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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Laura, come on, oh one day, we are back again.
What's so funny, Laura, Oh okay, we were just talking
about this, but I really want to get to the
bottom of it. He's Lady Gaga engaged again for the
fifth time.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh, that's what everyone's saying, because she mouthed it at
the Games over in Europe. She said she was introducing to.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
But did she even because if you actually listen to
the audio, there's like a whistle blowing at the same time.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
It could be anything. But people have absolutely taken to.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
This, and apparently she did, because she has gone out
to say that she's she's engaged a lot because she's
such a nice person.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
That was soone asked her.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
She can't say no, so she's like, look, people ask
me and I can't say no, So this is why
I've been engaged.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'm an idiot. I don't think that's a nice person.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
She was engaged five times, nothing wrong with that, But
imagine only being engaged that many times, not because you're
in love, but because you have like an avoidant conflict
personality and you can't say no.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Just the backhanded compliment to the fiance that's in the
stands watching on.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Like, oh, I love you too. Maybe she's prepping him
for him to not be the fiance.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think that's probably not the option. I don't Well, Britt,
you're engaged. Do you say my fiance when you're referring
to your boyfriend, bend partner, band fiance be.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Thank you for bringing that up, which I am in
fact engaged, and I do.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Refer to him as fiance.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
I have waited thirty six years to throw that term around.
There is no way I'm going to continue to use
partner when it is fiance.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
There's nothing against it.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I still call my husband my boyfriend just for satirical reasons,
but yeah, Matt is my boyfriend and will be into
where Ninny.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I call my boyfriend my partner just so I feel
superior to everyone around me.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, I use partner when it was boyfriend. I don't
like boyfriend. I always said partner, But when you escalate,
for sure, one hundred percent it goes to fiance.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Also, I've just googled it. She's had three fiancees, not five,
So sorry to the Gaga fans. Defamation or is like
she says yes to anyone that asks.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, four hundred times. She's been engaged.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
All right, let's start the pick up for your Monday
next pick Up put Down. It's how we start the
show every week, the big news stories from the weekend
YouTube Britain Laura are deciding whether or not a conversation
continues into the week or it's snuffed out, never to
be spoken of again. Overnight we had an Australian at
the games over in Europe, sent home, canceled, left, told
to leave. It's actually very big news. We're gonna unpack

(02:25):
it after this on the pickup. Welcome, it is Monday afternoon.
We need to do this pick up. I'm going to
give you, Britain Laura, a topic that the country have
been discussing all week. It is your choice whether or
not we continue talking about it or we we never
talk about it again. Either we pick it up or
we put it down.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
We do it every week twice a week now. It's
been such a fan favorite. Yeah, what have you got
this week? All right?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Pick up put down? Celindion performing over the weekend in Europe.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Pick it up of your have to.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
But also I want to admit I didn't watch the
opening game, so I don't feel like I have enough
skin in the game to comment on how amazing it is.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
But I'm glad she's made a comeback.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
I don't think you need to have watched it to
just know how amazing Celindion is.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Full stop.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
You know.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
I was watching like this highlight reel that someone.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Had put together of her over the years from when
she first started performing, and by the end of it,
this is like a ninety second reel. I was in tears,
like her originally saying I just want to perform to
like a full room of people like this is when
she started off. And then I was like, if only
you knew what you were going to be. And then
when she got sick, she started to cry and she
was like I will perform again, like this isn't the
end for me. And I was like, oh, sign feel

(03:33):
deliver and take my money.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
You got me?

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, I think it's cute. I will say the accent
is deeply confusing. I'm like, oh, this is French. Then
I google it she's a Canadian.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
I'm like, what, she has a very unusual accent.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, I mean for anyone who doesn't know when we
say she's sick, she's got stiff person.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Is it stiff? Person syndrome or disease.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
But it's it's taken her out of performing for a
very long time. Now that she came out and she
got paid two million dollars to do it.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
So okay, she's from Quebec, she's French Canadian, so there's
that French input.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
She really lent into the friend.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Hey, pick up, put down, britt Laura, possible signs of
life being discovered on Mars.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
How do you put that down? Pick it up? Sure?
Would you believe it?

Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Okay, I guess that's the question.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well the big question is And now I'm gonna sit
here in the corner and put my tin full of
hat ocs. It makes me sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist.
I just don't believe that we are the only planet
that has life, Like there has to be another planet
out there that maybe it's a tiny little microorganism of
the bacteria or something, but there has to be.

Speaker 6 (04:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
The rover which is on Mars found a rock that
they believe is sign of life on Mars.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Have listened and NASA's perseverance rover may have made an
extraordinary discovery signs of ancient life on Mars. The six
wheeled robotic explorer has found a rock that may harbor
fossilized microbes that lived on the red planet billions of
years ago. Samples will be sent back to Earth so
scientists can have a really good look.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
I mean there's a lot of Maybes in there, wasn't
it may have found a rock that may have signs
of maybe mi bio that we might be able to test.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Wally Darli was loving that the background was.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
The Project Loved Space.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
They afford the sound effects, so it's just Wally Arli,
Project Love Space.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
They talk about space all the time. Have you not
noticed this? For every single week there is there is
something about space. They love space. Interesting. I think it
might be a road McManus, he really enjoyed the moon.

Speaker 6 (05:22):
All right.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Finally, pick up put down the commentator that was sacked
over sexist comments about the Australian relay team.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Pick it up, picking up of the fact that we
put him down.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Bob Ballard.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, so, Bob Ballard he off the back of the
one hundred meter relay, the four by one hundred meter relay.
He made such a crazy comment the women were taking
a little bit longer to get from the pool to
the podiums to accept their award after winning gold medal,
and he made the comment that maybe they were just
doing their makeup, you know, women doing their mate.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
No, it wasn't even that, Laura. They weren't making their
way to the podium. They were on the podium with
their gold medals. They were having their moment, and he
was telling them that the moment was too long. He
was like, get off the podium, basically by saying, oh,
you know, women just doing their makeup. No, Actually, they're
basking their glory of the fact that they are the
untouchables and the best swim team in the world.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah. It's outrageous, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
But you know what I think is really quite amazing
is that we live in a day and age now
where that like that would have just kind of slipped
under the radar back in the day, but now because
of social media and the holding to account, it means
that he's been let go from being a commentator at
the Games.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's very Parisian, isn't it to be? Like get away goodbye?

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, because also it's supposed to be the most equal
games that have ever happened, so there's as many female
athletes as there are male athletes, so I think there
has to be a no tolerance for this sort of
misogynistic commentary.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, no, I agree, I love it.

Speaker 7 (06:37):
Goodbye Bob Well in other years, guys, it is International
Lipstick Day, so we have the Look Good, Feel Better
and Yeah, Ruchy Paige, she's coming in after the break
to chat all things lipstick.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
As we broadcast, Ladies. It's a very special Monday, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Is that why you've won your lipstick today, Mitch, she
is doing celebration of my back pocket.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
No, today is a very special day.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
It's International Lipstick Day, and to celebrate, Revlon is teaming
up with Chemist Warehouse and a Delta Goodroom Foundation to
raise funds for Look Good, Feel Better, a charity that
helps women face cancer with confidence. We are going to
be speaking to a very special woman named Ruschie Paige.
She is a Look Good, Feel Better ambassador and a
Revlon Bold Beauty partner.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
I mean, this is such an important campaign and it
is running from today until the seventh of August, so
two dollars from every super lustrous lipstick purchase goes towards
Look Good, Feel Better.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
It is Rushie Paige, Hey, Rushie.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Hello, thank you so much for having me Hi, Rushie.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Now, all the funds that are coming through for this,
it's for the Look Good, Feel Better Program. Can you
tell us a little bit around why this is so important?

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (07:43):
So, the Look Good, Feel Better Program is a free
service for people undergoing cancer treatment, and it is such
a transformational organization because he's really changing people's lives.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
You know.

Speaker 8 (07:54):
The program does facilitate workshops that basically help you reach
connect with your confidence, and for people who are going
through such a dark and really quite a challenging, vulnerable time,
this is really quite significant for them to just be
in a space where you're understood, where you don't have
to explain yourself. Then just really sit there and just

(08:15):
play with make up and learn about beauty and rebuild
your confidence.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Chie Well, what is Revlon doing? Because I hear they're
donating two dollars and if you purchase a special lipstick, certain.

Speaker 8 (08:24):
Lipstick, that's right, So two dollars from the super Lustrous
lipstick from Kennis Warehouse. Are we going to contribute to
the Look Good, Feel Better Program so that it remains
free and also to basically give those confidence kits to
the people undergoing cancer treatments.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
So cool and Ritchie, why is this so important to you?

Speaker 4 (08:43):
Has cancer like affected you directly or your family?

Speaker 6 (08:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (08:47):
So unfortunately, And I feel like a lot of people
unfortunately have experienced this as well. But cancers affected my
family and it's also affected my fiancee family directly. And
it's you know, I learned about my fiancee's mother who
her journey alone with confidence. It's it's something that really

(09:07):
transformed my mindset and how you approach beauty and how
you understand confidence in itself. That's why this is so
important to me. It's about reconnecting with it and feeling
like yourself again.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
Okay, Richie, you're very into makeup and beauty and fashion.
Can you tell us what is going to be the
color of the season. Are we going to be going
bold red? So we're going to be going nudes?

Speaker 7 (09:26):
Well, you know what I feel like?

Speaker 8 (09:28):
Fashion, beauty, everything like that. It's all about how you
best represent yourself and how you choose to present yourself
in your most authentic way. Me personally, I love a
bold bred lip. You can never never get me away
from that.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
And I write that one down so bold readily tomorrow's
bold I was a subtle readily.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yours was a subtle Nordemich, wasn't it today?

Speaker 2 (09:51):
But I text you early today?

Speaker 1 (09:53):
But also I think they sent so sous one thing
that I think so many people take for granted because
when people are going through cancer treatment, obviously it is
so harrowing as it is just going through that treatment.
But I think it's very rare that people talk about
the physical effects that it has on people's confidence, and
especially for women, like so many women tie their identity
to losing their head.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Probably affects more women than what it would do men.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
And I'm just saying that subjectively, but I think this
is such a beautiful initiative because so many people would
have their confidence rocked by cancer.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
There are also those little things, and Rishie, you can
probably speak to this that you wouldn't even think of.
You think of a cancer diagnosis, You think of a
the big C getting the diagnosis, calling your family getting
the treatment. Then maybe the hair loss you think of.
But the little things like learning how to reapply makeup
when you might look physically different than you did six
months ago.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
And how it changes your skin.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
It changes so much yeah, it really doing amazing stuff.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Rushie Page joining us here. It is International Lipstick Day.
Head into chemist warehouse by one of those Revlon what
is it super lustrous lipsticks?

Speaker 8 (10:50):
Yeah, that's right here.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
There we go go by one two dollars we paid
for by Revlin's. Such good stuff. Thank you so much, Rushie, Paige,
so good to have you.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Thanks Rushie, thank you so much.

Speaker 8 (10:59):
Thanks guys.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
I had one of the best weekends I have had
in a long time. And I hope my fiance Ben
doesn't hear that, because I was like, you just get engaged.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Y got engaged.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
But outside of that, like that's a life highlight.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
But I used to live over in London and I
used to live with a good friend of mine there
for a couple of years and we've been friends for
probably twenty years. And on Thursday, I get a call
Thursday afternoon, so she still lives in London, she's been
there for like fifteen years now. But I get a
call from her at probably three o'clock on Thursday afternoon

(11:34):
and just a message.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
She's like, hey, what are you doing tonight? I said
not much. She goes your home and I said, yeah,
I am. I was like, what are you doing? You
want to call?

Speaker 4 (11:41):
And she said, oh, I'm on my way and I
was like, what what do you mean you're on your way?
And she's like, I got a last minute flight from London.
I'll be there in a few hours. And I was like,
what the hell?

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Anyway?

Speaker 4 (11:53):
I was like, oh, you want you coming to my house?
And she's like, well I can, and she's like I
want to.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
I was like, you're right. So four hours later she's
at my house and she's been here for five days.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
So I just had this like really last minute, no notice,
didn't know what was coming visit, and she's been It's
been like the best five days that I've had in
you go.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
You are happy.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
I'm loving it. But also it feels very punchy.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
You could have had anything on in those five days,
Like I don't think that there's been five days recently
where someone could say, Hey, I'm just gonna come and
stay at your house and hang out with you every second,
clear your calendar.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
It doesn't exist.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
I also think this is menic behavior, This is insane.
I was so mad if a friend said to me,
I'm coming over tonight. I haven't seen you in years
and I'm staying there. I'm staying.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
I hate that this is so normal to me.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
And in her defense, she didn't message and say I'm
coming in twenty minutes and I'm staying. She was like,
I decided to come last minute, so I'll just go
to a hotel, but it'd be great to catch up with you.
And of course I was like, there is no way
you're getting a hotel like you were staying at my house.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
But also even if I opened the front door and she.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Was standing there without any notice, I would steal froth
it and let her stay my house.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Like there's no part of me that thinks that that
is that is weird.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Okay, I think I'm past the point in my life
where I enjoy having visitors just drop around like I've
got two little kids, Like it has never clean, it
is never organized, and so then if someone just pops around,
I feel the immense pressure that I have to run
around the house and make it look like no one
lives there.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
I don't know, I don't want it. Don't come over
unless you ask, if you tell me that you're coming over.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
The same and my doorbell goes off unless I know
it's ubera it's the anxiety that fills my body. Who
is that I didn't know? I did invite anyone over.
I need to plan. I need at least seven business
days to plan.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
No, I don't need that much time, but I just
want like an hour's note. Unless it is your absolute
best friend. I think everyone has some people that are
within their inner circle that they can rock up at
their house and it doesn't matter if it's a mess.
But apart from that person, like, I need the notice.

Speaker 6 (13:46):
What did you do?

Speaker 3 (13:46):
I love surprises. I just love surprises. No, we didn't know.
That is not we walk down memory lane. But you know,
I was thinking of a time that I went.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
To surprise a guy that I was like, very loosely seen,
and I thought it was going in a different place
than it was going. He was living in New York.
This was when I was in London, and he was
giving me all the signals that it was a go ahead.
So I remember being like, because I'm such a romantic,
I remember being like, I'm going to surprise him. So
I flew to New York to surprise him, organized with
his best friend, and he literally literally we hung out

(14:17):
for a few days, probably because he felt like he
had to. Then he goes, this is not for me.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, you're inside. That is not normal behavior.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
And he made me think that he said that he
loved me. I would not have gone if I didn't
think that.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
I was very very welcome. We hate him, he'd sent
me like news. Okay, I knew my hat.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
An hour right. I think I think this would backfire
more often than it would succeed in BRIT's case. Give
us a call here at the pickup. When did this backfire?
And did it backfire because I or was it a success?
Because I just don't believe that happens.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
No, just if you're going to come around to my house,
at least give me twenty four hours notice so I
can put the kids in a cupboard and clean up.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
And bring dinner, Yes, bring a dish.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Then I'll open the door. All right, we'll take your
Call's next on the pickup? Where did the surprise backfire?
We're taking your calls here on the show because Britt
had a friend show up out of nowhere and Laura
and I think it's so weakd she got.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Out of nowhere, she turned up from London on.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's not I think sun Dye it's nice. How like
accommodating and welcoming you are. I just know that my
house and my life is in such a constant state
of disarray that I can't handle unannounced visitors totally also
too much.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
I had a friend message me this weekend who messaged
me on Friday saying, hey, you want to get coffee Sunday?
I needed at least Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
That's a bit mark. Guys, I live alone. I'll take
what I can get.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Hey, Sarah's giving us a call. Hey Sarah, when did
when did seeing your friend backfire?

Speaker 1 (15:39):
So?

Speaker 6 (15:39):
I was surprising my friend with a baby shower, but
I accidentally invited someone from her work and I didn't
know they hated each other. But she still showed up.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Why did she show up? It's so ballsy? And did
she bring a present?

Speaker 6 (15:59):
She actually did those that was nice. There was a
basket with like, yeah, doubles and things in it. But yeah,
she came anyway.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Isn't it one of those situations where maybe the person
from work doesn't realize that she's hated, so she came
thinking they were friends, and your friend's like, no, actually
I don't like that girl.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
It was news to her.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Was it public goss in the office that these girls
hated each other or was it kind of like you know.

Speaker 6 (16:22):
No, they were almost like rivals. So they both work
in sales, so that's like a maybe like a friendly rival.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
I don't want that commission. That's tough, all right, Bella, Hey,
when did this happen to you? Did did the surprise backfire? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (16:38):
So I would try to surprise my parents because you know,
I hadn't died.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
And see them very.

Speaker 6 (16:43):
Often, and I used my spare key to get in
the house and they thought I was a rubbert, so
they called the police.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Oh my god, very dramatic.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
I mean, was it like four am in the morning
and were you making racket?

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Like why would you just call the police?

Speaker 6 (16:58):
No, it was like in the middle of the day.
But they are so paranoid, so they just picked up
the phone and I had to run in and grab it.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Hello, that's so funny, you know, It's just hit me.
I had a surprise party thrown for me at sixteen,
and it backfired in my face. I looked like the
idiot because sixteen is when you get your driver's license,
so I'd got my l's that week this is like
a Friday, and my mom was like, let's go for
a driving little test, you know, or a driving day out.

(17:26):
You've got your ls go for a drive. So I'm like,
that's nice. So I get in the car with my
mom terrible driver, like I am stressed. I hit the
curb like I get pissed off. What I didn't realize
was that, well mom took me out on the drive.
All my friends and family were flooding the house to
surprise me when I came back. But I pulled in
the driveway after the driving lesson, and you know, I'm
very moody, and I was pissed off at my mum

(17:46):
that she made me drive.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
You were stoppy, Oh, I was stoppy.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
So I slammed the door. Bitch. Wait wait. She wanted
to open the door and go surprise and she's like, no,
you wait, You've ruined my day. Mom. Yeah, I opened
the door walking, and I'm like, thanks a lot, Mom.
Everyone goes surprise.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
It's embarrassing. That's embarrassing.

Speaker 4 (18:01):
You know.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
I just remembered too. This is going viral at the moment.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
But there was like a girl that was heavily pregnant
and her step mom wanted to throw her a gender
reveal party, and she had said fifty times.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
I don't want I'm not doing a gender reveal. I
don't like them, I don't want to do it.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
So like she knew the answer, right, She knew what
she was having already, but she didn't want to announce it.
So she gets home one day and the stepmom had
thrown her a surprise one anyway, like this huge thing.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
So she walks in, looks at it, crack the shit.
She goes, it's a boy. You can all go home,
and then walked out.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
I feel like the moral of this is that some
people love surprises, and a lot of people I think
that's probably the takeaway from this whole situation.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Send a text message is why we've got mobile phones.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, check her heads up? Hey, he heads up? No surprises.
Well and what are your up next?

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, we're going home. That shouldn't come as a surprise.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
But we're back tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
If you missed the show, you could podcast it on
the iHeartRadio app. Just search to pick up.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, I'm out of here, see yeah, see ga