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#221 Losing Friends & Making Enemies · Two Doting Dads with Matty J & Ash

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  Speaker 1: Boy, Have I got a story for you? Oh? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: What you got for me?
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  Speaker 1: Boy?
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  Speaker 2: You're four stories at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of a yowie?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yep, yep. Have you have you a little
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  Speaker 3: chocolate yowies?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: Real? Yeah, they look nothing like the chocolate. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like a false advertisement.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard about them?
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  Speaker 3: Not? Really? Like?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a yowie?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever met a yowie hunter?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I've been set up? No?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Welcome back to two gutting dads. I am Maddie
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  Speaker 1: Jay and I'm Ash. And this is episode two and
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. What yeah, And it's also happens to be
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  Speaker 1: a podcast about parenting, the good, the bad, and the relatable.
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  Speaker 1: And we will not give any advice, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: End of Ash.
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  Speaker 1: I took a taxi an uber if you will, I
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  Speaker 1: will lovely older man. I would say he's about late fifties,
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  Speaker 1: maybe early sixties, hard to know exactly.
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  Speaker 3: That's considered middle age now very middle aged.
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  Speaker 1: And he was a really sweet old man. He was like, hello,
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  Speaker 1: how are you clean car?
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  Speaker 3: Just a very normal.
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  Speaker 1: Type person, a run of the middle sort of guy,
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  Speaker 1: very run of the mill.
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  Speaker 2: So you think.
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  Speaker 1: We got talking and he was like what do you guys,
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  Speaker 1: what do you guys do talking to me and Laura
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  Speaker 1: and we're like, oh, we work on social media. And
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  Speaker 1: he was like I have a social media page.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, I was like what do you got?
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  Speaker 1: And he was like it's called Yowie dash.
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  Speaker 3: X x so it's yowie porn.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, Yowie is like Bigfoot and he
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  Speaker 1: was like eyes like Bigfoot.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you didn't get a bigfoot guy started, did you?
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  Speaker 3: He was a yowie hunter. Do they exist according to
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  Speaker 3: this guy? Okay? Absolutely, So that means Bigfoot would just
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  Speaker 3: be like a big yeah. What about lock next Monsa.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, do I go there?
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  Speaker 1: But he reckons at the Yowi They've been around since
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of time almost They are eight foot tall
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  Speaker 1: a couple hundred kilos and they have a cloak of
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  Speaker 1: invincibility type do you know the predator? How the predator
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  Speaker 1: can it can like, it can hide, it blends into
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  Speaker 1: its surroundings.
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  Speaker 2: Zero stars let me out like a chameleon. A chameleon, yes,
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  Speaker 2: well said coma comelle perfect.
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  Speaker 1: And he had had a number of encounters with his yowis,
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  Speaker 1: and he said that one of these times he was
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  Speaker 1: being attacked by yowi. However, he now thinks that the
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  Speaker 1: Yowi was saving him from being abducted by aliens.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I was out of the Uber.
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  Speaker 1: I was in an it was an hour long Uber
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  Speaker 1: trip and I was.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I don't talk to my Uber drivers for this
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  Speaker 2: exact reason. I get in.
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  Speaker 3: I go, hope you don't mind.
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  Speaker 2: I'll put my headphones on so and hear, you're crazy. Jibber, jebber.
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  Speaker 1: He was going on a yowie hunt in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks and invited me along.
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  Speaker 3: Can we take a lot? Please? Can we go that
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  Speaker 3: that's something I'm interested in? We would never return, are
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  Speaker 3: you kidding?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Vick would be sitting here on a Tuesday being like,
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  Speaker 1: where the hell are the books?
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  Speaker 3: And we're like here, whatever it.
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  Speaker 2: Is, what do you call it?
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  Speaker 3: I see of invincibility, invisibility, invisibility. Look, in a world
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  Speaker 3: like today's world, it's nice to believe in something it's harmless.
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  Speaker 3: It's harmless. There is it's a victimless crime. That all
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  Speaker 3: he's doing is enjoying them outdoors trying to find although
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  Speaker 3: he does find one. He's fun. But that's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: They can't take photos of the yowi because they're always camouflaged,
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  Speaker 1: which is why they haven't been photographed. But they walk
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  Speaker 1: like spiders. Yeah, it was it was a lot. It
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  Speaker 1: was a lot to take in.
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  Speaker 2: That's scary as hell.
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  Speaker 1: Housekeeping.
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  Speaker 3: That looks like that's what a huntsmen would look like
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  Speaker 3: if it was a human huntsman.
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  Speaker 1: We have we've loved to get through. And I apologize
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  Speaker 1: for telling that.
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  Speaker 2: No, I liked it. I didn't know it was a thing. Well,
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  Speaker 2: now you know, what do you got for me Mother's Day? Matt?
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  Speaker 3: You have a mother, I believe she lives with you, correct,
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  Speaker 3: And you also have a wife who is a mother. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Have you organized Mother's Day gifts for these people yet?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: Neither? Okay, thank god, Oh thank god.
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  Speaker 3: What will you get, April?
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  Speaker 2: Don't know whatever you get, I'll just get the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: Flowers, Nah, they just die.
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  Speaker 1: They do just die. I like to get natives. They
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  Speaker 1: last longer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I think flowers are very funeralish, funeral esque,
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  Speaker 3: short term game. Yeah, she's gonna get the best sex
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  Speaker 3: of her life.
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  Speaker 2: Not what.
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  Speaker 3: Serious gifts. I haven't really thought about it. I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: the kids will get something.
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  Speaker 1: From the breakfast in bed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, although she gets up before me. I'll have my
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  Speaker 3: eggs runny.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Can I just say, breakfast in bed sucks.
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  Speaker 2: It's a mess.
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  Speaker 3: It sucks.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, Vic, I know you're all for it, but.
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  Speaker 2: It's just she's so sad.
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  Speaker 3: Bed is not designed for eating pizza.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, breakfast, no pussy.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe take that out. I had to go there, so
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  Speaker 3: call me.
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  Speaker 2: Ash mean but also true. What are you thinking? Where
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  Speaker 2: do you go? What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe we will go out for breakfast, not
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  Speaker 1: in bed, take the bed with you.
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  Speaker 3: We'll set the bed up somewhere, table for two.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think what I'll do. I'll get the kids to
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  Speaker 1: write some kind of a letter, and I will also
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  Speaker 1: write a letter, something sentimental, maybe even a printed photo.
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  Speaker 2: Very nice.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. But also, if you are a man
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  Speaker 1: listening to this, and you're like us and have not
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  Speaker 1: given much thought to Mother's Day, just write it down.
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  Speaker 3: Do something, do something anything active, an active service, service,
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  Speaker 3: a full day of acts of service, and that's probably problem.
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  Speaker 3: I'll probably just maybe I'll finish the renovations. Maybe I'll
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  Speaker 3: start a new one.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. You never know with me, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll just find out on the day.
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  Speaker 3: But I think the kids will get some stuff from
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  Speaker 3: school which I can put my name on the bottom
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 2: They won't notice.
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  Speaker 1: And to any mom's listening, why aren't you in for
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  Speaker 1: a treat? Look at us?
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  Speaker 3: Look at us presence? Hang on?
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  Speaker 2: What about the bragger? Good one?
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  Speaker 4: Dare he told me yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Like, what do you got?
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  Speaker 4: It's really good?
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  Speaker 1: Oh well that's that's dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know whatever?
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  Speaker 2: Say it's good just in case it's not.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't Ricky Stewart get his wife a first aid kid
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  Speaker 3: once for her mother's day?
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  Speaker 2: Or was that a birthday?
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  Speaker 1: You're going to say the name Ricky Stewart. I think
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  Speaker 1: you have to get some context.
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  Speaker 3: He's a football coach for the Camera Raiders and he
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  Speaker 3: got his wife a first aid kid.
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  Speaker 1: That's love.
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  Speaker 2: That is love.
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  Speaker 1: That is that screams romance because if she.
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  Speaker 3: Hurts herself he can. He's readily available to help fix
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  Speaker 3: what of ailment? Beautiful?
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  Speaker 1: So caring levels that present vic what it's worse? First,
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  Speaker 1: a kit or an iron or a vacuum?
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  Speaker 4: Definitely an iron or a vacuum. That's extra work.
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  Speaker 3: What if it's a vacuum. But I say, guess what
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  Speaker 3: the vacuums for me because I'm going to take over
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  Speaker 3: all the vacuuming from now on.
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  Speaker 4: Oh then I love that because that's an extra kit.
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  Speaker 2: Don't touch my vacuum.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Ash, breaking news. No, sorry, I apologize. Wow, I'm
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  Speaker 1: high off caffeine right now.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, and caffeine and gossip.
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  Speaker 3: The look of shock in the faces of the room.
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  Speaker 2: What is it your two faces?
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, I have some exciting news. You do?
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  Speaker 1: Is that better?
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  Speaker 2: That's great?
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  Speaker 3: We have a cot.
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  Speaker 1: Some people a number of weeks ago would have seen
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  Speaker 1: the installation of a cot. Also, I didn't know this, Ash,
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  Speaker 1: but our old cot used to have a side which
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  Speaker 1: would go up and down. It would be easy entry
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  Speaker 1: of the baby into the cot because the side would
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  Speaker 1: come would drop down.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're like a lot of the time, you're like,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get right deep in.
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  Speaker 1: Think of the bah, think of the lower back there
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  Speaker 1: as you like, it's very arch prone, too archie, too archie.
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  Speaker 1: And I was installing the cot and I kind of
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  Speaker 1: realized after the fact that went, oh gosh, there's no
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  Speaker 1: there's no drop downside.
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  Speaker 3: We're they're all fixed with screws.
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  Speaker 1: And then people hundreds, if not thousands of them said,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry you idiot, they no longer do a drop
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  Speaker 1: down side cot. Be could have safety concerns. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're out there looking for a drop down cot, they're extinct.
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  Speaker 2: And does the mattress go on different levels?
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  Speaker 1: There he is, You.
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  Speaker 3: Can raise the mattress.
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  Speaker 1: Also, someone did say, if it's still not quite high enough,
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  Speaker 1: just go a double mattress.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, there you go, but that means you got to
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  Speaker 3: pay for two mattresses.
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  Speaker 2: Not a problem. Also, just on that cot.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, how old is Poppy?
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  Speaker 1: She's six months?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Now I could be wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Here, but I did say during an episode before Poppy
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  Speaker 3: was born, I think we had your wife on. I
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  Speaker 3: think it was your wife.
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  Speaker 2: Was your wife?
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  Speaker 1: I think that was her?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was her. I said.
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  Speaker 3: This isn't a direct quote. I have to go back
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  Speaker 3: and find it, but I'm certain I said that. I
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  Speaker 3: bet you that this baby will be six months old
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  Speaker 3: and the nursery will still not be ready, and you've
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  Speaker 3: proved me. Why why are you going to attack me
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  Speaker 3: like that?
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Why are you going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Such a dick because that's how I operate.
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  Speaker 1: What's that about it?
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  Speaker 2: I just thought it'd be funny because the performer.
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  Speaker 1: You think it's funny that I'm going to laugh at
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  Speaker 1: myself that I'm so useless. Yeah, okay, I've got three
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  Speaker 1: kids here, mate, I've got three kids that I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to raise.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but you keep forgetting you with an absent mother,
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  Speaker 5: You keep forgetting you got three You know I've got
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  Speaker 5: two daughters. How dare you well, how dare you not
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  Speaker 5: be prepared to have the nursery ready when needed?
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  Speaker 3: He's probably been sleeping in there.
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  Speaker 1: Not yet she's still just hear me out for a second.
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  Speaker 1: Hear me out.
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  Speaker 3: It is more work.
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  Speaker 1: At this point she wakes up quite a it's more
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  Speaker 1: work to leave the room, go into her room, try
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  Speaker 1: and pat her on the back, leaning over arching the back,
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  Speaker 1: so much unnecessary strain to then pat her back to sleep,
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  Speaker 1: rather than just like lean over in the kind of
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  Speaker 1: side bassinet do that in bed.
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  Speaker 3: I'm more thinking of like a sense of belonging. So
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  Speaker 3: it's like she's coming into the house. She doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: a space that's hers, because there's a bloody has an
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  Speaker 3: idea well, maybe not. Maybe when she's in her twenties
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  Speaker 3: or thirty and going through therapy, they will dive deep
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  Speaker 3: dive and be like, you know what, I never had
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  Speaker 3: a place to call my own for the first six
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  Speaker 3: months of my life, I've had of you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Can I just say though, if you put her in
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  Speaker 4: her own room, she might sleep through.
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  Speaker 3: Because you can't smell the breast exactly this guy.
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  Speaker 1: The breast milk dropped months ago. I can't even smell anyone.
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  Speaker 2: It keeps me up at night speaking of kids.
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: Before we ever speak about speaking of kids on an
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  Speaker 3: parenting podcast, The thing that frustrates me about children, Matt,
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  Speaker 3: is that they have no longer. We got forty five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how long do these episodes usually go for?
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  Speaker 3: Like I black out and wake up and we're finished,
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  Speaker 3: and you're like, what do you think about this? And
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  Speaker 3: like what, April?
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  Speaker 6: Where am I?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 3: Kids just don't have just seem to know the value
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  Speaker 3: of things or that. For example, Oscar he's taken a
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  Speaker 3: keen interest in drawing, which I love that.
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  Speaker 1: That's great because he's very creative expresses himself.
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  Speaker 3: If he's like put something on TV, can you put
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  Speaker 3: like a drawing tutorial of a dinosaur, like, yeah, fuck
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  Speaker 3: love that. Bo I went to the toilet the other
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  Speaker 3: day and I came back out and there was paper
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  Speaker 3: all over the floor, and I thought, he's wasting all
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  Speaker 3: this paper, Like he like one, two what are we
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  Speaker 3: talking about. I'm talking like ten to fifteen pieces on
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  Speaker 3: the ground four A four expensive, A four.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff like the stuff he used with the printer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was from the printer tray.
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  Speaker 1: He took it from the Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's all we've got is there is there a difference
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  Speaker 2: in papers.
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  Speaker 1: We sometimes have the lined paper.
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  Speaker 3: That's cheaper.
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  Speaker 1: That's cheaper. Yes, it's lined with gold, the.
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  Speaker 2: Ring binders diamond, okay.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, what the fuck's going on here?
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, bro, you can't waste this much paper.
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  Speaker 2: Pick it up.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a tiny drawing on it. And I took
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  Speaker 3: another look at him, double back the look, and he
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  Speaker 3: was drawing with a lead pencil and he had a
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  Speaker 3: rubber in the other hand the acity and he's still
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  Speaker 3: just like, yeah, tiny little mistake. I was like, rub
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  Speaker 3: it out, bro, you have a rubber in your hair
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  Speaker 3: and the pencil had the rubber on the back of it.
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  Speaker 3: Here was double rubbering. He was double rubbery. He was
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  Speaker 3: double rubbering, and he's still was wasting paper.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand why kids like the slightest blemish on
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  Speaker 1: a piece of paper and they're like, it's not good discarded.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I found an old like scrap book that
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  Speaker 3: we had, like much like your ringbinder thing with the lines,
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  Speaker 3: and I opened it up and they are mine, not
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  Speaker 3: covered in gold. And then I was like, opened it
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  Speaker 3: up and it's just wasted pieces of paper with a
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  Speaker 3: drawing smack bang in the middle, like he's taunting me.
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  Speaker 3: Just rub it out.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what? I've started using the woolies and
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  Speaker 1: coal's paper bags. I cut it up first time for that,
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  Speaker 1: Nana Na.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, credit for it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like hard labor instead of cracking rocks in the backyard.
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  Speaker 1: She's the cutting up all these bags.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's actually good gear.
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  Speaker 3: She's very bad arthritis. Well the thing I think what
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  Speaker 3: they get where they're getting it from a badly so
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  Speaker 3: April's dad's partner has like an art studio in their house.
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  Speaker 3: She's quite quite good. She read need your last story, bro.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just trying to give some context to the situation. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: she has a studio, but she also works at office wooks.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of spare paper getting around, so they
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  Speaker 3: spend a lot of time there, and they come to
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  Speaker 3: my house and think I've got the same amount of
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  Speaker 3: spare paper laying around, which I don't. Okay, so that's
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  Speaker 3: why it really grinds my gears. Moving on, you're so
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  Speaker 3: fucking mean to me.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, last week we were getting up on him,
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  Speaker 4: so it's like.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but that was one week out of the
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  Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty one episodes that we've done. I
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  Speaker 3: get two hundred and twenty episodes.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the backstory.
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  Speaker 3: Very fuck you, very helpful tonight.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine, and I'm sure the dotors also appreciate knowing
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: that information.
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  Speaker 2: No one know Laura doesn't talk to you anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Moving on, Laura and I we've crossed about excuses. Bro,
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  Speaker 3: I don't need your excuses of why that you're wife
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  Speaker 3: and you aren't talking give me that, Laura, my go on.
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  Speaker 1: That joke is so fucking I know, but it works.
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  Speaker 2: Let's let's reunite. What do you got for you? Okay,
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: you're used to that though, aren't you.
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  Speaker 1: Laura and I have crossed the boundary where there is
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: no coming back. Yep, it's a relationship milestone that I
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: don't think anyone wants to really hit. Okay, but we're there.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: You're close, Wow, very close. You're on You're on the
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: right track. But I always looked at couples. One thing
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: that I would always turn my nose up at the
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: couples who would go into the bathroom doing a number
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: two and the other one would enter not.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: Into that neither am I Oh guilty, guiltiest face ever.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: I wish the camera was on then I could.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: That was so guilty.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: You're like God to me.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: You even kept so quiet during.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: That big because you didn't want me to ask.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Look, I think in the mornings, when time is limited,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: sometimes you just gotta do whatever it takes to get
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: the job done.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: How are your bathrooms you got We've got two?
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Got three?
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: There it is in my defense, we only have one.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's fine, we only have one too.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Carry on and just I had to brush my teeth.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: I thought she was doing a Wii.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Next thing. I was like, is that a number one
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: and number two? And she was like, it's the number two,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, wow, we're like we're now here.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: We're now at a place where I never wanted to be.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: But now that we're here, I can't turn back time.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: I can't come back from this. We are in a
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: new stage, a new error.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Do you know what the next step is? What's that?
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Epistro legs?
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Who does that?
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: That's the next step? Vic likes it, thinks like.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, that sounds pretty good.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: Actually, I think I was like, has ashed on that?
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: No, I haven't crossed the first boundary yet.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Just do it. Come with us, come to the dark side,
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: on the brown side the ew.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: I actually think to those couples out there that aren't
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: afraid to be in each other's presence whilst they are
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: doing what is a natural activity, I think it's a
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: beautiful thing.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: No, you don't.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I think you're saying that, and we are now stronger
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: for it.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, we don't. I'm defending myself.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: We're not animals of guilt.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: We don't do it unless it's absolutely necessary that we've
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: got to like tuck our head in and tell them,
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: like something, yeah, because of something that's happening with the kids,
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: like I don't want to be in there brushing my teeth.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: I'm just don't put.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: It on me because I wouldn't go that far.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Some things that's the best to be left to the imagination.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I remember when wait, Vic, if you have to say something,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: just say it through the door, don't put your head
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: in there.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just knocking to be like I'm gonna tell you something.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: We when April and I before having kids, were in
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Bali together and the hotel room had a glass panel
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: that was the bathroom door.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Who's designing those?
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I know, right? And we both got ballei belly. We've
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: never looked at each other the same. And that was
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: like ten years ago you have been there, Yeah, but
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: it was like it was I wasn't in the room.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Well I wasn't technically in the bathroom. I was in
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: the room that we had, but it was only a
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: glass frost and they only frosted like this much a strip. Yeah,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: They're like they assumed everyone's.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Is very hard to come by in Indonesia.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like just open the door, it'll fog up,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Like yeah, well you'd hear everything. So yeah, look I'm not.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I'm not all for it. There's a door there for
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: a reason. But also April doesn't lock the door. I
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: lock the door and I get in trouble for locking
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: the door, and she's like, why do you lock the door.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I'm like, so the fucking kids can't come in. She's like, well,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: they came in with me. I'm like, well, lock the door.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Do you look at Laura differently? Now?
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I love it more.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Do you look at a button?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Go?
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I know what comes out of there?
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Now? Okay, Ash, we have a doting ick.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Oh was that it?
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: This one is from Kayla. It's from Instagram and it
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: has been sitting in the box for a little while. Kayla,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I apologize, we're backed up.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Well, Laura's not, she says.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I was at my local shop and cafe with my
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: three year old daughter and the guy next to me
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: in brackets, fully grown man was wearing velcrow strap vans.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Grow up.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but anyone over the age of six should
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: not be wearing velcrow strap shoes. I got the biggest
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: ick from it. Sorry, Ash, if you wear.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Why would you just throw me in there?
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, like, bring a shoe up? What do
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: you got oh, okay, did you change shoes.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: No, yesterday you were wearing vans with no laces. Yeah,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: they'll just slip on slip ons, is okay?
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Velcrows another story.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: You're do you know what to be worse if he
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: adjusts them and it goes in public.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: This last bit just quickly. I don't know why this
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: makes the story funnier, but we saw him coming out
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: of Woolworths holding a bachelor's handbag a roast chicken, and
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: it made me laugh.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: That's very ash.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: None of that story has anything to do with me.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: That that is, that's.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Screams ashweed. Just me carrying a roast chicken, wearing my
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: fucking Velo vans, like what else.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: A backpack and he had pissed himself.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: And what makes it really funny is that he had
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: pissed himself and also I think you might have assuwed himself.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: It's so ash.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Come on, give me more credit.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Velcro shoes sound for good, but Oscar's got groceis he's
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: an ick on the back of that really quickly tell
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: you something that I think I think it's an ick.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Last night, I ate a whole keichhe Lorraine apparently I'm
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: a family of five.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: You must have felt pretty sick after that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I felt phenomenal. I felt invincible.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Was April like the following night was where the fox
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the kid's dinner?
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: No?
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Because I was like, ah, what was it for the kids?
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Who's who's eating the keys? Lorraine? Normally? No one? You
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: are you? You bought it?
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: You went out to the shops and.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: For a Keish Lorraine who craves Keish?
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Lorraine living interesting?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: My kids key like kids?
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Sure, but no, my kids hate Keish, not this guy.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: The whole thing.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of egg.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm so jacked.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Breaking news, Vic, You've been hard at work as always.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I love scarring the internet for breaking news,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: and today I found something.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: It's a true friend that's currently happening. It's not necessarily news.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: There's news stories on it on it?
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Do you know more than me?
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Obviously?
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: How dare you trying to get off my back? Damn it?
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I love it on that.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: I'm usually quite a calm and collected person. I'm just
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: getting frustrated.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: People love it when we the vein on his neck.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Although I'm sure there'll be some comments being like.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: You need to be nice to. My heart rate is
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: already in hypertension. Let's you could kill me in one
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: of these.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Episodes heart attack.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't say that.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Great, that'd be great good? What if I died? That'd
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: be amazing. You guys, you had to fill the seat
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: everyone a bit. We'd have a whole memorial.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Fill your seat.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: We have it, thank you, and Matt's like, I'd feel
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: that immediately, I'd find it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: We just had to put in that seat.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Go on, Sorry, hijacked your segment. That's a match, poked
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: the bear.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: So I've been looking around for a story this week
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: for our news and this crossed my desk, and it's
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: a parenting hack we know we love on the show.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: So have a listen and tell me what you think.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Can I use it? Do you think is one? Yeah?
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: And I'll tell you why after it. There is a
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: new parenting trend everyone is talking about, but does it
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: actually work. When your toddler hits meltdown mode, most parents
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: will try just about anything to stop the screaming and tears.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Enter TikTok's latest parenting obsession, the Jessica Trick. The premise
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: is deceptively simple. When a tantrum kicks off. Parents suddenly
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: call out Jessica Jessica as if someone names Jessica has
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: just entered the room, Can I just.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Say very good Jessica calling just then was screaming the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: news voice.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Looking for a compliment.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Great Jessica, going hey, credit credit.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Many toddlers will then pause me, meltdown, look around, and
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: often stop crying all together. So does this so called
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: parenting hack actually work or is it just another short
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: lived viral trend. Well, I actually put this to the
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: test because my beautiful little Lily Boo cries a lot.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: How do I say?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: How do I say?
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: How do I articulate this? She cries a lot.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: She's a sensitive soul. She's a deep thinking, deep feeling kid,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: and I love her very much.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: But she just confirmed how old is Lily Boo?
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Lily Yeah, Louis named her Lily Boo when he was
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: a toddler, and it's just stuck like she's three. So
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: I tried it on her.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I will play you guys a video.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: At first, she looks a little bit disoriented. Jessica Jessica.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: Jessica.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Howeverone just started joining it.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: It sort of works, it's working a bit.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: But then She's like, as soon as you stopped, it's
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: like she goes back to crying.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like she stopped.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I wanted to try it, but every time Laula was
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: having a meltdown last night and I was like.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Just shut up.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: You can see the first one. Her face was like.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then she even looks, yeah, where's Jessica. We
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: tried it at the dinner table earlier the same evening,
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: but I didn't have my phone anywhere near me, so
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: I couldn't record it. But the same thing happened. She
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: like fully stopped crying and then was like and then
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: louis the same thing. He just jumps in and.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Joins, I've got your back, mom, I've got you back.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: I think it's good. I'm going to try it. I'm
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: going to try so many things. I said, I'm gonna
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: try and ask her.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I've just never done it.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: So one other thing I found while I was researching
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: this topic was that Jessica bal the actress, has actually
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: come out and said this is a really dangerous trend.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: And I'm wondering if like everyone's just shouting her name
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: when she's out in public. I'm thinking that.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: It's Jessica Bill.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Relax, this is your fifteen minutes now.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: She's like, okay, guys, stop calling my name, like relax,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Chrisica Bielle.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: What if you charge just another name?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Like shut up, Jessica, Bill will use another name.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: It's like no, no, no, I'm not saying.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: That only only works on Jessica.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's scientifically proven.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: Vick.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your forever ongoing, very thoroughly diligence.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: We really appreciate.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: This is where I get all my news.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Ash Mother's Day competition.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, did I win?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: No? Sorry, sadly you have not won, but we are
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: here to announce who will win and Ash. We have
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: rejigged this just a little bit because when we announced
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: it there was going to be one main prize, yes,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: but we have changed that. We had an incredible number
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: of submissions and we have loved going through all of them,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: but there were three in particular that we kept coming
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: back to. We could not ignore and we wanted to
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: acknowledge them.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: First of all, a big thank you to Elements, because
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: we've gone back to them to change the prize a
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: little bit. It was for one major winner five nights. However,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: the three that we kept coming back to we felt
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: they deserved They all deserved a trip. So we have
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: now changed the prize to three nights for three major
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: prize winners, and we'll also do the runner up winners
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: on social media over the next couple of days for.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: The vote off. So before we mentioned these three stories, quickly,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: just a trigger warning. These do talk about trauma surrounding birth,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: so if this is something that you're not in a
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: position to hear, we suggest skipping ahead just a few
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: minutes now. The first mum who is a winner is Nikita.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: She was thirty eight weeks pregnant when she started to
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: feel off and a week later she couldn't feel the
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: baby moving. She went for a quick checkup, but was
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: told that their baby hadn't survived the pregnancy and everything
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: crumbled from their but amidst the pain they were experiencing,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Nikita says that the two year old son gave them
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: a moment they'll never figet, wanting to sing to his
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: baby sister. She is now pregnant again at twenty six weeks,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: and she couldn't be more deserving of this holiday.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Our second winner, who is also very deserving of this holiday,
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: is Chantelle. Her son's soul was born after twelve hours
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: of spontaneous labor. He had a neumo, thorax and facial
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: differences that no scan picked up. At eighteen months, he
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: was diagnosed with scalp ear and nipple syndrome. There are
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: only thirty six cases of this in the world. His
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: needs don't qualify for financial support, so they've been living
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: off one income. A holiday isn't on the cards for them,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: so this prize would be huge. You can also follow
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: them on Instagram at Soul Donnelly and support their journey.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Lastly, we have Leoni her now three and a half
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: year old son. Rai was diagnosed with leukemia a few
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: months before his second birthday. At the time of his diagnosis,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: she found out that she was also pregnant with her
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: second They had to move from their home, their family,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: and their support network in Regional Victoria for nine months
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: so Ray could get his treatment. He is still undergoing
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: chemo treatment until the end of this year. Now a reminder,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: we do have the runner up prizes. There is three
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: of them to give away. We are going to post
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: on social media the finalists to then win one of
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: these three runner up prizes.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: So don't forget to keep an eye out for that
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: and vote for your favorite.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Once again, Thank you to all the very deserving moms
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: who went to the competition this year.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Back a couple of weeks ago, when school holidays was
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: in full swing and you've got the kids home all
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: the time, you know how you struggle By day three
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: or four, you've run out of things for them to do,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: really if they're just stuck at home. But I was
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: telling them a story about my cousins from New Zealand
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: when I was growing up. They all went to a
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: boarding school. And of course Oscar very curious and also smart,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: us little shit. He wanted to know what boarding school
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: and I said, it's a great place.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: You're gonna love it.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful. How you talk about your son.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: But I love him very much is how we show
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I love Okay, And I was like, oh, it's a
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: beautiful place where kids get to go for a whole
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: school term to school, but you get to live and
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: sleep at school. What do you think about that?
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: It was like, oh no, that sounds absolutely dreadful.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, we don't see you for like ten
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: weeks straight. It's bliss for you, not for us, We'll
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: wish you. So that sort of came out when they
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: were like testing everyone over the school hallway. And then
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: what happened was we had a movie night, you know,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: like every now and then we'll the kids will have
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: a shower and stuff like you ready for bed, and
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: then it's surprise, it's.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: A movie night.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: You're not going to bed yet. We're going to have
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: a watch a movie before we go to bed. In
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: the popcorn do that?
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: What time do you have the bath?
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: We have the shower.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: We don't bath anymore.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: We showers like maybe thirty minutes before when we would
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: usually do. Because they can't really tell the time. I
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: was kicking could look at the clock and be like,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: good home, M's over there, and I'm like it's you know,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: so say usually we'll be six thirty, but we go
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: six o'clock at the showers. Done six o'clock for the shower.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: They don't know God.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: And then they come out and I've got the lounge
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: set up like it's a movie theater. They've got big
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: thing of popcorn. We watch a movie whatever.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: But we were watching Toy Story Classic.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Also that was like thirty years old. That movie and
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: the CGI in that and the animation way ahead of
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: its time.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Very very very good roundbreaking.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: But there's a kid in that by the name of Sid. Yes,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: and my kids have decided that any bad kid just
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: is going to go to boarding school now, so we're
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: just like the threat now if they do anything wrong
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: based off this is like, oh, that kid's going to
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: boarding school. I'm like yeah, And you know what happens
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: after boarding school is like they go to jail.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Boarding school it is the gateway to jail.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: So my ongoing threat now off the base of that,
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: and it works, this is apparently Yeah. It was like, yeah,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: so maybe maybe ask the kids if you have ever
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: heard of boarding school, because it's not all bad.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: It's like they went.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: My cousins went to boarding school because they were very
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: rural and it was just easier for necessity. Yeah, it
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: was a necessity. Also sounds amazing for the parents.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: Would you dad went to boarding school and it was
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: the best thing ever.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Although I have heard some horror stories of you, you would have.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: You are always looking for the like, Okay, I don't
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: want to hear the nice things that happened to him.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: The time people come to me with his stories and.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: You tell me.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like, You're like, let me tell you a story?
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Is it gruesome?
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Yet?
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Late on me?
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Just when people have gone to boarding school when they're young.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: I think things have changed now, Like back in the day,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: there used to be like an initiation process for the borders.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: And imagine being like a little grade four or.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Grade five kid, you know, and the big old seniors
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: are like, all right, let's sucking, let's rough right.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Imagine that. I also, I've imagined it, and I related
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: on to Oscar and he is the best behaved boy
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: in town.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think maybe it'd be different when they're teenagers
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: and you're kind of over them a little bit. But
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the thought of sending them to boarding school the whole term.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: It sounds amazing, doesn't I don't think i'd want to
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: do it.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I'd miss them too much.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely would miss them. Sorry, I definitely would
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: miss them.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: I would. I definitely would miss them. But if you liar,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: but it's a good threat, it's up there. I try
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: because then you can also just make things up that happens,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Like you'd be like, oh, you don't want to see
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: what they get for lunch? You don't want they get
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: for lunch of boarding school and like just make up
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: something disgusting and they're like, oh, children, they eat small
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: boys and small girls. They don't eat their lunch. You
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: become lunch the next day.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: This is why you don't listen to us for advice.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: No, yeah, exactly January or would right now. It would
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: be turning. But the amount of questions my kids now
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: have about boarding school because their adamant they're going is unbelievable.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I did want to go for a period.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like you said, it would be funny if.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: You're a bit older.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I wanted to go Monday to Friday.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: If you were doing the bullying, it'd be a lot
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: more fun than if you would getting bullied. It'd be great. Yeah,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: if you were doing the hazing, I want to I'll go,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: But I'm only hazing people.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: I'm not being hazed.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: If I went to boarding school, I would have gotten
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: better marks.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Do you know all the all my cousins that went
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: to boarding school, they're all have degrees. They're all like,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: oh that's crazy. Yeah, they're all they.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Might just be in the jeans because you've got to
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: do forced homework time and stuff.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they probably don't call it homework at boarding school
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: because it's too triggering, Like homework I love to go home.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Ah here, we just call it work some ash.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on this? Actually, I probably know
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: what you're going to say, but I'll ask it anyway.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about lying to your children about
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the date of the birthday?
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Like standing by the lie or like a cheeky lie,
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: like give me some more, give me, give me more.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: So the issue that we have at the moment, I'm
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: liking it.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Yeap, Laura is going to be a way for work,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and the date that she wants to be away is
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: the date of Marley's birthday.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Marley's birthdays in June.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, very good n teeth of June. So what
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: do we do? What is the solution here? I've got it.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I've come up with one, and I'm getting a lot
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: of pushback from my beautiful wife that I love so dearly. Okay,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: So I'm suggesting that what we can do to make
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: this work, to ensure that we're all together as a
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: family on the birthday, is we can just change the
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: date of Miley's birthdate.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Lie to hurt.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: If you want to call it that and either bring
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: it forward a week or push it back a week.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: And Laura's not on board.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Laura thinks it is a crime. She's calling it a
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: crime crime if we were going to try and if
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: you got locked up for that, where she wants to
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: commit fraud essentially by changing the date, lying to our
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: child to their face, and getting the whole family on
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: board to pretend like one day is her birthday when
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: it's actually not. Because she doesn't have any ability to
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: track dates.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Do you think that She's always like what date is
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: it today?
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: And I'm like it's the sixteenth, and she's like okay.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Five minutes later she's like what.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: They was just talking dates? My kids? Like what day
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: is it?
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: She likes the idea of dates, but sometimes she's like,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: is my birthday soon? And I'm like, no, you don't
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: have more than one birthday?
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: How many sleeps on my birthday? I have no idea? Yeah,
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: maasically asked when her birthday was two days after a birthday?
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah right.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know how to tell you this,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: but it's a long way away. I was like, yeah,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you gonna be waiting, girl, it's next year. And they're like,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: what does that mean?
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I suppose you could lie. You could always
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: like be like, hey, look, mommy's got to go away
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: from work, why don't we bring it forward and have
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: the party before your birthday. That's just lying you just said.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: You just said, yeah, that's why I said them all
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: for it.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you could be honest. But you could be
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: honest about that.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Why are you having it early?
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Like why don't we celebrate early? And they'll be like
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: that means I get my presents early? Yeah, because then
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: they're still going to have the actual birthday.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're going to forget about all the context
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: of like why can't Bummy be here, They're still going
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: to go hang on a second, today's my birthday. Mama's
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: not here, she doesn't love me, she's about mom.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Oh god, she's an amazing mother.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: But I do think it's easier just to we just
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: create the narrative and narrative where we just say to Marley, ate, well,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: today's your birthday and it could be a week prior
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: a week after a week. Wow, what difference is?
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: I feel too bad.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: I actually think it's okay as long as you keep
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: it in the same month. You can change the birthday.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: That's totally fine.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I'm lucky this. They're not going to have any ideas.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I think you can do that up until the age
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: of like maybe grade three.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: What else sell to me?
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: I like it. I'm liking it.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: That's all I've got so far.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: That's pretty good so far.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: But Laura is like, we couldn't possibly do that, it
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: would be a crime.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, if a kid was a
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: boarding school or was their birthday and they couldn't celebrate
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: it with you, would you change it?
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Well, well, I think when you're a teenager the parenting
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: wheels are falling off.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: No, Actually, if you're a well who sent your drive
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: to boarding school, that's not an attack.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: No. No, I think if they don't know the date,
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: they're gonna the celebration is going to happen.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: It's going to be about them.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: They're gonna get presents, people are going to be involved,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Mum's going to be there, everyone there. There is love,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: everyone's a loving blah blah blah blah blah.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fine.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: So as long as there's love in the room.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: I've always said that I live by that philosophy. As
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: long as there's love in the room, then.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: It's fine.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Look are people so hung up on the date though,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: this specific date.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Because it's it's it's it's part of them. Like got
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: to remember in their world, there's not a whole lot
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: other than mom, dad, who they live with, man whoever,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: the family and their birthday.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: But we are still celebrating, we are acknowledging that birth.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: It just is not on the actual specific date where
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: the birth Yeah, I think I think I'm not saying
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: let's forget about the birthday. Let's raise that year of
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: birthday and as like celebrated at birthday three.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: What if you're born in a leap year exactly.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think his parents were attached to the date
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: more than the child.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: There it is all right, Yeah, I look, I would
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: I'm okay for it.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: So we're talking about either bringing forward the birthday a
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: week or maybe delaying it a week, which would mean
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: that we are all together as a family. That's what
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Pushing for the one time.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: So if it was happening again in the next year
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: and she's a little bit older and you're not there,
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: for example, do you think that Laura would go Okay, well, Matt,
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: you're not gonna be hit. What do you think about
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: bringing the birthday for it? We deal it again?
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Great, well later, Yeah, totally for me, It's not
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a rule that you can break one time. I think.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: I think this applies up until like the age of three,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: when they start to know when their actual birthdate is.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Okay, and you would still run with Okay, it's that
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: I would just.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Lie to her face and tell her, like, on this
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Monday that is not her birthday. I would say, this
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: is you were born on this day. So we have
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: organized ice creams to go to schools. Everyone's gonna get
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: an ice cream because remember, you were born tedday. Today
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: is the nineteenth.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: What if she went to school and because you know
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: how they like, they're starting to be mean to each other,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: and someone's like, today is not the nineteenth, Mali, and
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: she finds out that way, how would that make you feel?
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I don't care.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's fair enough for me, that's good for me.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: I just think kids are going to just get They'll
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: get lost in the excitement of the ice cream, okay,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: and not get hung up on the details.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Right, Okay.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: And I don't think kids in grade one are being
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: like today is the nineteenth. I think they're just saying,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I did they lead with today's my birthday?
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Do they have a calendar in the classroom? I don't know.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: I don't. Better make sure they don't.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I know these questions asked.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. I don't remember growing up with
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: the classroom with the calendar in it. I've also got
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: electronic boards. Now have you seen that stuff?
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: They usually got it on the wall though, like everyone's birthdays,
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Like what.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Day you'd have to clear the school in? You go
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: that far to clue the school in.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: I need I need to speak to the school deep life.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: The school are on board. I'm going to have to
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: do right now.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to forge a fake birth certificate. I mean,
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: I like it. Change.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: I love this idea. I'm all of a forgery.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: I'm also changing her name, giving her a false identity.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Done done like to summer.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: I don't mind it, to be honest, I was just
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: busting your balls a little bit, Matt. It is time
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  Speaker 3: You have a job before, back in the day, It's like,
• 41:16
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  Speaker 3: A child, and I said, kid more one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a terrible English, awful you're very good accents,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: but not English. I said, what is it like being
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: a dad? And he said, the best way I can
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: describe it, you know that feeling right now that you
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: have on the weekends or even some nights when you
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: have free time.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, I know what that feels like.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: And he goes, that's gone. The ability to just have
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: free time and do nothing no longer exists.
• 41:50
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• 41:56
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• 41:58
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• 41:59
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• 42:00
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• 42:00
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• 42:01
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• 42:04
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• 42:15
  Speaker 3: or whatever. This one is from Sammy I thought, I
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: would never lie to my kids. Now the parks are
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: closed on some weekends.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: You have to lie.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: It's a necessity.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: It's a necessity.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you'll lie about when they were born. This is awkward.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: This one is from Renee and she said, I thought,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: surely it can't be that hard to reason with a toddler,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: And then I had a toddler.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Like having a drunk person in your house all the time. Look,
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: do you know what. It's one of those things where
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: you look back, like we're looking back now where like
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: I suppose like Marley and Lawla out of the toddler stage.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: Same with Oscar and Macy still a bit in it
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: because she doesn't talk that much. But I look back
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, it's actually quite funny some of the
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: things they would do because you like but at the
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: time you're like, oh, my god, doesn't matter if it's
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: square or triangle toast.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I was at the RSL and watching a parent try
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: and like speak to their toddler. It must have been
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: about two or younger, being like.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: What's wrong? What is it?
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: What do you need right now?
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: Tell me?
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: I know there's just no reasoning with them.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Because I don't know trying to extract a little bit
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: of information, just like tell me please.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: It's so hard, help you, I know.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: And then it's like within an instant, it's the whole
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: mood's different, and you're like, what had it.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: With the whitlash. This one's from Lily.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: My husband and I both said we would never let
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: our daughter win.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Oh we were wrong.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: I've stopped letting Oscar win.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: I played Monopoly, like Little Bluey Monopoly, and I'm just like,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: it's just not worth me winning. I know.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: I let Macy win, you know, the other night because
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: it was so close to bedtime, and I thought, I
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: don't need this.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no ROI with a parent.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: If it was Oscar, I'd be like dominate him with Mazy.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I can't put her through it. I can't
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: put her through it.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: I know. She was like she and she also she
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: doesn't hide her cards.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: It's it's all out, like I know what's coming. And
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: it's like so when Oscar and April weren't looking, I
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: put a drawer for in her pile and pulled.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Out like a shit card.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: God you're a good day, and I was like, that's good. Parents.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: Oscar was about to win them, like hit him with it,
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: and then April was like, oh, yes, such shit, that's
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: so nice. I was like, what was and she was like,
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: you're giving that to Macy. I was like, no, I
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: did that to.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Oscar He last one. It's from Nicole.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Nicole.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: I thought I would like doing craft and activities like
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: that with them. Turns out I would actually prefer to
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: stick forks in my eye. But hey, you can live
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: in your lone.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: I can't get on the level. I was like, get
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: on their level and it's much easier. No, it's not.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: I just feel like a fucking idiot.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I remember trying to make those butterfly wings back in
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: the day. I was like cutting the cardboard and like
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I want to cut it, and I'm like, you can't
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: cut it because you get cut yourself. Like what I
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: want to do it, You can't. You're gonna sit down
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: and just watch daddy do it and they're like fuck you.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: I'm like fuck you.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: It just ends up. I know Sissars are still band
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: in my house.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Any arts and crafts, I end up just doing it
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: and they sit there and watch me and complain.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: And there's never good enough.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: That's parroting enjoy and if you were once an idiot,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: please we want to share that dumbness with us. And
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: it's not all bad news because you may be a
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: dumb pre parent, but you can now be a smart parent.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Bye. You can shop smarter when you shop at Aldi
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Aldi Good different matter this time, for this song. Now
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: you need us smaller than ever, know that we still
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: have each other. You can send sure doting dilemma. You
• 45:44
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• 45:49
  Speaker 3: our dots they write in with a dilemma. For us
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: to not solve, that would be ridiculous, billy talk about
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: to escalate, make it worse.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: To people who do send up the serious dilemmas, we
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: treat them with a definite sense of how do you say.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Ignore them so sensitive that we don't even touch it.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: We know we get some serious ones.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: We do some more serious than others.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a great one. What do you got?
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: This comes from the d MS, Matthew. We do get
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: a lot from the d MS.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: Matthew Johnson, babysitters, matt This comes from it.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, it's time to find good health.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: We're trying to wrap up we're trying to we're doing
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: our best.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: Right now, and then she'll be like to edit it.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: I apologize, you're ganging up on it.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: Matt gave me the idea.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: If anyone who comes in the room, we're all just like.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: It's fun, it's fun to bully. Don't bully kids unless
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: it's fun. I'm going to get that on a T shirt.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: That's a fucking good one. Don't bully kids unless it's
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: for fun.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Whatever we do, VIC never get that printed on a shirt.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: This one comes from a DM.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: Matt. We do get dms, believe it or not. I
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: don't check them. Someone else does. Babysitters how young is
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: too young? Like the babysitters age, not your kids age.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: I don't need you explain the question. I think I
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: just thought of self explained Tory, and I understand the
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: person who set that in.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Well done a question which is just an easy one
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: to diget.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: It's look very hard hitting this one.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: We had a message in one of the family group
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: chats from school where a parent was saying, Hey, if
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: anyone would like a babysitter, here's a little flyer that
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: my daughter has done. And I think they are about
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: thirteen or fourteen.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: That babysitter needs a babysitter.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: When I thought to myself, like, who am I to
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: judge here? Because you know, kids mature at different stages.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: Girls mature quicklyan boys Like I.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Think I was about nineteen before I got puper care, I.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Get that checked. I was, what the fuck? What the heck?
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: I know?
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: And that's why I look so young.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: It's like middle aged puberty. You so I look so young,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: he explained to us. It does explain.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: But I remember when I turned eighteen, people are like,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: there's no fucking chance you're coming into this pub. You
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: look about twelve, And I was.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: Like, thank you, sir, Can I have a beer? Please?
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: But I think for fourteen, I don't know if I mean, okay,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: it depends. There's two scenarios here. One they're just having
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: to be in the house whilst the kids are asleep,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: because that's an easy job. You're just there.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: You're just a body.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: You're just a body. You're a guard dog essentially, that's
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: what you're hiring.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, why don't you just get a guard dog, ben?
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Because they can't call I've tried the pause.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what is it?
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: What is it?
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: Rusty, wrong number.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: But I think if you have to try and put
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: a child or children to bed a fourteen year old, know,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: if I trust.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: Them, I would As tempting as it is, why would
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: this fourteen year old want to do it.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: I don't even want to do it. I'm like, thirty five.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Money, bro, that's true.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: It's the money. I mean, yeah, there's other things you
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: can do.
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: Oh it's easy money.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Oh I'm going there.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: Well, I was babysitting when I was in the year
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: five or six. I think, what, yeah.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: How mature? When did you hit me?
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: Jesus?
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: But they lived directly opposite the road, like house, and
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: so my mum would have been home if anything bad
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: did happen.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: Okay, where are you putting them to bed?
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Because that that's the hardest part.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: Like during the day, fine, like you know, you do
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: some drawing. How old were the kids toddlers? Toddler's great question, Ash,
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: thank you. I get into the bottom of this in hindsight.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: Now I know about babies, like one of them, I
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: think would have been like a baby.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Any mistakes that were made.
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: No, but I think with the baby when it started crying,
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: I don't think I knew like the right way to
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: settle it. But then when I was in high school,
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: like I think I would have been like year seven,
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: maybe year rates. So that's what thirteen. Yeah, I was
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: babysitting a baby and a toddler at the same time,
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: and I struggle with that as a parent. Imagine being
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: that young and doing it. I don't even think I
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: would give a thirteen year old my two kids.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not these days. That will probably be vaping.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: If they're charging like twelve bucks an hour.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: That's bloody good. That's a good deal.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: That's you know, can you stay forever by that price?
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: You look after him full time?
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: I remember, I don't remember you told me this story, Vick.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: If you did, I apologize for stealing a story. But
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: I heard there.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: Was a fourteen years I was about to say, what
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: wasn't It doesn't feel very good, does it.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: That's fine.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: I remember there's a story. It was a story, a story.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: There was a story I remember of a family who
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: had to get called because whilst they were at the park,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: the babysitter lost their child. They found the child happy ending,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: but the babysitter was I'm guessing, wasn't paying enough attention
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: with it. On their phone and the baby had wandered off,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: and the babysit had tried to find the child.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: Did you I think I did tell you.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: That is an urban legend. Everyone's got a story of
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: like this is. You make a very good point because
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: different generation, different time. Okay, So when we were that age,
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: we didn't have the technology nor the distractions that they
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: have now. So there was probably a little bit more
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: trust in a child or an early teen then because
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: they didn't have distract Yeah, but now it's like they're
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: more brazen now. Yeah, they'd probably turn up on an
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: e bike with their shitty fucking boyfriend.
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: Vaping, not mind saying things like skibberty six seven, Yeah, yeah,
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: get out of here six seven.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: I told you to get it at five.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Question for you, Okay, have you ever lost a friend
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: since becoming a dad?
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: Like, can't find them? No, I was in lost a friendship?
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: Make me explain myself, go on what you're doing and
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to into.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: It, don't you. I don't know what you mean.
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: This podcast comes to a halt until you explain it.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: Like lost a friendship, so like parted ways with a
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: friend because you've had a kid has a friendship broken down?
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: See how I got you to explain it?
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: Okay, this is a serious topic.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Act this is serious.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: This is serious.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Go explain.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Has a friendship me talking about? Well?
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's good because it's like a lot of the
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: time I find when I it's a tricky one. I
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: don't think personally that I know of, unless someone's just
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: stopped calling me.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: That makes me think.
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: Actually, but I do hear of like people losing friends
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: because the friend who doesn't have kids right, doesn't understand
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: what you're going through, and then they are quite self centered.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: I'm not pointing anyone out here specifically, but they they
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: could be. Maybe they think, well, they don't care about
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: me anymore, but then at the same time, it's like,
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: well this person has a baby that's actually way more important.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: That could be the case. I've heard of that. I
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: don't know if anyone's done that to me, but that
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: I've noticed, or maybe we've just drifted apart.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Gosh, it's hard being so popular.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: Is it an intentional loss or like it because people
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: drift apart all the time. They do.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: I think there's there's different seasons in your life. Yeah,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: and I know that friends who I was with when
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: I was eighteen, I'm definitely not friends with them now.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: I look at them and I'm like, oh, can't think
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: anything worse eighteen?
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Why would you be friends with them?
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Well, now they're of my age, but we're just like
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: thank you.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: Uh, do you have anyone specific that you're like, Okay, well.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: His name's dick, not you don't have a name name.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: I think there's a couple of times, and obviously some
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: friendships when they break up, it happens over a gradual process.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Like it's not like a line in the sand where
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, that's that's the friendship done. You're just like,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: I haven't spoken to that guy in a while, we
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: haven't really hung out, and it's only certain moments you
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: realize that you know, there's a lack of contact.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, at different stages too.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: But there have been a cupule of occasions where I've
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: invited someone who doesn't have children yet I've got my kids,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, hey, they really want to meet up,
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I've got the kids all weekend, I
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: really want to hang out. I'm going to be either
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: here at home or I'm going to be at the
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: park here, but like when the kids are playing, like
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: come and hang out and they're.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: Like, oh, I've actually got a fair bit on I'll
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: just say I don't blame them, to be honest, like
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: like if I didn't have kids, I wouldn't want to
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: be hanging out with the kids.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: But it's not hanging out with the kids. You're hanging
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: out with the friend.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm supposed depending on the act, what you guys
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: are up to at an.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Environment, which is also going to be where the kids
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: are at. Like I'm not saying come over and play
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: tea parties with me.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Why no, that sounds good.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, like the kids will be occupied, but I
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: can't ditch my kid.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: No, for sure, I think like, yeah, I think if like, look,
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking about taking the kids out, there's a really
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: good pub down the road that has a playground in there.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: The kids love it down there. Why don't we meet
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: down there. There is no excuse for that person to
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: be like oh nah, because it's like you'll be there,
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: you'll be doing what you're doing, and you just got
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: to keep and I on your kids.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: But there's been that type of invitation where I'm like Hey,
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: I've got the kids, but let's hang out. They said, oh,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: not free. You look at the Instagram stories and they're like,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: actually they're not working. They're like out and about assuming
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: that they're posting in real time.
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: But then, as a parent, I think any.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Friendship is going to be like a you see, there's
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: a bit of a loss, and there's a bit of
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: a you know, yeah you believe it.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: Oh there's always this oh yeah.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: I remember being with the kids and being like, oh,
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: there's that one Person's been a few different occasions where
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: I'm like, let's hang out. The kids will be around,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: and I get what you're saying, like you don't want
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: to some people that thought of hanging out with other
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: people's kids is awful.
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: Here's a good example for you. So all of the
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: majority of my friends have kids. I would say, there's
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: one miles but he will come over and play with
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: the kids, right because he's like, I get it, you're
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: in this stage of my life.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: He's still living that bachelor life.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: But when it comes to if he's like I'm going
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: to pop pop by and see you, he knows what
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: he's in for and he's fine with that. But it's
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: never ever been a case where I'm like, oh, I'm
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: going to go down with the kids and you're like, oh, nah,
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: actually I can't, right, But like I can imagine there'd
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: be a lot of people that are like, oh, I
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: just it's just not my vibe. But yeah, the friendship.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: The friendship is a thing that really costs that there.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Can be I think a level of resentment from both sides.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: Like if you don't have kids and you're suggesting plans
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: that are like, I'm not going to go out and
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: party till like four in the morning if I've got
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: the kids the next morning, it's just not going to happen.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: And they're probably thinking, oh fuck, that's so boring, Like
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: we used to do it all the time and it's fun,
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: but now we can't. We have to do it by
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: your rules because you've got the kids.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: And then so I think the resentment goes both ways.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: They're the same sort of person that would be like, hey,
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: I'm on the way to the public should can't when
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: you're like, I can't do it, I've got the kids,
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: and it's like, well why not, what do you mean
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: you can't I need more than ten minutes, I know
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: I'm more.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: Than one more than two seconds now.
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: It's like I'm out the front of the car. But
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: I like, I would say there are people that I've
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: drifted away from. I wouldn't say I've lost the friendship
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: because it's not just black and white like that, right,
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: Because it's like sometimes you're run into someone you haven't
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: seen in ages that are on a different path, and
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: you're still just as like, oh hey, dude, like how
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: a you going? I would still consider that person a friend,
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: but not not a close friend.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: But I think, like you said about Miles, the good
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: friends are the ones that adapt.
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he can be flexible and fluid, but also honest,
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: like he'll sometimes he'll be like if you're free, sweet,
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: but like if you're not, you're looking up for kids, cool,
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: we can catch up another time, or like, when you're
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: free and it's just you and I want to catch
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: up with you one on one, He'll be honest like that.
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: There's nothing worse than someone saying, oh, yes, sorry I did,
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: I'm busy, and then you noticing they're not busy. I'd
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: much rather someone say I don't feel like hanging out
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: with kids. When are you're free next? Maybe we catch
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: up for coffee or catch up for a lunch sometime
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: when the kids at school.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: That's what I much prefer.
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: Have you lost a friend, yeah, I would say, like
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: what you actually did, Matt was a really good thing,
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: because you're still putting it out there. I found when
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: my friends started having kids, I then stopped getting invited
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: to things because I didn't have kids.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, switch through.
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: He was in a reverse. But then when I did
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: have kids, I then stopped getting invited to other things
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: with my friends who didn't have kids.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: So I think it's like really important to always like
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: think about who you're excluding when you're sort of planning, yeah,
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: planning things, because as a new mum, I was devastated
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  Speaker 4: when I could see people were hanging out and I
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: hadn't even been asked. And I think it's actually very
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: common because they just assume that I'm busy with the baby,
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: and I mean I used to take Louis everywhere, but
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: like to then see that they were doing something that
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: I probably could have joined, but you know, I would
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: have had a baby with me. It like it fucking hurts.
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and there's nothing worse than going Oh I
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: assume that you wouldn't be able to come, so well,
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: don't assume no bid, ask me. Like there's also the
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: other thing as well, where like maybe they will try
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: and include you by like inviting you know that there's
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: a high potential, and you keep having to say no,
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: and then they're like, well we're not going to invite
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: you more because you keep saying no. But it's like, well,
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: I kind of have to, like it's such a minefield.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, I try and think back to when I
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: didn't have kids, but if someone had a child, I'd
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: be like, let's fucking meet it, Like, show off what
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: you got, show.
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: Me your seed.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: You're like, he go, yeah, I'm genuinely pumped to meet
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: someone else. And maybe I'm thinking now just my dad
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: had on But to meet someone's child, it's a big deal.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: And I think the people who don't have kids and
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: have no interest at all, Like there's a couple of
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: people that I'm like, oh, my child is now six
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: and you've never met my child, and I thought we
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: were really good friends. To me, that hurts so much
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: to meet them all what I thought was a really
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: good friend. Obviously I completely missed the mark here because
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: the friendship's not even important enough for you to meet
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: my child.
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And there could be an array of reasons why
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: they've gotten to that point. It could have been like,
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: to start off with, they might have been somewhat jealous
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: that they weren't in this position, and then that jealousy
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: turned into I'm just not contacting you anymore, and then
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you fall out of you fall
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: out of each other's circles, and then six years down
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: the tracks that you've never met my kid. And it's like, well,
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: at that point something was going on and that just
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: never never came up organically again. But at the same time, like,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: if you are a true friend, you'll make the effort.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: What do you mean you don't want to hang out
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: in the park of me at a day? I want
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: to Saturday fun.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: That's fun.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: By the way, here's my kids by surprise babiesit up?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, bring them over and be like, so, here's my kids.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: Anyway, I'll be back in my three four hours. All right,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: this is the money on the count.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: There's the money on the count of six back of
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: the Free Sei l Ash.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: Last week we spoke about the need for breast pumps.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we want to thank everyone for not only purchasing
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: the plush toys from our website that all the proceeds
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: go to this great cause, but anyone who just donated
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: off their own back. These machines are vital in the
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: community and every cent is appreciated.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: So we have about I want to say, thirty ish
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: plush toys remaining. They are twenty bucks each. All that
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: money gets donated to funding medical grade breast pumps in
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: the neonatal units and hospitals all around the country. You
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: can also donate to the Humpty Dumpty Foundation directly if
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: you wish.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: Yes, you can find them on Instagram if that's easier,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: at Humpty Dumpty Foundation.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Also make sure you buy my plush toy because I
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: don't want to let you know any bad news, ash,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: but I've sold twice as many as you.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: It doesn't really bother me. Which one people buy really
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: is for a good cause, and that's what I really
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: care about.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Well said, Well said, Yeah, it's very petty of you, but.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: I would say, by any bye, double triple Matt because
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: it goes to a cause. It's so close to Vick's heart,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: which means it's close to my heart, it's obviously heartless.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: I second those points.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: Oh you would second those.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: Points, wouldn't you.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 4: reached out after that tearful display from me. Everyone's messages
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: were truly beautiful and really touched my heart. And thank
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 4: you for all the dodor community for really embracing me
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: as part of the team. It's made me feel very welcome.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: So thanks Ash.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: We need to get we sure. I need to wrap
• 1:01:51
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• 1:01:53
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• 1:02:03
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• 1:02:08
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• 1:02:12
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• 1:02:16
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• 1:02:19
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• 1:02:27
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• 1:02:41
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• 1:02:43
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• 1:02:46
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• 1:02:49
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• 1:02:51
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• 1:02:55
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• 1:02:58
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• 1:03:00
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• 1:03:04
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• 1:03:07
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• 1:03:10
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• 1:03:14
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• 1:03:18
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• 1:03:20
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• 1:03:24
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• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: Do we put a poll up on Facebook?
• 1:03:28
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• 1:03:31
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• 1:03:33
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• 1:03:35
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• 1:03:37
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• 1:03:39
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• 1:03:43
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• 1:03:45
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• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, we're overme to that. That's a third option.
• 1:03:48
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• 1:03:51
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• 1:03:54
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• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: Why am I getting thrown into that? What do you mean?
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: Why am I? Why is it that that's so me?
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: When I was not there. He's just trying to get
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: under I know, doing like a roast chicken. Though, if
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: you had a bottle of Pepsi Max, it was definitely
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: me and a block of Cabli chocolate. That's a one
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: time use