1 00:00:05,921 --> 00:00:24,921 Speaker 1: Apogae Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am I 2 00:00:25,121 --> 00:00:29,681 Speaker 1: A Bad Mum? Podcast? We are so close to Christmas? 3 00:00:29,921 --> 00:00:31,481 Speaker 2: Is it true? Like six weeks? 4 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 3: Ye? 5 00:00:32,321 --> 00:00:34,601 Speaker 2: Six weeks or five weeks out from Christmas? 6 00:00:34,721 --> 00:00:36,681 Speaker 1: I feel like it's only three weeks left of school, 7 00:00:37,001 --> 00:00:38,881 Speaker 1: three weeks three or four? 8 00:00:39,001 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 2: That means four for me. 9 00:00:40,521 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 3: That means my child's four weeks off of graduating. Yeah, 10 00:00:43,601 --> 00:00:45,081 Speaker 3: primary school school. 11 00:00:45,361 --> 00:00:46,401 Speaker 1: That's a milestone. 12 00:00:46,721 --> 00:00:48,041 Speaker 2: Yay loiesus. 13 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:49,881 Speaker 1: Do you do a lot for Halloween? I know we've 14 00:00:49,921 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: just had Halloween. 15 00:00:50,721 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, we do because the area that we live in 16 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 3: is quite inundated with people. Because it's sort of like 17 00:00:57,041 --> 00:00:59,921 Speaker 3: everyone's caught on that in the village. Everyone sort of 18 00:01:00,001 --> 00:01:03,001 Speaker 3: joins in, and so we do. We get right into it. 19 00:01:03,041 --> 00:01:05,881 Speaker 3: I bought Halloween things for the front, and we get 20 00:01:05,961 --> 00:01:07,641 Speaker 3: right into it. And I feel like I've just pulled 21 00:01:07,681 --> 00:01:09,681 Speaker 3: down the giant spider to be able to put up 22 00:01:09,961 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 3: a Christmas tree. 23 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 2: I haven't put the Christmas tree up yet. No good. 24 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,881 Speaker 1: So we were home on Halloween. Actually the girls are 25 00:01:16,881 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: both working now, they're working girls, and I was like 26 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: working girls, working girl. But I got home from taking 27 00:01:27,601 --> 00:01:29,481 Speaker 1: them to work and Day was sat there and he 28 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: had a Halloween mask on. He'd got the lollies out 29 00:01:35,081 --> 00:01:39,081 Speaker 1: of the pantree and he'd put like this little halloween 30 00:01:39,401 --> 00:01:41,721 Speaker 1: thing out on the front porch, which like when you 31 00:01:41,761 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: walk close to it, it's like scared. It's like, ah, scaredgy. 32 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,281 Speaker 1: And he looked really miserable, and I went, what's wrong? 33 00:01:48,401 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: And he went, we haven't had one single trick or tree. 34 00:01:52,321 --> 00:01:54,641 Speaker 2: Really, did you have anyone come to the door? 35 00:01:54,721 --> 00:01:56,361 Speaker 1: Not one single person? Do you know what he said 36 00:01:56,401 --> 00:02:00,081 Speaker 1: to me? Since your fault? So why, he said, Because 37 00:02:00,121 --> 00:02:02,361 Speaker 1: you dig out lollies from seven years ago that you 38 00:02:02,401 --> 00:02:04,881 Speaker 1: never let the kids have when they did trickle tree, 39 00:02:05,321 --> 00:02:07,321 Speaker 1: and that's why no one comes to our house anymore. 40 00:02:07,441 --> 00:02:09,601 Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're the crazy lady down the street 41 00:02:09,601 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: that brings out old lollies. 42 00:02:21,601 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 2: Am I bad mom. 43 00:02:22,641 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: For comparing them to when we were teenagers? 44 00:02:26,881 --> 00:02:27,041 Speaker 3: Oh? 45 00:02:27,081 --> 00:02:29,761 Speaker 2: Look, we talk about this a bit, don't we. Yeah, 46 00:02:29,841 --> 00:02:33,081 Speaker 2: we're not that old. We're not that far off being teenagers. 47 00:02:33,481 --> 00:02:36,041 Speaker 1: When I was talking to them the other day about driving, 48 00:02:36,281 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: I was like, I've been driving since I was seventeen, 49 00:02:38,561 --> 00:02:39,601 Speaker 1: And then I did the math. 50 00:02:39,881 --> 00:02:41,121 Speaker 2: No, I don't, I know. 51 00:02:42,081 --> 00:02:44,081 Speaker 3: It feels so much more fresher when you say no, 52 00:02:44,121 --> 00:02:45,681 Speaker 3: I've been driving since I was seventeen. 53 00:02:45,841 --> 00:02:48,721 Speaker 1: Yeah, they weren't saying I've been driving for twenty four years. 54 00:02:48,761 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 2: You don't say that it's horrible. Don't count it. That's 55 00:02:53,161 --> 00:02:56,081 Speaker 2: a lot of years. Yeah, I know, just staying with 56 00:02:56,121 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 2: the fresh comment, like, you know. 57 00:02:57,721 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: Since I was seventeen, seventeen, Yeah, just a few years ago, 58 00:03:01,881 --> 00:03:05,041 Speaker 1: far away at all. I feel like we compare them 59 00:03:05,121 --> 00:03:07,481 Speaker 1: a lot to when we were teenagers, because I feel 60 00:03:07,481 --> 00:03:09,841 Speaker 1: like we were a lot more resilient than they are now. 61 00:03:10,401 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: We've allowed them to be children for longer, we had 62 00:03:13,441 --> 00:03:15,841 Speaker 1: all the whole. When I think about the time I 63 00:03:15,841 --> 00:03:18,761 Speaker 1: was allowed to walk home on my own in the 64 00:03:18,881 --> 00:03:24,921 Speaker 1: dark through the graveyard eleven pm, it's crazy. Now now it's. 65 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 3: Like, no, they're out the front waiting for their uber 66 00:03:27,321 --> 00:03:32,201 Speaker 3: that well, we've created these monsters, have We've allowed it 67 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:32,641 Speaker 3: to happen. 68 00:03:33,081 --> 00:03:36,761 Speaker 1: But I had an appointment booked to see a naturopath. 69 00:03:37,121 --> 00:03:39,041 Speaker 1: I've wanted to do this for years and I never have. 70 00:03:39,201 --> 00:03:41,721 Speaker 1: And I was like, I feel like I'm the sort 71 00:03:41,721 --> 00:03:46,601 Speaker 1: of person that will see an advert for some sort 72 00:03:46,601 --> 00:03:52,281 Speaker 1: of greens powder or cow's liver capsule or whatever it 73 00:03:52,401 --> 00:03:55,281 Speaker 1: might be, and I literally see it and go, I 74 00:03:55,321 --> 00:03:58,121 Speaker 1: need that. That's what I need, And then I have it, 75 00:03:58,281 --> 00:04:00,161 Speaker 1: and then I don't feel any different, and then I 76 00:04:00,241 --> 00:04:03,361 Speaker 1: move on to the next thing that someone's advertising me. Like, honestly, 77 00:04:03,401 --> 00:04:06,241 Speaker 1: I'm like a marketer's dream. I literally everything I see, 78 00:04:06,281 --> 00:04:07,321 Speaker 1: I'm like, yep, I need that. 79 00:04:07,481 --> 00:04:08,161 Speaker 2: I'll try it. 80 00:04:08,241 --> 00:04:09,641 Speaker 1: So I got to the point where I was like, 81 00:04:09,801 --> 00:04:12,721 Speaker 1: I don't know what I need? Do I need that? Stuff? Like? 82 00:04:12,921 --> 00:04:14,841 Speaker 1: What am I deficient in? How do I know what 83 00:04:14,881 --> 00:04:17,601 Speaker 1: I'm deficient in? Why do I never feel any better 84 00:04:17,641 --> 00:04:20,401 Speaker 1: from taking these vitamins and stuff? Do I even need them? 85 00:04:20,721 --> 00:04:23,601 Speaker 1: So I went to see a naturopath bought some sort 86 00:04:23,601 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: of vitamin powder for ninety dollars. I don't even know 87 00:04:27,521 --> 00:04:28,081 Speaker 1: what it does. 88 00:04:28,481 --> 00:04:30,401 Speaker 2: I even know. I was like, just because she said 89 00:04:30,401 --> 00:04:32,961 Speaker 2: you needed it or you were lacking in something. 90 00:04:32,801 --> 00:04:35,041 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even know. I just was likely, So 91 00:04:35,041 --> 00:04:36,681 Speaker 1: if you're telling me that I need that, then I 92 00:04:36,721 --> 00:04:37,081 Speaker 1: need that. 93 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:38,521 Speaker 2: At least you're taking a box. 94 00:04:38,561 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 3: By finally getting to see naturopath, that's too good to start. 95 00:04:42,081 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm in there and she said to me, 96 00:04:44,361 --> 00:04:46,521 Speaker 1: what supplements do you take? And so I said, oh, 97 00:04:46,521 --> 00:04:49,241 Speaker 1: you know, I take vitamin D and sometimes I take 98 00:04:49,281 --> 00:04:53,561 Speaker 1: a probitic I forgot some left. Sometimes I might have 99 00:04:53,601 --> 00:04:56,121 Speaker 1: a Vitamin C if it's on special in coals, and 100 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,881 Speaker 1: so it's just a little bit of Witch's back. And 101 00:05:00,001 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: we just got on too talking about the kids. Yeah, 102 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: I said, I bought Lemmy gummies because the kids were 103 00:05:06,921 --> 00:05:09,841 Speaker 1: telling me that that's what we needed. Shed Lemmy gummies 104 00:05:09,841 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: are like, yeah, you know, the the Krny Kardashian her brand. 105 00:05:13,041 --> 00:05:15,921 Speaker 1: And I take the debloat ones, which are good for 106 00:05:16,001 --> 00:05:19,001 Speaker 1: gut health. And I said, and the sea moss. She went, wow, 107 00:05:19,721 --> 00:05:23,801 Speaker 1: isn't that crazy that your fifteen year old children talking 108 00:05:23,801 --> 00:05:28,201 Speaker 1: about needing sea moss? I said, yeah, we never did 109 00:05:28,201 --> 00:05:32,521 Speaker 1: that when we were teenagers. Could you imagine ever talking 110 00:05:32,561 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: about needing sea moss or any vitamins or any wellness 111 00:05:36,161 --> 00:05:40,361 Speaker 1: anything when we were teenagers. I'm like, my kids have 112 00:05:40,481 --> 00:05:44,881 Speaker 1: now turned sixteen. My kids are talking about Lemmy gummies, 113 00:05:45,201 --> 00:05:50,921 Speaker 1: They're talking about ancestral nutrition, liver capsules, they're talking about 114 00:05:51,041 --> 00:05:55,281 Speaker 1: sea moss. I was like their age. I was working 115 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,001 Speaker 1: in the cloak room of a nightclub being paid in speed. 116 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 2: I was waiting for so. 117 00:06:04,281 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 3: Did the natural mouth literally just dropped like they're like, 118 00:06:07,601 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 3: what the fuck am I dealing with you? Yet? 119 00:06:10,361 --> 00:06:12,601 Speaker 2: Look, I'm also on the other side of it. 120 00:06:12,721 --> 00:06:16,641 Speaker 3: I would never just take gummies or beef livered tablets 121 00:06:16,681 --> 00:06:19,801 Speaker 3: because the Kardashians told me so, Like, I just wouldn't. 122 00:06:19,801 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 3: It's just not the way I do think. So I 123 00:06:21,801 --> 00:06:23,681 Speaker 3: would be this, I'd be like, oh, that's cool. 124 00:06:23,841 --> 00:06:24,281 Speaker 2: No, I'm not. 125 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: Well, it's because also in this day and age, we 126 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,161 Speaker 1: scroll through Instagram or whatever you're having a look at, 127 00:06:29,521 --> 00:06:33,281 Speaker 1: and every influencer is advertising something something, but you don't 128 00:06:33,361 --> 00:06:35,721 Speaker 1: know what to believe because they're all being paid for it. 129 00:06:36,121 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 3: That's exactly right, That's what I mean. So I just 130 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:39,601 Speaker 3: don't believe any of them. 131 00:06:40,281 --> 00:06:41,681 Speaker 2: It's just it's clear. 132 00:06:42,401 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 3: Also, the other part of it is is like it's 133 00:06:44,681 --> 00:06:49,201 Speaker 3: so interesting and I find the whole Like your girls 134 00:06:49,201 --> 00:06:52,081 Speaker 3: are sixteen now, you know they must be really interested 135 00:06:52,201 --> 00:06:55,001 Speaker 3: in that side of things, like well being and like 136 00:06:55,041 --> 00:06:57,321 Speaker 3: what you're putting into your body. And I was talking 137 00:06:57,361 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 3: to a couple of other girls and they were like, 138 00:06:58,841 --> 00:07:03,881 Speaker 3: they're very opposed drinking alcohol. I remember being their age, 139 00:07:04,041 --> 00:07:06,801 Speaker 3: I was not a posed to drinking alcohol. I just 140 00:07:06,841 --> 00:07:08,361 Speaker 3: had to do it without getting caught. 141 00:07:09,641 --> 00:07:11,121 Speaker 2: Yea. Now it's a flip. 142 00:07:11,321 --> 00:07:15,801 Speaker 1: It's so interesting because it's also so yes the teenagers, 143 00:07:15,841 --> 00:07:18,441 Speaker 1: but also the early twenties. It's that, like gen Z, 144 00:07:18,921 --> 00:07:22,641 Speaker 1: there's an age group that, oh, so much healthier than us. 145 00:07:22,721 --> 00:07:23,201 Speaker 2: Yeah. 146 00:07:23,241 --> 00:07:25,641 Speaker 3: One of the mums in I'm gonna let you guess 147 00:07:25,681 --> 00:07:28,441 Speaker 3: which one it is, but one of the moms. 148 00:07:28,161 --> 00:07:30,161 Speaker 2: Out of the group of friends. 149 00:07:30,481 --> 00:07:32,361 Speaker 3: We were doing a workout the other day and she's 150 00:07:32,361 --> 00:07:35,041 Speaker 3: telling me about how, oh my god, Rachel I found 151 00:07:35,121 --> 00:07:37,641 Speaker 3: these amazing alcohol free ciders. 152 00:07:37,801 --> 00:07:43,481 Speaker 1: Oh Emma, did she add to this. 153 00:07:43,721 --> 00:07:46,961 Speaker 3: She's like, they're so good, like they genuinely taste like 154 00:07:47,081 --> 00:07:49,961 Speaker 3: cider and they're like alcohol free and this. 155 00:07:50,041 --> 00:07:52,081 Speaker 2: And I was like, babe, just drink soda water. What 156 00:07:52,081 --> 00:07:53,561 Speaker 2: do you need that for? She because, well, I want 157 00:07:53,561 --> 00:07:54,761 Speaker 2: to feel like I'm having to drink. 158 00:07:54,761 --> 00:07:56,161 Speaker 3: I was like, but she goes, but I'm not having 159 00:07:56,161 --> 00:07:58,041 Speaker 3: a drink, you know, like I'm really saving and they 160 00:07:58,121 --> 00:08:00,281 Speaker 3: only have a drink on the weekend. I said, number one, 161 00:08:00,401 --> 00:08:03,281 Speaker 3: I'm so proud of you for making that change. I said, 162 00:08:03,281 --> 00:08:07,561 Speaker 3: but number two, drink side of four that's alcohol. 163 00:08:07,881 --> 00:08:08,681 Speaker 2: Just drink water. 164 00:08:09,561 --> 00:08:11,441 Speaker 3: Just have a soda water. It will give you the 165 00:08:11,441 --> 00:08:13,521 Speaker 3: effect of the bubbles. And she was like, no, you 166 00:08:13,601 --> 00:08:15,761 Speaker 3: just need to try it. Oh, I couldn't think of 167 00:08:15,801 --> 00:08:16,521 Speaker 3: anything worse. 168 00:08:16,801 --> 00:08:18,761 Speaker 1: I am not a fan of that either. I'm like, 169 00:08:18,881 --> 00:08:21,441 Speaker 1: if I am going to drink a non alcoholic wine, 170 00:08:21,481 --> 00:08:24,121 Speaker 1: for example, and it hasn't got the alcohol and it 171 00:08:24,161 --> 00:08:24,841 Speaker 1: what's the point? 172 00:08:25,001 --> 00:08:26,521 Speaker 2: Nah, just waste calorie. 173 00:08:27,121 --> 00:08:29,361 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want a bottle of I don't want 174 00:08:29,361 --> 00:08:31,601 Speaker 3: to drink a bottle of something that's like loaded with 175 00:08:31,681 --> 00:08:32,801 Speaker 3: sugar and all of that stuff. 176 00:08:32,841 --> 00:08:34,481 Speaker 2: I'd just rather drink soda water. 177 00:08:34,641 --> 00:08:39,481 Speaker 3: But in saying that, this whole wave of alcohol free 178 00:08:39,921 --> 00:08:43,241 Speaker 3: drinks that are available now, that's insane. It's so good 179 00:08:43,241 --> 00:08:46,601 Speaker 3: to see, actually, and I really support it. I'm not 180 00:08:46,721 --> 00:08:50,441 Speaker 3: supporting the companies by financially backing them and buying the 181 00:08:50,481 --> 00:08:52,361 Speaker 3: product because you still like I drunk. 182 00:08:56,601 --> 00:08:59,241 Speaker 2: But I do love it for other people. 183 00:08:59,601 --> 00:09:02,961 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, love it for other people. Good on you. 184 00:09:03,081 --> 00:09:05,561 Speaker 2: I don't drink every day. We know this, This is 185 00:09:05,601 --> 00:09:07,601 Speaker 2: a fact. I love to. 186 00:09:07,641 --> 00:09:10,401 Speaker 3: Still, though, have a gen and Tonic on the weekends. 187 00:09:10,441 --> 00:09:14,721 Speaker 3: Come on, you need a sometimes. We know there's nights 188 00:09:14,761 --> 00:09:18,361 Speaker 3: where you just one quiet gener Tonic might just. 189 00:09:19,001 --> 00:09:22,641 Speaker 2: Help you go to sleep. Yeah, well five, If I 190 00:09:22,681 --> 00:09:24,401 Speaker 2: have five, I'm on the other side, We're gone. 191 00:09:24,441 --> 00:09:27,681 Speaker 3: Out the party side. 192 00:09:27,961 --> 00:09:30,401 Speaker 2: Clearly I didn't come from the same gen Z group. 193 00:09:30,921 --> 00:09:34,161 Speaker 1: No, Like, yes, we're more unhealthy. I'm aware of that. 194 00:09:34,281 --> 00:09:37,321 Speaker 1: Like we didn't grow up with you know, we were 195 00:09:37,321 --> 00:09:41,001 Speaker 1: so different thinking about Sea Moss. No, geez were fun. 196 00:09:44,161 --> 00:09:45,681 Speaker 2: I'm just here for the vibes, guys. 197 00:09:45,921 --> 00:09:48,121 Speaker 3: And then all of the kids turn around and they're 198 00:09:48,161 --> 00:09:51,201 Speaker 3: like sober as a judge, and there's us in the background. 199 00:09:53,081 --> 00:09:55,281 Speaker 2: We're just like one of those fun moms, guys.