Speaker 1: Apod shape production look back to another episode a new
Speaker 1: season of Am I a Bad Mum podcast for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five.
Speaker 2: I was literally driving in Katie going, I can't believe
Speaker 2: kind of that we're here again. We've had a few
Speaker 2: weeks off.
Speaker 1: What I've realized is that Christmas has such a build up.
Speaker 1: There's so much that goes on, even in like you know,
Speaker 1: once Halloween's done, then you've got November, the kids are
Speaker 1: starting to get tired and think about wrapping up school,
Speaker 1: You're doing Christmas parties, like everything's going on, you have Christmas,
Speaker 1: and then it's like bam over you don't oh you
Speaker 1: put your Christmas tree down on Boxing Day. I knew
Speaker 1: that was.
Speaker 2: Leading in because I thought of you as December twenty
Speaker 2: six rolls around and I am ushering out my family
Speaker 2: that all stayed, and like just started on this rampage
Speaker 2: of like you know where people leaving just want to
Speaker 2: clean your house. Because I'd had visitors for like days
Speaker 2: on end, and I was just like, I just want
Speaker 2: to clean, and then it sort of started and then
Speaker 2: it just didn't finish, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the house is clear of all Christmas.
Speaker 1: Literally Christmas was over and you sent me a video
Speaker 1: about what to screwed you either. Because my rule is
Speaker 1: New Year's Day, so you keep it up for Christmas
Speaker 1: Eve and then your decorations come down New Yearday. And
Speaker 1: you know what, I loved taking the decorations down usday,
Speaker 1: like it felt cleansing to me. Am I a bad
Speaker 1: mum for almost killing a family member. I've had relatives
Speaker 1: over as well. My dad and his wife have been
Speaker 1: over from England and rate we bought a boat.
Speaker 2: This is exciting. Actually, someone also just texted me the
Speaker 2: other day and said Katie boating person Mark and I
Speaker 2: was like, yes, she is twenty twenty five is boating year.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is so good. Just a cheap
Speaker 1: little run around. And something quite traumatic happened when we
Speaker 1: went for our second ever go on the boat. So
Speaker 1: we reversed it in on the ramp. So it's called
Speaker 1: h yeah, the ramp, So you reverse in the boat
Speaker 1: and then you disconnect it whatever. Jay does that part,
Speaker 1: and then my job was to drive trailer back out
Speaker 1: and then park the car. So did that all great?
Speaker 1: So Jay is on the boat in the driving seats.
Speaker 1: Someone's to the wrong person.
Speaker 2: I was like this yep, in my head, I know
Speaker 2: exactly wherever it is.
Speaker 1: He was driving. Everyone knows what I mean. And then
Speaker 1: my dad's wife has got on the boat and my
Speaker 1: kids are there too. Holly has a rope holding the
Speaker 1: front of the boat. Amelia's job is to make sure
Speaker 1: that the boat isn't touching the jetty a job.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then I come background. I've managed to park the trailer.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of myself because it's sucking hard.
Speaker 2: I was like that in itself. Me. I'm like.
Speaker 1: When I got back to the boat, it's like this
Speaker 1: all happened in slow motion. So my dad, who is
Speaker 1: in his seventies, he's a large guy. He had one
Speaker 1: foot on the jetty, one foot on the boat.
Speaker 2: At the back of the boat. Right, he's getting the
Speaker 2: back of boat.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Jay said, everyone get on the front. He
Speaker 1: was like, no, I'm going to find it easier on
Speaker 1: the back. One foot on the jetty, one foot on
Speaker 1: the boat. And then I'm watching in slow motion all
Speaker 1: of us in horror as the back of the boat
Speaker 1: moves away from the jet and my dad is slowly
Speaker 1: doing the splits and everyone's like, oh my god, what
Speaker 1: is happening?
Speaker 2: Here. Everyone's waiting for it because everyone knows the inevitable
Speaker 2: is about to happen.
Speaker 1: And I'm briefly in my mind, I'm going this is
Speaker 1: really dangerous. This is not going to end well. And
Speaker 1: he's looked at us and gone, I'm going in, and
Speaker 1: he has gone into the water. My concern was he
Speaker 1: was just going to keep doing the splits, keep doing
Speaker 1: the splits, and then like fall back and smash his
Speaker 1: head on the jelly or something like that. He's opted
Speaker 1: to just go I have to go in. My only
Speaker 1: option is to go in. He's fallen into the water.
Speaker 1: We've all gone to like grabbing arm. This guy on
Speaker 1: a boat behind us has taken his shirt off and
Speaker 1: he has jumped straight into the water and he's like
Speaker 1: trying to help. We're then trying to get this seventy
Speaker 1: year old onto the back of the ladder of the boat.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Rach it was like I felt like
Speaker 1: I had PTSD off the back of it. Holly looked
Speaker 1: at me, she went, mom, I filck, I'm gonna vomit.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have to ask it. But in that part
Speaker 2: of like watching it slow as he's starting to split,
Speaker 2: like boats coming away Jenny's going a little bit further,
Speaker 2: like this is there a little bit of you just
Speaker 2: going like this is a little bit funny, but a
Speaker 2: little bit fucked up. But this is a little bit funny,
Speaker 2: and I don't know what I'm meant to be doing.
Speaker 1: His wife starts crying. No, it was like it was traumatic.
Speaker 1: And then rag finally we got out. No one's talking,
Speaker 1: like we all got on the boat. Dad's soaking wet
Speaker 1: in his clothes. Old mate who's jumped into help has gone, fuck,
Speaker 1: I've left my phone in my pocket. He hadn't who
Speaker 1: had his boat? Legend of a man, Yeah, his wife,
Speaker 1: And so then we've started going on the boat. No
Speaker 1: one's speaking because we're all really traumatized. But once just happened.
Speaker 1: This is on the Gold Coast. We get out, it's
Speaker 1: got super choppy, so Jay's going faster to try and
Speaker 1: get through the waves. We're getting absolutely soaked. I felt
Speaker 1: like I was in the middle of like some kind
Speaker 1: of rough seed storm. I'm like, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do with myself. I'm like holding on for dear life.
Speaker 1: I'm looking back at the two seven year olds in
Speaker 1: the boat, thinking, fuck, they're not enjoying this at all.
Speaker 1: We've eventually got to like the canals where it's a
Speaker 1: lot calmer, and all I'm thinking is fuck going back
Speaker 1: out there? How are we going to get back out?
Speaker 1: We've gone through the canals, We've stopped and had a
Speaker 1: sandwich I bought with us, and the boat stopped working.
Speaker 1: What's broken down? Jay's trying to fix the Enginey's trying
Speaker 1: to rev it again. It's not happening. We've had to
Speaker 1: tie up in somebody else's jetty, private jetty at their home.
Speaker 1: It's not going anywhere. We ended up calling out the
Speaker 1: rescue boat. The rescue boats come. It's tied a rope
Speaker 1: from their boat to our boat. Jay is in the
Speaker 1: driving seat again. My Dad's insisted on staying on the boat.
Speaker 1: We've all gone on the rescue boat. This boat has
Speaker 1: then gone full throttle through those waves to get through.
Speaker 1: I'm watching Jay's holding on for dear life. Dad's on
Speaker 1: the back. He's had to lie down. We're just a lot.
Speaker 1: Then we've all like hung our heads in shame as
Speaker 1: we get towed back to the jetty in the lifeboat.
Speaker 2: My gosh, at this stage, Kat I would have been
Speaker 2: like sell the fucking boat.
Speaker 1: It's too much.
Speaker 2: That's almost like, am I a bad daughter for almost
Speaker 2: killing my parents? It's kind of reversal of what we
Speaker 2: constantly talk about. Yeah, oh my, that sounds traumatic. I
Speaker 2: don't even know how your dad's still staying on that
Speaker 2: boat to get dragged home. I would be. I mean,
Speaker 2: I get why he did it. I get why he
Speaker 2: didn't want to swap boats because.
Speaker 1: He'd be now got a bad back, he's massive bruises.
Speaker 2: Your parents are in their seventies and you almost killed
Speaker 2: them off the side of a boat. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: welcome to Australia, thanks for coming.
Speaker 1: Happy holidays, and now you're about to.
Speaker 2: Go home, so I'm going to send you off on it.
Speaker 1: I was like, you better be careful dad. The sharks
Speaker 1: and there was deep water.
Speaker 2: Where were you though, Like, just were you in the
Speaker 2: canals when you were getting where he fell? No?
Speaker 1: Like out in the broadwater?
Speaker 2: Oh right?
Speaker 1: Is that what it's called?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like out where? And then that other guy I
Speaker 2: decided to put his life on the line to jump in.
Speaker 1: To what a nice guy? A nice guy, Such a
Speaker 1: nice guy. Holly was traumatized because she was supposed to
Speaker 1: be the one holding the boat to the jetty on the.
Speaker 2: Had a moment of thought of going okay, so as
Speaker 2: the boat was sort of going teetering out, who was
Speaker 2: in charge of holding a boat to the jetty?
Speaker 1: So she was, but she was doing a good job
Speaker 1: because she was holding the boat to the jetty. But
Speaker 1: she was holding the front of the boat to the jetty.
Speaker 1: We all just sat and watched the back of the
Speaker 1: boat just go out now doing the splits.
Speaker 2: I would have been dying inside. I would have been
Speaker 2: dying inside, panicking inside. But when those sorts of things happened,
Speaker 2: I start to just cry with laughter because I can't
Speaker 2: like that stuff. Is kind of like that TV show
Speaker 2: that we used to always watch, that Funniest Home Videos,
Speaker 2: Like yeah, yeah, actually it happened all the time.
Speaker 1: I wish we'd filmed there.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: That's why TikTok would be viral, right we would? Oh
Speaker 1: you for dad, mister trip on that one. Quick, get
Speaker 1: your phone out, sorry Dad, Hold the splits, Hold the splits.
Speaker 1: At the end of it, I think it was Amelia
Speaker 1: when Grandad you should start doing pilates.