Latest / Two Doting Dads with Matty J & Ash / #164 Best Birthday Gift EVER?
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- 0:00Speaker 1: On the microphone, the microphone, Give me a cake. What happened?
- 0:06Speaker 2: No, look, microphone.
- 0:08Speaker 3: She wanted to come up on my lap, which I did,
- 0:11Speaker 3: and then she was shuffling around the sofa and I
- 0:15Speaker 3: thought that smell and I leant across to get her
- 0:21Speaker 3: and I was covered in poo. She was covered in pooh.
- 0:25Speaker 3: The sofa was covered in poo, and it was horrible.
- 0:31Speaker 3: And I had to put her back in the cage.
- 0:34Speaker 3: Killed nowhere else to put it to put her, and
- 0:37Speaker 3: then so her bedding in the cage got covered in
- 0:40Speaker 3: poo and it was horrible.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Have they got a puppy? They got a puppy?
- 0:44Speaker 3: Did have a puppy until I strangled its neck.
- 0:49Speaker 4: Oh my god, Joseus were about to start always no
- 1:08Speaker 4: animals were hard in.
- 1:09Speaker 2: The making of this podcast.
- 1:10Speaker 1: I can confirm the dog is still alive, I think now.
- 1:15Speaker 1: Welcome back to This is a podcast all about two.
- 1:18Speaker 1: I'm Ash, I'm mad a Jade, and this is a
- 1:20Speaker 1: podcast all about parenting. It is good, it is the
- 1:22Speaker 1: bad and relatable and we don't give advice. But what
- 1:25Speaker 1: we do do do do is give presents?
- 1:28Speaker 2: We do we do.
- 1:32Speaker 1: Because yeah, one of us is turning thirty four five.
- 1:41Speaker 2: I'm so fright and honestly, I'm shocked that you remember.
- 1:45Speaker 2: I am shocked.
- 1:46Speaker 1: I have messaged a lot of people. Jess Lovely, producer,
- 1:49Speaker 1: has reminded me a few times. April has also reminded me.
- 1:53Speaker 1: I have it. I have a birthday alarm that goes
- 1:55Speaker 1: off once a week.
- 1:56Speaker 2: I had a plan. In case you didn't remember, what
- 1:58Speaker 2: was that bo No, there's a there's an episode of
- 2:02Speaker 2: the Office where Michael Scott rings up his ex girlfriend.
- 2:05Speaker 2: He goes happy birthday and she says, it's not my birthdays.
- 2:07Speaker 2: It's funny. I thought we had the same birthday and
- 2:10Speaker 2: she was like, happy birthday.
- 2:14Speaker 1: I forgot last year, didn't yeh? And the year before that, yeah, yeah,
- 2:18Speaker 1: I was like this year, I will not forget. I'm
- 2:20Speaker 1: going to go grab it. I'll be one second, okay,
- 2:22Speaker 1: I can close.
- 2:23Speaker 2: My eyes off. What am I doing here? I'm going
- 2:25Speaker 2: to close my eyes. I'm patiently waiting. We should do
- 2:28Speaker 2: some waiting music. He rustling.
- 2:38Speaker 1: I have two gifts.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Two.
- 2:43Speaker 1: I'll give you the bag first.
- 2:46Speaker 2: Yes, please? Oh is the bag the gift? Is it?
- 2:51Speaker 2: Oh my god? It's a big brown bag. You can
- 2:53Speaker 2: I can't even see you past this bag.
- 2:57Speaker 1: You can remove the item from the bag and take
- 3:00Speaker 1: a look inside.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Oh it's a big bag for a T shirt. Sorry,
- 3:08Speaker 2: very nice. It's a gem Pikelets T shirt.
- 3:14Speaker 1: I love it.
- 3:15Speaker 2: I was actually thinking about this yesterday. I could tell
- 3:18Speaker 2: that's thank you.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. It's at a cartoon version. After you
- 3:25Speaker 1: hold it up to the camera and show the.
- 3:26Speaker 2: Good people, will I show the front and then I'll
- 3:28Speaker 2: show the bank.
- 3:28Speaker 1: I stole that from your social media. That's the logo
- 3:31Speaker 1: for your surfboard.
- 3:32Speaker 2: Yeah, it is for the phoney. That's we're going to
- 3:34Speaker 2: do a giveaway for that too soon. Yes, just keep
- 3:37Speaker 2: your ears and ye peeled for that.
- 3:38Speaker 1: I have five of those shirts for you five.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Oh that's amazing. Thank you.
- 3:44Speaker 1: That's gift number one.
- 3:45Speaker 2: Wow, I feel so spoiled.
- 3:48Speaker 1: Gift number two didn't arrive.
- 3:52Speaker 2: You got a picture of it.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Well, you know what it's like when a football team loses.
- 3:59Speaker 1: They go into hiding. They don't reply to messages. I
- 4:03Speaker 1: don't want to be seen by anyone. And I messaged
- 4:06Speaker 1: them and I said, you talk about manly team.
- 4:08Speaker 2: They didn't respond.
- 4:09Speaker 1: They come off the back of it. Any Jan's I
- 4:14Speaker 1: can get a happy birthday thrash seeing the reply. Come on, guys,
- 4:21Speaker 1: so that one's coming, it'll come.
- 4:22Speaker 2: So it's a third.
- 4:24Speaker 1: So this is the other gift, which because you have
- 4:31Speaker 1: a new house. So this is part birthday party gift,
- 4:36Speaker 1: part house woman.
- 4:37Speaker 2: Okay, I was gonna love it.
- 4:38Speaker 1: I bet she will.
- 4:40Speaker 2: Okay, give that's huge, Okay, make sure the camera for
- 4:50Speaker 2: I say it. Yeah, I love it. That's so good.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Debt for people who obviously are listening can't see it
- 5:05Speaker 1: is a photo taken from our calendar. We are hosing
- 5:08Speaker 1: ourselves down, completely naked except for a couple of boots
- 5:13Speaker 1: and buddy smugglers.
- 5:14Speaker 2: And the hats on. But yeah, I love that. Come Tan,
- 5:19Speaker 2: you're pretty ten. We both look great. I think I
- 5:22Speaker 2: was going to love that. I love it. It's going
- 5:26Speaker 2: straight in the living room, maybe in the kids room.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Please.
- 5:31Speaker 2: I love it. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much,
- 5:34Speaker 2: thank you, Jess appreciate Happy birthday. Thank you.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Special mention to Jess who had to pick up that
- 5:40Speaker 1: bit of artwork and trouble with it on public.
- 5:42Speaker 2: Transform that makes it even better.
- 5:46Speaker 1: Jess, I'm so sorry for doing that. I'm so sorry.
- 5:50Speaker 2: That is very good.
- 5:52Speaker 1: It's a big picture for those of you again, sixty
- 5:56Speaker 1: centimeters by like a meet.
- 5:58Speaker 2: As a meat alone. Thank you. I feel very feel,
- 6:02Speaker 2: very blessed, So thank you very much. I appreciate that.
- 6:05Speaker 1: And happy birthday, dude, thank you.
- 6:07Speaker 2: Thirty five. Should I reflect? No, just get sad. But yeah,
- 6:12Speaker 2: thirty five happened so.
- 6:14Speaker 1: Fast, quick blink of an eye. Yeah, one second, we're eighteen.
- 6:18Speaker 1: We finished school and then you finished school lot earlier.
- 6:22Speaker 2: Fifteen Jesus. Yeah, next thing in the world for a
- 6:25Speaker 2: long time, twenty years ago. I left school. That's wild,
- 6:30Speaker 2: that's crazy.
- 6:31Speaker 1: Did you ever go to a school reunion? Reunion?
- 6:34Speaker 2: No?
- 6:35Speaker 1: Did you ever go to a school reunion?
- 6:37Speaker 2: No? It be awkward because I was expelled for most
- 6:39Speaker 2: of them, so he's no, definitely not. But my kid
- 6:45Speaker 2: goes to my primary school, so I guess it's kind
- 6:46Speaker 2: of like as thank you, Thank you both.
- 6:48Speaker 1: How are you going to celebrate.
- 6:51Speaker 2: I'm going to America apparently, Yeah, you're going next week.
- 6:54Speaker 1: I'm going to meet Shack without the family.
- 6:56Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to meet Shaquilo new I'm going to work.
- 6:58Speaker 1: It's for a job, Yeah, it's for a job.
- 7:00Speaker 2: I'm going to go meet Shaquille O'Neill. I think it
- 7:04Speaker 2: turns up right. That's about it. I said, I want
- 7:07Speaker 2: to go go karting because I have got an obsession
- 7:09Speaker 2: at the moment, which is racing.
- 7:11Speaker 1: That's not like you to get a weird obsession.
- 7:13Speaker 2: I know, I do. I don't know.
- 7:14Speaker 1: Before we recorded this, you were listening to Formula one.
- 7:17Speaker 1: Is that is that new? Yeah?
- 7:18Speaker 2: That's my whole thing. Now that's my whole, my whole personal.
- 7:20Speaker 1: What about Pokemon cards, Yeah, still going through.
- 7:22Speaker 2: It's not as much at the moment.
- 7:24Speaker 1: It's back Pokemon cards two.
- 7:28Speaker 2: One one is f one. I've got a simulator in
- 7:30Speaker 2: the house.
- 7:31Speaker 1: I saw you put a bloody message out there because
- 7:34Speaker 1: anyone have a racing helmet and a full body suit
- 7:38Speaker 1: for racing.
- 7:39Speaker 2: It's for a skit.
- 7:40Speaker 1: Did you get it?
- 7:41Speaker 2: Yeah? I did, I do. I gotta get it. I
- 7:43Speaker 2: got to pick it up from just a friend. She
- 7:46Speaker 2: her brother and dad do used to do professional go karting.
- 7:51Speaker 2: She's like, I've got some suits. I'm like sweet, She's
- 7:53Speaker 2: like they might stink like.
- 7:55Speaker 1: So April's like, fucking hell, we've got a simulator. Your
- 7:59Speaker 1: walker around the house in a fucking helmet and bo
- 8:02Speaker 1: like full blown racing suit anyway.
- 8:04Speaker 2: So I think we just do some Gocardi, have dinner
- 8:07Speaker 2: with the kids in there. I won't see him for
- 8:09Speaker 2: a week, and that's present enough.
- 8:12Speaker 1: I need to apologize for being late today.
- 8:15Speaker 2: Ash Oh yeah, no, sweat that made up for it.
- 8:21Speaker 2: Why were you late? We do?
- 8:23Speaker 1: You have education week at your school?
- 8:26Speaker 2: Every week is educational week. Man.
- 8:28Speaker 1: I hate to bring it to you, bro, we had.
- 8:32Speaker 1: I think it's to coincide with one hundred days of kindy, like.
- 8:36Speaker 2: Open day or something.
- 8:37Speaker 1: Well, they invite they invite parents to come and sit
- 8:41Speaker 1: in the classroom for forty five minutes.
- 8:45Speaker 2: The longest forty five minutes of your life.
- 8:46Speaker 1: I bet actually wasn't it was nice.
- 8:52Speaker 2: Marley was pumped, Yeah she was.
- 8:54Speaker 1: It was the first time ever where I woke up.
- 8:59Speaker 1: She was dressed, she'd breakfast. She pretty much had a
- 9:02Speaker 1: backpack on, and she was like, hurry the fuck up,
- 9:05Speaker 1: we're going to school.
- 9:06Speaker 2: You should tell her every day that you go to
- 9:07Speaker 2: school with it. So she just starts doing it automatically
- 9:11Speaker 2: like Pavlov's dog May.
- 9:14Speaker 1: We were at school like eight point thirty. Fuck and
- 9:18Speaker 1: I have to play tip with the kids.
- 9:20Speaker 2: Unfair advantage for you, long arms, long legs, pretty quick
- 9:24Speaker 2: crossing ground scamper.
- 9:27Speaker 1: But it was nice. We just, you know, you sit
- 9:30Speaker 1: in the classroom and I wasn't sure how it was
- 9:32Speaker 1: going to play out, but essentially, the kids just show
- 9:35Speaker 1: you what they've been working on. Grab some coloring in, grab.
- 9:38Speaker 2: A book, love that, and it was nice.
- 9:40Speaker 1: All the parents were there.
- 9:43Speaker 2: However, okay, however, a couple of kids no parents.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Oh god, I could have cried.
- 9:51Speaker 2: And you're an mpath too, so you would have been like,
- 9:53Speaker 2: come here, children, let them pied piper. You got a
- 9:59Speaker 2: bunch of kids follow I'm mate, it's this poor little boy,
- 10:03Speaker 2: I know.
- 10:04Speaker 1: And he looked he looked like he was going to cry,
- 10:07Speaker 1: and I.
- 10:07Speaker 2: Was it's sad. I just yeah. It was like saying
- 10:11Speaker 2: I went to a school thing really quickly so you
- 10:13Speaker 2: can finish the story. And it was like an assembly,
- 10:15Speaker 2: and all the parents were there of these particular kids,
- 10:18Speaker 2: but one of the dads of the kiding Oscars class
- 10:21Speaker 2: he had to take off immediately, like he had to
- 10:22Speaker 2: go back to work. So all of the kids came
- 10:25Speaker 2: out of assembly to their parents except for this one kid.
- 10:28Speaker 2: And I was like, April, I like, come here, buddy,
- 10:31Speaker 2: get a photo with Oscar and like you try and
- 10:33Speaker 2: but the kid was like, how are you doing to
- 10:36Speaker 2: get back to work?
- 10:36Speaker 1: He's not dead.
- 10:38Speaker 2: I know. I was like, wow, child, you're it's going
- 10:44Speaker 2: to be some one of the most courageous people in
- 10:46Speaker 2: the world grow up without parents.
- 10:50Speaker 1: Anyway, on Marley was trying to show me a coloring
- 10:53Speaker 1: you and all I could do was look at Timmy
- 10:54Speaker 1: being like he's so alone right now. There there was
- 10:58Speaker 1: one kid, she had a parent. She was like and
- 11:00Speaker 1: I was like hey, and she was like, can I
- 11:02Speaker 1: show you what love heart? And I was like, yeah,
- 11:05Speaker 1: hurry up.
- 11:06Speaker 2: And I couldn't.
- 11:06Speaker 1: I couldn't lose her.
- 11:08Speaker 2: The girl get rid of her.
- 11:10Speaker 1: I was like, I'm here with Marley.
- 11:11Speaker 2: Back of Marley's like boot it.
- 11:14Speaker 1: But then after the classroom little classroom session that was great.
- 11:19Speaker 1: After that, we then had assembly. Assembly was all about
- 11:23Speaker 1: celebrating education week, essentially just celebrating school and and Marley
- 11:30Speaker 1: had put her hand up to say a few words.
- 11:33Speaker 2: Now I cast my memory back to when you tried
- 11:36Speaker 2: to get her to tell she had to tell a
- 11:38Speaker 2: story in front of the class. Yes, So how did
- 11:42Speaker 2: it was? This girl?
- 11:43Speaker 1: I wasn't sure how it happened. You know, sometimes you
- 11:45Speaker 1: don't want to believe your kids. But she was like,
- 11:48Speaker 1: I've got I've got something to learn. So she had
- 11:49Speaker 1: a little homework folder, a little script, had to learn
- 11:52Speaker 1: it off by heart. And I was like, did you
- 11:56Speaker 1: get this? Is everyone doing a speech like what's happened?
- 11:59Speaker 1: Trying to break down how did this happen?
- 12:01Speaker 2: They're so vague too, so no, yeah, every day and
- 12:05Speaker 2: I know the answer I get from Oscar. It's like,
- 12:07Speaker 2: what did you do at school today? I's like I
- 12:08Speaker 2: can't remember. It's like, okay, well what what what do
- 12:12Speaker 2: you know?
- 12:12Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 12:13Speaker 2: This education week?
- 12:14Speaker 1: I was like, did your teacher ask you? As she
- 12:16Speaker 1: goes when I opened my hand up there getting blood
- 12:20Speaker 1: from a stone? Like, what is happening here?
- 12:23Speaker 2: What's about? I don't know?
- 12:24Speaker 1: You had to learn the speech. I then realized later
- 12:27Speaker 1: on that only a couple of kids were saying an
- 12:29Speaker 1: intro welcome, here we are education week, and Marley was
- 12:35Speaker 1: starting that speech. So only only three kids from kids
- 12:38Speaker 1: I sound like such a dick when three kids were selecting.
- 12:44Speaker 2: On that well, only the best and brightness of the
- 12:48Speaker 2: children of that particular class were selected, and of course
- 12:51Speaker 2: Marley was hand picked, hand picked first by the.
- 12:55Speaker 1: Principle to speak in front of all the other parents
- 12:58Speaker 1: to represent the kindergarten.
- 12:59Speaker 2: So humb too, am I sorry?
- 13:02Speaker 1: Yeah, let me apologize that day. I know what I'm
- 13:06Speaker 1: doing and I'm sorry, but go on. But I was
- 13:10Speaker 1: obviously at the podcast was on, and I was like,
- 13:13Speaker 1: what I'm going to do is just quickly do that part,
- 13:16Speaker 1: you know, see her to do a speech, and then
- 13:18Speaker 1: I'll duck out of there. Okay, So the assembly starts,
- 13:22Speaker 1: the band do your song. Two songs? Fucking terrible?
- 13:29Speaker 2: Was there like a lot of wind instruments, so there's
- 13:34Speaker 2: always a Roague clarinet, someone's on a sax and they
- 13:38Speaker 2: don't know how to plan, or someone just goes.
- 13:43Speaker 1: I played saxophone, and I used to get so freaked
- 13:45Speaker 1: out that I used to just I wouldn't blow in
- 13:47Speaker 1: my saxophone.
- 13:48Speaker 2: You told me this, Yeah, let the other saxophone. I
- 13:52Speaker 2: was perfect, pitch perfect.
- 13:54Speaker 1: So two songs. Then the recorder group come out. Another
- 13:58Speaker 1: two songs.
- 13:58Speaker 2: Another annoying instrument.
- 14:00Speaker 1: Then the choir comes out. Actually the choir that quite good.
- 14:03Speaker 2: That's pretty good. Yeah, quite quantious choir level. Actually it was.
- 14:07Speaker 1: It was a lot better than I thought, And then
- 14:10Speaker 1: they have the breakdance troop come out.
- 14:13Speaker 2: I was like, how fucking artistic is this school?
- 14:16Speaker 1: They were terrible as well, Like the boys looked like
- 14:19Speaker 1: they were forced against their will, like pointed at gunpoint
- 14:22Speaker 1: gun point to come out and like try and dance,
- 14:24Speaker 1: like they all looked like they were petrified for their life.
- 14:28Speaker 1: And it's just no one was off bat There's one
- 14:30Speaker 1: kid of a dance who was like obviously the ring
- 14:32Speaker 1: leader put.
- 14:33Speaker 2: The goods at the front.
- 14:36Speaker 1: And then and then after that, I was like, surely
- 14:39Speaker 1: will come out. She's not even she's like backstage, like
- 14:43Speaker 1: back of house hasn't even been on the stage yet.
- 14:46Speaker 1: And they have the breakdance they have then the year
- 14:48Speaker 1: one to three dance troop, the year three to five
- 14:51Speaker 1: dance troop, the year six.
- 14:53Speaker 2: You've got a full of Stedford. Fuck dude. Literally, you
- 14:55Speaker 2: go to this Deadford this morning.
- 14:57Speaker 1: And I'm looking at my watch going, oh my god,
- 14:59Speaker 1: I just waiting.
- 14:59Speaker 2: I just waiting.
- 15:00Speaker 1: Other parents will all be there since nine o'clock. Other
- 15:03Speaker 1: parents are like, wrap this up. I thought it was
- 15:07Speaker 1: going to be like then finally she came out. She
- 15:13Speaker 1: gets handed the microphone, very whoops, this is how she sounded.
- 15:22Speaker 2: Hello, education nailed it. Well, she's a good speaker, just
- 15:30Speaker 2: like a dad, thank you, thank you, and Nellie a
- 15:34Speaker 2: parent tapping on the shoulder and said, she so confident.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Isn't she?
- 15:38Speaker 2: Well she was hands selected.
- 15:44Speaker 1: And then then after that you did, I waved to
- 15:47Speaker 1: good bye, and you know, it's like it is amazing
- 15:51Speaker 1: as just bear with me for a second. When they
- 15:54Speaker 1: when they perform at any level, regardless of whether it's sport,
- 15:59Speaker 1: I could at the top level, any co curricular activities, education,
- 16:04Speaker 1: when they finish you and you give them a thumbs
- 16:07Speaker 1: up and say like, well done, the look on their face.
- 16:11Speaker 2: Like she was buzzing beaming, someone would say buzzing.
- 16:15Speaker 1: Also, I'm just going to play a little bit of
- 16:16Speaker 1: their the song that they performed afterwards.
- 16:21Speaker 2: That's pretty good, thank you.
- 16:24Speaker 1: And then and then here we are.
- 16:25Speaker 2: Well eventful morning. They cram it in, don't they. They
- 16:28Speaker 2: really get you. I feel like it's a bit like
- 16:31Speaker 2: like a bit like a bad salesman. Once they've got
- 16:34Speaker 2: your seated, Oh yeah, they just ramia with everything, like
- 16:37Speaker 2: and then we're going to bring out a bunch of
- 16:39Speaker 2: dancing animals.
- 16:41Speaker 1: But also every time, like the recorder group would perform,
- 16:45Speaker 1: their parents would then peel off, and then like after
- 16:47Speaker 1: each act there was essentially just a couple of kindy
- 16:50Speaker 1: parents left in the audience. So she performed really no one,
- 16:53Speaker 1: Oh but.
- 16:54Speaker 2: That's all right. She still go up and did it?
- 16:56Speaker 1: Did it? Man?
- 16:56Speaker 2: And like like whenever you say to Oscar like good job, mate,
- 17:00Speaker 2: is usually like there's a boy things like shot such
- 17:06Speaker 2: a boy thing. But speaking of Oscar, same age as
- 17:10Speaker 2: Marley six. For those of you who knew listening, we
- 17:14Speaker 2: have had a really rainy week.
- 17:17Speaker 1: It has been her rear.
- 17:20Speaker 2: Like well said, I couldn't have said a bout myself.
- 17:23Speaker 2: And as you know, I live in a really old
- 17:25Speaker 2: house that's prone to damage.
- 17:28Speaker 1: I would say, bold water leaks, Oh.
- 17:31Speaker 2: There's mold, don't you worry. There's mold, there's leaks. There's
- 17:35Speaker 2: all sorts of things going on, the roofs falling.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Down outside the Arctic chamber.
- 17:39Speaker 2: But I have something I want to show you, because Oscar,
- 17:42Speaker 2: these kids are getting in their six they want to
- 17:44Speaker 2: be helpful, you know, they want to help I want
- 17:46Speaker 2: to have a look, I want to do it. I'll
- 17:47Speaker 2: do it. I'll do this sort of ship. Well, you
- 17:48Speaker 2: got your talking out. No, I didn't didn't have to.
- 17:51Speaker 2: We do have a lot of leaks that come in
- 17:53Speaker 2: our house when it rains, and there's a couple of spots.
- 17:56Speaker 2: You'll be able to notice the spot that's leaking. But
- 17:58Speaker 2: Oscar put his hand up and said, I'll fix this.
- 18:03Speaker 2: I'll save us. Never fear Oscar is here exactly.
- 18:08Speaker 1: Is that because he's confident in his own ability, or
- 18:10Speaker 1: is like, oh dad, don't fucking no.
- 18:13Speaker 2: I think he just wanted to be the man of
- 18:14Speaker 2: the house.
- 18:15Speaker 1: Love that.
- 18:15Speaker 2: Good on him, Good on him, And I'm going.
- 18:17Speaker 1: To show you you're getting kicked to the curb.
- 18:19Speaker 2: Oh yeah, come home.
- 18:20Speaker 1: He's in bed with April.
- 18:23Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry, whenever I don't stay there, he does sleep
- 18:27Speaker 2: with April. Before you press play, just just describe to
- 18:32Speaker 2: what I'm seeing, what you're seeing, what the what the
- 18:35Speaker 2: leak looks like to the listeners that wow, can't see.
- 18:38Speaker 1: It, Okay, it looks I'm looking here at the ceiling
- 18:42Speaker 1: just above the living room area, and there is a
- 18:46Speaker 1: large patch of what looks like I could say black mold.
- 18:51Speaker 2: It's not. It's actually bubbled up from water coming leaking through.
- 18:55Speaker 1: There's black MOULDI I guy well, maybe good thing I'm moving.
- 18:59Speaker 1: It's very bubbly. It's very It's like what it looks
- 19:03Speaker 1: like is you put paint stripper. It looks like someone's
- 19:07Speaker 1: applied paint stripper to the ceiling and.
- 19:09Speaker 2: I just put some bind stripper on there, you know.
- 19:11Speaker 1: You know, as a fellow trade. May I press play?
- 19:14Speaker 2: You can press play? Because Oscar really wanted to fix,
- 19:17Speaker 2: like put something down to fix the help with the lake.
- 19:25Speaker 2: It's good if effort was their execution, not so much.
- 19:30Speaker 1: This is the smallest tupper work seen. It is so tiny.
- 19:37Speaker 2: Oh my god, couldn't and do you know what he said,
- 19:41Speaker 2: I'll get it because you've seen me put tupperwats down before,
- 19:45Speaker 2: but bigger ones obviously, And then we hadn't noticed it.
- 19:49Speaker 2: And then April goes to me, have you seen the
- 19:51Speaker 2: tupperware data Oscar put down there? It's like literally one
- 19:55Speaker 2: hundred mili one.
- 19:56Speaker 1: It's so small. That is absolutely adorable.
- 19:59Speaker 2: We had mt it like four times.
- 20:03Speaker 1: Did you put a bigg one down?
- 20:05Speaker 2: I don't. I don want to redo the kids work.
- 20:08Speaker 2: That's just silly. So yeah, I ask her. He's a
- 20:12Speaker 2: man of the house.
- 20:12Speaker 1: Now, wow, Well I come home and he's at the
- 20:15Speaker 1: bottom of the cart and he's like, new oil, mate,
- 20:19Speaker 1: new filter.
- 20:20Speaker 2: Honestly, if he's going to put that smaller, I don't
- 20:22Speaker 2: trust the judgment. If I'm going to be honest, I
- 20:25Speaker 2: guess it's in proportion to his size. In his mind,
- 20:28Speaker 2: he's like, this is a huge twenty gallon tank. Yeah.
- 20:31Speaker 2: I thought he was going to be like, oh, just
- 20:32Speaker 2: get a bucket. We've got buckets. Don't get a bucket, bro,
- 20:36Speaker 2: But no, that's it. But it was horrific those couple
- 20:38Speaker 2: of that, and they were both sick as well. I
- 20:42Speaker 2: wouldn't wish it upon my worst.
- 20:44Speaker 1: What's the countdown? How long do we move out?
- 20:47Speaker 2: We've got about five weeks? Wow? Yeah, wow, I should
- 20:52Speaker 2: go fast.
- 20:53Speaker 1: That is going to fly by.
- 20:54Speaker 2: And I got a lot on how do you guys
- 20:57Speaker 2: go in the weather? Yeah?
- 21:00Speaker 1: And it was hard.
- 21:00Speaker 2: It was hard.
- 21:01Speaker 1: Probably the hardest part was the fact that soccer was
- 21:05Speaker 1: canceled for Lola.
- 21:06Speaker 2: Lola's playing soccer.
- 21:09Speaker 1: That leads me to my next story.
- 21:10Speaker 2: Oh what since when.
- 21:14Speaker 1: We started a couple of weeks ago midwinter? And yeah, look,
- 21:20Speaker 1: it's funny because Marley has always wanted to dance like that.
- 21:24Speaker 1: She just loves it. She's always been very vocal. She's like,
- 21:26Speaker 1: I want to do dance classes, and we thought we're
- 21:28Speaker 1: just going to give her a little rest for the
- 21:30Speaker 1: first bit of kindie and Lola just loves kicking a.
- 21:34Speaker 2: Ball and she's pretty good. I see that she's pretty good.
- 21:38Speaker 2: I see that she's more than like that. I want
- 21:39Speaker 2: to get beat some people.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Little bulldozer. And then there's there's a Centennial Park, which
- 21:45Speaker 1: is a big park here in Sydney. They do classes
- 21:48Speaker 1: on the weekend. It's a Sunday, which is pretty annoying.
- 21:52Speaker 2: I think classes not games.
- 21:54Speaker 1: No, not games, not games. So it's like little workshops
- 21:56Speaker 1: where you're literally in groups of like ten kids and
- 22:01Speaker 1: they do a few activities, a couple of games, and
- 22:04Speaker 1: then they have a little a little like five on five
- 22:06Speaker 1: game at the end. But but I was like, I
- 22:10Speaker 1: was genuinely really nervous. I don't know, you were like
- 22:13Speaker 1: with Oscar when you took him to his first rugby training,
- 22:16Speaker 1: were you're like, yeah, we're fine whatever.
- 22:19Speaker 2: Yeah. I was like that until he fell over and
- 22:21Speaker 2: then he hid the rest of the time. The disabled
- 22:23Speaker 2: toilets laugh away. It is funny.
- 22:28Speaker 1: Is he playing next season?
- 22:29Speaker 2: No, he's doing jiu jitsu. Now that's but that.
- 22:32Speaker 1: Doesn't make any sense. No mud, no mud. He's not
- 22:34Speaker 1: a mud guy.
- 22:35Speaker 2: Not a mud guy. I blame April for that because
- 22:38Speaker 2: she's always like a good sense for issues or anything,
- 22:41Speaker 2: just like squeamish touches us like.
- 22:43Speaker 1: His mother, who was beautiful.
- 22:46Speaker 2: Say to me the other day, she was like, it's
- 22:48Speaker 2: funny when you're when you're both ragging on me, and
- 22:51Speaker 2: then I'm like, in April, there was April to do that,
- 22:53Speaker 2: and you're like, and she's amazing and very hard. We
- 22:57Speaker 2: were talking about last week, we were talking it the
- 23:01Speaker 2: vacation care decision. Well, she's a smart woman, she's lovely,
- 23:06Speaker 2: she's beautiful, and I support her decision. You're the worst
- 23:13Speaker 2: parent in the world.
- 23:18Speaker 1: Such a lucky guy. Laura had signed Lola up and
- 23:23Speaker 1: I was like, do you think she's like, we don't
- 23:25Speaker 1: know anyone who's going there. There wasn't as if there
- 23:27Speaker 1: was a kid that she was going with. You know,
- 23:30Speaker 1: it's really intimidating these environments where you throw your child
- 23:33Speaker 1: into a group of kids they don't know. And Lola
- 23:37Speaker 1: is like, she's sociable, but it takes her a while
- 23:39Speaker 1: to warm up.
- 23:39Speaker 2: She beats anyone up that doesn't want to socialize with.
- 23:42Speaker 1: There's like I was like, hopefully she doesn't head butt
- 23:45Speaker 1: any But we we rock up and we're a little
- 23:49Speaker 1: bit early and we were just having a little kick
- 23:52Speaker 1: around the balls everywhere and I kind of said, let's
- 23:55Speaker 1: have a little kick and I'll never forget it. She
- 24:00Speaker 1: always like a meter in front of the goal, and
- 24:01Speaker 1: I said, just kick it in the goal and she
- 24:03Speaker 1: talks to stuff. She goes, okay, here I go. My
- 24:07Speaker 1: very first.
- 24:08Speaker 5: Kick and she was so nervous and she narrated it.
- 24:14Speaker 1: She like was hyping herself up and she like did
- 24:16Speaker 1: a It was an awful kick, and she was like,
- 24:18Speaker 1: don't worry, we'll go like grabs the ball goes in
- 24:21Speaker 1: for another kick and I was like, oh my gosh,
- 24:24Speaker 1: I am dying inside. And I was also like, I
- 24:27Speaker 1: hope she enjoys this like she was.
- 24:29Speaker 5: She was so.
- 24:31Speaker 1: Pumped to go. And then the teacher comes over and
- 24:35Speaker 1: I now know that these clinics on a Sunday morning
- 24:38Speaker 1: are pretty much run by like mostly Brits.
- 24:42Speaker 2: They do love football.
- 24:43Speaker 1: They love football, and they're all in their like early twenties.
- 24:46Speaker 1: They're all fucking hungover.
- 24:48Speaker 2: That's the best. That's the best.
- 24:50Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm like chomping because this is such
- 24:53Speaker 1: a big moment. And I'm like gop to her coach
- 24:56Speaker 1: and he's like, hey, you fucking go.
- 24:58Speaker 2: Mate, Oh I may old mate, And.
- 25:01Speaker 1: I'm like, here's here's Lola, and he like stinks of vodka.
- 25:06Speaker 1: He's like kicking in the like I said, over there,
- 25:10Speaker 1: know what I mean there?
- 25:12Speaker 2: Yeah, And you're like, I used to live in London.
- 25:17Speaker 2: She enjoyed it.
- 25:19Speaker 1: She was she was good. She was like very, very nervous,
- 25:22Speaker 1: and it was hard because there are a couple of kids.
- 25:25Speaker 1: I want to say, almost all the kids had professional
- 25:28Speaker 1: boots on. They'd all done it before. They were really
- 25:33Speaker 1: really good. And she just had normal shoes on. She
- 25:35Speaker 1: had Marley's hand me down shoes from school that she
- 25:38Speaker 1: was calling her fast shoes.
- 25:39Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah yeah, and.
- 25:42Speaker 5: She was.
- 25:43Speaker 1: It took her a while, but laurd whenever she would
- 25:45Speaker 1: touch the ball, they had a little game at the end.
- 25:47Speaker 1: She'll get close to the ball and Laura's there going
- 25:50Speaker 1: kick out.
- 25:52Speaker 2: She gonna be one of those guys.
- 25:54Speaker 1: And I was like, can you relax.
- 25:56Speaker 2: Bro okay, some of the guys, some of my friend's
- 25:59Speaker 2: kids do soccer on a Saturday morning with their boys,
- 26:02Speaker 2: like a like a proper competition. Not in the competition
- 26:04Speaker 2: that's like a proper games and stuff, the fights, the
- 26:07Speaker 2: parents that fight. It's every week. I hear it's Laura
- 26:11Speaker 2: is one of them.
- 26:12Speaker 1: I know. I was like, can you just relax?
- 26:13Speaker 2: And then her in April would be fucking that. I'd
- 26:17Speaker 2: hate to come across April and Laura down to the
- 26:19Speaker 2: kids soccer game.
- 26:20Speaker 1: Now, I would really enjoy it because April is such
- 26:22Speaker 1: a lovely woman. She's got great conversational skills. And it's
- 26:30Speaker 1: the side of Laura I haven't seen before. And I'm like, Laura,
- 26:32Speaker 1: this is three minutes on five and five and these
- 26:34Speaker 1: kids are four years old, just relaxed. And there was
- 26:38Speaker 1: one kid who was so good, didn't pass to anyone,
- 26:41Speaker 1: and she was like, fucking timmy kid needs to learn
- 26:43Speaker 1: how to pass. And I was like, his parents could
- 26:45Speaker 1: be here, like just Tim Cahill's kid. But then I think,
- 26:52Speaker 1: when you, I don't know you notice this, but when
- 26:56Speaker 1: the ball comes to you, some kids would hesitate, Yeah, Loulos,
- 27:00Speaker 1: but she's hesitating a bit, and other kids would like
- 27:03Speaker 1: run to the ball. Finally she gets to the ball.
- 27:07Speaker 1: She dribbles down the field. She then lines up the goal.
- 27:12Speaker 5: Takes a kick, scores a goal. No ship in the
- 27:16Speaker 5: wrong goal.
- 27:18Speaker 2: Actually it's so good. No one even trying to stop me.
- 27:22Speaker 1: And she looks at us and I'm just going.
- 27:24Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good enough. I think that's fine, Like I
- 27:29Speaker 2: have no problems with that any holes a goal that's
- 27:32Speaker 2: exactly where that.
- 27:34Speaker 1: Poor all Hugo that hungover BRIT's I mean, that's not
- 27:38Speaker 1: a sound goal.
- 27:38Speaker 2: That's the wrong goal. Love.
- 27:41Speaker 1: I was like, just let her have it. Hell, he's
- 27:44Speaker 1: like red card.
- 27:45Speaker 2: It's oh man, I'm dreading the sport, the early morning sports.
- 27:50Speaker 2: I want to say thank you to my parents for
- 27:54Speaker 2: driving me every which way to play soccer all over
- 27:57Speaker 2: the East Coast of Australia. Like fuck bow Man used
- 28:00Speaker 2: to drive me to like Byron Bay twice a week
- 28:02Speaker 2: for training and then because it was a rep squad,
- 28:06Speaker 2: so it was like.
- 28:08Speaker 1: A week but what's that from the Gold Coast. It's
- 28:10Speaker 1: like an hour and a half.
- 28:11Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, after work and fair but it was
- 28:19Speaker 2: it was funny because like the games would be anywhere
- 28:21Speaker 2: from Coffs Harbor to the border or even some of
- 28:24Speaker 2: the gold. It was fuck it. I honestly, I don't
- 28:26Speaker 2: know how my old man did it. I think he
- 28:28Speaker 2: was just he's always just been the driver, and he
- 28:30Speaker 2: just loves the drive. I think, like, but that actually
- 28:33Speaker 2: reminds me. I used to coach a soccer team, a
- 28:35Speaker 2: kid's soccer team. When I was eighteen. Me and my
- 28:39Speaker 2: mate Troy used to coach an under eight team Hungover.
- 28:45Speaker 1: That does not surprise me.
- 28:46Speaker 2: Every week it was I don't know. We loved it,
- 28:49Speaker 2: and the parents loved us because the kids wouldn't listen
- 28:52Speaker 2: to them, but they would listen to us. We had them,
- 28:54Speaker 2: We took them to the Grand finals, the whole bit,
- 28:56Speaker 2: and every year the parents give us bottles of alcohol
- 28:59Speaker 2: and stuff for like the end of year. It was amazing.
- 29:02Speaker 2: I actually looked back and I'm like, fuck, that was
- 29:03Speaker 2: so fun.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Okay, So what do I have to do with Lola?
- 29:05Speaker 1: How do I tell me how to I'm trying to
- 29:07Speaker 1: get her to dribble up and down the hallway.
- 29:09Speaker 2: That's good, That's that's plenty. I need you need a Yeah,
- 29:14Speaker 2: trying to teach my kid how to kick properly.
- 29:16Speaker 1: Yeah, but she'll listen to you.
- 29:17Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe I'll give it a go. Next time I
- 29:19Speaker 2: see it, I'll be like, all right.
- 29:20Speaker 1: What you got She could be a next Matilda, she
- 29:24Speaker 1: could be I think she's got it. I think she
- 29:26Speaker 1: was about to go deck her out and like proper,
- 29:28Speaker 1: but shouldn't pass.
- 29:30Speaker 2: And the women's the national women's team is better than
- 29:32Speaker 2: the national men's team. I'm just going to be complete. Absolutely.
- 29:35Speaker 1: I tried to get Marley to sign up and she
- 29:36Speaker 1: was like, fuck, that's.
- 29:37Speaker 2: Old day step. But is it expensive?
- 29:41Speaker 1: It's very expensive. They really it's not cheap. I don't
- 29:44Speaker 1: know how much I'm paying, but it's it's punchy kids.
- 29:48Speaker 2: Sport is not cheap. It's great.
- 29:50Speaker 1: I was in my mind, I was thinking like we
- 29:53Speaker 1: could do two dotting dads soccer clinics.
- 29:56Speaker 2: We could. We tried that with Union last year. Remember
- 29:58Speaker 2: we sponsored the Union team. It cost us and but
- 30:00Speaker 2: we got absolutely nothing out of that.
- 30:02Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right now, Well I think it's reductible. We could.
- 30:04Speaker 1: We could set it up ourselves and you can reach
- 30:07Speaker 1: out to those old parents. You're experienced. I have won
- 30:10Speaker 1: a Grand Final before when I was twelve years just
- 30:13Speaker 1: the one, Matt.
- 30:19Speaker 2: I think it's time for one of our favorite segments,
- 30:21Speaker 2: which is parent.
- 30:22Speaker 1: Please, let's do it? Oh I am I have to
- 30:25Speaker 1: actually no, we'll play We'll play the theme song now, oh.
- 30:27Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the preous You say, what man, I
- 30:37Speaker 2: feel like a parent, and I.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Will say I will just want to read you a
- 30:47Speaker 1: quick message. This is not a parant but this is
- 30:49Speaker 1: in regards to the parant song. Yes from Kate on Instagram.
- 30:54Speaker 2: We've been nominated scenario and she.
- 30:56Speaker 1: Goes, She goes, the highlight of my year is you
- 31:02Speaker 1: changing your par ants song? It almost had me bailing
- 31:05Speaker 1: on you guys good, but now I can get my
- 31:09Speaker 1: lulls without wanting to simultaneously kill myself.
- 31:11Speaker 5: Oh my god, thanks Fellas.
- 31:14Speaker 1: New song is killer in a good way. Wasn't that bad?
- 31:19Speaker 1: It's so hard to know if.
- 31:20Speaker 2: People we were going for it being that bad.
- 31:23Speaker 1: We wanted to do that.
- 31:24Speaker 2: I was like, I want this to be so bad.
- 31:26Speaker 1: But what's even weirder is the fact that people also
- 31:29Speaker 1: reach out. There's a minority of them, sure who say
- 31:34Speaker 1: I missed the song.
- 31:35Speaker 2: And I don't know what to believe.
- 31:36Speaker 1: It's like people who have like, what's like a what's
- 31:39Speaker 1: a weird drink? Like a NEGRONI right, people hate it,
- 31:45Speaker 1: but then there's weirdos out there who like the badness.
- 31:48Speaker 1: Oh you know, not to say that people who like
- 31:51Speaker 1: the song were weird freaks.
- 31:55Speaker 2: Freaks. Oh, they're the sort of kids who ate glue. Sorry, guys,
- 32:02Speaker 2: you know it's true.
- 32:03Speaker 1: They're like they're right now sitting in the car with
- 32:05Speaker 1: a bloody clag jargo. Oh god, know too much flag.
- 32:11Speaker 2: Clag zoo zoo clag glue. Oh my god, that takes
- 32:15Speaker 2: me back delicious Alright, Oh fuck, this is I'll do
- 32:22Speaker 2: the short one. You're you're the better talker than me, reader, whatever.
- 32:28Speaker 1: Whatever you call it, whatever you I don't want to
- 32:30Speaker 1: call it.
- 32:30Speaker 2: Because you're better than me. This one's from Katie Black
- 32:33Speaker 2: specific first name and last name. No one look her up.
- 32:39Speaker 2: When kids, okay, this is gonna it is going to
- 32:43Speaker 2: irk me. I've pre read it in my head. When
- 32:46Speaker 2: kids squeeze half the tube of toothpaste out to.
- 32:49Speaker 1: Brush that sea so annoying.
- 32:52Speaker 2: I just don't have a middle ground. It's either none
- 32:55Speaker 2: nor or of it.
- 32:56Speaker 1: But also I don't kids like hs of four and six, right,
- 33:02Speaker 1: you think at this age that understand physics a little bit?
- 33:07Speaker 2: Is that physics?
- 33:08Speaker 5: Well?
- 33:08Speaker 1: No, I was going to say, like, like, surely they can,
- 33:12Speaker 1: like the toothpastes left.
- 33:13Speaker 2: The tube, whatever they squeeze out is going in their mouth.
- 33:16Speaker 2: They're the rules, but they.
- 33:17Speaker 1: Can tell they've got like, there's the toothpaste is left.
- 33:20Speaker 2: Have you ever put too much toothpaste in your kid's
- 33:23Speaker 2: mouth as punished?
- 33:24Speaker 1: Well, Lola eats the toothpaste, so yeah, she's yours too good.
- 33:28Speaker 1: Yeah she likes it. But you know when the kids
- 33:29Speaker 1: are filling up, like putting milk in a cup, and
- 33:33Speaker 1: it's like you're at you're at the top, like why
- 33:35Speaker 1: are you still pouring? You can tell that it's full,
- 33:38Speaker 1: you know what's going to happen next, but yet you
- 33:40Speaker 1: don't stop.
- 33:41Speaker 2: It's like what I did to you at the cafe
- 33:42Speaker 2: the other day, and I filled your your water cup
- 33:45Speaker 2: all the way up to like the brim so if
- 33:46Speaker 2: you touched it still over. So they're all learning it
- 33:50Speaker 2: from me, but it is so fucking annoying, and I'm like,
- 33:55Speaker 2: you know, try and give them some independency. Big word
- 33:58Speaker 2: for me?
- 33:59Speaker 1: Is that a word?
- 34:00Speaker 2: It is? Now?
- 34:01Speaker 1: Independency?
- 34:03Speaker 2: She doesn't know either, what do you know? Anyway, I'm like,
- 34:08Speaker 2: that's it you. I will scrape it up and I'll
- 34:11Speaker 2: be in your mouth. You deal with that. And I
- 34:13Speaker 2: was just like sneezing from all the mint. But how
- 34:17Speaker 2: you give the mint? I told you Macy's addicted to
- 34:21Speaker 2: eclip mints, Eclipse mints. She started to say no to
- 34:24Speaker 2: eclipse mins. Now what she moved on to No, No, No,
- 34:27Speaker 2: she just says no because she's got her own stash.
- 34:30Speaker 1: Yeah, just accept it. I have got this. One is
- 34:34Speaker 1: from Alo.
- 34:34Speaker 2: This is a long one.
- 34:35Speaker 1: Struck yourselves in. I've got twin toddlers, one with suspected autism.
- 34:41Speaker 1: Thank you that your aunt. Sorry the end, and I'm
- 34:49Speaker 1: pregnant with number three. Congratulations, thank you and commiserations. So
- 34:54Speaker 1: drop offs and pickups are already a circus. We've worked
- 34:57Speaker 1: hard on routines, but you know how toddlers get when
- 35:01Speaker 1: they're really tired and distracted, they don't always listen, Ash
- 35:04Speaker 1: and Matt. So picture this. It's four point thirty pm,
- 35:08Speaker 1: long day. I collect the twins. My daughter runs ahead
- 35:12Speaker 1: to the gate in brackets standard. My son's inside the door,
- 35:16Speaker 1: distracted by the birds. I'll get you those birds.
- 35:23Speaker 2: He's like, that's a silver tailed squador.
- 35:29Speaker 1: As I'm literally trying to pull him along two separate families,
- 35:32Speaker 1: each with both mum and dad. Just open the gate,
- 35:34Speaker 1: let my daughter push past them and sprint straight into
- 35:38Speaker 1: the road. Oh my god, in that split second, I
- 35:41Speaker 1: had to ditch my son, slam the door so we
- 35:44Speaker 1: stayed inside, honestly safer there, and push past four adults
- 35:50Speaker 1: to grab my daughter off the road. How's the daughter again?
- 35:54Speaker 2: They're twins.
- 35:55Speaker 1: Oh fuck, he's good. You were listening, thank you.
- 35:58Speaker 2: I was picturing it. You said, picture is thank you.
- 36:01Speaker 1: Then went back to my son, who thankfully listened and
- 36:05Speaker 1: stayed put, although very confused why mum had abandoned him.
- 36:09Speaker 2: So what's the rant?
- 36:10Speaker 1: I'm getting that patient?
- 36:11Speaker 2: Oh yes, it's a leader.
- 36:13Speaker 1: It's a leader. It's a good lead up, because normally
- 36:15Speaker 1: the rants are like a sentence. Yeah, it's nice to
- 36:19Speaker 1: get a meaty one.
- 36:19Speaker 2: It is. That's what she said, thank you, thank you. Okay.
- 36:23Speaker 1: Not one of those parents stopped, tried to help, or
- 36:25Speaker 1: even checked on my son. They carried on like nothing happened,
- 36:29Speaker 1: despite the massive sign on the gate watch for children
- 36:34Speaker 1: only let out kids you're responsible for.
- 36:37Speaker 2: So that's the rant, that's the rand, and that's fair,
- 36:40Speaker 2: I would say, say it. I would say poor form.
- 36:44Speaker 2: That is poor form from those four parents, because I know,
- 36:47Speaker 2: and there's time the other day I only jumped in
- 36:50Speaker 2: a pool because I thought kid was going to jump
- 36:51Speaker 2: in there. I don't know who the kid was or
- 36:52Speaker 2: where he.
- 36:53Speaker 1: Came from across the road.
- 36:58Speaker 2: I'm like, shit, like my my parental instincts does not
- 37:03Speaker 2: just stop at my kids. I'm like, if I see
- 37:06Speaker 2: a kid that, I'm like this, something could happen here,
- 37:09Speaker 2: even if that parent has a dig at me forget,
- 37:12Speaker 2: like it's none of my business. If that, if that,
- 37:14Speaker 2: if I could save a life, I will.
- 37:17Speaker 1: You are such a good guy, and I think, do
- 37:20Speaker 1: I dare say hero?
- 37:21Speaker 2: Say it? You are a hero? This podcast is very
- 37:27Speaker 2: self indulgent about me. So our kindy has two gates, right,
- 37:31Speaker 2: because that's that's the regulation, right, my wrong, there's more
- 37:34Speaker 2: than one gate separate, whether it's next to each other,
- 37:38Speaker 2: door gate anyway, so you've got to open one one
- 37:42Speaker 2: the other way. And if a kid, if a kid's
- 37:44Speaker 2: there on his own, which happens to be all the
- 37:46Speaker 2: time because it's outside and it's right in the f
- 37:49Speaker 2: I will legit, be like you get fucking back inside, kid,
- 37:53Speaker 2: get inside, right.
- 37:54Speaker 1: Well, you always look for the nod of approval. If
- 37:56Speaker 1: a kid's about to run under your arm and the
- 37:58Speaker 1: parent's not flanking the chip.
- 38:00Speaker 2: You're tripping that kid over.
- 38:02Speaker 1: I saved your life head budding in front on.
- 38:06Speaker 2: Yeah. And I think like if a kid, if a
- 38:09Speaker 2: kid runs past four adults one in.
- 38:11Speaker 1: Four, okay, And to me this, if you were that
- 38:14Speaker 1: mum and you've ditched your autistic child, I would do.
- 38:19Speaker 3: You do you? Then?
- 38:20Speaker 1: Do you then have a girl with the parents? Come on?
- 38:23Speaker 5: Come on?
- 38:24Speaker 2: No? I think you and I are very similar. Where
- 38:25Speaker 2: we wouldn't be as direct as that, we would have
- 38:27Speaker 2: a little dick. We'd say something along the lines of this,
- 38:30Speaker 2: do you guys mind watching my autistic child while I
- 38:32Speaker 2: go and get my other one off the road?
- 38:34Speaker 1: You let out yeah as I peel her off the back.
- 38:37Speaker 2: Yeah. And then do you guys mind and let them go?
- 38:40Speaker 2: Oh shit? Sorry? Because if I go, hey, don't let
- 38:44Speaker 2: kids out, like, don't to do it. But if I
- 38:46Speaker 2: passive aggressively like you would do the same.
- 38:49Speaker 1: Or would you say would you grab your child and
- 38:51Speaker 1: be like, you know you cannot just run out the
- 38:54Speaker 1: gate when silly parents open it?
- 38:55Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 38:56Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah? Or you walk back in with your kid
- 38:58Speaker 2: and go, it's okay, guys, she's a You didnt get
- 39:01Speaker 2: hit by a car this time. Next time, you don't know.
- 39:05Speaker 1: And then Ash was crossing his fingers.
- 39:07Speaker 2: Yeah, oh wait, I forget this is an audio. No,
- 39:09Speaker 2: we're on YouTube now, so.
- 39:11Speaker 1: Yeah it sucked in shout out to our YouTube listener's watches.
- 39:16Speaker 1: Same thing.
- 39:17Speaker 2: Okay, but yeah that's poor form from four. If it's
- 39:20Speaker 2: one parent and they are carrying a baby or something,
- 39:22Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, well, okay, they've got they've got their
- 39:24Speaker 2: own fucking mess. But four parents, Hm, that's four sets
- 39:30Speaker 2: and legs. Of course, it's well, we don't know that
- 39:32Speaker 2: because they could be disabled. But anyway, let's go on.
- 39:34Speaker 1: Let's move on.
- 39:34Speaker 2: Francesca, Francesca, Life's too short, well said, and that's the
- 39:41Speaker 2: end of the rand. Life's too short to be a
- 39:44Speaker 2: full time sock detective. Five people live here, yet somehow
- 39:49Speaker 2: eight hundred socks with zero matches are lurking in the
- 39:53Speaker 2: house like it's their full time job to disappear. Well,
- 39:57Speaker 2: so this person's a creative right for sure, because unless yes, no, no, yeah,
- 40:03Speaker 2: I see that. At this point, I'm convinced maternity wards
- 40:07Speaker 2: need to issue a lifelong sock allocation at birth, like
- 40:11Speaker 2: a sort of hat for feet. Wait, wait, like a
- 40:15Speaker 2: sorting hat four feet. So the rant here is that
- 40:19Speaker 2: she's winging that she can't find two socks at match,
- 40:22Speaker 2: I believe, So where are they going?
- 40:25Speaker 1: I saw that one on the Facebook group and I
- 40:28Speaker 1: bought like a twenty pack of socks.
- 40:31Speaker 2: That's too many?
- 40:32Speaker 1: Right A week later, gone, I've got one. I've got
- 40:36Speaker 1: one left.
- 40:37Speaker 2: Do you know what that is? It's called over population. Okay,
- 40:42Speaker 2: so think about this.
- 40:43Speaker 1: How can you have too many pairs?
- 40:44Speaker 2: Let me stop you. You have so you have two
- 40:47Speaker 2: pairs of socks okay forever, and you're like, I've got
- 40:51Speaker 2: two pairs of socks. You take care of those two
- 40:53Speaker 2: pairs of socks, because they are You're only two pairs
- 40:56Speaker 2: of socks. Now if you are all of a sudden
- 40:59Speaker 2: all I had twenty pairs of.
- 41:01Speaker 1: Socks, the respect for the pears boom, and you're.
- 41:04Speaker 2: Like, ohwa's got another pair, And then all of a sudden,
- 41:06Speaker 2: you do, I've already got I've got another pair.
- 41:08Speaker 1: Enough time changes your mentality. Boom, Yeah, socks are gone,
- 41:12Speaker 1: like the ration mentality. Yeah, Rashian not Russian.
- 41:16Speaker 2: Rasian Rashian yes ration with an a no U ration.
- 41:21Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you get me, I know, I get you.
- 41:23Speaker 2: Fair pair rant I would say yes, and I don't
- 41:27Speaker 2: think there's a solution because kids are fucked with socks.
- 41:29Speaker 1: There's no solution here.
- 41:30Speaker 2: No, you may see the other day, four different socks, okay,
- 41:34Speaker 2: on four different limbs. She had sock right foot, yellow sock,
- 41:41Speaker 2: left foot, white, frilly hands, rainbow sock, and then a
- 41:47Speaker 2: fucking pepper pig sock. On the other hand, I was like,
- 41:49Speaker 2: what are you doing? Like I'm going to just like
- 41:52Speaker 2: I'm going to KINDI. I was like, fine, weff you go.
- 41:55Speaker 2: Don't lose those socks. Where are the rest of your place?
- 41:58Speaker 1: Must be really cold.
- 42:01Speaker 2: And it's full of water.
- 42:02Speaker 5: She's got.
- 42:04Speaker 2: What's wrong with you?
- 42:05Speaker 1: It's like, I can't feel my limbs. Get the fuck
- 42:08Speaker 1: out of here.
- 42:09Speaker 2: I's got different socks and like three different dresses on.
- 42:12Speaker 1: I'm just going to add, just really quickly, a little
- 42:14Speaker 1: parent if I may, Okay, I just want to say,
- 42:18Speaker 1: what is really pissing me off at the moment is
- 42:21Speaker 1: the fact that trying to get my kids to eat
- 42:24Speaker 1: dinner is honestly, it's like it's like it's like I'm
- 42:28Speaker 1: trying to poison them, you know, just every mouthful is
- 42:32Speaker 1: near and possible, right then it sits in their mouth
- 42:36Speaker 1: for like what feels like minutes till it's actually days.
- 42:41Speaker 1: Like it's it's just an ordeal. It's just awful. I'm
- 42:45Speaker 1: getting annoyed that I'm eating. There's always like half the
- 42:48Speaker 1: food left on the plate, to the point where I'm like,
- 42:50Speaker 1: do you know what stuff it? I'm calling it, go
- 42:53Speaker 1: to bed, Go to bed. And then as I'm getting
- 42:56Speaker 1: into bed, they're like, where stuff?
- 42:58Speaker 2: We're so hungry. It's fucked, isn't it. And two things
- 43:02Speaker 2: on this please I've got for you. First one is
- 43:04Speaker 2: Macey's doing this thing where if it's like between noodles
- 43:08Speaker 2: and rice, she'll say one, and then when I give
- 43:10Speaker 2: it to her, she'll be like, oh, I want the
- 43:11Speaker 2: other one, so annoying, Like you said noodles, I'm not
- 43:15Speaker 2: going to go cook rice now. First one second one
- 43:17Speaker 2: is this very subject, Matthew, I happen to be writing
- 43:21Speaker 2: a book on this subject. Yeah, so I thought, let
- 43:25Speaker 2: you know that too.
- 43:26Speaker 1: Little little teaser, A little teaser on a book about kids.
- 43:29Speaker 2: Not eating their dinner it's a bloody arm.
- 43:31Speaker 1: But when's the book come out?
- 43:33Speaker 2: I'm to be determined that should we go on to well, first.
- 43:39Speaker 1: Thing, excited for the book, thank you, and secondly, should
- 43:42Speaker 1: we go on to listener questions.
- 43:43Speaker 2: We should absolutely go into listening questions.
- 43:45Speaker 5: Ash.
- 43:45Speaker 1: This question is from Emma. She asks, my child has
- 43:49Speaker 1: a phobia of cheese and butter, two very good things.
- 43:53Speaker 1: It's weird that they have a phobia about this, but
- 43:55Speaker 1: she wants to know any phobia tips both yellow. Hmm,
- 44:01Speaker 1: Actually I would love to know, Emma, are there any
- 44:04Speaker 1: other yellow items that your child is scared of?
- 44:06Speaker 2: Yeah, they traumatize.
- 44:07Speaker 1: But it's weird because man, those like like my kids
- 44:10Speaker 1: will polish off but hack of butter, No problem whatsoever.
- 44:15Speaker 2: I would eat a stick of butter. I bet you
- 44:17Speaker 2: I would rub myself in that. I would watch No,
- 44:20Speaker 2: I won't lock myself. I would say I would go
- 44:25Speaker 2: with it. You know how like our previous generation they
- 44:31Speaker 2: did this thing where it's like if they caught you smoking,
- 44:32Speaker 2: they make you smoke a whole packet of cigarettes. So
- 44:34Speaker 2: it'd be like, yeah, you don't want to eat that,
- 44:37Speaker 2: eat this whole stick of butter. Don't move, don't get
- 44:41Speaker 2: over it real quick, either that or be probably traumatized
- 44:44Speaker 2: to the rest their lives.
- 44:45Speaker 1: I was going to say, check your kids cholesterol. Maybe
- 44:49Speaker 1: they've got a high cholesterol and they just don't realize it.
- 44:52Speaker 1: There's no phobia. It's just their body telling them, like,
- 44:55Speaker 1: we don't need this right now.
- 44:56Speaker 2: I already have this. The cholesterol sense.
- 44:58Speaker 1: Yeah, collection, collect the fuck the collecteroal the cholesterol senses
- 45:04Speaker 1: are absolutely peaking.
- 45:06Speaker 2: Exposure exposure therapy. Matthew, you go on. It's not unique
- 45:12Speaker 2: to cheese and butter, but I believe it's just as successful.
- 45:19Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's effective.
- 45:20Speaker 2: Statistics say that cheese and butter are two of the
- 45:22Speaker 2: most delicious things in the world. So they'll get over it.
- 45:24Speaker 1: And how much butter do you need to expose your
- 45:27Speaker 1: child too? In order to get rid of the phobia,
- 45:28Speaker 1: all of it, like kilos, all of.
- 45:31Speaker 2: It, whatever, all of it means to you.
- 45:33Speaker 1: Just completely butter them up, butter them up.
- 45:39Speaker 2: And slide them down the hallway into a big bag
- 45:42Speaker 2: of cheese.
- 45:43Speaker 1: That'll sort it.
- 45:43Speaker 2: That'll sort it right out. Maybe they're just health conscious.
- 45:46Speaker 1: It's a weird phobia.
- 45:49Speaker 2: I'm here to judge. I will I think there's got
- 45:51Speaker 2: to be a scientific name for that, that phobia. There
- 45:54Speaker 2: has to be.
- 45:55Speaker 1: It's called turophobia. A turo is the irrational or disproportionate
- 46:02Speaker 1: fear of cheese. Individuals with this phobia may experience anxiety
- 46:06Speaker 1: or discomfort when seeing, smelling, or even thinking about cheese.
- 46:10Speaker 2: Wow, phobias are weird, aren't they. Just let's just sit
- 46:13Speaker 2: on this for one sec I have a friend who
- 46:15Speaker 2: is deathly afraid of bananas, not even a fucking joke.
- 46:21Speaker 2: Won't even go near a banana.
- 46:23Speaker 1: You know, it's even weird. Bananas a yellow.
- 46:26Speaker 2: Also, my dad's got a friend who's definitely afraid of tomatoes.
- 46:29Speaker 2: Anything to do with tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce freaks.
- 46:35Speaker 2: I mean, that's just it's weird.
- 46:37Speaker 1: Phobia is a weird weird it's tomatoes.
- 46:39Speaker 2: Come on, well, and I hope they grow out of it.
- 46:41Speaker 1: And we meant to be like the most like advanced
- 46:44Speaker 1: species in the fucking world. And then people are like,
- 46:49Speaker 1: that's a trape tomato.
- 46:50Speaker 2: And meanwhile, my dog's eating anything off the floor. Jesus,
- 46:54Speaker 2: And you're dumb anyway, all right, man, let's finish this
- 46:58Speaker 2: off with a bit more listener inclusive question that I
- 47:03Speaker 2: put to the Facebook group and if you're not part
- 47:05Speaker 2: of the Facebook group, group on the mind. If you're
- 47:09Speaker 2: not part of the Facebook group, jump on, two doting dads.
- 47:12Speaker 2: I've been kicked out of the group. Well I've been reaccepted.
- 47:16Speaker 2: Who kicked me out?
- 47:17Speaker 1: Jess? And I gave you the boot because we asked
- 47:20Speaker 1: the people in the Facebook group what you should get
- 47:22Speaker 1: for your birthday and to make sure.
- 47:24Speaker 5: Ah, you bastards, make sure you didn't peak.
- 47:27Speaker 1: We then removed you. Ah, you were going for about
- 47:30Speaker 1: two weeks.
- 47:33Speaker 2: No I wasn't.
- 47:34Speaker 1: It's a couple of days.
- 47:36Speaker 2: Fuck. So I want to tell you a quick little story.
- 47:40Speaker 2: In the Facebook group, I said, have you ever caught
- 47:43Speaker 2: your kids out on a lie? Which they lie all
- 47:45Speaker 2: the time. They're the worst liars too. And this came
- 47:48Speaker 2: about because Pete from the Cafes Kid got two kids
- 47:51Speaker 2: similar age to ours, actually exact same age to ours,
- 47:54Speaker 2: it's not similar, the exact same age. They had sex
- 47:57Speaker 2: the same week both times. Wow, I thought you'd go
- 48:00Speaker 2: somewhere else.
- 48:01Speaker 1: You you and Pete, Me and Pete.
- 48:03Speaker 2: We didn't have sex anyway. So Pete's youngest daughter essentially
- 48:10Speaker 2: yelled out to Pete and said, Dad, come upstairs. The
- 48:13Speaker 2: eldest has drawn on the wall. And Pete said, okay,
- 48:17Speaker 2: Well he couldn't nerve because he was with me, and
- 48:20Speaker 2: she insisted that it definitely was and what was drawn
- 48:23Speaker 2: on the wall was the outline of a hand, and
- 48:26Speaker 2: through sheer, what's that? What am I thinking of?
- 48:29Speaker 1: Detective work? Sheer?
- 48:31Speaker 2: Detective forensics or process of elimination his hand? He said,
- 48:36Speaker 2: okay to his oldest, put your hand up. Lineup didn't match,
- 48:40Speaker 2: And he said, all right, young one, put your hand up.
- 48:43Speaker 1: Idiot, and she put it up there and did you
- 48:47Speaker 1: have any excuse when she'd tea the perfect match?
- 48:49Speaker 2: I think she just cried right away. They're good. They
- 48:52Speaker 2: are good.
- 48:53Speaker 1: They're good.
- 48:53Speaker 2: That's what I do now. And Apri was like and
- 48:58Speaker 2: it led me to believe, like when like when other
- 49:02Speaker 2: parents caught their kids out. This is from Georgie, eldest
- 49:05Speaker 2: of two boys, MACKI is five. Maybe two years ago,
- 49:09Speaker 2: he lied about pooing in the bath context. I couldn't
- 49:13Speaker 2: work out what the smell was in the bathroom for
- 49:16Speaker 2: three days. I had asked him multiple times. I was
- 49:19Speaker 2: going insane. We were renting. While we were waiting to
- 49:22Speaker 2: move into a house we bought Congratulations, and the bath
- 49:26Speaker 2: was one of those corner spa baths sexy from the
- 49:31Speaker 2: early two thousands, more like the nineties that had those jets,
- 49:34Speaker 2: you know, those silver jets. Lo and behold. I finally
- 49:38Speaker 2: found his massive turd which had been taken, which he
- 49:42Speaker 2: had taken upon himself to stuff and hide in one
- 49:45Speaker 2: of the jets. Fucked, that's what it's from.
- 49:56Speaker 1: Rebecca. Have you brushed your teeth? Child replies yep. The
- 50:03Speaker 1: toothbrush dry, great sandy desert dry. That is like, that
- 50:11Speaker 1: is just the best form of parenting detective work when
- 50:15Speaker 1: you're like, just ask.
- 50:16Speaker 2: Them exhibit like we talked about it last week, washing
- 50:21Speaker 2: their hands and Oscar just like, I'm like, did you
- 50:24Speaker 2: wash your hands? And I saw him walk past where
- 50:26Speaker 2: to wash the hand and he's like, yep, I'm like
- 50:30Speaker 2: come here. He's like oh, he takes on back to
- 50:33Speaker 2: the bathroom, like just wash your hand, you grub This
- 50:37Speaker 2: one last one from Jasamine. Jasamine. She's written a few
- 50:41Speaker 2: times my son was drinking sorry, my son was drinking
- 50:46Speaker 2: Pepsi max no sugar. When he shouldn't be smart. He
- 50:51Speaker 2: would crack a can and leave it in the fridge,
- 50:53Speaker 2: occasionally drinking it. And I found it and he denied it.
- 50:57Speaker 2: I put it back and put so much you were
- 51:00Speaker 2: powder in it, so so he'd be sorry when he
- 51:04Speaker 2: came back for more. I love that.
- 51:09Speaker 1: That's brilliant.
- 51:09Speaker 2: I love it when a kid gets semi poisoned.
- 51:15Speaker 1: Ashton Wicks. We better get out of here. We're best
- 51:20Speaker 1: because we have children to pick up.
- 51:21Speaker 2: Oh we do.
- 51:23Speaker 1: But if you've enjoyed this episode, we would love it.
- 51:26Speaker 1: You know what I'd love to do, ash I would
- 51:28Speaker 1: love to get the reviews and upper podcast Spotify, humming
- 51:32Speaker 1: flying reviews are coming in thick and fast where they're
- 51:35Speaker 1: not coming in thick and fast Apple podcasts. I want
- 51:38Speaker 1: to hit one thousand reviews at like six seven six eight.
- 51:42Speaker 1: Yeah really, I want edit a thousand.
- 51:44Speaker 2: Wow.
- 51:45Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. So if you have listened to this
- 51:47Speaker 1: episode and you've enjoyed it, I wouldn't if you would
- 51:51Speaker 1: give us a review and have a podcast, A couple
- 51:53Speaker 1: of stars, a few words, I'm talking like twenty words
- 51:56Speaker 1: or less, I'll take it.
- 52:00Speaker 2: It just reminds me of those competitions and it's like
- 52:02Speaker 2: right it tell us about yourself in twenty words or
- 52:04Speaker 2: there's a like one word ash gotcha. If you don't
- 52:08Speaker 2: want to do that, then don't know. If you want
- 52:10Speaker 2: to join us on socials, we can on Instagram Dads,
- 52:14Speaker 2: Facebook Group Dads, and also which I'm not part of,
- 52:17Speaker 2: and also TikTok to Doting with Dands and YouTube and
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- 52:23Speaker 1: Watch us on YouTube if you dare, if you dare
- 52:26Speaker 1: to watch the birthday We'll see you guys next week.
- 52:30Speaker 2: Yeah bye bye.
- 52:38Speaker 5: Oh my god.
- 52:39Speaker 2: I hear as you say it in like a weird.
- 52:40Speaker 1: I had a really good lunch and you're like.
- 52:42Speaker 2: Oh oh, I'm on the board of that restaurant.
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