May 9, 2025 • 35 mins
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- Alex Warren chats about his dark humour and how music helps him 'heal'
- We chat to the mum who accidentally had a massage at a brothel
- Laura has an update on whether the 'Camp Out' Method has helped Lola sleep in her own bed
- Britt and Laura open up about their experience with date-rape drugs after police issue a warning
- Tegan is coming up to her first EVER Mother's Day this weekend after losing her husband to bowel cancer when her daughter was only 6 weeks old
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This episode was recorded on Cama ragle Land.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi, guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life.
I'm cut, I'm Laura, I'm Brittany, and this is our
peak up radio show where we package up all the
best bits of the radio and we put it here
for you to listen to and let me tell you. Okay,
this has been the highlight of my life. It's at
the time when you got Hanson on the show, britt
do you remember, Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You can't tell me I'm not a good friend? Surprising?
I mean, we got Zac though, so he was the
one I liked the lease. But it's fine, Wow, beggars.
Can we chooses you guys? Okay, you might remember this,
you might not.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I growing up was so deeply obsessed with Hansen, like Bop,
like she made out with the posters on Literally I
would have. I had whole folders under my bed of
cut out pictures. I was really little, like I'm the
same age as Zach Hanson, I think. I mean, I
don't quote me on it. It might not be thing
that's irrelevant, but I was. I was like in love
with him. We were soulmates.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Cut him speak. I was so in love with him.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Got it, and he probably like that level of like
my adoration for a band has not been matched in
a long time. And I am not someone who knows
names of many celebrities.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We joke about it all the time. I don't know anyone.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
So we were at work this one day and the
Brad who does like all of our music scheduling for
the shows, he comes in. He's like, hey, guys, I've
got this musician, Like, do you guys want to interviewm.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Do you know who Alex Warren is?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And Laura had to pick a panties up off the
ground literally mean he's twenty four, so I didn't have
to pick my panties up off the ground. But the
thing is is, like I know so little and so
few musicians. You guys, if you don't know who he
is from name, you absolutely will know his music. He's
the one who sings the song ordinary like Ordinary. He
also sings carry You Home, and for us, his music
(01:46):
has become such an everyday staple of our household because
Marley's also obsessed with it that when the opportunity came
to interview him, I was absolutely off my face with excitement.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
We did briefly chat before we interviewed him, and Laura
was like beside herself, and it's like, play cool, Laura.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
She gets on there. You might even remember I think
you blacked out.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I was like, I love you. You said, I love
you so much. I'm obsessed with you. That was what
you said.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I think that's fine, and it's fine.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You know what, if I was a big celebrity and
someone was interviewing me, I'd want them to be excited
about me as well. But no, we interviewed him around
his story, and for a musician who we were told
would only speak about his music, he is so incredibly forthcoming.
And what I loved about this is that his story
is arguably more interesting than his music. Yeah, he was
(02:32):
a homeless orphan at one point in his life, so
both of his parents passed away. He was living in
a car, and he climbed his way out of that
to being the level of superstar them.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's akin to where Ed Sheering is like.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It is honestly phenomenal, and he speaks so openly, and
so even though we literally got six minutes with him,
I think we stretched out to about eight.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
It was such a great.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Chat and I felt, yeah, I feltally privileged to be
able to speak to him.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
He's also just a really nice guy and he's very funny.
He uses a lot of black humor, and he uses
a lot of what he's been through to talk on
stage at his audiences and to relate to people.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And it was a great into you. You guys are going
to absolutely love it.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
We also had a really one of my favorite chats
as well that we've had in a long time. It
is Mother's Day this weekend, and we got the opportunity
to give back to a mother like our listener, someone
that really needed something special in their life, and we
had you guys writing to nominate someone in your life,
like a mother that is either going through it or
just doing spectacular things for whatever reason. We had so
(03:32):
many beautiful entries. I don't want to tell you too
much about it. The friendship of the girl that nominated
her was really really beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And the winner, her name is Teagan.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
She really really has had a tough time the last
twelve to eighteen months and was very deserving of winning
a prize for Mother's Day. And I tell you what,
sometimes having these chats is what you need to put
some things into perspective in your own life. Like when
you hear somebody going through some thing and they're still
so positive, it makes you just sort of like reflect
(04:03):
on yourself and your own life and want to go
and cudd all those people in your life that you
love or important to you and embrace what you've got.
And I really want you guys to listen to that chat.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, And also I mean hopefully you're listening to this
on Saturday, so you still have time. Happy Mother's Day
to all of the incredible mums in our life as community.
And if there is someone specially in your life who
is a mom, go and celebrate them.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But also if this is a really hard weekend for you,
I just want you to know that we also holding
space and it is a time that can be really
heavy for a lot of people, whatever your motherhood journey
looks like, and we're thinking of you too. So yeah,
Happy mother today, guys. Let's get into the show now.
I am so excited to introduce you, guys to the
(04:44):
guests that we have on today's show.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Alex Warren.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
He's one of the biggest singer songwriters at the moment
that is absolutely blowing up across TikTok, but also harys
Ed Sharon. He's our number one most played song here
at the station currently. You guys would know this song absolutely.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
It is ordinary, this song right here. He's also known
for other incredible hits like carry You Home. We has
had over three hundred and forty five points every million
streams so far.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
But the thing that I.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Am so excited to be able to talk to him
today about and also to share with you guys, is
his incredible story of how Alex has come from being
he was kicked out of home. He lost his dad
when he was a teenager. His mum also passed away,
and he lived in a car, and he has gone
from being a homeless orphan to being one of the
most incredible artists of our time.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It's really cool too, and I love to see it.
His now wife moved in with him when he was
living in a car, and I think it's really cool.
It's like you loved me when I had nothing idea
and she's come along that whole journey with him to
absolute superstar status.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So I'm so excited to talk to him today. Alex,
welcome to the pickup.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We absolutely cannot wait for you to visit Australia in August.
Everyone is looking forward to it. To the fact that
I think you sold out in like two minutes. You
need to start playing some bigger venues, let me tell
you that much.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
But you've gone.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
From living in your car to absolute superstar. How has
that lived up to your expectations? Because you do hear
a lot of people say like they finally make the top,
or they reached what they thought was going to bring
them happiness, and it hasn't fulfilled what they thought.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
What's been your experience, It's been really cool.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Honestly, it's been absolutely a blessing and I think it's
you know, I've been meeting a lot of cool people
this last few weeks and I've had a lot of
pitch few moments, So it's something where I've always dreamed
of this and it's everything I thought of it it.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Alex.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I've been following you on TikTok for quite a while
and like second to your incredible music, is also following
along your beautiful relationship with your wife. Firstly, can you
just say her full name for anyone who hasn't heard
you say it before.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Yeah, my wife's still name is Cobra Holy Bomker, Mikelanio
and Eliko, Glani Nsnan and Newes.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It is the best name that has ever existed. That
you've been together since you were eighteen year old high
school sweethearts and now well you're married. You wrote your
incredible Smashit Ordinary, about your wife and about the truly
extraordinary relationship that you have. How has it changed as
you've gone from living in a car to being ridiculously famous?
(07:13):
How does your relationship change over those years?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
It's so funny. I don't think it's changed that much, honestly,
you know.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
We just love to watch Great's Anatomy and hang out
with our dogs at home, and it's just now we
do it on the road. I think relationship wise, I'm
always driving to be a better husband and try to
take around more dates, and it's slowly becoming a thing
where it's so difficult to find time. But yeah, you know,
I try to mix it in. But other than that,
it's been really cool.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Honestly.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
She comes with me everywhere we go, so's it's like
we're traveling the world to go.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
How did you feel because I did see that your
wife didn't actually know the lyrics to the song.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You wrote about her?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What was she?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
They were sexy?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Did she tell us what the actual lyric was and
what she thought you were saying?
Speaker 6 (07:53):
All right, so she thought it was all my life,
I'll do you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'll do it like I'll get down and dirty.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Right right, and it's oh my life, how do you?
So like how do you?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Because it goes into the next phrase, take my breath away,
So it's supposed to be how do you take my
breath away? It's like a sentence, but instead it's all
my life, I'll do you as I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Like to be fairy work, because the first one is
still a commitment, like you're still committing to long term
sexy time.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You know what I mean is though the first one your
mom has to listen to Kovi's mum's got to hear
those lyrics, and the second one sounds a bit more romantic.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Thankfully mind's dead so she doesn't.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Say true.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, actually, do you know what I do? Want to
ask you about a lyric that you wrote. I might
butcher it a little bit because I'm going from memory,
but you wrote something in one of your songs about
it being your mum's first time on earth as well,
and I really resonated because I think sometimes as parents
and as kids, we can hold so much resentment for
our parents, And there was something incredibly beautiful in those lyrics.
(08:56):
Why was that such an important thing to write for you?
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Well, I think growing up, I grew up in a
broken home. My dad passed away and my mom ended
up drinking herself to death. And I think with that,
you know, I didn't I didn't have a mom, and
I held so much honor. I kind of was like,
you know, like, you're supposed to be my mom's supposed
to be my role model. Instead you're getting drunk and
falling in a safe way. And that was something for me,
whereas like Travis drunk, you do all these things, and
I always judged her for it. But now that I'm,
(09:22):
you know, twenty four and I'm looking at having kids soon,
it's something where I realized I'm so over in over
my head and I have every resource possible, and I
can't imagine losing my husband and having to raise four
kids by myself. Yeah, and I can't imagine of stress
she was under. And I think that's something really important
and why I kind of wrote that song. It's like,
you know, as I'm an adult and I'm getting closer
(09:42):
to that, I've realized that, you know, it was your
first time on Earth two, and I'm judging you for
the decisions you made without being in your situation.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Why was it so important to you to share those
really personal moments in your songwriting and how has that
helped you build your audience?
Speaker 6 (09:57):
So I've had a lot of healing.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
I still have moments right right down crime like that's
the thing, and a lot of people kind of ask
me if it gets better, and it's a hard question
to answer, but I think with everything that I've done
and everything I've worked on and the songs that I write,
it kind of gives me perspective.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
But also you can see the growth from the first
song to where I am today.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
And it's cool hearing people say that my songs have
helped them, but I feel like they fail to see
how the songs have helped me.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
And also this experience has helped me.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
And it's such a mind boggling thing to get by
and that I started with this writing songs about my
parents and now I write love songs and whatnot and
it's cool that you know, there's people who love ordinary,
there's people who love save us see which is a
song about my wedding, but it's the I wrote two
songs for my wedding, a song that's a love song
and a song that's mourning the loss of my parents,
and so many people relate with both of them, and I.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Think that's really powerful.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I think that's why you have come up in such
a unique new artist, because you have the most incredible voice.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
But it's just not that. It's the way you relate
to people as well.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
And I see so many people at your concerts with
signs that are like hashtag dead Mom's Club, like dead
parents Club. There's so many people that and it's crazy
because it links back into your black humor.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
But I think that that's why so many people relate
to you.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Because not only are they obsessed with your music, but
they're obsessed with you and your story. Were you surprised
with how many fans you had down here in Australia.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Yeah, I was in mind Bogger.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
I couldn't tell you if you saw we were trying
to fill up a thousand cap rooms. Yeah, and now
we've gone onto arenas and it's insane and it's also terrifying.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Dude, let me tell you my I mean, you have
no idea the range of your audience and your fan base,
like we've been in your orbit for a long time.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
But my five year old Marley.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Is obsessed with you, like to a point where I
was like, how did this even? So she came on
one day from school and she was like, Mommy, I
heard the song that I want to play at my
wedding and it was carry You Home, and we put
it on in the car and she is five years old.
I was like, yeah, well, there's probably some therapy we
need to go through for that as well, but it's
amazing And honestly, you guys sold out in thirty seconds.
(11:51):
Definitely need some arenas next time, not your pavilions.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
What I will say, Alex is, I know people think
that we're working radio and we get access to tickets.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
We were too people that missed out on the ticket.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
So if you know anyone that can slide us in
a ticket, we'd love to come and see you while
you're here.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
I'll make it happen before.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
We let you go. Who's your dream collab? You get
to perform with anyone. Who is it?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Uh Miley Cyrus on the Girlfriend and on the guy
Friend's got to be.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
At I love it.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, amazing, two very tall ginger men together.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
It's what we want to see in the world.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
There we go, Alex.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It's an absolute dream. Good luck with the tour. We're
so stoked to have you on the show. Ordinary is
such an incredible song. We can't wait to see you
and to hear from you again.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Thanks for having me, guys, Catch later, see Ali Alex.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The other day, I was on Instagram and I was
looking through the news. Not for anything hard hitting, let
me tell you, but I was like flicking through a
couple of news sites and then I saw a familiar
face pop up.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So there's an article.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
That's going viral at the moment about a woman who
went and had a massage. Unfortunately, it wasn't a massage
parlor that she walked into, but as I was watching it,
it literally came up first and I was like, hold on,
that's Sophie. Sophie is someone I work with through my
business Turning Mate. She's got a small business her self
called Talent Tied Beautiful, but have a listen to this.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Guys, guess what. I accidentally had a massage out of broth.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So currently Sophie is blowing up new sides all across
the country because of an unfortunate mishap in a massage parlor.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
So welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Hi, how are you going good?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
So?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
How does one end up in an adult massage pilor?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Shall I say?
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Well?
Speaker 8 (13:35):
I had hurt my neck going for a swim. That's
what happens when you're over thirty, and had been to
the gym and was desperate to get my neck fixed.
I literally just went into my small coastal town. There
was a massage place open.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I walked in.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
I didn't really think too much of it until like
three weeks later. There was a lady asleep in the window,
but I just thought.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
She was.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
A lady as sleep in the window and that was
in the tell No.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Not at all. I just thought tired, like.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
We've all been working hard, yeah, gait, So what happens
did you walk in you like asked for a massage?
Did everyone look confused?
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Was it like, you know, like everyone seemed really surprised
to see me there? And then I went in to
explain how small my neck was. They kind of rushed
me through the process really quickly. I had to do
pay ID rather than like cash or card, which I
also didn't think was like that out of the ordinary.
Everyone has tech issues. In hindsight, there was so many
(14:34):
red flags, like waving rout in my face, like I'm
a busy mom, I have three businesses. I was desperate
for a massage. I had forty five minutes before a meeting.
I just was didn't even think they would have been
so confused, So how was great?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
What are the red do? I want to know what
the red flags were? That you saw, okay, bed on
the floor.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
For the lady sleeping in the window and she was
like done up to the nine. She looked so beautiful.
Then once I'd paid by pay ID, the massage therapist
called a man and got him to confirm that my
payment had come through. The biggest red flag at the
time for me was like they didn't change the bedding
once I'd left. She was like out out go go,
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And I was like, she didn't leave the room. I
was there with my top off and everything and she
didn't change anything, and she just showed me out that.
I was like, well, my next field, heat's better.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Okay, they did a good job at least.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Yeah, she did an amazing job. And then in hindsight
now I'm like, oh, you were like touching my bums
a fair bit.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
But do you think that they were waiting.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, maybe they were waiting for you to turn around
to actually ask for more of a full service.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
I thought, Oh, I mean, I'm the biggest believer in
other people are professionals in their profession. I thought, this
is a new technique, but you're really good at look.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I feel for you. I've sort of accidentally done it
as well.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I was in this massage parlor once, just a random
one that I went into, and there was a man
massage in me, which I only eviusually get females. And
I remember thinking, like, he started to massage me in
a really funny way, like he would massage up my back,
but he would lean his chest onto.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
My back, and his chest wasn't actually on.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
It, but I could feel the closes, I could feel
the closest and he kept going up and up and up,
and I was like, I was so uncomfortable. But it
was so many years ago where now I would have
run out of the room right, I would have said stop,
but then I was like, oh, it was overseas. I
was like, just see it out.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And then towards the end he started whispering my ear.
So every time it's horrified. Yes, every time he went.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Up my back from like the top of my butt
all the way up, he was like sex and.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I was like, and I was so awkward. I was
like planking, you know, when your body goes so stiff.
This is like evilly, horribly predatory. I can't even laugh
about this.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
That's definitely a line draw all the red flags.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I wonder if this is not as like, you know,
infrequent infrequent as what maybe we might think it suggest.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I remember when I was in my I went in
to get a massage.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I didn't think anything of it, which just shows how
naive I was. I was so young. I was with
my boyfriend at the time, and I walked into a
massage parlor. Thinking back, it was just two mattresses on
the floor. So let me tell you, I don't think that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That was a qualified massage parlor either. But nothing bad happened.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Well, look, and I just feel like egg on me.
You know, everyone else on the internet was like, there's
so many tells, you know, if they've got a flashing
light out the front, and I was like, I didn't
even notice. It's a massage place.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
So all I have to say is I really hope
that your neck is feeling better.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
And I go back.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
You go back all over the internet.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So we recently were talking about the fact that my
two daughters, Marley and Lawla five and four, are both
still sleeping in.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
My bed, which is not ideal.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
It's insane queen bed as well, so like no one's
sleeping in our.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Household too big five. So Marley only.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Gets in sometimes because she realizes that her little sister,
because they share a room and they share bunk beds,
she realizes her little sister has come and gotten in
our bed. So she's like, well, stuff this and I'm
not gonna stay in here by myself. So then she
finds her way into our bed as well. She's got
foe mo she does. But the problem is Lola. Lola
is ground zero because up until recently, Lola, since since
she was like I'm talking eighteen months and since she
(18:24):
could get out of her own cot, she has not
spent a night in her own bed. It doesn't matter
where I am, it doesn't matter what I'm doing. She
will sniff me out and she will find me in
the middle of the night and she will climb into bed,
and it just means that no one gets good sleep
in our household. So we had a pediatrician named doctor
Gollie come on the show a couple of weeks back,
and he was talking about a method to get your
kids to sleep in their own bed called the camp
(18:45):
out method.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I have a listen to this.
Speaker 9 (18:47):
Put Lola in her bedroom, in her bed where you
intend for her to sleep the way you're currently doing it.
But then at the same time you go to bed
in the same room. So you actually move a single
mattress in to her room, but ever so slowly you
move that mattress closer and closer to the door, eventually
on the other side of the door in the hallway,
(19:08):
and then again you inch it every night or two
further away until eventually it's in the corridor and then magically,
just returned to your own bedroom.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You have to edge away.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Okay, my fear is that this is an absolute stitch
up and we will both be sleeping in a trundle
bed in the hallway.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I did source doctor Gollie for you.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I did bring him for you, and I did think
that I was you know, not all heroes were caves.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I thought you'd be celebrating me, thanking me. But it's
not quite what happened.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
No, because when I heard this, and look, I.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Am not an expert. Let it be known.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I am the woman who's had a child' sleep in
their bed for the last three years, five years. But
the thing is is, I just know that if I
did this method, Lola and I are both sleeping on
a pull out bed in the hallway, like she'll sniff
me out. Doesn't matter where I go, if I inch
ten centimeters further away, she'll just roll there.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
She'll find her way. Yes, she'll leave at eighteen when
she graduates.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
So I I was actually in the park and this
woman came up to me, who listen to the show.
She heard it, and she was like, did you try
the camp out method?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
And I was like, I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
So what I want to share with you guys is, look,
I haven't done the camp out method, and if it's
worked for you, amazing, But I have come across another
thing that is working fantastic in our household.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So we have started the rewards chart.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Now it's not a new theory, it's just bribery, but
it works really well. So we've created a chart. Monday
through to Friday. Every night she sleeps in her own bed,
she gets a stamp. It is amazing how excited kids
get about a stamp, Like, this is the best thing
that's happened to her all day.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Well, it can't be the stamp.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It's the idea of what the stamp brings, right, it's
the prospect of the future.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
What is at the end of the stamp.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, it's not even no, no, the stamp is pretty enticing.
She gets to pick which stamp she wants. Brought a
whole pack on Amazon, all these different animals. Every day
she'll like tomorrow it's gonna be the turtle mum. So like,
she's pretty stoked about the stamp system. And then when
we get to Friday. So once she's done six sleeps
from Sunday to three to four, not even five, you've
gone the whole stretch, it guys, And next week it's
going to be seven.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
We get to go for Yochi. The thing is, though,
so if I don't see you for twenty four hours
of the day.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You will get So we take it for Yochi on
a Friday afternoon. About yogurt. Yeah, like frozen yogat. It's
like going to the ice cream shop. The thing is, though,
is that we always go to Yochhi on a Friday afternoon.
We've been going to Yochi on a.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Friday afternoon for almost a year.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
That's just a little thing that we do. So I'm
bribing her with something that she already gets to do.
She just hasn't cottoned on that. Now it's a bribe.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
What are you gonna do when.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
She realizes that, like, that's already a given.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Hopefully by then she's gotten pretty good at sleeping in
her own bed and it becomes like habit for her.
Everyone tells you that bribery is not a good idea
for kids, but it's just so affective that I think
if it works for you, leaning.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
But maybe this bribe is different.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
And I think it is because it's not like if
you stop screaming, I'll give you this. It's more of
something that they're working towards themselves, and it's a prolonged
new habit that they're forming, so like six nights a week,
she has to do this one thing to get it.
So I think it's different than like, please, if you
stop screaming, I'll give you an ice cream.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Absolutely, I know I joke and I a bride, but
really I think that the word reward system is the
best way of going about it. It's building resilience, it's
building a sense of self confidence that she can achieve
something all of our own.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
A bit of a stretch.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
We've gone from ice cream she is running for prime minister. Well,
I'm glad you just got your life back laws just
in time for the third baby to arrive.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Well, this is why we're doing it.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
We're trying to get to a place where both our
kids sleep in their same bed, so that way we
don't have two other children in the bed and a
newborn baby, because I just I don't think I'll survive that.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Where's your newborn going to go back in the hallway
where Loli's to sleep.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
You've got a pretty crowded house.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, that's a whole other story, because at the moment
we don't have a nursery because I turned that into
like a little world troop.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, now, I hate Laura that we even have to
have these conversations. We are talking about something far more
serious than we usually talk about on the pickup. But
I think it is so important that people are across this,
and I guess this is a bit of a PSA
for anyone. Right now, the Australian Federal Police have just
come out an issue warning about the increase in drugs
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hitting our shore in Australia. They are colloquially known as fantasy,
but otherwise known as a date rape drug. Now this
year alone, more than three point eight tons of this drug,
which we can call fantasy, have been seized so far.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
So three point eight tons seized.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Imagine how many haven't been seized, Like, imagine how much
is making it onto our shores. And we're seeing an
increase in sexual assault cases from these date rape drugs.
And the reason I wanted to talk about this is
because it personally has happened to me three times. I
have been drugged three times and by all different kinds.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Of people, And this is what I think is important.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
A lot of people think in terms of this drug
or this happening to them, this incident's happening to them,
that it's usually by a stranger at a bar that
slips something into your drink and that's it. You don't
know them, and that does happen absolutely, but often this
happens by people that you know as well, which is
so sad to think about. But I want people to
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be super aware that it is not just a stranger
in the bar when you're out that you have to
be aware of. It's not just like making sure you're
handed over your drink. It's being hyper aware of the
increase that this is happening and also what to look
out for.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, I mean, firstly, it's horrifying that like a federal
warning has to be released in the first place. But
we were just talking about it. I mean, the pickup
team is a one hundred percent female team. Like you know,
there's four of us that work in this team, and
of the four of us, three of us have experienced
an incident where someone has used or tried to use
one of these date drugs against us. You've been incredibly
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generous in sharing the things that have happened to you
over the years and how this has been something that
hasn't just happened once, but it's happened three times to
you my.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Experience of it.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I feel so lucky that I caught the person who
was doing it in the midst of them making my drink.
And this wasn't a stranger. I was out of friend's house.
This was my ex boyfriend at the times best friend
who I had lived with. I didn't even fully comprehend
what it was that was going on until pretty shortly afterwards.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I knew it was wrong, but I.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Didn't actually realize his intention, if that makes sense. I
didn't put two and two together because it was someone
who I trusted so much, and I left and I
felt so weird about the whole thing. And it wasn't
until the next day, when I was completely sober, that
I realized actually how close I came to something that
could have been so much more horrendous. And I think
for anyone, like if you have daughters who are going
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out and they are, you know, potentially mixing with new people,
if this isn't something that you've thought about, it is
just so crazily prevalent. And I hate that it has
to be an issue and a warning for women. I
know it does happen to men as well, and it
can happen in same sex relationships. But the vast majority
of sexual assaults that happened to women off the back
of this, and the problem is is it's so underreported
(25:53):
because when it does happen, you wake up not knowing
what it is that you've just experienced. And so we
really wanted to drive this message home because it's something
that we all here care about so deeply, and if
that can make someone a little bit more alert to
it and save them from an experience that could be
truly horrifying, then like, it's an important conversation to have.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Well, I want to take it a step further and
tell you what it feels like and what's signed to
look out for, so you know if it's happening to you,
and I want to tell you what to do. So
it has happened to me with someone from a bar
like the Barman. It has happened with someone I was
on a date with from like an online dating I
don't remember the site, but it was just online dating.
We've been speaks for him for a week and met
up with him. He did it on the first date.
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And it's happened with someone that I knew. Now I'm
very lucky by the third time it happened, I say lucky.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I'm unlucky, but I'm lucky that I.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Was able to recognize what was happening to me because
it had happened so many times.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
And you could get out and get to safety.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Well, a lot of people say, like, if you start
to feel unwell, like make sure you get yourself to
a hospital. In my experience, you do not have time,
like it happens so quickly. It is scary, goes from
zero to one hundred in sometimes potentially minutes. If you
are out, you need to tell someone immediately that what
is happening to you or what you think is happening
to you, and get help. So if you are out
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at a bar, the second you don't feel right, you
go to someone behind the bar, or you go to
a friend or whoever it is, and you just tell them.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
And one time I was with my sister.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
We were overseas, and I straight away that was the
second time, so I was pretty sure something was happening,
and I said to her, something's happening to me.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I think I've been drugged.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Win need to go now, And minutes later she was
physically she's smaller than me.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I was unconscious on the street.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
She was like dragging me into our hostel if I
hadn't had the recognition to know something was wrong and
tell her. I don't know where I would be or
what would have happened, but I just want you to
recognize that it is for me, and I can only
speak about my experiences, but they've all felt pretty the same.
You feel very very drunk, very quickly, but it's not
a normal drunk, so you start.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
For me, the first sign was like when I would move.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
My head to the side just to look, everything was
taking too long to catch up. My sight wasn't moving
in line with my head, if that makes sense, and
it's start to get blurry.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
If your vision was blurred.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yeap, And then that is literally You don't really have
a lot of time to think of other signs and
symptoms because it just starts to happen.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You just start to feel really unwell and really really intoxicated.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
So the second you feel that, all I can say
is just tell someone that you're with what is happening,
because it's only minutes away from you not being in
control of your own body.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And it's disgusting that.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
We are having these conversations and even the way I'm
talking about it now, in my mind, I'm back in
that situation trying to remember what it felt like, and
it's horrific.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
It's truly, truly horrific, and I don't want anyone to
ever experience it.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
But I think it's important now that we know the
level of drugs that are coming in and the level
of people that are doing this for sexual assault, also
for theft, like some people are just using it to
rob people. I mean, that would be the best case scenario.
But please, just like, talk to your daughters about it,
talk to your signs about it, talk to your friends
about it. Be hyper aware of what can happen, and
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make sure everyone knows what to do in that situation.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, and look, if this news has affected you in
any way, help is always available and what I hunt
to respect or you can contact Lifeline twenty four seven
on one three double one one four.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
It is Mother's Day this weekend, and I love a
lot of things about being a radio host, but one
of the things I love the most is when we
get the chance to give back to people that really
need it, or might have gone through a hard time,
or just make someone feel good about themselves and that's
what we're doing this Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Well, I also think as well, Like I mean, mum's
are the matriarchs of our family who keep everything ticking over.
It is often such a I don't want to say
it's a thankless job, because it's not. You get thanked
in so many ways. They often, like the people who
love you the most, sometimes forget to tell you how
appreciated you are for everything that you do as a mum.
And Mother's Day is such an important day for so
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many people, for so many different reasons. And we know,
even on this show and from all of you who listen,
there are so many incredible mums out there that we
want to celebrate too.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Well, you're not my mum, Laura, but I you so
we did. How about the only mum in this show?
God damn it, that is true. We did want to
ask you.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Guys to let us know, to write in and call
up and let us know a mom in your life
that you think really deserves something, something really special. And
can I just say, like, wow, this was way harder
than I thought. There were so many incredible entries and
so many people that are doing so many amazing things
and really going through it, and I do.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Wish I could give something to everybody. Yeah, it was
insane the response.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Yeah, and so we did have one entry from Lauren,
and Lauren wrote up to nominate her sister in law,
Tegan so Loz says Teagan lost her husband to bow
cancer when her baby was only six weeks old last year,
and this weekend will be her first Mother's Day. So
not only is it her first ever Mother's Day, ef,
(30:50):
I like she is a new mum, but it is
such a huge day to be celebrating when you've lost
some like you've lost your husband the year before.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
It is the person that you're supposed to be celebrating
Mother's Day with with.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, it was so hard to read through these and
so many people that love and care about other people
in their lives. Was like, truly incredible and I cannot
imagine it. Lauren goes on to say Teagan is so
brave and incredibly resilient. Whenever you see her, she just
has a smile on her face and you wouldn't even
know what she's been through. That in itself takes a
(31:23):
lot to not want to put your pain in her
onto other people as well. Law's wanted to celebrate her
first Mother's Day and make sure she knows how loved
she is and to take some time to celebrate how
wonderful she is. I mean, I thought this was amazing.
We thought this was an amazing person. So we do
want to call Teagan and just give her a really
beautiful package for her first Mother's Day, just to make
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her feel that little bit more loved and that little
bit more special. So we're going to give her a
call now.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Hello, Hi, Teagan. Is that Teagan on the phone.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah, it is Tiagan. We wanted to give you a call.
It's Britain, Laura here from the pickup.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Oh, hi, y, I surprise you.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Well, first we wanted to say a very very happy
Mother's Day to you and also to let you know
that your friend LAWS had nominated you as being an
incredible mum.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Oh it's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, so we we I mean, just to feel you in.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
We wanted to find somebody really special to give a
really special prize to like a beautiful spa weekend for somebody,
and we had people call up to talk about who
they think should deserve it and why and your sister
in law law's just had such beautiful things.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
To say about you.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Can you tell us a little bit, like, what have
you been through the past year, because from all accounts,
you've been through it.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
I have. I have, Yeah, sadly, Yeah, July last year,
my husband Luke you passed away from our cancer. So
sorry after year fifteenth month that old when we had
a yes, six week old baby at the time, so
she's now eleven months tomorrow, So I had footlight in
my life that. Yeah, it's in a really, really tough
time we have the past at a while.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
So sorry, Teagan. Yeah, Tagan. We was just saying, now
you were everyone here.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Sorry, We were just saying, you know, firstly, happy Mother's
Day for it being your first one, but also how
deeply sorry we are that you're celebrating it not with
the person you should be.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I love you, girls, I do want to you.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
I want you just to hear what lads did say
about you. She told us a bit about what you've
been through, as you just said, and she did just say,
you're so brave and so resilient and whenever you see
you anywhere, no matter who it is, aware it is you.
Always have a smile on your face and you wouldn't
even know what you've been going through. And she just
that you deserve something really beautiful. So we're really happy
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then we get to give you something to help. And
I know we say happy Mother's Day, and it seems
to be it seems to be the thing. It rolls
off people's tongues, right, And I do hope it's happy
for you, But it's not necessarily a happy day. You know,
a lot of people go through a lot of different things,
and a lot of people have lost people in their life.
And if we can just give you something small and
it is nothing into comparison to what you've been through.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
But yeah, so thank you.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
So that's really sweet of you. Guys, are call and
very kind of you.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Very generous, Tigan, You're so welcome and we hope that Yeah,
it is a special weekend for you after all, and
you have people around you who love you so much.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Thank you so much. Lets so lovely to chat to
you both.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
And please hang around because we're going to get that
all sorted for you. And yeah, try and have the
best Mother's Day that you possibly can. Your little one
is really lucky much thanks I.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Think it's an important one to remember because you know,
Mother's Day is a celebration for so many people, but
there are a lot of reasons why it is an
incredibly hard day for others as well, and not just
for people who are doing it on their own, but
for people who maybe don't have the babies in there
arms that they thought they would on Mother's Day, or
for whatever version Mother's Day looks like for you. We
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know that it is a wonderfully happy day for some,
but in order to kind of celebrate that, you also
have to hold space for all the people that find
Sunday a
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Really, really challenging day as well.
This episode was recorded on Cama ragle Land.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi, guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life.
I'm cut, I'm Laura, I'm Brittany, and this is our
peak up radio show where we package up all the
best bits of the radio and we put it here
for you to listen to and let me tell you. Okay,
this has been the highlight of my life. It's at
the time when you got Hanson on the show, britt
do you remember, Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You can't tell me I'm not a good friend? Surprising?
I mean, we got Zac though, so he was the
one I liked the lease. But it's fine, Wow, beggars.
Can we chooses you guys? Okay, you might remember this,
you might not.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I growing up was so deeply obsessed with Hansen, like Bop,
like she made out with the posters on Literally I
would have. I had whole folders under my bed of
cut out pictures. I was really little, like I'm the
same age as Zach Hanson, I think. I mean, I
don't quote me on it. It might not be thing
that's irrelevant, but I was. I was like in love
with him. We were soulmates.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Cut him speak. I was so in love with him.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Got it, and he probably like that level of like
my adoration for a band has not been matched in
a long time. And I am not someone who knows
names of many celebrities.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We joke about it all the time. I don't know anyone.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
So we were at work this one day and the
Brad who does like all of our music scheduling for
the shows, he comes in. He's like, hey, guys, I've
got this musician, Like, do you guys want to interviewm.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Do you know who Alex Warren is?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And Laura had to pick a panties up off the
ground literally mean he's twenty four, so I didn't have
to pick my panties up off the ground. But the
thing is is, like I know so little and so
few musicians. You guys, if you don't know who he
is from name, you absolutely will know his music. He's
the one who sings the song ordinary like Ordinary. He
also sings carry You Home, and for us, his music
(01:46):
has become such an everyday staple of our household because
Marley's also obsessed with it that when the opportunity came
to interview him, I was absolutely off my face with excitement.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
We did briefly chat before we interviewed him, and Laura
was like beside herself, and it's like, play cool, Laura.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
She gets on there. You might even remember I think
you blacked out.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I was like, I love you. You said, I love
you so much. I'm obsessed with you. That was what
you said.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I think that's fine, and it's fine.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You know what, if I was a big celebrity and
someone was interviewing me, I'd want them to be excited
about me as well. But no, we interviewed him around
his story, and for a musician who we were told
would only speak about his music, he is so incredibly forthcoming.
And what I loved about this is that his story
is arguably more interesting than his music. Yeah, he was
(02:32):
a homeless orphan at one point in his life, so
both of his parents passed away. He was living in
a car, and he climbed his way out of that
to being the level of superstar them.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's akin to where Ed Sheering is like.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It is honestly phenomenal, and he speaks so openly, and
so even though we literally got six minutes with him,
I think we stretched out to about eight.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
It was such a great.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Chat and I felt, yeah, I feltally privileged to be
able to speak to him.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
He's also just a really nice guy and he's very funny.
He uses a lot of black humor, and he uses
a lot of what he's been through to talk on
stage at his audiences and to relate to people.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And it was a great into you. You guys are going
to absolutely love it.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
We also had a really one of my favorite chats
as well that we've had in a long time. It
is Mother's Day this weekend, and we got the opportunity
to give back to a mother like our listener, someone
that really needed something special in their life, and we
had you guys writing to nominate someone in your life,
like a mother that is either going through it or
just doing spectacular things for whatever reason. We had so
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many beautiful entries. I don't want to tell you too
much about it. The friendship of the girl that nominated
her was really really beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And the winner, her name is Teagan.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
She really really has had a tough time the last
twelve to eighteen months and was very deserving of winning
a prize for Mother's Day. And I tell you what,
sometimes having these chats is what you need to put
some things into perspective in your own life. Like when
you hear somebody going through some thing and they're still
so positive, it makes you just sort of like reflect
(04:03):
on yourself and your own life and want to go
and cudd all those people in your life that you
love or important to you and embrace what you've got.
And I really want you guys to listen to that chat.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, And also I mean hopefully you're listening to this
on Saturday, so you still have time. Happy Mother's Day
to all of the incredible mums in our life as community.
And if there is someone specially in your life who
is a mom, go and celebrate them.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But also if this is a really hard weekend for you,
I just want you to know that we also holding
space and it is a time that can be really
heavy for a lot of people, whatever your motherhood journey
looks like, and we're thinking of you too. So yeah,
Happy mother today, guys. Let's get into the show now.
I am so excited to introduce you, guys to the
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guests that we have on today's show.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Alex Warren.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
He's one of the biggest singer songwriters at the moment
that is absolutely blowing up across TikTok, but also harys
Ed Sharon. He's our number one most played song here
at the station currently. You guys would know this song absolutely.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
It is ordinary, this song right here. He's also known
for other incredible hits like carry You Home. We has
had over three hundred and forty five points every million
streams so far.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
But the thing that I.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Am so excited to be able to talk to him
today about and also to share with you guys, is
his incredible story of how Alex has come from being
he was kicked out of home. He lost his dad
when he was a teenager. His mum also passed away,
and he lived in a car, and he has gone
from being a homeless orphan to being one of the
most incredible artists of our time.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It's really cool too, and I love to see it.
His now wife moved in with him when he was
living in a car, and I think it's really cool.
It's like you loved me when I had nothing idea
and she's come along that whole journey with him to
absolute superstar status.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So I'm so excited to talk to him today. Alex,
welcome to the pickup.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We absolutely cannot wait for you to visit Australia in August.
Everyone is looking forward to it. To the fact that
I think you sold out in like two minutes. You
need to start playing some bigger venues, let me tell
you that much.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
But you've gone.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
From living in your car to absolute superstar. How has
that lived up to your expectations? Because you do hear
a lot of people say like they finally make the top,
or they reached what they thought was going to bring
them happiness, and it hasn't fulfilled what they thought.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
What's been your experience, It's been really cool.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Honestly, it's been absolutely a blessing and I think it's
you know, I've been meeting a lot of cool people
this last few weeks and I've had a lot of
pitch few moments, So it's something where I've always dreamed
of this and it's everything I thought of it it.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Alex.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I've been following you on TikTok for quite a while
and like second to your incredible music, is also following
along your beautiful relationship with your wife. Firstly, can you
just say her full name for anyone who hasn't heard
you say it before.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Yeah, my wife's still name is Cobra Holy Bomker, Mikelanio
and Eliko, Glani Nsnan and Newes.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It is the best name that has ever existed. That
you've been together since you were eighteen year old high
school sweethearts and now well you're married. You wrote your
incredible Smashit Ordinary, about your wife and about the truly
extraordinary relationship that you have. How has it changed as
you've gone from living in a car to being ridiculously famous?
(07:13):
How does your relationship change over those years?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
It's so funny. I don't think it's changed that much, honestly,
you know.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
We just love to watch Great's Anatomy and hang out
with our dogs at home, and it's just now we
do it on the road. I think relationship wise, I'm
always driving to be a better husband and try to
take around more dates, and it's slowly becoming a thing
where it's so difficult to find time. But yeah, you know,
I try to mix it in. But other than that,
it's been really cool.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Honestly.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
She comes with me everywhere we go, so's it's like
we're traveling the world to go.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
How did you feel because I did see that your
wife didn't actually know the lyrics to the song.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You wrote about her?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What was she?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
They were sexy?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Did she tell us what the actual lyric was and
what she thought you were saying?
Speaker 6 (07:53):
All right, so she thought it was all my life,
I'll do you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'll do it like I'll get down and dirty.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Right right, and it's oh my life, how do you?
So like how do you?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Because it goes into the next phrase, take my breath away,
So it's supposed to be how do you take my
breath away? It's like a sentence, but instead it's all
my life, I'll do you as I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Like to be fairy work, because the first one is
still a commitment, like you're still committing to long term
sexy time.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You know what I mean is though the first one your
mom has to listen to Kovi's mum's got to hear
those lyrics, and the second one sounds a bit more romantic.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Thankfully mind's dead so she doesn't.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Say true.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, actually, do you know what I do? Want to
ask you about a lyric that you wrote. I might
butcher it a little bit because I'm going from memory,
but you wrote something in one of your songs about
it being your mum's first time on earth as well,
and I really resonated because I think sometimes as parents
and as kids, we can hold so much resentment for
our parents, And there was something incredibly beautiful in those lyrics.
(08:56):
Why was that such an important thing to write for you?
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Well, I think growing up, I grew up in a
broken home. My dad passed away and my mom ended
up drinking herself to death. And I think with that,
you know, I didn't I didn't have a mom, and
I held so much honor. I kind of was like,
you know, like, you're supposed to be my mom's supposed
to be my role model. Instead you're getting drunk and
falling in a safe way. And that was something for me,
whereas like Travis drunk, you do all these things, and
I always judged her for it. But now that I'm,
(09:22):
you know, twenty four and I'm looking at having kids soon,
it's something where I realized I'm so over in over
my head and I have every resource possible, and I
can't imagine losing my husband and having to raise four
kids by myself. Yeah, and I can't imagine of stress
she was under. And I think that's something really important
and why I kind of wrote that song. It's like,
you know, as I'm an adult and I'm getting closer
(09:42):
to that, I've realized that, you know, it was your
first time on Earth two, and I'm judging you for
the decisions you made without being in your situation.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Why was it so important to you to share those
really personal moments in your songwriting and how has that
helped you build your audience?
Speaker 6 (09:57):
So I've had a lot of healing.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
I still have moments right right down crime like that's
the thing, and a lot of people kind of ask
me if it gets better, and it's a hard question
to answer, but I think with everything that I've done
and everything I've worked on and the songs that I write,
it kind of gives me perspective.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
But also you can see the growth from the first
song to where I am today.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
And it's cool hearing people say that my songs have
helped them, but I feel like they fail to see
how the songs have helped me.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
And also this experience has helped me.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
And it's such a mind boggling thing to get by
and that I started with this writing songs about my
parents and now I write love songs and whatnot and
it's cool that you know, there's people who love ordinary,
there's people who love save us see which is a
song about my wedding, but it's the I wrote two
songs for my wedding, a song that's a love song
and a song that's mourning the loss of my parents,
and so many people relate with both of them, and I.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Think that's really powerful.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I think that's why you have come up in such
a unique new artist, because you have the most incredible voice.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
But it's just not that. It's the way you relate
to people as well.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
And I see so many people at your concerts with
signs that are like hashtag dead Mom's Club, like dead
parents Club. There's so many people that and it's crazy
because it links back into your black humor.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
But I think that that's why so many people relate
to you.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Because not only are they obsessed with your music, but
they're obsessed with you and your story. Were you surprised
with how many fans you had down here in Australia.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Yeah, I was in mind Bogger.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
I couldn't tell you if you saw we were trying
to fill up a thousand cap rooms. Yeah, and now
we've gone onto arenas and it's insane and it's also terrifying.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Dude, let me tell you my I mean, you have
no idea the range of your audience and your fan base,
like we've been in your orbit for a long time.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
But my five year old Marley.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Is obsessed with you, like to a point where I
was like, how did this even? So she came on
one day from school and she was like, Mommy, I
heard the song that I want to play at my
wedding and it was carry You Home, and we put
it on in the car and she is five years old.
I was like, yeah, well, there's probably some therapy we
need to go through for that as well, but it's
amazing And honestly, you guys sold out in thirty seconds.
(11:51):
Definitely need some arenas next time, not your pavilions.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
What I will say, Alex is, I know people think
that we're working radio and we get access to tickets.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
We were too people that missed out on the ticket.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
So if you know anyone that can slide us in
a ticket, we'd love to come and see you while
you're here.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
I'll make it happen before.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
We let you go. Who's your dream collab? You get
to perform with anyone. Who is it?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Uh Miley Cyrus on the Girlfriend and on the guy
Friend's got to be.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
At I love it.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, amazing, two very tall ginger men together.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
It's what we want to see in the world.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
There we go, Alex.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It's an absolute dream. Good luck with the tour. We're
so stoked to have you on the show. Ordinary is
such an incredible song. We can't wait to see you
and to hear from you again.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Thanks for having me, guys, Catch later, see Ali Alex.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The other day, I was on Instagram and I was
looking through the news. Not for anything hard hitting, let
me tell you, but I was like flicking through a
couple of news sites and then I saw a familiar
face pop up.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So there's an article.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
That's going viral at the moment about a woman who
went and had a massage. Unfortunately, it wasn't a massage
parlor that she walked into, but as I was watching it,
it literally came up first and I was like, hold on,
that's Sophie. Sophie is someone I work with through my
business Turning Mate. She's got a small business her self
called Talent Tied Beautiful, but have a listen to this.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Guys, guess what. I accidentally had a massage out of broth.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So currently Sophie is blowing up new sides all across
the country because of an unfortunate mishap in a massage parlor.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
So welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Hi, how are you going good?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
So?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
How does one end up in an adult massage pilor?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Shall I say?
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Well?
Speaker 8 (13:35):
I had hurt my neck going for a swim. That's
what happens when you're over thirty, and had been to
the gym and was desperate to get my neck fixed.
I literally just went into my small coastal town. There
was a massage place open.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I walked in.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
I didn't really think too much of it until like
three weeks later. There was a lady asleep in the window,
but I just thought.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
She was.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
A lady as sleep in the window and that was
in the tell No.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Not at all. I just thought tired, like.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
We've all been working hard, yeah, gait, So what happens
did you walk in you like asked for a massage?
Did everyone look confused?
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Was it like, you know, like everyone seemed really surprised
to see me there? And then I went in to
explain how small my neck was. They kind of rushed
me through the process really quickly. I had to do
pay ID rather than like cash or card, which I
also didn't think was like that out of the ordinary.
Everyone has tech issues. In hindsight, there was so many
(14:34):
red flags, like waving rout in my face, like I'm
a busy mom, I have three businesses. I was desperate
for a massage. I had forty five minutes before a meeting.
I just was didn't even think they would have been
so confused, So how was great?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
What are the red do? I want to know what
the red flags were? That you saw, okay, bed on
the floor.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
For the lady sleeping in the window and she was
like done up to the nine. She looked so beautiful.
Then once I'd paid by pay ID, the massage therapist
called a man and got him to confirm that my
payment had come through. The biggest red flag at the
time for me was like they didn't change the bedding
once I'd left. She was like out out go go,
(15:16):
And I was like, she didn't leave the room. I
was there with my top off and everything and she
didn't change anything, and she just showed me out that.
I was like, well, my next field, heat's better.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Okay, they did a good job at least.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Yeah, she did an amazing job. And then in hindsight
now I'm like, oh, you were like touching my bums
a fair bit.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
But do you think that they were waiting.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, maybe they were waiting for you to turn around
to actually ask for more of a full service.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
I thought, Oh, I mean, I'm the biggest believer in
other people are professionals in their profession. I thought, this
is a new technique, but you're really good at look.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I feel for you. I've sort of accidentally done it
as well.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I was in this massage parlor once, just a random
one that I went into, and there was a man
massage in me, which I only eviusually get females. And
I remember thinking, like, he started to massage me in
a really funny way, like he would massage up my back,
but he would lean his chest onto.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
My back, and his chest wasn't actually on.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
It, but I could feel the closes, I could feel
the closest and he kept going up and up and up,
and I was like, I was so uncomfortable. But it
was so many years ago where now I would have
run out of the room right, I would have said stop,
but then I was like, oh, it was overseas. I
was like, just see it out.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And then towards the end he started whispering my ear.
So every time it's horrified. Yes, every time he went.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Up my back from like the top of my butt
all the way up, he was like sex and.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I was like, and I was so awkward. I was
like planking, you know, when your body goes so stiff.
This is like evilly, horribly predatory. I can't even laugh
about this.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
That's definitely a line draw all the red flags.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I wonder if this is not as like, you know,
infrequent infrequent as what maybe we might think it suggest.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I remember when I was in my I went in
to get a massage.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I didn't think anything of it, which just shows how
naive I was. I was so young. I was with
my boyfriend at the time, and I walked into a
massage parlor. Thinking back, it was just two mattresses on
the floor. So let me tell you, I don't think that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That was a qualified massage parlor either. But nothing bad happened.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Well, look, and I just feel like egg on me.
You know, everyone else on the internet was like, there's
so many tells, you know, if they've got a flashing
light out the front, and I was like, I didn't
even notice. It's a massage place.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
So all I have to say is I really hope
that your neck is feeling better.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
And I go back.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
You go back all over the internet.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So we recently were talking about the fact that my
two daughters, Marley and Lawla five and four, are both
still sleeping in.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
My bed, which is not ideal.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
It's insane queen bed as well, so like no one's
sleeping in our.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Household too big five. So Marley only.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Gets in sometimes because she realizes that her little sister,
because they share a room and they share bunk beds,
she realizes her little sister has come and gotten in
our bed. So she's like, well, stuff this and I'm
not gonna stay in here by myself. So then she
finds her way into our bed as well. She's got
foe mo she does. But the problem is Lola. Lola
is ground zero because up until recently, Lola, since since
she was like I'm talking eighteen months and since she
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could get out of her own cot, she has not
spent a night in her own bed. It doesn't matter
where I am, it doesn't matter what I'm doing. She
will sniff me out and she will find me in
the middle of the night and she will climb into bed,
and it just means that no one gets good sleep
in our household. So we had a pediatrician named doctor
Gollie come on the show a couple of weeks back,
and he was talking about a method to get your
kids to sleep in their own bed called the camp
(18:45):
out method.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I have a listen to this.
Speaker 9 (18:47):
Put Lola in her bedroom, in her bed where you
intend for her to sleep the way you're currently doing it.
But then at the same time you go to bed
in the same room. So you actually move a single
mattress in to her room, but ever so slowly you
move that mattress closer and closer to the door, eventually
on the other side of the door in the hallway,
(19:08):
and then again you inch it every night or two
further away until eventually it's in the corridor and then magically,
just returned to your own bedroom.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You have to edge away.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Okay, my fear is that this is an absolute stitch
up and we will both be sleeping in a trundle
bed in the hallway.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I did source doctor Gollie for you.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I did bring him for you, and I did think
that I was you know, not all heroes were caves.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I thought you'd be celebrating me, thanking me. But it's
not quite what happened.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
No, because when I heard this, and look, I.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Am not an expert. Let it be known.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I am the woman who's had a child' sleep in
their bed for the last three years, five years. But
the thing is is, I just know that if I
did this method, Lola and I are both sleeping on
a pull out bed in the hallway, like she'll sniff
me out. Doesn't matter where I go, if I inch
ten centimeters further away, she'll just roll there.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
She'll find her way. Yes, she'll leave at eighteen when
she graduates.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
So I I was actually in the park and this
woman came up to me, who listen to the show.
She heard it, and she was like, did you try
the camp out method?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
And I was like, I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
So what I want to share with you guys is, look,
I haven't done the camp out method, and if it's
worked for you, amazing, But I have come across another
thing that is working fantastic in our household.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So we have started the rewards chart.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Now it's not a new theory, it's just bribery, but
it works really well. So we've created a chart. Monday
through to Friday. Every night she sleeps in her own bed,
she gets a stamp. It is amazing how excited kids
get about a stamp, Like, this is the best thing
that's happened to her all day.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Well, it can't be the stamp.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It's the idea of what the stamp brings, right, it's
the prospect of the future.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
What is at the end of the stamp.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, it's not even no, no, the stamp is pretty enticing.
She gets to pick which stamp she wants. Brought a
whole pack on Amazon, all these different animals. Every day
she'll like tomorrow it's gonna be the turtle mum. So like,
she's pretty stoked about the stamp system. And then when
we get to Friday. So once she's done six sleeps
from Sunday to three to four, not even five, you've
gone the whole stretch, it guys, And next week it's
going to be seven.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
We get to go for Yochi. The thing is, though,
so if I don't see you for twenty four hours
of the day.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You will get So we take it for Yochi on
a Friday afternoon. About yogurt. Yeah, like frozen yogat. It's
like going to the ice cream shop. The thing is, though,
is that we always go to Yochhi on a Friday afternoon.
We've been going to Yochi on a.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Friday afternoon for almost a year.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
That's just a little thing that we do. So I'm
bribing her with something that she already gets to do.
She just hasn't cottoned on that. Now it's a bribe.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
What are you gonna do when.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
She realizes that, like, that's already a given.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Hopefully by then she's gotten pretty good at sleeping in
her own bed and it becomes like habit for her.
Everyone tells you that bribery is not a good idea
for kids, but it's just so affective that I think
if it works for you, leaning.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
But maybe this bribe is different.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
And I think it is because it's not like if
you stop screaming, I'll give you this. It's more of
something that they're working towards themselves, and it's a prolonged
new habit that they're forming, so like six nights a week,
she has to do this one thing to get it.
So I think it's different than like, please, if you
stop screaming, I'll give you an ice cream.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Absolutely, I know I joke and I a bride, but
really I think that the word reward system is the
best way of going about it. It's building resilience, it's
building a sense of self confidence that she can achieve
something all of our own.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
A bit of a stretch.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
We've gone from ice cream she is running for prime minister. Well,
I'm glad you just got your life back laws just
in time for the third baby to arrive.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Well, this is why we're doing it.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
We're trying to get to a place where both our
kids sleep in their same bed, so that way we
don't have two other children in the bed and a
newborn baby, because I just I don't think I'll survive that.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Where's your newborn going to go back in the hallway
where Loli's to sleep.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
You've got a pretty crowded house.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, that's a whole other story, because at the moment
we don't have a nursery because I turned that into
like a little world troop.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, now, I hate Laura that we even have to
have these conversations. We are talking about something far more
serious than we usually talk about on the pickup. But
I think it is so important that people are across this,
and I guess this is a bit of a PSA
for anyone. Right now, the Australian Federal Police have just
come out an issue warning about the increase in drugs
(23:02):
hitting our shore in Australia. They are colloquially known as fantasy,
but otherwise known as a date rape drug. Now this
year alone, more than three point eight tons of this drug,
which we can call fantasy, have been seized so far.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
So three point eight tons seized.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Imagine how many haven't been seized, Like, imagine how much
is making it onto our shores. And we're seeing an
increase in sexual assault cases from these date rape drugs.
And the reason I wanted to talk about this is
because it personally has happened to me three times. I
have been drugged three times and by all different kinds.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Of people, And this is what I think is important.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
A lot of people think in terms of this drug
or this happening to them, this incident's happening to them,
that it's usually by a stranger at a bar that
slips something into your drink and that's it. You don't
know them, and that does happen absolutely, but often this
happens by people that you know as well, which is
so sad to think about. But I want people to
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be super aware that it is not just a stranger
in the bar when you're out that you have to
be aware of. It's not just like making sure you're
handed over your drink. It's being hyper aware of the
increase that this is happening and also what to look
out for.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, I mean, firstly, it's horrifying that like a federal
warning has to be released in the first place. But
we were just talking about it. I mean, the pickup
team is a one hundred percent female team. Like you know,
there's four of us that work in this team, and
of the four of us, three of us have experienced
an incident where someone has used or tried to use
one of these date drugs against us. You've been incredibly
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generous in sharing the things that have happened to you
over the years and how this has been something that
hasn't just happened once, but it's happened three times to
you my.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Experience of it.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I feel so lucky that I caught the person who
was doing it in the midst of them making my drink.
And this wasn't a stranger. I was out of friend's house.
This was my ex boyfriend at the times best friend
who I had lived with. I didn't even fully comprehend
what it was that was going on until pretty shortly afterwards.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I knew it was wrong, but I.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Didn't actually realize his intention, if that makes sense. I
didn't put two and two together because it was someone
who I trusted so much, and I left and I
felt so weird about the whole thing. And it wasn't
until the next day, when I was completely sober, that
I realized actually how close I came to something that
could have been so much more horrendous. And I think
for anyone, like if you have daughters who are going
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out and they are, you know, potentially mixing with new people,
if this isn't something that you've thought about, it is
just so crazily prevalent. And I hate that it has
to be an issue and a warning for women. I
know it does happen to men as well, and it
can happen in same sex relationships. But the vast majority
of sexual assaults that happened to women off the back
of this, and the problem is is it's so underreported
(25:53):
because when it does happen, you wake up not knowing
what it is that you've just experienced. And so we
really wanted to drive this message home because it's something
that we all here care about so deeply, and if
that can make someone a little bit more alert to
it and save them from an experience that could be
truly horrifying, then like, it's an important conversation to have.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Well, I want to take it a step further and
tell you what it feels like and what's signed to
look out for, so you know if it's happening to you,
and I want to tell you what to do. So
it has happened to me with someone from a bar
like the Barman. It has happened with someone I was
on a date with from like an online dating I
don't remember the site, but it was just online dating.
We've been speaks for him for a week and met
up with him. He did it on the first date.
(26:34):
And it's happened with someone that I knew. Now I'm
very lucky by the third time it happened, I say lucky.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I'm unlucky, but I'm lucky that I.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Was able to recognize what was happening to me because
it had happened so many times.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
And you could get out and get to safety.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Well, a lot of people say, like, if you start
to feel unwell, like make sure you get yourself to
a hospital. In my experience, you do not have time,
like it happens so quickly. It is scary, goes from
zero to one hundred in sometimes potentially minutes. If you
are out, you need to tell someone immediately that what
is happening to you or what you think is happening
to you, and get help. So if you are out
(27:10):
at a bar, the second you don't feel right, you
go to someone behind the bar, or you go to
a friend or whoever it is, and you just tell them.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
And one time I was with my sister.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
We were overseas, and I straight away that was the
second time, so I was pretty sure something was happening,
and I said to her, something's happening to me.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I think I've been drugged.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Win need to go now, And minutes later she was
physically she's smaller than me.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I was unconscious on the street.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
She was like dragging me into our hostel if I
hadn't had the recognition to know something was wrong and
tell her. I don't know where I would be or
what would have happened, but I just want you to
recognize that it is for me, and I can only
speak about my experiences, but they've all felt pretty the same.
You feel very very drunk, very quickly, but it's not
a normal drunk, so you start.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
For me, the first sign was like when I would move.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
My head to the side just to look, everything was
taking too long to catch up. My sight wasn't moving
in line with my head, if that makes sense, and
it's start to get blurry.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
If your vision was blurred.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yeap, And then that is literally You don't really have
a lot of time to think of other signs and
symptoms because it just starts to happen.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You just start to feel really unwell and really really intoxicated.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
So the second you feel that, all I can say
is just tell someone that you're with what is happening,
because it's only minutes away from you not being in
control of your own body.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And it's disgusting that.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
We are having these conversations and even the way I'm
talking about it now, in my mind, I'm back in
that situation trying to remember what it felt like, and
it's horrific.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
It's truly, truly horrific, and I don't want anyone to
ever experience it.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
But I think it's important now that we know the
level of drugs that are coming in and the level
of people that are doing this for sexual assault, also
for theft, like some people are just using it to
rob people. I mean, that would be the best case scenario.
But please, just like, talk to your daughters about it,
talk to your signs about it, talk to your friends
about it. Be hyper aware of what can happen, and
(28:57):
make sure everyone knows what to do in that situation.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, and look, if this news has affected you in
any way, help is always available and what I hunt
to respect or you can contact Lifeline twenty four seven
on one three double one one four.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
It is Mother's Day this weekend, and I love a
lot of things about being a radio host, but one
of the things I love the most is when we
get the chance to give back to people that really
need it, or might have gone through a hard time,
or just make someone feel good about themselves and that's
what we're doing this Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Well, I also think as well, Like I mean, mum's
are the matriarchs of our family who keep everything ticking over.
It is often such a I don't want to say
it's a thankless job, because it's not. You get thanked
in so many ways. They often, like the people who
love you the most, sometimes forget to tell you how
appreciated you are for everything that you do as a mum.
And Mother's Day is such an important day for so
(29:50):
many people, for so many different reasons. And we know,
even on this show and from all of you who listen,
there are so many incredible mums out there that we
want to celebrate too.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Well, you're not my mum, Laura, but I you so
we did. How about the only mum in this show?
God damn it, that is true. We did want to
ask you.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Guys to let us know, to write in and call
up and let us know a mom in your life
that you think really deserves something, something really special. And
can I just say, like, wow, this was way harder
than I thought. There were so many incredible entries and
so many people that are doing so many amazing things
and really going through it, and I do.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Wish I could give something to everybody. Yeah, it was
insane the response.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Yeah, and so we did have one entry from Lauren,
and Lauren wrote up to nominate her sister in law,
Tegan so Loz says Teagan lost her husband to bow
cancer when her baby was only six weeks old last year,
and this weekend will be her first Mother's Day. So
not only is it her first ever Mother's Day, ef,
(30:50):
I like she is a new mum, but it is
such a huge day to be celebrating when you've lost
some like you've lost your husband the year before.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
It is the person that you're supposed to be celebrating
Mother's Day with with.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, it was so hard to read through these and
so many people that love and care about other people
in their lives. Was like, truly incredible and I cannot
imagine it. Lauren goes on to say Teagan is so
brave and incredibly resilient. Whenever you see her, she just
has a smile on her face and you wouldn't even
know what she's been through. That in itself takes a
(31:23):
lot to not want to put your pain in her
onto other people as well. Law's wanted to celebrate her
first Mother's Day and make sure she knows how loved
she is and to take some time to celebrate how
wonderful she is. I mean, I thought this was amazing.
We thought this was an amazing person. So we do
want to call Teagan and just give her a really
beautiful package for her first Mother's Day, just to make
(31:44):
her feel that little bit more loved and that little
bit more special. So we're going to give her a
call now.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Hello, Hi, Teagan. Is that Teagan on the phone.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah, it is Tiagan. We wanted to give you a call.
It's Britain, Laura here from the pickup.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Oh, hi, y, I surprise you.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Well, first we wanted to say a very very happy
Mother's Day to you and also to let you know
that your friend LAWS had nominated you as being an
incredible mum.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Oh it's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, so we we I mean, just to feel you in.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
We wanted to find somebody really special to give a
really special prize to like a beautiful spa weekend for somebody,
and we had people call up to talk about who
they think should deserve it and why and your sister
in law law's just had such beautiful things.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
To say about you.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Can you tell us a little bit, like, what have
you been through the past year, because from all accounts,
you've been through it.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
I have. I have, Yeah, sadly, Yeah, July last year,
my husband Luke you passed away from our cancer. So
sorry after year fifteenth month that old when we had
a yes, six week old baby at the time, so
she's now eleven months tomorrow, So I had footlight in
my life that. Yeah, it's in a really, really tough
time we have the past at a while.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
So sorry, Teagan. Yeah, Tagan. We was just saying, now
you were everyone here.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Sorry, We were just saying, you know, firstly, happy Mother's
Day for it being your first one, but also how
deeply sorry we are that you're celebrating it not with
the person you should be.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I love you, girls, I do want to you.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
I want you just to hear what lads did say
about you. She told us a bit about what you've
been through, as you just said, and she did just say,
you're so brave and so resilient and whenever you see
you anywhere, no matter who it is, aware it is you.
Always have a smile on your face and you wouldn't
even know what you've been going through. And she just
that you deserve something really beautiful. So we're really happy
(33:53):
then we get to give you something to help. And
I know we say happy Mother's Day, and it seems
to be it seems to be the thing. It rolls
off people's tongues, right, And I do hope it's happy
for you, But it's not necessarily a happy day. You know,
a lot of people go through a lot of different things,
and a lot of people have lost people in their life.
And if we can just give you something small and
it is nothing into comparison to what you've been through.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
But yeah, so thank you.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
So that's really sweet of you. Guys, are call and
very kind of you.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Very generous, Tigan, You're so welcome and we hope that Yeah,
it is a special weekend for you after all, and
you have people around you who love you so much.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Thank you so much. Lets so lovely to chat to
you both.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
And please hang around because we're going to get that
all sorted for you. And yeah, try and have the
best Mother's Day that you possibly can. Your little one
is really lucky much thanks I.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Think it's an important one to remember because you know,
Mother's Day is a celebration for so many people, but
there are a lot of reasons why it is an
incredibly hard day for others as well, and not just
for people who are doing it on their own, but
for people who maybe don't have the babies in there
arms that they thought they would on Mother's Day, or
for whatever version Mother's Day looks like for you. We
(35:05):
know that it is a wonderfully happy day for some,
but in order to kind of celebrate that, you also
have to hold space for all the people that find
Sunday a
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Really, really challenging day as well.
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