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#167 Is It Normal To Keep A Used Pregnancy Test? · Two Doting Dads with Matty J & Ash

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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you noticed. They took a phone
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  Speaker 1: call outside after midway through a phone call that we
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  Speaker 1: were on together.
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  Speaker 2: Outside, you're taking phone calls left right center. Who was it, April?
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  Speaker 1: It was April. She had to go to the KINDI
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  Speaker 1: because Macy had a tick and they're not allowed to
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  Speaker 1: remove it. So April had to drive down to the
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  Speaker 1: kidney just remove the tick.
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  Speaker 2: I know, the bloody red tape.
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  Speaker 1: She rings me up and she goes, hang on, hold
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  Speaker 1: that thought.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to two doting guards. I'm Matty J and
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  Speaker 2: I'm Ash and this is a podcast all about parenting.
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  Speaker 2: It is the good, it is.
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  Speaker 1: The bad and the real Late there he is.
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  Speaker 2: We don't give advice the tick.
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  Speaker 1: We don't the tick. So she rang me and she
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  Speaker 1: said I've got to go and tommy situations. I'm like okay,
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  Speaker 1: and she's like, I don't know how to use this
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  Speaker 1: machine that she has. What do you mean the machine
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  Speaker 1: like the tick remover use your hand? No, because if
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  Speaker 1: the head stays in there, it keeps burying. And she's
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  Speaker 1: only a little can helmet. Sorry, sorry I shouldn't swear.
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't, but fuck like.
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  Speaker 2: We're growing into a weak pathetic race, aren't We go
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  Speaker 2: on like there's a child there being attacked, mauled by
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  Speaker 2: a tick you just mean the human right, and everyone's like,
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  Speaker 2: I can't touch it, it's against policy. Macy's like, please
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  Speaker 2: help me. April gets her and she's like, do you
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  Speaker 2: have the tick removal machine? Oh it's not it's not charged.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll just give it a second. Poor Macy
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  Speaker 2: is just getting attacked.
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  Speaker 1: We had a machine ourselves in case of such incidents.
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  Speaker 2: What is a tick removal machine?
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  Speaker 1: I think it just removes it safely, so it takes
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  Speaker 1: the head with it. I've never seen such a thing
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  Speaker 1: me either. Because she ran just like how do I
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  Speaker 1: use it? I'm like I don't know. I'm like she
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  Speaker 1: was like, well, can you talk me through it? I
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  Speaker 1: was like, no, YouTube it seriously, Macy north bond right
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  Speaker 1: now take the tick away. I don't know. How do
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  Speaker 1: you have never used it?
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, that's watching through ads because she doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: premium in YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, let me scam it. But she's gonna let me
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  Speaker 1: know how so I'll keep updated if I if I
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  Speaker 1: get a call. But everything seems to be fine. But
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  Speaker 1: first tick in counter for young Macie. Poor thing.
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  Speaker 2: That's exciting.
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  Speaker 1: She's fragile, she's not, she's she's robust, she's a silent assassin.
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  Speaker 2: This is strengthening her. Oh, it's all about building the
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  Speaker 2: immune system.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's a good thing. It is. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: she'd be more tics. Have you had a tick on
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  Speaker 1: your nuts? Hm? Very good question. I don't believe I have.
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  Speaker 1: I've had chlamydia. Nice, but no, that's because you've cooalas. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to swear. Oh god, I'm allowed to swear.
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  Speaker 1: We can't for those peacock you're gonta let me fly
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  Speaker 1: awed to swear because you YouTube, Well, we can beat
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  Speaker 1: those out. But for our listeners who just go with audio,
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  Speaker 1: flack flack fa fuk fluk fulk. Thanks sorry, Jess, right
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  Speaker 1: now just looking at the at a time skyrocketing. I
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  Speaker 1: had a tick on my nuts when I was in
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  Speaker 1: primary school one time blew up like a balloon.
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  Speaker 2: Did you remove it with a tick machine or who
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  Speaker 2: got rid of it?
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you can't start a story like that. I'm trying to.
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  Speaker 1: Let well, it was definitely a doctor. I'm not let
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  Speaker 1: my mum need my nuts. But I remember was like
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  Speaker 1: my nuts a sort that I took about on my
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  Speaker 1: pants and I was like, whoa, like huge, Anyway, that's
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  Speaker 1: that story.
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  Speaker 2: We're housekeeping, we have housekeeper, we have thank you, We've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of mail in the letterbox were to
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  Speaker 2: get through. But first of all, we are under attack.
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  Speaker 2: We are right now, like it not from ticks but
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  Speaker 2: from another podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and and their listeners. I would say, you're I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm being attacked for a similar reason, but it's a
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  Speaker 1: bit more disgusting. So but do you tell your attack
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  Speaker 1: what you're being attacked by? And then I'll just bat
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  Speaker 1: on the back of that. Well.
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  Speaker 2: A certain conversation that I have with my wife, which
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  Speaker 2: I thought was a private conversation, right, she said, can
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  Speaker 2: I talk about the viseector me chat? And I said,
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  Speaker 2: I can't really remember what I said, but it was
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  Speaker 2: it was a.
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  Speaker 1: While ago, like make sure you're paying Ash in a
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  Speaker 1: really bad.
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  Speaker 2: Life attack Ash, not man. And it was about the
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  Speaker 2: fact that we're not going to have a fourth I's
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  Speaker 2: gonna say third chart.
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  Speaker 1: I was a bit late, and.
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  Speaker 2: Laura said, can you get a vasectomy? And I said,
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  Speaker 2: let me just like what is what is? What is
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  Speaker 2: this thing?
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  Speaker 1: You need to research. I want to do my research.
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  Speaker 1: It's your body.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like for buy a car, I'm going to call
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  Speaker 2: it the dealership. I'm going to find out the engine science.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lie.
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  Speaker 1: You don't walk into a dealership. They're like, you want
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  Speaker 1: to lose your nuts, like straight away, like he's in.
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  Speaker 2: I said, I just need to do my research. There
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  Speaker 2: was a slight bit of hesitation. Sure, I admit that.
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  Speaker 1: It's an invasive surgery.
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  Speaker 2: It's life changing, permanent.
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  Speaker 1: They say, when you do the process, yeah, yeah, when
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  Speaker 1: you do when you do that, okay, yeah, when you
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  Speaker 1: do the process, the doctor does say to you, I
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  Speaker 1: just want you to understand this is considered an irreversible procedure.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they do say word for words. So if
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  Speaker 1: any one wants to come after you, I have been
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  Speaker 1: in the seat and heard it word for word.
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  Speaker 2: And people ash. This was cut down to a video
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  Speaker 2: was posted online.
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  Speaker 1: I asked Matt if he would get a visect me.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't go down.
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  Speaker 3: As well as I thought it was going to go down.
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  Speaker 3: Like I thought that Matt and I were very much
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  Speaker 3: on the same page around like this is the third baby,
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  Speaker 3: is it? We are done?
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  Speaker 4: He wants more.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think that they have this thing where they're.
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  Speaker 3: Like, it makes me more manly, more powerful, must retain
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  Speaker 3: my powerspuri.
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  Speaker 1: Conversation angers me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I said to him, Okay, once the baby's born,
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  Speaker 3: would you go and have a vasecto me? And his
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  Speaker 3: response was I, actually, I don't know, hey, And I
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  Speaker 3: was like, what do you mean you don't know? And
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  Speaker 3: he was like, well, you know, just like the effects
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  Speaker 3: on your body. And I was like, Oh, if we're
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  Speaker 3: going to talk about the affair on your bid, I
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  Speaker 3: was like, how about we talk about the seventeen years
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  Speaker 3: that I was on the pill for, then talk about
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  Speaker 3: the three pregnancies, and then talk about Metaphorse and anyone
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  Speaker 3: who has had a successful vaseectomy and they're absolutely thrilled
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  Speaker 3: about it, please slide into his DMS and tell him
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  Speaker 3: that this is going to be the best decision he
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  Speaker 3: ever makes for his entire life, because I just think
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  Speaker 3: he needs the encouragement.
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  Speaker 2: And I've been called all sorts of names under the sun,
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  Speaker 2: a pussy, a loser, guilty, but I don't need to
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  Speaker 2: hear on social media.
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  Speaker 1: I think you'd allowed to take your time to make.
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  Speaker 2: The decision, and I'm just I will, I'll do it.
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  Speaker 2: I will do it. Okay, I wanted to cross all
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  Speaker 2: the t's and dot all the Ye.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to ease into it than you. You can't
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  Speaker 1: just run headfirst into it without any sort of research
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  Speaker 1: like many.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even worrying a helmet.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even think about it. I did it to
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  Speaker 1: try and get sex.
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  Speaker 2: And that my friend, is genius. It's how we operate.
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  Speaker 1: That is how we operate.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, and Lord tacked. Yeah, I just think I
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  Speaker 2: think for we're also to the dotors out there.
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  Speaker 1: Where were you, guys? Fully, no one's got your back for.
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  Speaker 2: You sitting back watching me get attacked.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what they were doing? They were laughing
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  Speaker 1: at how three fully grown women were laughing about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that my penis was infected. Yea, yes, I never
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  Speaker 1: said infected. Ever, if you go back to the past.
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  Speaker 2: Would you say, what's wrong with you?
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  Speaker 1: It was bruised? I guess I went on a bender. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that was irresponsible.
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  Speaker 2: I told Lauri, we've got to you fuck.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway. I had three grown, somewhat attractive women. They're laughing
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  Speaker 1: at your bro, laughing at me to my face, and
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  Speaker 1: they actually sent me the video to be like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: can you approve this? Then, knowing full well that I
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  Speaker 1: would have been intoxicated.
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  Speaker 2: Don't message asked till nine o'clock on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: You can have whatever you like.
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  Speaker 2: At that time we actually got naked photos approved.
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  Speaker 1: The Daily Mail's got a bunch of aked photosho laugh
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  Speaker 1: like whatever, post fine if you need some more.
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  Speaker 2: It was that are you okay? Have you been copying it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Nah, that's fine? Okay, Well, for the record, people
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  Speaker 1: laughing at me I the streets, But it's probably for
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  Speaker 1: other reasons. I'm glad that we're in housekeeping, Matthew, because
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  Speaker 1: I have some.
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  Speaker 2: Oh what have you got? Picked?
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  Speaker 1: In my room? That wash?
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  Speaker 2: That was fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. You might have seen everyone might have seen
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  Speaker 1: that we are doing a live show. Yeah we are
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: where it is wow, thanks to Apple. But we need
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  Speaker 1: your help. Yeah how do we do that?
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  Speaker 2: We need your content. We are going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: pair rants and parenting lies. If you've got one under
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  Speaker 2: your belt that you've been holding on to all this time, let's.
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  Speaker 2: It will be September four in the city at the
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  Speaker 2: Apple Store on George Street.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the big glass building. And how much free, beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: make sure your registry you're missed out.
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  Speaker 2: Not five dollars, not twenty dollars. It's free.
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  Speaker 1: You went up, not fifteen, twenty, not five or ten,
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  Speaker 1: but free anyway.
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  Speaker 2: See. The other housekeeping is what else we've got here?
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  Speaker 2: We've got what else we got.
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  Speaker 1: I'm back, I'm here, I've returned.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, thank you. I do actually have just a
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  Speaker 2: little couple little messages. Well, okay, a few listeners. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to read them out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, just listen.
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  Speaker 2: This one is from Elaine. This one is from Elaine.
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  Speaker 2: This is from Alane. And she just and end her parenting.
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  Speaker 1: Story just randomly. Yeah I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, safe space, very safe place, no judgment.
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  Speaker 1: Well, well I am a bit but her.
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  Speaker 2: We cannot defend the actions of life on cut listeners
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  Speaker 2: who were probably here right now.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, but I'm allowed to laugh at the story if
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  Speaker 1: it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: She says, my parenting story. My then, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: my then two and a half year old son also
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  Speaker 2: named Oscar. Congratulations, good name, had just done a pool
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  Speaker 2: in the toilet, and he yelled out, ma'am yeap. I
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  Speaker 2: come in, and he's, as usual, waiting for me with
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  Speaker 2: his bum and with his bum in the air, hands
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  Speaker 2: on the ground. Oscar is chatting about all sorts while
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  Speaker 2: was patiently waiting for me to wipe his bum. When
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  Speaker 2: I realize I need to grab a new toilet roll,
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  Speaker 2: I turn around to grab a new role out of
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  Speaker 2: the vanity cupboard, and as I turned back, our dog,
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  Speaker 2: who follows me everywhere, had beat me to it. No,
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  Speaker 2: I started licking Oscar's bum clean.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, have I told you this story? No?
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  Speaker 2: Oscar happily still chatting away, not realizing what was happening.
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  Speaker 2: Never ever did I think I would watch a scene
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  Speaker 2: like that play out parenting the best job in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what do you do? Just let it happen?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's already happened. It's sort isn't it illegal?
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it? There's got to be some legalities there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, geez, yeah, I just you gotta it's funny,
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  Speaker 2: very funny. Do you tell Oscar what's just happened?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you wait till he's eighteen eighteenth birthday story.
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  Speaker 2: Bring it up.
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  Speaker 1: Boom.
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  Speaker 2: That is great that, Oh my Oscar, you had sex
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  Speaker 2: with a dog in the to.
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  Speaker 1: Literally, oh my god. I'm sure it's not the first
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  Speaker 1: time it's ever happened, not to that family, but I
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  Speaker 1: mean to like anyone, but also the go on ash,
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  Speaker 1: it's funny like a dog's name again, Iggy and I
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  Speaker 1: do have a We finished housekeeping because I do have
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  Speaker 1: a story about you.
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  Speaker 2: It's it for housekeeping. I've got another story. I want
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  Speaker 2: to save it for next week.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'm glad you brought up my dog because
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  Speaker 1: there was something we found out about one of April's
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  Speaker 1: friends and my dogs, my dog of late, which I
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  Speaker 1: thought was very, very entertained. So April she quite often
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  Speaker 1: goes to little dinners with their friends, as she does.
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  Speaker 1: And one of her friends by the name of Tanya,
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  Speaker 1: who is a data she's a longtime listener listen to
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  Speaker 1: every episode. She said to April the other night, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I've got something to admit to you. April, what's going on? Okay? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, everything's fine, but she said, look back in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Okay, and yeah, my dog's eleven years old now,
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  Speaker 1: so my dog would have been six at the time.
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  Speaker 1: She took a little trip to Taiwan, not my dog,
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  Speaker 1: April's friend, just to clear that right.
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  Speaker 2: She does love to travel.
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  Speaker 1: She does. She does like to travel. And for some
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  Speaker 1: unknown reason, and we don't know why, April's friend thought
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  Speaker 1: that my dog was dying, Okay with me, Yeah, do
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  Speaker 1: you know what? Was just? We have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: Something happening or was it just? I mean, Iggy does
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  Speaker 2: look unwell. She has big sleepy pussy eyes, and she
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  Speaker 2: does not stinks as well.
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  Speaker 1: That's because I don't that's all cosmetic. That's all cosmetic.
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  Speaker 1: It's not life threatning anything else. At least it's got
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  Speaker 1: all its legs yeah see spy see. Anyway, so she
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  Speaker 1: just thought the dog was dying. I thought the dog
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  Speaker 1: was dying. And Tanya is quite an EmPATH. Okay, she's
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  Speaker 1: quite a thoughtful person, and I love that about her
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  Speaker 1: so much. So she went to Taiwan with the thought
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  Speaker 1: of my dog, a six year old dog was dying
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  Speaker 1: for some reason. We had no idea. So what she
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  Speaker 1: did is she got a street artist to paint a
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  Speaker 1: picture of my dog off from a picture on Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: which I'll show you shortly. So she went all the
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  Speaker 1: way to Taiwan, she got the painting done, she turned
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  Speaker 1: around from Taiwan, came all the way home to realize
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  Speaker 1: the dog was still alive, hid the whole story. Five
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  Speaker 1: years later she find she was so embarrassed. Apparently five
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  Speaker 1: years later she's built up the courage to finally tell
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  Speaker 1: the story to April, which I thought was hilarious that
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  Speaker 1: she's got this picture. So this is the dog in question. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's the dog in question and them listening okay, and
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  Speaker 1: this is the picture. Oh what so what are they doing?
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  Speaker 1: So what's happened is she's gone to Taiwan, thought I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do this lovely thing for my friends and
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  Speaker 1: get a mural of their dog painted by a street artist.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much it costs. Right, she's done
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  Speaker 1: all that.
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  Speaker 2: She's not the worst.
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  Speaker 1: It's weird. And then she's traveled all the way back
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  Speaker 1: with this physical painting. There's a physical painting of this.
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  Speaker 1: This is a picture of it rolled up or how
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  Speaker 1: did she travel? No, it's like on like a street
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  Speaker 1: artist board. God traveled all the way back only to
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  Speaker 1: land back in the country, and I don't know whether
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  Speaker 1: she's come over with it, seeing the dog is still
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  Speaker 1: very healthy and hidden it and not said anything, well.
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  Speaker 2: Hang on and saying why wouldn't you just say, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I know you guys love Iggy. Here's a photo of her.
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  Speaker 1: She was she panicked and she hit it.
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  Speaker 2: Why is she hit it?
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  Speaker 1: In it? She hit it within. So she's moved houses
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  Speaker 1: a few times too, so she's taken it with her.
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  Speaker 1: Been to embarrassed to tell anybody. He got the mouth
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  Speaker 1: right though, And apparently she has like a three or
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  Speaker 1: four page eulogy written for my dog that she's refusing
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  Speaker 1: to give up because she's too embarrassed.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a bit like the Queen Mother. You know,
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  Speaker 2: everyone thought she was going to pass away.
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  Speaker 1: She just kept on. She kept on going for years.
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  Speaker 1: Iggy the cockroach five years later, as she tried to.
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  Speaker 2: She looked after the dog, try to feed the dog,
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  Speaker 2: and trying to tub.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to work out why she thought the dog was dying.
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  Speaker 1: There was never the only other time the dog has
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  Speaker 1: been unwell when it had to have teeth out, that
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  Speaker 1: was it.
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  Speaker 2: That's weird. That's weird. What are you gonna do?
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: With the photo. I don't know. Probably I don't keep
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: her forever because I think the story is hilarious, the
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: fact that she dis like was too embarrassed to admit
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: it to us for so long. And then I was
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: got a new.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Therapist and they're like, you've got to get the Yeah,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: close the circle.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when Iggy dies, I'll get the eulogy. That's what's
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: going to happen. Anyway, I'm gonta put it you down
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: this afternoon.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: And she'll be so parmed when Iggy does finally pass away.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: It's been one of my shoulders for years. Yeah, t Iggy,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: you are six, hang on twelve. Anyway, April was out
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: to dinner and she came. She came storming home with
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: a really exciting news. I was like, what's going on?
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: And she was like, guess what I just found out
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: and told me this whole story. I was like, that
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: is first of all random. You have strange friends, oh,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: strange people. Question question, this.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Is card Housekeeping's okay, yeah, delve back in a housekeeper.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Here is a question. This is a debate that parents
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: have argued over for years, centuries. Okay, let's just put
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: this to rest right now. Once and for all, from
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: this moment on, let's all agree parents collectively, you really
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: teen this up. Let's just be on the same page.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Pardon the pun, now I know what he's talking about.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Book week, oh, book Day. Let's just whoever is named
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: this calendar event has really confused the hell out of us.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I've got it. I'm going to throw another spanner in
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: the work for you. Please guess when our book week
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: is next week? What? What the hell?
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: We all need to get on the same page.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Figure it out.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: What's going? People going rogue? People going rogue?
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: I get like school holidays stagging in a week from
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: state to state.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I get that who who decides book week?
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Who is gone? I'm the official book week decider, and
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: this is what it entails.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: And then get killed off.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: But they're not give anyone any information, any specifics.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: It's a bloody mess.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: There's a few things here that irk me. One you
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: mentioned it the day or week. That's the first one.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: The second one is if it's a week, do you
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: have to go with someone different every day or can
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: you be the same person every week. The other one
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: is people are just dressing their kids up with things
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: that aren't even books. Yes, minecraft what's going on?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Is there a book?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but still not. I think it should
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: be traditional books like your spots, Yeah, no question, free time,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: You're hungry, Hungry Caterpillar, and I don't know. I can't
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: think of anything. Bluey great one, and I think that
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: like that should be the law. You have to go
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: as Bluey.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah it's it's mandated.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's mandated now that you have to go
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: as Bluey.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: But I will admit we are part of the problem
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: because our book week started and this is coming out
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: kind of the week after, but it was we've just started.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: We're now day two and this is also record on
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: a Tuesday. Not to confuse people, just giving them the context.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I panicked, Okay, I panicked. So I bought some costumes
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: from Big W Great shop, very good, very good, good
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: for those wondering ashes and Abasador for w W play
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Baker check it out on YouTube.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Just pitching everything I've gone.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: So why I've ended up with Jesus put Lola in
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: a different costume every day, but because I don't want
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: to be the one parent, Like there was one kid
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: on Monday who wasn't in costume whole daycare in costume.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: One kid isn't. And I looked at that kid like
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: he was a starving child, like he's been neglected by
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: his parents. I was about to call, like who do
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: you call?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Docs?
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Docs, ghostbusses, And I'm asking about this. No one's looking
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: after this child. Look at him dressed in plain clothes, disgusting.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I meanwhile, everyone else is dressed up as pirates and
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Harry Potter. I don't want my child to then be
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: judged by the other parents.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And you know in schools, bullying is rife, Yeah, decades.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Even at that age, they don't know they're doing it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: They're like, they're like, well, Timmy didn't wear a costume.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: But we all have to just agree, like can we
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: just put a campaign out there, like get your kids vaccinated?
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Very important? Also book Week, Book Day, let's agree.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, book book Week, Book Day the same day every year.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: There's a date for it, like Christmas. It's not Christmas week.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: So Macy's dressed up at the moment. No, Macey got
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: book where next week? And Oscar as well? Yeah, okay,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: because Marley's next week.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I'm confused.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: What are they gonna do in school? School is a
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: bit more schools getting their shit together. They're gonna have
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: a day, right, Yeah.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: They wouldn't want the kids going with that and not
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: in uniform every day, not a whole week. No, we'll
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: get my kids going to school dress as a school kid,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: believe it or not, in his uniform.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: What's the character?
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Just schoolboy? I feel if they're doing minecraft, guess what
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: you're going as a little schoolboy? Cool?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Docs neglected.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Now he wants to go as me again? Remember last
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: year he went as me.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: We threw out my costume that Lola was in last
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: year when they went to the Salvos some.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Of other kids Maddy Jay. But yeah, I was going
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: to go with me apparently again. But I think it's
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: just all confusing. Parents have got enough on their plate.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Give us that. If the Prime Minister can come out
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and say put that other stuff he's working on a side,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: it's not intenent reform, tax reform, hex debts. Book day Book.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Day should be need help priority, we need help.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: If he had said I'm going to put an end
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: to this book week stuff during the election campaign, he
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: would have won by way more landslide. Oh, absolutely next election.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Just a bit of advice book day.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Just also complain about a few things. If that's okay,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: got a quick little list, go ahead. And this is
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: also just like a PSA to parents out there. I
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: don't know if it's the weather. I don't know what's
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: going on. There is a pandemic right now, knits everywhere.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: How good would a pandemic be? Though? And I've been
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: over this, but a knit pandemic, everyone have each your heads.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Industries were destroyed, companies were bankrupt, so people die.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I get I dare you has knits ever killed anyone?
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: It just makes everyone isolate. I know what you mean,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: because there've been a few cases in the Northern Beaches.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: So I'm fine.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: We've just been told by Jess that we've been saying
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: the word wrong.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that one of us is educated.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Say, epidemic, pandemic, pandemics global.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: This is global, Jess, Parenting is global. If we have
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: an epidemic, epidemic, epidemic, it's a knit epidemic.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: It hurts, dude, it is is it just it's me.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: We haven't had to do it yet because we're good.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: You never did it once. Oh my god, dude, Laura
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: is ripping my hair out. I was thinking, the little
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: claw thing that run through your hair, I couldn't sit
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: through it. Do you have to?
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: So you're using product and then that and then finish the.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Comb to run it through, dude, and like, you know
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: my hair is yeah, it's.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Falling out a little bit finished, shut up, not because
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: of you, because of the nits.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: And then I'm like, every time the comb would run
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: through my hair, I can see the strands coming out.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I was like, God, sell what you can? Let me
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: ask you this because you might know. And I haven't
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: had to do. I haven't gone nit chopping for products yet.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Do they still have the the combs that got a
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: slight electrocution to them and kill the knits upon touching
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: them within your head?
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Where were you going to?
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: That was when I was a kid. I don't know
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: if it's been outlawed, what that is going on? Actually?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Just can we can we just Jess, she's already on it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: She read my mind. She's just checking out. We'll be
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: right back after this. What. Yeah, it's like it would
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: it would go like similar to like a you know
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the things it goes You're gonna kill you and it's
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: like tiny and it goes. But it would go when
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: you kill it. Yeah, Jess is currently inventing it or
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: looking it up now. But I'm touch word. I know
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: it's going to happen, and it just it happens. You
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: put kids all in the same place, and kids are
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: grubby as fuck, you put them in the same place.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Everyone's going to get n It's eventually. And I remember
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: we used to knit treat a lot because I have
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: such thick hair. My sister has such thick hair. I
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: was a child, Matthew, so don't get jealous. My mum
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: had really thick hair. Dad ball as fuck, so he
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: didn't really care. He was like, what you guys are
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: talking about the vine? But I remember Jess got something.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: They do have it. What's it called. It's a vcom.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: You can't chemisquare house.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Backs.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah, so who's got that kind of money?
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Don't answer it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: But I'm waiting for it to happen. Because Macey has
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: quite thick hair.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Well you will be pleased to know. So the first
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: knit treatment, I was like, it's not me. I'm not literally,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: and then so everyone in the house had the nit treatment.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I refuse because I can't deal with my hair falling out.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Then the nits have come back. So I was roped
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: in last night. I was forced against my will, first
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: of a seconomy, now actually trying to rip my hair out.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I feel sorry for you because I can imagine like
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: you've got quite luscious hair, and it's like they can
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: hide in that when I could just and I and honestly,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: you did say to me once, I don't have a
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: shavable head. To you, you don't know. I have a
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: very shavable, round, perfect head. I can shave mine. There's
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: because I do it anyway. But yeah, I'm not looking
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: forward to it anyway.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: I just want to want to make you aware that
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: they're out there.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I just want you to be we have some friends
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: and you will go will remain nameless, be vigilant. Whose
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: kids always seem to know what you like out there
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: in the northern beaches. If you've got girls, tie their
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: hair up.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Tie their hair up. Thank you, thank you. Here's a
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: question go for you. How long are you allowed to
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: keep a pregnancy test for after it's been used.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: A positive one? Okay? Just it's very specifically walking around
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: there's like one second.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: The people do people hold onto them? Oh?
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think we held onto ours. I mean other
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: people that you just started it like it was nothing.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Some people find those sort of things so sentimental. Some
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: people will keep poreskins, and others keep belly button knots
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: and all sorts of things, you know, and the pegs
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: that come with it. And oh god, why is it
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: ban Did you leave it in the sun?
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: That's the shape of them.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I think they've come a long way. Who hang on? No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you wash that? Surely I just found it to draw upstairs.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Oh but I don't want to throw it away?
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Is that? What does Laura say? She doesn't know you
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: have it? Doesn't you freak? Just this? Remember you said
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: you had a pregnancy king that's four play You're like, hey, baby, baby,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: do people hold on to these? Is it? You should
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: get rid of it? Why?
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Did get it back? Laura? I'm sorry? This is something, bro,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: this is something your wife's peede on.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: You're welcome.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Just give it back to you. Then, I don't know.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Let's put it out to the listeners. If you're listening
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: to this right now and you kept yours, let us
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: know if you think it's disgusting also very much. Let
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: us know, but I think it's mount the wall, mountain
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: on the wall frame it. Oh you don't know. Did
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: you keep the last ones?
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: No, that's the thing, so you want one like as
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: a keepsake.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I think the children of the keepsake. Right, I've got proof.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I've got kids. It's like, bro, kids, Rather shut up
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: speaking of kids. They're both yours and mine are getting
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: to the age now where you.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Know rain is coming in thick as holy ship.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: The sun's out.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm not sure if you can hear the soothing
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: sounds of the rain hitting it's pouring down outside and.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: There's still some Your two of your kids, your third
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: kid is yet to be Yeah, that works during.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Four weeks.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Whoa, Oh my god, you're gonna be a dad again. No,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: that's crazy. Anyway, they're getting the current, the other two
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and am I too, getting to the age now where
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: you need to be really careful about what you watch
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: on TV.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, okay, and sorry touching your feet and I apologize.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: And usually, like leading up to here, if I always
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: watched something in Oscar or Macy were playing and doing
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: something it was, it wasn't a problem. There would be
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: no there would be no, like crossover. I wouldn't really
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: acknowledge it. But I've noticed that it's starting to get
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: to a point where you have to watch. You have
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to be careful of what me as an adult on anything,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: even the phone. You're watching again, no, come on. And
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: what happened was I was me and Macy and we
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: sat down allowed him to watch TV, and I was like,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: what do you want to watch? You know, as you do,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: and they're like, what do you feel like? You know,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: we've got blue is a good option, We've got whatever else.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: She lies into Mermaid but the Barbie stuff, like she
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: loves that sort of shit. And she was like, no, no, no,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I want to watch first, I want to watch Sharks.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, baby, shark. Okay, well you're grown
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: out of that. So every now and then she might
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: be like nostalgic and I was like great. She was
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: like no, no, no, no, the shark thing.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Shark week? What is it?
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I was like, there was a shark attack.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Maybe she was watching the news.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Don't you just like put in like the current news
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: into that story. There was a it's fine for me
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: to great white, Yeah, that's massive, that's anyway. I was like, okay,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I'm sharks. And I remember when we did the list
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: of TV shows and there was that non verbal show
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: of that there was a shark in it, and I
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: was like, it must be that, and she was like no,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: and she was getting visibly frustrated, and then she was
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: like no, no, no, the shark attacking one. I was
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: like what. I was like, look, what don't we just
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: put on? And I know that there's some kid documentaries
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: around it, The Blood on ash dude, and I was like,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I know there's some kid documentary ones where it's like
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: baby shark and handlers and stuff like in and very
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: innocent and like just a bit of very nature. No,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: not good enough, And I was like, what did she want?
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: The fuck is going? I found out that April was
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: watching a National Geographic show called When Shark's Attack and
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: now May's Got the Thirst and I was like no, no, no, no, Macy,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: you haven't watched that. And then I've managed to go
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: through some search history and some watching and asked April.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I was like, have you been watching shark shows? And
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: she was like yeah. I was like When Shark's Attack.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: She was like, well, I don't think they were attacking.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I was like, this show is called When Shark's Attack
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and it's a national geographic show. And I popped it
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: up on the TV as like the thing, and Ma
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: She's like, yep, that one, that one right there, and
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I was like three, yeah, yeah.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Twenty minutes in, I was like, hang on.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: A minute, he takes a diver. Let me get this straight. Macy,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: you want to watch when Sharks Attack people? And April
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: trans goes that sounds pretty good. Actually you two are fucked.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: So just a warning to all the parents out there now,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: if you are watching a show on your own you
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: think she's what's happened is Macy subconsciously was watching it.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Oh we're not subconsciously. She was doing her thing. April
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: was watching it, and then Macy was watching it from
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: a distance and really liked it. Got closer and closer
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: and closer. It became their thing, and I've figured it
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: out and then she's asked me. So now I've had
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to try and scale her back from sharks attacking people
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: to the really shit stuff where just someone's handling it
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: going on a beautiful shark.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Did you put it back on?
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Or how fuck it? We all watch it.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: He just really quickly. I'll be holding onto the story,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: and I just wanted to share it with you, very
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: very very quick, very quick story.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I know that, and that's all.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: It's been a tough week. You know, we got a
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: book week that were battling with sharks, attack knits as well, epidemic, pandemic, epidemic, epidemic.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: It's been tough. And Laura is very pregnant as well.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: You know, what do you in a couple of weeks,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: and so she tends to fade off. And that's not
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: an attack on Laura. She just you know, she gets
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: tired after five o'clock, she crashes, she burns same And
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I've also been very busy with work. I work hard, Ash,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I work around the clock supporting this family. You're a
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: great guy emotionally, financially, a great.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Dad, g great partner. Thank you, great human.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Nice to hear you say that me though, And it
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: was like eight thirty at night and I still hadn't
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: got the kids to bed. We normally try and get
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: them in bed by seven fifteen, that's fair, but this
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: was just a nightmare of a night and it was
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: just like everything was a battle brushing the teeth, couldn't
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: They couldn't even choose a book to read for bed.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: I was like, come on, guys, just I was just
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: doing everything I could to not lose my call, because
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: the last thing I want is to raise my voice.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: The kids cry. Laura comes up off the couch and goes,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: don't worry, I'll do it.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I want to try and keep the piece. If you
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: keep the piece in one area, you keep the piece
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: in all the area.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: There is write that down that is good.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: You put it on T shirt.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: And I went to go fill up.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: The kid's water bottles because you want to keep hydrated.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Keep the hydrated, want them to be healthy. I come
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: back in and I don't know if you know the
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: kids room upstairs, there's the desk and the bookshelf above,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: and Laura likes to climb up onto that desk and
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: then choose to like hand select her book. Okay, it's
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: eight thirty at night.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: No.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: I come in. I look at her and I just
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: think to myself, oh god, she's really close. There's a
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: plant that has a long vine plants at the top
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: of the shelf. The vine hangs down over a number
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: of the shelves, and she's pulling out the book, she
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: accidentally grabs the vine of the pop plant and I
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: I'm like, no, I run over. She pulls the pop
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: plant down through the vine. I kind of lunge to
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: try and grab the pop plant and I knock it.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Soil just goes, oh everywhere, and then it ends up
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: landing on Lola's head. She is covered in soil.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: On the floor, there's baskets of soft toys that's covered
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: in soil.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Why do you have real plants in the kids room
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: because the kids painted the pop plants and the vines
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: have grown. It's like there, I know, I know, I
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: know the pop plant. Like, that's fine. You know they're
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: not painting the soil. It's not.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I agree, you're You're absolutely right. So there is nothing
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: more disheartening. It's like they playing monopoly and you're about
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: to win and you get like a cent to jail card.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: All I have to do is read one book and
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: put them down to bed. Grab Lola. She's squirming, putting
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: soil everywhere. Put her back in the vacuum, a vacuum.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: He wants her down.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Laura's come up to find out what the fuck is
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: going on. Then there there's there's tears.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: And I was like, what do you stop saying? Because
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: she's putting soil everywhere through the room. So she's now crying,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, it's not your fault. It's like nine o'clock,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: I haven't even had dinner yet.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: It's painful. It technically is her fault because she's painted.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Laura's fault. Laura, No, no, I'm saying they shouldn't have
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: painted the pop plants wouldn't have been in there.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: That was Laura's idea.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Come on, guys, any anyway, but like that, look, it's yeah,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: when you think you're at the end, when you think
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: you're at the finish line, it's like it's like running
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: a race and the like, nope, you're doing.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Another, Yeah, one more lap. You're like, do you mean
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: it's the worst anyway. I love being a dad.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful. It's times like those You're like, I fucking
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: love this. I want to go to sleep too, but
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: now I can't for another half now because I got
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: to clean up this mess. It's lovely.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: You know else is having a hard time. Every other parent,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: let's hear their parents pretty You say what.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I feel like a pair rant. For anyone who is
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: new to our podcast, there's a few new listeners that
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: have been joining us, welcome. What is a pair rant.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: It's something to do with parenting, usually where you've just
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: had enough of her.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Hang on a second, usually or mostly all the time.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you want to ran about something specific, that's well,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be like whoa, whoa
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: take that somewhere else. I'm going to say, give it here,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: let me have a look. I want to know what
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the material is.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: For the emphasis on the rant rant.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: It's got to be something you just have had enough of,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Like book week.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Parenting is amazing, we get it, but at the same time,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: we're all struggling and this is therapy.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: You canna let off some steam.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I'll go first. And you said book week. This is
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: from Eliza, She says, toddlers who refused to dress up
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: for book Week despite telling you what they wanted to
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: go as, and you buy the costume online.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: From Big w Well, well, well said, oh god, it
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: adds another element of frustration to it, doesn't that where
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: it's like you wanted that, you wanted this, You're excited
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: and then I've got it. I've gone and done it,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: and like, yeah, I get it, Like you've just you've
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: just bought it. But there'd be people like that who
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: have made it and then kids like nah, you'd be.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Like someone showed me an outfit they made. It was
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: a costume of an elephant. I was like, that's incredible.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: My bully costume costs ten bucks?
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, who has time for that?
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: You may have seen it on our socials is a
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: video of Lola dressed is Bluey. She got so nervous
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: when she got a daycare because everybody was like blowing
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: and she's like, oh my god, too much attention.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I'm taking this off. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's ah man,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I tell you, right, what do you do? Do you
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: just force them to wear it? Then at that point,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: if you've got yeah, I'm like, you're fucking wearing a kids,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: hit it down. Deal with this.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: This is good money we spent on this.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: I know it's from Imagen and this one like and
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: like I got a little on the on the back
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: of this, which I some call me a hero but
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not. Hers is don't kiss my baby, right, that's fair, yep,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: but please don't kiss my toddler, okay, and that could
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: be grandpa. She could be referred to cat. She's not
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: talking something stranger. I'll tell you a story about a
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: stranger in a minute. They get sick too, and I
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: couldn't care less about hurting your feelings. Where my two
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: year old is in hospital for five days with RSV Oh, sugar, Yes,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: there's some trauma there, which it is, pump. Is that.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: What I'm saying is that.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Don't punch the kid, be mindful, hey billy bang. But
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: it's like people don't have boundaries, and we've spoken about
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: that before. It's like, just learn your boundaries, especially with
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: parents totally. I was in when I was in Vegas,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: right and we went to the game. We were hanging
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: out with this family who had young girls, and there
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: was like one of the guys that was with them
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: who was like not I wouldn't say he was like
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: a end, but he was like hanging around all the
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: time and like with us and not asked with this family,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: like there was just a group of people, but like
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: he fucking openly, like in celebratory, kissed a kid on
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: the top of the head like that, and I was like,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: don't do that. Bro, like it's not a good look
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: and just left it at that. But I was like,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: that triggered me a little bit because I was like,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: are people out here really doing that shit?
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Apparently?
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Like what the fuck? Yeah, So just learn learn your
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: self awareness and be like okay, like even though I
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: was on the top of this and there was no
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: there was no malice in it whatsoever and nothing, it
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: was like just not a good look, So keep your lipsy.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: But at the same time, Ash, you know, my kids
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: don't even get a fist bump from you.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen you kids come. You're hiding them from me.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: I want them you you want to be godfather? Yes,
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: getting their lives? Okay, my bad, Celeste, She says, adults
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: paying entry fees to those kid cafe soft play centers
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: on top of paying for their kids. Sorry, I'm doing
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: the supervision. I don't care for the free drink ticket.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Give me free entry to keep me happy.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Ah, this irks me a lot.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: I do like playing on those slides in the bullpits.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: So guilty would you would because you're involved? I think,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: like they go, yep, you've got so going to buy
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: a ticket, but you get a free coffee I've had
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: enough coffee today. Bro keep your coffee and just let
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: me watch. Right, if I go in and do a
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Maddy j and slide down the slide, come over with
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the FOS machine and I'll tap that bad point. But
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: don't you fucking dare. I'm just gonna hate how many
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: beefs she's gonna put in this episode. Sorry, Jess, but
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: you shouldn't have told me anyway. Yeah, I just just
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: just all I'm doing supervising at that. I'm on my phone.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not even looking. They're up fugging somewhere else. I'm
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: just like, anyway, they're like kids are like I don't know,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: but yeah, it's such an absolute rip off. Anyway, that's
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: enough of me. I got one more, which is not
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: parenting related, but I thought this really pissed me off,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: mainly because I was hungover. Anyway. I had to get
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: on an aeroplane from Melbourne to Sydney last week. It
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: was my flight the night before got canceled. I had
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: to stay in extra night. So what do you do?
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: You hit the down hows you do? It's like a
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: free night that never existed.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: To start off, what can I ask your flight was
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: originally booked for what time?
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Eight pm?
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, why no reason it was I thought it
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: was a lunchtime fly.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: No, if it was last time, I would have been out.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I was like, how the.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Hell have you managed to like have a flight cancelation?
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: You spent a week extra in Melbourne?
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's no flights. No, it was a late
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: flight already. That's the best. I apologize, And there was
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: other options that night. They were like, yeah, we can
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: put you on this flight to nine thirty flights look great,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: but it lands at seven forty am the next day.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I'm like what They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you just
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: got a flight to Perth first and then fly from
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Perth back to Sydney. I'm like, that is not a
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: suitable That is terrible. Is the worst?
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Why you to London quickly? You'll come back next week?
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Such a eggs?
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I didn't mention eggs obviously, amateur. Come on, man, Sorry
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I ruined the punchline back track anyway, I had to
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: get up for the record before we recorded.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Ash was like, do you hear the story about the eggs?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: So everyone's on edge about the eggs now They're like,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: we really want to hear it, yeah, fuck that up.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: And anyway, So I got on a plane very early
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: in the morning to get home so that I could
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: assist April with what we call parenting. It was I'm talking,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: it was early. I had probably had two hours sleep. Sure,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: I had got on the plane and I thought, great,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: I got a seat to myself next to me on
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: This is brilliant. Anyway, this woman gets on, she sits
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: next to me. I have no calms with that whatsoever.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: I wanted the extra seat, didn't get to keep it.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: That's fine. We take off, we're midway through a flight,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: and what does she whip out? A bag of hard
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: boiled eggs yummy on a domestic cylinder flying through the air.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: That the air, the air and smells are all stuck
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: in the same place. It can't be like, yeah, just
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: crack a window and get rid of the end of
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: the fucking smell. She proceeded, Do.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: You like lean over to the exit room and you're like,
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: just put it now.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I was just like it was. I wasn't. I didn't
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: want to be like, hey, that's inappropriate. That's that's an
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: inappropriate snack for an aeroplane. Anytime says who the smell. Gods,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know it's stunk anyway.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: So I was like, for people wondering, ash's got a
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: shirt over his mouth, right.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, hey, how you doing,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: and she's like, good things. Yeah, that's good. You got
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: there six Wow.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: She didn't just were you one?
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: No, but she didn't quite pick up that I was
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: masking the smell directly to her face. And she continued
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: and continued. But she didn't just go. She let them
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: sprawl out across the whole flight, so by the time
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: the smell was gone, she would whip it back out
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: again and reignite the fumes.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Did she recline her seat as well?
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: No, that would be the last draw. But my gripe
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: is here. Don't get on a fucking aeroplane with a
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: bag of eggs.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Thank you almost It's almost as if you deserved it, though, No,
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: I didn't have away having a night out. Having a
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: night out, you know, is that the parenting God's punishing
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: you for?
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Damn it. Now, every time I have a night out,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be like, please, don't get on with
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: so one day someone's going to get on with the
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: bag of dog shit, be like what's up? That's what
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: it might as well have been dog shit. It's stunk.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: And if she just happened to be listening to this,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: which is never going to happen, do better. Wet's move on.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Time some questions, Ash, Yes, would.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: You like to go first?
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Or should I?
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you first because I think it's
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: time that we bring up something that's with a question
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: that continues to live on in this multiverse as we
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: call it, which is things that you shouldn't say to
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: a parent. I love to trigger people with this, and
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I get triggered hearing people message me and message us
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: with someone said this to me today. So we've got
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: a small list each. You want to go first.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: With your first one, Oh, you must be free all
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: days since you're just at home with the kids.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: My we have great mind to think alike. Mine's very similar.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: This one is first that the stay at home parent,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: which recommend you because of how it is hard right
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: you never know what you're going to get right. This
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: one is, Oh, it must be nice to stay home
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: all day. It's pretty nun but it's like, oh, it's
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: like a sly jab to be like you do nothing anyway.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: Next, one, you know, you should just really sleep when
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: the baby is sleeping. Oh, who has come up? That
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: is one of the dumbest sayings I have ever heard
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: when it comes to parenting.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: They do you know what? They've only just missed the
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: mark with that saying saying I think just missed it.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: I think it should be trying get some rest while
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: the baby's resting, because the same ring to it. But
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: that's the right way to say it. If you start,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: if you're like, what should I say to this person,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: use the word rest because that could mean so many
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: different things.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: But also you're Washington, do you.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, if if all that stuff's done,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: which it's never done, it's always continuous, but that's a
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: yeah that kills me. Another one is oh yeah, it
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: looks nothing like you.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: Oh fuck shit, Or it's like your genius didn't get
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: a look in yeah, or it's like who does he
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: look more like I don't know his parents for God's sake,
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: Like fuck, unless it's like I've seen those baby reveals
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: and they pop the balloon and it's like green and
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: then it cuts over and Shrek's like.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: That's very funny. Anyway, Thanks.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: If you're pregnant and someone says to you, are you
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: sure there's only one in there?
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Oh? My god? What what is going through people's mind? Well?
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: I hope the doctor's got it right.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: You're talking about like, you know, when you're so close
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: to finishing and you're gonna start all over again. Imagine
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: if you didn't you had twins and you gave birth
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: and the doctor goes.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, oh yeah, I got to tell you how twins?
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: You got two in that?
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: Oh? All right? This one is it mainly comes from
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: a boomer And this one's like, you know, kids pick
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: up on parents' stress. Oh, thanks mum, that's why I
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: am like I am, thanks, Susan. I know fully it's
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: so far. But if you've got any that someone has
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: said to you, the ones where we get a little
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: story and then they and it's got like what someone
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: has said to them the best, Yes, DMUs for sure.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: Last question as this one is from Chelsea. She wrote
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: into the Facebook group.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: No she didn't also go on Facebook group three and
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: a half thousand people. Yeah, but when did that happen?
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: When you kick me out? Everyone joined? No, like so.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Hichecked life on cut. Oh that's right, you know, the
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: double edged sword of life on cut. One minute they've
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: given your followers, next minute they're attacking you. But Chelsea
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: wrote in and she says, I don't know if it's
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: just me, but there seems to be the stigma around
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: asking for help. There are always those throwaway offers from
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: family or friends saying hey here if you need oh God,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: but they aren't truly genuine or possible with people's busy lives.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Then you look for paid help, and you get judge
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: for hiring and nanny or outsourcing help because people assume
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: you must be wealthy, or say I didn't have any
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: help and I coped. Okay, how do you genuinely ask
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: for help? And who are the best people to lean
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: towards for it? From one tired, exhausted and sick of
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: listening to the haters.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Mama, Yeah, look, I think the first people you don't
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: want to ask for help are the ones that say
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: if you ever need anything, because that's so fucking empty.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: It's an empty promise.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: If I've ever heard, I've had a few of them,
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, in my head, I'm thinking, you live
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: for forty minute drive away from my hand, and.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: You didn't fucking mean that.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, do you really want to come over here
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: on Tuesday night and help with the kids to bed?
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: What you should do is like as soon as they say,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: they go, I'm glad you are you said that because
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: I actually need someone to watch my kids for the
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: next twenty five years? Do you mind? It's like, fuck me,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Like it's such a throwaway. I know they're trying to
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: be polite, and sometimes it's kind of like a way
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: to get out of the conversation, not out of it,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: or finish a conversation and if you ever need anything,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: just let me know. Well I'm letting you know now
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: and need something, what do you think? And they're like,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: I'm busy, I know that I reckon.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: A better thing is And this is obviously for people
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: who are in the like, you know, the close friendship circle. Yeah,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about people you see like once every
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: couple of months, but for the people who are your
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: good friends an immediate family. I think instead of just
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: having that throwaway line of if you need anything, let
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: me know, just rock up, yes, just say I think
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: if you say on the weekend, maybe.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Don't Yeah, I was just going to stop you, right, there,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: like turn up midnight?
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Why not? Where's the kid? I think if you say, hey,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: on a Saturday, I'm going to come over, I'm going
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: to take the kid. And again, close family and friends
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: here who was.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Just around, We're going to come over and take your kid,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: and I'm going.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: To go out with a kid. Just go to the park.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a couple hours of reprieve.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Also, I'll cook a.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Meal and bring it over, put it in the fridge.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: If you're close enough to someone, you can pick up
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: the things that they're not openly telling you, right. And
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: that's like when you say close friends, family, Like for example,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: my sister was going through a really tough time and
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: for me, I'm really lucky with April's parents being away,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: but my parents live on the Gold Coaster, they're there.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: And then my brother in law's parents also live out
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: of town, so they had no one and they were
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: going through a phase there and I didn't offer, I mean,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: they didn't ask or anything like that. I picked up
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: on the social cues because of it's my sister. I'm
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: close to that person and said, hey, how about this tomorrow,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: I can work from your place. You can get out
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: do the things you need to do, have some rest.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: I'll watch Winny all day, and then if you're popping
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: back and afford it, we can. We'll have lunch together
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: if you're around or whatever, just to try and relieve
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: some of the And she was like, you have two kids, bro.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I've got two kids, but I've got help.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: And it's a week day. My kids are going to
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: be in daycare. One might not be if it was Macy,
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: I'd bring her and they can play or whatever. But
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: I picked up on that she really needed someone but
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: was too proud to ask, and also maybe had been
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: given all those lines all the time from people that
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: actually don't fucking mean it. By I'm saying, oh, you know,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: like and she might have that person and they've got oh,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I'm busy, and been like, well maybe I just won't
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: ask anyone.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: I agree, And I do think I'm guilty of it
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: that no one wants to be seen as that person
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: who is struggling. No one wants to put the hand
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: up and go I need help, because you don't want
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: to be seen to be a parent that can't cope.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: I do think it is on parents to also not
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: be afraid because if you're asking other parents, no one
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: is going to judge you, and if you are judging
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: your an absolute asshole. Well, so don't be afraid to
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: put your hand up to those close to you and go, hey,
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: can I just have a little bit of help here?
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Can you just do X, Y and Z.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing wrong with that.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: For sure, because they might not have that person that
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: can pick up and or be like you know, and
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: I know, like with especially like we always have this
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: thing where it's like you're always better in numbers, right,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: and that those numbers could mean more parents and more kids.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: But you can conquer that that whatever the situation might be.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: So for example, like Mike and myself, it's so we
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: pick up on it so much that if for example,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: I had to go away, I didn't say anything. Oscar
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: had a jiu jitsu lesson and he straightway and I'll
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: pick Osco up four o'clock on Monday, ah, and I would,
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: And I've done the same for him in heavy Yeah,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: there was one time where I remember they rang me
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: and they were they both work different times of the day,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: so he works in the day, she might have some
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: classes to teach at night. There was a ten minute
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: gap and he rang me. He said, do you have
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: ten minutes? I said yeah, He said, can you come
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: and watch my kids for ten minutes while we do
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: a changeover. I drove all the way his house and
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: I sat there and with his kids for ten minutes.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: But you were such a good guy.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: But I know that if I do that, someone's going
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: to do it for me. Thank you. I appreciate that.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: But like, at the same time, don't be afraid to
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: ask totally. And if you ask, If you ask those
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: people you think closest to you and they're not willing
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: to shift their lives to try and help you for
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: ten to fifteen minutes, then unfortunately they're not the right people.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: Can we just do a quick little call out? And
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: if you do, you think you have a friend or
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: family member who is a tired parent right now and
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: they need help, just tell them, spoon, feed them a
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: date a time that you're going to come over and
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: just say, hey, I'm coming over, I'm going to take
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: the kid, I'm going to clean. Let's let's help each
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: other out here.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: Here's a good one. If a parents says, oh, we're
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: going down to the park on Saturday, morning, like, that's
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: what we're doing. And you can pick up on that
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: they might be tired or could use a bit of
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: a break. Go oh, come down, you know, and you play.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: You help play with them, Play with the kids, Play
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: with the kids, don't conversation, take a coffee with.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: Them and go there's a coffee. I'm going to go
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: play with the kid for half an hour. I'll watch
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: them and then that that half an hour could meet
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: everything to that person, could be the difference between them
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: feeling really shit and feeling really good.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: What's it saying?
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: It takes a town, takes a village, takes a village,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: takes a town, takes a town, takes a village, takes
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: a city, takes a country.
• 55:49
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