May 29, 2025 • 16 mins
ASK UNCUT: What do you do when you've just started dating someone but you're about to go away for 4 years? These grandma hobbies are GREAT for your mental health and this couple made the worst typo on their wedding invitations.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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That's my world, Rison the dust only good tabs all down.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I've done much now, but yeah I'm not.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'll big get and what I want. It don't matter
where rag.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
This is the.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Pickup, Hi guys, It's the pick up with Britt Hackley
and Laura Beurn.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Do you know what I did?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I made this realization as an adult of something that
you absolutely shouldn't do as an adult unless you absolutely
have to because you have kids.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Now you rubbing your chest because really hurt my soul.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Bear with me, You're okay, tell me if this happens
to you all the time because you're a parent. I'm
not a parent.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
But I came across a book on the weekend that
had been buried in all my stuff from my childhood.
It's called The Far Away Tree and in blatened see
Grace held her rubbing her chest because it's the book
that just like warms your soul and I'm pretty sure
from memory, Laura, we've talked about it before and you
didn't read it you don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I have no idea why you never need to read it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
To your children.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
And it's like saucepan Haad and Moonfase and it's such
a state.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I sounds like some of you can cancel four guys.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No, it's just their characters.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It's a saucepan and like they're not they're not people,
they're like I understand. And it was Dick and Fanny
that were their names. It was very, very famous. Anyway,
they've had to change their names now.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
But what's my point of the story is I found
it and it was one of my.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It was like the most fantastical book as a child.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It took you to a whole nother place.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
The far Away Tree, and I thought it would be
cute to like revisit it as an adult. And I've
reread it or started to reread it, and it just
wasn't as magical as an adult, and I just ruined.
I feel like I've ruined my child.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah no, this happens all the time. Like watching The
Labyrinth as a grown up is not as good.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
You really are, like wow, because if the effects looked.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So amazing when we were kids and we watched it.
I was like, oh my god, this is credible. Now
you're like, wow, that's really unbelievable that that dragon's in
the air.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I never watched it.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Not the dragon, what's that? That's not that's never any stories,
God damn it. Anyway, they all suck about horror film. No,
the Labyrinth is the one that has what's thank you?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I feeling we're playing a game of charades right now, Grace,
thank you for.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
The It is that time of the week. It's Thursday.
It's ask Uncut Day. We do this every week on
our podcast Life on Cut, where you writing or you
call up with your problems and predicaments and conundrums and
we do our best to answer them. And today on
the phone we have Rachel. Rachel, what's going on in
your life?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Hi, guys, I have a partner. It's still faring you.
It's been about four months, but we've known each other
for a long time and I've just found out that
I've been given a job opportunity that I have to
move overseas and I need to tell him.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Does he know that you're going for a job opportunity? Like,
because this going to be as a fulls or does
he know that it's a possibility.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
He's got absolutely no idea.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And what do you want?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Do you want to stay together with him in a
proper relationship?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Do you want to break up? Do you want to
be casual?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
What are you hoping to get from it?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
I think I sort of thought casual would be best,
but we obviously didn't really anticipate the feelings to be
as strong as they are. So we're kind of in that.
You know that if I wasn't leaving, obviously it would
probably be a more serious relationship. But my contract is
for four years.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Do you think it's feasible to do long distance or
is it not a job that's like feasible because in
like you won't be contactable or are you.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Look, it's definitely a hard one to keep in contacts,
So yeah, bit of a tricky job.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
This is what I think my fiancee Ben and I
the reason we are together is because of something that
literally you just said a word for word. You just
said we would date like we would date if we
were here in the same country. I met my fiance
for three days he lived in another country.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
We literally set out loud.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Damn it.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
If you were here. If you lived here, we'd be
perfect and would date.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And that was the reason we ended up being together
because we were like, do you know what, if somebody
is that right for you, you will work it out.
If it's like under whatever circumstances doesn't mean it's easy.
If you actually think that this person could be your
person and you want to try, then I would be
really upfront and honest about it. But if you actually
don't care that much and you're just looking for some
casual for now, I think you're overthinking it.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I disagree slightly.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And the only thing is is I know that you
have experience in this brit But you can call Ben
your partner whenever you want, you FaceTime every day. I mean,
Rachel could be going to the Moon for all we
know and be uncontactable for the.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Astronauts have relationship too. If everyone can have a relationship,
I doubt.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
There's many astronauts out there who also do long distance
at the same time.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
If there's in space like the longest systems.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, but such a don't take Laura's advice.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What I mean by that is long distance when they're
in the country. This is four years where you can't
come back.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Or you can come back in between I can't come back, so.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
That you can't come back from where space.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I feel like there's a lot of secrecy going on
and maybe we're not allowed to know.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I'm just but that's okay.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
We don't we need to pry into it.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
But I understand if you can't come back for four years,
that makes the potential of long distance incredible. You can
barely go four months without seeing Ben and you start
having a meltdown.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, but I don't I think we're reading too much
into it. I don't think she's actually a spy that
is going away for four years total.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yes, No, that's what's Rachel saying she can't come home
for four years.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I know can't come home to Australia, but are you
coming home to like a home but it's just overseas
or you're saying you can't come and physically is it
impossible for you to see this person for four years?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Oh, then no it's over. Sorry, no four years.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I thought you just meant you had you couldn't come
back to Australia for four years, And then I was like,
well cool, if it's meant to work.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
He can go with you, but if you're disappearing, God,
I want to know what your job is.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Rachel.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I was trying to do it softly, and then when
brit actually got the fact.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
She's like, you just need to rip the aid.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
You know, when when do you leave?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
So I find out my exact date in two weeks?
Oh okay, I don't even have the exact date yet,
but you know, I'm like, I'm really leaving it till
the last minute, which is not great.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
No, that's not I think that's not fair on either
of you, and it's not fair on him because if
you leave it too late, it doesn't give you a
chance to actually have those conversations and work it out
and leave on good terms. Like I think you really
need to do the right thing with both of you
and tell him it's happening.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You just leave him wanting more and then you come
back in four years like, hey, how long is it
too long between when you can like disappear and then
show back up?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Four years too long?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Like four years cut off?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think you need to date another spy.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
That's the only way you're going to get we know
you're a spy.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That's what I would say.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Sure, good luck with this.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It does sound like you're in a bit of a pickle,
but yeah, good luck and good luck with the next
four years.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Yeah, no, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Now, Britt that why does this sound so serious and
very ominous? You have been giving me shtick about something
for stick You give me shtick about something for almost
a year now almostly.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
It could be a multitude of things.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I took on a hobby. I don't know where it
came from.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I don't know what sparked it, But about a year
ago I got really into house plans.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Did you got this?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
It started slow to be fair, like keep little few
plants crept in and then you were like, oh, let
me try and see if I can cut a stem
and propagate.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And next minute your house is a jungle.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So I got so deeply obsessed with house plans and
like doing the best by my house plans that I went.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Online one night.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It was like late at night, and an ad popped
up on social media, and it was an ad for
it's called an indoor forest and it has like all
the right lead lights that like produce the right amount
of you know, the right amount of light to have
in your house to keep their plants healthy. But it's
a vertical thing that you install from the ceiling to
the floor.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And I haven't even seen this.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, I know, I bought it. Okay, it arrived. I'm
embarrassed to say how much it costs. And my husband
saw it and he was like enough. He's like, you
can't buy things that take up a whole space in
our house.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Give me like ballpark figure.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Nah, no'm barrels under cost me nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
It was, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I am dedicated to the house plants. Okay, I love them.
I care about them. I often on a weekend sneak
out and buy more houseplants. Okay, it's that make you
send it back? No, he let me keep it. But
we haven't installed it. He's like, it's not anyway, it's
not what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
We should, we should, we should, but we won't. Now.
I love my houseplants.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I love how therapeutic it was for me that I
discovered this, that it brings me just so much joy.
It's probably the only time when I'm at home on
a weekend and I'm doing my house plans that I
feel as though my brain is at peace, genuinely, and
I think that that's why I love it so much.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I'm happy for you.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I'm confused where this is going, but I'm glad you
found your piece. Well.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I came across a study recently and it was there
was an article about it, and it's called Grandma hobbies.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And I think I'm slot, I slot hardcore.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Right in there.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
But grandma hobbies are making a comeback. And I'm talking
things like bird watching and clay art and crocheting, things
that you would have thought are.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Uncool because your nana would have done them back in
the day.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
All the cool kids doing him now. And guess what
one of them is house plants. I'm sorry, Can I
tell you what my grandma used to do? She didn't crochet,
she didn't she didn't.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Do any of that. She just dray whiskey.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
No, she raced pigeons.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
When I used to love going to Grandma's house because
at the back she had a.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Full avery of homing pigeons and you would race them.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
They would have to do a job, like deliver a
letter or something, and they'd race and then they'd have
to come.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Back to you. So like I was never exposed to
those grandma homes.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That feels way more niche than like knitting, for example,
we're making doilies or whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
My other one was a race car driver. She'd fully
like I.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Had hectic Where did you grow up?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, I grew up important quarry, but they didn't. I
hadn't had a very adventurous family. But please please go forth.
What else is coming back?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Well, my parents, like my mom and my grandma, crocheting
big in our family.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
We were a big family of crochets. Pottery.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You know how everyone these days like signing up to
go and do pottery classes where you sit there and
spin a wheel.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Ah love that.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
But also if you're someone who's been taking on grandma hobbies,
there is now studies and proof to say just how
good that is for your mental health. So you don't
let anyone like Britney hockleypoop pooh it. Okay, I'm going
to tell you that it is a good thing. You
could be going out drinking on a Saturday night, or
you could be at home knit.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
In a blanket.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Okay, hear me out. I'm not against it. Pottery I
could do. I tried to learn crocheting ones when I
was young. I don't have the patience for it. I
just can't sit still long enough. But one thing that
I found so funny, and I hope no one takes
offense by this.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
When I met my fiance Ben.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I would look at Ben and think he was really cool,
right Like I was like, okay, he's a giant, Like
he's really big, he's an athlete.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
He is.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I got a perception of what I thought he would be,
and it was it was not reality. And in the
early days he told me, like growing up, one of
his favorite hobbies and something that he's really proud of now.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Is is bird watching. Like Ban, my fiance is a birdwatcher.
He loves watching birds.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
He used to in his spare time read bird books,
and he has bird books. He knows every bird, he
knows they're call, he knows what.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
He's got all these facts.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Because he like go out on like an exhibition of
bird watching. He doesn't take binoculars with him. Of what
level of bird watching are we at? Are you're going
on birdwatching holidays when you're overseas.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
It has died down a little bit. Now I don't
know if he's trying to bury it for me. But
I think it was because after you.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Guys are married, birdwatching is very normal.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
He learned it from his grandma, so he was raised
a lot by his grandma, and it is a grandma hobby, right.
They used to go out and watch a birdwatch and
he learned to love it. So everything through his grand
and then when she passed away, he just kept watching.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Oh, I do think it's beautiful. Yeah, I agree. I
think that's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I do think that there must be an age where
most of us hit when bird watching comes into the sphere,
because like, I know so.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Many people who enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I'm waiting for it to hit me now that I'm like,
now that I'm deep in the gardening, bird watching is
only a hop skip away.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Oh you should see how excited he is by the
Australian fauna and flora, like, oh, it's a whole new
world we have. You know, the kooka burrough that was
mine blowing for him. It's been a real adventure, it is.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Here's my one and only trivia fact that I know.
If you ever have me on your trivia team, I'm
actually terrible at it. But one I do know is
guess what the kooka barra is the world's biggest kingfish.
There you go, everyone, don't say you don't come in
to learn anything. It's a kingfisher. Kingfisher, you said, kingfish,
which is a fish in I love that.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Fact so much.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
That's our headline.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It is the world's biggest one.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Though you were right, don't ever have Laura on your
trivia team.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You heard to hear first.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
You were telling a story a while back about your
wedding invitations and how you got into a little bit
of strife because of the language barrier. When you set
out your invites, you said no thongs, and it was
taken very incorrectly because all.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
My fiance's European, so all of his friends and family
are euro and they thought when I said no thongs.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That they weren't allowed to wear a G string. Yeah,
so that's a pretty strict dress code. If I'm monitoring there.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Under it, you're like everyone that walks in, You're like,
I'll just have one quick look before.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
You're allowed to dress.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yep, you're in.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Okay, Well, this is going to make you.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Feel a little bit better, brute, because there is a
wedding invitation that's gone viral off the back of a
very unfortunate accident that was made a spelling error. We've
all been subject to spelling errors, you know. We've all
sent a message and then accidentally it's like auto corrected.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
To a word that we didn't want it to be.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, there's not that many people that use the word
duck all the time, but apparently that's what iPhones think,
you know it.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Just yeah, to.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Unpack that one, talk in the afternoon, Thanks Laura. Okay,
So there's a couple who sent out their wedding invitation
and lovely they had all dervs on the menu was
one of the first things that was written. Unfortunately, they
did not spell check or proofread their wedding invitation that
was sent out. But not only was it sent out,
this wasn't a digital invitation. This was a printed hard
(14:26):
copy invitation which had lovely golden bossing on it. So
I'm sure it cost him a pretty penny.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I do have invite here. Yeah, it looks beautiful.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
It doesn't say all nerves though.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
What it does say, unfortunately, is horse ovaries.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I can see how this has happened.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
All dorves is actually spelled sort of like horse overaries.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It's like hrs. That's essentially horse as.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
If you're going to say it in phonetically.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
How they say or verse looks like almost ovaries.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
So I can understand why Google's been like, oh, they
must be trying to talk.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Maybe they're a vet imagine about the horse over Imagine
getting to a wedding and they're serving you horse overies.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Thank you, that's delicious.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Imagine Do you think people picked up on.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
That and thought, oh, it's a spelling mistake or people
were like, is this some sort of weird like cultural thing,
or like who's eating in horse ovaries?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Well, look, we've come across some very unfortunate spelling errors.
And I'm not just talking about like sending an incorrect
text to someone who you're friends with. I'm talking about
businesses that have printed signs or things that are like
truly embarrassing that you kind of like, once it's up,
you're like, well, what do we do now? Do we
have to take that whole thing down and start again?
And I wanted to read something about to you because
they're so great. McDonald's wrote hiring smiling faces for afternoon shits.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Nah, that's intentional there's been a sixteen year old I've
been employed to go out the front and do that.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
They're earning eleven dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Some some little kid hates their job and they thought
this was funny. They were, in fact the little shit. Okay,
another one here. This is a very old sign that's
been up for a really long time, and it's in
a parking lot and it says illegally parked cars will
be fine.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
No, that has said fine, and someone's taken off so
that they can park there one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
That is actually really smart.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
All right, Well, what is this one? How do you
describe this one?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Then?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Britt, please pay your parking fee before existing, not exiting existing.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
And I really like this one.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
This wasn't the front of a doughnut king and it
said mini dog nuts.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I feel like Grace on the Case has something over there.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I found one said I was replying to a high
level executive called Trudy.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
The whole team was ce seed on it.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
One of them pointed out to me that I'd called
her turty.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I don't reckon that's the first time.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I just want to finish it off with this because
I feel like we've all been in the boat where
we've made a spelling error mistake, and this is going
to live rent free in my mind. Somebody wrote, when
you can still smell his colon on your pillows even
when he's not there. Come on, guys, slide on into
our DMS if you have any funny stories about.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Mistakes or spelling mistakes that you've made. Guys, that's it
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good Pickup with Brittle and Laura Ben Radio work our
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
That's my world, Rison the dust only good tabs all down.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I've done much now, but yeah I'm not.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'll big get and what I want. It don't matter
where rag.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
This is the.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Pickup, Hi guys, It's the pick up with Britt Hackley
and Laura Beurn.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Do you know what I did?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I made this realization as an adult of something that
you absolutely shouldn't do as an adult unless you absolutely
have to because you have kids.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Now you rubbing your chest because really hurt my soul.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Bear with me, You're okay, tell me if this happens
to you all the time because you're a parent. I'm
not a parent.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
But I came across a book on the weekend that
had been buried in all my stuff from my childhood.
It's called The Far Away Tree and in blatened see
Grace held her rubbing her chest because it's the book
that just like warms your soul and I'm pretty sure
from memory, Laura, we've talked about it before and you
didn't read it you don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I have no idea why you never need to read it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
To your children.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
And it's like saucepan Haad and Moonfase and it's such
a state.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I sounds like some of you can cancel four guys.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No, it's just their characters.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It's a saucepan and like they're not they're not people,
they're like I understand. And it was Dick and Fanny
that were their names. It was very, very famous. Anyway,
they've had to change their names now.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
But what's my point of the story is I found
it and it was one of my.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It was like the most fantastical book as a child.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It took you to a whole nother place.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
The far Away Tree, and I thought it would be
cute to like revisit it as an adult. And I've
reread it or started to reread it, and it just
wasn't as magical as an adult, and I just ruined.
I feel like I've ruined my child.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah no, this happens all the time. Like watching The
Labyrinth as a grown up is not as good.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
You really are, like wow, because if the effects looked.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So amazing when we were kids and we watched it.
I was like, oh my god, this is credible. Now
you're like, wow, that's really unbelievable that that dragon's in
the air.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I never watched it.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Not the dragon, what's that? That's not that's never any stories,
God damn it. Anyway, they all suck about horror film. No,
the Labyrinth is the one that has what's thank you?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I feeling we're playing a game of charades right now, Grace,
thank you for.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
The It is that time of the week. It's Thursday.
It's ask Uncut Day. We do this every week on
our podcast Life on Cut, where you writing or you
call up with your problems and predicaments and conundrums and
we do our best to answer them. And today on
the phone we have Rachel. Rachel, what's going on in
your life?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Hi, guys, I have a partner. It's still faring you.
It's been about four months, but we've known each other
for a long time and I've just found out that
I've been given a job opportunity that I have to
move overseas and I need to tell him.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Does he know that you're going for a job opportunity? Like,
because this going to be as a fulls or does
he know that it's a possibility.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
He's got absolutely no idea.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And what do you want?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Do you want to stay together with him in a
proper relationship?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Do you want to break up? Do you want to
be casual?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
What are you hoping to get from it?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
I think I sort of thought casual would be best,
but we obviously didn't really anticipate the feelings to be
as strong as they are. So we're kind of in that.
You know that if I wasn't leaving, obviously it would
probably be a more serious relationship. But my contract is
for four years.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Do you think it's feasible to do long distance or
is it not a job that's like feasible because in
like you won't be contactable or are you.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Look, it's definitely a hard one to keep in contacts,
So yeah, bit of a tricky job.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
This is what I think my fiancee Ben and I
the reason we are together is because of something that
literally you just said a word for word. You just
said we would date like we would date if we
were here in the same country. I met my fiance
for three days he lived in another country.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
We literally set out loud.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Damn it.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
If you were here. If you lived here, we'd be
perfect and would date.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And that was the reason we ended up being together
because we were like, do you know what, if somebody
is that right for you, you will work it out.
If it's like under whatever circumstances doesn't mean it's easy.
If you actually think that this person could be your
person and you want to try, then I would be
really upfront and honest about it. But if you actually
don't care that much and you're just looking for some
casual for now, I think you're overthinking it.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I disagree slightly.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And the only thing is is I know that you
have experience in this brit But you can call Ben
your partner whenever you want, you FaceTime every day. I mean,
Rachel could be going to the Moon for all we
know and be uncontactable for the.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Astronauts have relationship too. If everyone can have a relationship,
I doubt.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
There's many astronauts out there who also do long distance
at the same time.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
If there's in space like the longest systems.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, but such a don't take Laura's advice.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What I mean by that is long distance when they're
in the country. This is four years where you can't
come back.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Or you can come back in between I can't come back, so.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
That you can't come back from where space.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I feel like there's a lot of secrecy going on
and maybe we're not allowed to know.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I'm just but that's okay.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
We don't we need to pry into it.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
But I understand if you can't come back for four years,
that makes the potential of long distance incredible. You can
barely go four months without seeing Ben and you start
having a meltdown.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, but I don't I think we're reading too much
into it. I don't think she's actually a spy that
is going away for four years total.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yes, No, that's what's Rachel saying she can't come home
for four years.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I know can't come home to Australia, but are you
coming home to like a home but it's just overseas
or you're saying you can't come and physically is it
impossible for you to see this person for four years?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Oh, then no it's over. Sorry, no four years.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I thought you just meant you had you couldn't come
back to Australia for four years, And then I was like,
well cool, if it's meant to work.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
He can go with you, but if you're disappearing, God,
I want to know what your job is.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Rachel.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I was trying to do it softly, and then when
brit actually got the fact.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
She's like, you just need to rip the aid.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
You know, when when do you leave?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
So I find out my exact date in two weeks?
Oh okay, I don't even have the exact date yet,
but you know, I'm like, I'm really leaving it till
the last minute, which is not great.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
No, that's not I think that's not fair on either
of you, and it's not fair on him because if
you leave it too late, it doesn't give you a
chance to actually have those conversations and work it out
and leave on good terms. Like I think you really
need to do the right thing with both of you
and tell him it's happening.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You just leave him wanting more and then you come
back in four years like, hey, how long is it
too long between when you can like disappear and then
show back up?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Four years too long?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Like four years cut off?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think you need to date another spy.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
That's the only way you're going to get we know
you're a spy.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That's what I would say.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Sure, good luck with this.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It does sound like you're in a bit of a pickle,
but yeah, good luck and good luck with the next
four years.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Yeah, no, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Now, Britt that why does this sound so serious and
very ominous? You have been giving me shtick about something
for stick You give me shtick about something for almost
a year now almostly.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
It could be a multitude of things.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I took on a hobby. I don't know where it
came from.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I don't know what sparked it, But about a year
ago I got really into house plans.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Did you got this?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
It started slow to be fair, like keep little few
plants crept in and then you were like, oh, let
me try and see if I can cut a stem
and propagate.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And next minute your house is a jungle.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So I got so deeply obsessed with house plans and
like doing the best by my house plans that I went.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Online one night.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It was like late at night, and an ad popped
up on social media, and it was an ad for
it's called an indoor forest and it has like all
the right lead lights that like produce the right amount
of you know, the right amount of light to have
in your house to keep their plants healthy. But it's
a vertical thing that you install from the ceiling to
the floor.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And I haven't even seen this.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, I know, I bought it. Okay, it arrived. I'm
embarrassed to say how much it costs. And my husband
saw it and he was like enough. He's like, you
can't buy things that take up a whole space in
our house.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Give me like ballpark figure.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Nah, no'm barrels under cost me nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
It was, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I am dedicated to the house plants. Okay, I love them.
I care about them. I often on a weekend sneak
out and buy more houseplants. Okay, it's that make you
send it back? No, he let me keep it. But
we haven't installed it. He's like, it's not anyway, it's
not what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
We should, we should, we should, but we won't. Now.
I love my houseplants.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I love how therapeutic it was for me that I
discovered this, that it brings me just so much joy.
It's probably the only time when I'm at home on
a weekend and I'm doing my house plans that I
feel as though my brain is at peace, genuinely, and
I think that that's why I love it so much.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I'm happy for you.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I'm confused where this is going, but I'm glad you
found your piece. Well.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I came across a study recently and it was there
was an article about it, and it's called Grandma hobbies.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And I think I'm slot, I slot hardcore.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Right in there.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
But grandma hobbies are making a comeback. And I'm talking
things like bird watching and clay art and crocheting, things
that you would have thought are.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Uncool because your nana would have done them back in
the day.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
All the cool kids doing him now. And guess what
one of them is house plants. I'm sorry, Can I
tell you what my grandma used to do? She didn't crochet,
she didn't she didn't.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Do any of that. She just dray whiskey.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
No, she raced pigeons.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
When I used to love going to Grandma's house because
at the back she had a.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Full avery of homing pigeons and you would race them.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
They would have to do a job, like deliver a
letter or something, and they'd race and then they'd have
to come.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Back to you. So like I was never exposed to
those grandma homes.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That feels way more niche than like knitting, for example,
we're making doilies or whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
My other one was a race car driver. She'd fully
like I.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Had hectic Where did you grow up?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, I grew up important quarry, but they didn't. I
hadn't had a very adventurous family. But please please go forth.
What else is coming back?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Well, my parents, like my mom and my grandma, crocheting
big in our family.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
We were a big family of crochets. Pottery.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You know how everyone these days like signing up to
go and do pottery classes where you sit there and
spin a wheel.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Ah love that.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
But also if you're someone who's been taking on grandma hobbies,
there is now studies and proof to say just how
good that is for your mental health. So you don't
let anyone like Britney hockleypoop pooh it. Okay, I'm going
to tell you that it is a good thing. You
could be going out drinking on a Saturday night, or
you could be at home knit.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
In a blanket.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Okay, hear me out. I'm not against it. Pottery I
could do. I tried to learn crocheting ones when I
was young. I don't have the patience for it. I
just can't sit still long enough. But one thing that
I found so funny, and I hope no one takes
offense by this.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
When I met my fiance Ben.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I would look at Ben and think he was really cool,
right Like I was like, okay, he's a giant, Like
he's really big, he's an athlete.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
He is.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I got a perception of what I thought he would be,
and it was it was not reality. And in the
early days he told me, like growing up, one of
his favorite hobbies and something that he's really proud of now.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Is is bird watching. Like Ban, my fiance is a birdwatcher.
He loves watching birds.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
He used to in his spare time read bird books,
and he has bird books. He knows every bird, he
knows they're call, he knows what.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
He's got all these facts.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Because he like go out on like an exhibition of
bird watching. He doesn't take binoculars with him. Of what
level of bird watching are we at? Are you're going
on birdwatching holidays when you're overseas.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
It has died down a little bit. Now I don't
know if he's trying to bury it for me. But
I think it was because after you.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Guys are married, birdwatching is very normal.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
He learned it from his grandma, so he was raised
a lot by his grandma, and it is a grandma hobby, right.
They used to go out and watch a birdwatch and
he learned to love it. So everything through his grand
and then when she passed away, he just kept watching.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Oh, I do think it's beautiful. Yeah, I agree. I
think that's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I do think that there must be an age where
most of us hit when bird watching comes into the sphere,
because like, I know so.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Many people who enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I'm waiting for it to hit me now that I'm like,
now that I'm deep in the gardening, bird watching is
only a hop skip away.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Oh you should see how excited he is by the
Australian fauna and flora, like, oh, it's a whole new
world we have. You know, the kooka burrough that was
mine blowing for him. It's been a real adventure, it is.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Here's my one and only trivia fact that I know.
If you ever have me on your trivia team, I'm
actually terrible at it. But one I do know is
guess what the kooka barra is the world's biggest kingfish.
There you go, everyone, don't say you don't come in
to learn anything. It's a kingfisher. Kingfisher, you said, kingfish,
which is a fish in I love that.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Fact so much.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
That's our headline.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It is the world's biggest one.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Though you were right, don't ever have Laura on your
trivia team.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You heard to hear first.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
You were telling a story a while back about your
wedding invitations and how you got into a little bit
of strife because of the language barrier. When you set
out your invites, you said no thongs, and it was
taken very incorrectly because all.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
My fiance's European, so all of his friends and family
are euro and they thought when I said no thongs.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That they weren't allowed to wear a G string. Yeah,
so that's a pretty strict dress code. If I'm monitoring there.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Under it, you're like everyone that walks in, You're like,
I'll just have one quick look before.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
You're allowed to dress.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yep, you're in.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Okay, Well, this is going to make you.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Feel a little bit better, brute, because there is a
wedding invitation that's gone viral off the back of a
very unfortunate accident that was made a spelling error. We've
all been subject to spelling errors, you know. We've all
sent a message and then accidentally it's like auto corrected.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
To a word that we didn't want it to be.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, there's not that many people that use the word
duck all the time, but apparently that's what iPhones think,
you know it.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Just yeah, to.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Unpack that one, talk in the afternoon, Thanks Laura. Okay,
So there's a couple who sent out their wedding invitation
and lovely they had all dervs on the menu was
one of the first things that was written. Unfortunately, they
did not spell check or proofread their wedding invitation that
was sent out. But not only was it sent out,
this wasn't a digital invitation. This was a printed hard
(14:26):
copy invitation which had lovely golden bossing on it. So
I'm sure it cost him a pretty penny.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I do have invite here. Yeah, it looks beautiful.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
It doesn't say all nerves though.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
What it does say, unfortunately, is horse ovaries.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I can see how this has happened.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
All dorves is actually spelled sort of like horse overaries.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It's like hrs. That's essentially horse as.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
If you're going to say it in phonetically.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
How they say or verse looks like almost ovaries.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
So I can understand why Google's been like, oh, they
must be trying to talk.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Maybe they're a vet imagine about the horse over Imagine
getting to a wedding and they're serving you horse overies.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Thank you, that's delicious.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Imagine Do you think people picked up on.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
That and thought, oh, it's a spelling mistake or people
were like, is this some sort of weird like cultural thing,
or like who's eating in horse ovaries?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Well, look, we've come across some very unfortunate spelling errors.
And I'm not just talking about like sending an incorrect
text to someone who you're friends with. I'm talking about
businesses that have printed signs or things that are like
truly embarrassing that you kind of like, once it's up,
you're like, well, what do we do now? Do we
have to take that whole thing down and start again?
And I wanted to read something about to you because
they're so great. McDonald's wrote hiring smiling faces for afternoon shits.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Nah, that's intentional there's been a sixteen year old I've
been employed to go out the front and do that.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
They're earning eleven dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Some some little kid hates their job and they thought
this was funny. They were, in fact the little shit. Okay,
another one here. This is a very old sign that's
been up for a really long time, and it's in
a parking lot and it says illegally parked cars will
be fine.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
No, that has said fine, and someone's taken off so
that they can park there one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
That is actually really smart.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
All right, Well, what is this one? How do you
describe this one?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Then?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Britt, please pay your parking fee before existing, not exiting existing.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
And I really like this one.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
This wasn't the front of a doughnut king and it
said mini dog nuts.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I feel like Grace on the Case has something over there.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I found one said I was replying to a high
level executive called Trudy.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
The whole team was ce seed on it.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
One of them pointed out to me that I'd called
her turty.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I don't reckon that's the first time.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I just want to finish it off with this because
I feel like we've all been in the boat where
we've made a spelling error mistake, and this is going
to live rent free in my mind. Somebody wrote, when
you can still smell his colon on your pillows even
when he's not there. Come on, guys, slide on into
our DMS if you have any funny stories about.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Mistakes or spelling mistakes that you've made. Guys, that's it
from us.
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