speaker 5: he feel this way about bikinis, but he's also said
Speaker 5: he feels equally is uncomfortable by active wear like tight,
Speaker 5: like a girl that's walking past in tight yep, tight
Speaker 5: workout clothes, and he thinks they shouldn't be allowed to
Speaker 5: be on our beaches.
Speaker 3: And it started a bit of a kickoff. Wait, so
Speaker 3: what has happened here then?
Speaker 4: So like is this actually being like, is this actually
Speaker 4: a possibility?
Speaker 3: Has it been rejected? Is it going aid? Is there
Speaker 3: a petition?
Speaker 1: Why are we listening to Terry the volunteer of the Year,
Speaker 1: which is probably a self nominated award?
Speaker 2: Can I just say his name was Ian?
Speaker 6: Mitch?
Speaker 2: Don't? I don't remember Ian's name?
Speaker 1: Why does a he have to change based on what
Speaker 1: one volunteer wants because it makes him uncomfortable that he
Speaker 1: sees a woman.
Speaker 3: He's obviously the social vigilante.
Speaker 4: I mean like he's you know, he's volunteering hard, he's
Speaker 4: starting petitions. I mean, look, bikinis are getting smaller and
Speaker 4: smaller and smaller.
Speaker 3: They really are.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you go down Bondo Beach, they are
Speaker 4: almost miniscule these days.
Speaker 1: I've read the official complaint. I've got the applepavit that
Speaker 1: he submitted to the Gold Coast Mayor. He says he
Speaker 1: documents an incident with a woman who was, apparently these
Speaker 1: are his words, as close to naked as anyone could
Speaker 1: be walk past him recently. Mister Grace claimed he inadvertently
Speaker 1: looked at her, writing that while it was a pleasant view,
Speaker 1: she was sending the wrong message.
Speaker 3: I'll stop here, get off your high horse in.
Speaker 2: But just remember he inadvertently looked at her too.
Speaker 4: It was inadvertent and the view was pleasant, but he
Speaker 4: is outraged by the view.
Speaker 2: He outraged what he felt down below well.
Speaker 5: He also went on to say that while he did
Speaker 5: see earlier in the day a woman in very tight
Speaker 5: active wear and swimwear, and then he ended up being
Speaker 5: served coffee by her at the local coffee shop, and
Speaker 5: he didn't couldn't look her in the eye because he's like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, I feel like I have I feel
Speaker 5: like I'm violating you because I saw you half naked
Speaker 5: on the beach before.
Speaker 3: So he's got a.
Speaker 5: Real problem with people in tight clothes and nudity. But
Speaker 5: I just think, come on, like, we're a nation of beaches.
Speaker 3: We can't ban swimwear.
Speaker 4: I also think that this is I mean, look, I
Speaker 4: know that there's going to be a lot of people
Speaker 4: listening who probably think that some bikinis are getting too small.
Speaker 3: That's fine.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, men can walk
Speaker 4: around in a pair of speedos, a tiny pair of speedos,
Speaker 4: nipples out, chest out, hairy legs out, hairy chest out.
Speaker 4: No one's complaining. Sometimes I feel violated in the eyes
Speaker 4: because I have to look at it down at the
Speaker 4: swimming baths. But I mean, do you know what, Let
Speaker 4: people wear and do whatever the hell they want to.
Speaker 1: I'm all for free speech, I'm all for Ian protesting
Speaker 1: removing bare bums on the beaches. But speaking of feeling uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: I inadvertently looked at this photo of Ian and I
Speaker 1: feel I feel well and I feel sick. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: But if you put a white wig on a like
Speaker 1: little pussy cat wig like Mary J.
Speaker 2: Blige would wear on a beach troop, that would be Ian.
Speaker 4: You don't stop it, no, don't produce, just not on
Speaker 4: the name calling poor Ian, it's not about that.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm a big bikini wearer, and I'm upset that
Speaker 1: he wants to strip me of my simple pleasuring.
Speaker 4: Life, of your right to wear a bikini at the
Speaker 4: beach and get those beautiful buns out, sons out.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 1: I don't have to got a link craft and wrap myself
Speaker 1: in like a bed sheet to get a bikini working.
Speaker 2: But it is stop it.
Speaker 3: Look, we're not about double standards.
Speaker 5: If men are walking around in budget smugglers with their
Speaker 5: nipples out, it's all right for women to walk around
Speaker 5: with a skimpy little bikini on end of actually.
Speaker 1: A very good point brief, and he has no problem
Speaker 1: with men doing it because he's not inavertently looking down there.
Speaker 1: But it's when women are sexualized that he is upset
Speaker 1: by it.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, But also, I mean there's so many look
Speaker 4: to be fair. Reading through some of more of Ian's quotes,
Speaker 4: I think that Ian might be the problem here. He's
Speaker 4: overtly sexualizing young girls at the beach who are just
Speaker 4: wearing a bikini.
Speaker 3: Ian, grow up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Can we question why Ian spending so much time
Speaker 1: at the beach looking at younger women.
Speaker 3: Because he enjoyed the view but he's outraged.
Speaker 1: In is that any one hotel? Or is Ian just
Speaker 1: walked in the room? All right, everyone, Next on the show,
Speaker 1: Divina Rankin is joining us now. You may remember Devina
Speaker 1: Rankin from Married at First Sight twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: She was married to that grasshopper of a guy what
Speaker 2: was his name?
Speaker 4: Cares about him about Maths at the moment. But Divina
Speaker 4: twenty eighteen, she's got a whole new thing happening. And
Speaker 4: look her life has been revolutionized by celibacy.
Speaker 2: Wow, all right, that is next here on the ian
Speaker 2: Ian I'll love her? Do you love it? Getting on?
Speaker 1: Coming out next now Married at First Sight currently back
Speaker 1: on our TVs.
Speaker 2: It is a ratings juggernaut.
Speaker 1: This is just people love that show and all the
Speaker 1: way back from the early seasons Australia just felling love
Speaker 1: with Maths. Now cast you mine back to twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: where we met some iconic cast members of one of
Speaker 1: the original seasons of mass You might remember the name
Speaker 1: Divina rank I remember Divina, she was in that big cheating
Speaker 1: scandal with Dean Wells.
Speaker 4: You know why this was such a pivotal time because
Speaker 4: it was the very first of the Maths cheating scandals,
Speaker 4: like every year now there's sums chantent, but this was
Speaker 4: like ground zero of it. And I also think it
Speaker 4: was so over the top of the time like that,
Speaker 4: or they didn't even cheat on each other.
Speaker 1: Since then, she's she's written a children's book, she's a
Speaker 1: podcaster and a champion of self love. She's actually just
Speaker 1: done something really crazy for the last twelve months. That's
Speaker 1: why she's joining us. The one and only Divina Rank
Speaker 1: and Welcome to the pickup.
Speaker 5: Hello, Hi guy, Dona introduction Divina. We're so excited to
Speaker 5: be speaking to you today. You have just done one
Speaker 5: year of celibacy. Why on earth? I was just say,
Speaker 5: why did you decide to do celibacy? But maybe you
Speaker 5: didn't actually intend to do it? Talk us through what
Speaker 5: that what happened?
Speaker 7: Well, it's funny because people are like, oh my god,
Speaker 7: this is so shocking. I think it's like, I'm probably
Speaker 7: the first math person who's been making the news for
Speaker 7: not sleeping around. But yeah, it's it's honestly, it was
Speaker 7: unintentional to begin with. I have gone through a massive
Speaker 7: transition in my life over the last few years, one
Speaker 7: of them being separating from my husband. So it was
Speaker 7: just a really tough time to go through. And one
Speaker 7: of the things I realized is I was like, oh
Speaker 7: my god, my whole life. I think I've just rushed everything.
Speaker 7: You know, you're in your twenties, You're like, when am
Speaker 7: I going to get married? When am I going to
Speaker 7: find the one? You know, it's just a rush for ever.
Speaker 7: And I think this is the first time in my
Speaker 7: life that I was really able to just slow down
Speaker 7: and actually like get to know myself as who I
Speaker 7: am and not someone who's like a wife or a
Speaker 7: mother or anything like that. So my self development journey
Speaker 7: kind of just casually led me into my celibacy. It's
Speaker 7: actually been the biggest journey and most transformative journey.
Speaker 6: Of my life.
Speaker 4: Savina, how do you, like, how do you deal with
Speaker 4: the fact, because obviously when you were on Maths it
Speaker 4: was quite controversial at the time, and I think that
Speaker 4: you were very much painted as being, you know, a
Speaker 4: bit of a temptress because there was this ridiculous cheating
Speaker 4: scandal that kind of unfolded. But then going and you know,
Speaker 4: you have your little girl, you were married very shortly after.
Speaker 4: What do you do to try and change people's perception
Speaker 4: or do you just kind of get to a point
Speaker 4: where you accept, oh, people are going to think what
Speaker 4: they're going to think.
Speaker 7: I think like, you definitely can't change the way people
Speaker 7: think about you. All you can do is just show
Speaker 7: up as who you are. And I think it's a
Speaker 7: hard thing of being on national television is you kind
Speaker 7: of get painted in a way that isn't necessarily truly you.
Speaker 7: It's not a true depiction, a true depiction of your
Speaker 7: actual character. So it kind of as hard as it
Speaker 7: was that whole time, it's also been kind of fun
Speaker 7: getting to show the real me and people figuring it
Speaker 7: out to themselves. Like one of my favorite comments or
Speaker 7: one of my favorite dms to readers when they're like,
Speaker 7: oh my god, I hated you, but now I love you,
Speaker 7: like I love following you, I love your life. This
Speaker 7: is great. So it's yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 5: Hey, Devina, I'd love to know because you hear a
Speaker 5: lot of I want to say, athletes. You hear a
Speaker 5: lot of people talk about the effects physiologically and the
Speaker 5: positive outcomes that people experience when they when they are celibate.
Speaker 5: A lot of athletes won't do the deed before they
Speaker 5: have a big match or something because they get all
Speaker 5: these clarity.
Speaker 3: Do you notice anything over.
Speaker 5: A twelve month period within yourself that is remarkably different?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, Like a lot changes When you are pouring all
Speaker 7: of your energy back into yourself and only watering the
Speaker 7: things that you are interested in, only doing the things
Speaker 7: that you're interested in, You've got so much time to
Speaker 7: like actually sign up for courses, learn new things, read
Speaker 7: more books.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: It's when your all your energy is focused on the
Speaker 7: things that you actually want to do, rather than being
Speaker 7: leaky with your energy and just spreading it here, there
Speaker 7: and everywhere to everyone else. Not necessarily in the bedroom,
Speaker 7: but I mean just by saying no to other people,
Speaker 7: you're actually saying a big yes to you. And how often,
Speaker 7: you know, do we say yes to ourselves?
Speaker 2: I love it. That's like an head talk, so you
Speaker 2: could do it almost. I'm thinking, I don't need any
Speaker 2: of it anymore. I'm going to go out.
Speaker 4: I'll say the same thing to my husband. I don't
Speaker 4: think you'll be very impressed, but look, I.
Speaker 2: Need more time Divina.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is great. You can get more of
Speaker 1: Divina on her podcast who Me? And you have to
Speaker 1: say the question who Me? Divina rankin thanks for coming
Speaker 1: on the pickup.
Speaker 6: We all thank you, guys.
Speaker 2: Thanks Divina Sweetheart. All right, let's go home, bye God
Speaker 2: see you guys,