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#232 The Toy That Finally Broke Us · Two Doting Dads with Matty J & Ash

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  Speaker 1: Okay, power of nine? Really quick?
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  Speaker 2: Give me two digits. Me two numbers, five and seven,
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  Speaker 2: Five and seven, okay, is fifty seven?
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Now add those two together, you get five plus seven
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  Speaker 2: is twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Five plus seven is twelve. Yep, yeap.
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  Speaker 2: Now you reduce, you go fifty seven less twelve. What
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  Speaker 2: is that equal?
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  Speaker 1: Fifty seven less twelve?
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  Speaker 2: Forty five forty five? Now you put four and five together.
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  Speaker 1: What numbers that give you nine?
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  Speaker 2: Boom?
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  Speaker 1: The power of nine. You can do with any number.
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  Speaker 1: You are weirly good with numbers. What we like in maths.
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  Speaker 2: Terrible because that my teacher had really short shorts and
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  Speaker 2: I would nothing to do with him.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to two Dating, Dad, Die, Matty, J and
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  Speaker 1: I'm at And this is a podcast all about parenting.
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  Speaker 1: It is the good, it is the bad, and the
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  Speaker 1: power of nine. And we won't give advice. Now this
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  Speaker 1: is a Monday episode. Is our house keeping episode.
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  Speaker 3: Let's stick let's stick to that.
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  Speaker 1: In short, it can mean anything. It's the smallest board
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  Speaker 1: of discussions.
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  Speaker 2: Or as my grandmother calls it, a Schnorkus board. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know why, but she does.
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  Speaker 1: I was never good at maths. Numbers confuse me.
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  Speaker 2: You can do that with any number, any two numbers,
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  Speaker 2: and all the way up to who taught you this? TikTok,
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  Speaker 2: Give me another, Give me three numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Three three and three three three. Oh my god, it's nine.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Now if you reduce nine from three, three and three,
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  Speaker 2: what do you end up with?
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  Speaker 1: Zero?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: If you reduce nine from three hundred and thirty three.
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  Speaker 3: No, now I need to do it.
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  Speaker 2: You get twenty, You get three hundred and twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Now add three, two and four together.
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  Speaker 1: What do you get for Vick? Make them stop? You
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  Speaker 1: get Yeah, you get nine.
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  Speaker 3: All the listeners are out there going pool. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think they are okay whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're like, what is.
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  Speaker 4: This parenting content?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: This is housekeeping studio update, Matt. What do you got
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  Speaker 2: for me?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Look, we went all out. We blew the budget
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  Speaker 1: once again. I think I I was like, it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: cost a hundred bucks. And that's because I didn't realize
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  Speaker 1: when I was getting a neon sign quoted it was
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  Speaker 1: for ten centimeters, so I then got it sixty five centimeters.
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  Speaker 1: It's about five hundred bucks. It's a great investment.
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  Speaker 2: Hope that don't spell it wrong.
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  Speaker 1: This is the ROI on this neon light is phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be posted every day on every story.
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  Speaker 1: We did say there's the option that's good gear that
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  Speaker 1: is good gear, Option one, option two, the good, the bad,
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  Speaker 1: and the relatable.
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  Speaker 2: We weren't with a good bad and relatable, didn't me?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yes, I think it was a safe bad
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  Speaker 1: because people were like, is that even a question?
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  Speaker 2: You're idiot?
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  Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, I know. They really came out
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  Speaker 1: just like I was just like, hey, guys, here's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking. What do you reckon? They're all like, we
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  Speaker 1: need to fucking come there and run this business for you,
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  Speaker 1: because you guys are fucking stupid.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, that sounds pretty good. We'll hand it over, hand
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  Speaker 2: it over of course, help us, help us. We did
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  Speaker 2: need to get furniture, and we did source furniture, a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of it from Facebook Marketplace, and I just
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  Speaker 2: so happened to be living with the Facebook Marketplace. Bully
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  Speaker 2: Bully Shelves got some shelves, as you know. Yes, now
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  Speaker 2: I inquired about these shelves. Yes, they're still available. The
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  Speaker 2: lovely lady, her name was Margaret.
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  Speaker 1: She was very old. May I stop you right there,
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  Speaker 1: the floating shelves or a bookshelf, bookshelf, bookshelf, bookshelf, because
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  Speaker 1: you did say shelves, sorry, bookshelf.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I said, is it available? Yes, it's one hundred
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  Speaker 2: dollars for these shelves. I had a look at who
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  Speaker 2: was selling them. She's probably eighty names Margaret. Yep, that's
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  Speaker 2: how she sounded too classic. And April good on Margaret
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  Speaker 2: for knowing how to run a Facebook. Oh yeah, April
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  Speaker 2: didn't get of fuck about how old Margaret was.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, or for a fifty, I'm like, what was
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  Speaker 1: the asking price? One hundred? I'm like, poor Margaret, she's
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  Speaker 1: on a fixed income. She's a pension. She was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting a hundred bucks. No you're not.
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  Speaker 2: It was like fifty, staunching fifty.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm not, I'm not. Was the fifty
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  Speaker 1: based on like market valued appreciation? Or was she just
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  Speaker 1: like harve it, yeah, harve it.
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  Speaker 2: She goes, you're always going to go in half. I'm like, fuck, now,
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  Speaker 2: why do we get nothing the other things I really want?
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  Speaker 2: She's going in Harvard. I didn't know this until now,
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, no, I'm going to just
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  Speaker 2: offer what it's on there, just get the deal done.
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  Speaker 1: In her eighties, imagine that like poor thing going She's
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  Speaker 1: getting on and then.
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  Speaker 2: She's like, I would have lived longer if they had
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  Speaker 2: just given me the full hundred instead of just beating
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  Speaker 2: me down to fifty.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a couple of hot meals at the RSL,
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  Speaker 1: like a little game of Kino.
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  Speaker 2: To be fair, she didn't live Beachfront, but I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know this until I went to pick it up.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Avery was like, did you make a help you
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  Speaker 1: carry it? I'm like, she's eighty.
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  Speaker 2: She's like so, I'm like, jees, you're ruthless. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: we've got the shelves for how much bucks?
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't. It's annoying when that happens, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: you give it to you you're paying someone and you're
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  Speaker 1: like I want them to be a battler, like I
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  Speaker 1: want to be helping them out, and when they're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, pretty well to do. Like I had a
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  Speaker 1: piece of furniture that I tried to sell. Couldn't sell
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  Speaker 1: it on Facebook marketplace straight through? You didn't they? And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, do you know what we're moving out
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  Speaker 1: of the apartment, and I was like, I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: fucking give it away like it was given to us.
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  Speaker 1: So we were like, what.
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  Speaker 3: You were trying to profit of something that was given
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  Speaker 3: to you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, How am I setting traps
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  Speaker 1: for me?
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  Speaker 3: Godamn?
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, do you know what, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going to give it away.
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  Speaker 2: That's the worst thing you can do.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then within like second, someone was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be there when.
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  Speaker 2: The entitlement of people when you're giving something away. So
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  Speaker 2: they're like, say, are you giving something your way? And
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  Speaker 2: you get these messages it is still available, It is
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  Speaker 2: still available, It's still available, like yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And people, can you deliver it to me?
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  Speaker 1: Like what did? She rocked up in a Mercedes and
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  Speaker 1: I was like you you should be paying for this this,
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  Speaker 1: you fucker. Yeah, you don't deserve this. She was rich,
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  Speaker 1: I know, and it's like, says brand new.
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  Speaker 2: And we went and picked up these bunk beds from
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  Speaker 2: a ritzy suburb on the Northern Beaches pretty far north.
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  Speaker 2: I think you can pick up what I'm putting down anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Are you picking up pick Like Palm Beach have a lot.
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  Speaker 2: That sort of area. That sort of I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to in case they're listening, who we can lose one
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  Speaker 2: or two?
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  Speaker 4: They like to hear that I reckon.
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  Speaker 2: Really that I can hear that I get to their
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  Speaker 2: house to pick up these two hundred dollars set of
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  Speaker 2: bunk beds were well used. They might add turn up
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  Speaker 2: to their brand new house to fucking like half a
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  Speaker 2: million dollar cars in the fucking driveway, and you're like
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  Speaker 2: battling me for two hundred bucks. That's probably what they have.
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  Speaker 2: All this sort of that's it. Yeah, they're fucking waters.
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  Speaker 2: They're like fish, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Northern beaches people, and they got a micro climate up then.
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  Speaker 1: But also the green color. I've never seen such an
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  Speaker 1: outpouring of opinion do the wrong one since like the
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  Speaker 1: last election. Oh really maybe we should run for don't
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  Speaker 1: don't come on? Enough enough of that, But the colors did?
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  Speaker 1: I not say Pharaoh's gem.
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  Speaker 4: I think you'll find it's Pharaoh's gem.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I said, pharaohs gem.
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  Speaker 2: I said that that was slang for for testicles back
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  Speaker 2: in the old timing day.
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's gem, Pharaoh's of Egypt. Yeah, pharaoh, okay, pharaoh. You
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  Speaker 1: know when you want to correct me, Vic.
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  Speaker 2: You can do it off off, he's in he's in denial.
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  Speaker 1: A very good pharaoh's gems.
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh, Look how you say, oh, my crown jewels, my
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  Speaker 2: pharaoh's gems.
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  Speaker 1: I liked it. You liked it as well.
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  Speaker 2: I did like Farah's gem.
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  Speaker 1: That is it was option two for those playing at home.
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  Speaker 1: That is the color we have gone with. And it
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  Speaker 1: looks phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: It looks very The only problem I've got with the
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  Speaker 2: swatches is that it took how many coaches to cover?
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  Speaker 1: Those watches are twenty four? Fuck? Can now you can
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  Speaker 1: still see it?
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  Speaker 2: We have to put a picture over it, a Neon sign.
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  Speaker 1: If you will, I'll let it be known to everyone
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  Speaker 1: listening right now that I organized the moving of a
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  Speaker 1: light switch.
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  Speaker 2: You did do a very good job of that, said.
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  Speaker 1: The light switch.
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  Speaker 2: You did something.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you very well. Thank you. So this
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  Speaker 1: will be maybe one of the last records. Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're getting there. We're getting close, man. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if you recall we talked about cloth nappies a
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  Speaker 2: couple of.
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  Speaker 1: Weeks ago, and the fact that Beth, your sister, claimed
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  Speaker 1: she was gonna use cloth nappies. The baby came along
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, cloth nappies, where are they? No
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  Speaker 1: one knows se.
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  Speaker 2: No to be seen. But my parents did use cloth
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  Speaker 2: nappies on her, apparently, but when they got to me,
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  Speaker 2: they were like, fucking loam. That was back in the
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  Speaker 2: nineties that were progressive.
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  Speaker 1: I will say, I don't know who these people they
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  Speaker 1: are coming out with this, like stop trying to pretend
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  Speaker 1: like cloth nappies are good. They're not good.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like some people just really want to get
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  Speaker 2: knuckles deep and shit, like you got to clean it,
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  Speaker 2: Like I just.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have time.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine having a buckead full of shitty cloth nappies at
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  Speaker 2: the end of each day, after already having a shit day.
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  Speaker 1: Two things on the cloth nappies, yes, apparently apparently because
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  Speaker 1: we were like, what are you gonna do, like go
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  Speaker 1: to the toilet then like empty the poop into the
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  Speaker 1: toilet to then wash the nappy. And then people were like,
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  Speaker 1: we got to do that anyway with normal nappies.
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  Speaker 2: I tend to agree and disagree on this one because
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  Speaker 2: if it's already wet, quite wet and absorbed by the nappy,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not putting any extra effort in to get that out.
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  Speaker 1: Because obvious it's going to go to landfill.
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  Speaker 2: But if it's a mazy shit, which we've seen, which
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  Speaker 2: are pythons that pretty much like that the water bottle,
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  Speaker 2: it's begging to go on the toilet because I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to wrap that. It's like wrapping a present or
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  Speaker 2: a pass the parcel for someone else.
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  Speaker 1: Like when my baby's there on the change table, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have time to Yeah, I'm just I'm working efficiently.
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  Speaker 1: But Jemma has said just a little insight into cloth
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  Speaker 1: nappies in regards to the poos. If it's solid, it
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  Speaker 1: goes straight in the toilet. If it's just milk new
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  Speaker 1: bond poop, it gets rinsed in the laundry sink. And
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: if you're breastfeeding only it is actually water soluble and
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  Speaker 1: can go straight in the wash bruh. Just look also
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  Speaker 1: just a fi Also, the poo is meant to go
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  Speaker 1: in the toilet even if you use disposable nappies. It's
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  Speaker 1: written in the box. I'm not reading the box. Who's
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  Speaker 1: reading the box of the nappies? And sorry, Gemma, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not attacking you.
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  Speaker 2: I have dumped the shit into the toilet before. But
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  Speaker 2: if it's a solid not if it's any running whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not no bag and target bag and taget straight
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  Speaker 2: in and sometimes I'll double bag it.
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  Speaker 1: So we receive these.
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  Speaker 2: Little messages slash comments on the Facebook group, which is
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  Speaker 2: an amazing place to be if you're a parent, becausere's
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: a lot of tips and tricks in there, which we
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  Speaker 2: didn't really establish it to be like that, but it
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  Speaker 2: seems to have worked out that way.
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  Speaker 1: Which is like that was always the plan?
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  Speaker 5: Was it? Thing?
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't in that meeting boring Those people who are
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: in the basebook group, they have the official title of
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  Speaker 1: being doughtos. I wouldn't know because I'm never in there.
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  Speaker 1: You do it once a month every now and well
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  Speaker 1: that I keep keep him wanting more. You're like the
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  Speaker 1: divorced father who Daddy went out for milk comes back
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  Speaker 1: once in a while and he's like, I forgot something, daddy.
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  Speaker 1: We go in the park. No, shut up, Timmy.
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  Speaker 2: I like a few things that I'm like.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's like, was that? Who was that? Ash? What are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? The pantheron Panthon. We did get a big
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  Speaker 1: response on the panther people were do you know who
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: didn't respond? Though probably non parents, the panther themselves. I
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: was like, do you want to sponsor the book?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a free plug they got.
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  Speaker 1: Someone even said like, come on the panting, give the guys,
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  Speaker 1: give them some money, give me, give us some panther please.
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  Speaker 1: The studio we had to pay Margaret full price. Actually
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: we got speaking of bank accounts, we are poor. That
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  Speaker 1: don't count right now? Is empty? That's the way I like,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to be backed into a corner like that.
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  Speaker 1: And you're the one who was like, we should pay
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  Speaker 1: ourselves some money. And I was like, yeah, once and
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  Speaker 1: now we've done that. We got no money? Have we
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: paid Dan? Yet? It is Dan? I paid Dan. That's
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  Speaker 1: where it paut him half. Was like, offer him half
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  Speaker 1: there in the corner.
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  Speaker 2: She should coming for all negotiations.
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  Speaker 3: That's her only move.
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  Speaker 2: Though they're like no, She's like, okay, I tried, I tried.
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  Speaker 1: I tried.
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  Speaker 3: We actually paid double.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I got the panthon Lady of Various Sorrows?
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  Speaker 1: Is it? What?
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  Speaker 4: That's her Instagram name?
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  Speaker 1: Lady?
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  Speaker 2: Usually I mispronounced names, but now I'm just like, what
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  Speaker 2: is this?
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  Speaker 4: And there was no other name on that?
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: She says, how w index is for the family. In
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  Speaker 2: My big fat Greek wedding is the pantheon is for
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  Speaker 2: my family. Anything is wrong, I'm told to put the
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  Speaker 2: pantheron on it. For those of you who don't understand
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: the reference, I don't get it. My big fact Greek wedding.
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: You know the movie Love It? It was an old movie.
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  Speaker 2: The dad of that. He seems to think that windex
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  Speaker 2: can go on any ailment, okay, from the riasis.
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  Speaker 1: To windecks wind x windecks.
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  Speaker 2: Throughout the movie, there's little bits of the movie where
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  Speaker 2: he'll someone be like, I've got this on my thing,
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  Speaker 2: and then he'll come out another and spray with wind decks.
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  Speaker 1: Really, yeah, I remember that in the movie. Are you sure? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: One day he was washing his windscreen with his windex
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: and he saw something on his hand and he sprayed
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: it anyway, cleared up immediately apparently, but he swears by it,
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: and it's it's such a dad thing to really fixate.
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: Like my grandfather used to think metho would fix everything,
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  Speaker 2: So whenever I'd hurt myself, he'd be chasing me around
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  Speaker 2: the house with a rag of methoat.
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  Speaker 1: Go figure.
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  Speaker 2: He was an alcoholic anyway, he's dead.
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  Speaker 1: How did he laugh?
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  Speaker 6: But that's okay, that's okay because he's been dead for
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  Speaker 6: what A little shit literally changed.
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  Speaker 2: Me around the house with a bottle of metho. I
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  Speaker 2: remember one time I fell off my bike and my
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  Speaker 2: nan was such a such like a caring she would
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  Speaker 2: redress everything every day, like I felt really bad. Gravel
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  Speaker 2: rash along my side when I was a kid, and
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  Speaker 2: he was just like, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, I could fix this.
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  Speaker 1: Come here, son, speak for me, speak for you.
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  Speaker 2: Rest in peace, yeah, rest in yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Look, this is the last plug. I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: the panthon because I am paying us those fuckers. But
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: apparently Laura, her feet they are that's what we got
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: time for. They are like sandpaper. I have never seen
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  Speaker 1: something suck up so much moisture like the second she
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: puts any type of moisturizer on her feet, I actually
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: doesn't need a flows out like scientists need to do
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: some kind of study on her. Like I've never seen
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: a part of the body just forever be so dry.
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  Speaker 1: It is impossible for moisture to stay there for longer
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  Speaker 1: than three seconds. And I sometimes in bed, they'll run
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: past me and she cuts me open. My like traxic
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: bottoms have been shredded. A wake up, and I'm like,
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: what happened in law was like yesterday we saw a lizard.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: It kind of looked like that lizards.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Someone said, but panther and on the on the scaly feet.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: So I'm yet to put it on her feet with
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: your wife and her.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Feet, she puts them. She washes them in the sink
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: like she does with the hands when she ever she
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: says that. I just picture her like her feet rubbing
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: together like with sober in the middle like that the
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: sink like you would with your hands.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: And now you're like, they're so dry it and also
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: pick anything up off the floor?
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Is she a monkey?
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Hang? Hang on a second, moving right along. It was
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: so quick.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: No, we need to be it was the political global
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: state of the country.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: We need to be serious. We've fucked around too long
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: in this episode. We're running an hour behind schedule.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Well that's part of the point of this episode, isn't it.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I apologize, Okay, carry on. I want to talk about
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: New South Wales transport. Okay, you were having a dig
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: about them.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: I was having a dig in New South Wal's revenue. Ah,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: I threatened me with what I didn't pay a parking fine.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: They're like, we didn't take your license off here. It's like,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: well that's not fair because I wasn't in the car
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: when it was parked, So why am I being punished
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: for being in the car.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: But when they say we'll take your license off you,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: it's like it's like a parent saying we'll turn.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: This car right around, or it's like like a school
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: yard where it's like.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: I'm just taking back home.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Here, me me, me me mayor.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: So New South Wales revenue.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Fuck you? Oh god, that's fine, Let's move on to
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: someone else news that I was transport. They have released
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: badges and I think my only reference point for these
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: types of badges they're the baby on board badges is
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: when I was in London, because I once lived in
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: London four years?
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Was that where you got a slight accent?
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: That that is?
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: It's a terrific accent.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: It's meant to be bad, do you know? Because I'm
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: mocking you?
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: WHOA, Yeah, there's a lot of venomin that Vick. What
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: do you over there?
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: What are you doing?
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: You're needing a jump hard?
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Are you trying to untangle a chain?
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: You need some winds need a panthon on that thing.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: I'm listening while I do it.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Do your hobbies in your own time.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Do your hobbies in your own time.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: She's like, I just have untangling things. When you finished
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: the episode with like Vic was out, She's like, oh,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: that's great episode. Mean, while she's got a jewelry shots
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: up in front of her.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Is that over there?
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of paying you right now.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: I know she's definitely that's something she'd do as well.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: It's back in order.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: It's like, look, big, you're over there just watching that
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: conversation happen. Do you mind making jewelry for us?
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Is that a Tony May necklace?
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: It's not, Actually, well.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: That's the that's the problem, would tangle.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: I like that Tony May get all your gold and
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: silver goods that Tony May doc today.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Laura.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: We need some advertising. We do need some.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: To Laura.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: When Laura's like, why is there invoice from two knowing
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: dads are four thousand dollars ash bludge, He's never bought anything.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: They should sponsor us though.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm not out there like Tony yet to
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: find them. I love your baby's compressed that's a great label.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at you down the eyes. Okay, carry on.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: That was Transport.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: That's what good time for? Are we going to get through?
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: At this end of that? I feel sorry for the
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: listeners so they have, really sorry for them. They having
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: a great time. I can say that, but you can't.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: My sister did say she's like you guys have like
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: you started yelling a lot in the episodes.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Like there's.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: A lot of like, Hi, oh no, I can't hear
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: what just had.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Having our wrong conversation.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Honestly, I forget that all this is here.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: We've both got dementia.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Next week we're going to age Gracey.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Sorry, Transport. This is my fourth attempt. Okay, so I
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: lived in London. Right in London, they used to have it.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I know you keep reminding it, baby, because we'll show
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: some interest for what I'm not interested. You know, I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: pretend to be into your stories.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: You don't pretend you just ah got me, like, come on,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: hurry up.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: They have baby on board badges, and I think it
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: makes sense in London because people often wear like big
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: jackets coats. It's hard to tell when someone is pregnant.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: It's cold, it's very cold in London. That's I'm sure miserable.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Some would say absolutely depressing in fact. But now Soell's
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Transport have adopted that idea. So if you're pregnant, you
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: can request a badge says baby on board. Okay, yeah,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I like it. So if you're pregnant, you can request
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the baby on board badge that you wear to then
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: tell the other passengers on the public transport that you
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: are in fact pregnant. And people ash have been mixed
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: in their responses to this.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: It's for those courteous people see that get up and go, hey,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: here's my seat because you are you are with child, okay.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: The people who think it's a bad thing, they believe
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: like we don't have to spoon feed people like do
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: we really need a badge to be like big courteous
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: to me, Like, surely it's just common sense to give
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: your seat up someone who's pregnant.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: The people that are saying that do they have not
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: access to any form of technology and see that everyone
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: needs to be spoon fed everything all the time.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Because we are really dumber.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: How can someone get upset with courtesy? I am pissed
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: off with you, Matt, because you were so courteous, doesn't
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: make any sense.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: There is one comment here, ash and it says it
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: depends how pregnant they are. Pregnancy is not n illness.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: No one said it was. But it's also uncomfortable for
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: a mom.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: With she's growing, so a lot of yelling, just growing
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: a child, throwing the baby. The baby's a big grown
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: in there. It's hard work.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: The only illness that's involved is like mourning sickness, right,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: morning illness, and like, actually.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: So it is an it's a parasite.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a parasite.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Are we wrong? Actually is an illness?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: It's still can't you get up for both?
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: Well, actually, when I look at this, because that really
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: pissed me off, that comment, and it came from a woman,
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: but someone right underneath. No, but it's a time of
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: altered physiology. Lower blood pressure in early pregnancy plus morning
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: sickness means standing up on public transport is challenging at times.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Plus relaxing and shifted center of gravity on later pregnancy
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: can make standing on public transport challenging. And as someone
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: who has been through.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: It, it's really hard.
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: And like it's all consuming and the one time you
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: actually get to have a rest is when you get
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: off your feet, and if no one's standing up for
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: you on the bus, then what the fuck are you doing?
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: And people are fuckwards? People are fuckwards, but also you're
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: well said, thank you. Do you know what the problem
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: is with people? There's having too many of them? No,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: but I do think. I do think because there is
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: a comment here and it says I got offer a
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: seat when I was thirty six weeks pregnant, but not
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: at twelve weeks, when the likelihood to be passing out
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: was far higher. I was sturdier in the third trimester,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and I think that's the problem. If you're twelve weeks
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: pregnant and you're feeling like shit and you have a
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: jacket on or a coat, you don't look pregnant. Let's
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: put this way.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: All through April was our first pregnancy with Oscar. We
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: got on the bus together every morning to the city. Okay,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: it's so cute, by the way, forty thank you, forty
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: five minutes. I would make sure that we would get
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: a seat, okay, even if that man having to drive
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: to an earlier spot, like an earlier pickup spot to
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: get a seat because her morning ticket was so bad
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: but she was so committed to her job and wouldn't
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: take a fucking uber or wouldn't she wouldn't let me
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: drive or anything like that. She's too proud. But there's
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: so many times that we would get off the bars
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: because she was so uncomfortable. Imagine adding standing in the mix.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, would she ever bring a bag with her?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Every time.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: And she would spew up seventy percent of the time.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: And I would take the spewbag with me and put
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: it in the bin on the way to my office
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: so they she didn't have to deal with that.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: What a guy think?
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: Also what a woman like? Women are amazing, Yeah, but
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: also very chivalrous.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I think, thank you, This is all about me. I
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: think the bare minimum. Okay, I'm gonna put this out
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: there right now. I don't care if someone comes to me.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: If you're a man and you see a pregnant woman
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: get on the bus and you don't get up to
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: give her your seat, you're a fucking idiot, full stop.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: You're not a man.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: You're not a man, You're a mouse. Where's the cheese.
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: There was one comment, though, which I think is fair,
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: is like, this would be great if everyone actually looked
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: up from their phones.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that too, but I just think it's it's common.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: It doesn't You're not actually hurt even if you offer
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: it and they say no, no, no, it's fine. You have
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: gone one step better than the people that don't even
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: have the common courtesy, the decency, or the fucking stones
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: to get up and say, here is my seat. What
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: do you think is going to happen? You're gonna sit there,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: comfortable and you're listening to whatever it is you're fucking
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: doing on your phone, completely able to stand up for
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: thirty minutes of your life, been sitting on your ass
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: at the desk all day, fucking get over yourself.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Vick, would you ever be in a situation where
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: you were not offered a seat when you were pregnant?
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: The only time that I didn't get off of a seat,
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: it was like that thing where someone's looking down. So
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: I'm not afraid to say, like, hey, look at my
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: giant belly. But I think these badges are great because
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: that first trimester is horrific.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Got that bad is it?
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: It's just a guy I would not for his seat.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: And no one knows you're pregnant.
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: You're not showing but you feel the most sick that
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: you will and have ever felt in your whole life.
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: And it's not in the morning, it's all fucking day.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: It's every day of the week. It's relentless. And I
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: remember having to stand on a bus and hold onto
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: that little bloody thing and be waving around. You've like
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: I've already got low blood pressure, and I just remember
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: being like, don't throw up.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Don't.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: And then if you, let's put this way, if you're
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: on a bus with a pregnant woman and that has
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: experiencing more hoarding sickness and she doesn't have a spare
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: hand to actually catch her vomit, mate.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be worse for you. And I always say to.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: My kids, it is so much easier in life to
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: be nice than it is to not be nice. And
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: being nice and giving your seat up is one. It's
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: gonna make someone go what a nice guy, And second
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: or woman whatever, and second of all, we're gonna feel
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: good about yourself for doing that for someone.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: So it's so much easier to be nice. Does that
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: mean you're gonna be nicer to me? No, that's rich.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I think I'm going to go one step further New
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: South Wells Transport. You've got enough bloody money. There's so
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: many toll roads here in Sydney. We should have specially
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: designed buses that are beds for pregnant women. Just a recliner, yeah,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: just reclining. You guys can request. You're like, I'm in
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: the Northern Beaches. I want to go to the city
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and then the bed bus comes. A maternity bus.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I reckon. The maternity bus would be great.
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: You could have a great chats, give you SIPs and
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: hags two doting dad's maternity.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Bus and the bus drivers topless.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Last thing you're thinking about when you're pregnant.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Fair, fair, I'll just trying to give myself a job.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: He just really wants to get his kid off just
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: really quickly. When my wife Laurie may have heard her name.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Once or twice, just heard about her feet.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: When it was Christmas time a couple of years back.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Trying to find a car park, she had Marley in
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the car screaming. Finally found a car park in the
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Pram Parks at the Westfield and she was waiting for
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: one and then as a car came out, another car
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: came the other way and it didn't see Laura or
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: like nab the park and Laura was like, hey, come
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: on man, like I was. I was waiting and she
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: didn't have a kid in the car and she goes,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: you don't even have a child, and she goes, you
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: chose to be pregnant and then didn't give a car
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: park up.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: I can see what generation that person was wrong. I
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: can see it.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Boomer o.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Man can't wait till they all die out.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Sorry, mom, Right after he said it costs nothing to
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: be nice, it does cost nothing to be nice.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: But I think if you can't give up, you see,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: you've got bigger fucking problems.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Mate, Ash, it is time for.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Tell me loud, tell me little loud.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Actually, this is just a very quick parenting lie. And
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I've missed these. I know it's been a while because
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: someone has to keep talking about the variety, you know,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And you want.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Me to be nice to you.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I love you.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Shut up.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, So this one is from Danielle. This is the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: best parenting lie ever. I'll be the judge of that. Danielle.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very Oh my god.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: No, Okay, I'm constantly late to work because my son
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: is so slow getting ready because he doesn't want to
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: go to daycare. I feel that today I told him
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: when I'm late to work, I have to go to
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: time out. He's never been ready so fast and in
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the car ready to go. So mummy doesn't have to
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: go to time out. That isn't That is good. That
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: is very really good.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: And I like if you're not a time out family,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: because people parent differently, you can swap that out to
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: be whatever it is that the punishment is at your house.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Do you guys have at your schools for your children?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Do they have like a noughty corner? We have the
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: thinking corner.
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah, soft I think it's like a thinking or a
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: timeout corner.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: We have the whipping corner where you get whipped. That
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: was that was when I went to school.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Poor.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I was eight times yesterday. I was like, She's like,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I had nothing else to think about.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: We really softened absolutely everything having we at school. It's
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: like a thinking corner is the corner where it's like
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: you're being in a little ship, go and think about it.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: I suppose it works, yeah, and I kind of like it.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Ash. We also have now just moving along very quickly.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: You say two songs another song of.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: The song oh yeah, song, Yeah, it's time for this one.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: One of the previous You say, what, Man.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I feel like a parent? Parants, Matt.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: This is where parents send us things they want to
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: get off their chests. Doesn't have to be about parenting,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: but I suppose it, says parans. So people just go
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: that way.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: These are long rants. There's a long rants. Ash take
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: it away. You go first?
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Am I going to go first? With Michael? I can
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: pronounce that one?
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: What is the go?
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: I love when they start on what's the go?
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: What's the go?
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: With those skills tests? At every pub right next to
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: the playground. They are like Pokey's for kids. I'm assuming
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: hi means the claw machines. Yes, And you get there
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: and you tell your kids they're broken and all good
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: until that one kid somehow gets money and puts it
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: in the machine, and then it's on bolt carry ons,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Especially if you're there for dinner. They're a bit tired
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: and lose their mind when you say no. We have
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: to get a petition out to get them removed from
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: all the pubs. Let the kids play in the park
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: and the dads have their beer. No carry on from
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: the kids. Ps. I love the pot You keep me
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: up on some rough drives home from night shift. Oh
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: that's great, thanks, Michael. I agree because they're part of
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: the road from me, which has it's sort of the
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: only indoor playground in the area. So as soon as
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: it does rain and you want to get the kids
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: out for play in the park, but there's no parks
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: up and obviously because it's raining, you go there, it's
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: already echo as fuk and then you're throwing these machines
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: that are there that the kids just don't even see,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: the part tunnel vision, and there's always one kid who's
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: allowed to do it, which ruins that. I think either
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: get rid of them, or as parents we should agree
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: only use it if there's literally no one else there,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: because once one kid has a go and one of
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: them is a chocolate one where we are and we
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: are right rocket.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Not only that, but they're also in shopping centers.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, it's an epidemic. Yeah, they're everywhere.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: They're spreading.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: They're spreading before we know they'll be in schools. Are
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: they really making that much money off them? I'd love
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: to know. I know there's been times where I put
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: in like twenty bucks for a fucking little Mars bar
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: have you. You're part of the problem. I know. Well
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: that's the thing. I was like, I have one go
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And the next thing, Laura was like, why are you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: still there? And I was like, I'll be home late, honey.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Just a full blown gambling, like I'm gonna win it
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: all back babe in chocolate man, Yeah, it all counts.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Well, why is it four thousand dollars missing from the account?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: And I was like, ah, Cherry.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Ripe on the back says, don't sell separately.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: It was worth it.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: We've got some of the movies and it's just there's
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: a little like one exit, one little pathway to leave
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the movies, and there's three machines there and there are all
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the machines are like bingo, come over here, kids, we love.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: You know, flashy lights of music. You're fucked anyway. We
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: canna be here all dinging about those things.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: This one is from Rachel. Hello Rachel, is there a
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: secret mother in law handbook that says, when in doubt
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: by grandkids, the largest, loudest, most aggressively colored toy known
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: to mankind bonus points if it plays music that you
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: cannot turn off, Like thank you truly. The kids love it,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: but of course they do. But if we walk past
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: this in the shops, it would be a hard no
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: from me. I take the tantrum over it. But now
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: these hit his toys are here, sitting in my living room,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: taunting me, assaulting my senses, and violently adding to my
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: daily overstimulation. I don't want to sound ungrateful, almost I
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I just don't understand why every gift has to look
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: like a carnival exploded to my house.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I've got a solution for this. And whenever a parent
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: of mine, or a parent of Aprils or another family
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: member buys any toy that I think immediately will annoy
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: the shit out of me, which is a majority of
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: then it's at their house toy. So you insulting, we
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: love this. What we might do is, because I've got
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: heaps toys at our players might leave this one here
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: so when they care and play, they can play with it.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: And then also you get to enjoy it, not me.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: That's very good, thank you, that's very good. It worked
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: with a carryoak machine. It never left the box. Do
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: you want to know what Lala picked up recently? Have
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: a look at this toy?
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Oh you got it. Show and tell love that I
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: told you my sister gave Oscar a kazoo.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Oh God, that's terrible.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: She knew it.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: She's better than that.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Come on, cloth nappies and kazoos.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: What wow, I'm not gonna like I like it. Yeah,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I know, I've never seen Ash's face light up so much,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: but it does this.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Now I hate it.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: It is beautiful.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: So it's a magic wand a pink magic wand that
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: has a crown at the top, and it's got the
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: sort of plastic sphere with a love heart in there,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and as you press the button, it spins the love
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: heart with these neon lights. And then it has some
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: beautiful music to go with it. And it's always when
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: turned off. It's always when Poppy is just gone to sleep.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: And then Lola finds out that I've in a place
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: that I've hidden it, and it fucking just wakes everyone up.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: So annoying but phallic at the other end. Come on, Ash, well,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: it is I call a spade a spade.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Kids are like moths. You whip a light on like that,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: and now, especially little girl, I know that's magic. Who
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: got you that?
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Princess?
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It was Nana playing Nana.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and she lives with you, so she has to
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: deal with it.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I lives in her room. Now there you go. Hey, Hash,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: we have one more song before we go. One more song.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Now you need us more than ever, know that we
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: still have each other. You can send sure doting dilemma.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: You can send shure donting dilemma.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Ella, Ella, And.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, this is from Lauren, who is sent in an
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: audio message. May I play it for you?
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Please?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Thank you?
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: There's someone else is doing the work around here.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: Hey, Maddie Nash. My name's Lauren, and my husband and
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: I are both big fans of the podcast. Were first
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: time parents to a five month old boy, and the
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: other day my husband sent me a message saying that
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: he feels lonely. Before having our baby. He was and
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: still is the one in his boys group chat checking
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: in on everyone else, asking how the weeks going, and
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: organizing monthly pub catch ups. His text message said, I'm
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: sad that I don't get to hang out with people
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: like what you have with your mum's group. I'm really
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: happy that you've got that. Yes, I come to work,
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: but I'm not working with mates. All we talk about
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: is work stuff. None of my mates suggest catching up
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: after work or on the weekends, and they hardly ever
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: apply to messages. It honestly broke.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: My heart reading it.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: It's especially sad because two of his closest mates already
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: have young kids and they're all obsessed with my husband.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: We even created a monthly parenting group via our local
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: community facebook page in order to meet other couples, which
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: is actually how my mum's group formed. I don't really
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: know what to do to help him, other than set
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: up playdates with the husband's from mum's group. Have either
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: of you experienced this? I know loneliness is something a
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: lot of dads go through after becoming dads, and do
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: you have any suggestions for helping dads build those connections?
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Again?
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: Thanks guys again, love the podcast.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: First of all, we're your friends. Okay that's your first one,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: but ah fuck it's tough.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: A Do you want to remind ash the time when
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: he once said I have enough friends, I don't need anymore?
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Which time this is the new improved.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: That was.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: It's true though, I'm just a likable guy.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Look, can I just remind people of your situation when
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Oscar was born, you found a unicorn parents group.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Oh it was like, yeah, I got friends from outside
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: of that trying to get into this group.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Still like of course everything that Ash touches turns to
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: bloody goals, just like this podcast. So and how did
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: you find that mother's group parents group?
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Sorry, it was firstborn mother's group. So based on the
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: community where we were at post code geographical location, they
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: April sort of got grouped in with a bunch of
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: other mums that thankfully we were. They just seemed to
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: all get on. There was a couple that were doing
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: their own thing, there was there's no mouse towards that.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: But like the core group that continued, they all put
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: in the effort. Like she just said, then he's the
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: guy who checks in, so it's kind of like he's
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: trying to put the effort in. But blokes are useless, right,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: we know that, And like unless you've got other people
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: that want to put a similar effort in, which you know,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: we could have easily been like met with them once
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: or twice and then not put the effort in.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: But did you ever feel at any point through your
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: early years of parenting did you feel lonely?
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Only when I had to drop Oscar and April off
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: to a mental hospital for that brief time where I
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: was sort of isolated but and didn't feel like.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I could talk to anyone about it.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: But that's a very different situation. I can see how
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: easily it would be to feel isolated if you are
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: spending majority of your energy is going to go towards
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: your family and your kid, and I can see how
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: it's like sometimes you don't have that outlet, you could
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: feel lonely. I can't say that I felt lonely in
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: that aspect. I could see how hard it would be.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: What about you, did you when you had Mali? Did
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: you guys have a mother's group or I mean, I
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: can see why they set them up, but a lot
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: of them don't work.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't really Laura's vibe. She wasn't that into
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: it and she got put with a few other people
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: and they didn't really click. So then it wasn't something
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: that we relied on. But man, I yeah I felt
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: lonely as I really, yeah, I didn't. There wasn't a
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: lot of friends of mine who were having kids. They
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: were from Queensland originally they were moving back to the
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Gold Coast. So I found myself in a situation where
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of friends had moved into state all of
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: a sudden. The friends that were still here didn't have kids,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: and they didn't want to hang out with me. Because
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: there was a couple of days a week Thursday Fridays
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: in the early years, I would have Marley, Marley and Lola.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: It was like the daddy daughter day and I was like,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I guess it's just us, like it was me and
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: my sister, but I didn't have there were no guy
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: mates that I could rely on to be on the
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: same page. And my neighbor I remember, was like, oh,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: what are you doing on Thursdays? I know you've got
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: the kids. Do you want to come to this community group?
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, I'd love too, sure, And
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I was the only dad there and they were all
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: really lovely, but it was only like really top line yeah,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Like I did feel very much like like why is
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: he here? Yea, And it wasn't. It was a different
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: type of friendship. And then the guys that I did
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: hang out with, if ever i'd want to talk about parenting,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of the time I would almost see their
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: faces glaze over when I was like, Hey, Marley's got
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: this sleep schedule and it's really tricky, and oh gosh,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: she's you know, dealing with this right now. I could
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: just tell it was like I was talking about paint drying.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: And I think, like going back to the episode, we
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: did be tim with boys, same with blokes. A shared
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: purpose like the walking group, there's a shared purpose there
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: where they've all gone, Okay, well we want to get out.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: We want to get out of the house. These kids
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: me to get out of the house. We're all dads.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: There's a shared purpose. Let's go and do it. So
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: it might be the fact like community sport too. I
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: don't know if he plays sport or something like that.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I think they when you're talking about community sport, we're
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: in a real change of parenting habits. There's so many
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: dads out there where you can talk about sport, but
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: if he wants to talk about hey, I'm finding it
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: really tough with my five month old. He's not sleeping
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: at the moment. A lot of a lot of men
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: not to generalize here, but a lot of men don't
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: have enough hours clocked up in that department where they
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: can understand what he's going through offer any type of advice.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: So it's hard. I just meant the connection itself. Sometimes
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: you want to feel connected. Like I didn't feel like
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: I ever had guy mates that I could talk to
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: about parenting outside of you. This is kind of like
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: the first time where I had another a man who
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I could speak to, who would understand the topics that
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about specific to parenting.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: You're right, yeah, because I mean that that group could be. Yeah,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: we could have those who have all the hours clocked
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: up and those who don't.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: But also I think a game change is when you
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: start daycare and you start you start school because we
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: all pick ups and stuff. That's it. You can start
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: to have play dates. I think it's really hard when
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: you're not in that world yet where you are getting
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: introduced to new parents. I mean I got lucky as well,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Like not that you want to try and like hunt
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: out friends at the park, but we did. Laura and
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: I shout out to Melenenzo. We met them at the
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: park and it just happened that, like the kids were
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: kind of playing close to each other and like, you know,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: we met. But there were many times in the park
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: where I was like I just want to talk to someone.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's yeah, Yeah, it's so tough. I mean, I
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: see you when I feel you and like, yeah, I
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: can imagine it would be because I don't know where
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: I'll be if I didn't have friends that were in
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: similar boat at the time, because you're right, you lean
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: on them so much that if you don't have that
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: to lean on that you can only and I know,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: like his wife would be like, oh, you talk to
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: me about it. It's like, yeah, I want to talk
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: to you about it. But also sometimes you want to
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: talk to someone completely different about it and build a
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: bond and a relationship with someone who's going through the
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: same things as you are all the time, want to
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm trying to say.
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: Talking about team connection and stuff, a lot of parents
• 41:33
  Speaker 7: have to give up team sport once they become parents,
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: so they lose that connection as.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: Well because become so time poor.
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and if you've got a new mum, you don't
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: want to be like being like, hey.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: Enjoy the baby, I'm just going to go play football.
• 41:47
  Speaker 7: Like, yes, it's great to keep that up, but a
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: lot of dads I know do struggle with that. The
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: recent statistics show that The highest prevalence of social disconnection
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: in the core parenting years happens in those first five years,
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: and that's because you are doing a lot more baby
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: stuff and a lot less socializing. But a big part
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: of it is the fact that our workplaces. It's getting
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: better now, but have it traditionally helped us keep those
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: social connections because all we're doing is looking after a
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: baby and then going to work, and then looking after
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: a baby and then going to work. Very true, and
• 42:18
  Speaker 7: it creates this really vicious psychicle.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: The only other time we got is that community where
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: you're give it up your seat for pregnant women.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Call back about Dan. Did Dan have a community of
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: dads that he found.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: Well, it was through me.
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: So my mother's group was my lifeline and I relied
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: on them very heavily for baby milestones, baby behavior, what
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: the fuck's happening with my baby? All those sorts of
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: questions that you're constantly asking. But because Dan's at work,
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: I need someone else to ask. And so luckily we
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: had a great group of dads who were partnered with
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: these mums, and so then he got to start meeting
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: other dads through that. But he was also like like
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: where's the dad's groups?
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: Like why do not?
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: Why don't we get a dad's group because you get
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: to talk to each other about all this stuff happening
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: to you. I would like to talk to someone about
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: how I'm feeling, probably.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Like with men that old, lame, lame culture that's been lame,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, which is.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: The systems that are set up are prioritizing mums as
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: it should be, and I think it's going to take
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: a little while for there to be enough dad. Similar
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: to this guy who's like, hey, I want the group
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: as well for it to be formed, and it's annoying
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: that he's at the forefront here of that change and
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: it's going to take a while for the systems to
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: catch up.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, And I think it's also just it can also
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: hurt a little bit when you're the one who organizes
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: everything and then it's finally your turned for people to
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: help you out and they're.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: All in short. But I also think I'm finding friends.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: I don't want to underestimate how hard it is to
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: find really good friends, Like it's like dating, you know,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: you're trying to find a life partner, Like like if
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: I lose Ash, I'm fucked. Yeah, I don't know, be
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: fine though, but you know you've got to like not
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: that you want to become disheartened, but there are definitely
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: dads out there that this dad hasn't met yet who
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: will become good friends. Because he sounds like an awesome guy.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: He's putting in an effort and he wants to find
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: that connection. He's just got to try and find the
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: right people. And it hasn't happened yet, but it will
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: as long as he keeps trying. And we are your friend,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: and if all else fails, we will be here every
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Monday and Tuesday Wednesday. So yes.
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: One other thing I will add though, is that when
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: you do become parents, and I don't know if you
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: guys can attest to this, maybe not, Ash, but your
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: friendships change after you become a parent, and some of
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  Speaker 7: them just fall by the wayside and some of them
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  Speaker 7: grow stronger. And that's just a part of life, and
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: it's a shitty part of life. But you will start
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: to see who are your true friends and who are
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: the ones that are sometimes friends.
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  Speaker 2: And like, full credit to my friend Miles who's so
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  Speaker 2: far away from having kids, but.
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  Speaker 3: He credit to the bulls.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: He puts in the effort. With all of us that
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: have friends, He'll just reach out very.
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  Speaker 1: The got these great through his friends are all amazing.
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  Speaker 7: That's why he's such an amazing guy.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Got her on board, that's amazing. Anything else to doing that? Jewelry,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: anything else you got that, you're like beating all of
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: us other parents, ash? What else is there? What else
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: is there? Even lucked out at? Amazing?
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  Speaker 2: It's not like I put in the work. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard about that. I thought.
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  Speaker 1: You're just hanging on here, man, I know, don't. I
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: don't argue that. So being nicer to me is what
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. You'd be nicer to me. I
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: just pour my heart out.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Especially it comes across the sarcasm, doesn't it sometimes?
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  Speaker 4: But he's also very genuine.
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  Speaker 1: Eyes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, next time.
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  Speaker 4: Just because it's in capitals doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Mean it's my joke.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Let me do it, Okay, I don't tell you what
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: to do. Kids party etiquette debate. Here we go with
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: an upcoming I'm curious what people consider normal etiquette these days.
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  Speaker 2: We've always provided food and drink for parents too, but
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  Speaker 2: with the rising cost of living, kids parties.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Are starting to feel like a luxury.
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  Speaker 2: There's a poll in the Facebook group where fifty eight
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: percent said yes to it and thirty percent said no.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: And I'm assuming that's to feeding the parents as well.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Which can we.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Call April really quickly because she's currently struggling with this.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Please throwing Oscar a party all right, because he's hell
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: band on a soccer party. And Abra was like, I've
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: got all this stuff for the kids, but what about
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: the parents? And she offered in the invitation for it
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  Speaker 2: to be a drop and go if you wish. If
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: you want to drop you kids off, that's fine. I
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: was like, we've already done more than enough by offering that,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: so let's give her a call. I don't know what
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: we decided in the end because I wasn't listening. Holly
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: ay then, hey, you're just live on two doting dad
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: radio right now, quick question? Feeding parents at a party?
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  Speaker 2: Where do we land on that?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, just keep me up at night. We haven't landed
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  Speaker 1: because it was your job.
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  Speaker 4: Now it comes out?
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: When was it my job?
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: I was like, I need to help with something.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: When do you not start a sentence with that?
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  Speaker 1: In your life? It's fine?
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  Speaker 3: I can see. I can see this phone call was
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  Speaker 3: a mistake.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: I see this phone call was a mistake, and I
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: regret it.
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  Speaker 5: Because you were like asked for numbers and I was like, no,
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: I don't want to know because I'll.
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  Speaker 2: Just get something because we're not necessarily feeding them.
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  Speaker 4: Remember that conversation.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Can I step in? Can I step in? I just
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: say that I don't think any parent goes to a
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  Speaker 1: party expecting to be fed.
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I think if there's a refreshment, a water, amazing, if
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: there's a bit of fairy bread going, I might nibble
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: on that you two should get a room. But I
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: don't think anyone's like, so is there a menu? Is there?
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  Speaker 1: Like where?
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  Speaker 5: Where?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? No one saying I'm not going to eat if
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  Speaker 1: I go the kids party, because surely will be.
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  Speaker 3: A good spread there, I said.
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  Speaker 2: I said, we offered kid free drop off, so I
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: think that's enough.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we said like stay or go.
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: But I do just want like a little platter of
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  Speaker 5: something that the parents can pick at by kids.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little cheese plate, if you will, very bread
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  Speaker 1: on the cheese plate. If we must, like a bit
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  Speaker 1: of coots chacoots bitter sel Armie shoo fada double bree.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: May you'll get into the double bree. Yeah, she hates
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: cheese but loves double bree.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what about that? What about coffees?
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  Speaker 7: Would you get coffees for the parents, because I think
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  Speaker 7: I think that's where it gets expensive.
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  Speaker 3: What about I tell you what we'll do.
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  Speaker 2: We take the kettle and a jar and Macona really
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: give them the good stuff. Frankly there with his peppermint tea.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: He'll have it in his jacket like a dealer. He'll
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: have it from all parts of the world. All right,
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  Speaker 2: you've been very helpful.
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  Speaker 1: But still your job. Just so clear.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll see later.
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  Speaker 1: All right, see you letter, cheese cheese board. It is well, Ash,
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  Speaker 1: that's all we have time for. It was really enjoyable
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  Speaker 1: listening to your talk to April.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was my job, but I forgot so
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't have called her because of now I look
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: like an idiot. No, never, I'm happy to look like
• 49:25
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