Speaker 1: Laura.
Speaker 2: Come on, it's Monday, Harbor.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hi guys, Hello.
Speaker 4: Welcome to the pickup heading to the chemists warehouse today.
Speaker 4: Great savings every day, maybe fostered Laura Britt. Laura's had
Speaker 4: her hairdt man.
Speaker 3: We look like we've.
Speaker 5: We look like we've dressed down today because Laura looks
Speaker 5: like she's dressed to nine and she've done something.
Speaker 6: It's because I usually come in here looking like a
Speaker 6: hot mess, train wreck, and as soon as I.
Speaker 3: Do my hair and wear it out. But I'm glad
Speaker 3: you all noticed. I'm glad you noticed I got my haircut.
Speaker 3: Guess how much it costs me?
Speaker 2: Oh? Question, this is a leading question. It's either a lot.
Speaker 3: Guess how old?
Speaker 6: I Yeah, how much my beautiful haircut costing a couple
Speaker 6: of four hundred?
Speaker 3: Is it four hundred? Are you getting your hair?
Speaker 7: Have you seen Mitch's hairs like elders?
Speaker 3: Yeah, out very often.
Speaker 7: One hundred dollars.
Speaker 6: Okay, well it cost me absolutely nothing. Maddie J cut
Speaker 6: my hair on Friday night.
Speaker 2: Your husband, Maddie J cut that hair with.
Speaker 3: A pair of meat is I haven't had anyone actually
Speaker 3: look at the back of it. Oh, he's gone for
Speaker 3: the undercut Laurie.
Speaker 2: There's a whole car. There's a whole chunk at the
Speaker 2: back that is missed. There is no shaved like an
Speaker 2: old brat's doll. It's very ragged Barbie.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, anyway, guys, I thought, what I can't see
Speaker 3: you won't hurt me?
Speaker 4: Very modern, wow, and how embarrassing that we have Australia's
Speaker 4: a literal number one heart throb on the show.
Speaker 2: On the day that you look like a Barbie doll.
Speaker 4: I'm taking Tony Armstrong is going to be here from
Speaker 4: ab Sea Breakfast on the pick up right around the country.
Speaker 2: Welcome everyone, Happy Monday. It's the pick up Monday afternoon, Britt,
Speaker 2: Laura and Mitch.
Speaker 3: Here.
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Speaker 4: if you're in the car right now, I do, I
Speaker 4: do really urge you to get a glass of water,
Speaker 4: because I feel like the nation collectively is about to
Speaker 4: get real thirsty for this.
Speaker 7: Interview to get ready.
Speaker 5: I got a lead a bottle of water here because
Speaker 5: I knew I was going to be thirsty.
Speaker 4: Getting thirsty this because the one and only LOGI Award
Speaker 4: winning TV presenter heart Throb to the Stars, Tony Armstrong.
Speaker 2: Is he on the pickup?
Speaker 1: How? I'm a bit embarrassed. How are you?
Speaker 7: Oh, don't be embarrassed.
Speaker 4: Tony talked to us about this new podcast, The Pool Room.
Speaker 4: It's on iHeartRadio. This is really exciting. What's going on
Speaker 4: with that?
Speaker 1: Man? I'm so I'm so pumped about it. So the
Speaker 1: first episode came out last Friday, and then we're gonna
Speaker 1: drop a couple every week. So we've recorded them all
Speaker 1: so far. It's not me interviewing people. It's it's basically
Speaker 1: me telling telling all these kind of esoteric sportings that
Speaker 1: you may not have heard before. And they go for
Speaker 1: about ten minutes, which is up perfect for you commute,
Speaker 1: you know, to and from work. Like it's not it,
Speaker 1: I guess from a from a listener interview. It's not
Speaker 1: like one of those massive commitments.
Speaker 7: Like our podcast Life on Cut.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was like an hour and forty You really
Speaker 6: are strapping your more bite size and edible Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But like I think, I think, what's what I
Speaker 1: like about that is, you could learn about Shinzo the
Speaker 1: Japanese the Japanese marathon Runner, which was the first episode.
Speaker 1: You could learn about Sino on your way to the pub.
Speaker 1: And then you get to the pub and it's like
Speaker 1: the perfect kind of reshalling. If you want a whole
Speaker 1: court listen to the pool room before you go somewhere,
Speaker 1: and then you go, oh have you heard of That's
Speaker 1: so good.
Speaker 4: Because there's nothing worse than doune like pub banter, or
Speaker 4: you're eating the shniti and someone's telling you about the
Speaker 4: day the day and you, I don't care, terrible story.
Speaker 1: How about this weather? Yeah? Cool man.
Speaker 6: There were rumors last year that you were I mean
Speaker 6: that you were in line to be Australia's bachelor on
Speaker 6: the show.
Speaker 3: Is there any truth to that?
Speaker 1: It was actually so nice to find out something about
Speaker 1: me that I didn't know. Yeah, we feel that I'm
Speaker 1: doing stuff and even I don't know about but yeah
Speaker 1: know truth to that whatsoever? Never saw any emails or
Speaker 1: anything like that.
Speaker 5: Would you do it, Tony?
Speaker 1: It would make me very uncomfortable.
Speaker 6: I think, well, Tony, something genuinely a little bit more serious.
Speaker 6: We had Boni on the show last week with the
Speaker 6: main and she's a very trusted voice within Australian media
Speaker 6: on indigenous issues as a you. Something that she spoke
Speaker 6: about was that every time she speaks up about indigenous issues,
Speaker 6: how she receives so much trolling off the back of it.
Speaker 6: I know that it's something that you've also experienced, but you.
Speaker 3: How do you deal with this?
Speaker 1: The opinions or the way people might talk about me
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily bother me anymore. Like obviously sometimes you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that one actually got through, But because I'm like pretty confident,
Speaker 1: doesn't really sort of make me feel too bad.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's a difference between trolling and I know
Speaker 6: that last year you received death threats? Like, how do
Speaker 6: you manage that when it doesn't you know, when it
Speaker 6: comes off from just being an online issue to being
Speaker 6: something that affects you in your every day how do
Speaker 6: you navigate that?
Speaker 1: I think like leaning on my support network has been great.
Speaker 1: The ABC has been so supportive as well.
Speaker 3: Amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so when I was getting something my emails, it
Speaker 1: felt really close, do you know what I mean? Because
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, whoa not here. We're like following that
Speaker 1: up with the police and stuff, and that's still ongoing,
Speaker 1: which is which is really important for me. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just like leaning on my support networks and not
Speaker 1: feeling like I have to do it all. But like
Speaker 1: people are people are great. People always want to want
Speaker 1: to help everyone really like so if you if you're
Speaker 1: kind of trust in your friends around you and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, that they'll wrap their arms around you,
Speaker 1: then it makes it easier.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I did want to ask you one other sort
Speaker 5: of question, and it's in the sporting world, so I
Speaker 5: feel like it is in your world.
Speaker 7: But the CEO of.
Speaker 5: AFL recently came out saying that you know, there are
Speaker 5: definitely gay AFL players that for whatever reason don't feel
Speaker 5: like they can be who they want to be, who
Speaker 5: their true authentic self and come out. We've seen last year,
Speaker 5: I know there was an ashrowned soccer player, Josh Cavaralo.
Speaker 5: They went viral for the simply for the fact that
Speaker 5: they said, Hey, I'm sick of herty, I'm gay, I'm out.
Speaker 5: What are your thoughts on how we can help people
Speaker 5: feel comfortable in the sporting world to come out and
Speaker 5: be who they really are, because it just seems like
Speaker 5: there's so much struggle happening, and I just can't work
Speaker 5: out why and what we can do about it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I think media, we're so desperate to know,
Speaker 8: you know. And then it becomes this massive thing almost
Speaker 8: what fevered people.
Speaker 1: Like, oh did you hear about this player? And you're like, hell, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't care. Yeah, and it turns
Speaker 1: it into a scandal yeah, and it like and then
Speaker 1: it becomes this scandalous thing. I mean, you know, you
Speaker 1: look at those examples that you've used the club, and
Speaker 1: my teammates were amazing, you know, like they have been
Speaker 1: the most supportive people. Blah blah blah, this that the other.
Speaker 1: So then it's like you've got to remember how young
Speaker 1: some of these players are and hew, and the worlds
Speaker 1: in which they've grown up here are very progressive, Like
Speaker 1: you've got eighteen year olds in there, you know, and like,
Speaker 1: I mean, you talked to an eighteen year old recently.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're saying.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I have to do every day.
Speaker 2: You want to show with me every day.
Speaker 4: But all I'm going to say on this topic is,
Speaker 4: if you're gay or you're straight, you need to google
Speaker 4: Tony Armstrong chili. You'll get a good shot of him
Speaker 4: drinking some milk and that that, oh my god, that
Speaker 4: will get anyone moving. You are a superstar, buddy. Thank
Speaker 4: you for coming on the pick up. You get the
Speaker 4: new podcast The Pool Room on iHeartRadio. It's available now,
Speaker 4: Thanks Tony.
Speaker 2: Tony. Next to the pickup, Laura, I've got an issue
Speaker 2: with your kids.
Speaker 6: Standard sorry, but because Lola stopped sleeping and I've I've
Speaker 6: got an issue with her as well.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you can join the witch hunt for your kids.
Speaker 4: That's next to the pickup. It's the pick up Monday, Britt,
Speaker 4: Laura and Mitche are head into Chemist ware House today.
Speaker 4: Great savings every day now, Britt, I'm a bit nervous
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna upset Laura BYRN today.
Speaker 3: I feel like.
Speaker 7: These nerves, we always have these nerves.
Speaker 3: What if you done?
Speaker 2: I'm nervous. I was at a kid's birthday party at
Speaker 2: the end of last week.
Speaker 4: I have two beautiful god sons, Harrison and Fletcher, who
Speaker 4: I adore, and I was loving the party so much,
Speaker 4: and then it came to be my favorite part of
Speaker 4: every party.
Speaker 2: It's when you get a.
Speaker 4: Cake and the little cupcakes cupcakes came out, and you
Speaker 4: know I love a baked good, you do. So I'm
Speaker 4: there with my cousin Crystal, who's the mum of my
Speaker 4: God's sons, and we're all there and the cake comes
Speaker 4: out and I'm all seeing Happy birthday his little kid.
Speaker 4: Never met him in my life, but he sits at
Speaker 4: the table like he's the king of it's his birthday.
Speaker 2: Of course, he gets to sit at the head of the.
Speaker 4: Table and all his friends are around him, and it
Speaker 4: was kind of like a flock of minor birds. They
Speaker 4: all sort of like it was like a triangle format.
Speaker 4: They do They all want to get into that candle,
Speaker 4: aren't they?
Speaker 7: They was just literally like us at a wedding when
Speaker 7: there were dorves come out.
Speaker 4: The birthday boys sitting at the head of the table.
Speaker 4: We all sing happy birthday. And then he goes to
Speaker 4: blow out the can and the candles go out.
Speaker 2: Boy, they go out. But it's not because of his breath.
Speaker 2: It's because of the spit that has been projected out.
Speaker 5: Of this this vermin's mad gollied on the cake.
Speaker 4: It covers the cake. It's a chocolate cake, and it
Speaker 4: looks like there's condensation on it. Instantly from this little
Speaker 4: brat's breath, and it is all over. And I'm sitting
Speaker 4: there going and I go light it again. Jesse's birthday
Speaker 4: was yesterday, let's sing, they do it again.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what they say.
Speaker 2: Who's teaching these kids to blow air out? Because all
Speaker 2: they do is spit?
Speaker 5: Now, what's the problem here that you then have to
Speaker 5: consume their spit.
Speaker 2: This is the one point in my life where I
Speaker 2: will say no to a piece of cake. Oh, I
Speaker 2: didn't touch it. I can't touch it. It was a pandemic.
Speaker 7: It makes me feel sick thinking about it.
Speaker 3: Actually, they're not gollying on the cake. They just do
Speaker 3: like a little raspberry in it.
Speaker 6: And it's kind of cute because they're learning to blow
Speaker 6: out a candle, so they're still getting there.
Speaker 5: So you would consume a cake with say an average
Speaker 5: of four to seven different spittles on the cake.
Speaker 3: I think I do that every weekend as well. I
Speaker 3: just honestly, when it's a little flick, it's different.
Speaker 6: If you were just spit on a cake, I would
Speaker 6: feel a bit different about it. But I just don't
Speaker 6: think it's that big a deal. Like if it's a
Speaker 6: little kid and you know, they're not galling, it's they're
Speaker 6: kind of drooling everywhere anyway. I feel like when you're
Speaker 6: a parent, you constantly got some sort of bodily fluid
Speaker 6: from your child or someone else's child on you anyway.
Speaker 2: So you would eat that. You'd eat the spit cover eat.
Speaker 6: The spit covered cake every weekend. It's the best part
Speaker 6: of the birthday party.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not for me. You're just like I was
Speaker 2: up all night making a Greens chocolate cake.
Speaker 3: You didn't know make I made this.
Speaker 4: Wait, look at this beautiful piece of chocolate cake that
Speaker 4: I labored over overnight.
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong. There's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 7: You just on the cake.
Speaker 4: Just count me down three two one three two one.
Speaker 7: No, no, I know you gotta eat it.
Speaker 5: That's Can I do it as well, because it's that's
Speaker 5: okay God, guys, Yes, I better blow this out as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nicely done.
Speaker 3: It was, damn it.
Speaker 7: It's one of those candles that doesn't blow out.
Speaker 6: Guys, and I would like to see it's very different
Speaker 6: when you cough, when it comes from the insides of
Speaker 6: your lungs.
Speaker 3: It was the same. No, it's not a little.
Speaker 6: Kid going to a birthday cake versus you hacking up
Speaker 6: your COVID. Whatever, swallow it, swallow it, swallow it.
Speaker 3: It doesn't count unless it goes down the hatchet.
Speaker 2: Swallow it.
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 3: There is spitcake and cold coffee. That's literally my life.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: Everyone, have you ever had a near death experience? Laura
Speaker 4: is like, yeah, eating that cake. We're talking to someone
Speaker 4: on the show next who's almost died and has lived
Speaker 4: to tell the tale. This near death experience will send
Speaker 4: shivers down your spine, and we're going to catch up
Speaker 4: with him next on the pickup. It's the pick up
Speaker 4: Monday afternoon. You got Bret, you got Met, You've got Laurahy.
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Speaker 6: Oh my god, guys, have you seen about this skier
Speaker 6: from France? I watch possibly the scariest video I think
Speaker 6: I've ever seen in my time.
Speaker 3: I've heard about this going viral.
Speaker 6: Okay, so there's a there's a guy from France going
Speaker 6: for a leisurely little ski had his GoPro at the
Speaker 6: front of his skis, and as he's skiing, he hits
Speaker 6: like what looks like normal white slopes, it opens up
Speaker 6: into an icy crevass, and he goes down deep into
Speaker 6: this like underground ice tunnel.
Speaker 3: But it happens so quickly and so rapidly.
Speaker 7: I'm watching now, my god, oh my god, he's been
Speaker 7: swallowed by the earth.
Speaker 3: Earth has opened up and eaten him whole.
Speaker 2: That's like an icy like cravass. I think that's like
Speaker 2: a kilometer deep. Look at that. That is so deep.
Speaker 3: Now he's in the middle of like nowhere, right. Imagine
Speaker 3: being there.
Speaker 6: Imagine being skiing by yourself, all on your own, ending
Speaker 6: up in the middle of a deep, dark hole that
Speaker 6: having to get yourself out of there.
Speaker 3: He had to use his little picks and pick his
Speaker 3: way the top.
Speaker 7: He climbed back up.
Speaker 3: And then posted it to social media, as you do
Speaker 3: when you have near ethics.
Speaker 4: Imagine if he got to the top and he realized
Speaker 4: that Gwyneth Paltrow pushed him in. She's just standing there
Speaker 4: with her gloves.
Speaker 3: You skid to me, now, you probably could hear some.
Speaker 7: Bone broth for your warm up.
Speaker 6: I find skiing scary enough. I mean I've been snowboarding
Speaker 6: a couple of times. This is petrifying.
Speaker 7: That's discussing. It makes me feel ill.
Speaker 2: I know what you mean. To look at something that
Speaker 2: intense makes me feel physically.
Speaker 7: She's been buried alart.
Speaker 4: It takes me back I had I wouldn't say near death,
Speaker 4: but I could have been really hurt at one of
Speaker 4: those classic fairs. I was on the coast of Australia
Speaker 4: that was like one of those dinky roller coasters and
Speaker 4: I went on with my sister and the harness didn't
Speaker 4: click in correctly, and I remember as we started going, I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, this isn't this season on. This is doing nothing.
Speaker 2: This is like a scarf.
Speaker 4: So I went down and then went like it kind
Speaker 4: of went like on the side, did a full circle
Speaker 4: and I almost fell out. And you know when your
Speaker 4: stomach just leaves your body and your soul leaves, and
Speaker 4: your watching it happen going this could very well be
Speaker 4: the end. I had an experience like that, and I
Speaker 4: still can now looking at that video. It takes me
Speaker 4: back to that moment.
Speaker 7: Every time I get on a roller coaster or a
Speaker 7: ride at the carnival.
Speaker 3: What do you call it?
Speaker 7: The County fair.
Speaker 1: I do that.
Speaker 5: I have to check the harnesses, the sea bells. I
Speaker 5: check everything one hundred times because I think I'm going
Speaker 5: to fling out of it.
Speaker 7: It's a real thing.
Speaker 6: I feel like everybody has a near death experience that
Speaker 6: they've just where You've just pervaded death, just just by
Speaker 6: the sinning.
Speaker 5: It ail probably the closest I've got to. And this
Speaker 5: is taking a deep, deep dark turn. But I did
Speaker 5: this round the world trip for three years with my sister.
Speaker 5: We traveled to so many countries, but we were in Columbia,
Speaker 5: in a place called Metagin and I feel like this
Speaker 5: was as close as I've got to something bad happening.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 7: I was out one night and I got I didn't
Speaker 7: know at the time, but I was drug now. I
Speaker 7: was drugged by There's a lot.
Speaker 5: Of cartel there that they all work together in bars,
Speaker 5: and they were drugging tourists. I got drugs so severely
Speaker 5: that it happened in about four minutes. Now, from the
Speaker 5: time it happened to me, I knew something wasn't right,
Speaker 5: and I said to my sisters share because I had
Speaker 5: barely been drinking and we'd been scoped out by the place.
Speaker 5: Right a lot in hindsight, who are you here with
Speaker 5: you guys by yourself, you're traveling a lot of it
Speaker 5: in hindsight.
Speaker 2: They slipped to a pill and a drink.
Speaker 7: They slipped it behind the bar.
Speaker 5: And my saving grace, now I know, was the fact
Speaker 5: that my accommodation happened to be directly next door to
Speaker 5: this last bar that we went to, So we walked outside.
Speaker 5: By the time I left to get to the building
Speaker 5: next door, I couldn't stand up anymore.
Speaker 7: By the time I got in, I was out cold.
Speaker 3: I was so scary.
Speaker 7: And what happens is at the so I woke up.
Speaker 5: The next day, probably twenty hours later, like I was
Speaker 5: properly drugged, probably out passed out in the shower. The
Speaker 5: local told me last night that so apparently they'd followed
Speaker 5: us out. But the local had told us that there
Speaker 5: was a really big and there still is unfortunately an
Speaker 5: organ harvesting and trafficking ring there, especially with tourists. It's
Speaker 5: really really big.
Speaker 3: If I wasn't just next door, you've been missing a
Speaker 3: kidney not well, who knows.
Speaker 7: I look back now. It makes me feel unwell.
Speaker 2: That is so scary. I think a lot of people
Speaker 2: have stories like that that they just haven't told. So
Speaker 2: let us know. Go to the pickup dot com dot au.
Speaker 4: We'll give you a five hundred dollars chemist ware house
Speaker 4: about you if you had a near miss, so you've
Speaker 4: escaped dead.
Speaker 3: I think I'd prefer the glacier give me a crevass
Speaker 3: any day.
Speaker 4: The County Fair roller coaster, I think that's probably the
Speaker 4: best Saturday telling my story. Listening to Britz, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I've got a fairy floss.
Speaker 5: After I was doing just fine, I had really bad
Speaker 5: indigestion from that roller coaster, and I'm like, well, I
Speaker 5: nearly got stolen from.
Speaker 4: Another I'm gonna recategorize it's like a near Gray's experience
Speaker 4: exactly death.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get out of here. We will see
Speaker 2: you tomorrow. Will and Water you're up next Wood, he's back,
Speaker 2: he's out of the jungle.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm excited, but also I wanted him to
Speaker 3: thought it was weird.
Speaker 2: Same Shane. We'll get all the goss next, see you tomorrow.