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#105 You're Grounded! · Two Doting Dads with Matty J & Ash

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  Speaker 1: You know, I've moved to quite a hilly area. For
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  Speaker 1: every hilly it's like Everest, the Everest of Sydney they
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  Speaker 1: call it.
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  Speaker 2: They call that now I do.
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  Speaker 1: But I've noticed something about all the local dads. Good carves,
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  Speaker 1: fucking unbelievable cars.
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  Speaker 3: Really.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday, April and I are driving along and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: look at the cars on this guy.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to two doting dads. I'm Maddie Jay and
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  Speaker 3: I'm Ash.
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  Speaker 2: And this is it one moment please Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: She's got a little cardboard box looks like it could
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  Speaker 3: be band aids.
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  Speaker 2: It's not.
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  Speaker 3: He's just putting something over his nose.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm ash.
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  Speaker 3: You are a heavy mouth breathed Hang on, this is
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  Speaker 3: a podcast or what parenting? It's a good and relatable
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  Speaker 3: and if you come for advice, not today your nose.
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  Speaker 2: What is that? It's a nasal strip. It's called breathe right,
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  Speaker 2: I'm addicted.
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  Speaker 3: Whoever come up with that name? Very intelligent, I know, right,
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  Speaker 3: Do you mind if I try one?
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  Speaker 2: Have you never had a natal strip?
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  Speaker 3: I've never had one. And I'm getting fed these ads
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  Speaker 3: and I'm so close to getting sucked in where you
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  Speaker 3: have the magnets the magnets, and then you put the
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  Speaker 3: strip attached to the magnets and it just like flours.
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  Speaker 2: This is one step before that.
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  Speaker 3: This is the gateway. He's getting a nose job. And
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  Speaker 3: what do I do? Just?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just make sure you grab some nostril. Bang? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I felt good? What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: I don't notice the difference? Have you got a deviated symptom?
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  Speaker 2: She's deviated?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, let's get back on track. Sorry, we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: oh bit, we're talking about beer.
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  Speaker 2: May I crack it over, big boy? What are you
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  Speaker 2: drinking there, mate.
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  Speaker 3: I'm drinking it's a stone of wood, no surprise. We've
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  Speaker 3: gone through the hinterland. Hazy palou once more beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: That's my first beer of the week. Actually, excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a fitness freak. What is this?
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  Speaker 3: Because post bali a you're getting your life back on track?
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  Speaker 3: What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Just balance? I'm just looking for some balance. You're out
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  Speaker 2: here looking for that.
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  Speaker 3: There is one thing you do not do well. It's balance.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm trying.
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  Speaker 3: You were like one side at the extreme, but now
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  Speaker 3: you're the other. How does this taste?
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  Speaker 2: This is one of my favorite ones. I've got a
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  Speaker 2: fridge full of them at a home.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be you used to not be able
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  Speaker 1: to get it everywhere because it was limited. Now it
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  Speaker 1: is a full full range. And where can they get it?
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  Speaker 1: Mat you tell us?
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  Speaker 3: It is available from any good bottle shop now pouring
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  Speaker 3: on tapping, any good bar, a restaurant, and if you're
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  Speaker 3: struggling to find any good restaurant or bar, you can
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  Speaker 3: of course by it online. It's starting with dot com
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  Speaker 3: dot are you all one word? That's very good? And
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  Speaker 3: also it's getting hot, so bevery hot.
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  Speaker 2: Heat beer summer sandwiches. I'm calling it.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what tasted delicious on the weekend? Ash?
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  Speaker 3: It was a beer? Do you know what I was
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  Speaker 3: doing pre beer? That made it taste even better? Actually
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  Speaker 3: I haven't had a post beer sex in a long time. Beer.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take either way, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I was chopping down trees. Were you on the weekend?
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  Speaker 2: I did see something then?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just you know. I've been making my transition into
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  Speaker 3: like full blown toxic masculine laborer laborer for a couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks now since the runnows have started, and I
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  Speaker 3: got invited down to Aladala or Milton to my brother
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  Speaker 3: in law's farm. So your sister's farm, Yes, my sister's
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  Speaker 3: fum yes, sorry, their farm, their farm. And I had
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  Speaker 3: a beer after we've been chopping down trees for I
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  Speaker 3: want to say, six hours, six hours of tree chopping
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  Speaker 3: y splinters, splinters. That's a little scratch of my thumb.
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  Speaker 3: Oh your poor sing and that is see that callous?
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  Speaker 3: No like that there oh in the middle, So fucking
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  Speaker 3: gentle with my hand.
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  Speaker 2: It's been infected. Is it infected? It was different type
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  Speaker 2: of wood that was from right, So what were clearing
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  Speaker 2: trees for the third house we got.
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  Speaker 3: There is a little creek that runs from the back
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  Speaker 3: of the property at my sister and husband's farm. It
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  Speaker 3: runs for like I want to say, seven kilometers, eventually
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  Speaker 3: opens up and ends up at the beach. So it
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  Speaker 3: starts off as a little trickle and then opens up
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  Speaker 3: to a beautiful estra estuary street, estuary Australaan into ocean.
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  Speaker 1: So is that where you would say fresh water meets
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  Speaker 1: salt water and becomes salt water.
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  Speaker 3: No, it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is alsalt water, the evolution of water.
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  Speaker 3: It is alsot water because because ash, because it's the tiders.
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  Speaker 3: It goes in and out the creek goes up and down. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's also water. I felt like I was going to
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  Speaker 3: get attacked by a sha So.
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  Speaker 1: When okay, I'm confused with what I just thought that
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  Speaker 1: would be fresh water for seven k's from the beach.
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  Speaker 3: No, because it's like an inlet.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a river.
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  Speaker 3: It's a river if you will. So it's fed by
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  Speaker 3: the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not a creek.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, creek has thrown you and I.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's on me. Wow, I apologize.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Shooting for another episode, is it is it creak
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  Speaker 1: or is it a river?
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  Speaker 3: There's a new segment so we had to we had
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  Speaker 3: to clear all the logs that had fallen down and
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  Speaker 3: it was. It was the manliest weekend I think I've
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  Speaker 3: ever had in my entire life.
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  Speaker 2: You just will surprise me every weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, wait for the full transition to so it's go one.
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  Speaker 1: What full laborer?
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  Speaker 3: That's what am I right now?
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  Speaker 2: Full time laborer.
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  Speaker 3: I woke up the follow you've got.
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  Speaker 2: Another creak, creak, a queak and river.
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  Speaker 3: First, you wouldn't last more than two seconds out there
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  Speaker 3: talking like that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'd be like, oh my god, a splinter.
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  Speaker 3: No, you, you'd fit right in. Turn it on, But
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  Speaker 3: it was I haven't experienced that level of pain. And
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  Speaker 3: hopefully none of the boys are listening to this podcast.
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  Speaker 3: They were on that weekend trip because they're all like
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  Speaker 3: builders or laborers or concreteors. I was one of the
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  Speaker 3: few who write emails and film content.
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  Speaker 2: Salt of the earth, aren't they.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, none of them were that intrigued about my job.
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  Speaker 3: One of them was like, what's a podcast? And I
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  Speaker 3: was like, well, and he's like, too much information. Wrestle
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  Speaker 3: it's like radio.
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  Speaker 1: Up.
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  Speaker 3: I was just my wrists was sore, like my body was.
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 2: All right, fellas all right, fellas off first, it's time.
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  Speaker 3: It's a miracle that I made out a lot. There
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  Speaker 3: was a lot of wrestling, a lot of wrestlings, beers,
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  Speaker 3: lots of wrestling.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like broke Back Farm if you ask me, buddy,
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  Speaker 2: it was. It's just it's night.
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  Speaker 3: It's very primal, very primal, seeing two grown men decide
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  Speaker 3: to wrestle.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, you had a masculine weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Very masculine weekend, very masculine weekend up there on the house.
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  Speaker 3: That's okay, whilst we're here, go on very controversial I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how you feel about this. Ash. We've decided
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  Speaker 3: to not put a bath in the house well at all.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing to showers, showers only.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's I think that's fine. I don't see
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  Speaker 2: a problem with it.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you were a big bath kind of guy. No,
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  Speaker 1: April is a big bath kind of girl. She would be,
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  Speaker 1: but not for I wouldn't catch me stewing in a bath.
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  Speaker 3: Not at all. What about the option of not having any.
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  Speaker 1: Bath with the kids shower easier, That's what I think.
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  Speaker 1: Love to I hose them down. Don't put a bathroom
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  Speaker 1: in there at all. I've got a hose and still good.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of April, it is April's birthday. Today's Happy birthday
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  Speaker 1: to April.
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  Speaker 3: Would that be weird if I called her? No? Would
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  Speaker 3: she want that?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well I won't do it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Give a call. I give it a call.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, here we go. We're on.
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  Speaker 2: We're on, April.
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  Speaker 3: It's me, Matt. We are recording right now, So don't
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  Speaker 3: say anything incriminating. I just wanted to say, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know your number saved in my phone, but I just
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  Speaker 3: wanted to say happy birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: What are you now, twenty six, twenty seven?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just ripe old age of twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: Actually you're looking great. Thank you. Whatever you're doing, it's
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  Speaker 3: the boxing. What do you got? What do you got
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  Speaker 3: planned for tonight? Told you no? Yeah? Will will you
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  Speaker 3: tell me?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: It's nothing huge. We're just doing a little family dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Chinese restaurant, a succulent Chinese meal.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I have to say, I don't know how you
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  Speaker 3: put up with Ashton, but you are. You do an
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  Speaker 3: incredible job as both wife and mum.
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  Speaker 2: Is that your.
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  Speaker 3: Birthday present to me?
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  Speaker 2: Just the words? Is it not good enough?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? Sure?
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  Speaker 2: My physical gifts? What would you?
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  Speaker 3: What would you like?
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  Speaker 2: Something big, babe, something expensive? Maybe maybe one of your
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  Speaker 2: homes you hold out must be nice.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we've got time for, April. Have a great birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Bye. You don't ask, you don't get exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: Wear you're wearing the shirt.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wearing a.
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  Speaker 1: Shirt that says my wife on it for those listening
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  Speaker 1: at home. And it's got a punch a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: pictures of April on it, like she gave it to
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  Speaker 1: me for Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: That's a nice shirt. It is a nice shirt.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like you guys are just on fire right now,
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  Speaker 3: the two of you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, little cheeky president that you picked up as well.
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  Speaker 2: I did. She'll get that later.
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: You got a few things as well, I did.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Tony May gave me a couple of rings. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Laura and Matthew. Thank you to the Johnson's and the Burns.
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  Speaker 1: Lovely my weekend. You had the masculine weekend. I had
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  Speaker 1: a fairly standard weekend, except for one event that happened,
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  Speaker 1: which was a meltdown. I'm calling it the ultra tantrum
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  Speaker 1: from Oscar and myself. It was a bit wet on
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. And he's in the backyard playing with the
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  Speaker 1: little nerf gun, no worry, playing solo. Macy was on
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  Speaker 1: route come down to see what was going on in
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  Speaker 1: the paddock. In the paddock with the farm, the eleanor
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  Speaker 1: of farm, and there's a slight decline. Well said to
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  Speaker 1: get down there, and poor Macy she was she can't
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  Speaker 1: walk that well, let's be honest, like she's not that
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  Speaker 1: where balanced.
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  Speaker 3: She's a bit she's a bit like topsy turvy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And she had gum boots on recipe for
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  Speaker 1: disaster because they're not used to the extra weight. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So she's fallen down the hill appears when you say
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  Speaker 1: a bit. She just took a tumble, wasn't It was grass,
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  Speaker 1: so she wasn't like it would have scared.
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  Speaker 2: Her more than anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's not hurt, but she was whaling, and I thought, fuck,
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  Speaker 1: I go down with a towel, dryer off because she
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  Speaker 1: still she was still want to play one.
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  Speaker 2: She's calmed down.
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  Speaker 1: And Oscar was down there, and what I expect from
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  Speaker 1: Oscar is to at least be like, are you okay?
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  Speaker 1: It's just the bammanim a bit of empathy. I got
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  Speaker 1: down there. He was showing no empathy. He walked straight
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  Speaker 1: past her. A couple I observed as I was walking
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  Speaker 1: down he was too busy concentrating on what he was
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  Speaker 1: playing with.
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  Speaker 2: The nerve gun.
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  Speaker 1: I stopped checked if Macy was okay. She was okay,
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  Speaker 1: Gabra towe, she was just like sitting with a tower.
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  Speaker 1: I said, okay, yeah, blah blah blah. And I said
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  Speaker 1: to Oscar, I was like, hey, bro, you're the older brother.
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  Speaker 1: Check if your sister's okay. And he started to melt
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  Speaker 1: down about that because he knew that he had sucked up,
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  Speaker 1: and then he'd gone to tell me that he was
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  Speaker 1: gonna do it, and I was like, you weren't gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it. So I'm getting a little bit fired up here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you weren't going to do it. Now you're
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  Speaker 1: just fucking lying to me. Anyway, he puts the gun
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  Speaker 1: up and shoots me point blank in the face, right,
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  Speaker 1: a little prick. Give me that fucking gun, and I
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  Speaker 1: fucking snatched it.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me you shot him back?
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  Speaker 1: No, No, there's only one bullet in it, one bullet,
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  Speaker 1: and I snatched it, and he had the other bullet
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  Speaker 1: in his hand.
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  Speaker 2: He threw the bullet at me, so I threw.
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  Speaker 1: The gun, not at him, at the brick wall next
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  Speaker 1: to it, trying to smash it. So at this point
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  Speaker 1: I'm acting like a child.
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  Speaker 2: Too, your words, not mine.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, yeah, we're both one up in each
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  Speaker 1: other here. I've smashed it, right, He's screamed at me,
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  Speaker 1: picked up the bullet, thrown it at me again.
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  Speaker 2: So I've picked the gun up.
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  Speaker 1: And as you know, with his block of land, it's
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  Speaker 1: quite steep, quite high, quite long. Turned around with this
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  Speaker 1: nerve gun and launched it as far as I could into.
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  Speaker 3: The back and you've got a very good arm.
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  Speaker 1: The back paddock. It's gone this thing. Even Macy was like,
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  Speaker 1: holy shit. Anyway, he screamed at me.
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  Speaker 2: And I have never yelled at someone so loud in
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  Speaker 2: my life.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, go to your room, like so loud,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a bit of a valley.
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  Speaker 2: It echoed through the valley.
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  Speaker 3: I actually heard it here.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 1: And he screamed back again and ran upstairs to his
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  Speaker 1: room and I could hear this ruck as he was
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  Speaker 1: trashing his room.
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  Speaker 3: Where's April.
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  Speaker 1: April was on the back and he's just watching everything
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  Speaker 1: on fire. Kind of like, don't get involved, don't get involved,
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  Speaker 1: because it was just like back and forth to so
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  Speaker 1: Oscar's carrying on. And I walked it, smashed the door
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  Speaker 1: open to see what he was doing. The poor kid
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  Speaker 1: was so worked up. He's just throwing all his toys up,
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  Speaker 1: nothing crazy, like just throwing his legos and everything on
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  Speaker 1: the ground.
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  Speaker 2: But he was trying to flip his mattress and he's
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  Speaker 2: like this, how many attempts did you have a couple?
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  Speaker 3: He was like, You're like, I'll give your hand.
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  Speaker 1: Literally, I was like, let me help you out.
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  Speaker 2: And flipped it.
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  Speaker 1: And then I just I was like, now shut up,
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  Speaker 1: slammed the door and went out, and I just like,
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  Speaker 1: so fucking worked out.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I came back in and he was like still trying
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  Speaker 1: to flip the mattress. The room was trashed, and like, I.
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  Speaker 3: Just and Macy's like, help may He's still halfway down
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  Speaker 3: the hill.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Eventually, I was like, I just I closed the door
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  Speaker 1: and left him in there and let him calm down,
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  Speaker 1: because I was like and I also went and calmed down,
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  Speaker 1: and like I.
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  Speaker 2: Said, I acted like a child as well. I was
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  Speaker 2: not a parent. Sometimes it happened.
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  Speaker 1: And then I went back and I opened the door
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, you should have just helped your sister,
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  Speaker 1: and he said to me again I was gonna.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, just don't lie to me. Also, clean
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  Speaker 2: all this ship up.
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  Speaker 3: And he's you guys kick off a game for round two?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I was gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Did you give him a cuddle?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I let him calm down, he cleaned up some of
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  Speaker 1: his room, I had to put the mattress back, and
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  Speaker 1: then I gave him a cuddle and I was like buddy,
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  Speaker 1: you look out for your sister is one and two,
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  Speaker 1: don't lie to me, don't bullshit a bullshitter, and I said, look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry for not acting like a parent.
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  Speaker 3: And three, you're too small to flippy mattress.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, leave it alone.
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  Speaker 1: And then I tried to turn into a teaching moment.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, if you eat your dinner, you would
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  Speaker 1: have been able to flip that straight back. And I
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: was like, you your dinner, you'll be able to flip
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  Speaker 1: that mattress. So anyway, that was my weekend. And it
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: ended with him being completely banned from using his phone.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Like he's it's just YouTube on his Fine, that's completely banned.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, you're crowded.
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  Speaker 3: Where's he going to go exactly?
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: He's like, I go everywhere with you. Yeah, what are
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: you going to leave me here? I was like, he's
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: got me on a technicality. He's good. He's good. This guy,
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: he's good.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: We've meant it and I've actually taken a leaf out
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: of your book and I would like to thank you.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: So we're not going with screen time anymore.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Look, the holiday didn't really help because when you're on holidays,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: you're kind of like, I want to enjoy myself. Can
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: you fuck off with this screen and just leave me alone?
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: But like after that, we're like, look, he's just so
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: aggressive in the mornings now because he's like waking up like,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: oh you just screen, I need to screen, And it's like, okay,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: so it's been like two or three days.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: How's it going TV?
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, but it's Disney, like a Disney classic Disney movie.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: YouTube. No fucking way. That is just like crack.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: It is mental.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Macey's meltdown over.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: No YouTube is borderline worse than her not being able
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: to look at us like a person, like a one
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: on one screen.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: She's like YouTube, I was like, no, yousue.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Like fuck I don't. We got really stuck into screen
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: time in that weird period where the kids were old
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: enough to enjoy screen time but not old enough to
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: enjoy coloring and doing those types of tity.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: That's what happens when you have too much screen time.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: You can't can't talk, You can't talk.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: And I guess girls and boys are different in that
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: little boys often don't want to sit down and color
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: in for an hour, whereas Marley and Lola that is
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: their absolute jam. They love it.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: It's just got to run. Bro.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's boys. They gotta like they gotta exert the energy.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's unbelievable.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Like he'll come back from like a day at KINDI
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: where it's like they've been on an excursion and he's
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: been fucking running around like he's Then he goes to Popper's.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: It goes for a swim for an hour with Popper
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and like not just like like a leisurely swim.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I'm talking fucking.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: In thought, playing out in out up, back up, back up.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: But he's like a fucking kelpie. What the fuck? Like
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: it's NonStop. And then he gets home and he's like,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I want to go on jump on his trampoline. I'm like,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: the fucking wrong with you?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: One day, I'm just half expecting him to be like,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ge jump on the trampoline to look out and.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be like.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: But no, he's not, and he wouldn't. And then I'm like,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: go to bed. He's like no, like you're tired. He's like, no,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: to have that amount of energy, if must divided that amount,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: you kind of do. No, I'm tired.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: No, you only when you like sid still, when you're
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: when you're inactivity. You're You're like, you're fucking like a kelpie,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: You're like a healthy Yeah, you were like your son.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Damn it. I know. So what's your plan on screen time?
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: You are going to completely remove it. You're gonna go weekends,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: weekends only.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I think only only on a no like individual screen
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: because that's like they're locked in and Macy gets so
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: locked in.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: You're like, but they're like TV.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I put the TV on and then Oscar's got his
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: legos well, and he's you know, he ended up just
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: be concentrating on the lego, which is what you want.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: He's so good at it, like he's like, fucking I
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: got I got in this lego yesterday and then what
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I do yesterday afternoon?
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I literally went and pick up dinner, came back, he.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Said, look and it's Star Wars Death start and.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: He's done it. Yeah, lego master loves it. He just
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: locks in. Should be tested tested.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: You should, I mean again, your word's not mine, man.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: It's a good idea. Where we got we were screen timing.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Like I remember the kids used to get into the
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: routine where they would wake up and they would they
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: would start waking up earlier because they you know, they
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: rustled a bet at like five o'clock screen and then
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: they'd just be like screen time, and because we were
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: so tired, we were just like, here's my phone and
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: then I'd fall back asleep and I'd wake up an
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: hour later I noticed next to me like just balls
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Deep and new YouTube. Yeah, and then that was like
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: and then every dinner time, they wouldn't eat their dinner
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: unless the TV was on. It was just screen time,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: like every second of every day. When they went to daycare,
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: it was fucking bad.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's exactly where we were at.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: And not to be I'm not I'm not judging it
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: never works for you, but we were like Laura was
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: the one who was like, this is getting ridiculous.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: M yeah, like they will wait, they wake up early
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: because they know what's thoughts there, and then I would
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I would use it as well to go.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Back to sleep.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I think like, if you have something really important to
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: do and you need them to be distracted, fine, I'm
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: okay with that, but like for an extra half hour sleep,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: it's not really worth it.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: This way.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: When we were on the cruise recently, we stopped doing
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: screen time at dinner and I will say that is
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: the fucking worst.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Oh that sucks.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Like you get like a little sense of we did
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: it no screen time, but dinner is just chaos entirely.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Enjoy fucking sauce everywhere.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: They're like drawing on the tablecloth, like going over to
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: other table.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I will say, though, the P and O staff, the waiters,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: because they're all from different countries, very good, very good.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: They were like they would remember the name and then
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: like I think, like for breakfast, we had this guy Michael.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I remember his name was shouts Michael, probably not listening,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: definitely not sure. He would be like does that have
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: a race, and he would just go and take them
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: if it was quiet enough to like just people. I
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: was sitting there eating breakfast, I'm like with the kids,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and then you just see him pass with Michael. I
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: did tip him.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: For the RSL. There's no Michael.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: There's no Michael.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: There's no Michael.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: We need Michael more Michaels.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Michael's rs L. We've got dinner tonight the RSL just
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: to go.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: My sister icebergs no not RSL.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Rself very nice RSL. And I'm like it's going to
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: be Laura's not coming and I'm like, fuck, it's going
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: to be hell me and the kids. And she doesn't
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: dis screen to them.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: And yeah, but you know she's like she needs a
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: screen She's yeah, she needs.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: She'd love screen time.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: We'd give all day, every day for Ellie Geeva occupied anyway,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: So that was the meltdown.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: We've recovered somewhat. Macy hasn't.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: She's still down there.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Matt.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Last week you mentioned you had a info in it
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: for big school. Not for you, you're way past big school.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: It's for her name is Marley, right, her name.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Is Maley and she is transitioning to kindy.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, so at big school kindy.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Big smook indy big. One thing that's weird about school
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: in New South Wales is that primary school finishes in
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: year six. Right, that's fucking weird.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Even numbers, What do you mean?
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Even number six is an even.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Number made up of two odd numbers.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Very good school, Queen's Lane. We finished school in year
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: seven primary school. High school starts in year eight.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: That's silly.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Even number two fourths make they go.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Well said truth truth.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: So yeah, so we enrolled. We enrolled. Obviously, we had
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: the panic, the panic of the late enrollment, got in there,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: had the Infra Nite. Felt good, great, great Infra Nite
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: by the way, and then we had our first orientation,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: which was this morning, I'm coming straight from the orientation.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: How'd you go, Marley go?
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Actually she did, okay, okay, good, she did Okay, your
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: orientation you were with the kids.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: It was like one of that was like the initial one.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Have you done an orientation where you just dropped?
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: April has done the drop because I've been busy.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Because I thought, initially I thought it was going to
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: be I'm with Marley the whole time. I thought we
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: would go to school in the morning, all the parents
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: would be holding hands with their kids from start to finish.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: We wouldn't do that when they actually go to school.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: So they got you've got to prepare them. It'd be
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: weird if you went to school every day.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Were there out the fen Madison. So I looked at
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: this sheet and I was like, oh, it's just it's
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: a drop and go orientation. So I actually it worked
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: out great because Marley was really pumped, really excited for
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: the days leading up to it because a lot of
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: her daycare friends are also They got the orientation, so
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: everyone's kind of like in this process of preparing for
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: big school, Marley loves it. And I was like, you
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: don't need your dinner, You're not going to school. If
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: you didn't go to bed right now, you are not
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: going to school. So I've been using that as my main.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Correct We'd be like, thank God, I don't want the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: dinner and I don't want to go to school.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Fuck. Imagine if that was the case.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: And then I was driving Maley in. We went in
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: there through the front gates, and I at a moment
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: where I was thinking, oh, my gosh, I remember taking
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Marley to her first day of daycare and you know.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: How little she was back then, And I was now, yeah, yeah,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: back now.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: And now I'm you know, at this. For the last
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: few years, it's been pretty consistent, the routine of your
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: kids in daycare, and it's you're now entering a different phase.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: And it's a real obviously sounds really obvious, but a
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: real moment of oh, she's not a little kid anymore.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: She's turning into a little girl. Yeah, And I hate it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: It's a double edged sword. I love that she's turning
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: into a little girl, and I love how she's becoming.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, I'm like, oh, she's not my.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: She's not your baby any anymore. Yeah, And like.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Oscar is the same, he's I remember walking him to KINDI.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: We used to live in d wives of suburban Sydney
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and we would walk to the end of.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: The road where the KINDI was. I remember his little backpack.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah I had to carry because he was just but
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: like yeah, And then now he's like.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: We've got a drop off orientation tomorrow.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Which is I haven't been to the last couple because
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I've been I've been an absent father. But this one
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go so be interesting. I'll be able
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to let you know how that goes next week.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Well, I thought it was going to be a little
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: bit emotional, you know, when I drop off with daycare.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Sometimes that moment of when I I'm walking out the
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: door and I'm waving goodbye, very often she's like, Daddy,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: don't go stay there. Maybe like once or twice a week.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't get it if you just pushed out a
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: car when you drove.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Past, you're right right right, or the balue out of
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: the window. And we went in. I met her teacher.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: They have a buddy. So one of the older kids,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: they come down. You're going to sign a buddy and
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: that's who you're going to have for when you actually
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: start school. And the buddy was lovely, great, great young lady.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: And you know, I'm standing there with the buddy with
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Marley the teacher, and I was like, Okay, Marley, you
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: have a really great day. And to a buddy, I
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: was like, you have really fun fum looking after Marley.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: And then I hung around for like a split second longer,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: and I was just taking it in and I was
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: expecting Maley to maybe be a bit upset, you know,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: hold my hand and say, Daddy, can you stay? And
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: she looked at me and she's like, do you want
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: to get out of here?
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: You didn't get the moment. You were like thinking it
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: was going to be dad, you can leave? Oh can
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: you fuck off? Did that break your heart?
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh? Look yeah, I was like, she doesn't
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: want me anymore?
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: No, Well, yeah, I think she's the excitement of the
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: first you remember, Okay, here we go. You remember the
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: first time you did drop her off to kinder. It
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: was like a whole new world. So they're all so
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: excited too. But then the second time they knew what
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: they were in for, and they're like, so next time,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: you might get that.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Moment where it's like, fucking over, I'm going. But if
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: she's super excited, that's great.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: I was outside the fence, okay, turn tables, and she
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: was like, fuck after, leave me alone. I can still see.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: You in the bushes, rustling in the bushes.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: But she was great. Picture up a few hours later.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: She had a great time.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: They do though.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: I met some of the dads.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, lovely dads. What they really nice? You got really nice.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I made a really shit joke, tells me.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: He goes. The dad comes over and he goes, oh,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: have you this is we all come about ten minutes
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: early to pick up the kids. And he goes, oh,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: are you here to pick up your kids? Starting kindy
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: and I said no, no, the gate was opened. I
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: just walked in.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I like it. That's not ship. That is great, bit predatory, verytory.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: But then I was like the guy was like, oh,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: I should make conversation mate, yeah, And I was like
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: I mean yeah.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And now he's with the other day's con.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Attitude on him.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I do have a little message from Mali, just to
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: let you know how she went. What was your favorite
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: part of schooling? May bike? Are you excited to go
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: to school?
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Oh that's lovely anyway, should we go into hack or
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: funck that man?
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Please?
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, I've got one for you. This is a parenting hack.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: I've come up with this on the run. I think
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: it's genius. Oscar picked his fingernail too short, and you
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: know when you do that, everything stings.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Salt, lemon, any citrus?
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: How much citrus are you eating in your household?
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: My house is just full of citrus. Everywhere you go,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: everybody turn, you open the door, bam.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Citrus sleeps on a bit of lemons. It's a bet
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: of limes, so better than that orange. But anything, he'll
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: just complain anyway. So April went into the city for a.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Full day's work. She only goes in every now and then.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: A very good I decided to go with showers instead
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: of bath. What a shower for the kids instead of
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: a bath?
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Great tie back to my original story of the bath household.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you?
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: So I'm pro no bath, yes, just because showers quick.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Also like it's just easier bath. They just anyway, we
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: can go.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: On about it.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Are you in the bath in the shower with them?
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Nah? Sometimes you shut the door. No, No, I mean
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I'm in the bathroom. We don't have a door in
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: our shower.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: What's that like?
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Anyway, he was complaining about he didn't want to get
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: his hand wet because he didn't want to sting fair enough.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: But I was like, okay, bro, I've got a solution
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: for you, and I'm.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Going to show you. Yeah what that is.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: That is a zip lock bag over the hand of
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Oscar And then I've used a handtie of Macy's to
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: make that water tied.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: You've maguided it, I've guarded it. And he gives like
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: a little night.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Of you've done it.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: This will do?
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Do you know what? The funny thing is? It didn't work.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: The water still.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Got in there and he didn't notice. And I was like,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: there's water in there, Bro, did it sting? He's like,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: it mustn't hurt anymore.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: You know what you need to do? Bit a glad
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: wrap as well.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: I was like, maybe I'll tape it up, and I thought, nah,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: just use a hair tie anyway, what do you reckon?
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Good hack? Very good, Thank you, very good. Well done.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: The ingenuity on that is on the fly too.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I was like, I sat down after with the kids
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: in the bed and I was like, stonewood, I am good.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Fuck, it's annoying though any little scratch. Lola is the
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: worse for it. Where she was like, I cannot get
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: it wet, and so she'll be in the bath with
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: like a foot on knee hanging out because she want
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: to get it wet, and then the until she forgets
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: and then like next second I'm like, see you're in
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: the water, and she's like.
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  Speaker 2: Get it out. My god. They're just over dramatized.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: That is an apparenting hack.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: By the way, thank you.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: You're welcome. Yes, there he is first in a while.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: It feels good. Should we go into questions? Matthew finishes
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  Speaker 1: off strong with a couple of questions.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, please Ash. We have had this question submitted by Caitlin.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: She's written in and she wants to know this is
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: a very interesting question. I would love to know your
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: take on this. What is your approach to alcohol with
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: your own kids.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: They're a bit young at the moment, are they You're
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: never so young?
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: At what point do you think you will introduce your
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: kids to alcohol, or will you introduce them at all?
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: They already know that beer's daddy's.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: They'll see your case in beer and they'll be like, daddy,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: look I was. I think they're going to get to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: an age of teenagehood.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Of course, as we all do did whatever.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Some people didn't, but where you like, because they're dead,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: they're dead, they're dead by then.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Shout out to those who didn't make it, well.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: That's horrible, but I like it. I get to an
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: age like where you're like, I remember getting to an
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: age around I'm like, I have some beers.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: And you hit it and you were like fifteen fourteen,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: fourteen fifteen. Sure, I was like, eh, and I think
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: like I hit it.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I had some friends that their parents wouldn't enable it,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: but they were like, you can. If you're going to
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: do it, do it here because you're in a controlled
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: environment somewhat.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: And if you're going to get a bit too tipsy,
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: it's better that it happens in someone's house rather than
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: down the park and the.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Way vulnerable and anything could happen.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: So did your parents ever allow you to have alcohol
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: at home before you eighteen?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Allow is a strong word I think they knew I
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: was like giving in to take a mile sort of guy.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: I can imagine you know one, you're going to.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Have one, maybe maybe one.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: But rolling in with the keg, Yeah, it was said one.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I would say it was a semi strict environment where
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I still hid majority of my drinking as a teenager
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: with my friend.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: I would do it in those windows of opportunity, but
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I get shit faced. I don't know. I don't know
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: what it's going to be, like, what they're going to
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: be like.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: See I reckon. I'll do it the same way that
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: it was done for me when I was a kid,
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: and it's that definitely didn't encourage us to get shit fash.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: She's like, what do you want? Long o and iced
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: tea short coming right up?
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, five of them?
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Who wants a wet pussy? But for me, it was
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: a case of the taboo was removed from alcohol, so
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: it wasn't like it wasn't a case of me wanting
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: to indulge because I thought it was like the naughty
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: thing to do. And I think a lot of kids
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: really binge drink when they're underage because it's just a
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: naughty thing to do, and they want to do something
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: that's against the rules, and so for me it wasn't
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: it wasn't a big deal to have my hands on
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: a bottle of alcohol in the way that I was
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: brought up at home. So I never felt like I've
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: got this small little window where I can break the
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: rules and I want to overindulge, whereas other kids who
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: were my age, when they were in households where the
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: parents had absolutely no idea that their son or daughter
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: were drinking, they were quite often the ones who were
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: then on the weekend get shif face.
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: Binge drink to the extra to be drinking now either
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: now like which I think.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: I think it was a case of like the best
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: example I can give, And if this makes sense, I
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: once worked in a Lolli store, and the rule was,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: if you want to eat a lolly, you can eat
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: the lolly. And because you're allowed to do it, you
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: didn't really want to eat. Yeah, But you always think,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: like the rule if it was like you cannot eat
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: a single thing, you'd probably want to like sneak a
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: few lollies in.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that might, I mean, that might work for you.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Some people at different Some people cannot help themselves but
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: everyone's going to be different, right.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: But I think if you introduce them in a controlled
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: setting for me anyway, you.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Probably reduced the risk factor of anything happening. If Oscar's
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: sitting there having a drink with me while watching the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: football at home and his mates are out there getting
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: shit face and potentially doing something risky, I know where
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I prefer him to be.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: But then also you can be more aware of what
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: he's like when he's drinking.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so if.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: You think that he is going down a path where
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: he's hitting the bottle too hard, you can speak to
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: them about it and there's open conversation as opposed to
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: it being this thing that no one ever talks about.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: But I definitely think that Laura and I will introduce
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: our kids as teenagers, and I'm talking like fifteen sixteen,
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: all introduce them to alcohol, rather than do that with
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: their friends in a park with absolutely zero adult supervision.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I would prefer to have Oscar's first.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Beer with Oscar. I'm going to have to work it out.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: When I get there, because I don't know what sort
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: of kid he's going to be in ten years time,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: what brain chemistry is made up of I don't know
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: really if I was to have a drink with him now,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: it would just be a fucking scrap, you know what
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I mean? Much discussion, much to think about. Here's one
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: for you from Christo. We both have two kids. How
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: did you introduce your first kid to your second kid?
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: We approach it the same way, going Marley, this is Lola,
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Lols is Marley.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: We did it more along the lines of how you
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: would introduce a child to a pet. Where we had
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: a rag a blanket if you will rag, and we
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: would it had it had long less scent on it,
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: and we then introduced that to Marlo.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: We would blanket from their at the airport.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Fuck airport hospital. Same thing, the blanket from the hospital.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Did you steal yours too?
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Of course?
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: I love how everyone we need to do something with that.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: There's something there.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: This is a side note, there's something there still everyone
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: steals that blanket.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know where it is. But no, I didn't
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: actually do that, so I was joke.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I didn't.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: I didn't introduce the scenter of my child.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Oh from a rag.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: So I took Marley's shoe toy? Yeah, how did you
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: do it?
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Come on? Give us a I think they were just there.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: I think that was just there was no like, there
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: was no propit.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Was that helicopter we're invading, it's happening, your mum's in
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: the front room election?
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it just like there was no there
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: was no real moment it was.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Can I interject really quickly.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of the lead up work is
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: done during the pregnancy, where they you're sort of like,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: this is what to expect. You're going to have a
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: little brother or a little sister, or they're in mummy's
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: tummy and they've already bonded with it kind of already
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: think it's not like it's like surprise.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: You know, Laura was like bringing home a dog because.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: She was hiding the bump from Maley for the whole pregnancy.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: There's a book called I Think You're a Big Sister
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: as well, which explains like, yeah, you're about to have
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: another person in the family and you're going to be
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: a big sister, which means that you're going to have
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: to do X, Y and Z and they're going to
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: be a bit loud and blah blah blah blah blah.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: So that book great book.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, by the time you come home from the hospital.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: There might be the initial like from but Oscar being like, oh,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: your little baby.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: And then was that at home or in the hospital.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: At home, I don't even think we brought I can't remember.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: We didn't take Oscar at the hospital.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: I think we did either.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Imagine another kid, imagine taking back to it all began
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: to be like.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: Yep, no anyway, So I mean it was awful in
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: terms of I think Marley was like, let me hold her,
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: and we're like, okay, here she is, and then the
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: split second later Marley was trying to rip an eye
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: out with the finger and we're like.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: That's enough for you guys, or like little girls like
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: they undressed dolls that.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Mowlers naked.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Actually what yeah, I think Yeah, from what I remember,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: it was pretty smooth.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: But I know and I have we were in the hospital.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: With Macey and they had like a class, like an
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: introductory to your older sibling class where it wasn't like
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: they would just talk about that, you know, like what
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: the eldest couldn't get up too, because they might feel
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: they are not getting the attention. They might feel so
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: I think it's not really the introduction of the younger sibling.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: It's the dynamic, the new dynamic that that you've got
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: to share your love.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: That would probably throw them off them.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: But I think early doors, early doors that when that
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: bump is like showing the tiny spin but baby's coming.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just very vocal about it all the time. And
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: then also like make sure that you don't just neglect the.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Old one easier to stake, to make easy, Yeah, they
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: say in that class, I do recall.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: They make sure you still feed your other child.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were like, make sure that you just fill
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: the cup with your other child as well, Like, I
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: know you're going to be taken up so much to
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: include them in what you're doing, because they would feel
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: included and it might fill the cup up as well.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Am I a genius?
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: Beautifully sad, lovely What a way to wrap up the episode.
• 40:59
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• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Two noting dads, you've wrapped us up so nicely, Matthew,
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: You've forgotten one thing. What's that we did?
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Run a competition of course, of course, or a trip away.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: The biggest competition we've ever run on this podcast.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: We just give away beer, but this time we give
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: it away a holiday. I think there's here on the holiday.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: I think there is.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: They do sell be there, So Matthew a big shout
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: out to who Hannah Daily.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: A huge thanks to everyone who submitted a video for
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: the competition. But Hannah, your blue paint video was amazing
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: and we think you were very deserving of a trip away.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: So make sure you message us after your trip and
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: let us know how it went.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Enjoy well deserved, you deserve a break. I know you're
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: going to take your kids.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: A few people are like, can we not take the kids?
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: Say here's leave behind, leaving behind, don't care if you've guys,
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: as long as they have supervision, yes, don't leave them here.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: Enjoy the sundays, great hotel, how much an island, What
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: a place to be at this time of year.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: I do love it. The buffet beautiful. I have dreams
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: of the buffet.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: We'll have to give away another holiday to ourselves. We're
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: due a holiday a couple of weeks chomping.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Should we let them go now, let's get let's get
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: that here. But I'm going to rip this naval strip
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: off right.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: No.
• 42:33
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• 42:37
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• 42:41
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• 42:43
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• 42:46
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