April 10, 2025 • 14 mins
ASK UNCUT: Sam wants to know if he can uninvite one of his groomsmen to a wedding. We chat flu vaxes and Britt was betrayed by the thing she loves most (carbonara)
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Pickup with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
What our windows done? That's my world? Reason the dust
only good babs as all day.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I don't much, but yeah I'm not our big get
and what I want it don't matter where.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Does this is the pickup?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Everyone, it's the pickup with Britt Hargley and Laura Burn.
Speaker 6 (00:25):
Okay, oh did the Easter hat parade?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I love that you making go hanging on the edge
of your seat for that one. For the updates. Last
night was a big night in our household.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We made Easter hats because the elusive Easter hat parade
is this Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
When you say we make them? Does Molly May actually
contribute a lot?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Does she actually help or does she just point fingers
and say, do this is what I want to use?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
She she helps a lot, But I'm I'm the hot
gloom um like I'm you know. She we went and
bought the storal hat. She picked out all the things
that she wants it. We've got fake flowers, we've got
crepe paper, we've got real eggs, we got fake eggs,
we got everything. It's all happening on this hat. But
then I'm like the hot glue gum master So she
shows me where she wants it, and then I'll do
the hot glue gum and then she sticks the thing on.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's a joint effort. It's a real collaborative process. We did.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
We did have an interesting conversation that I think we
should put out to the world. Do you think, because
it's like, what do you do? You put this masterpiece together?
Right then you don't do it again. You're like, do
I throw it in my cupboard?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Do we leave it?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
There needs to be a communal you know.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
There's like a communal book exchange, a communal Easter hat
parade exchange. You take your hats from last year. Every
other mom can pick a new one. You don't have
to make it. It's a brand new hat for the kid. Oh.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
I think that is a brilliant idea.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
The Easter hat swap. I'm all about it. But I'm
a real craft mum, Like I love this stuff. There's
some moms that hate it, and I totally understand why.
But I get excited about doing like a crafternoon with
the kids and like making and hot glue gunning and everything.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Anyway, I'd be going to the Communal Library.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
We have this one cupboard that is just like all
of the hats over the past four years in this
one cupboard. The kids pull them out all the time
and they're always using them. They wear them around the
house and stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
All right, well, you keep making I'll start the Communal Library.
Now it is time for our favorite segment. This is
what we do every week on the podcast Life Uncut
is called Ask Uncut were you writing? Or you call
up with your biggest conundrum. Now on the line, we
have Sam who is having a bit of an issue
with his wedding.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Sam, Hey, how are you guys?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Sam? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
So I'm hoping you guys can help. We put the
wedding together later on this year, and it got delayed
you to COVID, so it's sort a bit of the
works for a while. But we're looking at the guest list.
We're looking at the bridal party now and one of
my mates who I asked to be my groomsman, I
(02:47):
think we've grown a part of it, like it would
feel weird him being there, and I do you.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Want him at the wedding? You just don't want him
as a groomsman?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Well, I don't think either, But I.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Guess think we don't want to hang on.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
You're just trying to say you don't want him as
a groomsman anymore.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I feel like if I asked him not to be
a groomsman, it would be weird if he was at
the wedding.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I mean, you can obviously unask someone to be a
groomsman or a bridesmat, especially if it's been five years
or four years.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
But if they haven't done anything.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But I think you have to accept that it's friendship ending.
Like I think that that could be something that ends
the friendship if they turn around and they really hurt me.
Would you be okay with it to be friendship ending?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
I don't think it has to be friendship ending.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It's only friendship ending if you cancel him from the
whole wedding.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
But I think you can demote.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Someone from groomsman duties to just a bridle attendee if
it's the right reason.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Do you reckon he would be okay sitting there at
a different table?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Would do you think?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Do you think that it's something that could end your
friendship if you demote him from being a groomsman or
or don't invite him at all.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
I've never had to do it before, so it just
feels like a tricky situation.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Okay, here's what I think.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I think uninviting someone completely to the wedding is like
huge and will be friendship ending. But I think just
demoting him to attendee is not friendship ending. I just
think you have to say, hey, we we've rearranged the
bridal party a little bit. I'm just having my brother
and my lifelong friend.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
There's been a few.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Budget cuts in the federal election, but a.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Few budget cuts, You're still so important to me and
I still really want you there. And yeah, I hope,
I hope you understand it was really it's a really
hard conversation to have how many grooms?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
When do you have?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Though? So I was going to have three?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So he was, And is your partner still having she
got three bridesmaids and you're just cutting one or she
got two?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Yeah, no, she's just glated to have three. I just.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
You can.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You can do whatever you want. But I don't agree
with Britt. I think he's going to be offended and
you probably are not going to be that good of
friends afterwards. However, it sounds like you're kind of not
really friends now.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
He probably doesn't want the responsibility.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
He's probably like, oh yes, thank god, Yeah, there's a
good shared I think maybe I could just beat him
at one of the tables at the Backlet.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Has he bought his suit?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
No, we didn't get that far because COVID canceled it,
so that's not Has.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
He planned accommodation and everything?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
No, no, not yet. We're revisiting it now.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Look, I mean, you know you're probably not going to
be as close friends when you're telling me you can't
come to the wedding. But like, I think maybe a
demoting is better than a cancelor together.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
I demote like for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And also chances are if you feel this way that
you've grown apart, it's not going to come as a
shock to him, like he's going to say, oh, yeah, totally,
we haven't seen each other in years.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Like, I don't think it'll be as shocking. You just
have to explain it the right way.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, but don't cancel him, and don't put him near
the toilet, Sam, come on, don't put him near the stink.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
If you're devoted him, he's still going to be at
a good table thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
We've been talking about flu season and the flu for
the last couple of weeks on the show because it
is we are going red hot into flu season right now.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
And it is so important to get your flu vax.
So we wanted to make it as easy as possible
for every one involved in this room right now, but
also to show you guys how easy it is. So
I have organized Melissa from Chemis Warehouse to come in
and give us the vax right here, right now.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Thank you so much for having me, Melissa.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Why is it so important for people to get the
flu vaccine this year?
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Look, it's important to get it updated every year because
the circulating strains of flu that are prevalent each year change,
and we update the flu vaccination each year based on
the formulations that are most commonly around.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And how easy is it to go and get this
flu shot?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Super simple.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
You can go instore or book online at chemists Warehouse
dot com dot au Ford slash flu.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
It's a pretty straightforward process for most people.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
It's simply just twenty ninety nine, or for some eligible
customers it is available free of charge through the National
Immunization Program.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Now I have a question for you in terms of like,
because I think there's a bit of conspiracy theories that
go with the flu shot. I think a lot of
people there's a myth that if you get the flu shot,
you might end up getting the flu from the flu shot.
Is it a possibility for that to happen.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Absolutely not, So the virus is dead.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Basically, the flu shot has a chemical everything has a
chemical marker, like a chemical barcode, and it uses that
barcode from a dead virus to enable your immune system
to mount a response to it. You can sometimes feel
like you're coming down with something because that's just simply
your immune system mounting an immune response and working against
the vaccine. But it is not possible to catch the
(07:22):
flu from the vaccine.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And for the people and in the instances where you
may have gotten the flu shot but then gotten the
flu that year, is it a case that it just
was unfortunately a different strain. I mean, this is like
to cover the most the ones that they think are
going to be the most prevalent.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Is that right, That's exactly right.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
So it's still possible to get the flu having had
a flu shot. You could get a different strain you
could get one of the more prevalent circulating strains that's
vaccinating against. But the idea is that you'll be able
to mount an immune response against it faster and have
a less severe impact on your health than what it
would have win had you been unvaccinated.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I mean, I think that a lot of people catch
like a regular cold, and they're like, oh, I had
the flu. It's not until you get the flu that
you realize just how bad it can actually be.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
One hundred percent agree, like, the flu is far more
severe than a.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Could I have been hospitalized with the flu before. That's
what I'll say influenza A.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And if you have had the flu, there is zero
similarities with the common cold. The flu vax doesn't stop
you from getting the flu, but it does stop how
much it impacts your body and how unwell you get.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
So that is the point.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
So there are a lot of people that are like,
I got the flu vacxs and still got the flu.
It doesn't do anything. That's not quite how it works.
Let's do this, Laura, you can get a jab live
on it.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I shall go tribute. This is to show you, guys,
just how easy it is. It's not a big deal.
And Melissa, you've you brought your kit, You've got everything there,
you're ready to to.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Go, all right, you head on over, Moly sign give
her a big stab.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
There.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'm in a little stab. Let's just scare every words.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
It's a little jab in the left arm because you're
right handed. But while you guys are doing that. So
it is twenty ninety nine, but on the National Immunization Program,
some people are eligible for the freebacks, so children age
from six to less than five, pregnant women at any
stage of pregnancy, so you can go and get it.
Doesn't have to be in a version because you're pregnant
you think you can't, or in the morning.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Literally feels like nothing, It's like a tiny Actually didn't
even feel that one.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Did you do it?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Really?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Well done.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm not saying this already. That was the least painful
vaccination I've ever had. I didn't even notice it.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Okay, well now I want one.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Now I'm curious as to whether you really did it
or this was just all it.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Laura, We're not faking it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
There's not even any blood.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Okay, hang on, aboriginal in Torres Strait Island, people, people
aged sixty five years and over, and people with certain
medical conditions. They could you may be eligible to get
this for free, so just make sure you check that out.
But honestly, so easy to pop into Chemists Warehouse or
book online. Like Melissa said, you barely felt it. Laura
didn't even know she'd had it, that is how quick
and easy it is. So make sure you're protecting yourself
(09:45):
this flu season.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Well, Melissa, thank you for doing that. You are truly
an expert. You're a pro. How long does that cover
me for?
Speaker 7 (09:51):
So it takes about two weeks before you reach peak
zero conversion and then you're covered for the next sort
of three to four months. It varies individual to individ
but the next three to four months.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Which is obviously why you need to get it done
every year. And so when does peak flu season start.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
It starts from now until about the end of August.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
All right, Well, everyone, look, if you are wanting to
go and get it done, you can book easily online
with chemist ware House.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Me.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Lissa, thanks so much for coming in and making it
so simple. Really appreciate it, my pleasure.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
All Right, I'm not happy to say this, but I
have been betrayed by the thing that I love most
in this world.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
One might think it's ben but I know it's not
your fiance.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
You might think I've been over a dramatic and yes,
I absolutely am. If I were to die tomorrow and
I got one last meal, I would have a fat
chini carbonara.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Oh I just love it so much.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You really do. I love it.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I know that people have like a favorite meal, but
you've got an unusual amount of love for carbonara.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I used to creamy pasta.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
No it's not.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
That's a bit of egg, a bit of a bit
of hair.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
That is where you're wrong. Oh my god, I can't
believe you just said that.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It's not for me.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I don't like creamy pasta's. Don't tomato saucy. Give me
a prawn pasta all the time, Laura.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
It doesn't have cream in it. That's where you've gone wrong.
A traditional carbonara.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Oil cream, no oil, buttery, no butter too much. A
carbonara only has egg in it. A traditional carbonara. That
is why you don't like it. I'm going to make
you anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's not for me.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Okay, Well, this is not a debate, believe it or
not on the ingredients of a carbonara. So on the
weekend or a couple of days ago, it was International
Carbonara Day. It is the day to celebrate carbonara and I.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Well, we all, Laura, you were there.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
We sort of tied it in with like a late
birthday dinner for you. We went out and lo and behold,
I ordered a carbonara. I was so excited. Now the
dinner took way too long, and I'm talking in an
hour and a half. Like, the service was terrible. I'm
not going to name the place. The service was terrible.
It was very expensive.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, it was way overpriced for how bad the service was.
And also the meals were really, really sadly very small.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I was like, get me to the our sal club
and it cost a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
By the time I got a drink, it too much,
too much, okay, but it didn't matter because my glistening
carbonara was going to come out. And to be fair,
the carbonara was great.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I woofed it down.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I enjoyed every second and I said thank you to
the Carbonara Day went home.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
We didn't go there because it was Carbonara Day.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Bri.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It wasn't.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Why do you think we picked an Italian?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
We actually went there because it was my birthday. But
that's fine.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
We can go because it's Carbinara a day now, you
know the old Tior motive.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yes, definitely, two birds, one stone. Anyway, I went home
four hours to the dot. I got this pang in
my stomach and I thought, oh, no, what's that. Do
I need to do a wiz pop? No to spoiler,
I didn't need to.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Do his pop.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It was so much worse, so much rest.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I ended up on all fours in the bathroom. Both
ends like the worst food poisoning you have ever experienced.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
The description of food poisoning is never good, is it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
There's never a way of describing it that makes people
in the cars feel good about themselves.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
It was like I messaged the group chat because producer
Grace was there. I messages a group chat and you know,
I said it, I've got food poisoning, and a few
people were back, are you sure it's food poison And
it was like that scene out of Bridesmaids, you know,
when she's pooing in the street and she's.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Like, don't love it, it's happening. That is where I felt.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I was in the shower and I was being like, yeah, guys,
pretty sure, I know what's happening.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
This is one of those moments where you're quite pleased
that you live alone.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Though.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
The thing is, if you've been in a new relationship,
or you've got housemaids, or you've got a bathroom where
the acoustics are not great, you can't house where there's
like quite a big gap below the door. Like, the
last thing you ever want is food poisoning. I remember
when I had food poisoning and I was in I
was on holiday with my husband. He was not my
husband at the time. We just freshly started dating. We'd
just been spat out of The Bachelor. We were in
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South Africa and the hotel that we were staying in
had a glass toilet with a glass door. It was frosted,
but the toilet was frosted. It was just a big
glass box. I'll never get that next.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
To the bed.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And it was the middle of the night and it
hit me and dear God, that was a test to
our relationship. He was so good though. It was about
four in the morning. I remember him trying to help
me and I was like, please, just leave and he
went and he stood outside in the middle. Yeah, he left,
but he didn't leave, He just stood outside for forty
minutes whilst I died in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Because you know why, It's one of those things.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
It's like, you know when you start dating.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
We've had these conversations on live funk Up podcasts all
the time with like listeners that write in. But you
know when you start dating someone and you don't want
to go to the toilet to do a number two
in the house when they're there.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
But it's like you play music, you put all this stuff.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Down in the toilet to stop the sound.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
There is no music and no band that will cover
like a stage ten food poisoning.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
There is nothing you can do.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
There's also nothing you can do when the toilet is
next to the bed and it's.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
A glass box. Also, let's just get.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Hotels to stop normalizing see through glass toilets next to
the bed.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That's the petition I want to sign.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
That's what we're got.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
That's what we should lobby for.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
If we can change anything this year, Laura, that's what
it is.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That's yeah, bhi, guys, well look that is it from
us today.
Good Pickup with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
What our windows done? That's my world? Reason the dust
only good babs as all day.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I don't much, but yeah I'm not our big get
and what I want it don't matter where.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Does this is the pickup?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Everyone, it's the pickup with Britt Hargley and Laura Burn.
Speaker 6 (00:25):
Okay, oh did the Easter hat parade?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I love that you making go hanging on the edge
of your seat for that one. For the updates. Last
night was a big night in our household.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We made Easter hats because the elusive Easter hat parade
is this Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
When you say we make them? Does Molly May actually
contribute a lot?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Does she actually help or does she just point fingers
and say, do this is what I want to use?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
She she helps a lot, But I'm I'm the hot
gloom um like I'm you know. She we went and
bought the storal hat. She picked out all the things
that she wants it. We've got fake flowers, we've got
crepe paper, we've got real eggs, we got fake eggs,
we got everything. It's all happening on this hat. But
then I'm like the hot glue gum master So she
shows me where she wants it, and then I'll do
the hot glue gum and then she sticks the thing on.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's a joint effort. It's a real collaborative process. We did.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
We did have an interesting conversation that I think we
should put out to the world. Do you think, because
it's like, what do you do? You put this masterpiece together?
Right then you don't do it again. You're like, do
I throw it in my cupboard?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Do we leave it?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
There needs to be a communal you know.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
There's like a communal book exchange, a communal Easter hat
parade exchange. You take your hats from last year. Every
other mom can pick a new one. You don't have
to make it. It's a brand new hat for the kid. Oh.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
I think that is a brilliant idea.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
The Easter hat swap. I'm all about it. But I'm
a real craft mum, Like I love this stuff. There's
some moms that hate it, and I totally understand why.
But I get excited about doing like a crafternoon with
the kids and like making and hot glue gunning and everything.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Anyway, I'd be going to the Communal Library.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
We have this one cupboard that is just like all
of the hats over the past four years in this
one cupboard. The kids pull them out all the time
and they're always using them. They wear them around the
house and stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
All right, well, you keep making I'll start the Communal Library.
Now it is time for our favorite segment. This is
what we do every week on the podcast Life Uncut
is called Ask Uncut were you writing? Or you call
up with your biggest conundrum. Now on the line, we
have Sam who is having a bit of an issue
with his wedding.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Sam, Hey, how are you guys?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Sam? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
So I'm hoping you guys can help. We put the
wedding together later on this year, and it got delayed
you to COVID, so it's sort a bit of the
works for a while. But we're looking at the guest list.
We're looking at the bridal party now and one of
my mates who I asked to be my groomsman, I
(02:47):
think we've grown a part of it, like it would
feel weird him being there, and I do you.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Want him at the wedding? You just don't want him
as a groomsman?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Well, I don't think either, But I.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Guess think we don't want to hang on.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
You're just trying to say you don't want him as
a groomsman anymore.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I feel like if I asked him not to be
a groomsman, it would be weird if he was at
the wedding.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I mean, you can obviously unask someone to be a
groomsman or a bridesmat, especially if it's been five years
or four years.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
But if they haven't done anything.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But I think you have to accept that it's friendship ending.
Like I think that that could be something that ends
the friendship if they turn around and they really hurt me.
Would you be okay with it to be friendship ending?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
I don't think it has to be friendship ending.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It's only friendship ending if you cancel him from the
whole wedding.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
But I think you can demote.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Someone from groomsman duties to just a bridle attendee if
it's the right reason.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Do you reckon he would be okay sitting there at
a different table?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Would do you think?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Do you think that it's something that could end your
friendship if you demote him from being a groomsman or
or don't invite him at all.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
I've never had to do it before, so it just
feels like a tricky situation.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Okay, here's what I think.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I think uninviting someone completely to the wedding is like
huge and will be friendship ending. But I think just
demoting him to attendee is not friendship ending. I just
think you have to say, hey, we we've rearranged the
bridal party a little bit. I'm just having my brother
and my lifelong friend.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
There's been a few.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Budget cuts in the federal election, but a.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Few budget cuts, You're still so important to me and
I still really want you there. And yeah, I hope,
I hope you understand it was really it's a really
hard conversation to have how many grooms?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
When do you have?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Though? So I was going to have three?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So he was, And is your partner still having she
got three bridesmaids and you're just cutting one or she
got two?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Yeah, no, she's just glated to have three. I just.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
You can.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You can do whatever you want. But I don't agree
with Britt. I think he's going to be offended and
you probably are not going to be that good of
friends afterwards. However, it sounds like you're kind of not
really friends now.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
He probably doesn't want the responsibility.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
He's probably like, oh yes, thank god, Yeah, there's a
good shared I think maybe I could just beat him
at one of the tables at the Backlet.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Has he bought his suit?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
No, we didn't get that far because COVID canceled it,
so that's not Has.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
He planned accommodation and everything?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
No, no, not yet. We're revisiting it now.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Look, I mean, you know you're probably not going to
be as close friends when you're telling me you can't
come to the wedding. But like, I think maybe a
demoting is better than a cancelor together.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
I demote like for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And also chances are if you feel this way that
you've grown apart, it's not going to come as a
shock to him, like he's going to say, oh, yeah, totally,
we haven't seen each other in years.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Like, I don't think it'll be as shocking. You just
have to explain it the right way.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, but don't cancel him, and don't put him near
the toilet, Sam, come on, don't put him near the stink.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
If you're devoted him, he's still going to be at
a good table thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
We've been talking about flu season and the flu for
the last couple of weeks on the show because it
is we are going red hot into flu season right now.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
And it is so important to get your flu vax.
So we wanted to make it as easy as possible
for every one involved in this room right now, but
also to show you guys how easy it is. So
I have organized Melissa from Chemis Warehouse to come in
and give us the vax right here, right now.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Thank you so much for having me, Melissa.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Why is it so important for people to get the
flu vaccine this year?
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Look, it's important to get it updated every year because
the circulating strains of flu that are prevalent each year change,
and we update the flu vaccination each year based on
the formulations that are most commonly around.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And how easy is it to go and get this
flu shot?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Super simple.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
You can go instore or book online at chemists Warehouse
dot com dot au Ford slash flu.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
It's a pretty straightforward process for most people.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
It's simply just twenty ninety nine, or for some eligible
customers it is available free of charge through the National
Immunization Program.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Now I have a question for you in terms of like,
because I think there's a bit of conspiracy theories that
go with the flu shot. I think a lot of
people there's a myth that if you get the flu shot,
you might end up getting the flu from the flu shot.
Is it a possibility for that to happen.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Absolutely not, So the virus is dead.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Basically, the flu shot has a chemical everything has a
chemical marker, like a chemical barcode, and it uses that
barcode from a dead virus to enable your immune system
to mount a response to it. You can sometimes feel
like you're coming down with something because that's just simply
your immune system mounting an immune response and working against
the vaccine. But it is not possible to catch the
(07:22):
flu from the vaccine.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And for the people and in the instances where you
may have gotten the flu shot but then gotten the
flu that year, is it a case that it just
was unfortunately a different strain. I mean, this is like
to cover the most the ones that they think are
going to be the most prevalent.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Is that right, That's exactly right.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
So it's still possible to get the flu having had
a flu shot. You could get a different strain you
could get one of the more prevalent circulating strains that's
vaccinating against. But the idea is that you'll be able
to mount an immune response against it faster and have
a less severe impact on your health than what it
would have win had you been unvaccinated.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I mean, I think that a lot of people catch
like a regular cold, and they're like, oh, I had
the flu. It's not until you get the flu that
you realize just how bad it can actually be.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
One hundred percent agree, like, the flu is far more
severe than a.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Could I have been hospitalized with the flu before. That's
what I'll say influenza A.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And if you have had the flu, there is zero
similarities with the common cold. The flu vax doesn't stop
you from getting the flu, but it does stop how
much it impacts your body and how unwell you get.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
So that is the point.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
So there are a lot of people that are like,
I got the flu vacxs and still got the flu.
It doesn't do anything. That's not quite how it works.
Let's do this, Laura, you can get a jab live
on it.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I shall go tribute. This is to show you, guys,
just how easy it is. It's not a big deal.
And Melissa, you've you brought your kit, You've got everything there,
you're ready to to.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Go, all right, you head on over, Moly sign give
her a big stab.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
There.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'm in a little stab. Let's just scare every words.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
It's a little jab in the left arm because you're
right handed. But while you guys are doing that. So
it is twenty ninety nine, but on the National Immunization Program,
some people are eligible for the freebacks, so children age
from six to less than five, pregnant women at any
stage of pregnancy, so you can go and get it.
Doesn't have to be in a version because you're pregnant
you think you can't, or in the morning.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Literally feels like nothing, It's like a tiny Actually didn't
even feel that one.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Did you do it?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Really?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Well done.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm not saying this already. That was the least painful
vaccination I've ever had. I didn't even notice it.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Okay, well now I want one.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Now I'm curious as to whether you really did it
or this was just all it.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Laura, We're not faking it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
There's not even any blood.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Okay, hang on, aboriginal in Torres Strait Island, people, people
aged sixty five years and over, and people with certain
medical conditions. They could you may be eligible to get
this for free, so just make sure you check that out.
But honestly, so easy to pop into Chemists Warehouse or
book online. Like Melissa said, you barely felt it. Laura
didn't even know she'd had it, that is how quick
and easy it is. So make sure you're protecting yourself
(09:45):
this flu season.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Well, Melissa, thank you for doing that. You are truly
an expert. You're a pro. How long does that cover
me for?
Speaker 7 (09:51):
So it takes about two weeks before you reach peak
zero conversion and then you're covered for the next sort
of three to four months. It varies individual to individ
but the next three to four months.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Which is obviously why you need to get it done
every year. And so when does peak flu season start.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
It starts from now until about the end of August.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
All right, Well, everyone, look, if you are wanting to
go and get it done, you can book easily online
with chemist ware House.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Me.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Lissa, thanks so much for coming in and making it
so simple. Really appreciate it, my pleasure.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
All Right, I'm not happy to say this, but I
have been betrayed by the thing that I love most
in this world.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
One might think it's ben but I know it's not
your fiance.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
You might think I've been over a dramatic and yes,
I absolutely am. If I were to die tomorrow and
I got one last meal, I would have a fat
chini carbonara.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Oh I just love it so much.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You really do. I love it.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I know that people have like a favorite meal, but
you've got an unusual amount of love for carbonara.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I used to creamy pasta.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
No it's not.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
That's a bit of egg, a bit of a bit
of hair.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
That is where you're wrong. Oh my god, I can't
believe you just said that.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It's not for me.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I don't like creamy pasta's. Don't tomato saucy. Give me
a prawn pasta all the time, Laura.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
It doesn't have cream in it. That's where you've gone wrong.
A traditional carbonara.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Oil cream, no oil, buttery, no butter too much. A
carbonara only has egg in it. A traditional carbonara. That
is why you don't like it. I'm going to make
you anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's not for me.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Okay, Well, this is not a debate, believe it or
not on the ingredients of a carbonara. So on the
weekend or a couple of days ago, it was International
Carbonara Day. It is the day to celebrate carbonara and I.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Well, we all, Laura, you were there.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
We sort of tied it in with like a late
birthday dinner for you. We went out and lo and behold,
I ordered a carbonara. I was so excited. Now the
dinner took way too long, and I'm talking in an
hour and a half. Like, the service was terrible. I'm
not going to name the place. The service was terrible.
It was very expensive.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, it was way overpriced for how bad the service was.
And also the meals were really, really sadly very small.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I was like, get me to the our sal club
and it cost a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
By the time I got a drink, it too much,
too much, okay, but it didn't matter because my glistening
carbonara was going to come out. And to be fair,
the carbonara was great.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I woofed it down.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I enjoyed every second and I said thank you to
the Carbonara Day went home.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
We didn't go there because it was Carbonara Day.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Bri.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It wasn't.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Why do you think we picked an Italian?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
We actually went there because it was my birthday. But
that's fine.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
We can go because it's Carbinara a day now, you
know the old Tior motive.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yes, definitely, two birds, one stone. Anyway, I went home
four hours to the dot. I got this pang in
my stomach and I thought, oh, no, what's that. Do
I need to do a wiz pop? No to spoiler,
I didn't need to.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Do his pop.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It was so much worse, so much rest.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I ended up on all fours in the bathroom. Both
ends like the worst food poisoning you have ever experienced.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
The description of food poisoning is never good, is it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
There's never a way of describing it that makes people
in the cars feel good about themselves.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
It was like I messaged the group chat because producer
Grace was there. I messages a group chat and you know,
I said it, I've got food poisoning, and a few
people were back, are you sure it's food poison And
it was like that scene out of Bridesmaids, you know,
when she's pooing in the street and she's.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Like, don't love it, it's happening. That is where I felt.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I was in the shower and I was being like, yeah, guys,
pretty sure, I know what's happening.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
This is one of those moments where you're quite pleased
that you live alone.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Though.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
The thing is, if you've been in a new relationship,
or you've got housemaids, or you've got a bathroom where
the acoustics are not great, you can't house where there's
like quite a big gap below the door. Like, the
last thing you ever want is food poisoning. I remember
when I had food poisoning and I was in I
was on holiday with my husband. He was not my
husband at the time. We just freshly started dating. We'd
just been spat out of The Bachelor. We were in
(13:41):
South Africa and the hotel that we were staying in
had a glass toilet with a glass door. It was frosted,
but the toilet was frosted. It was just a big
glass box. I'll never get that next.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
To the bed.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And it was the middle of the night and it
hit me and dear God, that was a test to
our relationship. He was so good though. It was about
four in the morning. I remember him trying to help
me and I was like, please, just leave and he
went and he stood outside in the middle. Yeah, he left,
but he didn't leave, He just stood outside for forty
minutes whilst I died in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Because you know why, It's one of those things.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
It's like, you know when you start dating.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
We've had these conversations on live funk Up podcasts all
the time with like listeners that write in. But you
know when you start dating someone and you don't want
to go to the toilet to do a number two
in the house when they're there.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
But it's like you play music, you put all this stuff.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Down in the toilet to stop the sound.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
There is no music and no band that will cover
like a stage ten food poisoning.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
There is nothing you can do.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
There's also nothing you can do when the toilet is
next to the bed and it's.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
A glass box. Also, let's just get.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Hotels to stop normalizing see through glass toilets next to
the bed.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That's the petition I want to sign.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
That's what we're got.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
That's what we should lobby for.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
If we can change anything this year, Laura, that's what
it is.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That's yeah, bhi, guys, well look that is it from
us today.
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