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Speaker 2: This is the pick up, Hi, guys, it's the pickup.
Speaker 2: We've bred Hockey and Laura Bird. What are you laughing?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 2: Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 1: Something I was thinking about though. I recently came across
Speaker 1: this reel that when.
Speaker 2: We want to stop starting.
Speaker 3: A reel that went viral.
Speaker 1: That's all I do is spend my time on Instagram
Speaker 1: doom scrolling Mom and Mia, who are quite a big
Speaker 1: podcast producer. They recently posted a little video and it
Speaker 1: was about smelling ants. I have a question for you,
Speaker 1: brit If it ant gets crushed near you, or like
Speaker 1: you step on an ant, or like you kill an
Speaker 1: ant by accident.
Speaker 2: Can you smell it? Not?
Speaker 1: Like can you smell any odor being emitted from the ant?
Speaker 2: But I don't crush an ant near my face.
Speaker 1: No, But it doesn't matter, like if you could.
Speaker 3: If I walked on an ant and crushed it I
Speaker 3: would smell it from upright.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Or if you were sitting down at a picnic or
Speaker 1: something and you crushed an ant by accident, and you
Speaker 1: have you ever smelt like a weird smell coming from
Speaker 1: an ant?
Speaker 2: No, but this is all weird common No. Then the
Speaker 2: thing is is you can't smell ants? Oh no, what
Speaker 2: have I got to do?
Speaker 1: So apparently this is like the most useless superpower that
Speaker 1: there is. And there are some people in the world
Speaker 1: who can smell ants, and there are some people who can't.
Speaker 1: And I can smell ants, And I always thought ants
Speaker 1: smell awful if they're being stepped on, and everyone can
Speaker 1: smell them. But apparently it's only twenty percent of the
Speaker 1: population can smell ant.
Speaker 3: So if you're walking down the street, you're just walking,
Speaker 3: there's a little ant trail you step on and keep walking.
Speaker 2: You snow.
Speaker 1: For example, like if I'm out in the backyard playing
Speaker 1: with the girls, like on the courtyard area, and I'm
Speaker 1: sitting on the ground and I put my hand down
Speaker 1: and I've squished an ant on my hand.
Speaker 2: And then you smell your hair.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, even if I brush it off, I'm not
Speaker 1: sniffing hair. Sniff I can smell it, like if it's
Speaker 1: crushed on me or near me. The smell is so
Speaker 1: pungent and like peppery and weird.
Speaker 2: Okay, so tuk me through this. Is there a point? No?
Speaker 3: Okay, great, just wanted to check if there was a
Speaker 3: purpose to that. I'm glad that you can smell ants,
Speaker 3: lore am I.
Speaker 2: I'm happy for you. You don't want to talk about
Speaker 2: ant sniffing. No, I'm good. You're just jealous because I'm
Speaker 2: more superior. I have so much fomo.
Speaker 1: No, I'm sure you guys just heard that we are
Speaker 1: supposed to be talking about married at first signe and
Speaker 1: how all the contestants just got their phones back.
Speaker 3: But more pressing news has just made itself known and
Speaker 3: we do need to break it down.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, so we were talking about sniffing ants before
Speaker 1: hear me out. Things are not Things are not as
Speaker 1: rogue as what you might think they are.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be known for that. Laura was
Speaker 3: talking about sniffing ants. Brittany most certainly was not.
Speaker 1: So there is a thing going around currently online which
Speaker 1: is the fact that some people can smell ants and
Speaker 1: like the acid that they emit if they've been stepped
Speaker 1: on or crushed other people can't. Apparently only twenty percent
Speaker 1: of the population can smell ants.
Speaker 2: So then that happened. We talked about that already.
Speaker 1: We left that go because we were gonna then talk
Speaker 1: about Siena and whoever else a, Feena and everyone else
Speaker 1: who married at first sights, who got their phones back
Speaker 1: and have been texting and showing all of there been
Speaker 1: unveiling stuff on Instagram.
Speaker 2: No one cares. You can get that information anywhere.
Speaker 1: What you can't get from anywhere is what we talked
Speaker 1: about in the break just then, and that is that
Speaker 1: Brittany can't smell the rain.
Speaker 2: That's not no. The more important part of this is
Speaker 2: I said I can't smell rain.
Speaker 3: I got a beuse hurled at me by everyone in
Speaker 3: this room saying, yes I can. Every single human can
Speaker 3: smell rain, and I said, no, they can't produce a grace.
Speaker 3: You did some googling there, What did you come up
Speaker 3: with about rain smelling?
Speaker 2: Uh? Not, everyone can smell the rain. I am thank
Speaker 2: you sent into orbit. I am on another planet. Now
Speaker 2: you can also call me Katy Perry.
Speaker 1: So the smell of rain is the word for it
Speaker 1: is called petrocor I thought it was literally a basic
Speaker 1: human joy. I thought every single person it was like
Speaker 1: watching a sunset sniff in the rain. Answer, it's not
Speaker 1: a pleasant smell. So I don't think you should be
Speaker 1: jealous about that one. If you can't smell the rain,
Speaker 1: that to me is absolutely shocking.
Speaker 2: I'm doing okay, though, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You're gonna no, we're gonna end this conversation. You're gonna
Speaker 1: need to book yourself in the therapy. The fact that
Speaker 1: you've missed out on this your whole life is insane
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: We are of equal success here.
Speaker 3: And I've also grown up not smelling rain, like it
Speaker 3: hasn't altered my life's journey.
Speaker 2: But you haven't felt true joy passion. I don't know
Speaker 2: what happened. I don't know if this happened off the
Speaker 2: back of COVID.
Speaker 3: I have been able to start smelling it loosely the
Speaker 3: last couple of years, so like, I get something and
Speaker 3: it's still a new thing, and I'm like, is that
Speaker 3: the rain?
Speaker 2: So I think I'm smelling it?
Speaker 1: So you've gained powers post COVID, because most people lost
Speaker 1: their powers post COVID. It's like this really earthy, rich
Speaker 1: muddy smell, but it's it's nice. I know I'm not
Speaker 1: describing it well, but it smells beautiful.
Speaker 2: Do you want to know something else? Crazy? Oh god,
Speaker 2: do you know that there are some people.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it's call produced grace get on
Speaker 3: the Google people that.
Speaker 2: Like hear color like every like that cough, that cough.
Speaker 2: I'm getting green gunk. I'm getting green gunk. Maybe I
Speaker 2: have whatever it is. Maybe I'm getting chest infection, getting flu.
Speaker 2: It's called synesthesia. Oh synesthesia, Okay, I did think it
Speaker 2: was that, but I think.
Speaker 3: I think for example, like so people can hear a color,
Speaker 3: like someone's voice can.
Speaker 2: Have a color.
Speaker 3: I think mine would be like floral pink. Like you
Speaker 3: ask what I'm saying, like it's like it's in your face?
Speaker 2: What do you reply?
Speaker 1: I have seen this before, And there's a little boy
Speaker 1: online who does this and like every so like every
Speaker 1: key on a piano has a different color attached to it.
Speaker 1: And that was how they found out that he sees
Speaker 1: the same colors.
Speaker 2: And in the comment section, what was really interesting is.
Speaker 1: That there were heaps of other people who had this
Speaker 1: same I don't know what you'd call it, it's not
Speaker 1: condition not a disorder, but just way of I guess
Speaker 1: perceived in the world. So he would be like, oh, there,
Speaker 1: you know, E on a piano is green to me
Speaker 1: and B is blue. And people in the comments were
Speaker 1: who also had whatever the word is. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to pretend like a thank you, Yeah, exactly that one, Britt.
Speaker 1: They also were seeing the identical color that he was
Speaker 1: seeing for their own hearing.
Speaker 2: So it's fascinating.
Speaker 3: I'm I don't know how I feel about it, but
Speaker 3: producer Grace is telling us that's enough of.
Speaker 1: Everybody who can't smell rain or smell ants.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry, you know whatever, Laura.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you have ever had like a
Speaker 3: horror housemate story, but there is an article online that
Speaker 3: is absolutely sending me. There's a twenty four year old
Speaker 3: guy that says that his roommate, the roommate from hell,
Speaker 3: went into the fridge and stole.
Speaker 2: His cake, like a whole cake, a piece.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: I want to eat this cake.
Speaker 3: It's not wine. I'm going to eat it anyway. I'm
Speaker 3: going to ignore everything else and eat it.
Speaker 2: Why was the cake in his room? It was in
Speaker 2: the fridge.
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, it was a room mate the cake wasn't
Speaker 3: under the bed like he said.
Speaker 1: He went into his room and took his cake, and
Speaker 1: I was like, weird place to keep your cake.
Speaker 3: Path Okay, well just stay with me. So his roommate's
Speaker 3: gone and stolen the cake. Turns out is allergic to
Speaker 3: something in the cake. He had like a full blown reaction,
Speaker 3: had to go to the hospital in an ambulance, had
Speaker 3: to get an EpiPen like this was a really serious condition.
Speaker 3: Off the back of that, he got a bill for
Speaker 3: all the medical fees. He then thinks it's not fair
Speaker 3: that he has to pay it because it wasn't his cake.
Speaker 3: So he has passed the bill onto his flatmate, who's
Speaker 3: he stole his cake?
Speaker 2: Are you following me? If I made that stit, you
Speaker 2: made it really convoluted. But I understand saying.
Speaker 3: Knowling's roomate's cake. He had an allergic reaction, went to hospital,
Speaker 3: a huge medical bill. Then he was like, do you
Speaker 3: know what stuff you? You poisoned me with your cake?
Speaker 3: You pay it, And the flatmate's like, bro, you stole
Speaker 3: my cake.
Speaker 2: You poisoned yourself.
Speaker 1: What I love about that story is he told it
Speaker 1: the exact same way, just not animated. The second time
Speaker 1: stole just a faster If you're going to take your
Speaker 1: housemates feet firstly, if you if you're allergic, I would
Speaker 1: say by the age of twenty four, you're probably aware
Speaker 1: of the things that you're an aflacti to normally not everyone,
Speaker 1: but like you would normally have a bit of a
Speaker 1: gauge of what it is that you're allergic to. If
Speaker 1: you're going to go into the fridge, take something that's
Speaker 1: very clearly not yours of your housemates. If you end
Speaker 1: up in hospital, that's a new power. You're paying for
Speaker 1: those bills. It's like you also should have to pay
Speaker 1: for those bills and the caqu eight.
Speaker 2: But it's like.
Speaker 3: Stealing a car and then crashing it and then saying
Speaker 3: that they need to pay your hospital bills, like when
Speaker 3: you stole it.
Speaker 2: It's the same thing. It's wild to me that he
Speaker 2: even thought he could pass his bill on.
Speaker 1: Do you know what my old housemate used to do
Speaker 1: This was we were in our twenties and like no
Speaker 1: one had any money because we're all UNI students and
Speaker 1: we were just doing our best. But I used to
Speaker 1: really like connoisseur ice cream. It was like my one
Speaker 1: treat I would always buy the same one Macadamian.
Speaker 2: I had it in the freezer, and.
Speaker 1: This dude I live with would eat the entire tub
Speaker 1: in like three days would be gone.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have even had a scoop and he would
Speaker 2: have eaten the whole thing, so rude.
Speaker 1: So then he would replace it, but he would always
Speaker 1: replace it with just like the no name, no frills, whatever.
Speaker 1: It was that the cheapest version of ice cream that
Speaker 1: he could get. And he used to make me so
Speaker 1: I write, I rate so I was like, you can't
Speaker 1: substitute something for something less.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And then he.
Speaker 1: Would not eat that because he didn't like it. And
Speaker 1: I was like, well, no one does. We've got Georgia
Speaker 1: on that bad. I didn't end up in hospital, Georgia.
Speaker 1: Do you have a horror house meat story?
Speaker 4: I do. So I had a housemate who had a
Speaker 4: bit of a habit of borrowing and not replacing, you know,
Speaker 4: the standard, and so we sort of sat on it
Speaker 4: for a while. We didn't say much until one day
Speaker 4: we found saucy fingerprints in the butter. Oh Le is.
Speaker 1: Making himself a sausage sandwich and he's spreading it with
Speaker 1: his fingers.
Speaker 2: No, maybe I don't. Yeah, straight from the my kids
Speaker 2: do that, but therefore it's actually revolting.
Speaker 3: No one should eat butter on its own, whether it's
Speaker 3: a fer my kids do.
Speaker 2: They eat it straight straight from the straight from the sauce.
Speaker 4: But then the real kicker is that we asked him
Speaker 4: about it and just you know, can you not do that?
Speaker 4: And he burst into tears. How old was this guy,
Speaker 4: like fully grown? I think at the time he was
Speaker 4: like twenty eight that about I don't know, but I
Speaker 4: felt terrible about it, because you know, maybe the guy
Speaker 4: has stuff going on. I don't know. So I felt
Speaker 4: terrible and I brought him some chocolate to apologize.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I also think that this just screams as someone who's
Speaker 1: highly sensitive to criticism, like, there's no way that anyone
Speaker 1: who's you know, sound mine is crying over that. They'd
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, you got me, shouldn't do that, that's bad.
Speaker 1: What ended up happening? Did you how long just stay
Speaker 1: with this guy? Live with him?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: So he was my partner's bruemte that I ended up
Speaker 4: just sort of being around. But yes, I bought him
Speaker 4: chocolate and then he said sorry. But then did it again,
Speaker 4: he's a repead fan.
Speaker 3: Do you know what my most hated thing in the world,
Speaker 3: Like there is sorry, nothing food, My most hated food
Speaker 3: is butter. Like the thought of butter in my mouth
Speaker 3: or on my fingertips is the prevalent of people when
Speaker 3: they have nails on a chalkboard.
Speaker 2: You know that visceral feel Like I love the cake.
Speaker 1: Thing you've taken home from that you're so upset by
Speaker 1: the butter story that.
Speaker 3: Trees bumps because I'm thinking about butter touching me my thing.
Speaker 1: We are talking about horror housemates stories.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The reason that this started is because there's a guy
Speaker 1: overseas who eighties housemates cake ended up in hospital with
Speaker 1: anaphylaxis and then tried to give the housemate whose cakey
Speaker 1: stole the hospital bills and make him pay.
Speaker 2: Absolutely wild. I wonder what cake it was?
Speaker 1: Irrelevant, but like that curiosity nutcake, I had to be
Speaker 1: nuts pea campire, maybe Maceadamian nutcake yep makes nuts slice.
Speaker 2: Also, though, if you know your.
Speaker 1: Housemates allergic to nuts, you probably shouldn't have it in
Speaker 1: the communal fridge.
Speaker 2: We didn't. Okay, I'm giving my back too much leeway.
Speaker 1: Now the reason why this is just continuing to ongo
Speaker 1: is because I've lived in a lot of sharehouses. I've
Speaker 1: had so many different housemates over the years, and I
Speaker 1: feel like I've had a couple of horror housemates as well.
Speaker 1: I lived with this one guy. He was in a
Speaker 1: long distance relationship. You know, he barely got to speak
Speaker 1: to his partner because the timing difference was like very
Speaker 1: other side of the world, and he was a little
Speaker 1: bit of a hermit, so he lacked to say in
Speaker 1: his own room a lot.
Speaker 2: He also had the rule that no one in.
Speaker 1: The house was allowed to go into his bedroom ever,
Speaker 1: didn't matter what had happened, do not enter my room. Yeah, fine,
Speaker 1: it was like a teenage boys room, but he wasn't
Speaker 1: a teenage boy anyway. This one day, we couldn't find
Speaker 1: the remote control, and we just knew he'd taken it
Speaker 1: into his room because he had the same TV in
Speaker 1: his room that we had in the lound room, so
Speaker 1: he wasn't home open the door. It is putrid, like
Speaker 1: there is stuff everywhere. But not only is there stuff everywhere,
Speaker 1: there is a lotion, like a body lotion, right next
Speaker 1: to the bed, and scrunched up bits of tissue all
Speaker 1: around his sad little single bed all over the floor.
Speaker 2: But don't you shame this poor guy.
Speaker 1: The single bed has nothing to do with No, it's
Speaker 1: because it was the whole thing. It was the whole spectrum.
Speaker 1: It was overpoweringly disgusting that a couple of weeks later
Speaker 1: he ended up moving out.
Speaker 2: Those two things weren't correlative, but it was. You can't
Speaker 2: ask you not to go into his room.
Speaker 1: You cannot leave bodily fluids on the floor of anywhere.
Speaker 1: It's still a communal household, even if it's your room.
Speaker 2: Did you test them? I didn't step him. No, Okay,
Speaker 2: do you know what? You actually can't talk? I know
Speaker 2: I can talk, we can, but we're not listening. No,
Speaker 2: you can.
Speaker 3: I happen to know your old housemates, and I happen
Speaker 3: to have Jess on the line because I also happened
Speaker 3: to know you weren't perfect.
Speaker 1: Jess, don't you dare I'm very very good friends. My
Speaker 1: old housemate Jess in particular, who's also married to nurs
Speaker 1: are two of my best friends.
Speaker 2: You would never throw me under the bar. Please, can
Speaker 2: you have silence?
Speaker 5: Laura?
Speaker 2: Hi, Hi, Hi, tell us what you had to deal with?
Speaker 5: Anyone that knows the love Laura knows that she fries
Speaker 5: and a bit of chaos. And we used to always
Speaker 5: joke about this because Laura, you would either never ever
Speaker 5: change the toilet roll or you would change it to
Speaker 5: such an deranged degree with nothing in between. So I'm
Speaker 5: talking like, never ever ever change, or we'd have five
Speaker 5: toilet rolls half used on the go at any given time,
Speaker 5: to the point where we joked, say, your favorite part
Speaker 5: of the toilet roll was the gloey bit that you
Speaker 5: just like unsticking your fresh roll of toilet paper. It
Speaker 5: got to the point where Ness went around and gooped
Speaker 5: up all of the toilet rolls. I think she put
Speaker 5: them in your bed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you put them in your bed.
Speaker 5: It was absolutely unhinged.
Speaker 2: That's so passive aggressive.
Speaker 5: This is even as it was just outright aggressive. It
Speaker 5: was just pure aggression.
Speaker 2: This is the thing.
Speaker 1: So Jess and Ness are a couple, and like you, guys,
Speaker 1: both communicated very differently. You would just tell me when
Speaker 1: something's wrong, but Ness would not say anything, just kind
Speaker 1: of be quiet through the day and then send me
Speaker 1: a passive aggressive dex when she got to it.
Speaker 5: But to be fair to you, in true Laura fashion.
Speaker 5: About once a week you would cook the whole house
Speaker 5: the most delicious surf right, and everything would be forgiven
Speaker 5: and we would just start the cycle again a fresh week.
Speaker 3: Every do you know what, I go to Laura's house
Speaker 3: now and I have to take more in toilet paper.
Speaker 3: There is never it's always empty rolls in any bathroom
Speaker 3: in your house.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like Matt's one. I mean, he has a
Speaker 1: lot of bug bears with me. But one of the
Speaker 1: things he hates about me is that when I change
Speaker 1: a role, I don't take the cardboard bit downstairs. I
Speaker 1: just put the cardboard bit on top of the toilet
Speaker 1: roll for that to be someone else's problem. You sorry, Jazz,
Speaker 1: You know what. You guys are so well putting out
Speaker 1: with me. I loved living with your my favorite housemates
Speaker 1: of all my housemates, trying to think of you, what other.
Speaker 2: Ones were you?
Speaker 5: My favorite part of visiting you now is that every
Speaker 5: time I go to your house, you say sorry for
Speaker 5: the mess like that, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Totally all right, shut up, get on the phone.
Speaker 2: Thank you, bye, Jazz. Do you know love you?
Speaker 4: Bye?
Speaker 3: I always had a really good housemaids. I was just
Speaker 3: trying to think. But then I remember this one thing.
Speaker 3: I lived with this guy who was this is unheard
Speaker 3: of clean freak like to the point that he sat
Speaker 3: me down one day and asked me to leave. He
Speaker 3: told me I needed to move out because I left
Speaker 3: an avocado seed once on the sink.
Speaker 1: I've seen your bathroom though, too, Britt, you're chaotic as well.
Speaker 3: That's not messy, though, that's just I have too many products.
Speaker 3: I have like twenty five thousand products.
Speaker 2: But this was no.
Speaker 3: I was immaculate in this house. One avocado scene, and
Speaker 3: he said, I think it's time for you to leave.
Speaker 3: And you know what, I said, No, yes, I think
Speaker 3: it's time for you to get therapy.
Speaker 2: I didn't leave. Yep, that's it. Anyway, let's get out
Speaker 2: of here.
Speaker 3: I think we've all established what we.
Speaker 2: Want to do. Laura is a messy housemaid.
Speaker 1: So many people, anyone who's ever lived in a sharehouse
Speaker 1: has a horror housemaid story. Send them into us. Go
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