August 27, 2025 • 15 mins
TODAY ON THE SHOW - we unpack the Taylor/Travis engagemnt news, Britt shares about being in a kind of odd life phase right now and Laura shares the very unfortunate series of events that Matty J has experienced this week.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hihart podcasts, hear more Kiss podcast playlist and listen live
on the Free iHeart app Good Pickup with Britt Hogley
and Laura Burn Brady or what Our Windows Down? If
my world reason the dust only good? Tab Doug All down.
(00:30):
I've done March, but yeah I'm not. I'll beg get
and what I want. It don't matter where that goes.
This is the pick Up. Hello everyone, It's a very
big and exciting day today. Welcome to the Pickup. Holy
and Laura Burn.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
What a day. The biggest news in the world, the
most exciting thing to happen.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It is my niece myers first birthday. We got Taylor
Swift got engaged to Tailor Swift to get engaged. I
went up this morning. I was sitting on the loore
at six am. That's an irrelevant piece. It was just
it's when I found out. It's gonna be one of
those things where people are gonna be like, I remember
where I was when I found out that Taylor Swift
got engaged.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So you're gonna relate your Pooh in the morning to
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It wasn't that. I was just sitting on the loop
having some time out. My kids had already come in.
It was literally just past six and I was scrolling
on Instagram and I saw it. There it was. And
it also coincided so nicely because today Molly, my daughter,
had like a delayed book week, and she went as
Taylor Swift, so really knew she knew.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Wow, Well, we are going to unpack it next, because
I did cry I have a strange I have a
strange parasocial relationship between Taylor Swift like.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Half the world. And also after all of the heartbreak
songs that have come out to finally have found out
Prince Charming. This is bigger than a.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Royal word charming Kill Trav that's his name, Killer Trav
on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So we're gonna unpack it next.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It would be rude of us, Laura, not to not
to talk about the.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Thing that everyone in the entire world is talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
This literally stopped live news crosses like there were people
delivering serious news and they had to stop and say,
oh my god, this just in Taylor Swift and Travis
Kelsey are engaged.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's speak of news. I reckon, that's going to be
bigger than any of the royal weddings, like this is it, Well,
this is our royal wedding. It's on par with it.
Grace is saying no, no, I disagree, produce a Grace.
I reckon this is a kin to a royal wedding.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
There are not many people in the world that can
interrupt a news delivery with their wedding announcement other than
the royal, So I'm putting it on par with pop
culture's royal announcement.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You've been on this.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Ride with Taylor sweedst for so long, like she's such
a phenomenon that you're just rooting for us so much
to find her forever person.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I'm not scared to admit I shed a tear. I'm
not ashamed.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
This morning in bed when I opened my eyes and
that was the first thing I saw.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
One hundred people had sent it to me. My husband
had sent it to me. You sent it to me.
I cried.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I cried a happy tear. I felt like she's my
friend that's finally found her penguin.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I was, as I already told you guys, just before
I was sitting on the loo. My youngest daughter was
in the toilet. You know your parent, you can't go
to it by yourself and I was scrolling on my
phone and then I saw it and my oldest daughter
is obsessed with Taylor Sweet, So then everyone was in
the bathroom whist. I was on the Lou Royal talk
about Tailswift getting engaged. Well, what a time to be
alive in my household.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
My favorite thing about it, and maybe about Taylor as
a whole, But it's like the level of easter eggs
that she's.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Known to be dropping her whole life about.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Anything, any announcements or people call her a bit of
a genius in dropping hints a year in advance, like
she's really good at that.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I always question this, though, because my so like half
of them. Yes, I think she does come up with
some very strategic Easter eggs in her music or in
her promotion or her pr publicity, et cetera. But also
sometimes I think we're just looking for signs and the
signs aren't there, and we're like, oh, yes, well she
looked to the left. It must mean that she's you
know whatever. You know, I just feel like it was
a good Easter eggler, So let me let me let
(03:48):
me talk you through it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
This is what some of the people are saying okay,
So she announced the engagement on August twenty six, like
us bace August twenty six, and now thirteen times two
is twenty six. Thirteen's her favorite number, and there's two
of them, so they're saying that maybe this is all
surrounding thirteen her favorite number.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Hastretch. I have listened to how cute this is. I
was born on the thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I turned thirteen on Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
My first album went gold in thirteen weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
My first song that ever went number one.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It had a thirteen second intro.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And when I won the Horizon Award at the CMAY Awards,
the producer.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Came up to me when I was sound.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Checking and said, all right, we're gonna go in thirteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
There are so many numbers. Wow. To be fair, she
sounds about thirteen there.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
She's just you know why the world has watched her
grow up like she's been the most famous person in
the world since she was about thirteen years old.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I would say she's up there with Beyonce and the Queen.
I know she announced her her new album on the thirteenth,
but do you not think that the twenty six and
dividing it by two, so it comes to thirteen. Is
a bit of a stretch, that one.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
No, it's her favorite number, and there's two of them.
They're looked in forever on the twenty six. I think
it's okay, let me tell you what I think. Do
I think Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Is the one the mastermind behind all of this.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Absolutely not. But I think her team is. I think
she's probably gone to her team. She's smart enough, she's
a promotional genius, a marketing genius. She's obviously gone to
her team of hundreds of people said, whenever this day happens,
make sure.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You plan it out, probably that we can use it,
you know, for the Easter eggs of the stuff. Yeah, okay,
maybe maybe you've sold me on it. The other one here,
and I'm I mean, as a jewelry designer from long
long ago, I'm obsessed with this ring, but I'm also
obsessed with the story behind it. So the engagement ring
is resembling the logo, so you might have seen it.
It's like a t in An S in this very
vintage kind of art Daco inspired border. So this ring
(05:37):
is supposed to have been inspired by that iconic lettering
which is linked to her buying back her masters, so
all of her albums that she didn't own for so long.
But also, fascinatingly, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars is
what it's come out that this ring is valued. And
also it is an eight carrot vintage diamond, which is
just imagine walking other house with a ring on that
(05:58):
is literally worth the same amount as most people's houses.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I know you wouldn't want to wear it, would you. No, Like,
then what's the point.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
But maybe it's a fake. No, I don't think it is.
I don't think it is. I don't know. I just
think like, I know, you've got a lot of money,
but that just feels obscene.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No, it's relative, right, Like with how much money she's got,
it's the same amount as an average engagement ring.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So you've got to think of it like that. Is
it an obscene amount of money? Absolutely? But to them
it's like, I don't know, I'm happy for their engagement.
Also looks like a wedding, so they've already gone off.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, well, oh my god, the wedding. I haven't even
thought that far ahead.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Laura producer Grace and I this morning came to a
realization about me, who I am at my core and
what stage of life.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I ma'am, did she charge you for the therapy session
that have performed on you this morning? No, you know
you can go and get professional help for that. Nah.
I don't want to pay for it. I just want
Grace to give it to me for free. No, it
was before you got to work this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
But what happens we're just talking about, Like, so you
guys know that are listening, Like the way it works
is radio and things like that. They are off the
cuff obviously, and but they are planned as well.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Like we meet up and we talk about what the
content is, what's happening in the world. Taylor Swift got engaged.
What are we going to do with that? Like, that's
the way radio works. We are so organized what BRIT's
trying to allude to, But that's mostly a life, yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So we'd like planned out, you know, what's happening in
your life, the baby's coming and all of this kind
of stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And we'd planned that. Taylor Swift got engaged. We didn't
plan that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And then Grace is like, so, what's going on in
your life? Fritt and I was like, well nothing. She's
like what do you mean, She's like, what did you
do on the weekend?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And I was like.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Nothing really like nothing to nothing to write home about,
like nothing worth talking about.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And I was like, you know what that, actually, I
think is what I want to talk about. I would
say I am a bit of in the minority.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I'm thirty eight years old, and yes I'm married, but
my husband lives in another country, Ben lives overseas, so
like I live a singlish life in terms of being
on my own, is.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
That without the dating? Yeah, just in terms of like
I live alone. I don't get to do the normal
things you do with a partner, so like that's gone.
And then I don't have kids.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And it's really unusual in this age of life at
thirty eight to be single and no kids in a
friend group.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And now I'm saying it's not unusual to.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Be single at thirty eight or not have kids at
thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It's not that.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But in my friend group and in my life, I
am the minority, like there's not a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well, I think also because yours is a specifically like
a very specifically this get your specifically checked out. It's
a really specific situation because you're not single. So if
you were single, you would seek out single friends and
go and do single things with them. But because you're
in a relationship but your partner's not here, then you're
kind of like, well, where do I fit in this
(08:45):
friendship dynamic?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, Ben said he's unhappy if I fill my time
with dating.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So that was off to the cards, but it's true.
And then it just got me thinking.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You go through seasons of friendships and friendships I guess
evolved depending on where you're at. And when I say
that is like you don't not become friends with your
friends when they have kids, but it changes because they
need to do kid based things, like you had to
go to a book week this morning, like a you know,
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I want to get to a brunch. So you are
always welcome to the farmer's market to watch my kids
stuff their faces with peanut butter doughnuts like you are, Well,
every Saturday, we're there. We don't do anything different.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Just get you thinking about these seasons of life that
people go through in their relationships and their friendships.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And now you know you're open here friends say.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Oh, they disappeared when they got into a relationship, or
like I don't see them anymore since they've had kids.
And I guess it's just a part of it that
I've never really overly thought about until now where I've
been thrown in it. And maybe you don't think about
it as much when you're a bit younger, because there's
always something I don't want to say, something to do,
but like life.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Just looks different.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And then when you're at thirty eight, like I did
a bit of a ring around to my friends and
my only other friend that doesn't have kids in this
single Brokern call.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So she's like, my ankle's in a cast and I
can't leave my house. And I was like, that's cool.
I'll just bring you some food over. So I dropped
to some stuff off. But it's just an.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Unusual thing about like those seasons of life.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
But you know, I think it's relatable from I think
a lot of people who have kids. You know, they
always say that sometimes friendships are challenged at different phases,
like when you kind of enter into having kids or
verse you know your friends who don't have them. It
depends some people are able to navigate it. Really well
and have incredible friendships regardless of the stages that they're in.
But often I hear it from the flip side, where
(10:28):
it's like mums who have kids and then their friends
just don't show up anymore and don't really invite them
to anything because they're like, oh, they won't want to come.
They've made the assumption. And so I think that a
lot of people in that kind of age demographic are
dealing with, I guess, the evolution of what friendship looks like.
And so, you know, I know that you can be
friends with people at very different stages of life, but
(10:48):
what often ends up happening is you gravitate to the
people who are sharing in a similar life phase because
it's you know, they're the ones that want to come
and hang out the park on the weekend instead of
going out for brunch. You know, I can imagine that
it is even trickier when you are on your own
and your partner is in another country.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, so Ben doesn't know it, but we will be
in in an open relationship.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
No, I'm joking. Pretty's just fired raya backup joking. We're
gonna be talking about that next No, But speaking of
husband's your husband is here. He was saying he's done
something on the week. Actually technically he's not here. No,
he did it last night, so he's actually just gone
to the snow. He's left me. Where'd you'd have a
baby in four weeks? Last night as well, I started
to have some real weird feelings, and I was like,
(11:31):
oh my goodness, imagine if I went into early labor
the three nights he's decided to go to the snow snowboarding.
But anyway, he called me, and I'm free because I've
got no friend so I can come to the last
fal with you. I can be a birthing partner. You
have been saying you want to give me a stretch
and sweet, which is really pushing the friendship battery. That
needs context.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Look, yeah, he has had a series of very unfortunate
events happened to him in the last twenty four hours.
But let me tell you, I think that he is
entirely to blame for them. I'm going to tell you
about it next. My husband, Matt, he has gone away
for a few days to go to the snow. It
must be bloody.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
No, is he on like a solo baby moon?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah? Because I don't know if you realize it's not
how at work he's commiserating the fact that there's another
child coming. No, he's poor mum. So we live with
his mum, my mother in law. She lives with you. Yeah,
I made it sound like we've all just moved home
back with his mum.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Ellie moved in with us a couple of years ago now,
but she literally yesterday just came out of shoulder surgery,
so she's totally out of action. Well that was nice
Matt was here to welcome up. He's having a really
hard time, and so I'm home with her and with
the kids, and I'm also a couple of weeks of
having a baby. And Matt was like, please, can I
go to the snow? And I was like, you know what,
just yes, don't ask me again or I'll change my mind.
(12:49):
You like, just shut up and go. But the thing
is Matt always like, he always gives me a hard
time for being bad at organization. And I'm not particularly
good at it, I admit it. It's not my forte.
And he does do a lot of the admin for
the household, except he often makes mistakes because he's not
very thorough with it, so sometimes you have to double handle. Now, this,
(13:09):
I feel like, is the perfect example of Matt being Matt,
and I hate that he's not here to defend himself.
But no, that's a choice. So he leaves. He leaves.
He leaves yesterday peak meltdown period, like it's dinner time,
like it's all happening. He's out the door. Actually, to
be fair, he did cook the kids, did I stall
give him that? But he leaves and he drives and
they had like a mid stop over on the way
(13:30):
to the snow in Canberra, right, and he calls me.
It's nine o'clock a night, he's gotten to Canberra and
he's like, oh babe, you're never going to guess what happened.
And I was like, what has happened? And I thought
maybe'd had an accent or something and he was like nah.
He's like, so I showed up at a QT with
his friend who's traveling with. He's like, Hi, I've got
a booking for Matthew Johnson and they were like, no,
(13:50):
you don't. And he's like, yeah, dude, here's the reservation.
And the hotel manager looked at it and she goes, actually,
you've booked that for January twenty twenty six, twenty twenty,
and he was like, okay, no problems, wait forgets.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
We booked different next year, in a different month in January.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
How does it happen? I don't know. It's not even
like it's the same day, all the same completely wrong year,
completely wrong month, right date. So he was like, cool,
can we just get a room then and I'll try
and refund that one. She was like no, totally booked up.
So tried a couple of different hotels, ended up at
what he described as a roadhouse hotel, just like an
easy cheat one on the on the highway, on the
(14:26):
way to the snow So they book in, they only
get they could only get a queen bed. So they're
sharing a bed. His best friend in him. Anyway, he
wakes up this morning and he calls me and he goes, ah, babe,
it's been a rough one. You're never gonna guess what happened.
And I was like, oh, what's happened now? He goes,
didn't bring any snowboarding stuff? No, he goes, I've got
pink lie.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
He got pink one? Was his was his bed mate?
Did his bed mate poo in his face.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I don't know, but he's got pink eye from staying
at the roadhouse hotel. Sorry, he's not blaming on the roadhouse.
You don't get a pink guy from a roadhouse sleeping
in the same bed as his best mate. So now
the poor thing he sent me a photo is at
the snow he's got full pink eye. Can't open one eye.
He's trying a snowboard down here. That with a patch
on one eye. That's so funny. I did the same thing.
(15:13):
I got pink guy. I don't know if you remember. No,
I didn't get pink guy. I've never had pink guy.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
My ex we were going away on our first trip
together and I was like, really wanting to impress him
and make it romantic and lovely, and I organized us yeah,
and I booked it all and I booked this really
beautiful place and we drove three hours to get there,
and we arrived and they were like, who are you. Basically,
it was like it was like an Airbnb and there
was someone right in there. I was like, sorry, why
are you in our house? They're like, who are you? Anyway,
(15:40):
I just booked the wrong exactly the same thing, and
we got stuck in a roadhouse too.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I was like, what a disaster and I want to
we broke up. Well, thank god no one got Pink
Guy on that occasion. Anyway, I'm just waiting. It's one
of those moments where it's like one little disaster after
another little disaster. They really ad up, don't they. Yeah,
all right, look guys, that is it from us today.
Hihart podcasts, hear more Kiss podcast playlist and listen live
on the Free iHeart app Good Pickup with Britt Hogley
and Laura Burn Brady or what Our Windows Down? If
my world reason the dust only good? Tab Doug All down.
(00:30):
I've done March, but yeah I'm not. I'll beg get
and what I want. It don't matter where that goes.
This is the pick Up. Hello everyone, It's a very
big and exciting day today. Welcome to the Pickup. Holy
and Laura Burn.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
What a day. The biggest news in the world, the
most exciting thing to happen.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It is my niece myers first birthday. We got Taylor
Swift got engaged to Tailor Swift to get engaged. I
went up this morning. I was sitting on the loore
at six am. That's an irrelevant piece. It was just
it's when I found out. It's gonna be one of
those things where people are gonna be like, I remember
where I was when I found out that Taylor Swift
got engaged.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So you're gonna relate your Pooh in the morning to
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It wasn't that. I was just sitting on the loop
having some time out. My kids had already come in.
It was literally just past six and I was scrolling
on Instagram and I saw it. There it was. And
it also coincided so nicely because today Molly, my daughter,
had like a delayed book week, and she went as
Taylor Swift, so really knew she knew.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Wow, Well, we are going to unpack it next, because
I did cry I have a strange I have a
strange parasocial relationship between Taylor Swift like.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Half the world. And also after all of the heartbreak
songs that have come out to finally have found out
Prince Charming. This is bigger than a.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Royal word charming Kill Trav that's his name, Killer Trav
on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So we're gonna unpack it next.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It would be rude of us, Laura, not to not
to talk about the.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Thing that everyone in the entire world is talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
This literally stopped live news crosses like there were people
delivering serious news and they had to stop and say,
oh my god, this just in Taylor Swift and Travis
Kelsey are engaged.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's speak of news. I reckon, that's going to be
bigger than any of the royal weddings, like this is it, Well,
this is our royal wedding. It's on par with it.
Grace is saying no, no, I disagree, produce a Grace.
I reckon this is a kin to a royal wedding.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
There are not many people in the world that can
interrupt a news delivery with their wedding announcement other than
the royal, So I'm putting it on par with pop
culture's royal announcement.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You've been on this.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Ride with Taylor sweedst for so long, like she's such
a phenomenon that you're just rooting for us so much
to find her forever person.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I'm not scared to admit I shed a tear. I'm
not ashamed.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
This morning in bed when I opened my eyes and
that was the first thing I saw.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
One hundred people had sent it to me. My husband
had sent it to me. You sent it to me.
I cried.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I cried a happy tear. I felt like she's my
friend that's finally found her penguin.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I was, as I already told you guys, just before
I was sitting on the loo. My youngest daughter was
in the toilet. You know your parent, you can't go
to it by yourself and I was scrolling on my
phone and then I saw it and my oldest daughter
is obsessed with Taylor Sweet, So then everyone was in
the bathroom whist. I was on the Lou Royal talk
about Tailswift getting engaged. Well, what a time to be
alive in my household.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
My favorite thing about it, and maybe about Taylor as
a whole, But it's like the level of easter eggs
that she's.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Known to be dropping her whole life about.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Anything, any announcements or people call her a bit of
a genius in dropping hints a year in advance, like
she's really good at that.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I always question this, though, because my so like half
of them. Yes, I think she does come up with
some very strategic Easter eggs in her music or in
her promotion or her pr publicity, et cetera. But also
sometimes I think we're just looking for signs and the
signs aren't there, and we're like, oh, yes, well she
looked to the left. It must mean that she's you
know whatever. You know, I just feel like it was
a good Easter eggler, So let me let me let
(03:48):
me talk you through it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
This is what some of the people are saying okay,
So she announced the engagement on August twenty six, like
us bace August twenty six, and now thirteen times two
is twenty six. Thirteen's her favorite number, and there's two
of them, so they're saying that maybe this is all
surrounding thirteen her favorite number.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Hastretch. I have listened to how cute this is. I
was born on the thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I turned thirteen on Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
My first album went gold in thirteen weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
My first song that ever went number one.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It had a thirteen second intro.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And when I won the Horizon Award at the CMAY Awards,
the producer.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Came up to me when I was sound.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Checking and said, all right, we're gonna go in thirteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
There are so many numbers. Wow. To be fair, she
sounds about thirteen there.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
She's just you know why the world has watched her
grow up like she's been the most famous person in
the world since she was about thirteen years old.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I would say she's up there with Beyonce and the Queen.
I know she announced her her new album on the thirteenth,
but do you not think that the twenty six and
dividing it by two, so it comes to thirteen. Is
a bit of a stretch, that one.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
No, it's her favorite number, and there's two of them.
They're looked in forever on the twenty six. I think
it's okay, let me tell you what I think. Do
I think Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Is the one the mastermind behind all of this.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Absolutely not. But I think her team is. I think
she's probably gone to her team. She's smart enough, she's
a promotional genius, a marketing genius. She's obviously gone to
her team of hundreds of people said, whenever this day happens,
make sure.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You plan it out, probably that we can use it,
you know, for the Easter eggs of the stuff. Yeah, okay,
maybe maybe you've sold me on it. The other one here,
and I'm I mean, as a jewelry designer from long
long ago, I'm obsessed with this ring, but I'm also
obsessed with the story behind it. So the engagement ring
is resembling the logo, so you might have seen it.
It's like a t in An S in this very
vintage kind of art Daco inspired border. So this ring
(05:37):
is supposed to have been inspired by that iconic lettering
which is linked to her buying back her masters, so
all of her albums that she didn't own for so long.
But also, fascinatingly, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars is
what it's come out that this ring is valued. And
also it is an eight carrot vintage diamond, which is
just imagine walking other house with a ring on that
(05:58):
is literally worth the same amount as most people's houses.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I know you wouldn't want to wear it, would you. No, Like,
then what's the point.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
But maybe it's a fake. No, I don't think it is.
I don't think it is. I don't know. I just
think like, I know, you've got a lot of money,
but that just feels obscene.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No, it's relative, right, Like with how much money she's got,
it's the same amount as an average engagement ring.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So you've got to think of it like that. Is
it an obscene amount of money? Absolutely? But to them
it's like, I don't know, I'm happy for their engagement.
Also looks like a wedding, so they've already gone off.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, well, oh my god, the wedding. I haven't even
thought that far ahead.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Laura producer Grace and I this morning came to a
realization about me, who I am at my core and
what stage of life.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I ma'am, did she charge you for the therapy session
that have performed on you this morning? No, you know
you can go and get professional help for that. Nah.
I don't want to pay for it. I just want
Grace to give it to me for free. No, it
was before you got to work this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
But what happens we're just talking about, Like, so you
guys know that are listening, Like the way it works
is radio and things like that. They are off the
cuff obviously, and but they are planned as well.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Like we meet up and we talk about what the
content is, what's happening in the world. Taylor Swift got engaged.
What are we going to do with that? Like, that's
the way radio works. We are so organized what BRIT's
trying to allude to, But that's mostly a life, yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So we'd like planned out, you know, what's happening in
your life, the baby's coming and all of this kind
of stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And we'd planned that. Taylor Swift got engaged. We didn't
plan that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And then Grace is like, so, what's going on in
your life? Fritt and I was like, well nothing. She's
like what do you mean, She's like, what did you
do on the weekend?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And I was like.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Nothing really like nothing to nothing to write home about,
like nothing worth talking about.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And I was like, you know what that, actually, I
think is what I want to talk about. I would
say I am a bit of in the minority.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I'm thirty eight years old, and yes I'm married, but
my husband lives in another country, Ben lives overseas, so
like I live a singlish life in terms of being
on my own, is.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
That without the dating? Yeah, just in terms of like
I live alone. I don't get to do the normal
things you do with a partner, so like that's gone.
And then I don't have kids.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And it's really unusual in this age of life at
thirty eight to be single and no kids in a
friend group.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And now I'm saying it's not unusual to.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Be single at thirty eight or not have kids at
thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It's not that.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But in my friend group and in my life, I
am the minority, like there's not a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well, I think also because yours is a specifically like
a very specifically this get your specifically checked out. It's
a really specific situation because you're not single. So if
you were single, you would seek out single friends and
go and do single things with them. But because you're
in a relationship but your partner's not here, then you're
kind of like, well, where do I fit in this
(08:45):
friendship dynamic?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, Ben said he's unhappy if I fill my time
with dating.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So that was off to the cards, but it's true.
And then it just got me thinking.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You go through seasons of friendships and friendships I guess
evolved depending on where you're at. And when I say
that is like you don't not become friends with your
friends when they have kids, but it changes because they
need to do kid based things, like you had to
go to a book week this morning, like a you know,
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I want to get to a brunch. So you are
always welcome to the farmer's market to watch my kids
stuff their faces with peanut butter doughnuts like you are, Well,
every Saturday, we're there. We don't do anything different.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Just get you thinking about these seasons of life that
people go through in their relationships and their friendships.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And now you know you're open here friends say.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Oh, they disappeared when they got into a relationship, or
like I don't see them anymore since they've had kids.
And I guess it's just a part of it that
I've never really overly thought about until now where I've
been thrown in it. And maybe you don't think about
it as much when you're a bit younger, because there's
always something I don't want to say, something to do,
but like life.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Just looks different.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And then when you're at thirty eight, like I did
a bit of a ring around to my friends and
my only other friend that doesn't have kids in this
single Brokern call.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So she's like, my ankle's in a cast and I
can't leave my house. And I was like, that's cool.
I'll just bring you some food over. So I dropped
to some stuff off. But it's just an.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Unusual thing about like those seasons of life.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
But you know, I think it's relatable from I think
a lot of people who have kids. You know, they
always say that sometimes friendships are challenged at different phases,
like when you kind of enter into having kids or
verse you know your friends who don't have them. It
depends some people are able to navigate it. Really well
and have incredible friendships regardless of the stages that they're in.
But often I hear it from the flip side, where
(10:28):
it's like mums who have kids and then their friends
just don't show up anymore and don't really invite them
to anything because they're like, oh, they won't want to come.
They've made the assumption. And so I think that a
lot of people in that kind of age demographic are
dealing with, I guess, the evolution of what friendship looks like.
And so, you know, I know that you can be
friends with people at very different stages of life, but
(10:48):
what often ends up happening is you gravitate to the
people who are sharing in a similar life phase because
it's you know, they're the ones that want to come
and hang out the park on the weekend instead of
going out for brunch. You know, I can imagine that
it is even trickier when you are on your own
and your partner is in another country.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, so Ben doesn't know it, but we will be
in in an open relationship.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
No, I'm joking. Pretty's just fired raya backup joking. We're
gonna be talking about that next No, But speaking of
husband's your husband is here. He was saying he's done
something on the week. Actually technically he's not here. No,
he did it last night, so he's actually just gone
to the snow. He's left me. Where'd you'd have a
baby in four weeks? Last night as well, I started
to have some real weird feelings, and I was like,
(11:31):
oh my goodness, imagine if I went into early labor
the three nights he's decided to go to the snow snowboarding.
But anyway, he called me, and I'm free because I've
got no friend so I can come to the last
fal with you. I can be a birthing partner. You
have been saying you want to give me a stretch
and sweet, which is really pushing the friendship battery. That
needs context.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Look, yeah, he has had a series of very unfortunate
events happened to him in the last twenty four hours.
But let me tell you, I think that he is
entirely to blame for them. I'm going to tell you
about it next. My husband, Matt, he has gone away
for a few days to go to the snow. It
must be bloody.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
No, is he on like a solo baby moon?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah? Because I don't know if you realize it's not
how at work he's commiserating the fact that there's another
child coming. No, he's poor mum. So we live with
his mum, my mother in law. She lives with you. Yeah,
I made it sound like we've all just moved home
back with his mum.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Ellie moved in with us a couple of years ago now,
but she literally yesterday just came out of shoulder surgery,
so she's totally out of action. Well that was nice
Matt was here to welcome up. He's having a really
hard time, and so I'm home with her and with
the kids, and I'm also a couple of weeks of
having a baby. And Matt was like, please, can I
go to the snow? And I was like, you know what,
just yes, don't ask me again or I'll change my mind.
(12:49):
You like, just shut up and go. But the thing
is Matt always like, he always gives me a hard
time for being bad at organization. And I'm not particularly
good at it, I admit it. It's not my forte.
And he does do a lot of the admin for
the household, except he often makes mistakes because he's not
very thorough with it, so sometimes you have to double handle. Now, this,
(13:09):
I feel like, is the perfect example of Matt being Matt,
and I hate that he's not here to defend himself.
But no, that's a choice. So he leaves. He leaves.
He leaves yesterday peak meltdown period, like it's dinner time,
like it's all happening. He's out the door. Actually, to
be fair, he did cook the kids, did I stall
give him that? But he leaves and he drives and
they had like a mid stop over on the way
(13:30):
to the snow in Canberra, right, and he calls me.
It's nine o'clock a night, he's gotten to Canberra and
he's like, oh babe, you're never going to guess what happened.
And I was like, what has happened? And I thought
maybe'd had an accent or something and he was like nah.
He's like, so I showed up at a QT with
his friend who's traveling with. He's like, Hi, I've got
a booking for Matthew Johnson and they were like, no,
(13:50):
you don't. And he's like, yeah, dude, here's the reservation.
And the hotel manager looked at it and she goes, actually,
you've booked that for January twenty twenty six, twenty twenty,
and he was like, okay, no problems, wait forgets.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
We booked different next year, in a different month in January.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
How does it happen? I don't know. It's not even
like it's the same day, all the same completely wrong year,
completely wrong month, right date. So he was like, cool,
can we just get a room then and I'll try
and refund that one. She was like no, totally booked up.
So tried a couple of different hotels, ended up at
what he described as a roadhouse hotel, just like an
easy cheat one on the on the highway, on the
(14:26):
way to the snow So they book in, they only
get they could only get a queen bed. So they're
sharing a bed. His best friend in him. Anyway, he
wakes up this morning and he calls me and he goes, ah, babe,
it's been a rough one. You're never gonna guess what happened.
And I was like, oh, what's happened now? He goes,
didn't bring any snowboarding stuff? No, he goes, I've got
pink lie.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
He got pink one? Was his was his bed mate?
Did his bed mate poo in his face.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I don't know, but he's got pink eye from staying
at the roadhouse hotel. Sorry, he's not blaming on the roadhouse.
You don't get a pink guy from a roadhouse sleeping
in the same bed as his best mate. So now
the poor thing he sent me a photo is at
the snow he's got full pink eye. Can't open one eye.
He's trying a snowboard down here. That with a patch
on one eye. That's so funny. I did the same thing.
(15:13):
I got pink guy. I don't know if you remember. No,
I didn't get pink guy. I've never had pink guy.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
My ex we were going away on our first trip
together and I was like, really wanting to impress him
and make it romantic and lovely, and I organized us yeah,
and I booked it all and I booked this really
beautiful place and we drove three hours to get there,
and we arrived and they were like, who are you. Basically,
it was like it was like an Airbnb and there
was someone right in there. I was like, sorry, why
are you in our house? They're like, who are you? Anyway,
(15:40):
I just booked the wrong exactly the same thing, and
we got stuck in a roadhouse too.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I was like, what a disaster and I want to
we broke up. Well, thank god no one got Pink
Guy on that occasion. Anyway, I'm just waiting. It's one
of those moments where it's like one little disaster after
another little disaster. They really ad up, don't they. Yeah,
all right, look guys, that is it from us today.
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