Latest / Two Doting Dads with Matty J & Ash / Surprise Bonus:The Dads Go Live At Apple!
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Ash, Yes, what buddy?
- 0:01Speaker 2: What's that? Big guy?
- 0:02Speaker 1: Guess what I've got not just for you, but for
- 0:06Speaker 1: the listeners as well, A very big, super special, juicy
- 0:10Speaker 1: surprise dropping in your ears right now, right the second
- 0:13Speaker 1: to get ready for it? Sit down?
- 0:15Speaker 2: What could it possibly be? Matthew?
- 0:16Speaker 1: It's a bonus episode? Oh whoa would you would think
- 0:20Speaker 1: they would figure that out because they're listening right now.
- 0:22Speaker 1: But what did we do? Well? Ash? We recorded a
- 0:25Speaker 1: very first ever live show at the Apple Store in
- 0:29Speaker 1: Sydney on George Street. And if you weren't there, shame
- 0:32Speaker 1: on you. How dare you?
- 0:34Speaker 2: We'll see you next time hopefully.
- 0:35Speaker 1: But for those of you who are outside of Sydney,
- 0:38Speaker 1: the good news is we packaged it up as a beautiful, sexy,
- 0:41Speaker 1: delicious bonus episode.
- 0:43Speaker 2: I love the way you said that, Madam was a
- 0:45Speaker 2: fun that little ride in the Apple Store such a
- 0:47Speaker 2: nice building, especially at night.
- 0:49Speaker 1: You know what My favorite part of the show was
- 0:51Speaker 1: when we're walking off and you said, my phone has
- 0:54Speaker 1: never been so charged. I loved this.
- 0:59Speaker 2: I love I love doing the event here at the
- 1:01Speaker 2: Apple Store because my phone's never been so charged.
- 1:03Speaker 1: And it's a shame that won't make it onto the
- 1:05Speaker 1: bonus episode, I was like, I've got to put it
- 1:07Speaker 1: in there.
- 1:07Speaker 2: Somehow. It was a great lit nugget for me. Actually,
- 1:10Speaker 2: I chuckled my way out the door.
- 1:12Speaker 1: I loved it. So please enjoy our today at Apple event.
- 1:19Speaker 1: Welcome back to Two Dating Dads. I am Maddie Jay,
- 1:22Speaker 1: and this is a podcast about her and it is good.
- 1:25Speaker 2: It is the bad and the relatable.
- 1:27Speaker 1: And we don't give advice, but what we do do.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Did you things you shouldn't say to a parent?
- 1:32Speaker 2: Oh gosh, you got your hands full.
- 1:34Speaker 1: I don't know what's wrong with your kid, but my
- 1:35Speaker 1: kids sleeps through the whole night.
- 1:37Speaker 2: When you're pregnant, you announced the sex of your child
- 1:39Speaker 2: and they respond, will you try for a boy next time?
- 1:42Speaker 1: I'm still pregnant very much today, April and teen is
- 1:50Speaker 1: great to have you here. Ashes out of half. Laura's
- 1:54Speaker 1: not here. I had to make her not come otherwise
- 1:57Speaker 1: She's steal the limelight.
- 1:58Speaker 2: As she always does, and she's pregnant. Everyone be looking
- 2:01Speaker 2: at her belly right outside. I know she loves it too.
- 2:04Speaker 1: I do have to start this podcast and say, welcome
- 2:07Speaker 1: back to two Dotting Dads. I am Maddie Jay and
- 2:09Speaker 1: I'm Ash. This is a podcast all about parenting. It
- 2:12Speaker 1: is the good, it is the.
- 2:13Speaker 2: Bad, and the relatable.
- 2:15Speaker 1: And this will come as a surprise to no one,
- 2:17Speaker 1: But today we will not give any type of advice.
- 2:20Speaker 2: Absolutely not, no way, No, wouldn't.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Dare is Angie here? Where's Angie? Angie? Thank you? I
- 2:27Speaker 1: just want to say thank you for your support. I
- 2:28Speaker 1: saw you doing stories before and I was like, and
- 2:31Speaker 1: you you reshuffled? I was saying to Ash, I was like,
- 2:35Speaker 1: did you I love that well? And I'll also say,
- 2:39Speaker 1: Elizabeth Oz like an interpreter who has to say everything
- 2:42Speaker 1: that I say? I'm sorry, does anyone know the story
- 2:48Speaker 1: of how Ash and I met? Anyone? Well, you're in
- 2:53Speaker 1: for a treat.
- 2:54Speaker 2: We get this question a lot. How did this all start?
- 2:58Speaker 1: So it will those two thousand and twenty two?
- 3:04Speaker 2: Whoa that went fast?
- 3:07Speaker 1: I know you started following me on social media?
- 3:09Speaker 2: Incorrect? Immediately incorrect.
- 3:11Speaker 1: I've actually got who do you think message? Who first?
- 3:15Speaker 2: You definitely messaged will you followed me first? Because April
- 3:18Speaker 2: made me follow you back?
- 3:19Speaker 1: Okay, first message here was from Ashwick's on the thirtieth
- 3:24Speaker 1: of September. Look, do you know what you said? No?
- 3:28Speaker 2: You said it.
- 3:29Speaker 1: No, you said, I wonder if I could sell my
- 3:31Speaker 1: townhouse that I'm currently renting.
- 3:34Speaker 2: I was renting it. Weird opening line, must have a couple.
- 3:40Speaker 1: And then and then I got married not long after that,
- 3:42Speaker 1: and you were saying, you.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Know it's the invite on that one.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Well, you just came in too late.
- 3:47Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have been best man, though surely.
- 3:49Speaker 1: I was thinking. I was thinking of Laura. I was like,
- 3:50Speaker 1: should I should I invite him?
- 3:52Speaker 2: I wouldn't have come, but you should have.
- 3:54Speaker 1: But I didn't invite you to the wedding. I invited
- 3:56Speaker 1: you to a Christmas party that I got invited to us.
- 3:59Speaker 1: I could bring a guess.
- 4:00Speaker 2: Some say Christmas party is just as good as a wedding.
- 4:03Speaker 1: It's on parth.
- 4:04Speaker 2: Why I say that?
- 4:05Speaker 1: And then you said I'd love to come. Let's wear
- 4:07Speaker 1: matching shirts.
- 4:08Speaker 2: We did so. I organized matching shirts because I'm lame
- 4:12Speaker 2: like that.
- 4:13Speaker 1: And I was like, this guy's this guy's coming on strong.
- 4:17Speaker 2: It was a bit march.
- 4:18Speaker 1: I was like, can I pull out? Should we do this?
- 4:22Speaker 1: But we decided on a bar We did. Yep, we
- 4:24Speaker 1: would meet for a few drinks. I was late, as
- 4:28Speaker 1: per usual, and it was it was kind of like
- 4:31Speaker 1: a first date. I was a little bit nervous.
- 4:33Speaker 2: More like a job interview. That's what I felt like.
- 4:35Speaker 2: I felt like you were interviewing me.
- 4:37Speaker 1: And then the poor bartender must have been like, what
- 4:40Speaker 1: are these two guys doing?
- 4:41Speaker 2: Because we were so like matching shirts. I thought we
- 4:46Speaker 2: looked good, we look great. But I've looked at photos
- 4:49Speaker 2: back and I was like, that's probably not a good move.
- 4:51Speaker 1: No, it wasn't. But then things were progressing nicely. We
- 4:54Speaker 1: did a couple of videos together and yeah, we did
- 4:57Speaker 1: one video in Centennial Park which went gangbusters.
- 5:02Speaker 2: Yeah, it was more dramatic than I thought it was
- 5:05Speaker 2: going to be. And the person who edited is actually here,
- 5:07Speaker 2: so thank you for that. He said, what about this version?
- 5:10Speaker 2: And it was like the sound.
- 5:12Speaker 1: Of music, and I thought there's something here. But still
- 5:15Speaker 1: I wasn't quite sure where I wanted the relationship to go.
- 5:18Speaker 1: I wasn't ready to commit to anything serious at the time,
- 5:20Speaker 1: but I knew there was really strong chemistry. And then
- 5:24Speaker 1: you came out, sat me down, and propositioned me.
- 5:27Speaker 2: I did that sounds terrible, but yes I did. I
- 5:32Speaker 2: asked you about starting a podcast, and I was pretty
- 5:36Speaker 2: naive I've never done one. Matt has done a few podcasts,
- 5:39Speaker 2: some of them most of them had failed. And I
- 5:43Speaker 2: asked him a few times and he said no because
- 5:45Speaker 2: he knew how much work goes into this. I mean,
- 5:47Speaker 2: you guys get to listen to it, which is great,
- 5:48Speaker 2: but we worked tirelessly sometimes.
- 5:52Speaker 1: And I said, what do you know about podcasting? And
- 5:54Speaker 1: you were like nothing, nothing, no. And I was like,
- 5:57Speaker 1: I just I don't have the time right now. We've
- 5:59Speaker 1: just had our second baby. I'm flattered, but.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Three years before that was it.
- 6:05Speaker 1: I said no.
- 6:07Speaker 2: He did say no a few times. I was persistent,
- 6:11Speaker 2: and then I gaslighted him into saying that I had
- 6:13Speaker 2: another dad. And I just said, it's all good. I'm fine.
- 6:17Speaker 2: I've got someone else that's willing to do this podcast.
- 6:19Speaker 1: And I said who is it?
- 6:20Speaker 2: And I wouldn't tell him because there was no one.
- 6:23Speaker 2: I made it up. I left it a week. I
- 6:25Speaker 2: let him stew. I knew what I was doing. I'm
- 6:26Speaker 2: an ex car salesman, as most of you know. I'm
- 6:29Speaker 2: pretty slimy like that.
- 6:30Speaker 1: He played me like a fiddle.
- 6:32Speaker 2: Oh, I enjoy it.
- 6:34Speaker 1: I've got another buyer interested.
- 6:35Speaker 2: In literally, I was like, they're coming this afternoon to
- 6:37Speaker 2: test drive it.
- 6:38Speaker 1: You better be quick now, and I was like, Laura,
- 6:41Speaker 1: what should I do? I might lose him. It was
- 6:46Speaker 1: like bring him over and do a test recall.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Yeah, I left it a week and then I gave
- 6:50Speaker 2: you one more opportunity before I gave the fake dad
- 6:54Speaker 2: the actual gig. And yeah, we Laura, obviously with her
- 6:59Speaker 2: podcast career, had the equipment at home and we picked
- 7:03Speaker 2: it up and gave it a go. I guess.
- 7:06Speaker 1: And then I was listening back after the record. I
- 7:08Speaker 1: think I thought it went well, and I was on
- 7:10Speaker 1: the couch. I was playing it from a laptop. It
- 7:13Speaker 1: was Apple, of course, and real subtle.
- 7:17Speaker 2: How do you do Apple interpreter? Apple? Obviously that was
- 7:23Speaker 2: so silly. I apologize about that.
- 7:26Speaker 1: And Laura said, I think there's something here, and I said, well,
- 7:29Speaker 1: let's just give it a shot. I'm not sure how
- 7:32Speaker 1: long it'll last, but we're coming.
- 7:34Speaker 2: Up to one hundred and sixty nine episodes. Let's look
- 7:38Speaker 2: at that producer make sure that's correct. Yeah, as she is.
- 7:41Speaker 2: Thank you, I know, and we we didn't know what
- 7:45Speaker 2: to expect. I mean, the first podcast we actually did.
- 7:48Speaker 2: We filmed it at your place on the dining room table,
- 7:52Speaker 2: and I remember vividly washing on the table. There were kids,
- 7:56Speaker 2: cutlery and plates and all sorts of thing everywhere. And
- 7:59Speaker 2: we posted it online and someone was like, that looks
- 8:01Speaker 2: like my house, and I felt like at that point
- 8:04Speaker 2: we had something. That's when I felt like we had something.
- 8:07Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 8:07Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but the approach to the
- 8:09Speaker 1: podcast sounds really dumb and simple, but that really is
- 8:13Speaker 1: who we are.
- 8:16Speaker 2: True Well said it was a T shirt.
- 8:18Speaker 1: I feel like we need to be more sophisticated in
- 8:20Speaker 1: this environment. We spent so long slaving over the strategy.
- 8:24Speaker 1: It was just a disaster that we had each week.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly right. It was the week that was. But
- 8:29Speaker 2: then we sort of branched out into other topics, such
- 8:33Speaker 2: as vasectomies, which is a classic on my part.
- 8:39Speaker 1: I guess you were the you were the I'm dealing
- 8:42Speaker 1: with the pressure. You are, Yeah, of the VISECTI me
- 8:44Speaker 1: chat at the moment. I'm about to have my third
- 8:46Speaker 1: child in a couple of weeks.
- 8:48Speaker 2: Yes, congratulations, thank you, thank you. You're not having it.
- 8:51Speaker 2: You've done none of the work, No, the initial work,
- 8:55Speaker 2: I'm assuming anyway, Well, we don't know I'll talk to
- 8:58Speaker 2: Laura later and see who did all the week. Anyway,
- 9:01Speaker 2: there was a time where I didn't have a sex toy,
- 9:03Speaker 2: and now it's most of my personality. If anyone who
- 9:06Speaker 2: knows me and my wife over here, April, I'm not
- 9:10Speaker 2: allowder for a first.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Anymore, because you've done to the matter needed me.
- 9:14Speaker 2: Anyway, I was shocked.
- 9:17Speaker 1: I was shocked at you're thirty one. At the time,
- 9:19Speaker 1: I was a young man.
- 9:20Speaker 2: It's a young man so much ahead of me, but
- 9:23Speaker 2: I'd had enough kids to be honest, I couldn't deal
- 9:25Speaker 2: with anymore surely. And it was actually April was sort
- 9:29Speaker 2: of it was her idea, and I was hesitant because
- 9:34Speaker 2: I do no research whatsoever, and I refused to read anything.
- 9:38Speaker 1: I wish I had known this was the type of
- 9:40Speaker 1: person that you were before I said, yes, you're doing
- 9:43Speaker 1: a podcast with you.
- 9:44Speaker 2: And the preparation for me for everything is minimal. I
- 9:48Speaker 2: just don't have the bandwidth for it. And I remember
- 9:51Speaker 2: being so against it, mainly because I didn't know. I
- 9:55Speaker 2: was ignorant. I kind of thought it would change me
- 9:58Speaker 2: for some reason, and a lot of and then say
- 10:00Speaker 2: that to me too, They're like, what does it change me, no,
- 10:03Speaker 2: it doesn't.
- 10:04Speaker 1: Well, I need all the testosterone that I can get,
- 10:06Speaker 1: do you ges, you're pretty diast at the moment you
- 10:09Speaker 1: could lose a bit.
- 10:11Speaker 2: And I sort of brushed it aside, mainly because it
- 10:15Speaker 2: wasn't my idea. And then it was a I think
- 10:18Speaker 2: it was a Saturday night at a friend's house. Who's
- 10:20Speaker 2: here somewhere? There is over there who now has a visect?
- 10:23Speaker 2: Me as well? Your wife thanks me all the time.
- 10:27Speaker 2: And I thought, do you know what to be a
- 10:29Speaker 2: grand gesture? A really good idea is a vasectomy? Anyway,
- 10:32Speaker 2: so I booked this vasectomy online with no research whatsoever. Well,
- 10:37Speaker 2: my dad had a VISEECTI me, it's generational, matt so
- 10:40Speaker 2: and he told me it's like getting a haircut. So
- 10:42Speaker 2: I was like, how hard could it be? And because
- 10:45Speaker 2: it was my idea, I thought it was great. What
- 10:46Speaker 2: did you search to find VASECTI mes near me good
- 10:51Speaker 2: and it popped up first one that'll do? He had
- 10:54Speaker 2: five stars. I thought, how bad it to be? And anyway,
- 10:59Speaker 2: I thought it would be great if I went home
- 11:02Speaker 2: with this grand gesture to tell my wife that I
- 11:04Speaker 2: had a great idea that I should get to a
- 11:06Speaker 2: sex met even though she had the idea months before,
- 11:08Speaker 2: years before, probably, and it was met with I've been
- 11:12Speaker 2: telling you to do that for months, and it backfired
- 11:15Speaker 2: a little bit, and I kind of thought.
- 11:16Speaker 1: But wait, what time was this, now that you've worken
- 11:18Speaker 1: up life on a Saturday night, it.
- 11:20Speaker 2: Was pretty late April.
- 11:23Speaker 1: I've done it.
- 11:24Speaker 2: I have a really good idea getting a sect me
- 11:27Speaker 2: And he's like and then yeah, she said, I've been
- 11:30Speaker 2: telling you that for ages, and I was like, no,
- 11:32Speaker 2: you haven't. But anyway, I got booked in, went to
- 11:36Speaker 2: the clinic and it's much like an old deli at
- 11:39Speaker 2: a supermarket. You walk in, you grab a ticket, and everyone.
- 11:43Speaker 1: Will at the clinic.
- 11:44Speaker 2: At the clinic, yeah, sophisticated the ticket. The technology was amazing.
- 11:48Speaker 2: Five stars pulled a ticket, sat down with the rest
- 11:54Speaker 2: of what I referred to as victims, because we were
- 11:57Speaker 2: all sitting there like you know when you go to
- 11:58Speaker 2: an airport and there's those seats and there's always a
- 12:01Speaker 2: seat in the middle of everyone, like, no one wants
- 12:02Speaker 2: to touch knees, it's not that scary, so we're all
- 12:06Speaker 2: like this. No one wanted to talk. All it was
- 12:08Speaker 2: was a conveyor belt of men walking up a hallway
- 12:11Speaker 2: perfectly fine, and then sort of walking back like they've
- 12:15Speaker 2: just ridden a horse, like a slight limp, like we're
- 12:19Speaker 2: all in it together. I wanted to ban this together.
- 12:21Speaker 2: But also, how do you start that conversation? What do
- 12:23Speaker 2: you do?
- 12:23Speaker 1: What's the eyesbreaker?
- 12:24Speaker 2: There isn't one. You're just like, what are you here
- 12:27Speaker 2: for a haircut? Anyway, So I get called up and
- 12:31Speaker 2: I go up, and the thing is with a vasectomy
- 12:33Speaker 2: is for a doctor, they tell you it's an irreversible procedure,
- 12:38Speaker 2: mainly because it can be reversed, but there's a chance
- 12:40Speaker 2: that it might not work, which for your mental health
- 12:45Speaker 2: down the track is really important. So you need to
- 12:47Speaker 2: know what to expect, and there's a lot of that.
- 12:48Speaker 1: It's a big moment.
- 12:49Speaker 2: So yeah, I get called up and you go in
- 12:51Speaker 2: and the doctor talks to you about you know what
- 12:54Speaker 2: to expect, and it's irreversible, it's fine, and then they ready,
- 12:57Speaker 2: here you go, and you're awake for the whole procedure.
- 13:00Speaker 2: Brain surgery probably just as complex, they're very similar, so
- 13:04Speaker 2: similar part. Anyway, I found myself just so nervous and
- 13:09Speaker 2: anxious about this procedure that I was just was sweating profusely.
- 13:14Speaker 2: I couldn't stop it. And I found out later than
- 13:16Speaker 2: my dad did the same. It's generational.
- 13:18Speaker 1: He didn't tell you.
- 13:19Speaker 2: No scare me.
- 13:20Speaker 1: It was just like your haircut, You'll be fine.
- 13:22Speaker 2: Yeah, I've had haircuts that have taken longer. And I
- 13:28Speaker 2: remember saying, they said, okay, we're all done. You can
- 13:30Speaker 2: get up, and I was that quick, and I said,
- 13:32Speaker 2: I would love to get up, but I've sweat so
- 13:34Speaker 2: much I'm stuck to the table. So they had to
- 13:38Speaker 2: peel me off the table like an old sticker, just
- 13:42Speaker 2: to get up and off. And then they sit you
- 13:44Speaker 2: back down and they wheel out an iPad in front
- 13:46Speaker 2: of you, and there's another video about what to expect
- 13:49Speaker 2: with recovery, what's going to happen next, what you should
- 13:52Speaker 2: and shouldn't do, And then after that is followed by
- 13:56Speaker 2: the doctor himself pops up on the iPad and asks
- 13:59Speaker 2: for a review. No wonder, he's got five stars. He's like,
- 14:02Speaker 2: make sure you leave five stars.
- 14:03Speaker 1: How many stars did you give him? Five?
- 14:05Speaker 2: Of course it's too scared. Of course, I was just
- 14:07Speaker 2: scared not to I was still in his office. And
- 14:10Speaker 2: then after that comes up with a refer a friend
- 14:13Speaker 2: and is this he's over there, And I walked out
- 14:20Speaker 2: of that room like a cowboy down the hall. Give
- 14:24Speaker 2: the boys the thumbs up. The rest of the victims,
- 14:26Speaker 2: they're all scared.
- 14:27Speaker 1: Then you walked a little bit more.
- 14:28Speaker 2: I ended up doing fifteen k's on foot and woke
- 14:32Speaker 2: up the next morning bruised up to my belly button
- 14:35Speaker 2: and they said go home. I don't. I don't like Matthew.
- 14:43Speaker 2: And so the recovery was dreadful. So, Matthew, if you
- 14:46Speaker 2: are going to get a vasectomy, I would say, go
- 14:50Speaker 2: to the pub straight after.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Got it. Got it, thank you. And this is why
- 14:54Speaker 1: we don't give any advice on the podcast.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Also, and it's funny with with something like a vasectomy.
- 14:59Speaker 2: We have couple's dinners and by the time you get
- 15:01Speaker 2: to the end of the couple's dinner, there's like three
- 15:03Speaker 2: or four of u sectomies booked in.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Speaking of surgery at the moment, my my mum has
- 15:08Speaker 1: just had shoulder surgery. I'm not sure if people have
- 15:10Speaker 1: seen on my social media I've been doing her hair.
- 15:13Speaker 2: Yeah, does everyone know, Ellie? Yeah?
- 15:15Speaker 1: Oh god, such a good you would love that, such
- 15:17Speaker 1: a good son. Yeah, she is looking after the kids
- 15:19Speaker 1: because Laura is away at the moment. But it's concerning
- 15:22Speaker 1: because we are having a kid in just a couple
- 15:24Speaker 1: of weeks. Nana's got her arm and his sling. She's
- 15:26Speaker 1: no longer around for.
- 15:28Speaker 2: She wasn't very useful before that.
- 15:29Speaker 1: How dare you? How dare you?
- 15:32Speaker 2: Just the truth? She's pretty good.
- 15:34Speaker 1: One second you're praising her, then you're knocking her down.
- 15:37Speaker 1: But it's it's a worry because you Laura is really busy.
- 15:39Speaker 1: I've got a lot going on. The podcast is just
- 15:41Speaker 1: so popular. It's so much work, so much works. It's crazy. Jess.
- 15:47Speaker 1: I produces like be nice if you guys did something,
- 15:50Speaker 1: But sorry, Yess. But at the moment, I'm staring down
- 15:53Speaker 1: the barrel of maybe trying to find another babysitter. And
- 15:55Speaker 1: this is something that you guys would understand because you've never.
- 15:58Speaker 2: Never paid for a baby, never paid for a babysitterup.
- 16:01Speaker 1: Wow, yeah wow.
- 16:02Speaker 2: We have my wife's father, Frank Popper, who is any
- 16:07Speaker 2: more maternal, he'd be able to breastfeed.
- 16:09Speaker 1: Yeah. So at the moment, I also got this PTSD
- 16:15Speaker 1: or when I tried to find a babysitter last time,
- 16:17Speaker 1: and I'm if you heard this story strap on in.
- 16:22Speaker 1: We were looking for a babysitter, and we looked at
- 16:24Speaker 1: promoting this job.
- 16:25Speaker 2: Every way possible to it on LinkedIn.
- 16:28Speaker 1: I was close to doing a LinkedIn post, but we
- 16:30Speaker 1: were on social media, we had agencies. We were going
- 16:34Speaker 1: far and wide. The net was very big that was cast,
- 16:38Speaker 1: and it was hard to find anyone that was suitable.
- 16:42Speaker 1: It really was. It's not that it's really hard, and
- 16:47Speaker 1: we only had three suitable applicants for this job of
- 16:50Speaker 1: being a babysitterup the first one. The first roadblock was
- 16:54Speaker 1: the fact that I said, you will need to cook
- 16:56Speaker 1: a meal every now and then, and spaghetti. I just no,
- 17:00Speaker 1: nothing fancy. It is not like you know, it's not lobster,
- 17:02Speaker 1: it's not caveage. It's not like a I said, can
- 17:06Speaker 1: you cook a lobster? I just said a spaghetty bolonnaise.
- 17:10Speaker 1: And she rolled her eyes and I said, this is
- 17:12Speaker 1: not the babysitter for me. Babysitting number two didn't show
- 17:15Speaker 1: up for the interview.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Give her the job.
- 17:17Speaker 1: Babysit at number three. She came in and the moment
- 17:20Speaker 1: she opened the front door, the sun was beaming behind
- 17:24Speaker 1: her and I just had this feeling this energy entered
- 17:28Speaker 1: the room that I knew I'd found someone quite special.
- 17:30Speaker 1: And straight away she had these coloring in pencils. She
- 17:33Speaker 1: gave it to the kids. She had a treat for buster.
- 17:36Speaker 1: I was like, this is perfect. And she said she'd
- 17:39Speaker 1: been a babysitter her whole life. She loved kids. And
- 17:42Speaker 1: I was like, well, I think we've just found a
- 17:45Speaker 1: new babysitter.
- 17:46Speaker 2: Gratulations, I said, got the job.
- 17:47Speaker 1: When can you start? She said Monday? I said, perfect,
- 17:50Speaker 1: I see you. Then Laura was out the door really
- 17:52Speaker 1: really early. So on day one she came in and
- 17:56Speaker 1: she was different. That sunlight that was behind her there
- 18:00Speaker 1: was no more well. She came in and she was
- 18:04Speaker 1: just very meek, and she went to Lola, who's my
- 18:07Speaker 1: second child, the youngest. She was three at the time,
- 18:10Speaker 1: and she said, would you like to get ready for daycare?
- 18:12Speaker 1: And Lola went, no, I don't want it. And then
- 18:15Speaker 1: she looked at me and said, that's all I can.
- 18:17Speaker 1: I'm ideas. I don't know what to do. And I thought,
- 18:20Speaker 1: you know, it's day one, she's probably nervous. That's fine,
- 18:22Speaker 1: I'll get her ready. And then when it came time
- 18:24Speaker 1: to driving them to daycare. It's a tricky daycare. It's
- 18:27Speaker 1: hard to park. I thought, I'll hop in.
- 18:29Speaker 2: The car, your micro manager.
- 18:32Speaker 1: No, I was.
- 18:33Speaker 2: I was just gonna sing first day of work, and
- 18:36Speaker 2: just like I'll get him with you, i'd get out. Wow,
- 18:41Speaker 2: you've been a passenger in my car and I want
- 18:42Speaker 2: to get out.
- 18:43Speaker 1: I jump in the car with her and we reverse
- 18:46Speaker 1: out the driveway and it was just foot to the floor.
- 18:49Speaker 1: We shot out the back of the driveway. She didn't
- 18:52Speaker 1: look left or right. Luckily there were no cars there.
- 18:54Speaker 1: And she said, I'm so sorry. The accelerator is a
- 18:56Speaker 1: bit sticky. And I said, yeah, it is a bit sticky.
- 18:57Speaker 1: That's fine. And then as we were driving there, we
- 19:01Speaker 1: went through a tea junction. There's a stop sign straight through.
- 19:05Speaker 2: Good. She was got time for that.
- 19:07Speaker 1: Well, I like the efficiency and I said, I'm so sorry,
- 19:10Speaker 1: you've just there's a stop sign back there, and she goes,
- 19:13Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, and she's not. She's from South of.
- 19:16Speaker 2: Merdic micro managing. It's a nervous I get that.
- 19:19Speaker 1: I get that, you know, it's it is nerve wracking
- 19:22Speaker 1: having someone breathe down your neck.
- 19:23Speaker 2: Your boss. He's also the father of the children.
- 19:27Speaker 1: In the back. Well, I was just wanting to do
- 19:29Speaker 1: the right thing. Ash And I don't know if you're
- 19:32Speaker 1: familiar with a part of the Eastern suburbs, the Bondai
- 19:35Speaker 1: to Bronte Walk.
- 19:36Speaker 2: Never either of those suburbs.
- 19:37Speaker 1: Beautiful part of the world. It's a lovely walk and
- 19:41Speaker 1: Tamil Beach has got this really lovely footpath that a
- 19:45Speaker 1: lot of people walk down and they enjoy the view
- 19:47Speaker 1: of one of the most beautiful beaches in Sydney.
- 19:51Speaker 2: People in the Eastern suburbs, so you're from Northern beaches.
- 19:54Speaker 1: But it was a great morning. A lot of people
- 19:57Speaker 1: were out and we were going around this part of
- 19:59Speaker 1: the and she was really hugging the curb and I
- 20:04Speaker 1: was worried about not just the children, but the wheels
- 20:06Speaker 1: of the car. It was a newish car and I
- 20:08Speaker 1: didn't want to scratch the wheels.
- 20:10Speaker 2: You don't want to bug your manager's car up.
- 20:11Speaker 1: But I didn't want to say anything. I didn't want
- 20:13Speaker 1: to micromanage.
- 20:15Speaker 2: That's the point you decided to stop micromanaging.
- 20:17Speaker 1: Well, I thought there's a limit to everything, and I said,
- 20:19Speaker 1: I'm not going to say anything. I'm going to let
- 20:21Speaker 1: her learn on her own. Accord, and as we were
- 20:24Speaker 1: going around a corner seconds away from what it felt
- 20:27Speaker 1: like was scraping the wheel, someone in front of us
- 20:30Speaker 1: was very busy morning was running when to overtake someone
- 20:33Speaker 1: by stepping onto the road as we were approaching, and
- 20:37Speaker 1: I thought to myself, if she doesn't slow down, she's
- 20:41Speaker 1: going to hit this person. And I didn't say anything.
- 20:46Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. I think I thought she was
- 20:49Speaker 1: in control. Next thing, this guy hits the bonnet of
- 20:55Speaker 1: the car. I know, he flies up. The kids are
- 21:03Speaker 1: looking at him. He's looking at the kids.
- 21:04Speaker 2: He's got a sun roof too.
- 21:06Speaker 1: He lands behind us. She puts the brakes on, and
- 21:12Speaker 1: then everyone as well walking. They stop as well, witnesses.
- 21:17Speaker 1: The witnesses Jesus. I was almost gonna say just keep driving,
- 21:24Speaker 1: but I didn't. I'm not that kind of person that
- 21:26Speaker 1: would be illegal. So I hop out. I look at
- 21:29Speaker 1: this guy. He's laying on the road, and I don't
- 21:32Speaker 1: say anything, and I'm like, I don't know how to
- 21:33Speaker 1: approach situation. What do you do? Thankfully, he gets up,
- 21:37Speaker 1: he dusts himself off, and he says, I'm sorry, what
- 21:41Speaker 1: did you say? And I said that's okay. He then
- 21:47Speaker 1: got up and he ran off.
- 21:50Speaker 2: She took off what was probably the heart rate guy.
- 21:54Speaker 1: I hop back in the hop back in the car.
- 21:57Speaker 1: She's crying. I said, I'll drive. It's fine. And I
- 21:59Speaker 1: didn't have the heart to fire her on day one
- 22:03Speaker 1: because I'm a nice guy. So I kept it for
- 22:05Speaker 1: a week until she admitted that she'd never been a
- 22:08Speaker 1: babysitter in her life, and she she quit on me.
- 22:14Speaker 2: I know she hit you with her.
- 22:17Speaker 1: So that's what I'm staring down the barrel of right now.
- 22:20Speaker 2: Well, we wish you all the luck with the baby.
- 22:22Speaker 2: If anyone has a baby they want to recommend for Matt,
- 22:24Speaker 2: please it would really help us all out.
- 22:26Speaker 1: Anyone here, We do a segment called pair rants.
- 22:29Speaker 2: It is one of our favorite segments on the podcast.
- 22:32Speaker 2: I named it because it's so clever. It had to
- 22:35Speaker 2: be me.
- 22:36Speaker 1: We don't have the intro song.
- 22:38Speaker 2: We're not allowed to play the interest song that day.
- 22:39Speaker 1: We will sing it.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Sing it right now.
- 22:43Speaker 1: But a pair rant is essentially it's a safe place
- 22:47Speaker 1: where parents can just vent about all the terrible parts
- 22:52Speaker 1: of parenting.
- 22:53Speaker 2: It's amazing because there's so many terrible parts.
- 22:56Speaker 1: We all love our kids. We do love our kids. Absolutely,
- 22:59Speaker 1: no question about it. Conditional love.
- 23:01Speaker 2: But God, yep, saying things like that, God, it makes
- 23:04Speaker 2: it sound worse.
- 23:05Speaker 1: Is there anyone here is not a parent?
- 23:09Speaker 2: Ah?
- 23:10Speaker 1: Gosh, it must be nice.
- 23:12Speaker 2: Do you want a couple of kids?
- 23:16Speaker 1: But we ask people to submit their pair rants? And
- 23:18Speaker 1: we've got a couple here that we've Yes, we do.
- 23:21Speaker 1: I did say they'd be anonymous, but let's read the
- 23:22Speaker 1: names there.
- 23:23Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta get names of shamed here. Okay, I'm
- 23:24Speaker 2: gonna go first here. And I love it when someone
- 23:27Speaker 2: sends one in that they're midway through the argument with
- 23:29Speaker 2: themselves already, and they're like, this is from Libby, and
- 23:32Speaker 2: she says, try working at a daycare in the baby's room,
- 23:35Speaker 2: navigating everyone's new routines because of daylight savings.
- 23:39Speaker 1: I think that was off the back of us slagging
- 23:41Speaker 1: off daycare or early educated. Sorry sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 23:47Speaker 1: This one is from Taylor. She says, is anyone else
- 23:50Speaker 1: in a narcissistic relationship with the almost four year old?
- 23:53Speaker 1: We could be having the most loving moment and then
- 23:56Speaker 1: he'll hurl abuse at me for saying no to a
- 23:58Speaker 1: third biscuit before dinner, because somehow I'm the bad guy
- 24:03Speaker 1: you are.
- 24:03Speaker 2: In their mind, you're always the bad guy.
- 24:06Speaker 1: This morning, I took Lola riding a bike at the
- 24:08Speaker 1: park for hours. We were then we got We've got
- 24:10Speaker 1: baby Chino's. We got home and she said, can I
- 24:13Speaker 1: watch TV? I said, not just yet.
- 24:14Speaker 2: She goes, I hate you, dad, that's fair you show. Actually,
- 24:19Speaker 2: Matt showed me a video of her riding a bike
- 24:21Speaker 2: this morning, and she can't ride and talk at the
- 24:23Speaker 2: same time, so she will talk, ride talk.
- 24:28Speaker 1: It's exhausting. Its exhausting.
- 24:30Speaker 2: A long day for you, my friend. This one's from Brody.
- 24:35Speaker 2: My kids are treating my car like a rubbish bin.
- 24:38Speaker 2: No matter how many times I say my car is
- 24:41Speaker 2: not a rubbish bin. According to children, everywhere is a rubbish.
- 24:45Speaker 1: Everything is a rubbish bin. Everywhere I know.
- 24:48Speaker 2: I catch oscar all the time stepping over an old
- 24:51Speaker 2: yogurt that's on the carpet, and I'm like, wait, pick
- 24:54Speaker 2: it up, like you get it?
- 24:55Speaker 1: What is wrong with you? But again, love our kids.
- 24:57Speaker 1: They are beautiful, the reason we're here. Caerish every moment.
- 25:02Speaker 1: This is from Melanie. When you order something off the
- 25:04Speaker 1: kids menu at a restaurant and it comes to the table,
- 25:07Speaker 1: it's placed in front of the child and it is
- 25:09Speaker 1: hotter than lava. You then have to sit there for
- 25:11Speaker 1: the next half an hour with them throwing a tantrim
- 25:14Speaker 1: because I don't understand why they can't eat their food
- 25:16Speaker 1: to restaurants do better.
- 25:20Speaker 2: Excuse me. It's funny because when they put a hot
- 25:23Speaker 2: plate in front of an adult like that, don't touch
- 25:25Speaker 2: the plate, and we touch it. What do you think
- 25:27Speaker 2: of toddler's gonna do? And then they cry. It's a
- 25:30Speaker 2: whole scene when you get baby Gino's just make all
- 25:33Speaker 2: their food lukewarm, lukewarm.
- 25:36Speaker 1: They don't get it.
- 25:37Speaker 2: They should. They should pre prepare the kids meals before
- 25:40Speaker 2: their shifts start and then they'll be ready.
- 25:43Speaker 1: Just serve its stone cold. Who are we kidding?
- 25:45Speaker 2: They leave it till it's stone cold anyway.
- 25:47Speaker 1: But should we do lies?
- 25:49Speaker 2: We should do some lies. That's an old segment. We
- 25:52Speaker 2: bring it back here and there. It's got a great
- 25:54Speaker 2: song too, We sung that one as well.
- 25:56Speaker 1: I really wish we could see it.
- 25:57Speaker 2: We don't have a lot of money for the production,
- 25:58Speaker 2: but we won't.
- 25:59Speaker 1: We won't. A lot of people talk to me and
- 26:02Speaker 1: say I will never lie to my children.
- 26:05Speaker 2: That's garbage. Idiots yeah, we don't mean like big lies,
- 26:08Speaker 2: like things that are going to impact them that much.
- 26:12Speaker 2: We're talking about things like the parks closed. Yeah it's not.
- 26:16Speaker 1: But they just simple, harmless, victimless white lies. Every now
- 26:21Speaker 1: and then we get to lie like the fire alarms
- 26:24Speaker 1: are actually Santa Claus watching.
- 26:25Speaker 2: You, or yeah, and I'm like, oh, this ice cream
- 26:28Speaker 2: is spicy.
- 26:29Speaker 1: That's like a little bit borderline. But most of the time,
- 26:32Speaker 1: it's just about trying to make sure that our kids.
- 26:35Speaker 1: We mitigate a meltdown, a tantrum, we try and get
- 26:38Speaker 1: them to behave. And what we do is we share
- 26:40Speaker 1: these lies with our audience because we're all about helping
- 26:43Speaker 1: each other build up an arsenal of parenting tips. Yeah
- 26:47Speaker 1: I know.
- 26:47Speaker 2: I was like, I went in with a few lies
- 26:49Speaker 2: for this podcast, and now I've got a book full
- 26:51Speaker 2: of them. Oh yeah, And I love the variations from
- 26:54Speaker 2: like the food spicy to like, oh it's boiling hot,
- 26:59Speaker 2: like anything like that, any variation to throw a kid off.
- 27:03Speaker 2: I'm all about.
- 27:04Speaker 1: I believe anything. This is from Juanna. I'll go the
- 27:06Speaker 1: first one here. She said, whenever I'm eating something and
- 27:08Speaker 1: I don't want to share, I tell my kids that
- 27:12Speaker 1: it's medicine. Unfortunately, these are medicine donuts, and the doctor
- 27:17Speaker 1: made the medicine in the doughnuts just so a taste.
- 27:19Speaker 1: It not as bad.
- 27:21Speaker 2: Genius. I love that the only problem is April and
- 27:24Speaker 2: I told our kids that the medicine's lolly water, so
- 27:27Speaker 2: it's sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place. There.
- 27:31Speaker 1: Give us some of that medicine water again.
- 27:33Speaker 2: They're like, I'm sick. That's a good one. See, food
- 27:35Speaker 2: variations are great. I love that this is from Daisy.
- 27:39Speaker 2: This is good. Uh, put your kids show on in
- 27:43Speaker 2: Mandarin and convince them they don't understand the words because
- 27:46Speaker 2: they're too tired. Oscar. The other day, my eldest, he's six,
- 27:51Speaker 2: he put his favorite show on and he accidentally put
- 27:53Speaker 2: it on Mandarin and he was like, what the hell
- 27:57Speaker 2: is going on? Can you understand them? And I was like,
- 28:00Speaker 2: it must be died.
- 28:05Speaker 1: This one is from Amy and she says we put
- 28:08Speaker 1: his clock forward an hour so he thinks it's later.
- 28:11Speaker 1: He spent the last twelve months thinking he was going
- 28:14Speaker 1: to sleep at eight thirty, but really it was just
- 28:15Speaker 1: seven thirty.
- 28:18Speaker 2: The time between them getting back from any daycare or
- 28:20Speaker 2: any supervision between then and when they go to bed,
- 28:23Speaker 2: time stops still. It's like you know when you drive
- 28:26Speaker 2: on the freeway and there's the servos. Yeah, the time
- 28:29Speaker 2: just doesn't exist. Yeah, it's the same thing. So putting
- 28:31Speaker 2: it forward and then also you sort of combating daylight
- 28:34Speaker 2: savings there genius.
- 28:35Speaker 1: Never change the clocks.
- 28:41Speaker 2: We use a bottle of moisturizer as magical cream. Where
- 28:46Speaker 2: am I for every bump and scratch? Saving is tons
- 28:49Speaker 2: on band aids?
- 28:50Speaker 1: Genius at the moment because Lola, any little bump, regardless
- 28:55Speaker 1: of whether there's any mark, there's blood, there's anything, She's like, yep,
- 29:00Speaker 1: another one. And she only wants to have a band
- 29:02Speaker 1: aid for one day. So after a day she rips
- 29:05Speaker 1: them off and goes, yep, bring another band.
- 29:07Speaker 2: She's making the day with it.
- 29:08Speaker 1: I'm channing through band aids right now.
- 29:10Speaker 2: The stock's going up.
- 29:11Speaker 1: Oh for God, write these down all.
- 29:14Speaker 2: I don't see anyone writing these days. They're all up here.
- 29:18Speaker 1: This last one it is from Sam and she says
- 29:21Speaker 1: the rides at the shopping center only work when it's
- 29:25Speaker 1: your birthday. So if there are kids writing them, obviously
- 29:29Speaker 1: it's their birthday.
- 29:30Speaker 2: I love seeing a parent put their kid on her
- 29:32Speaker 2: and pay for it, and there's two extra seats and
- 29:34Speaker 2: they just see me running with my two kids. Quick
- 29:37Speaker 2: hold on, Yeah, but I pay it back. I pay
- 29:40Speaker 2: for it, I tap it when and then let other
- 29:43Speaker 2: kids get on. I just send their parents an invoice.
- 29:46Speaker 1: You're part of the problem. I just collectively agree that
- 29:49Speaker 1: those rides will never get paid for.
- 29:51Speaker 2: And the thing is they put a tap on it now. Okay,
- 29:58Speaker 2: they put a tap on it now, So it's like, oh, sorry,
- 30:00Speaker 2: but I don't have any money. It's like give us
- 30:02Speaker 2: your phone, give you give us.
- 30:07Speaker 1: If you would like to submit a parenting lie or
- 30:09Speaker 1: a pair rount, you can of course do that at
- 30:12Speaker 1: Hello at two doting, dance dot com, dot are you you.
- 30:14Speaker 2: Can, or in our socials you can dm us. That'd
- 30:17Speaker 2: be great. We love them, we keep them, we collect them,
- 30:20Speaker 2: and any variation of a lie is great. So we
- 30:22Speaker 2: love it.
- 30:23Speaker 1: But also, if you enjoyed this episode, we would love
- 30:25Speaker 1: it because we are actually going to package this up,
- 30:27Speaker 1: put it on Apple podcasts.
- 30:28Speaker 2: You're all going to be not on it. How does
- 30:31Speaker 2: that feel?
- 30:32Speaker 1: What are the stars? But if you've enjoyed it, we
- 30:35Speaker 1: would love a reviewer. I think we're at seven hundred
- 30:37Speaker 1: and fifty one. Who's counting. I'd love to get to
- 30:40Speaker 1: a thousands. So if there's anyone here who hasn't reviewed,
- 30:45Speaker 1: I would love it if you would.
- 30:47Speaker 2: April, have you reviewed a good Angie?
- 30:50Speaker 1: Have you reviewed Oh My get Out? You've come to
- 30:54Speaker 1: our live show before you've done a review.
- 30:56Speaker 2: Were you basing your review off this live show? One
- 31:01Speaker 2: love it.
- 31:01Speaker 1: It's a fuel that keeps us going, it is, for sure.
- 31:04Speaker 1: But to anyone here who has been following us for
- 31:07Speaker 1: a while, we want to say thank you so much
- 31:08Speaker 1: for coming to our first live show. We do record
- 31:11Speaker 1: it on the dining room table, and it's just this
- 31:14Speaker 1: is weird, and it's weird having people here. Ash I'm thinking,
- 31:23Speaker 1: I'm thinking, this idea is just popped in my head.
- 31:25Speaker 1: Should we do more than just the one off live show?
- 31:28Speaker 1: Is this going to be okay? At Little Mini Tour?
- 31:32Speaker 1: Is that TBC okay? So I'm going to carry away?
- 31:35Speaker 1: I'm excited. I think I did say buzzing off the
- 31:37Speaker 1: live show.
- 31:38Speaker 2: Someone asked us that question live and I was like,
- 31:40Speaker 2: you know what, I'm pulling rank here, Yes, look at me, like.
- 31:43Speaker 1: Let's do it.
- 31:44Speaker 2: Don't listen to him, guys.
- 31:45Speaker 1: So we hope you enjoyed this episode. A huge thanks
- 31:47Speaker 1: to Apple for having us once again, and we would
- 31:50Speaker 1: love it if you guys would give us a review
- 31:51Speaker 1: on Apple Podcasts of course, just a couple of comments,
- 31:54Speaker 1: a couple of stars. We got one actually from the
- 31:57Speaker 1: live show. Oh beautiful.
- 31:59Speaker 2: What did it say?
- 32:00Speaker 1: If you want to know what it says? Go read
- 32:01Speaker 1: it and then leave a comment.
- 32:02Speaker 2: Oh will I'll go and do it right now, and
- 32:04Speaker 2: we'll see you guys next week. See you, bye bye.
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