Latest / Two Doting Dads with Matty J & Ash / #168 I've Made A Dumb Parenting Mistake
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Don't let me forget. The chicken pie needs five more
- 0:02Speaker 1: minutes to remind me. Someone reminds me five minutes. The
- 0:05Speaker 1: chicken pie needs to come out of the oven. Also,
- 0:09Speaker 1: it's a really shit chicken pine. I'm so annoyed because
- 0:11Speaker 1: I set it up and I filmed it for stories.
- 0:12Speaker 2: It's funny though. Everyone had a good time, did we?
- 0:15Speaker 2: Did we? It smells good, it smells delicious. I'll tell
- 0:18Speaker 2: you what. I'll remind you when it burns five minutes.
- 0:20Speaker 3: Okay, okay, going.
- 0:36Speaker 1: Back to two gutting dads.
- 0:38Speaker 2: I'm Mattie Jay and I'm an.
- 0:39Speaker 1: This is a podcast all about parenting. It is the good,
- 0:41Speaker 1: it is the bad and the chicken pie. And if
- 0:44Speaker 1: you come for chicken pie, welcome five minutes.
- 0:48Speaker 2: Remind us. In five minutes, the chicken pie will be ready.
- 0:50Speaker 1: I'm going to forget. I know I'm going to get
- 0:52Speaker 1: to this episode. The chicken pie.
- 0:54Speaker 2: It's not for me.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Chicken pie is for Laura because I was very dumb
- 1:00Speaker 1: and you and me we're going to the snowy do
- 1:08Speaker 1: you and I are driving to the snow this afternoon?
- 1:10Speaker 2: Can't wait?
- 1:11Speaker 1: I told Laura very last minute that I was going
- 1:15Speaker 1: on a Tuesday. She thought I was going Wednesday, which
- 1:16Speaker 1: was the original plan. Was the plan, so and so
- 1:19Speaker 1: then I was last night. I was like, hey, here's
- 1:22Speaker 1: a chicken pie. She does love a chicken pie.
- 1:30Speaker 2: Ye, it was actually like from last week. It was
- 1:32Speaker 2: very lovely. So I do. And people really want the
- 1:35Speaker 2: recipe before we start housekeeping bam with the recipe.
- 1:39Speaker 1: I'm not giving it away. No, no, I'm holding onto that.
- 1:42Speaker 2: And started cooking book.
- 1:44Speaker 1: I think we are No, it's I will put in
- 1:47Speaker 1: the show notes. Do we want to give away the
- 1:48Speaker 1: chicken pie? Yeah?
- 1:49Speaker 2: Will I put in the Facebook. I'll put in the Facebook.
- 1:51Speaker 1: They very good.
- 1:52Speaker 2: Give it to the community. Whatever, Just give it to
- 1:57Speaker 2: the whatever.
- 1:58Speaker 1: If you got to tell Laura that we're going tonight.
- 2:00Speaker 1: So then man, just the logistics of it all ash
- 2:03Speaker 1: try and she's like, well, who's getting the kids?
- 2:05Speaker 2: And I was like, fuck, I completely understand. I've got
- 2:09Speaker 2: a message.
- 2:10Speaker 1: This is from Jimmy. Jimmy wrote into us and he
- 2:12Speaker 1: has something that relates to a segment we haven't run
- 2:14Speaker 1: in a while called Petty Couple. Love that Okay, so
- 2:18Speaker 1: Jimmy says, and this is from Instagram. You can contact
- 2:21Speaker 1: us through Instagram we love it, we replied every message.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Do we so?
- 2:32Speaker 1: Jimmy says, I've just got your episode about being petty
- 2:35Speaker 1: with your partner after an argument. Once we got over
- 2:41Speaker 1: it talking about him and his partner, I'll boil the
- 2:44Speaker 1: kettle with not enough water in it for a full
- 2:47Speaker 1: coffee or tea for both me and my wife. I'll
- 2:51Speaker 1: start doing jobs around the house to make it look
- 2:53Speaker 1: like I'm an amazing person that I ask my wife
- 2:57Speaker 1: if she wants a brew, the answer will be yes.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Then tell her the kettle is just boiled. Then when
- 3:03Speaker 1: she makes it, she would give me the full one
- 3:05Speaker 1: because I've been such a good husband, and she gets
- 3:08Speaker 1: a three quarter full cup and I've contrived it all
- 3:13Speaker 1: either petty or an evil genius.
- 3:16Speaker 2: That's borderline evil genius. Because still love the pod. Thank you.
- 3:21Speaker 2: That's great, that's great. And I am cooking up something.
- 3:24Speaker 2: I am cooking something about hetty couples and just in
- 3:29Speaker 2: maybe next week I'll have it ready gone. I don't
- 3:32Speaker 2: want to There was a tea in case April hears this,
- 3:36Speaker 2: now she's she's gonna be like, what the fuck is it?
- 3:39Speaker 2: Just to wait, chicken pie is not ready. Just to reminder,
- 3:43Speaker 2: it's part of this housekeeping that we now have at
- 3:45Speaker 2: the front of the episode. We are doing a live show, Matthew,
- 3:48Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you remember what.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Yes, I actually did get the dates wrong, the days wrong.
- 3:54Speaker 1: What well, I just I knew it was in the fourth,
- 3:56Speaker 1: but I've booked in other things around the fourth as well.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Anyway, could be the fourth of then at any time.
- 4:01Speaker 1: It's next Thursday.
- 4:02Speaker 2: No, sorry, this Thursday. This is tomorrow. This, this is tomorrow.
- 4:08Speaker 2: I'm confused.
- 4:08Speaker 1: The reason why I'm confused because people that know we record.
- 4:11Speaker 2: This, they do. You've already told them.
- 4:13Speaker 1: I know this new listeners.
- 4:14Speaker 2: Okay, cool, So just say what Matt's referring to, is
- 4:16Speaker 2: we record this a week before it's released. Yes, that's how.
- 4:20Speaker 1: Today's a Wednesday. Upon release tomorrow Thursday the fourth.
- 4:23Speaker 2: So Thursday week from now we will be having well,
- 4:27Speaker 2: it's fucking tomorrow. Tomorrow from now we will be having
- 4:31Speaker 2: a lot having We'll be doing a live show. Just
- 4:33Speaker 2: as rolling your eyes and checking your head at me.
- 4:35Speaker 2: We are doing a live show at the Apple Store.
- 4:38Speaker 2: What on George Street. Yeah, it's on the corner. It's
- 4:42Speaker 2: a lovely building. It's free. It is free. Link in
- 4:45Speaker 2: the show notes register please.
- 4:47Speaker 1: Well how much is it free? It is free?
- 4:50Speaker 2: It is free. What will we talk about?
- 4:53Speaker 1: Well, you can help with that, you can help with out,
- 4:55Speaker 1: you can last minute, last minute editions. We want your
- 4:58Speaker 1: pair rants, we want your parenting lights. Submit them to us. However,
- 5:02Speaker 1: you like social media.
- 5:04Speaker 2: And it is a free show, so we won't be
- 5:07Speaker 2: giving up that much what we're trying to sell.
- 5:12Speaker 1: Joke, I'm kidding, it's going to be great, but I
- 5:14Speaker 1: do like how to manage their expectations.
- 5:17Speaker 2: You got it?
- 5:17Speaker 1: Just a gaze, Ash and I will be together in person,
- 5:21Speaker 1: in the flesh.
- 5:22Speaker 2: What are you gonna wear? See you are not. I
- 5:26Speaker 2: was going to say, maybe this blue shirt that I'm
- 5:28Speaker 2: wearing right now, very sky blue. You're going to be
- 5:30Speaker 2: like the blue sky at night. Put that on T shirt.
- 5:35Speaker 2: Moving on.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Okay, you may have seen Ash. You may have seen
- 5:39Speaker 1: on my social media. I have been dealing with some
- 5:41Speaker 1: issues at home.
- 5:42Speaker 2: Before you get into that, because it's quite meaty and
- 5:45Speaker 2: I just got something really quick to run by that
- 5:47Speaker 2: I should have put in housekeeping. Well, we're still in housekeeping,
- 5:50Speaker 2: so god, oh, it's come to my attention. I'll let
- 5:52Speaker 2: you know when we're out of housekeeping. Thank god, finally
- 5:56Speaker 2: I can relax. You might already know this, but I
- 6:01Speaker 2: didn't know this, and I was baffled by this. And
- 6:05Speaker 2: this is the opening song to bluie h. Do you
- 6:10Speaker 2: understand what's happening in that opening song, in the sequence
- 6:15Speaker 2: of the picture or the song, the whole thing.
- 6:19Speaker 1: I can't really remember the intro, mum, because they're dancing
- 6:24Speaker 1: in the blue background.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Yeah, but what do you What game do you think
- 6:26Speaker 2: they're playing?
- 6:28Speaker 1: Are they playing a game?
- 6:29Speaker 2: They're just dancing musical statues? Did you not know that?
- 6:35Speaker 2: I thought you would know that for sure. So Mom,
- 6:41Speaker 2: frozen statue? Dad whatever, blah blah blah blah blah. What Yeah?
- 6:48Speaker 2: Do you know who told me that? A six year old?
- 6:51Speaker 1: Who are you hanging out with my son? Mally?
- 6:57Speaker 2: I didn't even know that. How does he had a ask?
- 7:00Speaker 2: You know that? Though they talk at school? Apparently there's
- 7:03Speaker 2: all the rage on the playground. It's circulating the school.
- 7:06Speaker 2: Everyone's baffled. It's true. How I have.
- 7:11Speaker 1: I thought I saw someone outside. It was just the
- 7:13Speaker 1: washing line. That is Wow, I love, I love. There's
- 7:20Speaker 1: so many little nuggets and Bluey.
- 7:22Speaker 2: There's interesting facts. Yeah, yeah, the guy who plays the
- 7:26Speaker 2: voice of Dad has like emerged and started to do
- 7:29Speaker 2: like like behind the scenes stuff really interesting. But has
- 7:34Speaker 2: he gone rogue? I know, he's just like there's so
- 7:37Speaker 2: many questions about the show, and it's obviously the most
- 7:39Speaker 2: stream show in the world, which is astraying, which is
- 7:42Speaker 2: a fucking hats off to ever created that.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Can I just can I tell you one fact as
- 7:46Speaker 1: well that will blow your mind about BLA love this
- 7:48Speaker 1: apparently and it's about dogs. And don't quote me on
- 7:51Speaker 1: this because I read it somewhere a long time ago
- 7:53Speaker 1: and I'm kind of just trying to recall the facts.
- 7:56Speaker 1: But apparently ABC, who commissioned the show, well, do we
- 8:00Speaker 1: want the worldwide rights? Nah, we don't want that. We'll
- 8:03Speaker 1: have the rights for Australia. And then BBC got the
- 8:06Speaker 1: rights for merch and for like global streaming, so now
- 8:11Speaker 1: they're worth billions of dollars.
- 8:13Speaker 2: It's crazy, ABC, What were you doing? Ah? They're they're
- 8:19Speaker 2: like a government funded or whatever. They have no idea
- 8:21Speaker 2: what they're doing over there. But it is like like
- 8:24Speaker 2: at the moment that the blue Converse are out, it's
- 8:27Speaker 2: bluey lego, the blue the is lit.
- 8:31Speaker 1: They I'm all about it, anything bluey on it. It
- 8:34Speaker 1: could be like bluie broccoln and they'd be.
- 8:36Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I know, I love it crazy. Anyway, that
- 8:39Speaker 2: was my little factot. I thought you. I thought you
- 8:42Speaker 2: would know because you know much more than me. Thank you. Well, yeah, anyway,
- 8:49Speaker 2: back to the wall. Sorry, do I check the pie now?
- 8:52Speaker 1: Check the pile?
- 8:52Speaker 2: Later, check the pie?
- 8:54Speaker 1: Do you want the pie out now? With later? You're
- 8:55Speaker 1: call You're call.
- 8:56Speaker 2: Up to you. Oh, I would just I would definitely
- 8:59Speaker 2: get it out.
- 9:00Speaker 1: I only give it to more minutes after housekeeping.
- 9:02Speaker 2: All right, after housekeeping, keating, there will be pie.
- 9:05Speaker 1: Okay, we are still in housekeeping. You may have seen
- 9:09Speaker 1: on social media that I had an incident at my house.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the other week on Friday. It was very
- 9:16Speaker 1: windy after what I think the meteorologists are calling the
- 9:19Speaker 1: most amount of rain in like the history of Australia.
- 9:24Speaker 2: In a certain period just ever, ever, just ever.
- 9:27Speaker 1: They're like, that's so much rain.
- 9:28Speaker 2: So they gathered one of every animal and it was
- 9:32Speaker 2: nearly that time.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Marley and Laula were going, when is it going to
- 9:34Speaker 1: stop raining? And I was like, I don't know, but
- 9:37Speaker 1: I'm over it.
- 9:38Speaker 2: I heard that we got a month in two day,
- 9:41Speaker 2: a month's worth. But they always say that, and I
- 9:44Speaker 2: feel like they just throw that fact out there to
- 9:46Speaker 2: be like to keep small talk going.
- 9:48Speaker 1: No one's calling that shit out, yeah, because.
- 9:50Speaker 2: Everyone's around the water cooler and they're go, did you
- 9:52Speaker 2: hear that we just had a month's worth of rain
- 9:55Speaker 2: in two days?
- 9:56Speaker 1: Do you know what people are gonna be saying? Now?
- 9:57Speaker 1: They were like, did you know that bluey at the
- 9:58Speaker 1: intro they're actually playing?
- 10:00Speaker 2: Yeah, I was rattled when I foun out blue It
- 10:02Speaker 2: was a girl dog.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Me too anyway.
- 10:05Speaker 2: Much So I'm a home. I'm relaxing and I was
- 10:10Speaker 2: working hard.
- 10:10Speaker 1: You relaxing, and I hear this almighty crash and the
- 10:16Speaker 1: brick wall that divides our backyard and the neighbor's backyard.
- 10:20Speaker 1: Ronda of the General. The General spoken about her a
- 10:24Speaker 1: few times. Sometimes she loves me, sometimes she hates me.
- 10:28Speaker 2: She's like a lighthouse.
- 10:31Speaker 1: Yeah, always there, She's always at the front, swiveling.
- 10:35Speaker 2: Yeah, And I love Ronda.
- 10:37Speaker 1: I love Rnda.
- 10:38Speaker 2: She does love a swivel bad hip. Get hear a squeaking.
- 10:43Speaker 1: No family, never married, she's by herself.
- 10:45Speaker 2: But you gave me an interesting fact that she was a.
- 10:48Speaker 1: I think she won Miss Bondai in nineteen seventy.
- 10:51Speaker 2: Rhonda love her.
- 10:52Speaker 1: She's very elderly, she must be pushing eighty odd and
- 10:56Speaker 1: no family, no friends really, she never leaves the house.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Was once a.
- 11:00Speaker 1: Fortnight to go get grocery. She has a government assisted
- 11:04Speaker 1: carer that comes over, takes her, does a groceries, comes back.
- 11:07Speaker 1: Apart from that, she's locked indoors watching TV.
- 11:09Speaker 2: Also, the people that do those jobs, I don't know.
- 11:14Speaker 2: Like the patient's on.
- 11:14Speaker 1: It pretty easy? Oh is it draft at the shops? Sorry,
- 11:18Speaker 1: I'm joke. I was a joke.
- 11:20Speaker 2: Can you leave that in that sort of person? He
- 11:23Speaker 2: really is?
- 11:24Speaker 1: Sorry, go on anyway. So the wall comes down and
- 11:28Speaker 1: it makes a bloody big noise. It's a big brick wall.
- 11:31Speaker 1: We're talking like a ton of bricks.
- 11:32Speaker 2: The social worker tipped it over into your house, didn't
- 11:35Speaker 2: there They found out what you really think about them?
- 11:37Speaker 1: Yeah, to go to Ronda's backyard, I can just step
- 11:40Speaker 1: over the bread. I noticed that, and I go, Ronda,
- 11:44Speaker 1: you've did you hear that? And she's like what And
- 11:48Speaker 1: she's just watching Wheel of Fortune.
- 11:49Speaker 2: On really loud obviously, and she's like, what do you mean?
- 11:52Speaker 1: And I'm like, the brick walls come down, and she's like,
- 11:55Speaker 1: did it come.
- 11:56Speaker 2: Have a look.
- 11:58Speaker 1: And she's gone oh, And I'm.
- 12:01Speaker 2: Going, oh, like this is going to cause money. Don't worry.
- 12:07Speaker 1: I'll sort this out.
- 12:08Speaker 2: And you're a good guy for doing that, because I
- 12:10Speaker 2: wouldn't have done that, or I would have said you
- 12:12Speaker 2: better fucking fix your fence. But you know how you
- 12:16Speaker 2: called the counsel on me about my front port. I'm
- 12:17Speaker 2: going to call the counselor.
- 12:19Speaker 1: I was fixing a leak in the roof, and whilst
- 12:22Speaker 1: that leak was being fixed, she called. I'm pretty sure
- 12:24Speaker 1: she called the counsel on me and they thought I
- 12:26Speaker 1: was doing unapproved work, so they came and didn't inspect
- 12:28Speaker 1: on the house, which is just a whole other ordeal.
- 12:30Speaker 2: Wonders, very much like never let them know your next move.
- 12:34Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's like she knew that brick wall fellow,
- 12:37Speaker 2: She's like, oh did it yes, And then she's like, oh, Matthew,
- 12:41Speaker 2: thank you so much.
- 12:43Speaker 1: Let me just call the counsel She didn't call me
- 12:45Speaker 1: a sweetheart, and then she called the counselor.
- 12:47Speaker 2: Yeah, so you never let it.
- 12:48Speaker 1: I think, just for reference, I think we're out of housekeeping.
- 12:51Speaker 2: Sorry, okay, keep going, just roll it.
- 12:54Speaker 1: People were like, is this still a housekeeper?
- 12:55Speaker 2: I don't want to confuse them.
- 12:56Speaker 1: You're right, it was very meaty. You were on the
- 12:58Speaker 1: money there, You're me.
- 13:01Speaker 2: I wanted to see it in a while because it's
- 13:02Speaker 2: quite a substantial wall. Yes, so we're not talking a
- 13:05Speaker 2: little wall.
- 13:06Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm talking through how we're going to fix
- 13:08Speaker 1: this wall. At the same time, ash, I hear another crash, fuck,
- 13:13Speaker 1: a huge crash, a big bang, and there's this like
- 13:17Speaker 1: broken fiberglass in my backyard now, and I'm like, what
- 13:22Speaker 1: the hell is this? Her skylight cover her house is
- 13:26Speaker 1: so old, it is like the bolts are so rusted.
- 13:29Speaker 1: It's it's flown up off her roof because it's very windy,
- 13:33Speaker 1: which is remind people that it's blown over a big
- 13:35Speaker 1: brick wall. The sun roof cover is smashed into my backyard.
- 13:40Speaker 1: And I go into her house and into her living room.
- 13:43Speaker 1: She has a one meter by one meter gap in
- 13:45Speaker 1: the ceiling. Now straight through I.
- 13:47Speaker 2: Look through there where a skylight's.
- 13:49Speaker 1: Raining into her living room and oh my god, I'm like, Rondie,
- 13:53Speaker 1: You've just your skylight cover's gone. And she goes, is.
- 13:56Speaker 2: It She's got you wrapped around of her finger.
- 13:59Speaker 1: Bro I'm like, can you call anyone? And she's like,
- 14:03Speaker 1: who would I call?
- 14:04Speaker 2: I'm an elderly woman. How we going to call? No family?
- 14:07Speaker 2: Never been married? Who she got Maddie Day.
- 14:11Speaker 1: So I luckily, because Rufe was being fixed, I said
- 14:15Speaker 1: to the boys, can you fix room? Just temporary, and
- 14:19Speaker 1: I'll speak to a couple of supplies who can fix
- 14:21Speaker 1: the skylight because we're talking straight through.
- 14:25Speaker 2: And it's been one of the rainiest fucking years ever
- 14:28Speaker 2: and it's set to continue.
- 14:30Speaker 1: Months rain and hole on. There we go, apparently anyway,
- 14:34Speaker 1: So we sort out a couple of supplies, we get
- 14:37Speaker 1: it booked in fixed on Tuesday. Don't worry, Ronda, You're good.
- 14:40Speaker 1: I've spent the afternoon helping her out. Also got a
- 14:43Speaker 1: temporary cover on the skylight as well. No problem at all.
- 14:46Speaker 1: Just what I do?
- 14:47Speaker 2: You're really you are really forming into a dad.
- 14:51Speaker 1: So then on Monday I go, hey, Ronda, just letting
- 14:54Speaker 1: you know the boys are going to fix your skylight
- 14:56Speaker 1: are coming tomorrow, and she goes, what do you mean,
- 14:59Speaker 1: Oh my god, And I'm like, the skylight, what are
- 15:03Speaker 1: you talking about? The skylight.
- 15:05Speaker 2: That's that flew off, you know, that fucking hole in
- 15:09Speaker 2: the middle of your house.
- 15:10Speaker 1: And she goes, oh, no, I called the insurance and
- 15:12Speaker 1: they're going to come and fix it. I said, well,
- 15:14Speaker 1: you've already said yes to this other guy that I
- 15:16Speaker 1: called for you, and she's like, nah, I don't want it.
- 15:19Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
- 15:20Speaker 1: So then I'm calling Tim and going, Tim, don't worry
- 15:24Speaker 1: about it, and he goes, I've already ordered the skylight.
- 15:26Speaker 2: Oh ah, god painful. She's definitely like, don't let Matt
- 15:32Speaker 2: know my next move. Like, I just got to string
- 15:35Speaker 2: this guy along. And again, you're good guy for hanging around.
- 15:40Speaker 2: I would have been like, good luck with that. Left. Ah,
- 15:43Speaker 2: that's a different between you and me.
- 15:45Speaker 1: Anyway. So this morning, this morning, I was letting the
- 15:48Speaker 1: boys in to fix the skylight and far out, man,
- 15:52Speaker 1: I'm laughing about it, but I.
- 15:54Speaker 2: Did see them up there, so they fixed it.
- 15:56Speaker 1: They fixed it.
- 15:57Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, because the insurance was going to take that'll
- 15:59Speaker 2: take fucking forever, thank you, thank you. That's the thing.
- 16:04Speaker 2: I feel like a lot of older people get scammed
- 16:07Speaker 2: by insurance.
- 16:08Speaker 1: Oh for sure.
- 16:08Speaker 2: It's just such an easy, easy target. Yeah, because you
- 16:11Speaker 2: like you know, we're an insurance company. You can rely
- 16:14Speaker 2: on us.
- 16:15Speaker 1: We're here to help you.
- 16:16Speaker 2: Who mentioned it, it was like insurance is essentially gambling. Yes,
- 16:20Speaker 2: that's what it is, for sure, which is fucking crazy.
- 16:23Speaker 2: Especially if an eighty year old woman woman rings up
- 16:26Speaker 2: and goes, hey, there's a fucking hole in my house.
- 16:29Speaker 2: Can you fix it? They're like yeah, we'll get there
- 16:30Speaker 2: like six to eight months, right, Yeah, So I think
- 16:33Speaker 2: you did the right thing by forcing her on her.
- 16:36Speaker 2: Otherwise I didn't force anything upon her. What are you
- 16:38Speaker 2: talking about? It came out wrong, I saw. And my
- 16:43Speaker 2: suggestion was that because she doesn't remember much, you should
- 16:47Speaker 2: fence off her. You should fence off the back of
- 16:49Speaker 2: her house and just common deer that her backyard is
- 16:52Speaker 2: now your back doesn't use it.
- 16:53Speaker 1: She's got a bad hip.
- 16:54Speaker 2: Yeah, And then she could be like was that like that,
- 16:56Speaker 2: and you're like, I don't know.
- 16:57Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was absolutely.
- 17:00Speaker 2: And then you got your You're essentially just turning it
- 17:02Speaker 2: back on her.
- 17:04Speaker 1: Very incriminating that we're speaking about this on the podcast.
- 17:06Speaker 2: I can't actually doesn't listen, but everyone else does. She's
- 17:10Speaker 2: pretty dead.
- 17:13Speaker 1: So anyway, So that was man.
- 17:15Speaker 2: And the fence you're going to replace the fence with
- 17:17Speaker 2: what you're.
- 17:19Speaker 1: Gonna like this treated hardwood pine hardwood.
- 17:22Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 17:25Speaker 1: What treated treated pine more economic through hardwoods. It just
- 17:29Speaker 1: felt right.
- 17:30Speaker 2: It Technically all woods pretty hard, but that hardwood is
- 17:34Speaker 2: pretty expensive. If it's rough, rough sword, your kids are
- 17:37Speaker 2: going to get splinters. But with the treated pine anyway
- 17:41Speaker 2: we go into it.
- 17:42Speaker 1: So it has been a stressful weekend. We've been dealing
- 17:46Speaker 1: with all of that as well. With all that rain,
- 17:48Speaker 1: our roof also started leaking a game whereabouts this time
- 17:52Speaker 1: through to the bathroom again through the light.
- 17:54Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, And so water is a tricky one.
- 17:59Speaker 1: About they say once it finds a way in, You're.
- 18:02Speaker 2: Well said the T shirt. You know what they say
- 18:08Speaker 2: about water once it's in, it's wet.
- 18:14Speaker 1: On the weekend, dude, Laura and I were just stressed
- 18:17Speaker 1: out of our eyeballs.
- 18:18Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you called me on Sunday and you definitely
- 18:22Speaker 2: I don't know, you just had like a little a
- 18:25Speaker 2: bit more speed in your voice because it's like a
- 18:27Speaker 2: lot obviously I've seen what's happened on social media, but
- 18:30Speaker 2: you were just even just the little things I could
- 18:32Speaker 2: tell that you're a bit like there's way more on
- 18:34Speaker 2: your mind than just this conversation.
- 18:35Speaker 1: And Laura and I just, you know, as stressed as
- 18:38Speaker 1: we are, we're very tense with each other. We ended
- 18:42Speaker 1: up having a bit of an argument. She also is
- 18:44Speaker 1: like eight months pregnant, and she's also eight months, which
- 18:46Speaker 1: I sometimes forget. But we were at Yochi and I
- 18:52Speaker 1: don't remember saying this, but she said, let's go. I'm
- 18:55Speaker 1: feeling pretty like off now, and I said yep, And
- 18:59Speaker 1: I didn't get up and go immediately, and she said,
- 19:02Speaker 1: my back's were really hurting, and I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 19:05Speaker 1: but I was on my phone doing something working okay,
- 19:08Speaker 1: and I still remained seated. Was she seated, she was standing,
- 19:13Speaker 1: and so she was getting annoyed that I wasn't listening
- 19:15Speaker 1: to her, and so then I was like, why is
- 19:17Speaker 1: Laura so annoyed to me? So that I was kind
- 19:19Speaker 1: of like a bit stoppy with her.
- 19:20Speaker 2: Just classic miscommunication, a classic like the other things are
- 19:25Speaker 2: the reason why you're both stroppy.
- 19:27Speaker 1: But then we had a bit of a bit of
- 19:29Speaker 1: a stoush about what just about, like we'll just we're
- 19:33Speaker 1: both just stressed, just like what said it off? No,
- 19:36Speaker 1: she said, can you get a bag out of the car,
- 19:38Speaker 1: and I didn't reply to that, and then it just
- 19:42Speaker 1: kicked off.
- 19:42Speaker 2: I love these small things that just kick off into
- 19:45Speaker 2: like something massive that's nothing.
- 19:46Speaker 1: And so we didn't end up resolving the fight until
- 19:49Speaker 1: the next morning, and I had to resolve the fight,
- 19:52Speaker 1: which I would normally do anyway, but we had a
- 19:54Speaker 1: surprise lunch booked, which was actually not a lunch for
- 19:58Speaker 1: me and her, like Laura, it was a surprise baby shower.
- 20:03Speaker 2: Oh is that what that was?
- 20:05Speaker 1: Yeah, unless you was right. So then we had to
- 20:13Speaker 1: make up that morning. And you know, when you make
- 20:16Speaker 1: up and you both apologize, you both accept apologies. It's
- 20:19Speaker 1: not real, but it hasn't you like, you are kind
- 20:22Speaker 1: of fine, but you still you can't just snap and
- 20:24Speaker 1: go we love each other.
- 20:25Speaker 2: The time hasn't passed for you to go forget that
- 20:28Speaker 2: you love this person more than you're fighting this person. Yeah,
- 20:31Speaker 2: I get it.
- 20:31Speaker 1: So whenever you have a fight you both apologize, you
- 20:33Speaker 1: still need like a couple of residual hours to just
- 20:36Speaker 1: like get it out of your system.
- 20:37Speaker 2: Yeah, you look happy on your stories.
- 20:41Speaker 1: So then I was like, well, we've got to get
- 20:43Speaker 1: dressed now and go to this lunch and they were
- 20:44Speaker 1: like driving in the car, like not really saying much
- 20:47Speaker 1: to each other. Meanwhile, there's like twenty of their friends
- 20:50Speaker 1: at the restaurant hiding that Layd doesn't know about.
- 20:52Speaker 2: Oh that's great. That's all of eight month pregnant woman.
- 20:55Speaker 2: Once a fight with a husband, and then a surprise party.
- 20:57Speaker 2: I'm surprised the baby didn't pop out on the restaurant.
- 21:02Speaker 1: So then we were like surprise, and then Laura was like,
- 21:05Speaker 1: I actually really wanted to have it just with you
- 21:07Speaker 1: because we've had this fire were anyway.
- 21:11Speaker 2: Then I was like, Sue, so did you make up
- 21:13Speaker 2: or not? Yeah? You know we already we.
- 21:15Speaker 1: Already mar we seed to be the residual two hours,
- 21:19Speaker 1: Like you need mandated time to get over an argument,
- 21:21Speaker 1: I know.
- 21:22Speaker 2: To wear the point where either you or your partner
- 21:26Speaker 2: are like, it's gotten so far past the point that
- 21:29Speaker 2: I need to say something now. Because I've tried to
- 21:32Speaker 2: be staunch and let and and just have the ships
- 21:35Speaker 2: with April and then continue to have the ships. But
- 21:38Speaker 2: then eventually I'm like, funk, I need something. I need
- 21:44Speaker 2: something that only she can help me.
- 21:46Speaker 1: Whar's my jacket?
- 21:47Speaker 2: She's like, I don't know, find it yourself. Look, I'm
- 21:51Speaker 2: sorry that I said that. Now, where's my jacket? I'm
- 21:54Speaker 2: not over it yet. So you know, like it's fucking awkward,
- 21:57Speaker 2: isn't it.
- 21:58Speaker 1: It's like when you're hungry and you're like, or do
- 22:00Speaker 1: you want to get lunch?
- 22:01Speaker 2: It's just like I don't know.
- 22:03Speaker 1: Yes, I'm starving.
- 22:04Speaker 2: Yeah, we starving for hours smoking. Oh, very good. I
- 22:09Speaker 2: hate it when you guys fight, though, so don't fight,
- 22:11Speaker 2: thank you. Okay, so we're all good. Now everyone's good. Yeah,
- 22:15Speaker 2: we're good. I mean I'm still you're barely stupid stresses.
- 22:19Speaker 1: I'm all right, I'm going to be I'm going to
- 22:20Speaker 1: be okay.
- 22:22Speaker 2: And I told you that if there's anything you need,
- 22:25Speaker 2: don't ask me, No, you can ask me. I'll try
- 22:27Speaker 2: and help you out as much as possible.
- 22:29Speaker 1: But we said last week that if you say that
- 22:32Speaker 1: you're an asshole, you have to you can't just you can't.
- 22:34Speaker 1: You have to come in person.
- 22:36Speaker 2: Excuse me, a wedding person keeping your man?
- 22:40Speaker 1: When are you going to rock up?
- 22:41Speaker 2: And I can help you out? What else? What do
- 22:43Speaker 2: you need? What do you want? What can I help
- 22:46Speaker 2: you with? Do you know what I'll do? I'll build
- 22:48Speaker 2: the fence for you. That'd be funny, can you well,
- 22:51Speaker 2: I'm on a lifestyle TV show, now I could do anything.
- 22:56Speaker 1: Was that a little clue to the TV show you
- 22:57Speaker 1: stole from me?
- 22:58Speaker 2: Yeah? Sorry, a little job. Now, last week we did
- 23:03Speaker 2: talk about and we did have a winge about which
- 23:05Speaker 2: everyone does this time of the year, which is book week,
- 23:07Speaker 2: book Day. Who fucking knows. But I did mention last
- 23:10Speaker 2: week that Oscars is a week later? Did you say
- 23:13Speaker 2: Marley's was a week later?
- 23:14Speaker 1: Marles is tomorrow?
- 23:16Speaker 2: Tomorrow? Missing?
- 23:17Speaker 1: Because I'm going to snow with you.
- 23:19Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest, You're not missing much because I
- 23:21Speaker 2: had to go to the Oscars one yesterday. So Oscar,
- 23:26Speaker 2: last year when there's who me? Yes, because we had
- 23:29Speaker 2: we released a book two days in the question three
- 23:31Speaker 2: times available now b W dot com? Do you on
- 23:33Speaker 2: Amazon dot com? I don't think it's still available whatever,
- 23:35Speaker 2: No it is? Is it still Can you buy it?
- 23:38Speaker 1: Are you sure?
- 23:39Speaker 2: I don't know?
- 23:39Speaker 1: Buy it right now?
- 23:40Speaker 2: Yeah, go and buy it. If it turns up then
- 23:42Speaker 2: it's still available. Anyway, So Oscar wanted again to go
- 23:46Speaker 2: as me, which I'll honored, absolutely honored. And you see
- 23:50Speaker 2: someone of the Facebook group wanted to go as Oscar.
- 23:52Speaker 2: Did you see that? Yes, passing the bat and down.
- 23:56Speaker 2: But last year we I sort of drew some on him,
- 24:01Speaker 2: just like here and there just so. But this year
- 24:03Speaker 2: we went a little bit, a little bit all out,
- 24:06Speaker 2: which Abe was a little bit pissy about because we
- 24:08Speaker 2: went to the shops to buy a couple of tatoos
- 24:10Speaker 2: and I ended up spending thirty dollars on fake ttatoes,
- 24:13Speaker 2: which really stickly great investment, is ridiculous. They rub off
- 24:17Speaker 2: immediately and it doesn't last long with a kid because
- 24:20Speaker 2: they're like, oh wonder.
- 24:22Speaker 1: It's almost that's almost fifty bucks.
- 24:24Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much. It's technically you're out it right this economy.
- 24:28Speaker 1: You've just dropped fifty bucks on it cost of living.
- 24:31Speaker 2: People are just like, what are you spending fifty bucks
- 24:34Speaker 2: on temporary tattoos for him? Like much business? Anyway. I
- 24:38Speaker 2: Abe was a bit pissy about that, but I was like,
- 24:39Speaker 2: I'm We're going to do it. I like to do things.
- 24:41Speaker 1: Do you think she's annoyed that it just wasn't She
- 24:43Speaker 1: didn't get like a look.
- 24:44Speaker 2: In from Macy. I'm sure Macy will want to go
- 24:46Speaker 2: as Bump, will she? Hope? Probably not because I had
- 24:50Speaker 2: that she wanted tattoos too, pepper pick ones actually, But
- 24:54Speaker 2: I just did a little bit more of an effort
- 24:57Speaker 2: this time with Oscar because I thought it's primary school.
- 25:01Speaker 2: Why didn't I do it so that parents would think
- 25:04Speaker 2: it's a not inappropriate? Parents to think it's like, oh,
- 25:08Speaker 2: that's kind of a little bit inappropriate. So I took
- 25:10Speaker 2: a photo please of Oscar dressed as me.
- 25:13Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is epic?
- 25:18Speaker 2: So is that real?
- 25:19Speaker 1: Like are these are these?
- 25:20Speaker 2: Like? Did you? Oh my god, I stick to that
- 25:24Speaker 2: boy right?
- 25:25Speaker 1: Oh my god, these are unbel Did you draw a mustache?
- 25:29Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 25:29Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Oh it actually looks so sick.
- 25:34Speaker 2: And I was like, I was around you. I'm so proud,
- 25:37Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, maybe some parents would be like, oh,
- 25:40Speaker 2: it's a bit inappropriate. Do you know what I said? Yeah,
- 25:43Speaker 2: do you want to say to those parents, get out
- 25:46Speaker 2: of yourself.
- 25:47Speaker 1: The placement's great.
- 25:48Speaker 2: Yeah. I was like, let me put mom on his
- 25:50Speaker 2: chest and he had dad on his knuckles or daddy
- 25:53Speaker 2: on his knuckles. Oh my god, so good.
- 25:57Speaker 1: It's like the sleeve.
- 26:00Speaker 2: So for those who it's I have all those tempory tatooes.
- 26:05Speaker 2: The fifty dollars worth of tempory tatooes. I put them
- 26:07Speaker 2: all over my child's body pretty much in similar in
- 26:10Speaker 2: similar places to where I have them. It took ages.
- 26:14Speaker 2: Have you noticed on the hands he's got little webs
- 26:15Speaker 2: as well. Yeah, that's very good. That's great. Well done
- 26:19Speaker 2: to you. Thank you. Lots of tigers and lots of dragons.
- 26:21Speaker 2: I am a good dad.
- 26:22Speaker 1: Someone someone did an article, I think it was a
- 26:25Speaker 1: kid spot where they were like, let's be honest, book
- 26:27Speaker 1: week is just unpaid labor for mums and our dads,
- 26:31Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know. It was just
- 26:32Speaker 1: the fact that I'm like oblivious to how we pairent
- 26:35Speaker 1: in our household, but I'm getting involved in book week.
- 26:38Speaker 2: Yeah. I did all of that, and then I had
- 26:40Speaker 2: this tattoo massy up as well. Can I play Yeah,
- 26:44Speaker 2: that's just the parade, and can I just say sorry, okay,
- 26:52Speaker 2: oh my god, the two racks, that's his buddy, that's
- 26:56Speaker 2: his buddy. But anyway, he took our book to school,
- 26:59Speaker 2: he did the parade, and I just want to say
- 27:01Speaker 2: the parade is fucking boring. Alright, let's be honest, Like
- 27:06Speaker 2: they just walk around. Good for the Kids's their thing.
- 27:08Speaker 2: But I reckon. Seventy percent of the kids don't want
- 27:11Speaker 2: to do it either. I never did that. Did you
- 27:13Speaker 2: do that when.
- 27:14Speaker 1: You have no recollection either book parade at all? Nah?
- 27:19Speaker 2: No, Because there was a couple of kids there that
- 27:20Speaker 2: were just in regular uniform, which is fine if.
- 27:23Speaker 1: They still walk in the parade. Yeah, in regular uniform.
- 27:26Speaker 2: I don't shame them.
- 27:28Speaker 1: Sorry, No, I was just inquisitive. I was just making sure.
- 27:32Speaker 2: We were talking about it, and I said.
- 27:33Speaker 1: I said, look, were their parents there?
- 27:35Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know all the kids be
- 27:37Speaker 2: weird to.
- 27:38Speaker 1: Go watch your child in the book parade and like
- 27:40Speaker 1: acknowledge that you did nothing exactly hurry.
- 27:42Speaker 2: So obviously their parents weren't there. We're not here to
- 27:45Speaker 2: judge matth are you? And that here comes Timmy, he's
- 27:48Speaker 2: got no parents. Fuck anyway, some say his dad went
- 27:53Speaker 2: out for milk. No. I felt a bit sorry for
- 27:57Speaker 2: that kid, and whenever the other some of the other parents, bitch.
- 28:00Speaker 2: I separated myself from that, felt like I acknowledged those
- 28:04Speaker 2: kids like that. It was it was completely within the group, because.
- 28:08Speaker 1: I was like, how else you meant to well.
- 28:11Speaker 2: Some you know, you see some parents, Yeah, you see
- 28:14Speaker 2: some parents that are kind of like.
- 28:16Speaker 1: Like they would like the cheer would stop when Timmy
- 28:19Speaker 1: goes by. Is that what you're saying?
- 28:20Speaker 2: Yeah, poor Timmy.
- 28:21Speaker 1: Yeah, but I was like, I got a t Rex
- 28:23Speaker 1: and Timmy walks by.
- 28:24Speaker 2: They're like, some people were talking ship. Okay, well there
- 28:29Speaker 2: we go. That's what we want. I was trying to
- 28:31Speaker 2: dance around it, but I was like, and I was.
- 28:33Speaker 1: Like, I would hate why is Ash crying?
- 28:36Speaker 2: I would hate it if someone was talking ship about me.
- 28:40Speaker 2: So I, for once in my life didn't get involved
- 28:43Speaker 2: with the talking shit about people because I think it's
- 28:45Speaker 2: very fun. Because I was more on the I was
- 28:49Speaker 2: more on the kids level.
- 28:50Speaker 1: Wow, I'm this level of personal growth is really amazing.
- 28:54Speaker 2: I know when when we got to the car and
- 28:57Speaker 2: Averyone was like, oh, you know, so it's sad like
- 28:59Speaker 2: Timmy seeing Timmy like that. But again, we don't and
- 29:02Speaker 2: I said to it, we don't know the circumstance, okay,
- 29:04Speaker 2: And how would you like it if Timmy's bum and
- 29:07Speaker 2: dad were in their car talking shit about you?
- 29:09Speaker 1: It's an interesting shout with the teacher like do you
- 29:12Speaker 1: let do you let the kids who aren't dressed up
- 29:14Speaker 1: go in the parade because you don't want to like
- 29:15Speaker 1: not ostracize them.
- 29:17Speaker 2: Yeah, it's of like you want to. It's all about inclusivity. Yeah.
- 29:22Speaker 1: I think there's a very mature way that you've handled
- 29:24Speaker 1: the situation, and you should be.
- 29:25Speaker 2: I didn't get involved.
- 29:27Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because you love laughing at other people.
- 29:29Speaker 2: That's one of my favorite things. That's what you're good at.
- 29:32Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 29:33Speaker 1: Finally, also on book Week, someone message and said the
- 29:38Speaker 1: reason why daycare doesn't have a designated book day within
- 29:43Speaker 1: book week is because all the kids go on different days, right,
- 29:48Speaker 1: so they have to try and allow every day of
- 29:50Speaker 1: that week to be a potential book day, dress up
- 29:52Speaker 1: day so kids don't miss out.
- 29:55Speaker 2: So it's all weak.
- 29:56Speaker 1: So they say, like, you can pick one day. But
- 29:58Speaker 1: whether the parents just get so carried away with it
- 30:00Speaker 1: all that they end up doing.
- 30:02Speaker 2: It's always that parent that they send their kid in
- 30:04Speaker 2: something different every day because it's like guilty, but we
- 30:07Speaker 2: Macey's day care. No bookweight day, no bookweek, nothing, full stop,
- 30:14Speaker 2: which I think is a great initiative, just fucking flagg
- 30:17Speaker 2: the whole thing.
- 30:18Speaker 1: It's great that you're you're now having that response because
- 30:23Speaker 1: you didn't get to dress up. Wow, and you missed out.
- 30:27Speaker 2: Wow. Okay, well, my therapist is going to love this anyway.
- 30:32Speaker 2: Book whek, he's over, thank goodness. But the paraders boring.
- 30:36Speaker 1: Okay, so I won't miss out on anything, I don't think.
- 30:38Speaker 1: So I've done something so stupid, you think at this stage,
- 30:45Speaker 1: you know, I've been a parent now for six years.
- 30:48Speaker 1: I would have learned a thing or two about how
- 30:51Speaker 1: to parent.
- 30:52Speaker 2: And you have a dad podcast to Powell, don't pal me, okay, Bud.
- 31:00Speaker 1: And you know, sometimes Ash, when there's an opportunity to
- 31:05Speaker 1: take a little shortcut, you will take that shortcut, even
- 31:08Speaker 1: though you realize that before you get to the finish line,
- 31:12Speaker 1: it's going to make the journey harder.
- 31:13Speaker 2: Oh, there's rippercussions to every shortcut. Put that on a
- 31:16Speaker 2: T shirt. I am on with those things you just had.
- 31:21Speaker 1: You just had your medication delivery.
- 31:24Speaker 2: One my secret.
- 31:28Speaker 1: I decided to allow Lola to have a nap on Sunday.
- 31:34Speaker 1: You goose and after forty five minutes, forty five minutes,
- 31:39Speaker 1: I allowed the nap to continue, Oh my god, for
- 31:43Speaker 1: how long?
- 31:44Speaker 2: An and a half? Shit fucking hell, take an hour
- 31:50Speaker 2: and a half nap for like a nearly five year
- 31:52Speaker 2: old is pretty much a night sleep so full times.
- 31:54Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 31:55Speaker 2: You literally she's got two days ahead of an hour.
- 31:58Speaker 1: We had dinner and I was going, well, it's time
- 32:01Speaker 1: that we have a bath, and she was like, what
- 32:03Speaker 1: for we get ready for bed and she was like.
- 32:05Speaker 2: Don't need that. You were like, wear this kid out, Hey, Lola,
- 32:08Speaker 2: have you heard of peloton? Yeah? No, So what in
- 32:14Speaker 2: the right of the middle of the day or was
- 32:15Speaker 2: it like.
- 32:16Speaker 1: Yeah, it was it was smack banging. Why was she
- 32:19Speaker 1: so tired because she had soccer, I had socker and
- 32:22Speaker 1: I think she just she's been getting up really early
- 32:24Speaker 1: at the moment for some.
- 32:26Speaker 2: Reason, probablycause she keeps snapping them.
- 32:29Speaker 1: So then we got time to read the stories, put
- 32:31Speaker 1: them down to bed. Marley out like a light.
- 32:35Speaker 2: Yeah, there's always one of them because at back your
- 32:37Speaker 2: chair room too. One goes and the other's just talking
- 32:40Speaker 2: to themselves.
- 32:41Speaker 1: Kaula is just there like white eye, going wow, I'm
- 32:45Speaker 1: not tired.
- 32:45Speaker 2: Who's got the bag?
- 32:49Speaker 1: And I said, he's gonna lay down, close your eyes,
- 32:51Speaker 1: try and fall asleep.
- 32:52Speaker 2: Eight o'clock.
- 32:52Speaker 1: She goes, I just I'm not tired, and I said,
- 32:54Speaker 1: keep on trying. She lay down with me.
- 32:56Speaker 2: I said, nope.
- 32:58Speaker 1: Nine o'clock. She's like there playing with their dolls, reading books,
- 33:02Speaker 1: coloring in.
- 33:02Speaker 2: I was like, all out ten o'clock, shut up. She's
- 33:06Speaker 2: still there, like nothing yet feel nothing. I feel nothing.
- 33:11Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, please the love of God,
- 33:15Speaker 1: go to sleep, and she's like, wish I could.
- 33:19Speaker 2: Oh God, what time ten thirty? She went to bed
- 33:23Speaker 2: a tenth thirty, so she fell asleep, or she tried
- 33:25Speaker 2: to start sleeping at ten thirty.
- 33:27Speaker 1: I think she was trying for a long time, but
- 33:29Speaker 1: finally ten thirty I pot my head in and she
- 33:31Speaker 1: she was gone. And I was like, and then when
- 33:34Speaker 1: I had to wake up at seven in the morning
- 33:35Speaker 1: to get ready for daycare, was wrecked.
- 33:37Speaker 2: Ah, poor thing, it's all your fault. But that and
- 33:41Speaker 2: a half, that's great. It was so good to miss it.
- 33:44Speaker 2: I felt freaking remember how much I used to nap?
- 33:47Speaker 2: Not anymore, but we've all forgotten. I was thinking about
- 33:50Speaker 2: that last night. I was like, trying to sleep changed
- 33:53Speaker 2: and because Macy's not napping it it was like my favorite.
- 33:56Speaker 2: And we bonded so much because we would nap together
- 33:59Speaker 2: and we'd big cuddle and shit together. We nap ship
- 34:03Speaker 2: we're in cycle. But now there's no naps, and I'm sad.
- 34:07Speaker 1: You're Macy drifting apart, drifting apart.
- 34:10Speaker 2: Also, my caffeine intake's going through the roof because I can't. Like,
- 34:14Speaker 2: I never used to be able to nap until I
- 34:16Speaker 2: had kids and I taught myself how to nap. God,
- 34:20Speaker 2: that makes me feel proud. And then now there's no
- 34:23Speaker 2: more naps and I'm upset about it, but I do
- 34:28Speaker 2: Macy does full sleep in the car. Well, oh shit, anyway,
- 34:34Speaker 2: that's time. We'll see time. Macy does fall sleep in
- 34:37Speaker 2: the car, but only for like five minutes, and that
- 34:39Speaker 2: ruins us. I don't care. Thanks, that ruins us. She's
- 34:43Speaker 2: up to like eight quarter past eight.
- 34:45Speaker 1: Oh god, he's going on again.
- 34:47Speaker 2: Shut this guy up. All right, let's go into a segment.
- 34:52Speaker 1: Let's let's let's let's go into questions.
- 34:57Speaker 2: Oh, let's go question Okay, curveball, I like it. I
- 35:02Speaker 2: like what you're doing with it.
- 35:05Speaker 1: Let's give pear rants a little rest. Okay, we's gonna
- 35:08Speaker 1: rest it. We're going to give it a nap.
- 35:10Speaker 2: Love it.
- 35:11Speaker 1: Thank you Aaron half, thank you aon half week. Let's
- 35:15Speaker 1: go into listening questions if we may.
- 35:17Speaker 2: Yes, I'll get the first question. And just a warning
- 35:19Speaker 2: to the parents out there, if you're driving the car
- 35:20Speaker 2: and the kids here listening, or if you're home, we're
- 35:22Speaker 2: on YouTube, because we're on YouTube now, m we are
- 35:25Speaker 2: going to be talking about the Easter Bunny right now specifically,
- 35:28Speaker 2: So just is that a warning.
- 35:31Speaker 1: We will be talking about the Easter Bunny and how
- 35:33Speaker 1: much we love the Easter Bunny.
- 35:36Speaker 2: Yes, and where he came from. So like wink wink,
- 35:38Speaker 2: I let's gaslight the kids from Gillian. How do you
- 35:41Speaker 2: respond when your child asks whether the Easter Bunny is
- 35:45Speaker 2: or isn't real?
- 35:48Speaker 1: Hi, I did it in a way which I now
- 35:52Speaker 1: know is the wrong way according to Laura.
- 35:54Speaker 2: Okay, well that's one person, just the mother of your children.
- 35:58Speaker 2: So Marthy goes to ask Emily pregnant.
- 36:00Speaker 1: And I never disagree. Go on, when your wife is
- 36:03Speaker 1: eight months pregnant, they can say the sky is purple
- 36:05Speaker 1: and you go, yep, yep.
- 36:07Speaker 2: I did have to remind you of that a few times.
- 36:09Speaker 1: So Marley goes to and after school care. Yep, they
- 36:12Speaker 1: go with old kids. She came home and she goes
- 36:16Speaker 1: someone said the Easter Bunny is not a thing, And
- 36:20Speaker 1: I said.
- 36:20Speaker 2: Well, that is not true at all. What's his name?
- 36:22Speaker 1: I'll find him who gives all the chocolate? And she goes, apparently,
- 36:26Speaker 1: you do the parents get the chocolate? And she's I
- 36:29Speaker 1: was sweating at this point, and she goes, well, who
- 36:33Speaker 1: does all the instructions? We have those little arrows sometimes
- 36:36Speaker 1: like it's over here, and I go, I, you know
- 36:38Speaker 1: I have to help the Easter Bunny.
- 36:40Speaker 2: Yeah I met him.
- 36:42Speaker 1: You know he's so busy.
- 36:43Speaker 2: You can't.
- 36:44Speaker 1: You can't deliver the chocolate and do the directions as well.
- 36:47Speaker 1: So why do the directions? We like help each other out.
- 36:48Speaker 1: We've got a system going.
- 36:50Speaker 2: To be fair. He got sick of breaking and entering,
- 36:52Speaker 2: so now he's just knocking. Yeah, he just leaves on
- 36:54Speaker 2: the front. I'll help hide them. And she goes, so,
- 36:58Speaker 2: hang on, you what you are telling me that the
- 37:03Speaker 2: Easter Bunny is one hundred percent real? I said, yeah,
- 37:07Speaker 2: absolutely it is. So who else keives the chocolate?
- 37:10Speaker 1: If it's it's not me, it has to be someone
- 37:14Speaker 1: it's the Easter Bunny. And she goes, you, pinky, promise
- 37:18Speaker 1: me and anyone who doesn't know Marley, who's.
- 37:22Speaker 2: My eldest daughter. She is six.
- 37:23Speaker 1: Now we have a system in place that if we
- 37:27Speaker 1: pinky promise each other like this, like.
- 37:29Speaker 2: This, do you suck on your thumbs or not? What?
- 37:32Speaker 2: That's the game me and my friends play.
- 37:34Speaker 1: So for example, if she's watching TV and I say,
- 37:37Speaker 1: you got one minute left once your alarm goes off,
- 37:39Speaker 1: you have to brush your teeth, you promise me, and
- 37:41Speaker 1: she goes, yeah, we got pinky promise and she can't
- 37:43Speaker 1: break it.
- 37:43Speaker 2: I love that because it's also like a bit of bonding.
- 37:46Speaker 2: It's like a little it's little little thing.
- 37:48Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can never break your pinky promise.
- 37:51Speaker 2: She's got your bent over a barrel and so.
- 37:54Speaker 1: Easter bunny question. She goes, do you pinky promise that
- 37:56Speaker 1: you're not lying to me? You pinky promise that it's true?
- 37:58Speaker 1: And I go yep, and Laura. I look over at
- 38:04Speaker 1: Laura and be like, don't worry, babe, I got this.
- 38:07Speaker 2: And she's like, what are you doing? You idiot? Oh
- 38:11Speaker 2: this is gonna Oh so what do you do? Do you?
- 38:15Speaker 2: What do you do in that situation? You've got to
- 38:17Speaker 2: stand by it now so much longer, because there's a
- 38:21Speaker 2: time when it's just it's it's time for that not
- 38:25Speaker 2: to be real. You know what, I mean, oh for sure,
- 38:27Speaker 2: hundred percent. And but she also knew what she was doing.
- 38:31Speaker 2: She just bent you over a barrel here, clever and
- 38:34Speaker 2: look at the moment, I think you're in the clear
- 38:36Speaker 2: for now. But when it comes to breaking the pinky promise,
- 38:40Speaker 2: I think what will happen is you'll remember the pinky
- 38:44Speaker 2: promise and you'll feel bad about it. She won't and
- 38:46Speaker 2: she won't make you feel bad about Laura said, I'll
- 38:49Speaker 2: remind you.
- 38:51Speaker 1: Laura said, Look, you can believe whatever you want to believe,
- 38:54Speaker 1: and if you believe the bund your abbit to be true,
- 38:56Speaker 1: it is true, which I find confusing.
- 38:58Speaker 2: What does that mean? That's rubbish?
- 39:00Speaker 1: Yeah? What's that about?
- 39:04Speaker 2: Made me say it? It's so Yeah, I haven't well.
- 39:08Speaker 1: Because now you know, we start with the Easter Bunny,
- 39:11Speaker 1: who is no disrespect to the characters in like the
- 39:15Speaker 1: calendar calendar of events, but like two two very Easter
- 39:20Speaker 1: Bunny bottom of the Ladda. They're like non critical, okay,
- 39:24Speaker 1: Santa Claus, top of the food chain.
- 39:26Speaker 2: Yeah, the guy that breaks into your house once a year.
- 39:28Speaker 2: It's so confusing.
- 39:30Speaker 1: Yeah, but once you you know, once you start not
- 39:31Speaker 1: believing in the Easter Bunny, they're all unravels magic.
- 39:35Speaker 2: They don't, they don't know. What's what else do you
- 39:37Speaker 2: fucking line about?
- 39:38Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 39:39Speaker 2: Yeah, he's healthy, Harold real, of course he is fucking
- 39:43Speaker 2: bottom of the rung. I heard he smokes, so don't
- 39:46Speaker 2: listen to anything.
- 39:46Speaker 1: He said, it's a hand to Hannah, and she said
- 39:51Speaker 1: she'd love a shout out to shout out to Hannah.
- 39:53Speaker 2: But we're confused whether it's hand or Hannah Han Hi hand,
- 39:57Speaker 2: no hand hand them hand that I am silent.
- 40:02Speaker 1: My fiancee and I were both twenty five and childless,
- 40:04Speaker 1: have listened to the pod since it's been nice.
- 40:08Speaker 2: Since day one.
- 40:09Speaker 1: Yes, weird childless, but you're both hilarious.
- 40:12Speaker 2: And that's it. My job is done here.
- 40:14Speaker 1: That's all that she says.
- 40:15Speaker 2: Okay, that's all you're talking about.
- 40:17Speaker 1: Anyways, we're getting married next year gradually, and both very
- 40:20Speaker 1: keen for children. However, my partner is keen to be
- 40:23Speaker 1: a young dad and wanting to reproduce asap, whereas I
- 40:27Speaker 1: am keen to drag it out for as long as possible.
- 40:30Speaker 2: Say reproduce. Come on, what this is a real formal
- 40:36Speaker 2: way to put that, isn't it? For me?
- 40:40Speaker 1: For reference? I have no issues with your.
- 40:42Speaker 2: Your mature I am not very mature.
- 40:45Speaker 1: For twenty five. I take it you will not using
- 40:47Speaker 1: the word reproduce a twenty five ash.
- 40:49Speaker 2: I can't even spell it, still can't spell.
- 40:52Speaker 1: It, whereas I'm keen to drag it out for as
- 40:54Speaker 1: long as possible, wanting to enjoy my twenties and early
- 40:57Speaker 1: thirties in brackets aka drinking.
- 41:00Speaker 2: Now I'm listening.
- 41:01Speaker 1: Yeah, my question, my que is my cue.
- 41:05Speaker 2: My queue is the language on this person. You are
- 41:08Speaker 2: way more, you're ready.
- 41:10Speaker 1: Would you have changed when you had children? Or how
- 41:13Speaker 1: did you decide when you wanted them? Did Abril and
- 41:15Speaker 1: Laura think more about it than you? As it can
- 41:18Speaker 1: be more of a sacrifice as women, fertility is obviously
- 41:22Speaker 1: the elephant in the room. A big question mark as
- 41:24Speaker 1: we haven't gone down that path yet, but I would
- 41:27Speaker 1: love your opinion, especially when both of us are very
- 41:30Speaker 1: clucky but unsure.
- 41:33Speaker 2: Very good question, Han, I appreciate that.
- 41:38Speaker 1: What just sorry, I'm adapting to the situation.
- 41:42Speaker 2: A good question, A good question.
- 41:45Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
- 41:47Speaker 2: When I was a young twenty five year old Chap
- 41:49Speaker 2: ten years ago, Oh gosh, thanks for reminding me.
- 41:51Speaker 1: Thirteenth for me, A big guy, Yeah, split it out,
- 41:54Speaker 1: middle aged, How you were, how old we had kids?
- 41:56Speaker 2: Twenty nine? I was And I was never that person
- 42:01Speaker 2: who was like so sure they wanted kids, or so
- 42:05Speaker 2: unsure they wanted kids. I was always through this cycle
- 42:07Speaker 2: where it was like I would love to have a kid.
- 42:10Speaker 2: Then it would be like, oh no, I like my
- 42:12Speaker 2: life as it is, or like I'm not ready. There
- 42:14Speaker 2: was always these mixed feelings. April was definitely much more
- 42:18Speaker 2: sure of herself and when to do it. She's a planner, right,
- 42:21Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm like very sporadic, what's what makes us work?
- 42:25Speaker 2: So she was very much this way. She wanted kids.
- 42:29Speaker 2: I was unsure. So we compromised and had kids. That
- 42:34Speaker 2: is beautiful, thank you. That is I'm not unhappy about it.
- 42:40Speaker 2: But I was also like I don't want to have
- 42:42Speaker 2: I don't want to have kids, and it become my
- 42:44Speaker 2: whole personality. And now I have a parenting.
- 42:46Speaker 1: Podcast all of your person God damn.
- 42:49Speaker 2: Anyway.
- 42:50Speaker 1: Okay, well, okay, the question question question, The.
- 42:52Speaker 2: Question is with that? My quick answer to that was, yeah,
- 42:55Speaker 2: April had the plan and I went with the plan.
- 42:58Speaker 1: Okay, but but would you in hindsight, would you have
- 43:01Speaker 1: changed earlier.
- 43:02Speaker 2: Later, No, it stuck to the No. I think mid
- 43:06Speaker 2: to late twenties, great to thirty like these days, I
- 43:10Speaker 2: mean with science. Sorry, I don't want to upset anyone.
- 43:17Speaker 1: Yeah, go on to that one.
- 43:20Speaker 2: Somewhere between twenty five and thirty. I think, where are
- 43:22Speaker 2: you going about science?
- 43:23Speaker 1: What's that about?
- 43:25Speaker 2: Just modern technology? Man? Oh my god. I think twenty
- 43:34Speaker 2: nine for us was the right time, and I think
- 43:36Speaker 2: it's going to be who for them when it feels right,
- 43:40Speaker 2: then that's the right time.
- 43:42Speaker 1: Well said, how old was I? I'm thirty eight now
- 43:44Speaker 1: I was Jesus, Yeah, I we didn't really talk about
- 43:53Speaker 1: having kids. It was a very welcome surprise, was it?
- 43:57Speaker 2: I didn't know that was it? Was it now from Lon? Then? Okay?
- 44:03Speaker 2: Was that a surprise?
- 44:04Speaker 1: Yeah? Because Laura had taken some medication. I'm pretty sure
- 44:08Speaker 1: this is what happened. That the medication hadn't it meant
- 44:13Speaker 1: that the pill wasn't working and so then, but she
- 44:16Speaker 1: wasn't informed that.
- 44:17Speaker 2: She tricked you, bro, She tricked you into it, and so.
- 44:21Speaker 1: It was a surprise.
- 44:22Speaker 2: We weren't trying.
- 44:23Speaker 1: But at the same time, we both knew that we
- 44:24Speaker 1: really wanted to have kids, and I was like humped
- 44:26Speaker 1: for kids. But I do think when I look at
- 44:29Speaker 1: people who were in their twenties having kids, for me,
- 44:32Speaker 1: I'm like, man, the twenties for me was about making
- 44:35Speaker 1: you know, having no responsibility, doing whatever the hell I wanted,
- 44:38Speaker 1: being able to travel, you know, and just having the freedom, oh,
- 44:43Speaker 1: the freedom to do whatever the hell I wanted. Like
- 44:46Speaker 1: some of the holidays at Laura and I took together
- 44:48Speaker 1: without kids amazing, epic, Like, so glad we did that
- 44:52Speaker 1: because it becomes a lot more difficult with kids. But
- 44:55Speaker 1: at the same time, I think I did underestimate just
- 44:59Speaker 1: how fun life can still be with kids in the mix.
- 45:02Speaker 2: I was just gonna say that it's a different type
- 45:05Speaker 2: of fun, like I would say during the twenty in
- 45:08Speaker 2: twenties and April and I traveled and do all these
- 45:10Speaker 2: things together, But it was at the time that was
- 45:13Speaker 2: the fun. Yes, that makes sense. And then, to be
- 45:17Speaker 2: completely honest with you, since having kids and being in
- 45:20Speaker 2: my thirties, I've had the most fun I've ever had.
- 45:23Speaker 2: And it's not just it's not just you know, like
- 45:26Speaker 2: I have adult money now and can do things, and
- 45:29Speaker 2: I have a career and what we do is fun
- 45:31Speaker 2: and I get to travel and do all that sort
- 45:33Speaker 2: of stuff. But also then I get to come home
- 45:35Speaker 2: and yes, you know, every now and then you gotta
- 45:37Speaker 2: yell at your fucking kids because they're painful sometimes, but
- 45:39Speaker 2: you have a different type of fun because you sort
- 45:42Speaker 2: of get on their level a little bit, right, and
- 45:45Speaker 2: you do that shit, or you get to take like,
- 45:47Speaker 2: for example, the first time I took Oscar to a
- 45:50Speaker 2: manly game, and you're like, I used to go to
- 45:53Speaker 2: manly games with my mates and get pierced and have fun.
- 45:56Speaker 2: It's different. Now I get to see the look on
- 45:58Speaker 2: Oscar's face when Oli Kawachi walks over and signs his football,
- 46:01Speaker 2: and it's like, holy shit, dude, I'm having so much fun.
- 46:03Speaker 2: It's different.
- 46:04Speaker 1: You're doing the same things that you used to do,
- 46:06Speaker 1: but you're seeing them at a whole new perspective. Now
- 46:08Speaker 1: that you're a parent does make life harder, goes without sure,
- 46:12Speaker 1: but let's not like we're not going to sugarcoat and
- 46:15Speaker 1: parenting is hand. I'm just warning you managing your expectations
- 46:18Speaker 1: being a parent. You will be more exhausted, more stressed,
- 46:22Speaker 1: more anxious than ever before. But at the same time
- 46:26Speaker 1: you will get more fulfillment more love than you ever
- 46:28Speaker 1: knew possible.
- 46:29Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a really good example. Right. I just gave
- 46:31Speaker 2: your example. I'll give one more real quick? How many?
- 46:35Speaker 2: Just what real quick? Is? Better? Be quick? Okay? So
- 46:38Speaker 2: it's bedtime for the kids, right, and then we're going
- 46:40Speaker 2: to let the dog out. And the dog goes out
- 46:42Speaker 2: to we on the bush and on the grass, and
- 46:44Speaker 2: I'm standing there with Oscar, who's out of the I
- 46:46Speaker 2: should laugh, out of the shower, ready for bed. And
- 46:49Speaker 2: we're both standing there and I look down at him
- 46:50Speaker 2: and he goes, I wear on the grass too, And
- 46:55Speaker 2: I was like at a boy and just that moments
- 46:57Speaker 2: like in the Little Mate, and he's just like, yeah, okay,
- 47:00Speaker 2: over there to it. I'm like, fucking, it's a different joy,
- 47:03Speaker 2: right that you're not you. You wouldn't have got in
- 47:06Speaker 2: like your twenties, so never had that moment. So I
- 47:08Speaker 2: would say to this person, you do you and when
- 47:11Speaker 2: it feels right, and when it when it feels right,
- 47:14Speaker 2: it'll be the right.
- 47:15Speaker 1: He's already said that.
- 47:16Speaker 2: Fuck ray God, how dare I care about the listener? Man?
- 47:22Speaker 1: I hope that answers your question.
- 47:24Speaker 2: Probably like what the drivel? It's like, there's no way.
- 47:30Speaker 1: Hannah is still listening at this point, but she has.
- 47:33Speaker 2: Gone ago in Billy Matters and the Guards Life. We
- 47:36Speaker 2: are all dumber from listening to that.
- 47:39Speaker 1: I'm sure if anyone made it pass that you compied
- 47:41Speaker 1: chat within the first five minutes, it'd be a miracle.
- 47:44Speaker 2: Just put that enlightening piano music behind it to be fine.
- 47:47Speaker 1: But we should get the opinions of Laura and April.
- 47:50Speaker 2: We should, we will do.
- 47:52Speaker 1: We'll put that in next week's episode, so don't worry.
- 47:54Speaker 2: So Hannah is going to get the double shout out
- 47:56Speaker 2: is like, fuck, make it out, wing will put me
- 47:59Speaker 2: out of my misery. Just have a couple of kids
- 48:01Speaker 2: and shut up.
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- 48:14Speaker 2: What's taken you so long? I know fully what the
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- 48:40Speaker 1: to get people out, like hello.
- 48:43Speaker 2: At the end of this everything, I'm fucking definitely not
- 48:45Speaker 2: gone that. It'll just be a bunch of shitty, shitty
- 48:49Speaker 2: dribble and then ashcar put that on a T shirt
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- 49:02Speaker 2: my god, Yes, what was that you?
- 49:07Speaker 1: I thought she would sit there and listen to us.
- 49:09Speaker 1: She's there watching fucking movies.
- 49:11Speaker 2: Are you for real? What? Oh god, I don't believe
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- 49:22Speaker 2: Your screamed? She's watching pawn Two.
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