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Laura.

Come on, hello, Hello, Hello, Happy Thursday.

Laura.

Have some exciting news for you.

Da bound Chika.

Oh my god, sorry I didn't have the music ready. I normally haven't.

Oh my goodness.

Okay, So was announced this morning, very exciting Dancing with the Stars, which if you've been listening to the show recently you might know.

I am doing it this year.

The very first episode is going to be next Sunday, Sunday the eighteenth.

Laura has been training so hard for this for months. This is a big and I've seen some pictures. I've seen some costume pictures.

It looks incredible.

It is my moment to shine baby June eighteen, very first episodes, do a.

Little watch party. Everyone put out your ballet flats for Laura. It's like put your step.

It's not like it's not like a commemorative or a commiseration about it.

Well, how did you go? We don't know. I'm so excited to see how.

You could bear a celebration. Who knows.

Look, if anything else, it'll be humorous. But I'm actually I'm not on the first episode. I'm like up in the skybox. Because it's Group A that competes in the first I don't watch the first and then it's grouped B that competes in the second EP, but you should watch it.

All too confusing how gerl Summers keep up?

You know, I don't think you can. I don't think he does. But do you know who is in the first group, Matt Preston. I want to see him move his body across the dance floor.

Or try to at least we're all.

Going to be tuning in. But I have a special guest coming in today, guys, my very own boyfriend, all the way from Switzerland Scotland, Benjamin ben Ben is here in Australia, in the flesh. He's not AI, he is real and he's coming into the studio just so I can really prove to you that he's a real life human.

And you've been working on some German for us, I've been working on some German.

He's also petrified of Australian wildlife, so I've got a little surprise in the works.

All right, that's on the way. We meet Benjamin here on the pickup around the country. We're back on the pickup, Britt, Laura and Mitch here thanks to Chemist Warehouse. Right now, get half price off cosmetics across the Maybelene, Revlon Rimmel and a Nude by Nature range is all at Chemists Warehouse.

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We also do it on the podcast on Life on Cut. If is where you write in or you call in with your deep you're dark and your burning questions, and we have a very good one today. Meghan is called in with quite the predicament. Meghan, Hi, guys, tell us what's going down.

My daughter's twenty one. She's just got her first full time job. You know, she's doing well. We're really proud of her. But look, as you would know, time's are tough at the moment, seems a really expensive. You know, our interest rates, everything's gone up. So we've basically asked her to start paying went and it's only one hundred dollars a week. We think that's pretty fair. It's just

How old were your other kids when they moved out of home? You said your daughter's twenty one years old. How old were you have two other children and one other child.

Two one was nineteen and one was twenty.

So she's stayed longer she has.

She has and look, that's okay. We love having her. We love having her at home. It's one perform and it's really hard for kids these days to get a start, trying to say for a home deposit. And I get all that, but it's really causing grace with us. She makes pretty good money and she's just refusing.

I'm going to be pretty brutal here. If she has a problem as an adult working a full time job with paying one hundred dollars a week.

Let her move out.

I can guarantee you she'll realize pretty quickly that one hundred dollars a week is a really good deal. I don't think there is anything wrong with you asking your adult child who lives at home to contribute one hundred dollars a week. I'm one hundred percent on your side.

When I first heard this, my thought was, oh, well, if you didn't do it for the older children, it's probably it probably feels like to her there's some favoritism.

That's how I would interpret it.

She's already lived there longer, she's already had the grace period that they had, which should be your argument back.

And I'm I mean, originally I.

Was kind of like, oh, I don't know, maybe kids. I'm with you as well, Britt, I mean to change. What is what's she saying when she says I'm not paying it? Does she pay her phone bill? Does she pay all for the other the other expense? Says that she has for her own life while she's living in your.

House, she covers her bills for that sort of stuff, like her personal expenses. And that's fine, But I just think I just don't think one hundred dollars a week is that much.

Meghan, I am going to have the differing opinion here in this situation. I think she should be paying rent because the parents are struggling, and Meghan, you need the help, and she's living off the land, and she's twenty one, she's an adult. However, my opinion over arching is you should not have to pay rent if you're living at home and it is not a dire situation and money isn't needed. Help out because that is what you should do as a loving, as a normal, compassionate, empathetic person.

No, because in addition to this, I have two other things, and I get I'm quite angry about this, right.

I don't want to feel that. Yeah, I have two.

Things to say about this one. The world doesn't work like that. You have to make your own way. She's probably lucky she can get away with one hundred dollars a week. It's also character building. You can't be cushioned your whole life. You have to know that it can be a brutal world out there too. When they had their children, we weren't about to go into a recession.

We have inflation, we have cost of living, that's gone up.

I'm sure the parents aren't asking for money because they just want to Oh, I want to make life harder for my daughter. No, they're asking because they genuinely need a contribution to keep the house.

I agree in this situation, yes, but there are many families that I want to teach my kid how life works. You pay rent, No, you brought them into this world. I don't think that's fair.

I think that this is a very different situation. And if your husband is having to go and work another job on top of his job, if he's doing uber driving in order to make ends meet, and your daughter has this disposable income that she is earning but has absolutely no expenses because they're covered by her then as a twenty one year old, I think she's being selfish.

Yeah, and we're all in a green Stone.

Yeah, and I think you should hold your ground and tell you're haavy to stop being on her.

I would she took so long, I'd up at one fifty.

Inflation. We feel you're on.

Your side, Megan. We appreciate it. If you want to get in touch for some advice that the pickup on Insta senis a DM will get you on the show. Next we are meeting BRIT's beautiful boyfriend Benjamin.

Yeah, all the way from Switzerland and Scotland.

Yes, he's on the show with us. Next here at the pickup. It is the Pickup Thursday afternoon, Britt, Laura and Mitch. You've got a head into chemists warehouse today. Great savings every day. I don't think I've ever been more excited for a guest in my life. The time is finally here. Everybody, you do.

You always play Irish music. My boyfriend Benjamin has come from Scotland.

He is Swiss.

He has nothing to do with Ireland, but he's in the studio today.

Oh Bed, you are so handsome and so tall, and you smell great stuf.

He's taken.

Oh shit, that's all right. He's Swisser until Yeah. Yeah, you guys like Thrupples.

Great to have you here, and it's nice to see you in real life and not just on zoom FaceTime.

That made me sound like ill about fifty years old.

No, we FaceTime.

So Ben got into the country.

This is day two.

How was it to see each other for the first time in months? It was too night.

It was great. I mean, we've been looking forward to this for a long for a long time.

So yeah, it was it was how long how long has it been since you last saw each other in the flesh?

Two months, hasn't its?

Yeah, it's a long time. Weeks is a long time.

Two months and a drive from the airport.

Wow.

But this is the first time that Ben has been back in Australia since the two of you met. And now you have a very very romantic story about how you first met and how you knew each other was the one. And I mean maybe you can share with everyone how you guys met and how this beautiful, blossoming relationship unfolded.

I mean, we've got this story where this is what we're going to tell my parents. Where So I walked down Bondo Beach and I said, hey, are you so beautiful? I got to get to know you, and this is what we're going to roll with. But the truth is we Oh so that's how life goes sometimes.

He met on raa. Yes, and how did it turn into more from a one night stand?

Well, she kind of she kind of wouldn't let me get on the plane, but had holidays, workroom, my mates, and I was like this and you're nice and all that, but I really need to now.

Tell the truth.

You fell in love with me the moment you saw me.

Yeah, you wild me.

Oh she does love you because you've been doing something in the lead up to Ben getting here brite.

Well, yeah, I've been for you. For you, I've been learning German.

Can you say sentence in German? Yeah? Hello, dunke shat sassise quincy. What does that mean? That said? Yes? Hello, thank you sweetheart? That was young.

Ben. What did you speak German?

Yeah?

How do you write brutes?

Well, this one's good because it's Swiss German, which is feels more like home. And she says this about everything, whereas she just wanted to thank me for making a dinner.

Really is this like her one and only sense she has?

This is this is all she got.

So you like clean the toilet and she's like, thank you, it was delicious. And then you make the bed she's like that was delicious.

You have a massive argument and she's like, thank you. That was.

Sometimes I just dropped the sweetheart part because it sort of means thank you, darling, that was delicious, Like it's an endearing term. So if we've had a fight, I'll just say it's delicious.

It wasn't, darling, Ben. Can you give us some actual Germans so we know how it actually sounds.

What what you're supposed to say is dunker shots quicks.

Oh, that's beautiful.

That nobody ever said that.

That's hot.

Sometimes I make him speak French to me sometimes.

Yeah, I have learned some more German for you, specifically for this occasion. Right, okay, ish leerner Deutsche dash ish mid ben redding khan, ish habe ina or brush on for your in?

What is she to say?

That was Chinese?

That sounds like can you understand what I said?

Yes? Sort of? You said you're you're learning German so you can surprise me or something like that.

Ish learner Deutsche dash ish mid bending Khan.

What's that?

Yeah? So I'm learning German so I can talk to benah.

And then this is the killer one ye.

Have in a uber ushong for your in?

Yeah, don't get you have a surprise.

Yeah, well I think I'm pretty sure you'll find I said, I have a surprise for you.

Wow, okay, should we go to a break and we'll get this uber.

Chicken reckon to break and we'll get the surprise.

All right, Ben, We've got a surprise for you. Took us half hour to get there with that translation.

We're in a studio.

Yeah, and I love you.

I love you.

We wouldn't we wouldn't do that. I would not do that.

It's a surprise. It's cuge.

Okay, okay, okay.

BRIT's boyfriends with us here all the way from Europe. We've got a surprise for room. We'll do it next on the Pickup. It's the pick Up Thursday Afternoon with Britt, Laura and Mitch here or thanks to chemists warehouse heading today, great savings every day, exciting vibe in the studio. BRIT's beautiful boyfriend Ben is here all the way from Europe. Welcome Ben.

Hello.

We've been talking about Ben for the last six months on this show.

It's so nice to have him here in the flesh.

Look.

For the last couple of months has known he's coming to Australia and he's been absolutely petrified of thinking that every Australian animal is going to kill you. This is actually a voice message that you sent me when you were getting on the plane early this week.

I'm just walking to the gates and scorning through Instagram and literally all that comes up is deadless spiders, snakes, everything that's trying to kill you in Australia. I don't think I'm going to make it. To be honest, I don't think it's a good idea gives me there's going to be a spider Maillo when I wake up.

Look, I actually felt for you about your fear, and I'm such a loving, beautiful, supportive partner that all I want to do is make your life easier. So I thought I'm going to help you get over this fear. So I've got a very special guest today. Please welcome in our wildlife warrior.

Ben Deson is here, Australian wildlife Warrior.

There's nothing.

Okay, so I'll just paint a picture. Bear has a giant crate with what looks to be a pillowcase inside it. Hi Ben, that's your microphone there mate?

Hey Ben, welcome. We are doing better than the other bed then bring then.

Right here, Wildlife Bend. Where are you from? What do you do for work?

So?

I run a wildlife sanctuary in Northwest Sydney and we care for all sorts of animals. So my day job involves working with venomous creatures that can literally do.

So.

Would you say you've got I don't know about off the top of my head, spiders.

We do have spiders, spiders.

Snakes, yes, snakes, scorpions.

Scorpions, all the good stuff.

Never been so petrified in my life. You actually, I prefer to go shark diving at this tape.

Really?

Yeah?

Okay, so what do you bring out of the table that's a glass box.

We're going to start with the spider. So this is a native tarantula.

That's not okay, it's not okay.

He's behind glass. I'm not going to get this one out. But you can see he's quite big.

Lura, that's next to you. What are you seeing?

I actually can't see it. Oh wow, yeah, he's very big.

Look.

Spiders don't really do much to me. I'm not scared of spiders, but that one gives me a bit of a tingle.

I wish that he could he's a big boy. I wish he would come out.

He seems to be curled up in like c Now, this is a very deadly spider. Is that correct?

Yes?

They are venomous.

I mean they're not like a funnel web, so if you did get bitten by one of these guys, you're probably not going to die. But I hear you guys are going to Queensland on the weekend. These are from North Queensland, so depending on where you're going, these are the sorts of spiders you're gonna find out there. And this one, believe it or not, is actually quite small. They can get probably two or three and this is in a box.

I get rid of this one.

Next up, we have a scorpion.

So we have many species of scorpions here in Australia and this is one of our biggest.

Oh it's coming out?

Is it a pet?

It is a pet? So this one's actually quite friendly. So it's a Flinder's range scorpion. So it's one of the largest scorpions.

I do not want to touch with that.

He's pretty cute.

Look at that.

You want to hold it?

Then no, put your hand out flat and you'll just gently crawl onto you.

Oh, baby's I'm so surprised.

Then describe how.

It feels like, what's it doing?

I don't really feel it's so late. So is that is that it seems like it's going to attack me?

It does it.

Okay, it also has its little pincers out, can it? Does it sting or does it?

Yeah?

Yeah, so you can see a little stinger there on the end. Year they can sting. It'd be like a beasting if you did happen to get get stuck.

How do you know he's going to sting because it looks like he's just read up like he's ready to sting.

Ben, pretty chill. I mean they only sort of sting if they feel threatened. So if you're poking and prodding him, he might give you a little whack. But as long as you're respectful and you're nice and capped him on to Ben.

How many times have you been stung by a scorpion?

Couple?

Yeah?

Snakes is just a daily occurrence by a snake almost every day.

But Ben doesn't like snakes.

Job, What else do.

You have in that bad because I can see what looks to be a pillowcase, and the pillowcase is moving.

It is wriggling.

Is that odd?

Ben?

No need to get out of your seat. Ben's trying to get out of down. Okay, Ben's pulling. Ben, do you have in your hand?

You'll be pleased to know that here in Australia, we have twenty one of the top twenty five most venomous snakes in the wild. So I've only brought a mildly venomous one in today, So he's not going to kill you.

But this is a Laura. I'm so impressed you're not even flinching.

Oh, I don't mind, I'll hold a snake. I love. I think this. I'm a bit sick for this stuff.

I love snake, I like snakes. I don't mind spiders. But I think that the person who might need a bit more exposure to this.

Is then, how do you How do you feel looking at that snake right now?

I just seems friendly, but I think I've seen too many movies.

You might need a scarf.

So let's get it on Ben's shoulders, Britney's band. Oh what's going on? The snake is on Oh my god, it's on his snack.

Actually, that's all right, that's all right, we're cool.

Actually it is.

Looking over here with this little blue tongue. It's looking then, for someone who is petrified. I'm actually really impressed by how well we were taking this so far.

Explain how you're feeling, is your heart racing. Are you enjoying this?

Enjoyment is over statement, but you look a little bit nervous right now.

You look a little bit.

Concern definitely out of my comfort zone.

This is the induction to Australia. So welcome, welcome, Thank you Wildlife Band. That's done incredibly well.

I think it really.

Helped Wildlife Band.

You've got a book as well, right yes, yes, the book Ultimate Pet Handbook, so for kids and families that want to learn more about these sorts of pets. You can keep snakes and lizards and giant cockroaches as pets. You can check it out online.

Boyfriend Ben, We've loved meeting you. Welcome to the country.

Thank you for this, guys, love you back after this.

It is the pickup around the country. Thursday, AVO, Britt, Laura and Mitch. Thanks to Chemists Warehouse right now get half price off cosmetics across the maybe Lene, Revlon Rimmel and Nude by Nature Rangers at Chemist Warehouse.

There's a nightclub in Adelaide. Who might be in need of a new marketing manager?

I reckon why.

You're looking at nightclubs. You don't go out, Laura a long time.

It's been a long time since I've been in a nightclub.

But look, I would have thought that we were to come leaps and bounds in the way that we attract women and men into our venues. But this nightclub has had some very very controversial ways of trying to increase the amount of patrons that are. Women can come in and hang up their bras inside what's called the woolshed, right, So if you hang up your bra and you have an A cup, you get one free drink. If you hang up your bra and you have a B cup, you get two free drinks.

Oh wait, where do you reckon? This is going?

Oh my god, the bigger your boobs, the more drinks you get for free.

This cannot be a real thing.

This is in Australia.

This is in Australia, and it is in this century as well.

Everybody in seventeen hundreds n Now, this happened just this month and this is.

A marketing tactic that they've gone.

Well.

It was put out on Facebook as though it was a way of trying to get more people into the club basically, and they were saying like, come in and this is how you get free drinks.

Who was it that was sitting behind the desk. That was like, I know how to.

Get lots of boobs and lots of drunk women into this club. Let's get them to hang their bras up. They also won't be wearing a bra. Great for the men, and they'll be drunk. I reckon, who thought this was a good idea?

Okay, I could tell you, I'm probably like fifty six year old middle aged white man.

Yes, my guess. Yeah, I don't know.

I reckon it was some horny he did twenty five year old woman. This misogyny very very unlikely.

Not only is it obviously objectifying women.

Not only is it very misogynistic, but it's also body shaving and pitting women who have small boobs, saying you're not worthy enough of getting three drinks, only the women with bigger boobs.

The other problem is women. I mean everyone men as well, but women do have a hard time often being hassled by drunk men at a bar, like it is a thing, and I.

Don't care anyone that says it's not.

There's always unwanted attention, and sometimes these men don't read the room when you say you don't want attention, doubling down and making women take off their bra in that environment to get more drinks, to get more intoxicated. It's only going to bring more men to that bar because they know that women are taking off their bra. Yeah, all this is doing is bringing a whole nother layer of unwanted attention. Like, I just don't see how any angle you possibly look at this is a good idea.

On look.

I also know that there's going to be someone out there listening to this who's like, But on the flip side, no one's making them do it. If they want to do it, they can get some free drinks. I understand that somebody somewhere is thinking that, and to that I say, yes, of course, no one's making them do it. But we all know that people don't make the best decisions when

Well, and bras are really expensive. You don't want to hang it up and lose that shit Like.

We should reach out to the woolshed and see if they take man boobs because I could walk in. I get free drinks for a month. Oh my god, PSA, come the Woolshed. I'll get free drinks for you. You get a free drinks.

Well, I don't think they specified women. They just said people hear that.

Look, basically, they had to they had to pull this whole idea, and they had to release a public statement to say that they're very apologize. They've canceled the promotion. They understand that it didn't land in the way that they thought it would. But truly, I just don't know how in this day and age anyone would have thought that was a good idea.

I agreed. All right, we're out of here. If you missed any of the show this week, search the pickup on iHeartRadio. We podcast the show every day every day. Yeah, if you miss something, have a listened. William Woodie up next. We'll see tomorrow.

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