May 12, 2025 • 17 mins
Britt tests her Swiss Fiancé Ben on Australian slang. Tully Smyth joins the show to chat about being an ambassador for Dementia Australia and the list of baby names BANNED in Australia.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
A good pickup with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn Brady
or what our windows day? If my worries in the dust,
only good fabs are all down?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I don't much, but yeah I'm not our big get
and what I want it don't matter where done. This
is the pickup?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Hi, everyone, Another Monday dusted? It's the pickup with Brit
Hockey and Laura Burn.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Am I deaf? What did you just say? Another Monday?
What dusted? Done and dusted?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I was like, well it was all over, red Rover.
We're gonna be talking about some sayings later on.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Today is still young. We're all quite over.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Happy International Nurses Day. Today's Nurses Day.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I tell you what nurses are the unsung heroes of
society of Australia.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Do you know what Australia every day has a thing
like everything's like pancake Day, there's donut Day, but Nurses
Day actually is one that is really important.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It is I worked in a hospital for over a decade.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I got to see what they did every single day.
I'm just gonna put it out here if the government
is listening, hate them more. They do so much.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I think everyone is in agreeance. And every single nurse
is in the car right now is like absolutely.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Now, Britt.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I came across an article on the weekend that I
thought you might find particularly funny, being that you are
marrying a man who is Swiss, who speaks lots of
different languages, and he speaks English particularly well, like he
is so well seamless, but he doesn't speak Australian very well,
you know. And what I mean by that is that
we have some real australianisms in our vocab, which seems
(01:47):
to send people from other countries into orbit because a
lot of the things don't make sense. So for example,
we once had a foreign exchange Shoodent come and stay
with us, and I remember saying that something was heaps good.
I was like, oh, we went to a restaurant, it
was heaps good, and she just looked at me really confused,
and she was like, heap's good, heaps of good, like
piles of good. And never in my mind had I
(02:08):
ever can that heaps good refers to.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Piles everywhere else except for Australia. We'll just say it's like,
you know, it's really good. No one else uses heaps
in the world. Yeah, okay, well I've got some other
ones that no one else uses.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And you guys are going to know this is so
obvious what we're trying to say here. But this apparently
is something that a particular American who's gone viral online
was saying.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
It makes absolutely no sense. Britt.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
What do I mean when I say yeah nah?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I mean I know this because I'm Australian. Believable. What
is it? Yeah nah?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Well, yeah, is an agreeance that no is the answer.
So you're agreeing, You're like yeah, no, like you're agreeing
that it's a no.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, it's like a big no, like yeah nah, it's
like it's yeah no, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
What about nah yeah, Well it's the opposite of what
I just said. It's like, whatever is the last word
is what you're doing. So if it's yeah nah, it's
a no. But if it's nah, yeah, it's a yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Okay, I've got a better one. What about yeah nah?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah no.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
This is why the rule works. Whatever the life word is,
you could.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Say yeah nah, yeah, no, no, no, no nah yeah
and then.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It's a yes because it's the last words.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
All right. Well look, I mean it does kind of
check out because then we've got Naena, which also would
send someone into another planet.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Because sometimes when Ozzies.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Get on a real roll, think when they're yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Look, we've come up with a list of some very
iconic Australian sayings, some of them rapid fire, some of
them just saying that you would have heard, you know,
maybe it was from your dad, or maybe it was
at the local pub.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Some of them I wouldn't say there is common now,
but they're definitely things that I would say ninety nine
point nine percent of Australians would know.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, we're gonna call my fiancee Ben. He's over in Italy,
but he is Swiss. I have had to teach him
some things in this relationship. So I'm gonna put him
to the test and see how many of these he notes. Hello,
Hey baby, it's britt Hi and yes you're on here
before I'm also here.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It's it's the whole family. Hello everyone.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
We just wanted to quickly ask you something we've been
talking about some australianism, some like things that we say
and whether or not you can understand them or not.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Are you happy if we rall off?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I like that we always seem to make fun of him.
But Ben actually speaks like five different languages, and we're
the ones who speak no other languages.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
The only thing that we.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Speak is English and also Australian by the sounds of pa.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, give it to me, Give it to me, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So we have a list of different sayings and you
have to tell us what they mean.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Okay, right, Why don't you just go and chuck a yui?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Since you always critique my driving, it's probably what I
do when I.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Just it's just illegal.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
U turn somewhere. Good? Okay. What about pissing in a
person's pocket? Wow, I don't know that one. You're probably
gonna just for it.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Just annoy someone be annoying you.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
No, No, it's like when you are complimenting someone but
it's insincere. Ah, Like if I if I'm saying nice
things about you, but actually I don't like you, or
I'm like trying to like pump your tires up.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Actually there's another one. It looks like all the nice
things I say about you but.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I, okay, what what about you're a couple of sandwiches
short of a picnic that's made up surely a.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Couple of sandwich short of picnic that you're really not
that smart, A.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Couple of screws lose. Do you know what? Though, Ben,
you're very good at this.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I think the only way to figure it out is
actually going for a rapid fire. I'm going to say
out some like a very quick word terms and see
if you know what they mean. Chocolate block, chopping board, No,
chocol block, not chopping board.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Chrissy Christmas, I know that one. Very good crook thief.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
No, it means you're sick, Dax don't know they're your pants.
You're devo devastated, very good, flat out.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
No, you're busy, hard yaka.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Jesus christ Man, hard work.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Something's a bit iffy. It's like something's not quite right. Yeah,
a bit risky. You are unreasonable? Is what we got here?
Or up yourself? Where am I? What about drongo drunk?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
No, nah nah do we need it?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
We just needed to go a bit fast, that's all, Ben. Look,
people don't know everything, but well done.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You're the best, babe. Go to bed, thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Let's all just remember he still knows five languages, which
is a lot more than anyone in this room.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, let's not forget. We laugh, we laugh, we laugh.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We're taking a little bit of a serious tone for
this next part because you guys might remember Tally smythe
She's from Big Brother back in twenty thirteen and still
has such a big presence.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Across social media herself.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
But she was just recently announced as an ambassador for
Dementia Australia. Now this is an incredibly and deeply personal
reasons why she's chosen to become an ambassador. But I'm
not sure if you had read it, but Tully wrote
the most incredible piece for Mother's Day that was in
El magazine and it was all around her relationship with
(07:14):
her mum, A letter to her mum.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I did, and it was truly touching, so moving and
just one of the most beautiful things I've.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Read in a really long time.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah. Absolutely, And the statistics around dementia something we don't
talk about much at all, but truly something that affects
women predominantly.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
It is harrowing.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I myself lost my great Arnie and also my Nanna
to dementia and something that permeates my family.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Tully. It's so nice to be to welcome you to
the pickup.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Thank you so much, guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
When you message me about this as well. The stats
and the statistics around how it disproportionately affects women was
something that I wasn't even aware of. Can you give
us some of the background of what that looks like.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yeah, so right now, there's an estimated at four hundred
and thirty three thousand, three hundred Australians living with dementia
and that number is expected to double by twenty fifty four.
So that's some pretty you know, huge stats. It's currently
the leading cause of death for females here in Australia
and there are about thirty thousand people who are under
(08:17):
the age of sixty five like my mum was, So
they're pretty huge stats that I don't feel like many
people know about.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You know, Telly, there'll be so many people listening to
this driving around in their cars who will have a
family member or someone that they love who's been affected
by dementia. What were the signs in your mum when
you were so young because early onset, I feel like
it's a whole different boardgame. I think often it can
be chopped up to being like tired or being forgetful.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
What were the.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Early signs that you remember your mum experiencing and the
reasons why you know she sought out diagnosis.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Well, that's the thing, you know, when you've seen you're
so self obsessed. So it's definitely now in hindsight looking back,
that those signs are more clear to me. But it
was stuff like that. It was little things that you
put down to her being a busy mum. You know,
she had three kids, she wrote, a full time job.
But stuff like you know, coming home from the shops
and putting the third bottle of milk in the fridge.
(09:15):
We already had two bottles. She'd forgotten that she'd bought
one and bought another one.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
But then that's not enough for you to tell them
raise alarm bells, right, you like stilling mom, like you know,
you forget everything, but you don't think at that age.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And so how old was she at that time?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
She was fifty one, right, So it was definitely more
the mood changes. That's kind of where we knew, okay,
something to miss here. She went from being pretty positive, happy,
go lucky to very defensive, short temper, just really ready
for an argument, ready to fight. And that's kind of
when we sort of thought, Okay, something to miss here, totalie.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I think, you know, for anyone who's experienced to mention
their family with someone that they really love, it's the
grief of losing them before you lose them like that,
I think most people can relate to.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
And we were talking about it before and it made me.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Really teary because I remember with my my Nan, who
I was so incredibly close with. Her dementia stemmed over
long period of time and it was this slow decay
to eventually getting to a place where.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Where they just don't know who you are. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah,
that's like the hardest thing I think to deal with.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I mean it was insane, you know,
at first, it takes them so quickly. I went to
Union in Bathurst, and I remember being home one weekend
and Mom was still talking. She still you know, her
eyes would light up. As I came towards her, I said,
you know, hi, Mama. I gave her a hug, and
I went back to UNI that week and by the
time I came back home that following weekend, she'd stop talking,
(10:48):
so initially it stole her quickly. I can't remember the
last time she said my name. I can't remember last
time she said I love you. But then the thing
about early on set is that her body was so fit,
physically fit, and she was so young. So then it
was a long slog. Seventeen years yea horrible had dementia.
She was gone so long before then.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I have a question, if there's the genetic link, do
you worry that this is something that's going to happen
to you.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
One hundred percent that's probably.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
That sits really really heavy on my chest. Every day, I,
you know, would do something really like lock myself out
of the house, and I'll think, oh, here we go.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
It started, right.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
It's huge, and especially now you know I'm older, I'm
thirty seven, you start thinking about having kids, and you know,
I froze my eggs, so I get my eggs tested.
It's it's very heavy in my chest every single day.
But I personally have decided not to get the genetic
tests just because I want to live my life like
every days my last. Anyway, we all should be doing that.
(11:54):
We all should be living our life to the fullest.
And but I could go get tested and get the
big awful diagnosis and then get hit by a truck tomorrow,
do you know what I mean? Like, we just don't
know what life has in store for us, so that
may change, But right now I'm choosing to live my
life for the fullest and really embrace and enjoy every
single moment like my mom did. Well I diagnosis tally.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Thank you for coming and being a part of the
show and for raising awareness for such a really truly
important cause that affects so many Australians.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, thanks for joining the pick up.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
No, thank you so much for having me guys.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So, Laura, a really important list is circulating online that
I think you need to get across. Obviously in your
state state being pregnancy, you are having your third baby,
in case anyone listening now has missed that, We're very
excited for you. But there's a list going around now
of eighty nine names that are banned in Australia, So
I just wanted to get you across them in case
(12:52):
you were thinking that one of these might be on
your hit list, because I know you've sort of got
a few names that you've put to the side.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Now, well, I have names that we put to the
side because the reaction from family and friends was not positive.
But they weren't controversial names. I wanted Harry, if it
was a little girl, Yeah, well it is a little girl.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
All that out, Harry. And then the other name that
I really liked was Charlie.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
But I think, like, yeah, Charlie wasn't poo pood because
of the name. Charlie was because it's too similar to
her cousin Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
So do you want to know something interesting?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And I did find this out in my due diligence
of baby names around the world at a band.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Why were you going so deep on this? That's what
best friends do, Laura.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I really appreciate hate support. I hot for you to
be on this list. Guess where in the world Harriet
is banned? Harriet can't be bare it is. I wish
I was making this up, Laura. Where Iceland?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I wonder why? What's the reasoning Harriet is.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Banned in Iceland because it can't be conjugated?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
For me, I was scared you'd ask conjugation.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I looked it up, but it had went into detail
about molecules, and I don't think he's got anything to
do with molecules. But Duncan also isn't allowed because they
can't use the word C in Iceland. It's not in
the alphabet. Isn't that fascinating?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Wow? Okay, okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Ony days a learning day here at the Piccady you
don't live, be nice?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
God for so, I had no plans on traveling there either,
So I think we're saying I've been there.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
It's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Back to here in Australia. Number one name Australia. You
cannot call your child after the country.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
That you live in.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Oh wait, so these are all names that have actually
been banned. Like if you went and tried to submit
this on your birth, deaths and registry whatever it is,
it's not they'd say no no.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I feel like most of these would feel obvious.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
But in case you're wanting to call your child, medicare
that's banned.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Scrotum is banned.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Smelly virgin that's not one name, they're two names. Sorry,
I should have put a space for a comma. Well,
explain that you're a virgin, then, doesn't it smelly Comma
Space Virgin. Those don't can give me this list because
you know why this list has been made.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
This list has only been made because people if someone
who has tried to call their child this, yeah, well
they're the ones a ranger and scrotum. I mean, come on, guys.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I actually really appreciate that they've listed this alphabetical order
as well. It makes it really easy all the way
from Anzac to bong head head.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, corporal Dame Dickhead also not good.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Harry Potter, you can't call you know well I know,
we laugh and like it is outrageous. Some of these names,
like some of them are like, you know, potentially passable,
a lot of them not. But the thing is is
like if people have actually showed up to try and
register a name like this on a birth certificate, like
what an awful parent that is? Like some of these
bong head like you are not taking being a parent
(15:39):
seriously at all, Like that's a horrible thing.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Well, some interesting names.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I went, I went abroad, I went, I went off,
I went off our shows over in France. You cannot
call your child in a teller. I guess that that's
like a really patriotic thing.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
No, I reckon. It's because it's been patented and not painted.
What's copy right, like like.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, copyright, so you can't use it, that's all. And
same with some of these. Hence my medicaid would be
on there.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
It's not because well you can't call it anything government based,
so that's also in the prerequisites. But over in New
Zealand there a poor girl and she has changed her
name now they call her parents called it Tulula does
the ruler from Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I'm trying not to laugh at not even Tula.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Does a ruler Tallala does, a ruler from Hawaii was
on her birth stupid like that is actually we're laughing.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
That is just mean, Like I'm not right.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
There is an old wives tale that my mum tells
about a kid that she taught at school whose name
was l dadh.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Ye La dasha e r.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I think it's a wife sale because I've been told
that about where I grabbing.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Paula for it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Maybe she had, Maybe there's more of them, Maybe we're
getting around my parents, And I don't know if I've
exaggerated this story. You know when you've been told telling
as a kid and then you just create a perfect
story in your.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Head, I swear, and I might have to fact check.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
This with my dad that my dad said he went
to school with twins and their last name was Duck
and they called them Donald and Day. No, no, Donald
and Daisy Duck.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Oh, I don't believe him anyway, I'm just leave this
list with you in case Scroton was on it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Here you go.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
No, But you know what too, more than I find interesting,
you can't name your kid prince or princess, and that
I mean I find that interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Nuptial royal.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, if you want to see the whole list, we're
going to put it up on the Pickup social so
you can go and have a look, just in case
you're at risk of naming your baby Something's band
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
A good pickup with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn Brady
or what our windows day? If my worries in the dust,
only good fabs are all down?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I don't much, but yeah I'm not our big get
and what I want it don't matter where done. This
is the pickup?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Hi, everyone, Another Monday dusted? It's the pickup with Brit
Hockey and Laura Burn.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Am I deaf? What did you just say? Another Monday?
What dusted? Done and dusted?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I was like, well it was all over, red Rover.
We're gonna be talking about some sayings later on.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Today is still young. We're all quite over.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Happy International Nurses Day. Today's Nurses Day.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I tell you what nurses are the unsung heroes of
society of Australia.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Do you know what Australia every day has a thing
like everything's like pancake Day, there's donut Day, but Nurses
Day actually is one that is really important.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It is I worked in a hospital for over a decade.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I got to see what they did every single day.
I'm just gonna put it out here if the government
is listening, hate them more. They do so much.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I think everyone is in agreeance. And every single nurse
is in the car right now is like absolutely.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Now, Britt.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I came across an article on the weekend that I
thought you might find particularly funny, being that you are
marrying a man who is Swiss, who speaks lots of
different languages, and he speaks English particularly well, like he
is so well seamless, but he doesn't speak Australian very well,
you know. And what I mean by that is that
we have some real australianisms in our vocab, which seems
(01:47):
to send people from other countries into orbit because a
lot of the things don't make sense. So for example,
we once had a foreign exchange Shoodent come and stay
with us, and I remember saying that something was heaps good.
I was like, oh, we went to a restaurant, it
was heaps good, and she just looked at me really confused,
and she was like, heap's good, heaps of good, like
piles of good. And never in my mind had I
(02:08):
ever can that heaps good refers to.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Piles everywhere else except for Australia. We'll just say it's like,
you know, it's really good. No one else uses heaps
in the world. Yeah, okay, well I've got some other
ones that no one else uses.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And you guys are going to know this is so
obvious what we're trying to say here. But this apparently
is something that a particular American who's gone viral online
was saying.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
It makes absolutely no sense. Britt.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
What do I mean when I say yeah nah?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I mean I know this because I'm Australian. Believable. What
is it? Yeah nah?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Well, yeah, is an agreeance that no is the answer.
So you're agreeing, You're like yeah, no, like you're agreeing
that it's a no.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, it's like a big no, like yeah nah, it's
like it's yeah no, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
What about nah yeah, Well it's the opposite of what
I just said. It's like, whatever is the last word
is what you're doing. So if it's yeah nah, it's
a no. But if it's nah, yeah, it's a yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Okay, I've got a better one. What about yeah nah?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah no.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
This is why the rule works. Whatever the life word is,
you could.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Say yeah nah, yeah, no, no, no, no nah yeah
and then.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It's a yes because it's the last words.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
All right. Well look, I mean it does kind of
check out because then we've got Naena, which also would
send someone into another planet.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Because sometimes when Ozzies.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Get on a real roll, think when they're yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Look, we've come up with a list of some very
iconic Australian sayings, some of them rapid fire, some of
them just saying that you would have heard, you know,
maybe it was from your dad, or maybe it was
at the local pub.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Some of them I wouldn't say there is common now,
but they're definitely things that I would say ninety nine
point nine percent of Australians would know.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, we're gonna call my fiancee Ben. He's over in Italy,
but he is Swiss. I have had to teach him
some things in this relationship. So I'm gonna put him
to the test and see how many of these he notes. Hello,
Hey baby, it's britt Hi and yes you're on here
before I'm also here.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It's it's the whole family. Hello everyone.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
We just wanted to quickly ask you something we've been
talking about some australianism, some like things that we say
and whether or not you can understand them or not.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Are you happy if we rall off?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I like that we always seem to make fun of him.
But Ben actually speaks like five different languages, and we're
the ones who speak no other languages.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
The only thing that we.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Speak is English and also Australian by the sounds of pa.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, give it to me, Give it to me, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So we have a list of different sayings and you
have to tell us what they mean.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Okay, right, Why don't you just go and chuck a yui?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Since you always critique my driving, it's probably what I
do when I.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Just it's just illegal.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
U turn somewhere. Good? Okay. What about pissing in a
person's pocket? Wow, I don't know that one. You're probably
gonna just for it.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Just annoy someone be annoying you.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
No, No, it's like when you are complimenting someone but
it's insincere. Ah, Like if I if I'm saying nice
things about you, but actually I don't like you, or
I'm like trying to like pump your tires up.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Actually there's another one. It looks like all the nice
things I say about you but.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I, okay, what what about you're a couple of sandwiches
short of a picnic that's made up surely a.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Couple of sandwich short of picnic that you're really not
that smart, A.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Couple of screws lose. Do you know what? Though, Ben,
you're very good at this.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I think the only way to figure it out is
actually going for a rapid fire. I'm going to say
out some like a very quick word terms and see
if you know what they mean. Chocolate block, chopping board, No,
chocol block, not chopping board.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Chrissy Christmas, I know that one. Very good crook thief.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
No, it means you're sick, Dax don't know they're your pants.
You're devo devastated, very good, flat out.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
No, you're busy, hard yaka.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Jesus christ Man, hard work.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Something's a bit iffy. It's like something's not quite right. Yeah,
a bit risky. You are unreasonable? Is what we got here?
Or up yourself? Where am I? What about drongo drunk?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
No, nah nah do we need it?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
We just needed to go a bit fast, that's all, Ben. Look,
people don't know everything, but well done.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You're the best, babe. Go to bed, thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Let's all just remember he still knows five languages, which
is a lot more than anyone in this room.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, let's not forget. We laugh, we laugh, we laugh.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We're taking a little bit of a serious tone for
this next part because you guys might remember Tally smythe
She's from Big Brother back in twenty thirteen and still
has such a big presence.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Across social media herself.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
But she was just recently announced as an ambassador for
Dementia Australia. Now this is an incredibly and deeply personal
reasons why she's chosen to become an ambassador. But I'm
not sure if you had read it, but Tully wrote
the most incredible piece for Mother's Day that was in
El magazine and it was all around her relationship with
(07:14):
her mum, A letter to her mum.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I did, and it was truly touching, so moving and
just one of the most beautiful things I've.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Read in a really long time.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah. Absolutely, And the statistics around dementia something we don't
talk about much at all, but truly something that affects
women predominantly.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
It is harrowing.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I myself lost my great Arnie and also my Nanna
to dementia and something that permeates my family.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Tully. It's so nice to be to welcome you to
the pickup.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Thank you so much, guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
When you message me about this as well. The stats
and the statistics around how it disproportionately affects women was
something that I wasn't even aware of. Can you give
us some of the background of what that looks like.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yeah, so right now, there's an estimated at four hundred
and thirty three thousand, three hundred Australians living with dementia
and that number is expected to double by twenty fifty four.
So that's some pretty you know, huge stats. It's currently
the leading cause of death for females here in Australia
and there are about thirty thousand people who are under
(08:17):
the age of sixty five like my mum was, So
they're pretty huge stats that I don't feel like many
people know about.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You know, Telly, there'll be so many people listening to
this driving around in their cars who will have a
family member or someone that they love who's been affected
by dementia. What were the signs in your mum when
you were so young because early onset, I feel like
it's a whole different boardgame. I think often it can
be chopped up to being like tired or being forgetful.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
What were the.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Early signs that you remember your mum experiencing and the
reasons why you know she sought out diagnosis.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Well, that's the thing, you know, when you've seen you're
so self obsessed. So it's definitely now in hindsight looking back,
that those signs are more clear to me. But it
was stuff like that. It was little things that you
put down to her being a busy mum. You know,
she had three kids, she wrote, a full time job.
But stuff like you know, coming home from the shops
and putting the third bottle of milk in the fridge.
(09:15):
We already had two bottles. She'd forgotten that she'd bought
one and bought another one.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
But then that's not enough for you to tell them
raise alarm bells, right, you like stilling mom, like you know,
you forget everything, but you don't think at that age.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And so how old was she at that time?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
She was fifty one, right, So it was definitely more
the mood changes. That's kind of where we knew, okay,
something to miss here. She went from being pretty positive, happy,
go lucky to very defensive, short temper, just really ready
for an argument, ready to fight. And that's kind of
when we sort of thought, Okay, something to miss here, totalie.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I think, you know, for anyone who's experienced to mention
their family with someone that they really love, it's the
grief of losing them before you lose them like that,
I think most people can relate to.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
And we were talking about it before and it made me.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Really teary because I remember with my my Nan, who
I was so incredibly close with. Her dementia stemmed over
long period of time and it was this slow decay
to eventually getting to a place where.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Where they just don't know who you are. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah,
that's like the hardest thing I think to deal with.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I mean it was insane, you know,
at first, it takes them so quickly. I went to
Union in Bathurst, and I remember being home one weekend
and Mom was still talking. She still you know, her
eyes would light up. As I came towards her, I said,
you know, hi, Mama. I gave her a hug, and
I went back to UNI that week and by the
time I came back home that following weekend, she'd stop talking,
(10:48):
so initially it stole her quickly. I can't remember the
last time she said my name. I can't remember last
time she said I love you. But then the thing
about early on set is that her body was so fit,
physically fit, and she was so young. So then it
was a long slog. Seventeen years yea horrible had dementia.
She was gone so long before then.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I have a question, if there's the genetic link, do
you worry that this is something that's going to happen
to you.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
One hundred percent that's probably.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
That sits really really heavy on my chest. Every day, I,
you know, would do something really like lock myself out
of the house, and I'll think, oh, here we go.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
It started, right.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
It's huge, and especially now you know I'm older, I'm
thirty seven, you start thinking about having kids, and you know,
I froze my eggs, so I get my eggs tested.
It's it's very heavy in my chest every single day.
But I personally have decided not to get the genetic
tests just because I want to live my life like
every days my last. Anyway, we all should be doing that.
(11:54):
We all should be living our life to the fullest.
And but I could go get tested and get the
big awful diagnosis and then get hit by a truck tomorrow,
do you know what I mean? Like, we just don't
know what life has in store for us, so that
may change, But right now I'm choosing to live my
life for the fullest and really embrace and enjoy every
single moment like my mom did. Well I diagnosis tally.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Thank you for coming and being a part of the
show and for raising awareness for such a really truly
important cause that affects so many Australians.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, thanks for joining the pick up.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
No, thank you so much for having me guys.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So, Laura, a really important list is circulating online that
I think you need to get across. Obviously in your
state state being pregnancy, you are having your third baby,
in case anyone listening now has missed that, We're very
excited for you. But there's a list going around now
of eighty nine names that are banned in Australia, So
I just wanted to get you across them in case
(12:52):
you were thinking that one of these might be on
your hit list, because I know you've sort of got
a few names that you've put to the side.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Now, well, I have names that we put to the
side because the reaction from family and friends was not positive.
But they weren't controversial names. I wanted Harry, if it
was a little girl, Yeah, well it is a little girl.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
All that out, Harry. And then the other name that
I really liked was Charlie.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
But I think, like, yeah, Charlie wasn't poo pood because
of the name. Charlie was because it's too similar to
her cousin Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
So do you want to know something interesting?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And I did find this out in my due diligence
of baby names around the world at a band.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Why were you going so deep on this? That's what
best friends do, Laura.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I really appreciate hate support. I hot for you to
be on this list. Guess where in the world Harriet
is banned? Harriet can't be bare it is. I wish
I was making this up, Laura. Where Iceland?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I wonder why? What's the reasoning Harriet is.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Banned in Iceland because it can't be conjugated?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
For me, I was scared you'd ask conjugation.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I looked it up, but it had went into detail
about molecules, and I don't think he's got anything to
do with molecules. But Duncan also isn't allowed because they
can't use the word C in Iceland. It's not in
the alphabet. Isn't that fascinating?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Wow? Okay, okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Ony days a learning day here at the Piccady you
don't live, be nice?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
God for so, I had no plans on traveling there either,
So I think we're saying I've been there.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
It's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Back to here in Australia. Number one name Australia. You
cannot call your child after the country.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
That you live in.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Oh wait, so these are all names that have actually
been banned. Like if you went and tried to submit
this on your birth, deaths and registry whatever it is,
it's not they'd say no no.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I feel like most of these would feel obvious.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
But in case you're wanting to call your child, medicare
that's banned.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Scrotum is banned.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Smelly virgin that's not one name, they're two names. Sorry,
I should have put a space for a comma. Well,
explain that you're a virgin, then, doesn't it smelly Comma
Space Virgin. Those don't can give me this list because
you know why this list has been made.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
This list has only been made because people if someone
who has tried to call their child this, yeah, well
they're the ones a ranger and scrotum. I mean, come on, guys.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I actually really appreciate that they've listed this alphabetical order
as well. It makes it really easy all the way
from Anzac to bong head head.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, corporal Dame Dickhead also not good.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Harry Potter, you can't call you know well I know,
we laugh and like it is outrageous. Some of these names,
like some of them are like, you know, potentially passable,
a lot of them not. But the thing is is
like if people have actually showed up to try and
register a name like this on a birth certificate, like
what an awful parent that is? Like some of these
bong head like you are not taking being a parent
(15:39):
seriously at all, Like that's a horrible thing.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Well, some interesting names.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I went, I went abroad, I went, I went off,
I went off our shows over in France. You cannot
call your child in a teller. I guess that that's
like a really patriotic thing.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
No, I reckon. It's because it's been patented and not painted.
What's copy right, like like.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, copyright, so you can't use it, that's all. And
same with some of these. Hence my medicaid would be
on there.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
It's not because well you can't call it anything government based,
so that's also in the prerequisites. But over in New
Zealand there a poor girl and she has changed her
name now they call her parents called it Tulula does
the ruler from Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I'm trying not to laugh at not even Tula.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Does a ruler Tallala does, a ruler from Hawaii was
on her birth stupid like that is actually we're laughing.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
That is just mean, Like I'm not right.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
There is an old wives tale that my mum tells
about a kid that she taught at school whose name
was l dadh.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Ye La dasha e r.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I think it's a wife sale because I've been told
that about where I grabbing.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Paula for it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Maybe she had, Maybe there's more of them, Maybe we're
getting around my parents, And I don't know if I've
exaggerated this story. You know when you've been told telling
as a kid and then you just create a perfect
story in your.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Head, I swear, and I might have to fact check.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
This with my dad that my dad said he went
to school with twins and their last name was Duck
and they called them Donald and Day. No, no, Donald
and Daisy Duck.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Oh, I don't believe him anyway, I'm just leave this
list with you in case Scroton was on it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Here you go.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
No, But you know what too, more than I find interesting,
you can't name your kid prince or princess, and that
I mean I find that interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Nuptial royal.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, if you want to see the whole list, we're
going to put it up on the Pickup social so
you can go and have a look, just in case
you're at risk of naming your baby Something's band
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