FULL SHOW: Matty J's Final Show!

It's Matty J's FINAL show on The Pick Up. He chats about the recent roommate that has moved into his house (it's an elf), Britt chats about the pressure to have a baby at a certain time of year and we learn HEAPS about Christmas with Fun Fact Friday.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Are you ready? Good Picker with Britt Hockley and Laura
Ben Baby your what our windows done? That's my world?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Rison the dust only good Babs all. I've done much,
but yeah I'm not. I'll big get and what I want.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
It don't matter where this is the picker.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh, it's Matt's last day, guys, it's Britain, Maddy Jay, I.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Know, I get the tissues out because do we have
a violin? Play it? Just a small one if that's okay.
It's a sad there's no other way of putting it.
It's it's going to be emotional. There will be a
lot of tears. I'm sure there's tears of drivers all
around the country right now as they listen to one
of my last days.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's been what two months? I don't know, Producer Gray.
She feels like yesterday, Matt. When was your baby born? Matt? Yeah,
nine weeks.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Ago, nine weeks.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
We don't know. I have been recording with your wife
Laura almost every day for six years, so it has
been I mean, I do just feel like you're the
male version of Laura. But it's been really nice.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, what is it about me that makes you think
I'm so similar to.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Laura produced Grace is literally everything, isn't it. On several occasions,
I've seen both of you take a bite out of
a sandwich and say, this is the best sandwich that
I've ever had in my whole life.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, actually that's what I'm going to miss the most.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Sound or not me.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well, when I got my sandwich before we were on out,
I said to the lady, I'm like, this is my
last day. I'm not going to come here because now
we just got to the point where she knows my order. Okay,
I step foot in there and she goes, I'll give
you the chicken salad, no one you And I'm like,
thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
So you're you're more emotional about losing the sandwich than me.
Your co host has been on Nashal Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
I'm going to come back here just for the sandwiches.
I'm going to drive the forty minutes here just outside
the radio station, just to get my chicken sandwiches.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
You know what it else, Grace, it's the when they
don't listen and then they're like, so harm what did
you say? And then it's also when they're going through
their papers, like because we have prep papers right with
notes and stuff the way that they like rip it
off the clipboard and throw it to the ground. There's
like five pieces of sheets onto map mouth.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Should we focus on the good things though? I mean
maybe next break, let's talk about all the things that
we like about.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
But then they'll both go, Grace, there's no sheet for this. Yeah,
it's on the floor.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I can see it.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Oh yeah, Grace, you didn't print this for me. It's
like right in front of them. That's the other thing.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Did you ever have an elf on the shelf in
your household during Christmas?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
I don't think they existed when I was a kid.
I think they're like the last decade kind of thing,
aren't they.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
I feel like they've really blow and producer, Grace, did
you ever have an elf on the shelf? No?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I didn't know. We're too old, Matt.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Okay, Well, we were never lucky enough as kids growing
up to have an elf on the shelf come into
our household. But would you believe it? Just recently this year,
an elf from the shelf appeared in our household. That's crazy.
It's really crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
And very exciting.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Do you know the rules about elf and the shelf?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, they just sort of let themselves into the house
and they play tricks or something.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Is that it? Well, the thing is you cannot touch
the elf and the shelf. If you touch the ylf,
it loses its.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Magic, which the kiddies can't touch it.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Well, Marley was touching it for a while and we
were saying, Marley, if you touch the elf at night time,
it'll have no magic left, so it has no ability
to move around and be cheeky, so it will just
stay there. And so then Marley was like, all right, well,
I'm just going to give it one night where I
don't touch the elf. The magic came back. And apparently
I've also heard if you get a little bit of

(03:24):
cinnamon and you sprinkle it next to the elf, that
allows the magic to come back in addition to not
touching it. Does that? Is that that's true? That's right?

Speaker 2 (03:34):
I wonder what the cinnamon does. Is that because it's
like a Christmas nutmeging kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
I think it's just like, yeah, it's a bit of
a Christmas spirit. It's like they're fuel if you will.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
And is the most exciting part that the kids wake
up and they're like, where is he? What pranks? He done.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
It is amazing, Brittany, the things that this elf has
gotten up to whilst we're all in bed. I mean,
one night it was on the toilet and toilet paper.
Where's there, We're all over the floor. Another time it
wrote Merry Christmas in flower on the kitchen bench.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Does it ever play a trick where it's like, I'm
actually not gonna move, I'm gonna stay here now.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, the only time that was a bit tricky was
when we had we had a cleaner come and they
cleaned the house, and then the kids came home from
school and they're like, oh my god, the elf has
moved during the date. Only moves at nighttime.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
And we were like, oh, that was accidentally. No cinnamon,
get cinnamon.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
But I think the best thing of all is the
fact that you the kids can tell the elf what
they want for Christmas. The elf can listen, but the
elf can't talk, okay for those wondering. So it's so
important for the kids to tell the elf what they want,
because the elf will talk to Santa Claus at the
end of each night.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's really wholesome.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
It is amazing.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
What are they asking for?

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Weirdly, Lola wants a light up glitter water bottle.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh okay, I don't know if Santa. So Laura did
tell me that, and I don't know if Santa can.
If Santa can't bring that, we have actually located one
go on. Laura was talking about on the podcast, saying
the Santa's List and that sometimes the gifts are pretty
tricky for Santa and they can't do everything. So Laura
was also on the hunt for it, just in case
Santa did it.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Imagine if we didn't have Elf in the shelf, we
wouldn't have that vital information in the lead up to Christmas.
And I just want to say, just someone who was
a little bit apprehensive about the thought of having a
roommate move in in December and Elf in the shelf,
it has been the best thing that has ever happened
to our household, better than Poppy being born. Put that
on that show. If you're unsure, get an Elf in

(05:41):
the shelf. It'll change your life.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Maddie Jay, you are three kids deep. I think that
you're done now. I don't think there's anymore. When you
were having your kids and Laura was falling pregnant, did
you plan what time of year that they would be born.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
No, I didn't, and I think it's a good question.
We didn't give much thought to it. We kind of
just got caught in the moment. I just kind of
started doing the horizontal dance, and we thought, when it's
gonna happen, it's gonna happen. But my brother is born
on December sixth. I think you don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
You do have a lot of I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, I'm one of five. I know my sister is
jan six, my brother December. And December's when you're the
fifth kid and you're like the last one in the year.
No offense to my brother, David. I love you very
much and so does everyone in the family.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
But it doesn't cares anymore.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
We're over it. Yeah, we're over it.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
You're a fifth kid, you're born at Christmas.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
You don't get a look in you don Tanya Hennessy, Yeah,
I think she's due on Christmas Day.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Which is really cute because is it. Well, she spoke
for so long about not being able to feel pregnant
and she's had really, like really tough fertility problems. I
feel like that's like a little bit of sprinkle of magic.
You know like it's a gift. It's her literal gift.
It's I mean, it's such with the baby.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Great, yeah, terrible for that kid growing up.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah. And we're talking about this with producer Grace earlier
this week because it was I was gonna say it
was just her thirtieth. It hasn't actually been a birthday yet.
She's born on the twentieth of December and she just
brought her birthday forward a few weeks a random day. Yeah,
because no one will come to your party.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
No, no.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
So the reason I'm saying this is my husband Ben
and I we don't have kids yet, but we do
speak about it often, and it's been difficult because we've
been in different countries, et cetera. But I'm nearing my
late thirties and I do need to get a riggle
on if I'm going to do it. But I didn't
know this is a thing. When we were talking about
it recently. He was like giving me the months of

(07:41):
the year that it has to happen, and I was like,
what do you mean, Like why are we like I
think it'll happen, if and when it happens.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Because maybe he wants you to give birth when he's
off season, so he can help more.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
So, yes, there were two things and they changed, right.
So originally it was like, well, you need to give
birth around May June because that is the only time
off of the whole year. And there are my husband's
a footballer if you guys don't know, he lives in Italy,
but that's the only time of the year they're off,
and there are plenty of footballers that miss the birth
of their children because I mean, some teams have good

(08:16):
A lot of teams don't care, right, They're like, we're
paying you to play. Yeah, it's a big game. A
lot of coaches are really good, and they let it slide.
So it started to be around that right has to
been the off season. But then he's recently come back
and changed it and he has said now that I
need to give birth in the first three months of
the year, so janefebmuch, maybe it can push to April

(08:37):
because studies say that having a baby or being born
earlier in the year increases your chance of being a
professional footballer. So now he wants his kid to be
a professional footballer, and so now I have to have
it at the start of the year. Purely, so that
has a better chance.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
I'd love to know who's done this research and how
does it benefit the child, so.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I can tell you. I mean, this study was based
on footballers, but it's a lot of athletes. And the
reason is, and it does make a lot of sense.
They're bigger, Well, they've got more time to develop their
skills in the year. But they're in the same age
bracket as a kid that's born in December. So if
you're in jan and another kid's in December, and you're
up against the same age group, you've technically almost had

(09:23):
a year of like training or skill development or whatever
it is, on top of other people in your years.
So it does make a lot of sense.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
It's like a biological cheat code.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, it is a biological cheat code.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
And that's why I was never an athlete because I
was born in July. It makes so much sense. Now,
do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
That's it. That's the only reason.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
That's so annoying. I'm blaming my mom for that.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Okay, well we love it early. So anyway, I watched
their space. It's gonna have to be January, February March,
and then if I do that and in fifteen years.
That kid is not a professional. I've got to be dirty,
Maddie j. I actually you can't believe this day has come?

Speaker 1 (10:01):
But is it? This is? It was last one?

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Oh my god. Well, I've tried to like put together
all of your favorite things for your very last segment
on air with us. So you've said you love Christmas,
so I've made a fun Facts Friday Christmas edition Fun
Fact Friday. You also have said you love sweets, sugar, gingerbread,

(10:26):
smash cakes. So I've gone to Woolies and gotten as
many of their desserts as I can, and we have
a gingerbread smash cake here, Brittany.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
You shouldn't have. Honestly, I don't know what I've done
to deserve such an amazing radio host. But thank you
so much. Boy.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
I'm gonna let you smash it. But you can only
smash it when you get one of the fun Fact Fridays. Right, Oh,
how do you feel about that?

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Good? I love it. I love it. I love it.
You know I like violence, Brittany, and there's no other
way I'd want to go out. Then A bit of
Christmas violence with treats the dream come true?

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Okay, Well, you need to get one of these correct.
True or fol Home Alone is the highest grossing Christmas
movie of all time.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
False. That's right.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
I thought you'd get that wrong. So it was Home
Alone until can I guess?

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Can I guess what it is? Yeah? I want to say,
I think it's going to be an animation, and I
want to say it's the Grinch. It is? Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, So it was Home Alone until twenty eighteen when
the Grinch took over. What yeah, smash the cake?

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Why can people believe it's a Christmas miracle?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
It is at Christmas mirror. You did say you're you
were really into Christmas?

Speaker 1 (11:38):
All right? I just found I don't know what this
is from it. It's like a broomstick handle, but I
found it on the floor and can I use this?

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah? Can I film? You do this while we're on it?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Can I go?

Speaker 2 (11:52):
You go smash it?

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Three? Two? What?

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Oh? Okay? Okay, stop, okay, that stop? Oh no, that
went everywhere.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
I got really into that.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
You were taking a lot of anger out there.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Oh my god, that's delicious. Okay.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Back to the Christman Edition. Fun facts writing true or false.
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer was almost named Reginald.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
True, that is true. That's a lucky guess. I knew it.
I had no idea.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
The red nose reindeer was almost called Rollo.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
I'm going to say that's false, not also true?

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yes, okay, it's.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Almost on a hat trick?

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Did they used to spray Christmas trees with fox urine
to discourage people from stealing them?

Speaker 1 (12:43):
What country are we talking about?

Speaker 2 (12:45):
I don't know what country.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
I want to say fox you write, I mean back
in the day. Sure, I would say.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
True, it's true because fox urine is apparently so r
answered and like you cannot get rid of the smell.
So if it's in like a closed space, it would
just knock you out cold.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
I wonder why they wouldn't get like skunks.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
They use both fox You're inn and skunk's fro.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Wow, Wow, there you go.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Okay, true or false. Taylor Swift grew up on a
Misslete farm.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Misslet She lived on a Christmas tree phone.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Oh he's good. I tried to throw a spannery.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
I know because we have a little book at home
and it's the history of it's like the story of
Taylor Swift that I have to read it to Marley
like once a week, and every time we get to
the Christmas tree part, it's like, can you believe it?
I'm like, I know, I can't believe it.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Okay, this isn't a tru or false. I just want
to know if you can get it. What is the
most successful Christmas song of all time? It is who
sings it?

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Rya carries a song? All I want for Christmas is
I think it makes like I think it makes like
four million a year in royalties.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
No, it's actually wrong. It's bing Crosby's White Christmas.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't believe that's yeah, I want to fact check,
fact check, sac check.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
In physical sales, it's been Crosby's White Christmas, but streaming
it's Mariah Carey's All they want for Christmas?

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Thank you, thank you?

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Okay, do you want one more please? The song jingle
Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving, not Christmas.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Wow, you've really ended on a tricky one here.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
True or false?

Speaker 1 (14:18):
This is like the million dollar question, can I find
a friend?

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Grace? She wrote it, I wrote.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
It, unfortunately, Okay for Thanksgiving. I want to say it's
one of those ones where I'm sure it's I'm sure
it's true. I want to say false, but because I
know Grace is a sneaky little producer, I'll say true
is true.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
It was originally written for Thanksgiving, originally named the One
Horse Open Sleigh. James Lord Pipond composed the song in
eighteen fifty for he's Thanksgiving Sunday school class. There you
go interesting.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
I cannot wait to tell my mother these facts.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Okay, last facts because I'm really into one. Yeah, one more.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
The very first artificial Christmas tree was made for from
dyed goose feathers.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
I'm going to go with my gut. My gut tells
me false.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
I'm sorry that was a fact I was telling you.
Maddie Jay. It has been such a pleasure to have
you on the pick up the last couple of months,
feeling in for your wife Laura. I. We give each
other a hard time, we take the mickey out of
each other, but it has genuinely been absolutely wonderful.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
The amount of hr complaints I put in against you,
I put in so many against you, Joan, I take
them all back because it's been overall it's been great.
Thank you so much. Thank you to the listeners for
letting me join you at three o'clock every single day,
all around the country. It's been a pleasure. It's been
a joy. I'm going to miss you. Goodbye.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
It's also it's not like we're saying goodbye. We all
see each other every day. But it's been a pleasure
to Italy. Oh by god, I am I forgot. Yes,
I've seen a couple of months. Bye bye, guys.