Speaker 1: Apogae Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am I
Speaker 1: A Bad Mum? Podcast? We are so close to Christmas?
Speaker 2: Is it true? Like six weeks?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 2: Six weeks or five weeks out from Christmas?
Speaker 1: I feel like it's only three weeks left of school,
Speaker 1: three weeks three or four?
Speaker 2: That means four for me.
Speaker 3: That means my child's four weeks off of graduating. Yeah,
Speaker 3: primary school school.
Speaker 1: That's a milestone.
Speaker 2: Yay loiesus.
Speaker 1: Do you do a lot for Halloween? I know we've
Speaker 1: just had Halloween.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do because the area that we live in
Speaker 3: is quite inundated with people. Because it's sort of like
Speaker 3: everyone's caught on that in the village. Everyone sort of
Speaker 3: joins in, and so we do. We get right into it.
Speaker 3: I bought Halloween things for the front, and we get
Speaker 3: right into it. And I feel like I've just pulled
Speaker 3: down the giant spider to be able to put up
Speaker 3: a Christmas tree.
Speaker 2: I haven't put the Christmas tree up yet. No good.
Speaker 1: So we were home on Halloween. Actually the girls are
Speaker 1: both working now, they're working girls, and I was like
Speaker 1: working girls, working girl. But I got home from taking
Speaker 1: them to work and Day was sat there and he
Speaker 1: had a Halloween mask on. He'd got the lollies out
Speaker 1: of the pantree and he'd put like this little halloween
Speaker 1: thing out on the front porch, which like when you
Speaker 1: walk close to it, it's like scared. It's like, ah, scaredgy.
Speaker 1: And he looked really miserable, and I went, what's wrong?
Speaker 1: And he went, we haven't had one single trick or tree.
Speaker 2: Really, did you have anyone come to the door?
Speaker 1: Not one single person? Do you know what he said
Speaker 1: to me? Since your fault? So why, he said, Because
Speaker 1: you dig out lollies from seven years ago that you
Speaker 1: never let the kids have when they did trickle tree,
Speaker 1: and that's why no one comes to our house anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're the crazy lady down the street
Speaker 1: that brings out old lollies.
Speaker 2: Am I bad mom.
Speaker 1: For comparing them to when we were teenagers?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Look, we talk about this a bit, don't we. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're not that old. We're not that far off being teenagers.
Speaker 1: When I was talking to them the other day about driving,
Speaker 1: I was like, I've been driving since I was seventeen,
Speaker 1: And then I did the math.
Speaker 2: No, I don't, I know.
Speaker 3: It feels so much more fresher when you say no,
Speaker 3: I've been driving since I was seventeen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they weren't saying I've been driving for twenty four years.
Speaker 2: You don't say that it's horrible. Don't count it. That's
Speaker 2: a lot of years. Yeah, I know, just staying with
Speaker 2: the fresh comment, like, you know.
Speaker 1: Since I was seventeen, seventeen, Yeah, just a few years ago,
Speaker 1: far away at all. I feel like we compare them
Speaker 1: a lot to when we were teenagers, because I feel
Speaker 1: like we were a lot more resilient than they are now.
Speaker 1: We've allowed them to be children for longer, we had
Speaker 1: all the whole. When I think about the time I
Speaker 1: was allowed to walk home on my own in the
Speaker 1: dark through the graveyard eleven pm, it's crazy. Now now it's.
Speaker 3: Like, no, they're out the front waiting for their uber
Speaker 3: that well, we've created these monsters, have We've allowed it
Speaker 3: to happen.
Speaker 1: But I had an appointment booked to see a naturopath.
Speaker 1: I've wanted to do this for years and I never have.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I feel like I'm the sort
Speaker 1: of person that will see an advert for some sort
Speaker 1: of greens powder or cow's liver capsule or whatever it
Speaker 1: might be, and I literally see it and go, I
Speaker 1: need that. That's what I need, And then I have it,
Speaker 1: and then I don't feel any different, and then I
Speaker 1: move on to the next thing that someone's advertising me. Like, honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm like a marketer's dream. I literally everything I see,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yep, I need that.
Speaker 2: I'll try it.
Speaker 1: So I got to the point where I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I need? Do I need that? Stuff? Like?
Speaker 1: What am I deficient in? How do I know what
Speaker 1: I'm deficient in? Why do I never feel any better
Speaker 1: from taking these vitamins and stuff? Do I even need them?
Speaker 1: So I went to see a naturopath bought some sort
Speaker 1: of vitamin powder for ninety dollars. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what it does.
Speaker 2: I even know. I was like, just because she said
Speaker 2: you needed it or you were lacking in something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even know. I just was likely, So
Speaker 1: if you're telling me that I need that, then I
Speaker 1: need that.
Speaker 2: At least you're taking a box.
Speaker 3: By finally getting to see naturopath, that's too good to start.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm in there and she said to me,
Speaker 1: what supplements do you take? And so I said, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I take vitamin D and sometimes I take
Speaker 1: a probitic I forgot some left. Sometimes I might have
Speaker 1: a Vitamin C if it's on special in coals, and
Speaker 1: so it's just a little bit of Witch's back. And
Speaker 1: we just got on too talking about the kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, I bought Lemmy gummies because the kids were
Speaker 1: telling me that that's what we needed. Shed Lemmy gummies
Speaker 1: are like, yeah, you know, the the Krny Kardashian her brand.
Speaker 1: And I take the debloat ones, which are good for
Speaker 1: gut health. And I said, and the sea moss. She went, wow,
Speaker 1: isn't that crazy that your fifteen year old children talking
Speaker 1: about needing sea moss? I said, yeah, we never did
Speaker 1: that when we were teenagers. Could you imagine ever talking
Speaker 1: about needing sea moss or any vitamins or any wellness
Speaker 1: anything when we were teenagers. I'm like, my kids have
Speaker 1: now turned sixteen. My kids are talking about Lemmy gummies,
Speaker 1: They're talking about ancestral nutrition, liver capsules, they're talking about
Speaker 1: sea moss. I was like their age. I was working
Speaker 1: in the cloak room of a nightclub being paid in speed.
Speaker 2: I was waiting for so.
Speaker 3: Did the natural mouth literally just dropped like they're like,
Speaker 3: what the fuck am I dealing with you? Yet?
Speaker 2: Look, I'm also on the other side of it.
Speaker 3: I would never just take gummies or beef livered tablets
Speaker 3: because the Kardashians told me so, Like, I just wouldn't.
Speaker 3: It's just not the way I do think. So I
Speaker 3: would be this, I'd be like, oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Well, it's because also in this day and age, we
Speaker 1: scroll through Instagram or whatever you're having a look at,
Speaker 1: and every influencer is advertising something something, but you don't
Speaker 1: know what to believe because they're all being paid for it.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right, That's what I mean. So I just
Speaker 3: don't believe any of them.
Speaker 2: It's just it's clear.
Speaker 3: Also, the other part of it is is like it's
Speaker 3: so interesting and I find the whole Like your girls
Speaker 3: are sixteen now, you know they must be really interested
Speaker 3: in that side of things, like well being and like
Speaker 3: what you're putting into your body. And I was talking
Speaker 3: to a couple of other girls and they were like,
Speaker 3: they're very opposed drinking alcohol. I remember being their age,
Speaker 3: I was not a posed to drinking alcohol. I just
Speaker 3: had to do it without getting caught.
Speaker 2: Yea. Now it's a flip.
Speaker 1: It's so interesting because it's also so yes the teenagers,
Speaker 1: but also the early twenties. It's that, like gen Z,
Speaker 1: there's an age group that, oh, so much healthier than us.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: One of the mums in I'm gonna let you guess
Speaker 3: which one it is, but one of the moms.
Speaker 2: Out of the group of friends.
Speaker 3: We were doing a workout the other day and she's
Speaker 3: telling me about how, oh my god, Rachel I found
Speaker 3: these amazing alcohol free ciders.
Speaker 1: Oh Emma, did she add to this.
Speaker 3: She's like, they're so good, like they genuinely taste like
Speaker 3: cider and they're like alcohol free and this.
Speaker 2: And I was like, babe, just drink soda water. What
Speaker 2: do you need that for? She because, well, I want
Speaker 2: to feel like I'm having to drink.
Speaker 3: I was like, but she goes, but I'm not having
Speaker 3: a drink, you know, like I'm really saving and they
Speaker 3: only have a drink on the weekend. I said, number one,
Speaker 3: I'm so proud of you for making that change. I said,
Speaker 3: but number two, drink side of four that's alcohol.
Speaker 2: Just drink water.
Speaker 3: Just have a soda water. It will give you the
Speaker 3: effect of the bubbles. And she was like, no, you
Speaker 3: just need to try it. Oh, I couldn't think of
Speaker 3: anything worse.
Speaker 1: I am not a fan of that either. I'm like,
Speaker 1: if I am going to drink a non alcoholic wine,
Speaker 1: for example, and it hasn't got the alcohol and it
Speaker 1: what's the point?
Speaker 2: Nah, just waste calorie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want a bottle of I don't want
Speaker 3: to drink a bottle of something that's like loaded with
Speaker 3: sugar and all of that stuff.
Speaker 2: I'd just rather drink soda water.
Speaker 3: But in saying that, this whole wave of alcohol free
Speaker 3: drinks that are available now, that's insane. It's so good
Speaker 3: to see, actually, and I really support it. I'm not
Speaker 3: supporting the companies by financially backing them and buying the
Speaker 3: product because you still like I drunk.
Speaker 2: But I do love it for other people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, love it for other people. Good on you.
Speaker 2: I don't drink every day. We know this, This is
Speaker 2: a fact. I love to.
Speaker 3: Still, though, have a gen and Tonic on the weekends.
Speaker 3: Come on, you need a sometimes. We know there's nights
Speaker 3: where you just one quiet gener Tonic might just.
Speaker 2: Help you go to sleep. Yeah, well five, If I
Speaker 2: have five, I'm on the other side, We're gone.
Speaker 3: Out the party side.
Speaker 2: Clearly I didn't come from the same gen Z group.
Speaker 1: No, Like, yes, we're more unhealthy. I'm aware of that.
Speaker 1: Like we didn't grow up with you know, we were
Speaker 1: so different thinking about Sea Moss. No, geez were fun.
Speaker 2: I'm just here for the vibes, guys.
Speaker 3: And then all of the kids turn around and they're
Speaker 3: like sober as a judge, and there's us in the background.
Speaker 2: We're just like one of those fun moms, guys.