Speaker 1: Apogae Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am I
Speaker 1: A Bad Mum?
Speaker 2: Podcast?
Speaker 1: It's still holidays, isn't it?
Speaker 3: Still holidays? Still going? But the exciting parties were on
Speaker 3: the final countdown.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, though, there's a sadness to
Speaker 1: me as well in that now I'm like, I have
Speaker 1: to do some grocery shopping for lunchbox stuff this week.
Speaker 3: I'm not sad about having to do the shopping because
Speaker 3: I am in a stage where my kids continually eat
Speaker 3: everything and I have no choice because all they do
Speaker 3: is complain about being hungry.
Speaker 1: My kids during the holidays have been opening the cupboard
Speaker 1: going where's all the snacks? And I'm like, no, there
Speaker 1: are snacks. However, you have to make them like cheese
Speaker 1: and crackers. You need to cut the cheese from the
Speaker 1: big block rather than it just being in a packet
Speaker 1: ready for you to open. That's lunchbox stuff.
Speaker 2: Would lunchbox stuff? Mind you.
Speaker 3: I did have an argument just whipping it on its
Speaker 3: head with my mum in IgA about their packets now
Speaker 3: that you can buy that are like this big and
Speaker 3: it's like tasty cheese, but it's like already presliced and
Speaker 3: I was on holidays, so clearly I'm in the stage
Speaker 3: of I don't give a fuck for a week.
Speaker 2: And I was like.
Speaker 3: No, no, I'll just buy the pre sliced Mum. Oh,
Speaker 3: you should be disgusted in yourself, Rachel. Oh, how long
Speaker 3: does it take to sliced pece of cheese?
Speaker 2: Are you paying?
Speaker 1: No, it's a really expensive way to buy it already
Speaker 1: sliced in a packet like that.
Speaker 2: It was like a Sunday morning.
Speaker 3: I think I'd had like not much sleep, you know
Speaker 3: when you shop in those states, And I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't care, I'm just buying it.
Speaker 2: Please stop talking. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I only the other day did an actual proper shop,
Speaker 1: which I reckon has been the first proper big shop
Speaker 1: I've done in months where I've literally gone to go
Speaker 1: to the shop every evening for dinner that night.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah right, and did it just like flow you
Speaker 3: about how much it now costs? Yes?
Speaker 2: Indeed, did force me every time. I'm like, sorry, did
Speaker 2: Rick put something else up? Why am I at this price?
Speaker 2: Because when you're.
Speaker 1: Cutting it each day for that evening, still though, I'm like,
Speaker 1: how did dinner cost one hundred dollars?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to do the whole Like go to
Speaker 3: the market. By it there and not from a place
Speaker 3: of going, it's going to be cheaper. I think you
Speaker 3: can really hustle some good deals if you're at the markets.
Speaker 3: If you go to later to the markets, you know
Speaker 3: how they're marking everything down.
Speaker 2: You can get some good bag you have to go.
Speaker 1: At five to twelve, but where it's like four packs
Speaker 1: of blue berries.
Speaker 2: Because they don't want to pack them back up.
Speaker 1: But the thing is is when you go to the markets,
Speaker 1: then you end up having lunch. You get like a fucking.
Speaker 2: Breakfast, have another coffee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a fresh watermelon juice which is like
Speaker 1: nine dollars. Squeez that there, and then like, yeah, still
Speaker 1: spent too much money? Am I a bad mum for
Speaker 1: not giving them enough credit?
Speaker 3: I reckon this is gonna be a possibility that we
Speaker 3: could be both in this.
Speaker 1: Maybe I realized something the other day because I give
Speaker 1: my kids a hard time all the time about working
Speaker 1: hard at school, doing jobs around the house. Put your
Speaker 1: fucking washing away for the seventeenth time, Like it's easier
Speaker 1: for me to just put the washing away, Like that
Speaker 1: would cause me a lot less stress than the amount
Speaker 1: of times I asked them to put it away, then
Speaker 1: it ends up back in the washing basket because they
Speaker 1: can't be bothered. I give them a hard time about
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. What I have forgot in the
Speaker 1: process is what they are able to do when they
Speaker 1: put their mind to it. Now, the girls are really
Speaker 1: into music at the moment.
Speaker 2: The concerts.
Speaker 1: They've got people that they are super excited to see.
Speaker 1: Billie Eilish is one of them.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Billie Eilish's brother.
Speaker 2: His name is Phineas. You probably don't brother. Brother is
Speaker 2: called Phineas. Now.
Speaker 1: He just a bit of background. He has been very
Speaker 1: instrumental with Billie Eilish's career because I think he's her producer,
Speaker 1: so I think he's also written some of her songs.
Speaker 2: Anyway, he's very much involved the very music family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very much involved with her career and they're really close.
Speaker 1: And he's got his own songs now. So he's been
Speaker 1: writing his own songs and is on tour now. He
Speaker 1: was coming to Brisbane, which the girls were super excited
Speaker 1: about because they like his music too. They were like,
Speaker 1: we have to hear tiggers, we have to hear tickets. Anyway,
Speaker 1: they saved up money and they were able to buy tickets. Now,
Speaker 1: this is apparently a thing with teenagers. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever done this, but they are obsessed with
Speaker 1: getting to the front and getting barricade. I've been to
Speaker 1: a lot of concerts in my time. I go at
Speaker 1: the time the doors are open, and I sit in
Speaker 1: the seat that iver bore, and that's what I do.
Speaker 1: It's such a big thing for them to get there early,
Speaker 1: so that they are going to get in first now
Speaker 1: to get their early rage. They've done a lot of
Speaker 1: research on this. They've been in group chats, they've been
Speaker 1: in like forums, They've researched online how early they needed
Speaker 1: to get their doors open at six pm? Right, they
Speaker 1: decided they need to be there at six am. So long,
Speaker 1: there's no way I'm getting up at four point thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning to take you there at that time
Speaker 1: where you're going to be in the valley. You're going
Speaker 1: to be calling me every two minutes because you're shit
Speaker 1: scared of what crazy person is around at that time
Speaker 1: in that area. So I said, you really really want
Speaker 1: to go at that time, and you think that's the
Speaker 1: right time to go, work it out, work out what
Speaker 1: buses you need to get on rach Amelia sat with
Speaker 1: the bus timetable out online. There's a like plan your.
Speaker 2: Journey, yeah, plenty journey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she did all of that. She worked it all out,
Speaker 1: and then she said, we're going to do a practice run.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that we get it right.
Speaker 1: So we're going to do it a couple of days
Speaker 1: before the concert.
Speaker 2: Going to get there.
Speaker 1: See how long it took us if we got to
Speaker 1: the right stop. So it was going to be two buses,
Speaker 1: rage and then a five minute walk. They did it.
Speaker 1: It actually blew my mind that it wasn't this big
Speaker 1: deal that I thought it was going to be calling
Speaker 1: me we were in the wrong stop, where do we go?
Speaker 1: Like I thought it was going to be all of that.
Speaker 1: I thought I was going to have to be very involved,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to be.
Speaker 2: Very involved at that time of the morning.
Speaker 1: I wanted them to work it out themselves. This is
Speaker 1: where the whole I didn't give them credit comes in
Speaker 1: because I really didn't think that they would do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got up, walked to the bus stop, got
Speaker 1: on the bus, text me to let me know that
Speaker 1: they were on the right bus, got off at the
Speaker 1: stop they were supposed to get off at they had
Speaker 1: to walk around to a different platform platform, get on
Speaker 1: the next bus, yeah, and then walk At the end,
Speaker 1: they literally called me and they went, mum, we're at
Speaker 1: Fortitude Music Hall. We're outside.
Speaker 2: I was like, what they made it? They made it?
Speaker 2: Were they there at six am?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So then day of the concept they did the same thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were outside at six point twenty first in line. No,
Speaker 1: rage's gonna say you.
Speaker 2: Watched that would be first in line?
Speaker 1: You'd think, so twelve hours before the doors and have.
Speaker 3: No disrespect to the artist because he is obviously huge
Speaker 3: in his own right, but I have no idea who
Speaker 3: he is. So therefore, you know, like let's just put
Speaker 3: it in a Taylor Swift category. Like, of course there's
Speaker 3: people are going to be there before you, but how
Speaker 3: early do you have to get there to be the
Speaker 3: first one?
Speaker 2: In life?
Speaker 1: They were number twenty three and twenty four.
Speaker 2: Are yet numbers?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, yeah, I've never done this either. So when
Speaker 3: you were like, before you have that, I'm the same
Speaker 3: way with music. I will go to see someone, but
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I'm not getting there early, Like I
Speaker 3: don't mind where we're sitting or standing. But I'm not
Speaker 3: going early to line up to then stand inside a
Speaker 3: stadium for another few hours and then so yeah, that's
Speaker 3: where I come from.
Speaker 1: And I prefer to be seated in a seat anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: They want to be standing, they want to be at
Speaker 1: the front. You want to be dancing, they want to
Speaker 1: be You never need a rich I remember saying to
Speaker 1: the girls like, oh, I'd love to be in a box.
Speaker 1: They're like, we would hate to be at a box.
Speaker 1: You're nowhere near the hartist or the stage.
Speaker 3: I don't have that in me though, to be up
Speaker 3: the front and being pushed and being pushed and being
Speaker 3: touched and being pushed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to be at the front. Too busy,
Speaker 1: too many people for yeah, two people, too much? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you can't get out at the end if you.
Speaker 2: Need to, like like, what if you need to eat,
Speaker 2: you lose your spot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is what happened to think. That's what
Speaker 1: I said to the girls. I was like, you need
Speaker 1: to eat, like you're there for twelve hours.
Speaker 2: You need to have.
Speaker 1: Lunch, you need to have some sort of dinner. You
Speaker 1: need to be drinking water. But what they were doing is.
Speaker 1: They would take it in turns, so one of them
Speaker 1: would stay in the line, the other one would go
Speaker 1: to the shop and get water. Okay, So they worked
Speaker 1: it out and then when the doors opened they went in.
Speaker 1: They were like, obviously twenty three and twenty four. So
Speaker 1: they walk in and they realized that there's not very
Speaker 1: many other people there and they get straight to the
Speaker 1: front and they are so excited. Rach they still had
Speaker 1: to wait until eight pm for Phineas to actually come on.
Speaker 1: They would then stood there in that spot for another
Speaker 1: two hours, and they wanted to buy merch, so Amelia
Speaker 1: stayed at the front. She said, Mom, I just put
Speaker 1: my leg out so that nobody can stand there. And
Speaker 1: Holly went and got the merch that they wanted and
Speaker 1: came back. Everyone's happy. I was like, that is insane.
Speaker 1: You know what's coming up Billie Eilish in February where
Speaker 1: they want to camp out two days before.
Speaker 2: How do we feel about this?
Speaker 1: I feel fine? Has said he will go with them
Speaker 1: and camp and camp for two days. He went, do
Speaker 1: you want to come? It will be an adventure and
Speaker 1: I thank.
Speaker 2: You you can adventure.
Speaker 1: Someone needs to look after the pets.
Speaker 3: Where is belly eilish like playing entertainment center at boondle.
Speaker 3: Yeah so less food, less water? Ye, less, So you're
Speaker 3: going to have to be that person? Or are they
Speaker 3: just going to eat for three days? No?
Speaker 1: Do you know what Day wants to do?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Take take an eski? No take what He's.
Speaker 1: Gonna hire a camper van?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't even put a camper van in a boondle.
Speaker 2: Where are you gonna put it? This is going to
Speaker 2: be crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Is the line a line of people
Speaker 1: or is the line a line of cars?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it works. Jay's ideas to get
Speaker 1: a camper van, be on the side of the road,
Speaker 1: take it in turns to sleep.
Speaker 2: People just literally take like little swags and stuff. What
Speaker 2: about a swag? Can't you just roll out a swag?
Speaker 1: Well, they can do whatever they want.
Speaker 3: I mean, we've got swags. Our's barely get used. I
Speaker 3: mean until Sam takes the kids out camping. So maybe
Speaker 3: you could just use our swags?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Perfect, perfect? What about that. It's like a holiday
Speaker 2: for you. Yeah, you get a couple of days off
Speaker 2: of everything at school.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I can't be at school today because I'm camping
Speaker 1: out at Boon door waiting for billy Ard.
Speaker 3: Sorry I can't be at school tomorrow because I'm still
Speaker 3: waiting for Really Eilish. I love their dedication and I
Speaker 3: love that they are super like passionate about this because
Speaker 3: I think it really tells you something about your daughters.
Speaker 3: But I think it's also a really great reflective piece.
Speaker 3: So when they give you this, I don't know what
Speaker 3: to do. Oh, I can't do it. Bullshit in a
Speaker 3: bullshit card. You can do anything now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't need to pick here up from there.
Speaker 1: You are perfectly able to get on two buses.
Speaker 3: Billie Eilish in two days sitting on No thanks.
Speaker 1: People do it right. They've done the research. They know
Speaker 1: when people have to camp out.
Speaker 2: Kayla would be about to get in the front. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we've got their out before she started with two kids, little.
Speaker 1: Smaller Yeah thank god. I mean I didn't care about
Speaker 1: being at the front.
Speaker 2: Wanted to just be in a.
Speaker 1: Seat, sit down and be old. So anyway, Billie Eilish,
Speaker 1: Jay's camping out for two days. I have had that
Speaker 1: whole You're a bad mum. You're not going to do
Speaker 1: it for them. They're always going to remember the dad did.
Speaker 1: And then I have a moment of thinking about Jay
Speaker 1: in a camper van with a line of teenagers waiting
Speaker 1: for Billie Eilish for two days at Boon Door, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, no, I'm all right with mom.
Speaker 2: I'm okay. I do other things