Speaker 1: Jason Lauren on over one hundred.
Speaker 2: I'm a dad of three young boys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, got this job. Life's busy, My head's spin it.
Speaker 2: Last week, were missed a dentist appointment, you know.
Speaker 1: Just really really hanging on to that miss dentist appointment.
Speaker 1: Don't forgive yourself. You've mentioned it so many times.
Speaker 2: That was the second one.
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's on you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we've got to get our calendars in sync anyway.
Speaker 3: They say it takes a village to raise a childhood.
Speaker 2: Really does.
Speaker 3: We've got a good little community where, you know, if
Speaker 3: we need help, we call upon, you know, some other
Speaker 3: school parents and vice versa. On the weekend, I had
Speaker 3: my niece's staying with us, so the house is already busy.
Speaker 3: One of the mums reached out and was like, hey,
Speaker 3: any chance I can drop my son to you today
Speaker 3: because I've take my daughter to a different.
Speaker 1: Birthday party on the weekends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm like, no way, it's drop him around
Speaker 3: and him and my son also have a birthday.
Speaker 2: Party that afternoon.
Speaker 1: Shuttle bus exactly right.
Speaker 2: So but dad, you thank you very much.
Speaker 1: You're already going. You might as well fill up the car,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: I mean they had a few hours to kill in
Speaker 2: the morning. Yeah, so it's fine. They just played some
Speaker 2: video game and that takes him out of the equation exactly.
Speaker 3: A bit of basketball. All right, get in the car, honey,
Speaker 3: your mate, get in the car. We're going to the birthday.
Speaker 3: On the way to the birthday dropped him off. It
Speaker 3: was like some big soccer joint.
Speaker 2: Was awesome. They loved it. They went in. I went
Speaker 2: down to Two Brothers brewery, had a little bit of because.
Speaker 1: Your boys, your kids are two older ones are old enough.
Speaker 2: You could have replenished sea boys. I'm off to the brewery.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they're old enough to go to parties without
Speaker 1: the parents hanging out? Is that like freedom?
Speaker 2: When that drop and go party is like winning.
Speaker 1: The ones where the parents have to be because the
Speaker 1: kids like each other, it doesn't mean the parents.
Speaker 3: Some parents stay And I'm like, oh yeah, trainers, you're
Speaker 3: a hero.
Speaker 1: Also, what about when it's at your house?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have a party of your house and miking.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I've replenished and I've come back. You refueled
Speaker 2: and I've come back.
Speaker 1: What time was our birthday parties at? Like I'm a Saturday.
Speaker 2: It was a thirty no, no, no, that was three
Speaker 2: pm in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: Right, I've come back. Pulled up quick, Huddy, get in
Speaker 3: the car. By this point, I'm running late for the
Speaker 3: next thing.
Speaker 1: You didn't get the other kid, did you. That's on Hudson.
Speaker 3: Hardie gets in the car, eating his little treat bag.
Speaker 3: We take off. We were two streets away and the
Speaker 3: Hardy goes I forgot my jumper, and I was like,
Speaker 3: all right, we're only two streets away. Back we go, back,
Speaker 3: we go to the brewery or to the party, a
Speaker 3: party and yes, that's when I turned into the street
Speaker 3: and there was the other child outside the party venue
Speaker 3: holding Huddy's jumper, wondering where I went?
Speaker 1: How did you do that? Because what about Hudson? What
Speaker 1: a shody mate sort of friend?
Speaker 2: His head, he was holding the party bag. He's focused
Speaker 2: with somewhere.
Speaker 1: Else there, Nah, that's on him.
Speaker 2: He's eating strawberr creams and bananas. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: How do he didn't want to share his party bag?
Speaker 4: Ken?
Speaker 1: He took his mate's party bag?
Speaker 2: Was he? He was fine? He did that? Jase? Where
Speaker 2: did you go?
Speaker 1: I just I was just coming from the parking lot mate.
Speaker 1: How do he came out of the back door.
Speaker 2: We'll just spin around here, We'll just come around the front.
Speaker 1: Did you tell him mom?
Speaker 2: Did he no? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Did he tell him?
Speaker 2: Nope?
Speaker 1: I bet he did.
Speaker 2: He went to the pub.
Speaker 3: That's why names aren't used for this. Thirteen twenty four
Speaker 3: to ten.
Speaker 1: You can't be doing that.
Speaker 2: When did you forget you had a kid?
Speaker 3: Now think about it. This would have happened in nowadays
Speaker 3: all the time. Yeah, our parents would have forgotten about us.
Speaker 2: All the time.
Speaker 1: In year nine at my school, you went away for
Speaker 1: a whole term and we lived up in Kloones up
Speaker 1: in the Ballarat. It was like offsite living situation where
Speaker 1: you meant to learn to do, like you're washing and
Speaker 1: you're cleaning and your shopping. You go for a whole
Speaker 1: term and.
Speaker 2: On the washing and you obviously skip that.
Speaker 1: I lived with a girl whose dad was a chef,
Speaker 1: so she cooked everything, which was cool, great, And then
Speaker 1: your parents got to come four weeks in. They came
Speaker 1: for one day and you took them out for whatever,
Speaker 1: and then they came on the last day to pick
Speaker 1: you up. My mum bought a new dog that had
Speaker 1: to be picked up that day and forgot to come
Speaker 1: and get me. So three hundred kids leave on the
Speaker 1: last day, runs crying goodbye, and I was just left
Speaker 1: in the unwanted children's pile, just in the staff room
Speaker 1: with the teacher. So like, do you think she's coming?
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I don't know. And then she rolls
Speaker 1: in with a cute puppy. So she won me over
Speaker 1: to shat a puppy that she had no idea until
Speaker 1: a school had called, that she had to pick me.
Speaker 3: Up, that she obviously stole that dog from someone's front
Speaker 3: yard a couple of doors down.
Speaker 1: Two months, I was gone for she forgot to coming
Speaker 1: get me.
Speaker 2: Thirteen how me?
Speaker 3: Twenty fourteen? Can I just say? Our phone lines have
Speaker 3: lit up? Thirteen twenty four ten? When did you forget
Speaker 3: you had a kid? When did you forget you had
Speaker 3: a kid? Or maybe your parents forgot you and left
Speaker 3: you somewhere? Thirteen twenty fourteen is our number Allie who
Speaker 3: works on our show. She's all of twelve. Were you forgotten?
Speaker 3: Or have you got a kid and you forgot to
Speaker 3: tell us?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I was forgotten.
Speaker 4: We were a family holiday to holiday to Fiji, and
Speaker 4: my parents had gone out for the day on like
Speaker 4: a boat trip, and my brother and I were in Kids'
Speaker 4: Club and I just didn't enjoy kids Club and I
Speaker 4: had a tantrum and they left me on the beach
Speaker 4: and so my brother went with the kids club and
Speaker 4: my parents had come back and I was just sitting
Speaker 4: on the beach waiting for them and basically was left.
Speaker 1: Behind for how long hours?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to say half a day.
Speaker 2: Your only got to sign you out of kids kids.
Speaker 1: Club can forget about you parents, no problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kids club, that's that's their one job.
Speaker 1: Now to run the club.
Speaker 2: Also, Allie's very strong on the intercom. She should be
Speaker 2: where hungry Jacks.
Speaker 3: Thirteen twenty fourteen is our number. We've got a stack
Speaker 3: of calls. We're going to get to them. And guess
Speaker 3: who else is called true?
Speaker 1: My dad just reminded me of a time he forgot me,
Speaker 1: and it is a doozy. We're gonna have to get
Speaker 1: him on the line.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Georgia, Georgia and Clyde, what's your story?
Speaker 5: So my dad forgot me and my sister. We were
Speaker 5: we went to the video shop, me and my younger
Speaker 5: sister and my younger brother and we were in the
Speaker 5: back of the car, and he went into the shop
Speaker 5: and left.
Speaker 1: Us in the car.
Speaker 5: And we had one of those cars with those little
Speaker 5: hardy holes that kind of crept into the boot.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah, the middle seat. No no, no, no, the
Speaker 2: the middle seat went down. Yeah, and don't go in
Speaker 2: a car with a party hole into the boot.
Speaker 5: So me and my little sister thought it would be
Speaker 5: funny to take into the boot. So we sneaked into
Speaker 5: the boot and then my little brother closed the door
Speaker 5: and brilliant, and then my dad had jumped back into
Speaker 5: the car not realized. We went in the back of
Speaker 5: the seat and drove all the way home with us
Speaker 5: in the back of the boot.
Speaker 1: Were you screaming?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were. We were buying everything and he didn't did.
Speaker 1: Not hear your dad?
Speaker 3: Remember I taught you if you get the nineties, you
Speaker 3: put someone's boot, you punch out the tail light.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's if you get kids.
Speaker 2: Wave your hand through the gay. Well that's not happening regularly,
Speaker 2: is it not. But you know what if it happens
Speaker 2: to you today.
Speaker 1: I'm too heavy to get kidnapped, no one's picking me up.
Speaker 3: You can be able to punch it through. Just keeping
Speaker 3: cable tired? Put your little hand out. Okay, Oh sorry,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to say, well you sound experienced too. Are
Speaker 3: you're looking in a boot?
Speaker 1: How many times have you kidnapped? Table?
Speaker 2: Just reminds me gonna get my tail life fixed?
Speaker 1: So you do have a broken tail. You told us
Speaker 1: you reversed into a pole.
Speaker 2: All right, let's say.
Speaker 1: Eva in Oak Park, did somebody forget you?
Speaker 5: Hi?
Speaker 1: Have my line?
Speaker 6: I was at clinic and you was to kick me
Speaker 6: up at eleven.
Speaker 5: Stop me.
Speaker 6: So my client had to call her and so where
Speaker 6: are you? And she came in ellen later and then
Speaker 6: and then the next day at school she needs at
Speaker 6: one o'clock and she forgot me and the mom had
Speaker 6: to call her. She didn't answer, and one of the
Speaker 6: moms and thank he entered for one of the moms,
Speaker 6: and then he had to come and sick me up.
Speaker 1: So she forgot you two days in a row.
Speaker 2: Either, Maybe she just wanted to break No.
Speaker 1: Eva, do you know has anyone ever told you you're
Speaker 1: allowed to divorce your parents?
Speaker 2: No? You're not either if I can't either? Does your
Speaker 2: mummy like wine?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: Not really?
Speaker 2: I thought.
Speaker 4: Either?
Speaker 1: She got forgotten two days in a row.
Speaker 2: Just want to break. Let's go to Kate.
Speaker 1: She's so cute.
Speaker 2: Kate was involved daycare.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it wasn't me, but it was my mom
Speaker 7: and my baby brother. We lived about forty minutes from
Speaker 7: town and she was racing home to get ready for
Speaker 7: his birthday party that night. I was dark quarter to
Speaker 7: six and we were five minutes from home and I said, oh, Mom,
Speaker 7: where's them? And she goes, I'm just sleep in the
Speaker 7: back seat. I turned around and said, no, we haven't
Speaker 7: picked him up from day care. Yeah. So dad had
Speaker 7: to do the waters day in the day to about
Speaker 7: half halff six to pick up my brother and it
Speaker 7: was his birthday. Yeah, it was his birthday.
Speaker 2: Sad, happy birthday.
Speaker 1: I've done it, easy, done now.
Speaker 2: I did it with Felix when he was about eight
Speaker 2: hours old.
Speaker 1: What you can't, Ben, Well, we want you to forget
Speaker 1: what your wife's just gone through for the last nine months, Jason,
Speaker 1: she was let alone the last twenty four I'm.
Speaker 2: Detecting that sarcastic. I'm the union. No, Well, I like
Speaker 2: I forgot we had a kid. We only just had
Speaker 2: a kid, you know what I mean. So it's very
Speaker 2: momentous occasion. I would one forget put the capture in
Speaker 2: the back.
Speaker 1: Been through much. He'd been at the Cabrini Cafe smashing
Speaker 1: saucy drolls while I was pushing out of it all.
Speaker 3: On the way home, Lou wanted to stop at subway,
Speaker 3: so she went in the subway and I just sat
Speaker 3: in the front seat on Instagram, and then I just
Speaker 3: hear this little.
Speaker 2: Cough and it's scared that crap out of me. I
Speaker 2: was like, who the hell's in the backs? Oh, that's
Speaker 2: why we've got a kid.
Speaker 1: I got a child. Now, well that was the beginning
Speaker 1: of life. Now I want to tell you about a
Speaker 1: traumatic experience that happened to me.
Speaker 2: Here we go. We got your dad. Bobby Phillip was
Speaker 2: on the line.
Speaker 8: Bobby, good morning were Bobby? How are you? I'm excellent?
Speaker 1: Thank you anxiety. Okay, you can talk. I want to
Speaker 1: start the story and he can finish it.
Speaker 2: I will be just want to check. Has your daughter
Speaker 2: your daughter been checking in on you lately? She dropped by.
Speaker 8: No, she hasn't. I think no. I did see her.
Speaker 8: I can't remember now I'm getting a bit old, but
Speaker 8: probably a few weeks ago she way from me.
Speaker 2: She went past it was did she slow down or
Speaker 2: just wait?
Speaker 1: All right now, Dad, I'm start this story and then
Speaker 1: you can explain what happened. So tragically, my dad's mum,
Speaker 1: Nanna Mavis, was very very old when she passed away.
Speaker 1: We'd gone to the nursing home to say our final goodbyes,
Speaker 1: just Dad and I. My brother was away. So Dad
Speaker 1: and I sitting in the nursing home. I've said my
Speaker 1: final good byes, and Dad said and the doctors said.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know, seventeen say. And the
Speaker 1: doctors had said, you know, it depends. Do you want
Speaker 1: to be here for this moment? And I was like yeah,
Speaker 1: So we were there. Then there's a lot of sort
Speaker 1: of fuss that happens after someone passes away and people
Speaker 1: come into the room and you've got to you know,
Speaker 1: they have to pronounce the person.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I'm going to leave now. Dad
Speaker 1: goes love, let me deal with all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: You go sit in the waiting room.
Speaker 2: What a good dad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was like, I'll deal with it. Dad's an
Speaker 1: only child. I wanted to be there for him, but
Speaker 1: he was like, let me do this. You go sit
Speaker 1: in the waiting room. So I'm sitting siting in the
Speaker 1: waiting room, and like two and a half hours passed by,
Speaker 1: and I start thinking, maybe she's come back to life.
Speaker 1: She's back, but maybe she's got an extra a few
Speaker 1: years and she just sat up, going what's all the
Speaker 1: fuss about it? So I'm very patiently waiting. Time ticks by,
Speaker 1: the next hour ticks bine, I'm like, what is going
Speaker 1: next minute? Which is the one thing I didn't want
Speaker 1: to do. I see my nan being wheeled out on
Speaker 1: a troy covered in a sheet, and I'm like, na gone,
Speaker 1: she gone the lashing. Maybe Dad's brown bread too. So
Speaker 1: I called dad and I'm like, Dad, where are you
Speaker 1: over to you?
Speaker 8: Bobby old Pierre old man? And she got wheeled out
Speaker 8: in a green body bag, pretty attractive sort of things.
Speaker 8: And I get this frantic So uncle, where are your dad?
Speaker 8: Where are your dad? Where do you reckon?
Speaker 1: Dad? Was?
Speaker 8: I think you love this?
Speaker 1: Jo?
Speaker 8: I'm up with Ferguson player in Coburg, ordering ties for lunch.
Speaker 2: That's what she would have wanted. It's what she would
Speaker 2: have wanted.
Speaker 8: Laurence Lauren, I'm twelve k's away. Laurence still sitting in
Speaker 8: the nursing home. The good news is Nana did pass
Speaker 8: away peacefully. She's a wonderful lady.
Speaker 2: That's a great news.
Speaker 8: Was make fabulous pies and we got the.
Speaker 1: You know what. He was in the He was in
Speaker 1: the peak of Greek all right, pies and sausage draws
Speaker 1: to invite people over to grief my nan. While I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there watching her, the cold body be wheeled out
Speaker 1: in a body bag.
Speaker 8: Hey Bobby, we love you all right, love you speaking
Speaker 8: with you. My apologies, Laurence you soon, but.
Speaker 1: Love your dad?
Speaker 6: He did?
Speaker 1: He not say I love you too bad?
Speaker 2: That's all that's that is. You've got to say hello anymore.
Speaker 2: Let me try. Hey Bobby, love you, Love you, Bobby,
Speaker 2: love you very much. What a dog try to get?
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