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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good Pickup with britt Hockley and Laura Ben Radio Work
Our Windows Done. That's my world, Rison the dust. Only
good babs are all around.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I've don't march, but yea, I'll biget and what I
want it don't.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Matter where goes. This is the pickup.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Happy Tuesday. What a's time to be here, Maddie Jay.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Look, it is a pleasure, Brittany, And I've got to
say that doing this show has been one of the
best decisions I have ever made in my entire life.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh do you know everyone that comes in here and
does that with me? So it's the same thing, very modest.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You know, last week we were talking about unique things
that we were into, and I mentioned that I liked
reading letters that have been left on a car that
may have been parked incorrectly.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, and I said, I love a man in a
turtleneck with glasses, even.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
If they're fake.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That's right. Well, since then, non stop, I have had
people sending me dms with their letters that they have
received off the back of their bad parking. I'm having
the best time of my life.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
What an uptake that is. I know you've just got
an endless level of arousal.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Anyway, that's weird. But I need your help, Brittany, I
need your help. I know no one when it's a
lot of time that's my alone time. But I need
your help with a little situation that myself and my
wife Laura have gotten into. We had a little argument,
and I want to know who was in the right
and who was in the wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I love these Who's the A hole?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We'll answer that in a second.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I bet you I know who it's the pick up Matt,
I love and am I the A hole? And you've
got one today.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Look myself and my beautiful wife Laura, who I love,
I love more than anything. She is my soulmate, will
be together forever. But just because you love someone doesn't
mean that you're not immune to having arguments.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I think it's a normal, healthy part of any relationship.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's very healthy, except when you can't figure out who
was in the right and who was in the wrong.
That's what's happened between myself and Laura.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And that is where I come in.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So can I give you the context, Brittany, And I
want you to be honest here. Okay, I want you
to tell me if I need to apologize or if
I should dig my heels in and make Laura apologize
to me.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh god, this is going to end well for me.
For those plane at home. She's also my business partner.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm sorry to put you in this awkward position, but
we didn't know who else to turn to.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Okay, hit me, what's happened.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So let me also just mention the fact that when
it comes to doing work around the house, given the
fact that Laura is only a few weeks postpartum, I
am doing the lion's share.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Okay, I'm great, Patrusa Grace is already knowing where this
is going.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
People in the studio right now are rolling their eyes.
You know, when I walk around the house, if I
spot any kind of work that needs doing, I just
do it. No questions are whether that's wiping down the
kitchen bench, whether that's making the bed in the morning,
whether it's unpacking the dishwasher. Brittany, I do it all.
I really do.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I should be a normal part of life anyway. But
please go on.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Trying to make life for my beautiful wife just a
little bit easier. But as I was doing one particular
type of cleaning job, it's really fired Laura up. Okay,
I was doing the laundry, and in the laundry basket,
the main thing that I look out for is just
separating the colors and the whites.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, that's a brilliant.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Start, Thank you so much. Okay, So I did a
load of washing, put it all in there, made sure
in that pile. Good. It's just there's no whit, it's
all colors. Great. Got to put it on a normal wash.
I've opened up the washing machine post wash, and I
pulled out the items. So then put it on the line.
And I've noticed I've made a huge mistake.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Snuck a little blue sock or something.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
No, Brittany, there was a jumper. There was jumper. I
don't know the exact material. I'm not that clever, but
it has shrunk in the wash. Okay, it's one of
Laura's brand new jumpers. It's a blue jumper. Do I
say it's cashmere? Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Why was it blue in with the whites. Let's forget
the material.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
There was colors, color colors in the wash. The jumper
is now a quarter of the size, okay. And I
put it on the line and I said, I'm racing
out the door. I'm going to tackle that, and you know,
let Laura know what's happened. I come home. She's holding
the jumper and she goes, what have you done here?
And I go, look, the jumper is shrunk, and she goes,
(04:45):
but this jumper can't go in the wash okay. And
I'm like, but I don't individually go through each item
and look at the washing instructions. If it's in that
washing basket, I will just wash it.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh, this is so hard and I can't believen want
to say this. I think I could be on your side,
and I hate myself for that, but you know why,
you're both in the right.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
For you, you're trying to help you.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I probably also wouldn't look at every single tag, Like
if I was doing my husband's and my washing, I
would just throw it in. I think if it's all
in the same basket, it means it can be washed.
So but then, having said that, I could go on
the other side of the fence and be on Laura's side.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I don't want to fence it up bread. I want
someone who's going to take action. Who's the right, who's
in the right.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I think that Laura should have I hate I'm doing this.
I think that if something one hundred percent can't be
washed with other things, you guys probably need to work
out a system where it goes into another pile.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Okay, producer Grace, Yeah, if it's not safe for washing machine,
don't love my god? But is it true we call
law here?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I can't believe you're on my side. This may be
the best day of my life.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Because we don't believe it or not that we like you.
We're not always against you.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I'm just If I don't believe in something you've said,
I will let you know. But if I think that
you're right, I'll also let you know. And I think
in this one it's you.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh my god, Laura is going to be thrilled when
I come home with this news.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Are you getting divorced and I'm getting so much?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
If you guys have a spare bedroom, please let me know.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Hey, what's what's what's the outcome? Have you guys talked
about it? You're still not talking?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Well, I'm going to call her on the way home
and be like, I'm sorry, pal, but you're in the wrong,
apologize to me. I'm the victim here. I deserve better.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Let's let's just play it cool. I don't think we
need to drag it on, but I think because.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Grace and Brittany both said Laura that you're a bad
mum and a bad wife. Battie Jay Am I right, ladies,
who's with me?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
No, we march adorn. Hey, we absolutely didn't say that.
We love you, Laura. We miss you. I really miss you.
Please come back. So I need to unpack this story. AI.
It is taking over the world. We know that.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I just think it's going to be the death of us.
But that's another story. It's the death of relationships. That's
the next thing I think we're going to see. There
is a girl online that's posted I read it thread.
It's gone bonkers and she's sort of asked in the
world for advice. So she's in a healthy relationship, seemingly healthy,
normal relationship, and she finds out her partner of a
couple of years has been cheating on her, but with
(07:20):
a robot, like with an AI. And now this is
a conversation in itself. Is it cheating if somebody is
having this emotional connection with something we know isn't real
but acts as if it's real, Like AI is incredibly intelligent.
First of all, before I tell you anything else, do
you think that that is cheating if you found out
(07:41):
that Laura was in a relationship, like pretty intensely with
an AI bot?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
But do we know what was actually happening between her
partner and the AI Do we know exactly when we
say that they were cheating, Like was he just having
conversations with her? Did he cook her dinner? What happened? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I don't think he used his hard drive, but they
definitely had an in depth emotional affair, I guess, because
that's what you do with a robot, right. It's like
she the robot whose name is AI Aileen, because the
girl's real name is Aleen, so AI Aileen. They became
very reliant on each other, Like he went to when
he wanted to unpack something or wanted to have a
(08:19):
moment in talk or whatever, he went to AI Aileen
instead of real Aleen.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Do you know what? I actually think? This is totally fine.
I have no issues with it whatsoever. In fact, I'm
going to encourage it. If he's speaking to AI and
he's opening up and he's unpacking his day, and she
says she has a happy, healthy relationship. I think it's
totally fine because if this can't cross over to being
an actual affair, I would put it in the same category. Yeah,
(08:45):
futuristic one. But it's like reading a romance novel. No,
okay not.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
The novel doesn't speak back to you until you want
what you want. It's like this AI bought is like
a sicker fan.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's like, yeah, but he's not going to actually have
a physical But.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
If it's taking away I know what you're saying. But
if it's taking away from your actual relationship, because now
the boyfriend isn't talking to his partner, he doesn't need to.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
He's got You.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Told me that it was a happy relationship before.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
No, she said, like seemingly he has been a great guy,
he's loyal and whatever. But now she founds out that
he's going to the robot instead of her for all
this stuff and they've got a connection. But I want
to I want to tell you the real like icing
on the cake here, I personally think that that's cooked.
I don't think you need to be relying on a robot.
You should be with a partner that should be.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
A real, well relive in the real world.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
The icing on the cake is it's not just any AI.
He's literally trained it to be a better version of her.
So he is plugging in all her mannerisms and qualities.
He has conversations with her so he can record them,
take them and train his AI to be his girlfriend
but better.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
So it's like it's cheating with a robot. But then
you've made the robot your girlfriend has a better version.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Then what about if you're buying a particular type of
toy that adult people buy? Is that cheating? Because essentially,
if you're going to buy if you're a guy like
sexy Time, and you're gonna buy a toy, the type
of toy that adults like to play with, if you're
picking up what I'm putting down, is that considered cheating
Because let's be honest, a toy is essentially like a
(10:18):
better version of what I could do. So was that cheating?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
No? Why not? Because you can do that together.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
What about if you're doing it by yourself, If you're out.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
There using I think you're missing the point. Go on,
I want to like put it in your shoes, so
you understand.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Imagine Laura was just not talking too much anymore at home,
and she wasn't telling you about her day.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
She wasn't asking your advice or anything.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
She'd been going through some really hard stuff, but she
didn't need you to help her at all. And you
find it out because she had created a robot, Matt,
but made you better. She made you so much better
than real life, and she was spending all her spare
time confiding.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
You wouldn't be worried about that.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I think it's not cheating and she's a bad relationship.
I wouldn't call it cheating, and I would probably look
and take notes from me Ai and looked at better
myself so I can get a better partner.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
You know, people are marrying their ais and stuff, they
are in proper relationships with it.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It's it's insane, it's beautiful. I'm going to say, Matt,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
If you've ever been in this position, because you're a man,
maybe you don't do it as much as me. But
I have a lot of like at home, beauty things
makeup so many different kinds, like I have a lot
of stuff. I love it, and I had a really
can I just.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Said you look great today? How long does this take
to get ready?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
No, I'm very quick. I could do hair and makeup,
dress twelve minutes.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
What yeah, this takes twelve minutes. Oh thank you, you
look sensation.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Ben is a very lucky man.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Well, I love that you're propping me up here, because
this could have ended very differently. So I got sent
a pr package. So sometimes companies will send you some
new products or something.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
You don't ask for them, they.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Just turn up like I'm sure you've had that before,
ma aj. But anyway, like a little beauty kick kind
of got sent to my house and I was like, oh,
that's really nice.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I love this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
A little sampler if you will, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
A little sampler, And so I opens it up and
I looked through it and I saw.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
A brow shaper like this, like a I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
You know, Matt, but you comb women like comb their browser.
You could probably do with one. Looking at you right now,
you look a bit wooly.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I love how at the start of this chat I
was popping you up. Meanwhile you're looking at me and
critiquing what needs to be improved.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yes, continue, but like brows can go wild anyway. Usually
I get them like wax or threaded, but it had
been a hot minute and I was like, oh, yes,
I need a new brow brush, like I'm going to
tame these bad boys anyway, So I ripped open the
packet and it's like a little handle and then at
the end has like the little brush thing and you
just sort of like comb it up.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
So it's a comb on brow or you brush, yes.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Thicken to thicken the because you can't like caterpillar eyebrows.
I've seen women do this.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Because you can't use a fool I have before. You
can't use like a normal hand brush on your eyebrows.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Anyway, I was in my Laune room, which is luckily
what saved me was like I was right next to
my window which had beautiful sunlight coming in. Now this
is gonna make sense, but I was pulling it up
to my eyebrow to comb and as I was looking
in the mirror and it was just touching my brow,
the natural light streamed in and hit the metal.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
On the brush it was not a brush at exactly the.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Right moment and put light off into the mirror and
I saw that I was about to shave my eyebrow.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Oh, it was like a men's beard rais up and do.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
You think that was like high being looking out for you.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yeah, there's the tiniest corner of my brow that's gone
because it touched it and it was so sharp. It
was a shape. But in terms of like you shave
your brow shaper and I just nearly went off.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So disappointed that didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
What could you imagine?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Sorry, because you can one hundred percent be brushing your
brows without a mirror.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
If I just walked around and started, could you imagine me?
I actually am I mortified? Imagine it came with no brows?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Do you think this was sabotage? Was someone said it was?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Laura? Have you had a nicks?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
The only thing that happened to me my oldest sister
when I was younger. She was doing a beauty course
and she needed to practice waxing someone's legs. And I
was the only brother who was brave enough to donate
his legs for her practicing.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Brave enough, but also you low key wanted super smooth legs.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
It was the worst thing I've ever done. I've never
had so many ingrown hairs, and all just from my
ankle to bottom. It was a wild mess, so never again,
never again.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
All right, let's get out of here.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Everyone. Be safe, Be safe out there with yours.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Be careful,