Latest / Two Doting Dads with Matty J & Ash / #180 Beware of my devilish charm
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Okay, I'm ready now I is ready. What I was
- 0:03Speaker 1: saying before I was rudely interrupted is I think, don't
- 0:08Speaker 1: interrupt me. I wasn't. I think me personally thinks I
- 0:13Speaker 1: think ash Wicks will Are you serious? Kidding?
- 0:18Speaker 2: Relaxed? You're in a grumpy man?
- 0:20Speaker 1: Wow? Okay, So you're thinking, I think the school day
- 0:24Speaker 1: is too short. By the time I'm getting it done,
- 0:27Speaker 1: it's like I got to go and pick this kid up.
- 0:30Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 0:30Speaker 1: I feel like the schools not sharing a load with me.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just meet us in the middle. Four o'clock, four.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Seven five.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Welcome back to two Notting Dads. I am Maddie Jay
- 1:01Speaker 2: and this is a podcast all about parenting.
- 1:04Speaker 1: It is the good. It's not much of it the
- 1:06Speaker 1: bad and the relatable.
- 1:08Speaker 2: To that one, there's a lot of bad and relatable stuff.
- 1:10Speaker 2: If you come for advice, it's not going to happen.
- 1:14Speaker 2: I think it's probably the hardest transition beyond having kids
- 1:18Speaker 2: and transitioning into parenthood, Transitioning from a five o'clock pickup.
- 1:24Speaker 2: I don't know when people normally pick up their kids.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Some I remember driving past daycare if I was still
- 1:28Speaker 2: running errands, and I would see people picking up their
- 1:31Speaker 2: kids around like two or three o'clock.
- 1:33Speaker 1: They're gone on holidays. No they're not.
- 1:35Speaker 2: No, there was there were some parents consistently picking up
- 1:38Speaker 2: their kids around that time.
- 1:39Speaker 1: That's frank, what's his what's his deal?
- 1:43Speaker 2: What's the point in paying the money? I order a
- 1:46Speaker 2: meal and only eat half.
- 1:47Speaker 1: I've got a friend who's like, who's a fiery right,
- 1:50Speaker 1: and you know how they work quite odd shift. Sometimes
- 1:52Speaker 1: you'll finish seven am, right, finish his shift. Yeah, and
- 1:56Speaker 1: he'll pick his kid up at midday because he's like,
- 1:58Speaker 1: almost spend some time with it. Actually, that's kind of nice.
- 2:01Speaker 1: We shouldn't be purpilled in this.
- 2:02Speaker 2: Maybe, No, we're not. I guess it's just if people
- 2:05Speaker 2: are doing things differently to how I operate, and I
- 2:08Speaker 2: don't like it. I admire that. There have been a
- 2:13Speaker 2: few occasions where I've been away and I thought, you
- 2:15Speaker 2: know what, I've come back home. It's one o'clock. I
- 2:18Speaker 2: missed the kids.
- 2:19Speaker 1: I'm going to pick him up. I can miss him
- 2:22Speaker 1: for a few more hours.
- 2:25Speaker 2: Ash, we are going to jump right into the depths
- 2:29Speaker 2: of housekeeping.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Yes, so first thing is first our friend Hugo. Yes,
- 2:34Speaker 1: he had major surgery if you don't remember Hugo, we
- 2:36Speaker 1: did a guest episode who was diagnosed with testicular cancer.
- 2:39Speaker 1: First fully recovered and then he was diagnosed with bowl cancer,
- 2:45Speaker 1: so he had major surgery last week. He is in
- 2:47Speaker 1: hospital still, he is recovering. We have spoken to him and.
- 2:50Speaker 2: We did a little story post to say that wish
- 2:51Speaker 2: him well, and there was a really great reaction from
- 2:55Speaker 2: our listeners. So I want to say thank you very
- 2:56Speaker 2: much to everyone who has messaged. Hugo commented on his page.
- 2:59Speaker 2: He Hugo, I said, it makes a huge difference to him,
- 3:02Speaker 2: so he absolutely loves it. If you haven't, you can
- 3:04Speaker 2: go to his page, which.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Is Hugo Underscore two V T W O V E.
- 3:10Speaker 2: Why And it's great to see him doing so well.
- 3:14Speaker 2: I think he's going to be out of hospital end
- 3:15Speaker 2: of the week.
- 3:16Speaker 1: The fingers crossed. Yeah, he had something to eat yesterday,
- 3:19Speaker 1: Banger's mash he had Now he had mash and peas
- 3:22Speaker 1: and gravy. Yeah.
- 3:22Speaker 2: I was like, that's the dream, Like, doesn't look the best.
- 3:29Speaker 1: You go.
- 3:29Speaker 2: We're thinking of you, dude, Ash. Yes, Ash, I'm just
- 3:34Speaker 2: a little bit rattled today, Okay, a little bit. Has
- 3:38Speaker 2: Oscar had done anything at school where he has to
- 3:41Speaker 2: dress up as what he wants to be when he's older.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Has he had that yet? No, only book where you
- 3:47Speaker 1: dressed up as me?
- 3:48Speaker 2: So that's yeah, okay, that's just that's just added a
- 3:52Speaker 2: bit of salt to the wound. Oh okay, So today
- 3:57Speaker 2: is I think they call it like news time. It's
- 4:00Speaker 2: not important.
- 4:01Speaker 1: We have news days every week at school. Yeah, but
- 4:03Speaker 1: it's like just like show and tell.
- 4:05Speaker 2: But the theme of today they'll be working on it
- 4:07Speaker 2: for a little while is that you come dressed, come
- 4:10Speaker 2: to school dressed, is what you want to be when
- 4:12Speaker 2: you grow up?
- 4:13Speaker 1: Are your hero. And I'm making this worse. I'm sorry,
- 4:18Speaker 1: I am.
- 4:19Speaker 2: And so I was like, Marley, what do you want
- 4:20Speaker 2: to be? He could be anything. I don't think she
- 4:23Speaker 2: really knows.
- 4:24Speaker 1: What I do. And they have you asked her?
- 4:27Speaker 2: Yeah, I've kind of you know, what do you do?
- 4:30Speaker 1: I don't.
- 4:32Speaker 2: I've just I'll do what I'll do whatever it takes.
- 4:35Speaker 1: That's the attitude I want to hear.
- 4:37Speaker 2: So Marley decided that she was going to dress up
- 4:39Speaker 2: as her mother, which.
- 4:43Speaker 1: You can't do the same thing, I know in a way.
- 4:46Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was like, cheers, bro, But Marley does
- 4:50Speaker 2: really love the fact that Laura is a jewelry maker.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's pretty cool.
- 4:55Speaker 2: I would go, I can't compete with that. No, you
- 4:57Speaker 2: can't can't compete with that.
- 4:59Speaker 1: You just tell you what do I I could lie?
- 5:03Speaker 1: I should have them all the time, extend to lie
- 5:06Speaker 1: and she look.
- 5:09Speaker 2: Laura gave her a bit of a backstory. Went to university.
- 5:14Speaker 2: I studied fine arts, was an artist, a painter.
- 5:17Speaker 1: I'm just going to say, I studied finance.
- 5:22Speaker 2: So Laura has written out Marley's speech that she's going
- 5:26Speaker 2: to present to the class, which is essentially the back
- 5:30Speaker 2: history of Laura.
- 5:31Speaker 1: How's the reading going? Very good? So she's written a speech.
- 5:35Speaker 2: She's sensational. Wow, very sensational. And she's been practicing the
- 5:39Speaker 2: speech and just with every practice she's dressed up as
- 5:42Speaker 2: Laura dripping in Tony may Drori and just you know,
- 5:46Speaker 2: fuck what? Am I just chopliver?
- 5:49Speaker 1: Your time will come.
- 5:50Speaker 2: You've got two others to well, Marley is the one
- 5:51Speaker 2: that I'm always the favorite. If ever there was one
- 5:54Speaker 2: to prefer a single parent, it was Marley preferring me.
- 5:57Speaker 2: And yet she's dished me when a mad As must.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Well she might think that because you're a boy that
- 6:03Speaker 1: she can't like I can't pretend to be dead because
- 6:06Speaker 1: I'm a girl. I'm a girl. Mum's a girl.
- 6:07Speaker 2: I just don't think she really cares about what I
- 6:09Speaker 2: do for work.
- 6:10Speaker 1: Yeah, she doesn't respect you. No, there's no respect. I
- 6:13Speaker 1: feel that because no respect.
- 6:14Speaker 2: So anyway, just letting you know, well, I hope.
- 6:17Speaker 1: That one of the other ones, Poppy has no choice,
- 6:21Speaker 1: so you could start with that one right away.
- 6:22Speaker 2: I'm trying to work on Poppy, Okay, No, I just
- 6:27Speaker 2: I don't talked about it before. I don't even think
- 6:30Speaker 2: she like can see. Yeah, and she's and I'm very impatient.
- 6:35Speaker 2: I'm like, Poppy, it's me, I'm your father.
- 6:38Speaker 1: What do you expect? I held her and she was like, Dad,
- 6:43Speaker 1: I'm just Jesus. They I don't know when they can see,
- 6:47Speaker 1: do you know.
- 6:48Speaker 2: I think it's around the three months mark.
- 6:51Speaker 1: Like her eyes are open though.
- 6:52Speaker 2: Yeah, but baby's cancy from birth. But the vision is blurring,
- 6:55Speaker 2: limited to high contrast objects in black and white and
- 6:58Speaker 2: shades of gray. Oh. The vision develops rapidly over the
- 7:01Speaker 2: first few months, about six to eight months, they can
- 7:03Speaker 2: see the world almost as well as an adult.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Wow, it's a long time. It's nice to say that
- 7:08Speaker 1: we've learned something today, we have learned something, we have
- 7:11Speaker 1: all learned.
- 7:12Speaker 2: So also, like I don't have to really hold it
- 7:16Speaker 2: in until she's six months.
- 7:17Speaker 1: Old, You're free. I'm off the hook. I always say, like,
- 7:22Speaker 1: in the first six months, you could be any blob
- 7:24Speaker 1: because there's not really a lot that you can do
- 7:25Speaker 1: for it. You can do more for the mom than
- 7:26Speaker 1: you can do for her, if that makes sense.
- 7:28Speaker 2: I'm going to put on the spot here. Oh fuck,
- 7:29Speaker 2: And I don't think you're going to remember.
- 7:32Speaker 1: Oh fuck, but would you ever.
- 7:33Speaker 2: Talk to your newborn child? You talk to it? Did
- 7:37Speaker 2: you say anything.
- 7:37Speaker 1: To talk to her? Now? Yeah? Yeah, shut up? It
- 7:45Speaker 1: comes to mind.
- 7:46Speaker 2: I'm torn between having conversations with Poppy or just the one, two, three,
- 7:53Speaker 2: sometimes a fourth word, and keeping it pretty short.
- 7:57Speaker 1: I think, talk to her normal, Yeah, you reckon, can
- 8:02Speaker 1: be talking about my diverse something like that. That's what
- 8:06Speaker 1: I would say.
- 8:07Speaker 2: Look, I was talking to it, and then I know
- 8:10Speaker 2: her Poppy, yeah sorry, And then I noticed that Laura
- 8:14Speaker 2: is just going there like Poppy, hi, puppy.
- 8:19Speaker 1: How's she going to diversify her portfolio with just one word?
- 8:23Speaker 2: What's more effective, what's going to build the strongest relationship.
- 8:26Speaker 1: I think we should ask a parenting expert that. Okay, yes,
- 8:30Speaker 1: write that down. We'll leave that in a pile to
- 8:34Speaker 1: marinate you. Put it in the future reference. We've got
- 8:36Speaker 1: a big pile of stuff over that Jesus has not
- 8:38Speaker 1: written down.
- 8:38Speaker 2: Just that.
- 8:41Speaker 1: Oh, parenting hack for you real quick from the Facebook group.
- 8:46Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a hack, but I quite
- 8:48Speaker 1: liked it. We did talk about how Lola's stomach kept
- 8:52Speaker 1: being sore, and you essentially that's come back. By the way, Oh,
- 8:57Speaker 1: the imunization didn't work well.
- 8:58Speaker 2: People wondering Low has his phantom illnesses exactly when it
- 9:02Speaker 2: comes to bedtime. As soon as she head hits the pillow,
- 9:05Speaker 2: she's like, oh southered and hurting again.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you should convince it that she needs to
- 9:09Speaker 1: sleep standing up because he's laying down. Then she get
- 9:12Speaker 1: the hurts. No, stand up. Then see what happened.
- 9:16Speaker 2: Potentially the dumbest thing you've ever seen.
- 9:18Speaker 1: No, I just just see what she does. Not the dumbest,
- 9:22Speaker 1: but one of it could be fun for you.
- 9:28Speaker 2: I'm looking for ways to speed wrap the bed going process.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Put it in bed earlier, stand in the corner, go
- 9:35Speaker 1: to sleep anyway, hack about similar to the immunization. Okay,
- 9:40Speaker 1: and this comes from who's it come from? Jenna? Okay,
- 9:43Speaker 1: I'm here to read to you. That's okay, please, I'll
- 9:46Speaker 1: get through it. Parent hack, She says, Yes, just took
- 9:49Speaker 1: my son for his four year vaccinations. April write down
- 9:52Speaker 1: when need to do that when it makes it turns four,
- 9:53Speaker 1: which is in a month's time. Let's stand. Didn't want
- 9:57Speaker 1: to tell him because I knew he'd lose it. Yeah,
- 10:00Speaker 1: the nurse told me to hug him, have him face me.
- 10:04Speaker 1: She came in from behind and put it in his leg,
- 10:10Speaker 1: and she told him there was a bug on his
- 10:12Speaker 1: leg and she pinched him in the process of getting
- 10:15Speaker 1: it off. I like that. It was the easiest vaccination
- 10:20Speaker 1: we've ever done. I like that a lot, I know.
- 10:23Speaker 2: And also it's a great front hole. Like that position
- 10:26Speaker 2: when they're like out of that you can lock and
- 10:28Speaker 2: they were locked in linch.
- 10:30Speaker 1: It reminds me of a time that I because I
- 10:32Speaker 1: don't like needles, who does freak?
- 10:34Speaker 2: I think I said that reminds me of time with April.
- 10:36Speaker 1: No, sorry, this is not appropriate. No, it reminds me
- 10:42Speaker 1: of the time I went to get malaria shot because
- 10:44Speaker 1: I was going to Indonesia. This is a long time ago.
- 10:47Speaker 1: I've always hated needles. Even I'm covering those needles, don't
- 10:50Speaker 1: bother me. It's the needles fuckers, just even think about it.
- 10:56Speaker 1: And I said to her, Hey, just so you no,
- 10:58Speaker 1: I don't like needles, and she was like, that's okay,
- 11:01Speaker 1: no worries. And then she was like she did diverted
- 11:04Speaker 1: my attention so rapidly and so quickly after I said
- 11:07Speaker 1: that that by the time I'd come back to it
- 11:11Speaker 1: be like, yeah, so I don't like needles. It was done.
- 11:13Speaker 1: How did she divert I can't remember what she said,
- 11:15Speaker 1: but she was like pretty much that's how it went.
- 11:19Speaker 1: But I was like, or it was kind of like
- 11:22Speaker 1: she she treated you like a child. Yeah, she was
- 11:25Speaker 1: like she got she was she like someone just say,
- 11:28Speaker 1: someone walked past me, was like, oh look at poterfly. Yeah, literally,
- 11:32Speaker 1: you know when you're in a conversation with someone and
- 11:33Speaker 1: someone walks past and their eyes go but that she
- 11:36Speaker 1: was like. And I was like, was that s done?
- 11:41Speaker 1: Literally that quick?
- 11:42Speaker 2: Wow?
- 11:43Speaker 1: So yeah, they got tricks on.
- 11:45Speaker 2: The sleep was already up sleep yea. Yeah.
- 11:47Speaker 1: She was like, she was like, so she prepped you.
- 11:49Speaker 1: She prepped me with the alcoholic wife. I remember it
- 11:52Speaker 1: was this side and she was there.
- 11:54Speaker 2: How old was she because that's experience.
- 11:57Speaker 1: Oh she would have been out at forties. Yeah, she's
- 11:59Speaker 1: been around in a good way. Okay, good just clearing
- 12:02Speaker 1: that anyway, So good hack. I think that's I think
- 12:05Speaker 1: that's good getting.
- 12:07Speaker 2: I do have to say last weekend, you called my
- 12:10Speaker 2: wife and accused her of stealing my water bottle.
- 12:12Speaker 1: You forced me into calling you like.
- 12:15Speaker 2: That at all.
- 12:15Speaker 1: I know she didn't.
- 12:16Speaker 2: She did not like that at all.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Oh my god.
- 12:19Speaker 2: I should have had a stressful day. And she came
- 12:20Speaker 2: home and she was like, why was Ash calling me?
- 12:23Speaker 2: And I was like, I don't know what happened.
- 12:26Speaker 1: Let me get the text message chain up that we
- 12:28Speaker 1: had you. Oh my god, I can't remember what she said.
- 12:31Speaker 1: I could be nothing.
- 12:32Speaker 2: Just a little heads up to anyone who has a
- 12:35Speaker 2: kid recently and their wife is in the stage of postpartum.
- 12:38Speaker 2: Don't play tricks on them.
- 12:39Speaker 1: She said at twenty past five when I called her
- 12:42Speaker 1: at like eleven am, Hey, han, sorry I missed you.
- 12:45Speaker 1: Call everything. Okay, I said, yeah, Matt made me call
- 12:48Speaker 1: you check your voicemails. She said, I don't have his
- 12:51Speaker 1: drink bottle. It was next to his bed, You idiot,
- 12:58Speaker 1: you really Yeah, look sour your problems. That's that's that's
- 13:01Speaker 1: what I have to say about that.
- 13:03Speaker 2: One last thing before we wrap up housekeeping. Are you
- 13:07Speaker 2: guys celebrating Halloween?
- 13:11Speaker 1: Yes? No, yes, I don't know. Well I don't what
- 13:16Speaker 1: the fuck is going on? Okay, well i'll tell you what.
- 13:19Speaker 1: Give me the back. What's going on? I never celebrated
- 13:21Speaker 1: Halloween as a child, just like Christmas. All right, celebrate birthdays, birthdays.
- 13:27Speaker 1: That's probably bad. That was it. But I remember my mom.
- 13:30Speaker 1: If someone from my school came dressed up, she would
- 13:34Speaker 1: beerate them before just knock on her door. But because
- 13:39Speaker 1: she did, she just she just thinks it's some stupid
- 13:42Speaker 1: American holiday.
- 13:43Speaker 2: I don't want to I don't want to offend any
- 13:46Speaker 2: type of religion.
- 13:47Speaker 1: Question who your mum? Now, she's just she's just a realist.
- 13:52Speaker 1: She's like, she's like, religion, are you I'm a realist? Yeah,
- 13:58Speaker 1: she's agnostic or whatever. I don't know whatever, But that
- 14:01Speaker 1: means I don't know. It means that you just you
- 14:03Speaker 1: don't believe. But if people want to believe in whatever
- 14:05Speaker 1: they want to believe in, fine is the atheist anyway? Anyway,
- 14:07Speaker 1: I don't know. I could have got that wrong, but
- 14:09Speaker 1: I remember she used to yell at the kids that
- 14:10Speaker 1: would come to my door. And there were people that
- 14:11Speaker 1: I went to school with, and then I'd go to
- 14:13Speaker 1: school the next day and he'd be fucking anyway. So
- 14:17Speaker 1: I've never had.
- 14:17Speaker 2: Mom that was your mom. She was the crazy lady
- 14:21Speaker 2: yelling at people.
- 14:22Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, I've heard about her. Yeah, so but it
- 14:27Speaker 1: was almost a real laugh mine.
- 14:30Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nearly for reference.
- 14:35Speaker 1: That was fake. That was fake anyway, you motherfucker. To
- 14:38Speaker 1: answer your question, we do. Yes, yes, yes, yes, because
- 14:43Speaker 1: April's in the world.
- 14:43Speaker 2: That was good answer.
- 14:46Speaker 1: Thank you. See.
- 14:47Speaker 2: Will you go trick or treating?
- 14:49Speaker 1: I won't be, but they will be. Why don't you go?
- 14:52Speaker 1: I think I'm away that day? I am? I am,
- 14:55Speaker 1: I'm actually is.
- 14:57Speaker 2: It the thirty first thirty first yes of this month?
- 15:00Speaker 1: Strategically I'm away and very good.
- 15:02Speaker 2: I did a little test run on the weekend just gone,
- 15:06Speaker 2: and we have some makeup, some witch makeup in the
- 15:09Speaker 2: pantry to.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Get reel into it.
- 15:11Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't say.
- 15:12Speaker 1: Really, if we've looked back at last year, you were
- 15:15Speaker 1: into it.
- 15:15Speaker 2: I dressed that. I dress up with the kids. Like,
- 15:19Speaker 2: it's either you're into it or you're not. Like you're
- 15:21Speaker 2: dressing up. You can't like if you're dressed up, I
- 15:24Speaker 2: don't decorate the house. If you're decorating the house, you
- 15:27Speaker 2: were really into it. I don't go that far two
- 15:30Speaker 2: doors down, down under in the middle. Good thing about
- 15:33Speaker 2: Runder he doesn't need to dress up. Oh sorry, I'm
- 15:40Speaker 2: so sorry. She does have quite glory feet. Yeah, and
- 15:47Speaker 2: one time we saw her, La.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Was like one of those water those and I was
- 15:55Speaker 1: just like, oh fuck, come on, no, hang on a second,
- 16:00Speaker 1: just have the mobility to get down and cut the.
- 16:03Speaker 2: What's going on down there? One of those things see
- 16:05Speaker 2: those before?
- 16:06Speaker 1: Straight, Just like that's big.
- 16:13Speaker 2: But so I did a little test run. Lola obsessed
- 16:17Speaker 2: with being a witch. She's pumped and always she's been like,
- 16:20Speaker 2: I want to try it. I'm going to say this
- 16:21Speaker 2: is out of housekeeping. Now we're just whoa, we've crossed over.
- 16:26Speaker 1: I like it.
- 16:26Speaker 2: Time limits up, I like it. Carry on, We're like
- 16:30Speaker 2: ten minutes fifteen minutes in carry on. Sorry, se Lola
- 16:34Speaker 2: was like, can I put the dress on, the witch costume?
- 16:37Speaker 2: Can I put the face paint on? It was a
- 16:39Speaker 2: Sunday and I was like, let's just do it. Screw it,
- 16:42Speaker 2: we're on so pain and face. Took a photo Keete
- 16:46Speaker 2: photo test Run, not the Witch Outfit posted it and
- 16:49Speaker 2: someone and again, I don't want to I'm not here
- 16:53Speaker 2: to offend anyone. I'm not here to attack a religion.
- 16:57Speaker 2: Someone has messaged and said, don't worship the devil, worship God?
- 17:04Speaker 2: Okay about Halloween. Well, because she's dressed as a witch.
- 17:08Speaker 2: And I was like, look, she's dressed as a witch.
- 17:10Speaker 2: It's I think it's a bit of a stretch to
- 17:11Speaker 2: say that dressing up as a witch is worshiping the devil.
- 17:14Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Well, well what they do is like the
- 17:18Speaker 1: devil's craft, isn't it?
- 17:20Speaker 2: Is it the devil? Okay, now you've got me.
- 17:23Speaker 1: I made that up.
- 17:24Speaker 2: It makes a lot of sense. But I just think
- 17:26Speaker 2: it's not that deep. Okay, It's not like we're going
- 17:30Speaker 2: out there sacrificing. Yeah, young animals. I don't have like
- 17:34Speaker 2: are we I don't like a lamb that's been chopped
- 17:36Speaker 2: up in the backyard and I might lamb chops will
- 17:40Speaker 2: be delicious. But let's just let people. I think, let
- 17:45Speaker 2: people enjoy Halloween.
- 17:46Speaker 1: I think at that age they just want to dress
- 17:49Speaker 1: up to dress up, but not every That's the thing
- 17:52Speaker 1: like with Halloween. Not every person that dresses up is
- 17:56Speaker 1: something evil. I think, like if you look at watch
- 17:59Speaker 1: kids and stuff like that, some of them just want
- 18:01Speaker 1: to be their favorite character in something.
- 18:03Speaker 2: Yeah I was, I was, I was thought last year
- 18:06Speaker 2: you were thor last Is that satanic?
- 18:09Speaker 1: Yes? I was defishly good looking. There he is. You
- 18:16Speaker 1: look it's a bit of a straight I think, like, yeah,
- 18:18Speaker 1: it's not that deep. It might be to some people,
- 18:21Speaker 1: but not like.
- 18:21Speaker 2: Come on, man, we're just here for a good time.
- 18:24Speaker 1: Keep your opinions to yourself.
- 18:25Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
- 18:27Speaker 1: Not about it. Hey, I don't know if you recall Matthew,
- 18:34Speaker 1: I did a I did a job for Koala and
- 18:39Speaker 1: Blue which they brought out a collab, which is a
- 18:43Speaker 1: it's a sofa bed that turns into a cubby. And
- 18:46Speaker 1: my kids are always building cubbies, will want me to
- 18:48Speaker 1: build cubbies, and quite frankly.
- 18:49Speaker 2: You're a cubby family.
- 18:50Speaker 1: I'm not interested in doing it because then I got
- 18:53Speaker 1: to pack it up. So I'm like, no, but this easy, right,
- 18:57Speaker 1: So let me just explain it to you. Right. It
- 18:59Speaker 1: is just like two cross beams and then two thickish
- 19:03Speaker 1: blankets over like a tent. Very simple, more like a TP.
- 19:07Speaker 1: It is more like a TP. Well, I guess that's
- 19:08Speaker 1: a stud observation. I watched your video.
- 19:11Speaker 2: I didn't like it in comment, but I watched it.
- 19:14Speaker 1: I gave you a view freshare like comment sanit to
- 19:18Speaker 1: your friends? Anyway, That's not the point. The point is
- 19:23Speaker 1: off the back of that. How do I phrase this story?
- 19:26Speaker 1: How do I start? And how do I finish? Very
- 19:28Speaker 1: good question. I'll show you the evidence first, and then
- 19:32Speaker 1: I'll let you try and decide what happened.
- 19:34Speaker 2: Okay, we'll hang on. I don't know what I'm watching.
- 19:37Speaker 1: I'm not watching it. I'm going to show you something
- 19:39Speaker 1: you know, I get, Well, what do you I can
- 19:41Speaker 1: show you first and then I'll explain it.
- 19:43Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm not going to I'm just going to
- 19:45Speaker 2: watch it first.
- 19:46Speaker 1: Done in raw. I've just placed in front of you, Matthew,
- 19:51Speaker 1: some small squares of fabric.
- 19:54Speaker 2: It's hard to tell if these have been torn. They
- 19:57Speaker 2: look cut. Oh can I detective can I put my yes,
- 20:01Speaker 2: you can police head on for a second. If I may,
- 20:03Speaker 2: you may, I would say, based on the threads here,
- 20:08Speaker 2: they have been cut, not torn. These look like they've
- 20:12Speaker 2: been done with scissors. And I would say, looks like
- 20:17Speaker 2: the work of a young Macy.
- 20:21Speaker 1: You nailed that. So there's two things that came out
- 20:27Speaker 1: of this. There's now the useless cubby I've got because
- 20:31Speaker 1: she here, Macy got hold of scissors somehow. They love scissors,
- 20:36Speaker 1: by the way, I know, and they're small kids.
- 20:39Speaker 2: Scissors and now you're going to cut your fingers off,
- 20:41Speaker 2: I know.
- 20:42Speaker 1: And I was like, I walked in on her cutting
- 20:46Speaker 1: up the new TP fuck of this thing I've just
- 20:52Speaker 1: got for them. You've just installed it, just installed it.
- 20:56Speaker 1: She's cutting it up, and I was like, the fuck
- 21:00Speaker 1: are you doing? And she's cut that from the bit
- 21:04Speaker 1: that hooks onto hooks onto it, so it's ruined.
- 21:11Speaker 2: And she knew when you return it and say it's faulty.
- 21:15Speaker 1: The child please anyway, So that's to come out of it.
- 21:19Speaker 1: But something else came out of it that makes that
- 21:22Speaker 1: I felt really good. I got to use a iconic
- 21:26Speaker 1: line that every parent wants to use too. No, I'm
- 21:31Speaker 1: not angry. I'm just disappointed. Oh I did she cry?
- 21:40Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but it was a different cry. It was
- 21:44Speaker 1: my dad's disappointed in me cry because I didn't. Usually
- 21:48Speaker 1: I'm quite erratic if I'm being honest, If I'm honest,
- 21:52Speaker 1: I'm like the fuck Like, I'll just wow the eyes
- 21:57Speaker 1: with a quick and with Macy.
- 21:59Speaker 2: That's like goodly speaking, not actually hitting the chin with
- 22:02Speaker 2: a word.
- 22:03Speaker 1: But she's very easily startled. So when and she dawdles,
- 22:07Speaker 1: So what she would do is I'd be like, come on,
- 22:08Speaker 1: get the shower, and she falls over. It's funny. In
- 22:14Speaker 1: that moment, I thought, this is my opportunity, this is
- 22:17Speaker 1: this is what we dream of to be disappointed instead
- 22:21Speaker 1: of angry, and I and it felt good.
- 22:24Speaker 2: How long did the crying last?
- 22:25Speaker 1: War?
- 22:25Speaker 2: And then did you give her a cuddle afterward? Or
- 22:26Speaker 2: did you let her cry it out?
- 22:27Speaker 1: So I went at first when I sprung her immediate tears,
- 22:32Speaker 1: you caught her. I caught her in the app Oh
- 22:34Speaker 1: my god. Originally only found one of them, but she'd
- 22:38Speaker 1: hit in the other one.
- 22:39Speaker 2: With the other body parts, with the body parts of
- 22:42Speaker 2: the hordes, legs and limbs from barbies that have been
- 22:45Speaker 2: like Yeah, she's like that kid from toy Story Skid
- 22:49Speaker 2: Is that his name?
- 22:50Speaker 1: Sid Sido had skid d? Yeah, I just not don
- 22:56Speaker 1: the lego. Actually, I found a tower of lego heads.
- 22:59Speaker 1: So she's stuck them all together to get a creative
- 23:01Speaker 1: christ human centipede. Huh. Yes, So at first I've caught her,
- 23:08Speaker 1: She's cried, She's covered her face and cried in the
- 23:12Speaker 1: blanket that.
- 23:12Speaker 2: She was Oscar doing.
- 23:14Speaker 1: Oscar was the eldest child is in the room. No,
- 23:17Speaker 1: but you know what they're like, They're nosy, they want
- 23:19Speaker 1: to know.
- 23:20Speaker 2: And I knew we love not being in trouble. Yeah,
- 23:22Speaker 2: they love that.
- 23:24Speaker 1: But I I had my back to the door, but
- 23:27Speaker 1: I knew he would be there. I knew he was
- 23:32Speaker 1: so no, no, no, he just wanted to find watch the
- 23:35Speaker 1: person getting in trouble, as kids do. Anyway, I am
- 23:38Speaker 1: there like this and I'm taking Mason like what are
- 23:41Speaker 1: you doing? Go Without even looking, you knew their parenting
- 23:47Speaker 1: senses of what that was a erradic. That was me
- 23:51Speaker 1: being like, what are you doing? Go away?
- 23:54Speaker 2: April's like April wasn't home. Yes, so can I ask
- 24:00Speaker 2: you another question? Doesn't reflect poorly on you at all? Like,
- 24:04Speaker 2: does April come home inspects the damage under your supervision
- 24:10Speaker 2: being because you know, she's saying, we've got a brand
- 24:13Speaker 2: new tpe. This has taken place in the living room
- 24:17Speaker 2: where were you.
- 24:17Speaker 1: Ash It's actually in the spare room. Okay, very good.
- 24:22Speaker 1: And I was doing things around the house cleaning. I
- 24:25Speaker 1: was cleaning actually.
- 24:26Speaker 2: So that now you are you are escaping.
- 24:30Speaker 1: Also didn't know she had the scissors, So who's given
- 24:32Speaker 1: her the scissors? If I haven't Oscar no, April, she April,
- 24:39Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I haven't got to
- 24:41Speaker 1: the bottom of that yet. Maybe I need to take
- 24:43Speaker 1: you over, because you figure that's better than true crime.
- 24:46Speaker 1: Crime is a true crime podcast. Welcome back to True
- 24:50Speaker 1: Crime with two Dads. Anyway, Yeah, so the initial cry
- 24:54Speaker 1: and I said, I was like, goad your room. Well,
- 24:57Speaker 1: I fucking gather my thoughts. We'll be here a while.
- 25:02Speaker 1: She went to her room. She was crying to laugh.
- 25:05Speaker 2: You like that.
- 25:06Speaker 1: That's okay, You're allowed to laugh her, And that's fine.
- 25:07Speaker 1: I almost welcome it. And I let her cried out
- 25:11Speaker 1: for a little bit before I went in there. And
- 25:13Speaker 1: I had gathered my thoughts calmly, which is not like me,
- 25:18Speaker 1: and I walked in there and I was like, what
- 25:20Speaker 1: were you hoping to gain from that?
- 25:22Speaker 2: How did Chancer well, you know, she's a girl.
- 25:25Speaker 1: A few words yeah usually yeah, yeah yeah, and she
- 25:29Speaker 1: was I was like why. I just wanted to know
- 25:33Speaker 1: why you did this? And then I'm getting nothing out
- 25:36Speaker 1: of her, and she's getting a little bit more upset,
- 25:38Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, calm down, I'm not angry,
- 25:42Speaker 1: I'm disappointed. There it is, and the bottom lip quivers,
- 25:46Speaker 1: it's quivering, and I'm like, don't care that.
- 25:50Speaker 2: Okay, she's because she knows what she's doing.
- 25:53Speaker 1: She knows she's got me wrapped around a thing. But
- 25:56Speaker 1: I turned around and I walked out of the room.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Good on you, well done. And then Oscar, I've gone
- 26:04Speaker 1: to clean up the mess. And again I'm cleaning up
- 26:07Speaker 1: the mess, and I sensed he was there, and then
- 26:13Speaker 1: I found him in the bedroom, like in my bedroom
- 26:16Speaker 1: doing something else?
- 26:16Speaker 2: Is he ever?
- 26:17Speaker 1: Like?
- 26:18Speaker 2: Do it be me to my sister? No, my kid's always.
- 26:21Speaker 1: He's doubling down. If anything, I just said to him, Hey,
- 26:24Speaker 1: you don't need to be so nosy. You would hate
- 26:26Speaker 1: it if I'm craving a crack at you. And Macy
- 26:30Speaker 1: was sitting there giggling.
- 26:31Speaker 2: Fair.
- 26:32Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is a band from my house moving forward,
- 26:38Speaker 1: and so are permanent markers. But that's a story for
- 26:40Speaker 1: another time. Don't get me started on sharpies. What is
- 26:43Speaker 1: it about kids?
- 26:43Speaker 2: At what age do you think they start to like
- 26:46Speaker 2: appreciate their own belongings? Because Marley, I have. I gave
- 26:51Speaker 2: her a really nice diet, she's into writing at the moment.
- 26:53Speaker 2: Gave her a nice diary. It was Hello Kiddy, one
- 26:56Speaker 2: fluffy on the outside, beautiful book. And I went into
- 27:00Speaker 2: a room on a Sunday is kind of like big
- 27:02Speaker 2: clean up afternoon on a Sunday, get the room ready
- 27:05Speaker 2: for a Monday Monday morning.
- 27:08Speaker 1: It's like a reset, like a.
- 27:09Speaker 2: Reset thank you. And then I found her book and
- 27:12Speaker 2: she'd ripped down the cover and I was like, what
- 27:15Speaker 2: do you do? Like why?
- 27:17Speaker 1: What for? Was she not sabotaged? Was that someone else
- 27:20Speaker 1: who's jealous?
- 27:22Speaker 2: Was like? She was like, I don't know why I
- 27:24Speaker 2: did that? And I was like, what the what the.
- 27:25Speaker 1: Why do they do that?
- 27:26Speaker 2: What is going on? Like you, I do have a memory,
- 27:31Speaker 2: go on. My dad had this. He used to work
- 27:35Speaker 2: in pup in New Guinea and he had these really nice,
- 27:37Speaker 2: she told me, and I remember I was like, went down.
- 27:40Speaker 2: I kind of like I love Rambo. I took this
- 27:43Speaker 2: big machete and I was cutting some of the trees
- 27:46Speaker 2: and like we backed into a creek. So I was
- 27:49Speaker 2: like cutting the trees and the vegetation, and then I
- 27:52Speaker 2: hit the vegetation. I hit a rock and it sparked,
- 27:56Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, that's pretty cool. So I
- 27:58Speaker 2: just started sparking rock until this thing was just jaggered
- 28:04Speaker 2: like anything else. And I was like, well, I'm better
- 28:06Speaker 2: put that back in the cupboard, like I never touched.
- 28:07Speaker 2: And then like a month later, my d the fuck fuss.
- 28:14Speaker 1: Like you had a lot of siblings, you can be.
- 28:21Speaker 2: When the kids, when are they going to start appreciating belonging?
- 28:24Speaker 1: That's what I said. They're like, like they always ask
- 28:27Speaker 1: if I'm bringing home something from work because I you know,
- 28:30Speaker 1: I do the toy thing we'd been, you know, they
- 28:32Speaker 1: want to know every time, and I'm like, well, I'm
- 28:33Speaker 1: not going to bring your shit if you're just gonna
- 28:35Speaker 1: fucking ruin it. Like the day after I posted that video,
- 28:39Speaker 1: she's in there cut up.
- 28:40Speaker 2: At least got the video right there, Thank goodn't.
- 28:43Speaker 1: She doesn't respect my work at all.
- 28:48Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you a little, really quick story.
- 28:51Speaker 2: I don't think Marley's teacher, her dance teacher, listens to
- 28:55Speaker 2: the podcast. If she does, I am so sorry.
- 28:58Speaker 1: You better start looking up you damn schools. You'll be
- 29:01Speaker 1: banned from a real dance school in the Eastern Suburbs area.
- 29:05Speaker 1: I'm just going to get it off a chest, do it?
- 29:07Speaker 1: Get it?
- 29:08Speaker 2: So she does a dance class. She likes it. It's
- 29:11Speaker 2: on a Thursday afternoon.
- 29:13Speaker 1: May the teacher.
- 29:17Speaker 2: Not needed, carry on, and they do an end of
- 29:21Speaker 2: year concert, right, which is great like a Stedford. Yeah,
- 29:26Speaker 2: I would say, on par within a Stedford. Now, I
- 29:29Speaker 2: am happy to just do like a you know, you
- 29:33Speaker 2: visit the dance studio, you sit down in the corner
- 29:36Speaker 2: of the room, and you watch their little performance.
- 29:38Speaker 1: I'm happy.
- 29:39Speaker 2: That's more than enough with that level of showmanship, that
- 29:42Speaker 2: is more than enough.
- 29:45Speaker 1: But what they've.
- 29:45Speaker 2: Done now is Maley has her age group, her class.
- 29:50Speaker 2: There's obviously older kids as younger kids. All the kids
- 29:53Speaker 2: together had their own routines depending what class you're in.
- 29:57Speaker 2: They do a big show at a theater.
- 30:01Speaker 1: Oh that's going to be expensive, right, bro.
- 30:05Speaker 2: Yeah, not only am I paying money on top of
- 30:07Speaker 2: the dance classes for costumes, I've now got to get tickets.
- 30:12Speaker 2: And because I'm the admin guy, I get I'm subscribed
- 30:15Speaker 2: to the email. So it's like, tickets go on sale
- 30:17Speaker 2: in a week, tickets go and sale in three days,
- 30:19Speaker 2: tickets on sale tomorrow. Of course I fucking missed the
- 30:22Speaker 2: last email and tickets are gone on sale. And so
- 30:25Speaker 2: one of the parents, you're not allowed when the kids
- 30:27Speaker 2: do their classes. You have to wait outside. You can
- 30:29Speaker 2: drop the kids off, but then you can't be in
- 30:31Speaker 2: the studio the classes. So we wait outside. Parents are
- 30:35Speaker 2: chatting as waiting for our kids to finish, to come
- 30:37Speaker 2: out of the classroom, and one of the parents goes,
- 30:38Speaker 2: did you get your tickets? I go what? They go, yeah,
- 30:42Speaker 2: They've been on sale for a couple of days now,
- 30:44Speaker 2: And I was like, fuck what. That night, I go home,
- 30:47Speaker 2: guess what's left. The only tickets that are now available
- 30:52Speaker 2: are booths. Two hundred bucks for a booth. I don't
- 30:58Speaker 2: know if it's for the boot or it's like an
- 31:01Speaker 2: individual ticket. I don't know that.
- 31:02Speaker 1: And I didn't get that far. Two would have been
- 31:04Speaker 1: enough scaling off.
- 31:05Speaker 2: But like for a seat. You're paying fifty bucks.
- 31:08Speaker 1: This isn't a Broadway show?
- 31:10Speaker 2: Well, like, yeah, is it? I mean, I was like,
- 31:12Speaker 2: do I get bottle service? Am I getting a magnum
- 31:14Speaker 2: of champagne?
- 31:15Speaker 1: Is doing? It? Sounds like a strip club? Jesus, I know.
- 31:20Speaker 1: I was like, not that I've ever been to a
- 31:25Speaker 1: good good recovery anyway one time.
- 31:29Speaker 2: And also when you're buy your tickets, it has a
- 31:31Speaker 2: pop up and it's like, no refunds, no exchanges, quick.
- 31:35Speaker 1: To do that.
- 31:36Speaker 2: No money from me then, and mar is not even
- 31:39Speaker 2: that keen in the performance anymore. So I ended up
- 31:43Speaker 2: buying three tickets, not the booth. Second tier second release
- 31:47Speaker 2: came out.
- 31:47Speaker 1: Oh, they had a second release to.
- 31:48Speaker 2: The festival second tier up top.
- 31:51Speaker 1: Who's headlining? I know Teddy Swims. Can't get rid of
- 31:55Speaker 1: that guy. Fuck and Elli, He's on every everything.
- 31:58Speaker 2: I'm dropping one hundred andundred and thirty five bucks for
- 32:01Speaker 2: three secrets, man. Yeah, And I just think it's nice
- 32:04Speaker 2: for the kids to have a little taste of a
- 32:07Speaker 2: big show in a theater lots of people. Also, I've
- 32:11Speaker 2: got to fucking sit through. I've got like four year
- 32:14Speaker 2: olds doing there, like skipping on stage.
- 32:17Speaker 1: Thank God, you didn't have to pay to watch your
- 32:18Speaker 1: four year old do at least you're a six year old.
- 32:20Speaker 1: It's a little bit older.
- 32:22Speaker 2: They're just as bad. Let's be honest.
- 32:24Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree. I would agree. It's can I
- 32:29Speaker 1: ask you how much is it to go to? Because
- 32:32Speaker 1: I know for a fact April, and she hasn't said
- 32:35Speaker 1: anything to me she's a dancer. April. She was as
- 32:38Speaker 1: like a child dancer. Oh she's not stripper, bro No,
- 32:42Speaker 1: I just thought she was.
- 32:42Speaker 2: Once in like the cruise ships or something.
- 32:45Speaker 1: No, nah, she never made it that far. I think
- 32:47Speaker 1: she wasn't that it was.
- 32:49Speaker 2: Very good at dancing.
- 32:50Speaker 1: Okay.
- 32:51Speaker 2: I have seen you upload a story of her a
- 32:53Speaker 2: few wines at the bar one and she just she
- 32:57Speaker 2: was shaking heads and I was like, wow, she got
- 32:58Speaker 2: great rhythms. The stars.
- 33:00Speaker 1: I can life online. But I did see that her
- 33:06Speaker 1: and my friend's wife were talking about get putting the
- 33:09Speaker 1: girls into a dance class. I asked, Yeah, after, this
- 33:13Speaker 1: is a thing. I don't know she does.
- 33:14Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know. It's not I can't remember
- 33:16Speaker 2: because I've been paying it for so long. It's a lot,
- 33:19Speaker 2: it's not cheap, it's not cheap.
- 33:21Speaker 1: Already, and you think, like, because I know Oscar with
- 33:23Speaker 1: jiu jitsu, it's expensive. I get it. I get it.
- 33:26Speaker 1: There's a lot that goes into that. There's a facility,
- 33:28Speaker 1: there's people. But then they have they don't have performances.
- 33:31Speaker 1: They have grading days, right, which is where you go
- 33:33Speaker 1: and be presented with your new belt or whatever.
- 33:36Speaker 2: Imagine if they did that and then charge your in
- 33:39Speaker 2: charge you to watch far's where.
- 33:42Speaker 1: They I mean, I get it. With dancing and performatives,
- 33:45Speaker 1: it goes from the performance to a stage. But with
- 33:48Speaker 1: something like jiu jitsu, where does it go? It was like,
- 33:50Speaker 1: we've got to fly all the way to Brazil, Brazil, Brazil. Yeah, good,
- 33:57Speaker 1: save only said Asian anyway, but like it's free to
- 34:04Speaker 1: take Oscar down to the grading and he gets something
- 34:07Speaker 1: out of it. And she was like, there's going to
- 34:09Speaker 1: be a food truck here. Two's free and it's gonna
- 34:10Speaker 1: be called food trucks free. Yeah, apparently I am in
- 34:13Speaker 1: the wrong sport. You are in a wrong sport. Who
- 34:17Speaker 1: wants to jusue? It's like this new type of dance
- 34:21Speaker 1: jiu jitsu, this is weird. I think, Yeah, I think
- 34:26Speaker 1: it's a bit rich. To be like he's got If
- 34:30Speaker 1: it was like a ten dollar ticket, you'd be like, oh,
- 34:33Speaker 1: this is gonna be cute.
- 34:34Speaker 2: Like we could do it at the school hall.
- 34:36Speaker 1: Surely they'll wrint that out.
- 34:37Speaker 2: Why don't you suggest that I'm not I'm not gonna
- 34:39Speaker 2: be that guy. We're all thinking it though, all the
- 34:41Speaker 2: parents have you got together? And you what, everyone's a
- 34:44Speaker 2: bit like a group, isn't there whatever.
- 34:47Speaker 1: The fucking WhatsApp group, isn't it.
- 34:48Speaker 2: Whenever you do like the concert eyebrows raised.
- 34:52Speaker 1: Everyone's like again, yeah, and take out another mortgage on
- 34:55Speaker 1: the fucking we can go to the anyway.
- 34:59Speaker 2: Hey, we should do a segment.
- 35:00Speaker 1: It's called how much do you pay for your kid
- 35:04Speaker 1: to do a sport? They hate we are funny.
- 35:11Speaker 2: That's very good because my kids fucking hate everything for
- 35:15Speaker 2: every second.
- 35:16Speaker 1: Oscar hates every jiu jitsu clas until it finishes. So
- 35:20Speaker 1: it's the battle every fucking Monday where I'm like, come on,
- 35:24Speaker 1: Lenny's gonna go. Lenny does nothing and Oscar oscars into it.
- 35:29Speaker 1: Why do we bother? Because I feel guilty that we're not.
- 35:34Speaker 1: You know, like yesterday we picked the kids up. It's
- 35:36Speaker 1: quite a hot day at school, and you know what,
- 35:38Speaker 1: school pickups are like fucking nightmare for starters. And all
- 35:41Speaker 1: parents get together and every day talk about how much
- 35:43Speaker 1: of the nightmare it is to pick your kids up
- 35:45Speaker 1: from school early because it's too early anyway. One of
- 35:49Speaker 1: the parents are like, yeah, we're gonna go down to
- 35:50Speaker 1: the beach, and April was like got back in the
- 35:52Speaker 1: car and she was like, are we not doing enough?
- 35:54Speaker 1: It was like what She's like, are we not doing
- 35:56Speaker 1: enough for our kids? I'm like, these fucking kids get
- 35:59Speaker 1: everything they want just because we're not taking to the
- 36:01Speaker 1: beach straight after school. We don't have to feel bad
- 36:03Speaker 1: about that. But if we weren't paying for them to
- 36:06Speaker 1: go do a sport or an activity, you would you
- 36:09Speaker 1: would feel bad about that. Yeah, But then it's like
- 36:11Speaker 1: why like I keep going back to rugby union. I
- 36:14Speaker 1: sponsored the fucking team.
- 36:17Speaker 2: I could have done anything more.
- 36:19Speaker 1: I couldn't have done anything more to be to be involved.
- 36:22Speaker 1: And where's my kid hiding in the bathroom? Camel, It's
- 36:28Speaker 1: time for parents. I want to be preous. You say, what, man,
- 36:41Speaker 1: I feel like a parent, all right, Matt Parans. So
- 36:51Speaker 1: this segment, if you don't know, is we're parents messaging,
- 36:53Speaker 1: get something off their chest. It's it's like shitting well set, Yeah,
- 37:01Speaker 1: it feels going, it feels good. Can't go on. I
- 37:06Speaker 1: was going to I was going to have a really tell,
- 37:08Speaker 1: really bad joke.
- 37:08Speaker 2: Then just tell it.
- 37:09Speaker 1: It feels good coming out, but not when it goes back.
- 37:14Speaker 2: Okay, probably best if you just read the paran.
- 37:17Speaker 1: It's probably best anyway. This is from Danny L. Why
- 37:20Speaker 1: is it so hard to wash your hands out to
- 37:22Speaker 1: count of the toilet? The meltdowns my kid have because
- 37:25Speaker 1: I've asked them to wash their hands after they pooh
- 37:28Speaker 1: are ridiculous. And I'll be honest, are going to tell
- 37:33Speaker 1: people you don't wash your hands again?
- 37:34Speaker 2: No? I just.
- 37:38Speaker 1: I'm just out of you again, didn't I.
- 37:40Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm like, because, yeah, it is really hard. And
- 37:44Speaker 2: sometimes if I've like taken their pants off and I
- 37:48Speaker 2: popped them on the toilet, I'm in there to with them,
- 37:52Speaker 2: they've bent over by touching my shoes so and they're like,
- 37:56Speaker 2: do I have to wash my hands? You haven't touched.
- 37:58Speaker 1: Anything they're in there though, Yeah, but yeah, poop particles
- 38:05Speaker 1: but they're not touched anything. But they're in the air
- 38:08Speaker 1: in there. You are gonna have a ship actually in
- 38:10Speaker 1: a pool.
- 38:11Speaker 2: So you're gonna have a shower afterwards if you wash
- 38:13Speaker 2: your hands, like should be washing the old bodied.
- 38:15Speaker 1: Yeah, you should shower ship shower, that's shower shave.
- 38:18Speaker 2: Do we delete this part from that? But because it's
- 38:22Speaker 2: a fucking nightmare. And also what they do is they're
- 38:24Speaker 2: like like a mountain of soap on the hands and
- 38:31Speaker 2: they go oh yeah, I'm like, you've got fucking soap
- 38:36Speaker 2: over your hands. Still, bro, And they're like hand sanitized.
- 38:40Speaker 1: It's easier.
- 38:41Speaker 2: Wow.
- 38:42Speaker 1: And that dissolves. It doesn't resolve it it evaporates. Is
- 38:45Speaker 1: that the right scientific Okay? The condensation of that, I
- 38:49Speaker 1: don't know that.
- 38:50Speaker 2: You don't go for a soap and water, you just
- 38:52Speaker 2: go for.
- 38:52Speaker 1: A hand No, I would go soaping water unless I
- 38:56Speaker 1: have hand sanitized a handy, which is not very often
- 38:58Speaker 1: that Aprile usually does. But like they're useless. Yeah, okay,
- 39:02Speaker 1: I was at the pub with Oscar. There's a big
- 39:05Speaker 1: playground in this pub and he has got a week
- 39:07Speaker 1: no problems. Pub toilet's pretty fucking gross. Discuss disgusting anyway,
- 39:11Speaker 1: he does a wee in the trough. Great, then he
- 39:14Speaker 1: goes over. I'm like he go wash your hands. He
- 39:16Speaker 1: can't reach the turn on bit like hands out with
- 39:23Speaker 1: like mister burns like hands out like limp, you know,
- 39:29Speaker 1: your limp. And then he doesn't lets the water wash
- 39:34Speaker 1: over his hands, like I don't know. It's like as
- 39:37Speaker 1: theatrical and then and there's nothing else. There's nothing. It's
- 39:42Speaker 1: like prop them together like it was some friction that
- 39:45Speaker 1: you didn't kill a germ with that. There is no
- 39:48Speaker 1: way that germ just grew stronger because of this. You've
- 39:53Speaker 1: watered them and then that's it. And then they fucking
- 39:57Speaker 1: wipe it on something dirty.
- 39:59Speaker 2: Anyway, That's what That's why I didn't bother.
- 40:02Speaker 1: I took may the same toilet and she had to
- 40:05Speaker 1: use the toilet because she sits when she were anyway,
- 40:08Speaker 1: someone didn't flush. So I walked in and I flushed
- 40:11Speaker 1: and it was like a jet engine. And I turned
- 40:13Speaker 1: around and Masie's fucking legged it. She gone, and she
- 40:17Speaker 1: was like, I'm not going on the toy.
- 40:18Speaker 2: Did you get out of there?
- 40:19Speaker 1: She she just fucking went. I had the door open
- 40:22Speaker 1: before I because I was like, oh, flushed it. And
- 40:29Speaker 1: then I'm like the toilet, sure she didn't fall anyway?
- 40:37Speaker 1: How did we get here, oh, washing your hands, Wash
- 40:40Speaker 1: your hands.
- 40:41Speaker 2: I've got I've got a really quick parant. I make
- 40:44Speaker 2: the snappy lacause this is a genuine question. Okay, this
- 40:49Speaker 2: is serious, and I'm asking the listener right now.
- 40:54Speaker 1: Are you talking about.
- 40:56Speaker 2: How do you get your kids to listen to you
- 41:00Speaker 2: without yelling? Okay, So the parents out there who honestly,
- 41:07Speaker 2: they swear hand on heart they do not have to
- 41:10Speaker 2: yell to their kids, how do you get them to do.
- 41:14Speaker 1: Anything that's bullshit? They don't find they're yelling? Bro, there's
- 41:18Speaker 1: one way.
- 41:19Speaker 2: Because I'm just I don't know if it's because it's
- 41:22Speaker 2: a bit tricky right now with another baby in the house,
- 41:25Speaker 2: but just everything, everything frustration. Like last night we got
- 41:33Speaker 2: out of the bath. That was an ordeal in itself,
- 41:36Speaker 2: but Laura's breastfeeding Poppy downstairs. I'm going to get the
- 41:39Speaker 2: kids dressed. Upstairs, kids are fucking running around, emptying out
- 41:43Speaker 2: the toys, and I had the pajamas in my hands,
- 41:46Speaker 2: and I said, guys, please, guys, honestly, you know it's
- 41:50Speaker 2: time for bed. I just would I'm asking politely now,
- 41:52Speaker 2: I'm asking you on my hands and knees, and I
- 41:55Speaker 2: would like you please I'm going to handle your pajamas.
- 41:57Speaker 2: Can I just ask that you put your pajamas on? Please?
- 42:00Speaker 2: I don't know how much I can beg you, please
- 42:04Speaker 2: just listen to me. I was about to start crying.
- 42:06Speaker 1: I think all that card too, and I'm like.
- 42:10Speaker 2: There's for the love of God, please I beg you
- 42:13Speaker 2: to listen to me, and They're end scene.
- 42:18Speaker 1: That's pretty much what. It's an act that you are
- 42:20Speaker 1: acting right to try and get them to feel humility. Yes,
- 42:25Speaker 1: one of us.
- 42:27Speaker 2: That's an empathy, Like look at me, I'm a broken man,
- 42:32Speaker 2: on my hands and knees pleading for you to put
- 42:36Speaker 2: your fucking pajamas on. I'm about to start crying. And
- 42:43Speaker 2: from them nothing, nothing, And.
- 42:47Speaker 1: It's like, oh God, it's terrible. This is You're embarrassing yourself.
- 42:54Speaker 1: I did. I have tried a few times the same thing,
- 42:58Speaker 1: trying to get them to go to sleep because they're
- 43:00Speaker 1: in bed, and then I'm like hey, and like I said,
- 43:03Speaker 1: I got sick of the last last interaction having with
- 43:08Speaker 1: my child every night was me being like, shut up
- 43:11Speaker 1: and go to sleep. I wanted it to be more
- 43:13Speaker 1: like and I even said I threw that act on.
- 43:16Speaker 1: I was like, let me just get into a Karen
- 43:19Speaker 1: and I was like, one second, kid, my pet died. Yeah,
- 43:25Speaker 1: what's something sad? Funeral? Yeah, of someone that I really
- 43:31Speaker 1: shame one's funeral, sorry to all my dead relatives. Yeah.
- 43:37Speaker 1: So I was like okay, and I went in and
- 43:40Speaker 1: I explained that. I said, Hey, do you know what
- 43:42Speaker 1: I'm sick of? Guys, I'm sick of the interaction we
- 43:46Speaker 1: have before you go to sleep is always an aggressive
- 43:49Speaker 1: one from my end because you don't listen. So I
- 43:51Speaker 1: was like, why don't you work with me? I'm pleading
- 43:55Speaker 1: for you. I want this to be I want every
- 43:57Speaker 1: night to be fair. I want to be where I'm like,
- 44:00Speaker 1: good night, I love you, and I turn around and
- 44:03Speaker 1: I want.
- 44:03Speaker 2: To ask once when I ask on maybe twice at
- 44:06Speaker 2: the most.
- 44:08Speaker 1: I've tried to do this like three times. Never works.
- 44:10Speaker 1: And then just I'm at the point where I don't
- 44:12Speaker 1: even I just I'm just yelling around the house.
- 44:15Speaker 2: Because when they're like that and then listening to me,
- 44:19Speaker 2: I need to yell for them to be like, oh
- 44:22Speaker 2: my god, frozen in fear, get a little bit upset,
- 44:25Speaker 2: and I'm like, look, come here, sorry, and then they
- 44:28Speaker 2: come in for a cuddle. And I put the clothes on,
- 44:29Speaker 2: they start again and then and then fuck, that's the cycle.
- 44:32Speaker 1: How do I break the cycle?
- 44:35Speaker 2: And just for anyone wondering, I will say, hey, Lola,
- 44:38Speaker 2: do you want the pink top for pajamas or the
- 44:40Speaker 2: blue top to try and give them an option, and
- 44:43Speaker 2: she's she's just like, no top, you fucking idiot. I
- 44:48Speaker 2: try and give them the option so they only have
- 44:50Speaker 2: to pick one, and I'm not saying do you want
- 44:51Speaker 2: to put your pajamas on?
- 44:53Speaker 1: Still doesn't work, and then they cry there.
- 44:55Speaker 2: And then I come downstairs and both kids are crying
- 44:59Speaker 2: like we want bummy. Laura is like, what's wrong, and
- 45:01Speaker 2: I'm like.
- 45:02Speaker 1: I just told him to shut up. Yeah, they came
- 45:05Speaker 1: for me. I keep catching them jumping on the bed,
- 45:08Speaker 1: but they're meant to be going to sleep.
- 45:09Speaker 2: Then when I come down and says to Laura, I
- 45:11Speaker 2: have to be like, okay, face back on. I'm really
- 45:13Speaker 2: struggling that they just wouldn't listen to me, and.
- 45:17Speaker 1: See, honestly, I don't know, and I don't think. I
- 45:21Speaker 1: think I.
- 45:22Speaker 2: Didn't ask your ass listeners.
- 45:23Speaker 1: Okay, okay, good, just keep yelling at him, Okay, stay tricked,
- 45:28Speaker 1: my mum, yelled at me. I'm fine, me too, of sorts.
- 45:31Speaker 1: Well we got beaten. Yeah, that's true.
- 45:34Speaker 2: Should we We're not going to advocate the violence.
- 45:37Speaker 1: Should I hit my kid? No, we never would, never wink,
- 45:42Speaker 1: I would never do that. No, cut all that out.
- 45:47Speaker 2: Have done like a force. Will sit down.
- 45:51Speaker 1: We've all put him in a headlog once or look,
- 45:55Speaker 1: I think I've given up again. Was not.
- 45:59Speaker 2: But I'm just giving my two cents because you're gonna
- 46:01Speaker 2: say I don't know.
- 46:02Speaker 1: I don't know. All right, let's see we do lies.
- 46:05Speaker 1: If you do know, let us know. I just got
- 46:07Speaker 1: a really quick one worked.
- 46:09Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry, sorry, I'm trying to wrap you up.
- 46:13Speaker 1: Tell me loud, tell me lid. Today we're just doing
- 46:22Speaker 1: one lie listener out there, one listener that we have
- 46:24Speaker 1: in Iceland. We are doing one lie and that's for
- 46:29Speaker 1: you and one lie only. Let me get there so
- 46:33Speaker 1: I recently and only really works if you live in
- 46:36Speaker 1: a unit, because there's I'm trying to get my kids
- 46:39Speaker 1: used to the fact that on the other side of
- 46:41Speaker 1: their bedroom wall is another family that's trying to sleep. Okay, right,
- 46:47Speaker 1: so shut the fuck up. It started.
- 46:50Speaker 2: I've started to apologize for this being such an aggressive
- 46:52Speaker 2: end of the episode.
- 46:53Speaker 1: No, I'm not apologizing to nobody anyway. We've started doing
- 46:59Speaker 1: this thing where I'll take a fake phone call that
- 47:02Speaker 1: it's the neighbors yes, and I'll be like, ok, I'm like, yes,
- 47:11Speaker 1: neighbor next door that I don't know the name of.
- 47:13Speaker 1: But I'm so blatant with it too, like I'm like, oh, yes,
- 47:16Speaker 1: that was Oscar Yep, yep. Do you want his first
- 47:19Speaker 1: and last name? Yep? But Oscar wicksy Oh you trying
- 47:22Speaker 1: to sleep? Are you okay? Do you hear that? And
- 47:25Speaker 1: they're like, oh my god, it's like you cut. I
- 47:27Speaker 1: was like, look, give him one more chance before you
- 47:30Speaker 1: come over here. Give them one more chance. I'm like, yes,
- 47:34Speaker 1: I know you're a scary man. So I know you're
- 47:36Speaker 1: much bigger than me, much taller, much more handsome, harrier, harrier,
- 47:41Speaker 1: my wife, you're missing teeth, my wife's hall pass. I
- 47:43Speaker 1: get it, Okay, Oh.
- 47:44Speaker 2: Waits your hands more scary, scarily you make him so attractive.
- 47:49Speaker 1: He's scarily hands him. Yeah, I know you're chiseled, he's
- 47:54Speaker 1: got olive skin. He's saying he was. He's telling me
- 47:57Speaker 1: how big his arms are, and they're like petrified so
- 48:00Speaker 1: that's my lie and it works.
- 48:03Speaker 2: I liked a lot.
- 48:04Speaker 1: And then I always on the phone call with okay,
- 48:06Speaker 1: I love you too, Just don't know, just to confuse them,
- 48:10Speaker 1: just to keep guessing, you know, let me never let
- 48:15Speaker 1: you know, Never let them know I having a stroke,
- 48:19Speaker 1: Never let them know your next move? What's hard? All right? Okay?
- 48:24Speaker 2: Well should I will go as far as to say
- 48:27Speaker 2: that I love that you can use it. That is
- 48:29Speaker 2: some of your best work, and like just very good
- 48:32Speaker 2: acting you. I've realized that majority of your disciplining is
- 48:38Speaker 2: an act.
- 48:40Speaker 1: An act. I don't feel like do they know the
- 48:42Speaker 1: real act? I make them up?
- 48:43Speaker 2: Will they ever meet him?
- 48:44Speaker 1: No? No, I just make up my emotions. Yeah, I'm
- 48:47Speaker 1: that medicated.
- 48:51Speaker 2: Britt is a listener on the Facebook group, has sent
- 48:54Speaker 2: in a question. This one reads, I need help to
- 48:58Speaker 2: him into my toddler. He needs to rest. We've had
- 49:00Speaker 2: a hellish twenty four hours after a fall at Daycap
- 49:05Speaker 2: resulting in a hospital Oh my god, and a fractured jaw.
- 49:10Speaker 1: Who did you punch on with?
- 49:12Speaker 2: That must have been a bad fall.
- 49:13Speaker 1: Is that that must hurt? You're gonna sue?
- 49:17Speaker 2: Do you need a lawyer?
- 49:18Speaker 1: Accidents happened kids, if your kids depending on.
- 49:20Speaker 2: The action jaw and Celest's written in and I think
- 49:26Speaker 2: she's hit the nail on the head.
- 49:27Speaker 1: You guys, I think this will.
- 49:28Speaker 2: Be an appropriate time to introduce or utilize screen time
- 49:32Speaker 2: as much as possible without the guilt.
- 49:35Speaker 1: Smart. That's actually smart. That's actually good advice. I think
- 49:38Speaker 1: I've had someone else has given that advice, because if
- 49:41Speaker 1: ever there was.
- 49:41Speaker 2: A time for Yeah, a fit of screen, a.
- 49:44Speaker 1: Bit of bed rest is okay with a screen.
- 49:46Speaker 2: Oh man. And tell you what, there's nothing more effective
- 49:50Speaker 2: at making my kids sit down, not move and be
- 49:54Speaker 2: quiet than putting on a bit of Disney any kind.
- 49:57Speaker 1: Of Netflix Macie when sharks attack. But yeah, look, definitely
- 50:04Speaker 1: who needs to rest rest that jaw?
- 50:06Speaker 2: You've just put the TV on, give him the iPad
- 50:11Speaker 2: and you enjoy a moment of peace.
- 50:14Speaker 1: What are you supposed to do with a broken daw
- 50:16Speaker 1: and a child? How's that one? You?
- 50:18Speaker 2: Smoothies?
- 50:20Speaker 1: Smoothies, jackpot, kids love smoothies. Just be like, if you
- 50:25Speaker 1: sit here and watch this TV, this sounds like I
- 50:28Speaker 1: want to break my jaw at this person's house. I'm
- 50:32Speaker 1: getting smoothies and watching TV all day. Yeah, heaven. There
- 50:35Speaker 1: you go. There's your answer.
- 50:37Speaker 2: Whenever Oscar Macy's having like a bit of a tough
- 50:39Speaker 2: afternoon and you're like, I know you're tired. How do
- 50:43Speaker 2: you get them to just get some rest?
- 50:46Speaker 1: Oh? Mazy falls asleep at the table a lot anyway,
- 50:53Speaker 1: oscars like having a kelpie. He's like, oh rest when
- 50:58Speaker 1: I'm dead, Zoom's passed me. I don't know. They are
- 51:02Speaker 1: pretty like they're pretty good. When I whip the iPad out,
- 51:05Speaker 1: they have fucking pretty good. It's still doing it.
- 51:07Speaker 2: Sometimes, if Lula is really tired, she won't nap. I
- 51:10Speaker 2: just put in the car and I just drive around
- 51:12Speaker 2: for twenty minutes. She has a nap.
- 51:14Speaker 1: Make see'l ask Can I have a rest in the car?
- 51:19Speaker 2: That's good?
- 51:19Speaker 1: Yeah? And I'm like yeah, and she's like, okay, great,
- 51:23Speaker 1: can you can this?
- 51:24Speaker 2: Mom? Maybe just put a kid in the car and
- 51:27Speaker 2: then just go for a drive half an hour.
- 51:28Speaker 1: That'll knock him out unless he's a real car enthusiast,
- 51:32Speaker 1: and he'll be like, this.
- 51:33Speaker 2: Is amazing, And that's what we've got time for. If
- 51:39Speaker 2: you've enjoyed this episode, just carry on. If you enjoyed
- 51:43Speaker 2: this episode, you know we would laugh more than anything.
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- 51:53Speaker 2: four point eight on that podcast, which is great.
- 51:55Speaker 1: We want to keep that.
- 51:57Speaker 2: We want more reviews, yes, but also send it to
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- 52:12Speaker 2: Until then, it's like a lemon cello.
- 52:24Speaker 1: Uh the fuck is thatder?
- 52:28Speaker 2: It's the orange Cat to be attacked, surfs.
- 52:31Speaker 1: You gotta show face on your own turn.
- 52:33Speaker 2: The orange Cat from a few houses down, I think,
- 52:36Speaker 2: and it comes in here and really like revs up
- 52:40Speaker 2: Raspberry and like man handles Raspberry.
- 52:43Speaker 1: There's also it's not a very aggressive name that cat's
- 52:47Speaker 1: thinking I'm gonna.
- 52:48Speaker 2: But it's classic angry ginger Wow. You know what I'm saying.
- 52:55Speaker 2: What does really help the relationship between me and Raspberry
- 52:58Speaker 2: is that if she's outside and she's copping heat from
- 53:01Speaker 2: the ginger Cat, I again sprint out there and I'm.
- 53:05Speaker 1: Like, that's your thing, Yeah, that's your thing.
- 53:08Speaker 2: And I ginger Cat fucking like get out of here.
- 53:11Speaker 1: Fan of pants. Pretty good, thank you.
- 53:14Speaker 2: And then I look a look at Rasbin raspberries like
- 53:16Speaker 2: they goes my hero.
- 53:20Speaker 1: That cap would dress up as you when it goes
- 53:23Speaker 1: to Korea days. That's that's that's that's sure, you're going
- 53:28Speaker 1: with that, but just full circle. See what I did there?
- 53:30Speaker 1: Yeah two.
- 53:31Speaker 2: Doting Dad's podcast acknowledges the traditional custodians of country throughout
- 53:35Speaker 2: Australia and the connections to land, sea and community.
- 53:38Speaker 1: We pay our respects to their elders past and present
- 53:41Speaker 1: and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and torrestraight onland,
- 53:44Speaker 1: the people's today. This episode was recorded on Gadagle Land