Speaker 1: Appogiae production ocome back to another episode about My Bad Mom.
Speaker 1: Here we are. We show up three times a week
Speaker 1: and we winge about I can.
Speaker 2: I get it all the time? What's podcast actually about?
Speaker 2: Like the endless? The topics that we go through are endless.
Speaker 2: But I mean the title of the podcast, am I
Speaker 2: A Bad Mum? It's very self explanatory. We just basically
Speaker 2: hang shit on ourselves about the ability of parenting and
Speaker 2: whether we can show some of those like abilities once
Speaker 2: or twice during the week.
Speaker 1: My girls are because they're gen z. They're let's remind
Speaker 1: me of that all the time. Actually, you're a millennia.
Speaker 1: You're so millennial?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: They do a lot of videos and like catcut and
Speaker 1: things like that, Yeah TikTok, I guess and stuff. And
Speaker 1: Jay said to them, do you want to learn how
Speaker 1: to do videos for like socials? So for the podcast,
Speaker 1: for example, we filmed the podcasts and then we put
Speaker 1: a video on Socials to give it a little tease
Speaker 1: and they were like yeah, yeah, great. And so Jay's
Speaker 1: like going through the drive of all the different podcasts,
Speaker 1: and he said, shall I give him an episode of
Speaker 1: Am I A Bad Mum?
Speaker 2: To do?
Speaker 1: I went no, not until I listened to what it
Speaker 1: was about. First. He was like, oh, just like yeah,
Speaker 1: you can just go through one. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I said in the episode. I
Speaker 1: don't want them listening.
Speaker 2: To it, like yeah in my head that, I was like, no,
Speaker 2: they'd have the field day with it. They'd absolutely annihilate us.
Speaker 1: I was worried about what we said, and so in
Speaker 1: the end he gave them a true crime to do.
Speaker 2: What a great representation of great parenting?
Speaker 1: Am I a bad mum for trying to reason with
Speaker 1: the unreasonable? So I spoke on a previous episode about
Speaker 1: how my girls are Billie Eilish obsessed and they wanted
Speaker 1: to save up some money and fly to London to
Speaker 1: go to her concert.
Speaker 2: I wondered, how this is going, Yeah, so it's going obviously.
Speaker 1: Well I did have the conversation of going, this is
Speaker 1: really unachievable. Oh you did, because.
Speaker 2: Because that was the conversation you and I had, which
Speaker 2: was like, do I break their dreams down now.
Speaker 1: Or just later? Yeah, I kind of did, because.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that we went through that. Because I didn't.
Speaker 2: We said don't do.
Speaker 1: It nil July at least, Yeah, we did, but the
Speaker 1: concert is in July, and I was like, look your
Speaker 1: flight prices that you've put in your document for you
Speaker 1: know what your expenses are. Well, by the time you
Speaker 1: can save that money and book them, they're going to
Speaker 1: be a lot more than that. Yeah, it's and then
Speaker 1: the whole who's going to go with you? We can't
Speaker 1: just send you across the world on your own. Anyway.
Speaker 1: They were pretty good at receiving the news that we're
Speaker 1: not really going to London in July. It's probably not
Speaker 1: going to happen. And then Amelia comes up with a
Speaker 1: brain wave. She turns around to me and she says,
Speaker 1: do you have points? Do you have like flight points?
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, so we could just choose those
Speaker 1: when first of all, I don't have enough for everyone
Speaker 1: to go to London.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Secondly, those are my points. It's like money. I want
Speaker 1: to use them towards our flights to go somewhere. She
Speaker 1: turned around and she wear them. Yeah, but you use
Speaker 1: my points for when I fly. They're mine. Oh, I
Speaker 1: pay for your flights. Whenever you've got points from flights,
Speaker 1: I've paid for the flights. Hollypie up with yeah, actually,
Speaker 1: and that's the same with when you get a massage,
Speaker 1: that's my allowance. Oh and you don't pay for the
Speaker 1: health insurance.
Speaker 2: No, no, these kids are a riot at the moment.
Speaker 2: They're out of control.
Speaker 1: You know now I'm doing.
Speaker 2: You start paying for that private health insurance, and you
Speaker 2: start paying for the flights that you sit your ass
Speaker 2: on an aircraft with your null and void to those.
Speaker 1: Points, my friend, I say to the girls sometimes I
Speaker 1: like to remind them of how much things cost, because
Speaker 1: I'm like, your braces, like when we go to an
Speaker 1: appointment or whatever, I'm just a reminder. You know your braces.
Speaker 1: You know they cost seven thousand dollars. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of money. Yeah, And they go, yeah, but you
Speaker 1: get money off from using your health insurance. I went,
Speaker 1: I pay for the health insurance. Doesn't just come for free.
Speaker 1: It's like the health insurance just go oh, here you go,
Speaker 1: here's a couple of thousands towards your braces. Just help
Speaker 1: you out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I paid for that. No, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: But they also obnoxiously understand that they're not dumb children. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they absolutely know that that's what's happening. It's to push
Speaker 2: my buttons to sure of it. Just on another note,
Speaker 2: just why we're talking about it. How is the dentist going.
Speaker 2: Have they helped to check her races off? This is
Speaker 2: we started this the other week, and I'm like, I'm
Speaker 2: dying to know if your child's still got braces on it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Amelia's had her braces taken off, that's all fine,
Speaker 1: it's all good. Her account is paid clip to date, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Holly's kind of like we breached.
Speaker 2: On it like two weeks ago and you said, yeah,
Speaker 2: so yeah, no, we'll talk about that another time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So she's almost able to get them off, and
Speaker 1: I said at the last appointment she would really love
Speaker 1: them off for a semi four more, which is in
Speaker 1: like however many weeks, and the dentists went, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that that's achievable. Yeah, cool, let's book or to
Speaker 1: have them taken off. Now I've booked her in. Then
Speaker 1: I get a phone call and she goes just to
Speaker 1: let you know you're still owing quite a bit on
Speaker 1: your account, and I was like, oh shit, am I
Speaker 1: I don't know, And really what it is is that
Speaker 1: I forget to pay the monthly payment. They don't tend
Speaker 1: a reminder.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's like, it's not at the forefront
Speaker 2: of your mind on you braces. That's a problem. You
Speaker 2: need to get your systems in order, because you're not
Speaker 2: reminding me, so therefore not paying.
Speaker 1: But what it is is that then we will have
Speaker 1: an appointment and it reminds me, and I go, I
Speaker 1: need to make a payment, and I just go on
Speaker 1: to make a payment in the car park, and then
Speaker 1: by the time I've gone in, they're like, oh, who's
Speaker 1: your animal? I just made a payment. Then I get
Speaker 1: an email, right and the email says you know how
Speaker 1: messages in text often don't come across as nice as
Speaker 1: what you would say person.
Speaker 2: This was email.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this email that came through basically said your account's
Speaker 1: not up to date. If you do not make the
Speaker 1: payment in full, we will not be taking her braces off. Oh.
Speaker 1: I immediately RATE got my back up and I was like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck You're not going to take my child's brace? Like,
Speaker 1: set aside the fact that you know, I run a business.
Speaker 1: I absolutely appreciate that people need to pay and bills
Speaker 1: need to be sortid and all the rest of it.
Speaker 1: I get that. However, the way you said that to
Speaker 1: me made me feel like a piece of shit, and
Speaker 1: I actually got my back up go into extreme rate.
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to get my braces done.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get done at that place, and
Speaker 1: I go elsewhere. I'm going to take my business. I've
Speaker 1: spent fourteen thousand dollars at this place, and you're telling
Speaker 1: me that if I don't pay the extra bit that
Speaker 1: there is owing, then you're not going to take my
Speaker 1: child's braces off.
Speaker 2: Got them forever.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna air task at that shit, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to get someone to take the braces off, and I'm
Speaker 1: not going to pay the rest of my bills because
Speaker 1: you've sent that email. You made me feel like shit,
Speaker 1: and I'm not doing any of it.
Speaker 2: This is so good. I want to see someone air
Speaker 2: task the shit out of this. Can we put it
Speaker 2: up just to see where it lands? Air tasker? Somebody
Speaker 2: removed my.
Speaker 1: Child's braces because I haven't paid.
Speaker 2: The bill, because she's going to send me four more.
Speaker 2: It's really important. The responses would blow my mind, honestly,
Speaker 2: So what's happened? Where are we at on? Like? Did
Speaker 2: you ring them after the abusive email? No?
Speaker 1: So I did what it wasn't a body would do,
Speaker 1: and I ignored the email waited for a phone call
Speaker 1: and I said, I'm so glad you called. And I
Speaker 1: was really nice and the lady was lovely because your
Speaker 1: email made me feel like shit, and she said, I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry. And we talked it through and I was like,
Speaker 1: no worries, more than happy, and off we went on
Speaker 1: our jolly way.
Speaker 2: It is so true, like you just said, the text
Speaker 2: and the email else like the tone, because you can't
Speaker 2: hear the tone the way that you read. It could
Speaker 2: just be how you're feeling. Maybe how about my tone?
Speaker 2: Your email made me feel like shit. Me if I
Speaker 2: was on the other side of that and I'm receiving that,
Speaker 2: I'd be like, oh oh sorry that that I was
Speaker 2: having a great old time I was. I was writing it,
Speaker 2: going you kids are going to get her braces off
Speaker 2: before semi form.
Speaker 1: New day tomorrow, New day tomorrow. I really pay your bill,
Speaker 1: say the field, and I really try and sort out
Speaker 1: my attitude problem.