Latest / Two Doting Dads with Matty J & Ash / #159 Wheeping At The Wheel
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Are we good? I clap his in. You might need
- 0:02Speaker 1: a microphone for this big guy there he is.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Oops, sorry about that. I was like, I just roared it. Yeah, okay,
- 0:15Speaker 2: I'm back. I'm back.
- 0:16Speaker 1: You look good.
- 0:16Speaker 2: Hey, you look great?
- 0:17Speaker 1: You look better?
- 0:18Speaker 2: Hat backwards?
- 0:19Speaker 1: Yeah? Something? It mix it up?
- 0:21Speaker 2: You know what are you talking about? That?
- 0:23Speaker 1: That's how to talk now like this.
- 0:25Speaker 2: It changed my whole I don't know how to say
- 0:27Speaker 2: this politely.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Be careful.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Welcome back to two body Guards. I am Mattie J.
- 0:49Speaker 2: And this is a podcast all about parenting. It is
- 0:51Speaker 2: the good, it is the bad and the relatable. And
- 0:54Speaker 2: if you come for advice, shock horror, we don't do it.
- 0:58Speaker 2: We are too dumb dads who happen to be doting
- 1:02Speaker 2: two dopey, dumb day teen dads. Dangerously handsome dads, that's
- 1:07Speaker 2: more likely. There we go, go anyway back. I can't
- 1:10Speaker 2: stop looking at you with that hat backwards.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Okay, stop drooling?
- 1:13Speaker 2: Wow, wait till people watch these videos on socials?
- 1:18Speaker 1: Oh my god, oh.
- 1:20Speaker 2: My god, how old are you again? Hit the gritty thirty.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Four, thirty thirty five in August? Oh yuck, thank.
- 1:30Speaker 2: You, that's middle aged.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Thirty eight is middle aged. Actually is it technically.
- 1:37Speaker 2: An asshole?
- 1:40Speaker 1: Very good? How are you, big guy?
- 1:42Speaker 2: Look at the moment, Lola is really worried about something. Yeah,
- 1:50Speaker 2: it's a front of mine and that thing is monsters.
- 1:56Speaker 1: I see Why where is she get where you're from?
- 2:01Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe I'm trying to think if I
- 2:03Speaker 2: made her watch Monsters inc.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Big mistake, big mistake.
- 2:06Speaker 2: I know, I know we heard that story.
- 2:08Speaker 1: The first scene in that it's a simulator of a
- 2:11Speaker 1: kid screaming as lung.
- 2:13Speaker 2: It's ptad how that got signed off as a kid's
- 2:15Speaker 2: movie different times, different times?
- 2:18Speaker 1: Yeah, you can eat your kids back. Then.
- 2:21Speaker 2: She's just really obsessed with monsters, really obsessed.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Do the monsters have like any characteristics?
- 2:28Speaker 2: Not really. When at nighttime when put to bed, she go,
- 2:31Speaker 2: my dad, the monsters in the room, and I go, no,
- 2:33Speaker 2: the not She goes, he's laying. But then one morning
- 2:39Speaker 2: she woke up and she came to our bed. It
- 2:41Speaker 2: must have been pretty early five in the morning. On
- 2:44Speaker 2: that cusp of like will they get back to sleep
- 2:46Speaker 2: or won't they? She was like, guys, can you tell
- 2:48Speaker 2: me a story? Talking to me and Laura, and I
- 2:51Speaker 2: was like, oh god, try and think of a story.
- 2:54Speaker 1: Once was a monster that lived in your bedroom.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Whataura goes, I got the story. Don't worry, I got
- 3:03Speaker 2: this one. She goes, there was a little monster that
- 3:07Speaker 2: lived in your wardrobe and it was a cute, little
- 3:10Speaker 2: baby monster. And I was like, Laura, your breast. I
- 3:16Speaker 2: was like, what do you think you're doing? She goes,
- 3:18Speaker 2: I got this, I got this, And she tried to
- 3:21Speaker 2: spin a beautiful tale about a little cute baby monster
- 3:24Speaker 2: who didn't have a mummy and daddy and who was
- 3:27Speaker 2: looked after by the house that she was hiding within.
- 3:31Speaker 2: I e Lola saved her and told this beautiful story
- 3:34Speaker 2: of how the monster and Lola became best friends.
- 3:37Speaker 1: How that goes down.
- 3:39Speaker 2: And Lola was like, okay, so there is a monster
- 3:45Speaker 2: and I was like what She points She was in tears,
- 3:51Speaker 2: being like there's a monster in my room. I was like,
- 3:54Speaker 2: what do you what are you doing? And I don't
- 3:55Speaker 2: want you know, Laura's pregnant. I'm going to cut us
- 3:57Speaker 2: some slack. I'm not going to address to her personally.
- 4:00Speaker 2: I'm just going to hear it behind her back. So
- 4:05Speaker 2: we're dealing with the monsters now.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Still, that didn't obviously that didn't work. No, so both
- 4:14Speaker 1: kids now using the big toilet. Happy congratulations to me
- 4:18Speaker 1: and all of us, and without a whole lot of effort.
- 4:21Speaker 1: If I'm completely honest, like I feel like you know,
- 4:25Speaker 1: everyone's like sweating and ship. It was a I was like,
- 4:31Speaker 1: pretty easy thing. Okay, it's funny. I do nothing. No,
- 4:37Speaker 1: I do plenty, thank you, just not that. No, they
- 4:40Speaker 1: were pretty good at like sort of toilet training themselves.
- 4:45Speaker 1: But I got me thinking. I got me thinking about
- 4:48Speaker 1: use the first time I used a big toilet. Do
- 4:51Speaker 1: you remember the first time you might have used the toilet? Yeah?
- 4:54Speaker 2: I ended up getting circumcised afterwards.
- 4:58Speaker 1: Thanks for my god, I mean sitting on it, not
- 5:03Speaker 1: actually peeing in it. Sorry, I'm sorry to bring up that.
- 5:08Speaker 2: Wow, that's my first memory is my mum being like,
- 5:12Speaker 2: which one of you fucking kids just pissing all over
- 5:15Speaker 2: the walls And then and then she then stood there
- 5:18Speaker 2: and watched us pissed one by one until finally it
- 5:20Speaker 2: was my turn and pissed everywhere anyway anyway, and then
- 5:25Speaker 2: but please sorry, I'm.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry I'll bring that up.
- 5:29Speaker 2: But at the same time, and I woke up in
- 5:31Speaker 2: hospital and my dick had been cut off.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, that's great.
- 5:34Speaker 2: So for those of you who aren't aware, I was
- 5:36Speaker 2: circumcised at the age of six because they had too
- 5:38Speaker 2: much foreskin.
- 5:39Speaker 1: They used to move along. They used to call him
- 5:41Speaker 1: six skin, Maddie. I just gotta be thinking about using
- 5:46Speaker 1: the toilet for the first time. Stop making this about you.
- 5:52Speaker 1: Let me make this about me.
- 5:53Speaker 2: Okay.
- 5:54Speaker 1: And we used to live in an old firebro shithole shack,
- 5:59Speaker 1: the same one where Oh my god, wow, how dare
- 6:05Speaker 1: I go full circle? I've gone full circle? Poverty family
- 6:11Speaker 1: grew up moving to a poverty house.
- 6:14Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. It must be nice to have hinting
- 6:17Speaker 2: and hot water and that was take that out, just
- 6:22Speaker 2: remove that.
- 6:23Speaker 1: People need to see who you really are. Anyway, I'm
- 6:28Speaker 1: going to take some hot water home with Haven't you
- 6:33Speaker 1: noticed things have been going, you know, because we don't
- 6:35Speaker 1: have the modern amenities, although one thing we do have
- 6:39Speaker 1: that's better than you is WiFi. Like most of the
- 6:42Speaker 1: world countries, their Wi Fi is better than ours. Anyway,
- 6:46Speaker 1: very good. Okay. So I used to live in an
- 6:48Speaker 1: old ship house like I do now.
- 6:51Speaker 3: But and we used to have the bathroom laundry combination
- 6:58Speaker 3: that had a back door out to the line that
- 7:00Speaker 3: was pretty popular in architectural days back then.
- 7:02Speaker 1: I think confer that for us, but I remember it
- 7:05Speaker 1: so vividly. Was because we were having We used to
- 7:08Speaker 1: have like home daycare at our house, right, So what
- 7:12Speaker 1: do you mean? So like my mum was part of
- 7:16Speaker 1: like her motherless group, for example, and because they all
- 7:20Speaker 1: still worked and stuff, there would be like times where
- 7:23Speaker 1: all the kids would stay. It would come to our
- 7:26Speaker 1: place during the day, mayday a Friday one week, and
- 7:28Speaker 1: then it might be someone else's house one week, something
- 7:31Speaker 1: like that.
- 7:31Speaker 2: I like a cult. Yeah it's nice, it's nice.
- 7:36Speaker 1: It's a nice col yeah, yes, yeah, yeah.
- 7:38Speaker 2: Anyway, then we used to dance like a commune.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Yeah, we used to dance round a fire. I remember
- 7:44Speaker 1: it vividly because I used that. This is the first
- 7:46Speaker 1: time I used a big toilet, okay, and I remember
- 7:50Speaker 1: it because I could. I need ship, I could do this.
- 7:54Speaker 1: And I remember I lift up the seat, sat down,
- 7:58Speaker 1: but didn't leave the actual seat, so I slipped in
- 8:04Speaker 1: bum first.
- 8:05Speaker 2: You put both both Yeah, the lid in the rim
- 8:09Speaker 2: judged me.
- 8:09Speaker 1: It was my first sat down and I was like,
- 8:12Speaker 1: oh yeah, and you know, like a quite small kid
- 8:17Speaker 1: to It's quite big for a small kid. Slid down
- 8:20Speaker 1: the porcelain, stuck bum in the water. I just yelled
- 8:24Speaker 1: out for ages for someone to come and get me,
- 8:26Speaker 1: and eventually my mom came in and I was like,
- 8:29Speaker 1: have you ever seen that scene in Ocean's eleven when
- 8:31Speaker 1: that guy, the gymnast guy slides into the small tube.
- 8:35Speaker 1: That's what it looked like. You could just see my
- 8:37Speaker 1: head and my feet coming up like that. Anyway, traumatized
- 8:41Speaker 1: as you can imagine, because I had to try and
- 8:42Speaker 1: pull me out of the fucking thing, and trying to
- 8:45Speaker 1: yank me out, had.
- 8:46Speaker 2: You gone business?
- 8:48Speaker 1: No? I was petrified anyway. So then they pulled me
- 8:52Speaker 1: out and I hadn't ship on the floor. Wow, because
- 8:55Speaker 1: I came out You think it.
- 8:57Speaker 2: Is just just just popped in sleep one night. Yeah.
- 9:02Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like I was just thinking about like
- 9:05Speaker 1: that Macie now using a big toilet. Yeah yeah, I
- 9:10Speaker 1: was like, wedn't fall in, and they're like, just go.
- 9:15Speaker 1: That just reminds me of something else that happened we
- 9:18Speaker 1: used to have. I don't know why, my parents all
- 9:21Speaker 1: of a sudden, for like a small period of time,
- 9:23Speaker 1: became religious.
- 9:25Speaker 2: Everyone has that little phase. It's like maybe I could
- 9:28Speaker 2: save my soul.
- 9:31Speaker 1: Remember we had house like we used to have house church.
- 9:34Speaker 1: This is the nineties, man, everything in your house, didn't
- 9:38Speaker 1: you do it?
- 9:38Speaker 2: There?
- 9:41Speaker 1: We had to keep warm, was one of them. And
- 9:44Speaker 1: I remember they were having and I was in bed.
- 9:47Speaker 1: I wasn't a young tackle like maybe Oscar's age. I
- 9:49Speaker 1: remember because I had big the flannelette Army's on and
- 9:53Speaker 1: I needed to go to a pool and you had
- 9:57Speaker 1: to go through the kitchen, which was there was the
- 9:58Speaker 1: living through the sermon just about they were in the
- 10:01Speaker 1: living room doing what I don't know what they were doing.
- 10:04Speaker 1: That's probably more I don't know.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Like this is religion.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Who's got I got sort of halfway across the kitchen
- 10:17Speaker 1: as a small boy and got this real big urge
- 10:20Speaker 1: too took ship and it came out the side of
- 10:23Speaker 1: my leg of my Pajami's onto the kitchen floor.
- 10:25Speaker 2: Oh god, this is.
- 10:28Speaker 1: What I'm working with, living with all this ship trauma.
- 10:33Speaker 2: I you know what happens once you start talking about
- 10:36Speaker 2: just it just takes over and takes over.
- 10:39Speaker 1: I know, because it's like we're at the park as well.
- 10:42Speaker 1: Was like I'm just going to go pooh, So honest Anyway,
- 10:47Speaker 1: moving on from.
- 10:48Speaker 2: That, I've got a story that I'm finally willing to tell.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Oh I like this.
- 10:55Speaker 2: Okay, So before my mom moved in with us, you know,
- 10:58Speaker 2: we were looking for a babysit. I recall, and it's
- 11:01Speaker 2: actually very difficult to find a good babysitter.
- 11:05Speaker 1: Would no, couldn't for because I'm poor.
- 11:08Speaker 2: Come on, you were as much money as it's hard
- 11:14Speaker 2: to tell the story. Okay, it's very traumatic. Okay, I'm listening.
- 11:19Speaker 2: Can you just be a bit more sympathetic please, I'll try.
- 11:21Speaker 1: I'll try my very hardest.
- 11:22Speaker 2: So we interviewed a few babysitters, and to be honest,
- 11:26Speaker 2: like even the applications that we got, we went on
- 11:28Speaker 2: a few Facebook groups, got recommendations from a few friends.
- 11:32Speaker 2: None were amazing. We had a couple that were good
- 11:34Speaker 2: that we were like, okay, they're worthy of coming for
- 11:36Speaker 2: a chat face to face. A couple of them, no good,
- 11:40Speaker 2: you know, we said, in addition to looking after the kids,
- 11:43Speaker 2: like we'd love it if you know, just one load
- 11:45Speaker 2: of washing, or if you could help do one meal
- 11:47Speaker 2: and I'm talking like a spag bowl, like pretty simple.
- 11:49Speaker 2: And then you know, one of the women like eye
- 11:52Speaker 2: rolled and was like, I don't do that. I was like,
- 11:54Speaker 2: oh shit, okay.
- 11:56Speaker 1: Bag bowl specifically, it's not in same restaurant. However, I
- 12:01Speaker 1: do a mad Honey chickens. I quit, I quit, I
- 12:10Speaker 1: quit this.
- 12:13Speaker 2: That was funny. So we had one lady come through.
- 12:17Speaker 2: All hope was lost and we were like, this is
- 12:19Speaker 2: a disaster. We're never going to find anybody. She came
- 12:21Speaker 2: in Mary Poppies, and she was just lovely. She was warm,
- 12:26Speaker 2: she was kind. She brought in with her coloring in
- 12:30Speaker 2: pencils and paper, so the kids were like, oh my god,
- 12:33Speaker 2: this chick's awesome. Straight away engaging with the children, they
- 12:38Speaker 2: were having fun, and I was like, I think we're
- 12:41Speaker 2: on to a winner here, Like I get good vibes.
- 12:43Speaker 2: So Laura and I afterwards both said, well it's got
- 12:47Speaker 2: to be her right thumbs up. When she's going to
- 12:49Speaker 2: start Monday, let's do it beautiful. She comes in Monday,
- 12:54Speaker 2: and then when she's actually like dealing with the kids,
- 12:57Speaker 2: she's quite meek is the best way to describe.
- 13:00Speaker 1: But what does that mean?
- 13:01Speaker 2: So me because in you know, with kids, you can't
- 13:04Speaker 2: really you've got to give them options and a lot
- 13:07Speaker 2: of like you can't say do you want to get dressed?
- 13:10Speaker 2: You got to say, like do you want to wear
- 13:11Speaker 2: a T shirt or this?
- 13:12Speaker 1: Or them? You need to confuse them. Can we just
- 13:15Speaker 1: asked them straight up?
- 13:15Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to be no. And so she was like, Hey, Talala,
- 13:19Speaker 2: do you want to get dressed this morning? And she's
- 13:21Speaker 2: like not really, and she's like, oh okay. And then
- 13:24Speaker 2: we look at me and go, I don't know what
- 13:25Speaker 2: to do here, and I was like, that's cool. To
- 13:27Speaker 2: day one, We're kind of everyone's figuring each other out.
- 13:30Speaker 2: It's fine, giving her a lot of slack. So we
- 13:33Speaker 2: end up kids finally get dressed. And then this is
- 13:36Speaker 2: when we used to drive to daycare, which was like
- 13:39Speaker 2: a ten to fifteen minute drive away, and it's a
- 13:41Speaker 2: bit of a tricky place to park. So I said,
- 13:44Speaker 2: I will drive with you and I can just show you,
- 13:46Speaker 2: like there's a couple of little sneaky car parks that
- 13:48Speaker 2: you can get to drop the kids off at daycare.
- 13:51Speaker 2: I'll come with you. And also just day one, you know,
- 13:54Speaker 2: I just want to also just keep an eye, just
- 13:56Speaker 2: make sure everything's cool. So as we help in the car,
- 14:00Speaker 2: garage door opens foot to the floor, we just out there. Wow,
- 14:06Speaker 2: beat out onto the road, no hesitation, slams on the
- 14:10Speaker 2: brakes in the middle of the road, and I was
- 14:11Speaker 2: like whoa and she was like, so sorry, so sorry.
- 14:16Speaker 1: That's I'm not usually micromanaged like this.
- 14:20Speaker 2: Like, accelerator is a bit sticky, and I was like,
- 14:22Speaker 2: it actually is. It's your car, right, it's a sticky accelerator.
- 14:25Speaker 1: Okay. This is her first time in this car. Yeah,
- 14:29Speaker 1: first time on the job.
- 14:30Speaker 2: First on the job. Okay. So then we start traveling
- 14:35Speaker 2: a daycare. There's an intersection stop sign straight through, no
- 14:41Speaker 2: straight through, and I'm like like clenching, and I'm like,
- 14:45Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. You just gotta be really careful. That
- 14:48Speaker 2: was the stop sign. And she was like, I'm so sorry,
- 14:51Speaker 2: so sorry. I didn't see that. It was an accident.
- 14:55Speaker 2: And I was like that is fine. Everyone's a bit nervous. Mistakes,
- 14:59Speaker 2: we have mistakes. We're we're only human. Ash. Okay. Now
- 15:04Speaker 2: we're driving at a part of it's like the Bond
- 15:09Speaker 2: to Bronze Walk. I don't know if you know it.
- 15:11Speaker 2: It's quite quite famous.
- 15:15Speaker 1: Okay, it must be nice.
- 15:16Speaker 2: It's a very busy section of the eastern suburbs where
- 15:19Speaker 2: people you haven't lived So this is during summer. It's
- 15:24Speaker 2: a beautiful day. There's a lot of people out walking
- 15:27Speaker 2: along the.
- 15:27Speaker 1: Football skin summer, a lot of skin.
- 15:31Speaker 2: No, I can't engage with that conversation.
- 15:37Speaker 1: It's a joke, Matthew, carry on.
- 15:44Speaker 2: Yes. So we're driving along the beach there, and she
- 15:50Speaker 2: is really hugging the curb, nice really hugging the curb.
- 15:55Speaker 2: And one thing that I dislike is a scratched rim.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Okay, okay.
- 16:02Speaker 2: And I was thinking to myself, she's got to be
- 16:05Speaker 2: millimeters away from the curb right now, very very close.
- 16:08Speaker 2: And I thought, I'm not going to say any things.
- 16:09Speaker 2: I don't want to be that guy micromanaging. She knows
- 16:13Speaker 2: what she's doing.
- 16:14Speaker 1: I think you're already in the car, bro You've crossed
- 16:16Speaker 1: the line of micromanaging.
- 16:17Speaker 2: So I'm not going to say anything. And then all
- 16:20Speaker 2: of a sudden, in front of us a guy who
- 16:24Speaker 2: was running because it's so busy. He goes to overtake someone.
- 16:28Speaker 2: He steps onto the road right and this is in
- 16:31Speaker 2: front of us, but he doesn't just step onto the
- 16:34Speaker 2: road to overtake. He does a few He's essentially running
- 16:38Speaker 2: in the gutter of the road. Right now, as we
- 16:40Speaker 2: are also hugging the gutter off the road as we
- 16:43Speaker 2: approach him, and I thought to myself, surely she can
- 16:48Speaker 2: see this guy because she hasn't slowed down in the
- 16:50Speaker 2: slightest She's kept her speeding fast.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Was this guy running?
- 16:54Speaker 2: We were catching him. We were approaching him very quickly,
- 16:58Speaker 2: and I thought I should say something. And as I
- 17:01Speaker 2: was about to say something, we clip the runner, hit
- 17:06Speaker 2: and run. He bounces.
- 17:09Speaker 1: You hit, She's hit someone in your car.
- 17:11Speaker 2: She hit him. He's bounced off the side of the car,
- 17:16Speaker 2: kind face against my window, then rolled into the car,
- 17:20Speaker 2: face against like the kid's window, and he's then fallen
- 17:23Speaker 2: to the ground. She slams on the brakes.
- 17:26Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
- 17:28Speaker 2: And I was like, oh my, and people there, everyone
- 17:31Speaker 2: stopped because of what just happened.
- 17:33Speaker 1: Yes, someone just to hit by a fucking car.
- 17:37Speaker 2: And I hop out and I'm like, are you okay?
- 17:39Speaker 2: By some kind of miracle, He's dusted himself off, and
- 17:44Speaker 2: he goes, I would like to apologize. I was running
- 17:51Speaker 2: on the road and I was like, but you okay,
- 17:54Speaker 2: and he goes, yeah, yeah, I'm totally fine. And I
- 17:58Speaker 2: was like, oh.
- 17:58Speaker 1: He drags himself.
- 18:02Speaker 2: I'm like, you're missing this give him back his ship,
- 18:04Speaker 2: and I'm like, this is yours. The kids are like
- 18:10Speaker 2: screaming in the back of the car, this just happened.
- 18:13Speaker 2: The babysitter is also weeping at the wheel, and I'm going, well,
- 18:19Speaker 2: if he's he runs off, he's gone. He's going off
- 18:23Speaker 2: some kind of terminator, turn around and run over all
- 18:26Speaker 2: the witnesses. I said, I think I'll drive from this moment.
- 18:32Speaker 2: So we dropped the kids off. We get back in
- 18:34Speaker 2: the car. She's waiting in the car. She's hysterical, and
- 18:38Speaker 2: she's like as we drive back home, she goes, I've
- 18:40Speaker 2: got to be honest with you. I've never babysat in
- 18:43Speaker 2: my life. What, Yeah, she tripped you. She's like, I'm
- 18:47Speaker 2: here on holiday and I really need the money, okay,
- 18:50Speaker 2: And I'm like, what do I do? Kick her out? Well,
- 18:54Speaker 2: I felt back cool cars. Well, I'm I'm thinking, like,
- 19:02Speaker 2: I feel bad for this woman, but.
- 19:04Speaker 1: She really killed someone. But it was an accidents mathew.
- 19:08Speaker 2: So I was like, let's just see how the rest
- 19:10Speaker 2: of the week goes.
- 19:12Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
- 19:14Speaker 2: And so then after that week, the first week, the
- 19:18Speaker 2: end of the week, I was like, look, it's in
- 19:20Speaker 2: my head. I'm like, this is not ideal because you
- 19:22Speaker 2: can't do any driving. I'm going to do all the driving.
- 19:25Speaker 2: You really can't get any handle of my kids at all.
- 19:28Speaker 1: You essentially gained another kid toddler immediately.
- 19:32Speaker 2: But I was like, I'm just I didn't have it
- 19:34Speaker 2: in me to fire her. But then she came to
- 19:37Speaker 2: me and she's like this isn't working out, is it?
- 19:40Speaker 2: And I was like, oh my god.
- 19:41Speaker 1: She's like, my holiday is over, isn't it? So yeah,
- 19:45Speaker 1: so where is she now?
- 19:47Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know where she ended up,
- 19:49Speaker 2: just I don't know. Reason probably Yeah, goodness, my mum
- 19:56Speaker 2: retired and now my mom is in charge.
- 19:58Speaker 1: How many people is she hitting the car? A couple
- 20:00Speaker 1: because she does your mom drive?
- 20:02Speaker 2: Thank goodness.
- 20:03Speaker 1: I was just thinking that, like, here's.
- 20:05Speaker 2: Too freaked out on the roads in Sydney. And then
- 20:07Speaker 2: I told her that story and she was like, oh yeah,
- 20:10Speaker 2: So any parents out there who were struggling to find
- 20:13Speaker 2: a babysitter, hey, you're not alone.
- 20:15Speaker 1: Don't get that one.
- 20:20Speaker 2: Ash just very very quickly. Here, we don't often share hacks.
- 20:24Speaker 2: It's not what we're about, okay, We're more about complaining.
- 20:29Speaker 2: I love a good complaint right, I mean, should we
- 20:33Speaker 2: look at doing my hacks and make parenting easier.
- 20:36Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with the complaining.
- 20:37Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's complaining. Okay. Well, I just found this
- 20:40Speaker 2: one as I was going on a little doom scroll
- 20:43Speaker 2: as I often do at nighttime before I go to bed,
- 20:46Speaker 2: and I think this is good. Okay, I think we're
- 20:49Speaker 2: on the winner. This may be the greatest hack I've
- 20:52Speaker 2: seen all year.
- 20:53Speaker 4: All right, So what I'm looking at here is a
- 20:56Speaker 4: mechanic chess for tools on It's been converted into a
- 21:02Speaker 4: nappy table changing table.
- 21:04Speaker 1: Soft clothes. It looks soft closed to me, and it's
- 21:09Speaker 1: used instead of like having like what are they put
- 21:11Speaker 1: in that thing? Like ratchet set?
- 21:14Speaker 2: Were real Man Mexicon bolts, what do they call those bolts?
- 21:24Speaker 5: Nuts, lugs, screwdrivers, screwdrivers, scanner crow bars, crow bars.
- 21:35Speaker 2: They put nappies in there.
- 21:37Speaker 1: That's more Wow. I think that's really good. And it's
- 21:42Speaker 1: on wheels too.
- 21:43Speaker 2: And I think he spray painted it as well, which.
- 21:46Speaker 1: Makes it beautiful. The plug on the side, do we know,
- 21:50Speaker 1: like it plugs in. Maybe it's got like an internal light,
- 21:56Speaker 1: Maybe it vibrates.
- 21:58Speaker 2: I don't know when the baby's tired. Plug it in,
- 22:03Speaker 2: just plug it straight in. It's got one of those
- 22:05Speaker 2: baby charges. No, I think it's very I think that
- 22:08Speaker 2: is worthy of showing me. I think that's that's good gear.
- 22:12Speaker 2: Shout out to Live Well with Nell.
- 22:15Speaker 1: Yeah, but also with L with L sorry with Hell
- 22:18Speaker 1: l shit, but also Chester DAWs did the same thing.
- 22:26Speaker 2: I love how quickly you've gone from like wow, that's incredible.
- 22:30Speaker 2: I just point out the it's time for a very
- 22:35Speaker 2: good segment, as with a new song, not brand spanking,
- 22:38Speaker 2: just a new song. It's a new song.
- 22:40Speaker 1: I love it.
- 22:41Speaker 2: Do people love it?
- 22:41Speaker 1: Probably not?
- 22:43Speaker 2: Well?
- 22:43Speaker 1: Here it is.
- 22:46Speaker 2: A lot of it.
- 22:47Speaker 1: Bree, you say what.
- 22:52Speaker 2: Man?
- 22:53Speaker 1: I feel like a pair of brand.
- 23:00Speaker 2: Okay, pair rants f anyone who's not familiar. Maybe you're
- 23:03Speaker 2: a new listener, Yeah, welcome. Firstly, all the segment is
- 23:08Speaker 2: it's an opportunity for parents to just air out their
- 23:11Speaker 2: frustrations for the week, things that are getting them pissed off.
- 23:14Speaker 2: Rant if you will, a rant if I will?
- 23:17Speaker 1: And you did.
- 23:20Speaker 2: First, I go first.
- 23:21Speaker 1: This is from Anna. It's quite a long one. Let
- 23:24Speaker 1: me get through this without messing it up, which is unlikely.
- 23:28Speaker 1: And it says, what the hell is with the five
- 23:30Speaker 1: girls with the formula that is absolutely unreachable at the
- 23:33Speaker 1: bottom of a formula tin. No matter how much you scoop, shake, dance,
- 23:38Speaker 1: scream or cry, you just never can simply get it
- 23:42Speaker 1: and it ends up going in and recycling along with
- 23:44Speaker 1: the tin.
- 23:46Speaker 2: Triggered there needs to be some kind of like hole
- 23:51Speaker 2: or cap in the side of a tin or the
- 23:53Speaker 2: bottom or the bottom. This is the lip.
- 23:57Speaker 1: Saying with remember like the milo tin and yeah.
- 24:00Speaker 2: There's still something and if you try and like use
- 24:02Speaker 2: your finger to get it out, you end up slicing
- 24:04Speaker 2: your finger over. These are things that I'm about.
- 24:09Speaker 1: I'm about to bring it, I know, and I love that.
- 24:11Speaker 2: And I'm going to be just buried in the trenches
- 24:14Speaker 2: being like look at me, I ask my fingers will
- 24:16Speaker 2: cut up from the ten Do.
- 24:17Speaker 1: You know what they did with the formula thing? They
- 24:18Speaker 1: had the ring on the inside, but then a bit
- 24:21Speaker 1: of it squared off to actually scoop so that it
- 24:25Speaker 1: squares the scoop off because they're like it was too accurate,
- 24:28Speaker 1: scoops what brand I can't recall find it and send
- 24:32Speaker 1: it to me. I will, and I will, But the
- 24:35Speaker 1: problem is you and instead of losing five dollars worth
- 24:37Speaker 1: of formula you lose ten dollars because the lip is
- 24:40Speaker 1: like longer.
- 24:41Speaker 2: How much has fallen? Six sixth Jesus?
- 24:44Speaker 1: And what about that time? Then when they're like because
- 24:46Speaker 1: what was happening is people were bootlegging it. I heard
- 24:49Speaker 1: they were who were like buying it all out. And
- 24:51Speaker 1: then it was like when eggs were like like.
- 24:55Speaker 2: Yeah, people still doing that to formula. Have we got
- 24:56Speaker 2: enough stock now to like quench the appetite of people
- 25:00Speaker 2: who are buying like twenty times?
- 25:01Speaker 1: I don't know, you're gonna find out.
- 25:02Speaker 2: I'm gonna find out so much to look forward to.
- 25:05Speaker 2: Sophie has written in and she says parent rooms that
- 25:08Speaker 2: always smell like dirty nappies? Parent rooms?
- 25:11Speaker 1: Do you think she means like the parent toilet rooms?
- 25:14Speaker 1: So it's like it's weird. It's a weird room. It's
- 25:17Speaker 1: kind of like having a living room in a toilet.
- 25:19Speaker 2: Yeah, like the arm chair in the corner you walk.
- 25:22Speaker 1: In, there's like something for the kid the other kid
- 25:24Speaker 1: to play with. You know.
- 25:25Speaker 2: My rant is we go in there and there's a
- 25:28Speaker 2: full grown man taking a shit. When there's a chair,
- 25:33Speaker 2: when there's an area to lay down your child to
- 25:36Speaker 2: change their nappy. But there's no like kid's toilet.
- 25:40Speaker 1: Oh, the little kid's toilet. Yes, I know what you mean,
- 25:44Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. I know exactly what you mean.
- 25:46Speaker 1: It's all a bit weird for me. I think. I think,
- 25:49Speaker 1: like I said, it's like a living room inside of
- 25:50Speaker 1: a toilet.
- 25:51Speaker 4: Ah.
- 25:52Speaker 1: This one comes from Danny L. There's a photo here
- 25:55Speaker 1: too explosed for a forty dollars barber cup for my boy.
- 25:58Speaker 1: It's awful. Doesn't fix it? That's it fixed? Wow?
- 26:04Speaker 2: Just for those out there, that's a short fring.
- 26:06Speaker 1: This the haircut looks.
- 26:09Speaker 2: Like a simple Jack the movie. I think it was
- 26:12Speaker 2: played by Ben Stiller. Yes, it was played by Ben
- 26:15Speaker 2: Stiller in a movie called Tropic Thunder. No, no, no, no, Yeah.
- 26:17Speaker 1: You're thinking about Jack. Simple Jack was It was a
- 26:21Speaker 1: made up movie within a movie.
- 26:23Speaker 2: No, Simple Jack was a full movie.
- 26:25Speaker 1: No it's not.
- 26:27Speaker 2: Oh my god. This one's from Sammy. Yep, my three
- 26:32Speaker 2: year old not staying in her car seat straps. She
- 26:35Speaker 2: escapes and then screams until my ears bleed.
- 26:37Speaker 1: Yeah, oscar starts to go through the front of the strap.
- 26:40Speaker 2: That's so annoying, kids.
- 26:43Speaker 1: Am I right? Very right? This one's from Polly rough
- 26:47Speaker 1: kids at the playground. I'm a lioness. I'm a lioness
- 26:51Speaker 1: on guard for the next attack, like a dog, like
- 26:55Speaker 1: a dog park. Out there, there's always like one or
- 26:59Speaker 1: two rough kids.
- 26:59Speaker 2: They and the teenage kids.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Oh god, here he goes, Oh, they're down the shop.
- 27:07Speaker 2: This is for Jesse, who says, all people who are
- 27:10Speaker 2: always worried about my kid's feet being cold, they won't
- 27:14Speaker 2: wear shoes, get over it. I saw a child. I
- 27:17Speaker 2: saw a child. It must have been like one. It's
- 27:20Speaker 2: winter right now, it's cold in Sydney.
- 27:22Speaker 1: That kids don't feel cold.
- 27:23Speaker 2: I know he's walking around no shoes and socks on it,
- 27:25Speaker 2: and I was like something.
- 27:26Speaker 1: Big of the children at pro Oscar got home the
- 27:28Speaker 1: other day and he had short shirt, no shoes, no.
- 27:33Speaker 2: Socks, like twelve degrees.
- 27:34Speaker 1: And I was like, we lived in my house. He's
- 27:36Speaker 1: a climatized. I was like, you eight colds. Like nah,
- 27:39Speaker 1: I didn't use my jumper all day today.
- 27:41Speaker 2: I was like, he's wrong with you? What is wrong
- 27:44Speaker 2: with you?
- 27:45Speaker 1: Anyway?
- 27:45Speaker 2: Anyway, Hey, shout out to Aldi who makes this segment
- 27:48Speaker 2: pair ronts possible.
- 27:50Speaker 1: Just low prices every day, Aldi good different love them
- 27:54Speaker 1: legend that a Shually we finished with a couple of questions.
- 27:59Speaker 1: Oh here's a good one. Kate would like to know
- 28:02Speaker 1: what are our top three kids movies?
- 28:06Speaker 2: This is number three. I'm kick off with an absolute
- 28:09Speaker 2: bel to here ash and please tell me that you
- 28:12Speaker 2: A love this movie and b have cried in it. Oh,
- 28:17Speaker 2: No Land Before Time?
- 28:20Speaker 1: Devent what?
- 28:23Speaker 2: Sorry?
- 28:23Speaker 1: Isn't that a TV series?
- 28:24Speaker 2: No Land Before Time? It's a it's a cartoon about
- 28:27Speaker 2: the dinosaurs. But like she loses she's like a little
- 28:31Speaker 2: like long neck diplodocus maybe dinosaur, and she loses both
- 28:36Speaker 2: her parents. What her littlefoot who is the main character.
- 28:40Speaker 2: Her mother dies after a fight with a sharp tooth
- 28:43Speaker 2: which is a t rex.
- 28:44Speaker 1: Holy shit, dude, it's it is. Watch cartoon movies like parents,
- 28:51Speaker 1: parents die, Bambi yeah, crying bamby.
- 28:55Speaker 2: Still watch this.
- 28:57Speaker 1: I still can't do that.
- 29:00Speaker 2: Just the song, the music, it's it's like it's too much.
- 29:05Speaker 1: I know it's strong. I still can't watch The Lion
- 29:08Speaker 1: King like that one scene was skipper. Ah might as
- 29:12Speaker 1: well as deep as that one. My third option is
- 29:16Speaker 1: the original the og Number one Shrek for a couple
- 29:21Speaker 1: of reasons, Okay, one it's got a lot of overlying
- 29:26Speaker 1: adult humor in it.
- 29:27Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 29:27Speaker 1: I love that too. I feel like movies that have
- 29:30Speaker 1: a lot going on all the time. Kids are glued
- 29:34Speaker 1: to it and something gross, like a big ogre who
- 29:37Speaker 1: pulls things out of his ear. There's wiping. It's got
- 29:41Speaker 1: it all. It's got all the jokes, it's got the
- 29:43Speaker 1: fairy tale element to it. And yeah, that's my number three.
- 29:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to get number two. Little Rascals. Little
- 29:50Speaker 2: Rascal he watched. He's all very nostalgic, very old here.
- 29:53Speaker 1: You're going, you get real going?
- 29:57Speaker 2: Oueen? Do you know who's in it? Trump makes a
- 30:01Speaker 2: cameo in it?
- 30:02Speaker 1: Really? Yeah?
- 30:03Speaker 2: Yeah, But the acting in Little Rascals is just sensational.
- 30:08Speaker 2: His kids are like six, and I'm like, how they
- 30:12Speaker 2: made a movie with this many young children?
- 30:14Speaker 1: So frustrating?
- 30:15Speaker 2: Oh my god, nightmare. Yeah, my kids love it. Whenever
- 30:18Speaker 2: it's on, I'm like, well, there goes two hours of
- 30:21Speaker 2: my time.
- 30:23Speaker 1: It's I've just never seen it, And like, honestly, child
- 30:27Speaker 1: actors back then, they don't make them like that anymore.
- 30:29Speaker 1: My number two is a movie called Back to the Outback. Okay,
- 30:34Speaker 1: what's it about? So it is about a couple of
- 30:37Speaker 1: zoo creatures. Okay, in an Australian zoo. So it's Australia.
- 30:41Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, it's amazing.
- 30:43Speaker 1: Yes, there's a koalas, a snake, treshla tarantula.
- 30:48Speaker 2: The koalas is like the media sensation.
- 30:50Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and the snake sort of pulls on your
- 30:53Speaker 1: heartstrings a little bit because love doesn't like to be
- 30:56Speaker 1: portrayed as the bad Yeah. And then the dad it
- 30:59Speaker 1: turns out to be a fake, a fraud.
- 31:01Speaker 2: Great life lessons that are like undertones throughout.
- 31:04Speaker 1: Oh I love that.
- 31:05Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, okay, my my favorite. And I'm just going
- 31:08Speaker 2: to old school. The new stuff doesn't hit as hard
- 31:11Speaker 2: as the old stuff. Honey. I shrunk the kids.
- 31:14Speaker 1: I've seen that. I've seen that one, the little pet
- 31:18Speaker 1: aunt Oh, and it's gets it's really big because the
- 31:21Speaker 1: shrunk it's a scorpion. What else is in that movie? Fuck?
- 31:25Speaker 1: That was I know it was terrible CGI in it,
- 31:28Speaker 1: but that was for the day, for the time, for
- 31:30Speaker 1: the time. Give us some bit more. He shrinks the kids.
- 31:33Speaker 2: Right, No, no, no, do you fucking watch the movie
- 31:37Speaker 2: or not?
- 31:37Speaker 1: I watched it when I was a kid.
- 31:39Speaker 2: Yeah. So he's like a scientist and he has this
- 31:42Speaker 2: machine that can shrink things, and the kids then they
- 31:44Speaker 2: shrink themselves.
- 31:45Speaker 1: Is there a sequel to that movie? Oh?
- 31:47Speaker 2: They did like twenty four? Yeah, it got worse and worse.
- 31:50Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 31:51Speaker 1: Og is obviously the best. Okay, well, I definitely want
- 31:53Speaker 1: to go back and watch some of these, and I'm
- 31:55Speaker 1: going to go with my number one, which I'm modern.
- 31:58Speaker 1: You're very vintage. See the first one. I love it
- 32:02Speaker 1: now that we all know why. It's good. Okay, great storyline,
- 32:05Speaker 1: great songs, but anything that has animals singing and dancing
- 32:10Speaker 1: in it makes you frost. She's got a crush on Johnny.
- 32:15Speaker 2: He's handsome.
- 32:16Speaker 1: He's a handsome man. You know, aniples and your heartstrings
- 32:18Speaker 1: those songs.
- 32:19Speaker 2: So tears not from me, okay, Ash. Before we go,
- 32:24Speaker 2: we have one last question.
- 32:25Speaker 1: Yeah, far away.
- 32:26Speaker 2: This one is from Renee. Renee so curious, and I
- 32:29Speaker 2: know the boys won't find this too weird to ask.
- 32:31Speaker 1: We never judge one, wasn't he?
- 32:33Speaker 2: How do Slash? Did they make it work with sexy
- 32:36Speaker 2: time when you had two kids? We have a two
- 32:39Speaker 2: year old and an eight week old, and we both
- 32:40Speaker 2: find it so hard to make time for that. I'm
- 32:43Speaker 2: drained by the end of the day and then he
- 32:45Speaker 2: usually passes out, putting our two year old to sleep.
- 32:49Speaker 2: You're eight week.
- 32:50Speaker 1: Old, sant's back at it eight weeks goodna.
- 32:56Speaker 2: I think, just be a little less harsh on yourself. Yes,
- 33:01Speaker 2: I don't think anyone is having a thriving sex live
- 33:05Speaker 2: with a newborn kids eight weeks old.
- 33:08Speaker 1: Everyone's just tired, run down, I think. Okay, let's answer
- 33:13Speaker 1: it in two different ways. One is go easy on
- 33:16Speaker 1: yourself and give it time. That's the first one, right,
- 33:18Speaker 1: because that's so early. But let's just say two young kids,
- 33:22Speaker 1: not newborn.
- 33:24Speaker 2: It's let's look at like six months down the train.
- 33:27Speaker 2: Let's look at it.
- 33:27Speaker 1: Let's look at it like that, because if you might
- 33:29Speaker 1: be wanting to both answers, this is what I think,
- 33:31Speaker 1: because I know it's so hard, because like if it's
- 33:34Speaker 1: like the kids are there all day or whatever, there's
- 33:38Speaker 1: no nap time. Even when there's nap time, it's like
- 33:41Speaker 1: it's probably a time for you guys to try and rest,
- 33:43Speaker 1: not get back at it, you know what I mean.
- 33:45Speaker 1: But then also like if you're like, all right, well
- 33:48Speaker 1: it's date night. By the time they go to bed,
- 33:51Speaker 1: everyone's just naked. It's there's never really an idea. What
- 33:55Speaker 1: I'm trying to say is try and take the opportunities
- 33:58Speaker 1: when they come up, plan for it.
- 34:01Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think I'm going to go a step back. Wow,
- 34:03Speaker 2: here we go, step right back. And I think when
- 34:06Speaker 2: you're coming out of the newborn trenches, right, the last
- 34:10Speaker 2: thing you're thinking about is like having sexy time because
- 34:13Speaker 2: you've just been worried about keeping the house tidy, feeding
- 34:16Speaker 2: the kids, sorting them out. You're exhausted. You had no
- 34:20Speaker 2: time to reconnect as a couple. You can't then get
- 34:23Speaker 2: to bed at ten o'clock at night and then try
- 34:25Speaker 2: and flip that switch and be like, all right, well,
- 34:26Speaker 2: let's let's try and be aroused. True, because it's the
- 34:30Speaker 2: last thing on your mind. So if you were talking
- 34:32Speaker 2: to each other and you're both in the same page
- 34:34Speaker 2: that you want to like rekindle the sex live, you've
- 34:37Speaker 2: got to try and reconnect during the day. You can't
- 34:41Speaker 2: just get to the end of the day and be like,
- 34:42Speaker 2: let's jump into bed and have fireworks.
- 34:45Speaker 1: We don't know what they're like too. They could be
- 34:46Speaker 1: doing that. It's still getting tired and whatever.
- 34:49Speaker 2: But I think as a rule, I can guarantee if
- 34:52Speaker 2: you were reconnecting during the entire day, and then you're
- 34:57Speaker 2: not doing that and then not having sex. Like if
- 34:59Speaker 2: you are a asolutely on the same page and you've
- 35:01Speaker 2: got fireworks, you're complimenting each other, you're tactile with each
- 35:06Speaker 2: other throughout the day. If you love each other, you're
- 35:09Speaker 2: going to have sex at the end of the day.
- 35:11Speaker 1: Yeah, I suppose not every day.
- 35:13Speaker 2: No, every day.
- 35:14Speaker 1: I know what you mean. You want to reconnect emotionally
- 35:17Speaker 1: before the physicality.
- 35:19Speaker 2: Physically as well. I'm saying, I'm saying, touch each other
- 35:22Speaker 2: during the day, okay, during.
- 35:24Speaker 1: The day, touch each other during the day, yeah, take
- 35:28Speaker 1: that out of contact.
- 35:29Speaker 2: I'm not saying, like go up and like hump her.
- 35:32Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was thinking. You you mean, I
- 35:36Speaker 1: like it that. It's like you're right, you sort of
- 35:38Speaker 1: be each other's biggest supporters all day and on the
- 35:41Speaker 1: same level and connecting through other different little ways that
- 35:45Speaker 1: aren't necessarily straight up physical. Right, and then if you
- 35:49Speaker 1: can find you're right, Because if you don't do any
- 35:52Speaker 1: of that and you're just doing your routine monotonous, becoming
- 35:56Speaker 1: some call it the roommate phase.
- 35:57Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to get back together.
- 36:00Speaker 1: It's tough, but like I agree with you that the
- 36:04Speaker 1: success of the evening comes from what you put in
- 36:07Speaker 1: during the day.
- 36:07Speaker 2: There it is t shirt, that's the foundation. And also,
- 36:11Speaker 2: if you're the guy and you've got a high sex
- 36:13Speaker 2: drive and you really want to reconnect, man, just clean
- 36:18Speaker 2: that house. Yeah your play baby gee, stack that dishwasher,
- 36:23Speaker 2: get that laundry cleaned, mop the floors, because no one
- 36:28Speaker 2: can think about being sexy when the house is a mess.
- 36:32Speaker 2: So you take that off their plate. Tragic will happen?
- 36:36Speaker 1: Chor play?
- 36:36Speaker 2: Chor play?
- 36:37Speaker 1: All right? Well said on that note, Yeah, it's time
- 36:41Speaker 1: to go. So if you've enjoyed this episode, please leave
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- 36:52Speaker 2: going nuts. Not as many on the Facebook group at
- 36:56Speaker 2: three thousand, but it's growing.
- 36:57Speaker 1: It's more intimate.
- 36:58Speaker 2: It's more intimate. Yeah, it's like the community is just
- 37:02Speaker 2: there's actually a great group of people in there, the
- 37:05Speaker 2: best three thousand people I've ever come across. Trying to
- 37:07Speaker 2: abe and also we're out. That's it. That's it.
- 37:11Speaker 1: That's where we're out.
- 37:12Speaker 2: That's it. I think we should wrap it up and
- 37:17Speaker 2: get out of here.
- 37:18Speaker 1: Okay, goodbye bye O see. Okay, I'm getting ready. I
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