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April 23, 2025 • 14 mins

Britt is obsessed with the sausage dog that is loose on Kangaroo Island (why haven't they caught it yet???), Piers Morgan has been voted the UK's Sexiest Man (???) and Britt sympathy vomited on a plane last week. 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Are you ready?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good pickup with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn Brady or
what our windows down? That's my worries in the dust.
Only good sabz al. I've done much now, but yeah
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'll big get and what I want It don't matter
where rag.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
This is the pickup, Hi, guys, it's the pick up
with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
And happy hump day. How have you been surviving?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Lawd?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
You've got the kiddies home for holidays.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
I was so excited about school holidays.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's our first ever school holidays because Marley's just in
kindergarten and we have spent a week and a half
together as a happy family. But I think that Wednesday,
on the final week of school holidays is the time
when you start to get like, I love the time
with my children, but also you.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Don't have to preface it. No, I do, though I
love it.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
But then there's also days where you're like, God, school
holidays feel so long?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
When can I send them back to so?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Because it's mark first year at school and this is
her first holiday, is she frothing the holiday or is
she missing school?

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Nah, she's been having the most amazing time.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Also because we've been away quite a bit at these holidays,
but she's spent so much time with her friends from
school because they've also like we were all down the
coast and they were all down there as well.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
So I feel like she just thinks that this is
the new normal. She doesn't ever want to go back
to school.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
All her friends from school have gone down the coast.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
All of them but a couple of them.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
We do right kind of plan so that way, at least,
like when you're parenting solo, you're parenting alongside other people.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
She's having a great time. Put it that.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Way, but you're ready for her to go back to school.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, when she's out of school, our youngest is also
out of day care.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
So it's all happening with no support.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
And as much as I love my children, there are
also some days where I love that I can drop
them at daycare and I can go and have time
to myself. Anyway, it's like we're at work now currently
and this is like my little escape from parenting. So
my coming in and doing the radio show while Matt
has the kids at home, there's like peace to this.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Okay, bear with me, Laura, because I know that you
get a little bit iffy when I bring an animal story.
But I have become obsessed with this story about the dog,
Valerie the little dash Hoounse. So I don't know if
you've heard about it, but back in twenty twenty three,
Valerie the Dashound went on holiday with her owners to
Kangaroo Island and they had this like beautiful little getaway.

(02:23):
And somehow while Valerie was there, she escaped. She got away,
and she like took off into the wilderness. Now the
reason this story is crazy, so bear with me. This
is twenty twenty three. Her parents went looking.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
For her fast dated to twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well, yeah, her parents went looking for her for days, right,
Like imagine your dog. I just try and picture me,
Like if Delilah, my dog got lost, I'd be beside myself.
Right Because Kegaroo Island, I don't know if you've been.
I have been. It is huge and there's not a
lot there, like there's a lot of wilderness there. So
they couldn't find her. Their holiday came to an end
and they had to make the decision of like, well

(03:01):
I have to go back to work, so they left
Valerie the dashhound lost on Keangaro Island and came back
to the mainland and just had to sort of like
get on with their life. They went back and tried
to find her. They had some locals trying to find her,
and eventually they had to think like, Okay, she's probably
not going to survive out there, Like this is this
little rogue sausage dog, what chance does she have? Well,

(03:23):
there has been multiple sightings, like CCTV footage five hundred
days later, and Valerie is having the time of her life.
She's still wild. She is wild living on Kenggaro Island.
They've got this footage over in the nighttime, like on
a nightcam where she's like running through the fields and
the meadows but no one can catch her.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Firstly, I know all about this story because you've been
talking about it four weeks so I lied that you
set that up.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
So I don't know whether you've heard about it or not.
Oh we've heard.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Secondly, the last time you brought an animal story when
it's not about your own dog, it was about the
pregnant sting ray, the phantom pregnant sting ray that ended
up having met a tragic end.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Unfortunately, what was that StingRay's name?

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Oh, I don't remind me. It was Charlotte.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Charlotte, Charlotte the Stingray.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
If you guys have forgotten Charlotte the Stingray was like
the immaculate conception. They thought that she'd gotten pregnant by
a shark, and Britt would not let up on the
story for ninety percent of last year. And now Valerie
has taken over. I hope Valerie doesn't meet the same end.
I have lots of questions. Firstly, how does a sausage
dog survive? I don't feel like sausage dogs are the

(04:28):
type of dog that just has natural survival instincts. I
would say that, if anything, they are a dog that
I would I would have put down as probably been amazed,
very cute, very cute, slightly useless, but extremely cute. And secondly,
who names a sausage dog Valerie? That's a really big
question I have.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Okay, the name is not important here. We're not gonna
hold that over Valerie. But I can answer your question,
how has she survived well? Because she's so little, she
needs such small amounts of water and food. So she
can get her water from rain water or from rivers
or from puddles or whatever, and the food they reckon.
She might have been surviving off different roadkill, Like she
only eats a little bit. But they've set up these

(05:07):
traps once they realized she was alive. They have been
leaving food out for her, and so she she does
come in. They have footage of her. She comes in
and she eats the food, but they can't get her
because she's so skittish and scared, because she's like a
wild wolf now. But when they come in to try
and capture her, she takes off again.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
She's a sausage dog. She's never gonna be a white wolf.
She wants to live that life. That's never gonna be
her Valerie. I just I don't understand. If they know
where the dog is, they know the dog's coming to
the cage to get the food, why is someone not
just there to pick it up, Like, surely there needs
to be a better system.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
If they can catch a kangaroo, you can catch a
sausage dog.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Look, I can't quite figure out how they haven't captured
it yet. I'm like, I'm watching footage of her eating
at the trap, So I don't understand why no one
has just picked her up. If any hey, I'm not questioning.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
If anyone hasn't seen this footage. The dog doesn't want
to come home. She's having the time of a life.
Like I think we need to start a petitioning let
Valerie be her live on Cockatoo Island.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
She's free. It's kangaroo or wherever. What did I call it?
I don't care. I don't care.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
She's just happy. Let the dog live a happy life.
Maybe she would, maybe she ran away from her family
on purpose. I'll give you updates soon, thank god.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Next week. Now.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
The list that I know everyone has been waiting for
the number one UK's hottest male celebrity has finally been announced.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Last year, there was a bit of outrage.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
This year, there's just pure confusion because the hottest man
in all of UK, of all the celebrities that you
could possibly choose, Piers Morgan.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Has been announced as the hottest man.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
I don't think he's unattractive, don't get me wrong, But
if we're gonna go for aesthetically the number one hottest man,
this can't be real.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Like they are rage baiting us.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
They know that rage gets responses on Instagram and people
are gonna have something to say, and here we are
on the pickup talking about it.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
No, and this is nothing against Peers Morgan what I
am about to say, and it's nothing against the women
in the UK either. But what I will say is
there were two thousand UK women that voted on the
Sexiest Man. I have to assume that these are like
sixty plus women that are voting because last year was
Jeremy Clarkson, who looks exactly the same as Piers Morgan.

(07:20):
I think I think you know why, Like she was
Jeremy Clarkson. I don't know if you've seen it, Laura,
I'm pretty sure you loved it. But Jeremy Clarkson released
this show, Jeremy Clarkson's Farm, and so people fell in
love with him on the farm and all of a
sudden people are like, yes, that's so hot that you're
like pulling hay and birthing carbs and stuff. And I
think that's what won him over. And I'm wondering if

(07:41):
Piers Morgan. I think people might like the fact that
he's like PUSH's boundaries. He's very confident and I don't know,
I don't get it because it can't be based on looks,
this one's got to be personality.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
I don't even agree that.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
So it's that I just questioned, okay, because like, yes,
two thousand women voted, but I would dare say that
if two two thousand men in the UK voted and
they were like of an older demographic, they're not going
to choose a middle aged older woman.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Why are we settling?

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Okay, you could pick anyone. You can still pick someone hot,
young with abs. That's okay, Like you're allowed to do
that even if you're in your sixties or your nineties.
You can say, like, objectively, this is a really mean
thing to say, and please don't cancel me. But objectively,
Piers Morgan is not the hottest man in the UK.
He does have a good sense of humor about it, though.
He came out and he said this just proves that

(08:29):
British women are the smartest and most discerning in the world,
and the most likely to appreciate genuine magnetic sex appeal.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
I think he also was as confused as everyone else.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
I don't think that's humor. I think he was being serious.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Who if you were going to pick someone who the
majority might say is unconventionally attractive or might not think attractive,
but you're like, hey, actually I think we've overlooked looked this.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Who would you pick? Do you know what?

Speaker 3 (08:56):
I'm going to give you two people? First of all,
who I would have voted for, but he's actually not
UK Just who I think is the sexiest person.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
So they're conventionally attractive, is what you're telling me.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Conventionally is Henry Cavill, you know, like really chiseled, he
was Superman, Like, Yeah, he's just so conventionally beautiful, but
it's obvious and that jewel line. Oh. But I would
say if we're going a bit more like who we
think might be overlooked, I would put Killian Murphy in there.
You know, Killian Murphy from Peaky Blinders.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Nah, No, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
He's like he's a mob boss, but I think his
character makes him really hot, Like his character is sexy
because I think he's about five foot two, he's really
small beautiful.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
If we're going to vote for Peters Morgan, I'm gonna
I'm gonna throw out someone who I think is unconventionally attractive,
who I think we overlook and and him he out
he's gotten better with age so maybe by the time
he's sixty he will be UK's hottest man celebrity.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
I need it out.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Who is I think Ed Sheeran is good looking. I
think Ed Sheeron is hot. Okay, I said it. I
think he's Okay.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
You know, he's not not hot.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
He not hot.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
I think he started out not very attractive and he's
gotten hot and I'm here for it.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
I'm here for the blossoming of Ed Sheeran.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
I would put him one hundred percent above Piers Morgan,
like I would vote Ed Sheeran over Peters Morgan any.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Single day of the week.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
You know what I do think is funny. Ed Shearon
comes across as really wholesome, like a really sweet, wholesome guy,
and people have been like ripping him recently in all
his songs where he's like singing all these badass lyrics,
like he was like getting in trouble from the police.
Everyone's like, yeah, right, Ed Shearon, like as if like
he's making up the lyrics.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
I just love that he's like he's married to his
high school sweetheart.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
I just think he's I love him. I think he's
great anyway.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
I do look forward to two decades time when he's
the UK's hottest band because it's coming.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Okay, so I have to tell you I don't. I
was gonna say it's the funniest story. It's actually pretty gross.
A couple of weeks ago, when I flew over to Italy,
I was sitting next to this young boy. He's pushing eight,
like Max, and he was by himself. So he's parents
must have put him on the plane and was like
meet you there, like you know, have fun. And it

(11:04):
was a really long flight.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
I always think it's crazy when young kids do international
flights on their own. I know that sometimes it's unavoidable
and parents have to do it because maybe you've got
parents in different countries and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
But it's always amazing to me how trusting. I just
I could not imagine it being an eight year old
being on a plane by myself.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
He gave me an impression that he was completely fine.
He traveled a lot on his own, like he seemed
very weldly. He wasn't scared, he was fine, And I
think the flight attendants usually really good, like they know
they're on their own. Yeah. Anyway, so we're sitting down
and as we come into land, it was probably one
of the roughest landings I have ever had on a plane.

(11:44):
I felt like we were flying and then it dropped
and hit the ground like it was so hard that
I fly a lot. And I was shocked and taken
it back and I was like, whoa, did we just
fall out of the sky. Anyway, this kid must have
got the shock of his life because as soon as
we landed he projectile vomited. I am talking all down

(12:06):
the Oh no, it was so bad, all down the
back of the seat, all down, his chest, all down,
his pants piled on the floor. And I was like,
I am a sympathetic vombiter.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Or sorry to everybody in cars who's also sympathetic vomiting
at the moment to that story.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
But I'm also like, okay, I'm basically his mom. I'm
his plane mom. Like I've been next to it, yes,
I'm He's been next to him the whole plane. And
I was like, who's going to look after this kid?
And the poor thing? He looked at me petrified and
apologized and he goes, I'm so sorry, and I was
like stop, hey. I was like, you know what, this
is fine, this is this is okay, Like I'm going

(12:42):
to help you. Tried to help him like wipe it up,
and I'm a sympathetic vomited so no, yes, you know,
like the smell and stuff, and I was like, oh
my god. I was like, I'm trying to look after
this kid.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Did he vomit on you or was it.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
It was contained with him, but it's sprayed onto the
floor next to me, But it was this was everywhere.
This kid had gone to town on food on this flight,
like it was everywhere. Anyway, I helped him. I had
to give him some extra clothes, like I gave him
a T shirt and then I couldn't help it anymore.
I was like, I'm doing my best here, but I
couldn't keep it in. And then I just vomited everywhere
as well. To me and this kid are sitting next

(13:17):
to each other on the plane just coming vomit.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's possibly the car right now he's discussed.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Were you like, excuse me, Can I please have that
T shirt back? Because I've also just picked on my
So I was like, give it back.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Do you know what?

Speaker 1 (13:30):
It doesn't help when it is your own kid, because
the same thing still happens. I'm also sympathetic like if
even this story is making me feel physically sick, so
I'm gonna try and wrap it quickly. But when my
kids are sick, it makes me feel equally a sick,
like I can't clean it up and I can't be
around it with that also gagging at them, gagging.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
It's horrible.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
So it's a horrible, unnecessary reflex that we seem.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
To all have.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah, and then we got stuck on the tarmac for
like twelve minutes to make it worse, So it was well,
just sat there next to each.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Other, and it's nothing like finishing a twenty four hour
flight and being covered in vomit just at the end.
That's a real topic, isn't it. Alright, Hollo guys, that's
it from us today.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
See you, guys,
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