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Speaker 1: You're listening to the FITZI and whipp A podcast.

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Speaker 2: I find myself as a parent saying the words God

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Speaker 2: back in my day, have we had.

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Speaker 1: To do this if you got to that stage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I am, and it is sad. But you know what,

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Speaker 2: sometimes when you're trying to teach your kids a bit

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Speaker 2: of mental fortitude, you just go, come on, boys. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: you do it a bit tough to do. My day,

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Speaker 2: we had to do this. Come on, mate, and they

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Speaker 2: don't like it. As soon as you start a sentence

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Speaker 2: with that, they're out. You've lost them already. But you

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Speaker 2: know what, on Friday night, the boys play a phelex.

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Speaker 2: It's a nine a side. They played at Gore Hill

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Speaker 2: on the fake grass there, and the fake grass is

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Speaker 2: actually when I first went to the fake grass here

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Speaker 2: we played his Grand final. They still can't play on

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Speaker 2: fake grass. It's actually awesome because you know what, it

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Speaker 2: can rain. You're gonna have one hundred millimeters of rain

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Speaker 2: and you can sell. You can still have a kid.

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Speaker 1: What about your skit on it?

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Speaker 2: Though it comes off in the knees, taking that little

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Speaker 2: bit of skin off there, but it's not too bad.

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Speaker 2: And anyway, it's a very popular oval in the area

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Speaker 2: and the kids play aphilex on there, but there's other

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Speaker 2: people training around it. Two kids the other night. One

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Speaker 2: would have been twelve, the other one nine. They were

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Speaker 2: two brothers. I was goal umpire for Lenny's game, right,

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Speaker 2: so I'm on the boundary line watching the goals the

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Speaker 2: whole time. One would have been twelve, one would have

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Speaker 2: been nine. They ran laps for an hour in their

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Speaker 2: school uniforms, and they ran the lapse in their hush

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Speaker 2: puppy leather black shoes from school like it was it

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Speaker 2: like they were in sporting gear. It was a Friday night.

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Speaker 2: It was at five o'clock at night.

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Speaker 1: Had someone told them too, well, one.

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Speaker 2: Of their parents. I couldn't spot the parent, but obviously

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Speaker 2: they've been told by one of the parents, you need

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Speaker 2: to go do your running on your Friday night five

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Speaker 2: o'clock in your school uniform. These kids ran laps for

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Speaker 2: an hour. I was like, that is unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like punishment, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine trying to tell you my two boys

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Speaker 2: to go and do that on a Friday night, run

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Speaker 2: for an hour? They would me.

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Speaker 1: You know, I had at a situation yesterday where they'd

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Speaker 1: been to a party and they'd come home with a

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Speaker 1: party bag which was full of lollies. Ted said, can

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Speaker 1: I have another lolly? And I said no, it's not fair.

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Speaker 1: Don't talk to me about fair, mate, not in this house.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what it's not fair. It's the kid

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Speaker 1: who doesn't have any lollies full stoff because it's full stop,

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Speaker 1: because he doesn't have a house. He won't be getting

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Speaker 1: any Christmas presents because he has to find food every day.

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Speaker 1: Life's right.

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Speaker 2: Very showed him a World Vision at or something.

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Speaker 1: We did look at some of that stuff too, and

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Speaker 1: I said, that's that's not fair. Life is not fair

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Speaker 1: and it never will be. But just realize the situation

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Speaker 1: you're in. So don't moan about not having another lolly.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but I've said it, mate. Let's go on

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Speaker 1: next level to back in my day, Back in my day,

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Speaker 1: when he says I'm not happy with his hamburger. Back

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Speaker 1: in my day, used to have to hang out in the

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Speaker 1: front of the butcher's shop and try and get the

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Speaker 1: off cuts of the meats and run home before the

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Speaker 1: dingoes got to me. That's what it was like back.

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Speaker 2: In my day. Stories are a badge of honor, though,

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Speaker 2: aren't they you? When you get older, you actually look

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Speaker 2: back and you're quite proud of them. Going. Yeah, that

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Speaker 2: hardened me up.

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Speaker 1: My dad used to take a gun to school back

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Speaker 1: in his day.

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Speaker 2: What was he part of the bloods or crips man?

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Speaker 1: No, No, he did like a service, like a Cadets

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Speaker 1: or something, and they had air rifles and you'd have

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Speaker 1: to get on the bus with.

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Speaker 2: Your air rifle and everyone thought it was a trumpet

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Speaker 2: and take it to school.

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Speaker 1: Everyone knew it was a gun. That incredible phenomenal. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: when dad was thirteen, he had his school uniform made

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Speaker 1: and they had they put a cigarette pocket. They said

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Speaker 1: to him, what side of your jacket would you like

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Speaker 1: the cigarette pocket in?

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Speaker 2: But did he smoke?

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Speaker 1: No, but everybody at that age did. They were just

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Speaker 1: having gaspers because it was no big deal back then. Well,

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Speaker 1: I guess that's like vaping now, thirteen year olds who vape?

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Speaker 1: Where would you like your vaping pocket? But yes, we

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Speaker 1: don't support it in the same way you're.

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Speaker 2: Back in my day. Calls if you've gone any thirteen

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Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, get involved, Leoni and he forget where what

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Speaker 2: did your mum make you do, Leoni, we had a telephone.

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Speaker 3: Mum put a lock on the phone, like literally got

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Speaker 3: it put into the phone, and she had a key.

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Speaker 3: So if we want to make a phone call, we

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Speaker 3: had to keep a twenty thin.

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Speaker 1: That's hilarious, so good. So she wouldad lock the phone.

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Speaker 3: Now there was actually a lock. She got a lock

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Speaker 3: or bought a phone somehow and there was actually a

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Speaker 3: key lock to make the phone work. So he kept

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Speaker 3: the key and if we wanted to make a phone call,

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Speaker 3: we had to go to her, give her a twenty

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Speaker 3: fin and she would unlock the phone.

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Speaker 1: It's the same as carphones when it used to cost

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Speaker 1: like eight bucks a minute and your parents would go off.

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Speaker 1: It was only for emergencies, Leoni.

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Speaker 2: When your kids are now asking for a phone like,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, you just going we're back in my day. God,

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Speaker 2: I had to find myself twenty cents to make and

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Speaker 2: couldn't move them every time.

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Speaker 3: Every time I threatened to disconnect their mobile phone. Well,

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Speaker 3: the youngest put togethers do their own. But it's like

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Speaker 3: the roll of the eyes and it's like yeah, right.

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Speaker 2: Stacey and Borukham Hills, what did your mum make you do? Stace.

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Speaker 4: Hi, guys, the neighbor, the girl across the road, the

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Speaker 4: neighbor and I would walk down to the local news

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Speaker 4: agency and buy cigarettes and a lot of for the week.

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Speaker 1: Amazing. How old were you?

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Speaker 4: It would have been eight or nine back a gasp.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of ticket.

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Speaker 2: So the person that ran the news agency knew your

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Speaker 2: mum and just knew it was all right. It was fine, It.

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Speaker 4: Was totally fine. And we got to change and we

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Speaker 4: were allowed to buy lollies with that change. So it

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Speaker 4: was five fads and then walk home with our bad.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad to say, fads, smoke your own lollies.

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Speaker 4: That's right, We're allowed to do that now.

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Speaker 1: It's like when you used to go into this, into

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Speaker 1: the milk bar, and you'd go, what have I got

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Speaker 1: a dollar? Can I have two of those lollies? And

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Speaker 1: you'd stand there in the cabinet full of sugar. I

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Speaker 1: have one of those? How much is that now? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Can I have another one of those? Please?

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Speaker 2: See My boys a blue blew their minds when they

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Speaker 2: asked me what I got from the canteen at school,

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Speaker 2: and I said it was always get a pasty, a

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Speaker 2: chocolate milk and I get fifty cents with the chalk

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Speaker 2: buds and they get how many chok buds would you get?

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Speaker 2: Like eight or nine? Fifty one?

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Speaker 1: You don't worry about that.

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Speaker 2: Why did you add fifty chalk buds for lunch?

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Speaker 1: You would? That is a huge Gary, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: What were you made to do as a kid, Gaz.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm just going to sort of try and trump fifties.

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Speaker 3: Little story there. When I was at high school, my

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Speaker 3: parents actually made me to him from school on a unicycle.

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Speaker 1: On a unicycle, you're part of the circus scary or.

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Speaker 3: It was a performing arts school, so I was started

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Speaker 3: at circus ensemble. But my mum turned around and said,

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Speaker 3: I'm not buying you a pushbike.

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Speaker 1: You've already got a wheel. Oh it's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: It's a great practice star getting up hills and stuff

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Speaker 2: on the uni cycle.

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Speaker 3: Oh there was one hill was probably a good twenty

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Speaker 3: five degree hill going up and down.

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Speaker 1: Yes, great if you want to join the circus. What

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Speaker 1: about that Australian sprinter He became one of our great

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Speaker 1: spreaders of all time. I won't mention his name because

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Speaker 1: I can't remember it, but what his mum used to

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Speaker 1: do was he wet the bear. If he wet the bed,

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Speaker 1: his mum would wash the sheets and he'd hang them

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Speaker 1: outside the window where the neighbors could see. And he

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Speaker 1: was really keen on the girl next door. So he

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Speaker 1: became a great sprinter because on the way home he

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Speaker 1: would make sure he sprinted before she got home, so

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Speaker 1: she didn't see that his sheets had been washed and

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Speaker 1: he wet the bed again.

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Speaker 2: That it's a huge story, and.

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Speaker 1: That's how he became. That's how he became a great sprinter.

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Speaker 1: Every day he would run home sprinting. That'sington true story,

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Speaker 1: true story, Tommy work out who that was.

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Speaker 2: He probably had a bit of talent before that doesn't

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Speaker 2: wouldn't it.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't for his bed wedding habit, it would never have

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Speaker 1: become one of Australia's greatest sprinters of all time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a movie, was that? That's not who?

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it was a true story.

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Speaker 1: Deeks was about?

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Speaker 2: Deeks was Michael Langdon. He was the loneliest runner.

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Speaker 1: Is never and never wereing to get home, so he

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Speaker 1: wasn't embarrassed and the girl was keen on him as well,

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Speaker 1: and he became one of our Greatest Champions Bote. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to the Fitzi and Whippo podcast