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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of.
Speaker 1: Am I A Bad Mom? Podcasts?
Speaker 2: We muddle through parenting because there's no real well there
Speaker 2: are books.
Speaker 3: No, there's no red we're talking about this. There's no
Speaker 3: books that say how to be a mom? Yeah, raising girls,
Speaker 3: raising boys.
Speaker 2: It blows my mind that if you think about driving,
Speaker 2: for example, like you have to have a license, you
Speaker 2: have to have done lessons, you have to have passed
Speaker 2: your test.
Speaker 1: Like, don't you think I just have to do kids
Speaker 1: to anyone?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Kids just willy nilly, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3: Gonna have a child. You don't even know what you're doing.
Speaker 3: That's the thing though, you just don't think. No, this
Speaker 3: is a natural instinct I you that comes out that
Speaker 3: says I want to be a.
Speaker 1: Mom yeah, or a dad yeah, And it's just change
Speaker 1: your mind. Not really. I love my kids. I love them.
Speaker 2: Am I a bad mum for telling a little white lie?
Speaker 1: Not at all?
Speaker 2: Okay, So Holly is the kid that is not really
Speaker 2: scared of much, right, So she will pick up spiders,
Speaker 2: she will kill ants. I'm allergic to green ants, as
Speaker 2: we know. She just squashes them with their finger. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: whether you're allergic or not.
Speaker 1: They're really painful.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she doesn't care about anything like that. It wouldn't
Speaker 2: FaZe her. If she saw a snake like nothing like that.
Speaker 2: She will swim in the ocean. Doesn't even think about
Speaker 2: sharks like that. Stuff doesn't bother her at all. There's
Speaker 2: one thing that she has always hated and still hates
Speaker 2: to this day, and that's a gecko. She absolutely hates gecko.
Speaker 1: Who's geckos? I see through a lizard.
Speaker 2: I love them.
Speaker 1: Harmless. They are not even gonna like. They don't want
Speaker 1: anything to do with you.
Speaker 2: They're harmless unless you eat them.
Speaker 1: You're eating geko.
Speaker 2: No, No, this is an actual story. This actually happened.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it was definitely in Australia. Yeah, there
Speaker 2: was a guy so we're going off talking, but there
Speaker 2: was a guy who they had like a kid's birthday
Speaker 2: party or something, and the kids were like messing around,
Speaker 2: like daring each other to eat a gecko for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: they were kids, And for some unknown reason, the dad
Speaker 2: stepped in and went a ate the gecko. He died
Speaker 2: from what he died, No, because they're so full of disease.
Speaker 3: He died, well, he took a hit for the kids. Luckily,
Speaker 3: I want to talk about that particular birthday party. If
Speaker 3: your kids are sitting around fucking daring each other to
Speaker 3: eat geckos, we need to talk about your kind of
Speaker 3: birthday party.
Speaker 1: A physician, I was like, I can.
Speaker 3: Come up with a few different party tricks to not
Speaker 3: have them eating geckos.
Speaker 1: Just ever.
Speaker 2: Hates gekos them, Thank god.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: She had one in their bedroom right and it was little.
Speaker 2: It was like a baby gecko and she just started screaming,
Speaker 2: there a ge go in my room. It's bedtime. At
Speaker 2: that point, I just go to sleep. I've gone in
Speaker 2: and quiet this geko. Like, honestly, it's so fast, like
Speaker 2: I'm chasing this gecko around the room, like she stood
Speaker 2: outside the door. It's then gone behind them. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm never getting this geko reach, Like it's so fast,
Speaker 2: like I just can't get to it. So I've done here.
Speaker 1: It comes in a little mom would do, and.
Speaker 2: I've gone got it. I'm going to go and let
Speaker 2: it out in the garden. So I've walked down and
Speaker 2: I've let it out in my hands and I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh good, Like the gecko's gone happy. If you go
Speaker 2: to bed she's gone to bed.
Speaker 1: We're all good.
Speaker 2: Two nights later, h she comes screaming out of the room.
Speaker 1: They ain't Gecko in my bed.
Speaker 2: I'm like, that's the same fucking Gekko. That's the same one,
Speaker 2: the same size, looks the same. It's inner bed. I
Speaker 2: was like, Okay, I'll get it, don't worry. She's outside
Speaker 2: the room. She's like hyperventilating my cup. Believe it in
Speaker 2: my bed? It was touching me.
Speaker 1: How long has it been in there?
Speaker 2: And I've actually been able to catch it, truthfully catch
Speaker 2: it and I've got it in my hands, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I've gone over to it. And because I'm telling the
Speaker 2: truth this time, I'm like, look, have a look in here, Geko,
Speaker 2: you can see it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go and.
Speaker 2: Let it outside. I've gone and let it outside, and
Speaker 2: we're all good apart from she's thinking.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: She's thinking and thinking and it's going over and ticking
Speaker 2: over and mind and she's turned to me and she's gone,
Speaker 2: you didn't catch it the other day, did you? I
Speaker 2: think you pretended to get it and then you told
Speaker 2: me you'd got it. You went downstairs, you let it
Speaker 2: out in the garden. But there was nothing there to
Speaker 2: let out, and you left it in my room and
Speaker 2: you didn't tell me, and then it ended up in
Speaker 2: my bed. I was like, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what happened.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, because I wanted you to go to bed.
Speaker 3: You've got nothing, You've got nothing to come back on.
Speaker 3: It's not like you're saying no, I didn't do it.
Speaker 2: No, You're never gonna believe me ever again. And she
Speaker 2: even said to me, she said, I asked you to
Speaker 2: swear on your life. And I was like, yeah, but
Speaker 2: swearing on your life, it's horrible, like I do that. No,
Speaker 2: I'm telling the truth.
Speaker 3: I'm telling the truth now like you saw it. It
Speaker 3: was there, But I'm not swearing on anyone's life.
Speaker 1: It's bad. And I didn't swear on anyone's life the
Speaker 1: other night. So that's your fault. That's on you. That
Speaker 1: was your story. You heard that, not me. Oh my gosh, that.
Speaker 3: Is so good, because I genuinely just to wrap up
Speaker 3: in Africa, Gracie literally said to me.
Speaker 1: Mam, there's Geko on my bed. Mom, and I.
Speaker 3: Had again the face through the net. Momm I just
Speaker 3: had to get home in bed the geko was on
Speaker 3: my leg. I was like thinking in my head, is
Speaker 3: it a gecko? Like, why would a gecko climb underneath
Speaker 3: the sheet, underneath.
Speaker 1: The douvet run over your legs.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I had to then prove a point because it
Speaker 3: was like three o'clock in the morning, it was on
Speaker 3: the second night.
Speaker 1: We'd only been there two nights. And then I literally
Speaker 1: pulled it back in. There was his baby geko, and
Speaker 1: I was like, thank god it wasn't a scorpion or something.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I reckon because I have never
Speaker 2: in my life ever I like geckos, and I have
Speaker 2: never had a gecko in my bed ever in my life,
Speaker 2: nor have I known anyone to have a geko yeah
Speaker 2: in there, But I reckon. They can tell that she
Speaker 2: didn't like them. You don't know how they say, like
Speaker 2: horses can smell your fear, and dogs.
Speaker 1: And some cats don't like people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cats like people that don't like them. So the people,
Speaker 3: you know, people that walk in and go, oh my sorry,
Speaker 3: I don't do cats, and you're like okay, yeah, and
Speaker 3: then they just like gravitate to that person like magnetic force.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well my cat Nala, you know, she doesn't like anyone.
Speaker 2: She doesn't like the world like you. Arches her back,
Speaker 2: like fuck off. She doesn't like anyone.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The only person she likes my dad, who's like really allergic.
Speaker 1: He's the only person she.
Speaker 2: Will go and jump and still on his lap. I'm like, who,
Speaker 2: even Ei Nala, you don't sit on anyone's lap. Dad's like,
Speaker 2: God is puffer out, can't breathe.
Speaker 3: Not only did you try and kill him falling over
Speaker 3: the back of the boat, also trying to kill him
Speaker 3: with your cat.
Speaker 1: He's never coming back to Australia. Breathe, Sorry, Dad,