Speaker 1: Is it the wind? Is it the wind? The wind
Speaker 1: going my name?
Speaker 2: I have a grape with you real quick, nothing too major,
Speaker 2: go on. I called you yesterday willing for a rant. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you didn't call me back to finish the rant. Do
Speaker 2: you know what it's like singing the tune of a
Speaker 2: song and then someone going stop and you're not being
Speaker 2: able to finish it.
Speaker 3: You called credit to me. I answered, panting, I was
Speaker 3: on the treadmill. You didn't even you didn't even question
Speaker 3: why I was panting. You were just like, what's the
Speaker 3: deal with what's the deal with married couples who were celebrities?
Speaker 3: And I was just like, can I call you back?
Speaker 3: And You're like, you never did give me half an
Speaker 3: hour of peace. Welcome back to two noting dads.
Speaker 1: I am Maddie Jay and I'm disappointed.
Speaker 3: This is a podcast all about parenting.
Speaker 1: It is the good, the bad, and the disappointing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: actually disappointed day and the relatable.
Speaker 3: Tell me what the grape was?
Speaker 2: A slow news day must have been for the wider
Speaker 2: community in the news area. Not that I fall within
Speaker 2: that category, but apparently Nicole Kidman don't get me started, and.
Speaker 3: Who are Just for the record, for the record, I
Speaker 3: dislike we know that if we ever are in the
Speaker 3: same room together, Nicole and myself, it'll be so awkward.
Speaker 2: I'm going to side with her to hear out my gripe.
Speaker 2: This was my gripe I had. Yesterday the News reported
Speaker 2: that they have some marriage advice for people after seventeen
Speaker 2: years of being married. Great, that's not my fucking problem.
Speaker 2: My problem here is who are they to give advice?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, what's the advice?
Speaker 2: I didn't hear the advice because I just got annoyed
Speaker 2: with it. I got annoyed with it because it's like
Speaker 2: ask someone who They probably haven't been in the same
Speaker 2: room for as long as you and Laura have been
Speaker 2: in the same room, or myself and April have been
Speaker 2: in the same room, because he's off touring seeing any
Speaker 2: country pop shit.
Speaker 1: Actually I don't mind it music.
Speaker 2: And then she's off filming garbage movies. So how you've
Speaker 2: googled it, haven't you? What's the advice?
Speaker 3: Okay, what says here? Because it could be good advice.
Speaker 3: If this is good advice, then we'll both have to
Speaker 3: just shut up and never shit on. Nicole Keaban and
Speaker 3: Keith urban.
Speaker 1: Over again, no promises hit him.
Speaker 3: I do think before I read the advice. I do
Speaker 3: think that Look, if you're in a marriage that can
Speaker 3: survive Hollywood.
Speaker 2: You're never in the same room together, which is like,
Speaker 2: when are you spending any time together? I feel like
Speaker 2: they need to get advice from fucking Shazar and Dazzer
Speaker 2: have been together for twenty years, stuck in their fucking
Speaker 2: fibro house with their.
Speaker 1: Fifteen kids, and they're still together.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me find out this advice. It is Keith
Speaker 3: Urban knows the secret to loving somebody like Nicole Kidman
Speaker 3: seventy marriage. He's at a red carpet. There was a
Speaker 3: CMT Country Music Awards on the red carpet. He got
Speaker 3: asked the question what's the secret, and he goes okay.
Speaker 3: In his defense, he says, if I answer that, it'll
Speaker 3: come across as advice for other married people.
Speaker 2: So he's not giving advice. So I've been fitter news article.
Speaker 3: And then he says, I have no advice for anybody.
Speaker 1: Well, stomp on my grass. We're good. I've been lied
Speaker 1: to by a traditional media. How surprising clickbait me.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Keith and Nicole, I am sorry too. I would
Speaker 3: like to apologize for absolutely nothing. He did say something
Speaker 3: else he said following that, he goes, you guys, I
Speaker 3: guess he's referring to, like the general public, figure out
Speaker 3: whatever works for you.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm glad we got to the bottom
Speaker 1: of that. Enough about Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman. Should
Speaker 1: something more important please? That is the beverage which is
Speaker 1: situated right in front of him.
Speaker 3: This is far more superior it is.
Speaker 1: It's a stonewod Pacific a cheer. My friend is.
Speaker 2: M Barron Bay in a bottle, they say, some say,
Speaker 2: some don't say that I do.
Speaker 1: Some others won't.
Speaker 3: I was out on the weekend, Ash. We had a
Speaker 3: little barbecue, just a lobster barra mundy, oh skin on always.
Speaker 3: I love a bit of christ you know that Lemon.
Speaker 3: When people think about me, I want them to know
Speaker 3: that I like my barrel moundy with crispy skin and
Speaker 3: also with a side of stone and wood seafood. It's
Speaker 3: just it's a match made in heaven.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I'm not Bruty Aromas.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if that was the intention making it
Speaker 3: for me. When I'm having my barrel Monday with the
Speaker 3: crispy skin.
Speaker 1: You know what. I think it might be gone with fish.
Speaker 2: What is great with fish is citrus, citrusy after taste,
Speaker 2: a bit of passion fruit in there, lovely aromas. On
Speaker 2: top of that, I'm guessing beautifully cooked piece of fish,
Speaker 2: well said, reminds me of the Pacific Ocean, which is
Speaker 2: what this bottle is named after, being the Pacific Ale.
Speaker 1: You're not just a pretty face, my friend Byron main bottle.
Speaker 1: I would say cheers, some say hmm, she's my friend.
Speaker 2: And thank you Stonewood for making this episode happen as
Speaker 2: you have been doing with the last few episodes and
Speaker 2: more episodes in the future.
Speaker 3: We wouldn't have it any other way. Can I give
Speaker 3: you some devastating news?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: I had the week with Laura Away.
Speaker 3: I do recall she was in Bali, Bali and I
Speaker 3: got a lot of comments regarding a video that I
Speaker 3: put on my social media with Lola. It was just something.
Speaker 1: It was just what have I missed? It was just
Speaker 1: something mine and my friends story or real.
Speaker 3: Just a story, just a casual little story. And I
Speaker 3: know you don't really react to my stories anymore, which
Speaker 3: is a shame. I'm always looking. I just wait, always
Speaker 3: in person, always waiting, can you see Lola tonight?
Speaker 1: What have I missed? It's the fact that Lola's giving
Speaker 1: me a hug.
Speaker 2: Oh I thought she was trying to check you out.
Speaker 1: Maybe she was. She's so weak. I'm mistaken that my friend.
Speaker 1: That's such a loving cuddle.
Speaker 3: So many people said, go to see you two, to
Speaker 3: talk again, and I forgot. I guess over the period
Speaker 3: of a week slowly, was that like the last day?
Speaker 3: That was the last day? That was? That was day
Speaker 3: number seven? And it comes down to the fact that
Speaker 3: she's only like this when there is no other option.
Speaker 1: You were the last resort for survival, saying.
Speaker 3: I even think she turned to Buster for a while
Speaker 3: and was like, can you make me dinner? Can you
Speaker 3: help me out here?
Speaker 1: And no, no, you're missing a legs.
Speaker 3: Was like, I'm a dog with three legs.
Speaker 1: I can't help you.
Speaker 3: And then she was like fine, Oh, I guess, sprit.
Speaker 1: Man, and then dude straight back in the blink of
Speaker 1: an eye, I do feel sorry for you. Eye. How
Speaker 1: how was the trip for young Laura? Who cares? Okay,
Speaker 1: who cares? She looks like you want to get something off.
Speaker 3: Your chest there, man, No, it was just I was
Speaker 3: just disappointing. I was trying to tell myself that this
Speaker 3: would happen. I wanted to manage my own internal expectations.
Speaker 3: On the fact that I knew Lola I would quickly
Speaker 3: return back to Laura as soon as she stepped foot
Speaker 3: back into this house. It wasn't that quick, and it
Speaker 3: was I would say. It was the morning and she
Speaker 3: came in and I had Lola on my lap, and
Speaker 3: she turned around, clocked to Laura, looked at me. She
Speaker 3: didn't actually do this, but she may as well. She
Speaker 3: spat in my face, slapped me the bowl of porridge
Speaker 3: I was feeding her, flung onto the floor and she said,
Speaker 3: don't you fucking touch me?
Speaker 1: Times up brutal ran round to Laura.
Speaker 3: Well there you go, and like, okay, in the mornings,
Speaker 3: we like to go and get baby Chino's.
Speaker 1: It's great. Yeah, that's what we do, that thing.
Speaker 3: It's our routine. And it was it was good daddy
Speaker 3: daughter time. And then I said, this is when Laura's
Speaker 3: already back home. I said, hey, does anyone to go
Speaker 3: get a baby? You know, daddy's gone for a walk.
Speaker 3: Who wants to come? Any takers? Nah? No?
Speaker 1: She said, nah, yeah, because I don't want to come.
Speaker 1: Are you broke it out of here? Sure? We broke
Speaker 1: up yesterday. Man, it sucks, so that's it. So did
Speaker 1: Marley go.
Speaker 3: Nah, she didn't want to come with me either, So
Speaker 3: I'm back to being the weakest link in.
Speaker 2: This family exile island. Yeah it sucks, man, it sucks.
Speaker 2: But it does suck because I had.
Speaker 3: To then go away. I was working on the weekend.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I was in the Blue Mountains, working hard
Speaker 3: to try and support this family, put food on the
Speaker 3: table and make sure the rent is paid.
Speaker 1: Yep, slash mortgage. Can you pay my rant? Thanks?
Speaker 3: You know. There is one thing that I love in
Speaker 3: this world more than anything.
Speaker 1: My children. Didn't think you were going that way with that. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's one thing I love even more. Oh yeah, stuff.
Speaker 1: That's having a weekend away from them.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's so good, so good. Just gives you
Speaker 4: a chance to miss them all. It was just one night,
Speaker 4: but it was It was pretty good. Great bed, beautiful,
Speaker 4: and after having the kids come in and wake me
Speaker 4: up all fucking throughout the night over the course of
Speaker 4: a week, it was just lovely to get eight hours
Speaker 4: of just uninterrupted sleep.
Speaker 1: Recharge fill your cup.
Speaker 2: Thank you, and that does not just you for other parents,
Speaker 2: for mom's dads to go off and fill your cup.
Speaker 1: It's very important.
Speaker 3: But then it was it was a shame that I
Speaker 3: had to go because Laura has been away for a week.
Speaker 3: Then you know she comes back, and then the moment
Speaker 3: that she's back, I've got to go to the Blue Mountains.
Speaker 3: I'm up there for a night, and you know, there's
Speaker 3: one thing that is missing, has been missing for the
Speaker 3: last you know, now eight nights.
Speaker 1: I believe I know where you are going.
Speaker 3: With this pleasure, deep erotic pleasure. It is deep and
Speaker 3: we've been talking it up. We don't really like sex?
Speaker 1: Are you a teenager?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I was just like, well, what did I say? I
Speaker 3: think I was trying to be I was trying to
Speaker 3: set the mood. I was like, I can't wait to
Speaker 3: suck out.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be the best thirty seconds of you laugh. No,
Speaker 1: I think I was like, I kind of what I said.
Speaker 1: I don't do you know?
Speaker 3: Do you You don't write?
Speaker 2: You don't say that I'm an adult, bro, I just
Speaker 2: send the pictures of my dick.
Speaker 1: No, I definitely don't do any of that. Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 3: How do you plant this seed with April?
Speaker 1: No vine text? That's what Joe?
Speaker 3: What do you do? How do you make it known
Speaker 3: that today maybe the day.
Speaker 2: It could come different in different ways. I would say, like, Okay.
Speaker 2: For example, for example, this weekend, h what do you got?
Speaker 2: We were finishing bath and stuff from putting kids to bed.
Speaker 1: It's part of the routine. And I had already gone
Speaker 1: out and picked up dinner and I brang it back.
Speaker 1: You have we got?
Speaker 2: So we just got some pizzas, something really nice and cool.
Speaker 2: We just both felt like pizza summer, which is rare.
Speaker 2: We both felt like the same thing. It's not the
Speaker 2: only thing we both felt like.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 2: So I was like April actually eight before we did bath,
Speaker 2: and I was like, man, I just want to enjoy
Speaker 2: it without the kids going give me some and then
Speaker 2: having a bite or something and then it's throwing in
Speaker 2: the beginning.
Speaker 3: But we all know how you get after having a
Speaker 3: meal sleepy. Yeah, they really lestargic.
Speaker 2: And I had also picked up there's like a little
Speaker 2: confectiony shop next to this pizza shop that has all
Speaker 2: the American chocolates and candy and whatever they call it.
Speaker 2: And I was like oh, I grab something different for
Speaker 2: after It's Sunday night, so I went and got that. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I just had a thought that it was nothing to
Speaker 2: do with that. Nothing, it was something.
Speaker 1: It was like I was going to say body chocolate, but.
Speaker 3: That's where I thought this is going.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: She got something that's like like that. We would never
Speaker 2: usually have butt plug. Sorry, how did you know a
Speaker 2: chocolate butt plug? And I was child and we were
Speaker 2: finishing the BATHROOMT ten and I said to April, I'm
Speaker 2: going to go have dinner and then I said I was.
Speaker 1: I also got like a special treat for us after
Speaker 1: you And she was like, oh, cock fuck? What is it?
Speaker 3: Ash?
Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, it's a cockmeat sandwich.
Speaker 2: I said, I got something special for after dinner for us, like,
Speaker 2: you know, if we're watching a movie or whatever.
Speaker 1: Stop pulling sexually sexual.
Speaker 3: Imo Like, no, this is great. I feel like I'm
Speaker 3: in the room with you guys.
Speaker 1: I would hope not, which I love. Continue they're killing
Speaker 1: me here, okay.
Speaker 2: Anyway, she was like, oh, I thought I thought we
Speaker 2: could have another type of a special treat.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, April's going to kill me for this.
Speaker 1: I yeah, yeah, yeah, then what happened. She's gonna kill
Speaker 1: me for this, PI.
Speaker 3: Cares, and I was like, sorry, rephrase that, April. We
Speaker 3: do care about the way that you feel about certain
Speaker 3: stories being told. But this is very important because I
Speaker 3: need to learn, because I don't know what I'm doing
Speaker 3: in this department.
Speaker 1: Through I continued.
Speaker 2: I went downstairs, I got my dinner ready, sat in
Speaker 2: front of the TV, took one look at it and thought,
Speaker 2: if I eat all this, I'm going to be useless
Speaker 2: to everybody.
Speaker 1: So I packed the dinner back up, put it away.
Speaker 2: I walked back upstairs and I poked my head in
Speaker 2: the room and it was finishing putting kids sleep, and
Speaker 2: I said, I'm gonna eat later, and I ate later.
Speaker 2: Let's put it that way. Wow, And that's how you
Speaker 2: do it. That's exactly how you do it.
Speaker 1: Sacrifices, Matt, My pizzare very cold.
Speaker 3: Sacrifice is an interesting word, because that was something I
Speaker 3: wasn't willing to make. Laura was in Wollongong, I was
Speaker 3: in the Blue Mountains. We got back at a similar time,
Speaker 3: but the kids to bed. We had dinner. Okay, we ate. Laura,
Speaker 3: as she often does, gets a bit of work done
Speaker 3: after the kids are in bed, and she's been very busy,
Speaker 3: which is all the time standard. But she was working.
Speaker 3: I was starting to get a little bit tired. Let's
Speaker 3: not forget that, just so people know full context. I
Speaker 3: had to get up very early on that Sunday, and
Speaker 3: I was up very very early.
Speaker 1: I think it was about five point thirty.
Speaker 3: I said to Laura it was four point thirty, because
Speaker 3: all good stories need a little bit of embellishment.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But it then got to nine o'clock, it got to
Speaker 3: nine thirty, it got to ten o'clock. Laura's at the
Speaker 3: kitchen table working. I'm still watching TV on the couch.
Speaker 3: I'm just scrolling through.
Speaker 1: A new time. Well, you were biding new you know.
Speaker 3: I was like, all of a sudden, I wasn't just
Speaker 3: sitting on the couch. I was getting horizontal. I was,
Speaker 3: you know, I was falling deeper and deeper into the couch.
Speaker 3: I was getting very tired. I was a tired boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fine, Ash.
Speaker 3: And so then Laura finally finishes work. It's ten thirty.
Speaker 1: I'll go to sleep for hours. Let's go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well you go to bed at six thirty.
Speaker 1: So I've had sex, eaten and then gone to bed.
Speaker 3: I know, I'm far behind, miles behind young I think
Speaker 3: I even text you the series of events, and I
Speaker 3: was and that's what got me frustrated. Oh sorry, I
Speaker 3: was like no, no, I I was like, I'm jealous.
Speaker 1: Look at this guy and say by ten thirty.
Speaker 3: And I also just want to say that Laura told
Speaker 3: the story on her podcast, so I'm just telling my
Speaker 3: version of events, okay, just to defend myself, that's fair.
Speaker 3: As we got into bed, I was kind of like
Speaker 3: I was a little bit short because I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm going to I'm going.
Speaker 1: To and you're six one and a half and that
Speaker 1: must be tough.
Speaker 3: Thank you. And so then coming into bed and then
Speaker 3: Laura goes give me a cuddle, and I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to.
Speaker 1: Cut oh the balls on this guy.
Speaker 3: Because I know what. I knew that I had to
Speaker 3: be strong. You know how people are making a protest
Speaker 3: and they don't eat for like a number.
Speaker 1: Of days for a serious matter.
Speaker 3: Like Gandhi, Like didn't it for a while.
Speaker 1: I think it was a little bit more serious.
Speaker 3: That's but I was tapping into that level of determination.
Speaker 3: I was like, wait for Gandhi, I won't break. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was like, I did as Gandhi did, didn't break.
Speaker 3: So I was like, I'm not going to cuddle Laura
Speaker 3: because I know what she's trying to do here. Cuddling
Speaker 3: is the gateway to sex.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all know that, So hang on.
Speaker 2: You didn't want to suck it up like a big
Speaker 2: boy and have a cuddle to get the ultimate reward.
Speaker 3: I was tired.
Speaker 1: I was tired, man, I gave up food. Think about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear.
Speaker 1: That's something that exists. It's a physical thing. Yours is
Speaker 1: stubbornness doesn't physically exist.
Speaker 3: So I opted out. I said, you opted out. I
Speaker 3: said you can cuddle me if you want.
Speaker 1: I said you can. You're more than welcome to.
Speaker 3: Cuddle and and she was like, well, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to cuddle you. And so then she was like it's
Speaker 3: good to be back, and I was like, yeah, it's
Speaker 3: great that you're back. So you and she was like,
Speaker 3: don't worry about it. I said, I'm not you sick.
Speaker 3: And then she went to one side of the bed.
Speaker 3: I went to the other. And then I know, I
Speaker 3: know that Laura cannot sleep until the argument is resolved
Speaker 3: with an apology. Doesn't have to be from like both,
Speaker 3: but just like one person has to apologize. And again
Speaker 3: I said, what would Gandhi do in this situation? So
Speaker 3: I dug my heels in and I was not even
Speaker 3: slightly tied at that point. There was no there was
Speaker 3: no way I was going to sleep. But we lay
Speaker 3: there maybe five ten minutes, and then she broke and
Speaker 3: she said, do you want to talk about this?
Speaker 1: And you said, I said, no, bro, I'm good a
Speaker 1: And that's it. That's how it ended.
Speaker 3: I can Okay. So I just want to say, in
Speaker 3: my defense, I felt like work was prioritized over the
Speaker 3: cuddling time. Okay, that's a fair point, and I understand
Speaker 3: that work is important. In my mind, it was after
Speaker 3: not being together for that long, I felt like I
Speaker 3: should have I should have trumped the work, which I did.
Speaker 1: Look, I think your points valid, but also.
Speaker 2: You don't, yeah, because I like, again, we started this
Speaker 2: off very childishly with the sex thing comin. Guys, you're adults,
Speaker 2: you're fully grown.
Speaker 3: That's the first problem.
Speaker 1: It's the first problem.
Speaker 2: And then you've sulked about it and instead of just
Speaker 2: doing the maturer thing about it, which is saying, hey, Laura,
Speaker 2: I feel like right now, you are prioritizing work over
Speaker 2: relationship time together with each other, reconnecting, have that mature conversation,
Speaker 2: and so do you mind if you finish work, we
Speaker 2: can maybe have a chat, maybe have a drink, maybe
Speaker 2: have a maybe have a cuddle, maybe have a laid down,
Speaker 2: maybe have a kiss.
Speaker 1: Good night. Sorry, usually I'm the childish one. Usually I'm
Speaker 1: the hurt I'm.
Speaker 2: Being I'm taking the high road here with this one,
Speaker 2: because I think you could have resolved that.
Speaker 1: You know, they like they say, don't go to bed.
Speaker 2: Angry, go to bed furious if you're going to do anything,
Speaker 2: make it real bad. But no, you have the opportunity
Speaker 2: to sack up.
Speaker 1: But also your point is very valid.
Speaker 2: You felt like she was prioritizing work over you, So
Speaker 2: that's a fair feeling, yes, but also might have been
Speaker 2: a good opportunity to say that, resolve it. Think how
Speaker 2: the good sex would have been after that.
Speaker 1: I did you know what? Okay?
Speaker 3: There was a thought after we resolved the argument, and
Speaker 3: we kind of we both kind of said what you
Speaker 3: were saying. Essentially, communication is always the most important part.
Speaker 3: Very well explained.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that I'm here and you're also
Speaker 1: bang on.
Speaker 3: When I did think, I was like, you know what
Speaker 3: would be really great right now?
Speaker 1: Is it a bit of makeup sex.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you've got to have the you've got to
Speaker 2: hush hush it out and actually come to a conclusion
Speaker 2: to have the makeup.
Speaker 1: But you got to skip everything the Gandhi and me
Speaker 1: was still being like, you know, I didn't want to
Speaker 1: I don't want to break. But we're back. We're back,
Speaker 1: We're good. The next night I was worried. The next
Speaker 1: night we sorted it out, sort of. If you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I do know what you're saying.
Speaker 3: We cleaned the garden. What if no one has said
Speaker 3: clean cleaned the garden?
Speaker 1: We did some nice so you trimmed the pubes? All right,
Speaker 1: come on, you glad you're back.
Speaker 3: Let me just say the garden didn't have any weeds
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 1: I would fucking hope not.
Speaker 2: If you're picking up I think, Laura, if you're listening,
Speaker 2: you have too many plants in this house. It's starting
Speaker 2: to use plants and gardening as sexual analogies, and I'm
Speaker 2: not liking it.
Speaker 1: I'm uncomfortable. The hedges were fertilized trimmed, fertilized.
Speaker 2: So you're telling me, Actually, I know what you're telling me,
Speaker 2: and I won't say it. I want to show you
Speaker 2: something really quick actually because it did happen a couple
Speaker 2: of episodes ago, and we did get a lot of
Speaker 2: people reach out about gender disappointment.
Speaker 1: That video that you did did a breen job of
Speaker 1: doing that.
Speaker 2: You mentioned in there though about if you were to
Speaker 2: have another kid you would have a gender reveal and
Speaker 2: how you would do it in a commodore. We have
Speaker 2: to get a commodore. Should we get like a real
Speaker 2: sick old commodore, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like a like a late nineties commodore, like a
Speaker 3: ve or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I just want
Speaker 3: like billowing smoke pink or someone's one up ja Yeah
Speaker 3: big time?
Speaker 1: What have they done? Also great to have inspiration if
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 3: Have a third kid.
Speaker 2: You do probably have the budget for this. Three fighter
Speaker 2: jets flying over for a gender reveal.
Speaker 1: I got fucking goosebumps.
Speaker 3: That is the sickest thing I've ever seen in my
Speaker 3: entire life.
Speaker 2: You got a budget for that, We'll find it. We'll
Speaker 2: find the budget, my god.
Speaker 3: Three fucking fighter jets, three fighter jets, and it was
Speaker 3: a boy.
Speaker 1: It was a boy.
Speaker 3: That is amazing.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of productions.
Speaker 3: Even just looking at.
Speaker 1: The balloon wall that wish.
Speaker 3: They had, like, that's that's got to be like one
Speaker 3: hundred cago.
Speaker 2: I can't hold that blue wall. That's fucking out of control.
Speaker 3: I still impressive as that is. I just think the
Speaker 3: co was much better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do heaps less, get a commodore.
Speaker 3: But also if there's any other ideas for gender reveals,
Speaker 3: please please send them, send them in. We'd love to
Speaker 3: see them. I'm over to any suggestions. I'm not locked
Speaker 3: into the colodoor.
Speaker 1: And we don't have to have video evidence. If you've
Speaker 1: just got something on your mind and you thought.
Speaker 2: Do you know what would be fucking great? Send it
Speaker 2: to Hello at two Doting Dads dot com. Any ideas,
Speaker 2: because if Matt and Laura decide they are going to
Speaker 2: have another child, we will make one of those ideas happen.
Speaker 3: Do you know what is a nice touch? Which high risk,
Speaker 3: but I think it's worth it if you can do
Speaker 3: it properly. Is when you have I normally that the
Speaker 3: female will have I don't know what it's made out of.
Speaker 1: It as a ball.
Speaker 3: The mom this man crack him up so much, he's
Speaker 3: not going to have all the equipment in the room.
Speaker 2: Oh man, sorry about that, but please.
Speaker 1: It sounded like a documentary female. I don't know what.
Speaker 3: It's made out of, like a ceramic, like a ball.
Speaker 3: She'll lop it up and then the guy will then
Speaker 3: with a baseball smash it and then I quite like
Speaker 3: the thought of that.
Speaker 1: That's a good one, thank you.
Speaker 2: My cousins had a golf ball and he hit the
Speaker 2: golf ball and the golf all exploded. Yeah, exploded into
Speaker 2: a golfer. I think he does a little bit of golf.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's I think it's his main sport.
Speaker 2: Surely we can come up with something that has never
Speaker 2: been done. Surely, surely we'll have a think about it.
Speaker 3: That it would be nice to have something aerial is
Speaker 3: a nice touch. Yeah, skydiver maybe like a skydiver and
Speaker 3: they have you know, like at the NRL Grand Final
Speaker 3: they have they parachute into the stable with the ball
Speaker 3: and they have like a big flag like attached to
Speaker 3: them and.
Speaker 1: A big fan and then they fly off again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like if it came in like behind the skydiver
Speaker 3: was like a big flag of like a boy anyway,
Speaker 3: just an idea again, can't wait this. None of this
Speaker 3: has been vetoed by Laura. She doesn't ever say it,
Speaker 3: but I think she's had it her way the first
Speaker 3: two times. She doesn't say it's time that I took charge.
Speaker 3: Put your foot down?
Speaker 1: Thank you? What do I do want to talk about?
Speaker 2: And I'm very proud of this, but a proud moment
Speaker 2: for a dad because for my whole life, Matthew, I
Speaker 2: have supported a particular football team by the name of
Speaker 2: the Manly Sea Eagles. Okay, I do have a son.
Speaker 2: Not wouldn't matter if it was a daughter.
Speaker 1: I do have a daughter. Do there you go news
Speaker 1: to me?
Speaker 2: But Oscar is at the age now where I watch
Speaker 2: football at home and he's like, oh, football is on
Speaker 2: and he's noticing it. He's also going to be playing
Speaker 2: like a form of rugby union this year. Just because
Speaker 2: of his age under fibes, I decided to take him
Speaker 2: to his first football game live.
Speaker 3: I joked about it being a taste of disappointment early on.
Speaker 2: For the last how many years, thirteen years, I've been
Speaker 2: very disappointed because Manly hasn't won the premiership and it's
Speaker 2: been really tough, lots of controversies, lots of coaches, lots
Speaker 2: of players coming and going, except for one who's still
Speaker 2: there who's breaking records. But it was David Cherry Evan's
Speaker 2: three hundred and tenth game and it was against the
Speaker 2: reigning Premiers Panthers.
Speaker 1: Now I know a lot of people that are like, fuck,
Speaker 1: I don't really give a shit about football. It's not
Speaker 1: the point. So just hang in there for this story.
Speaker 3: Can I just also highlight that three hundred and ten games,
Speaker 3: that's the record for Manly. Yeah, most games played, so
Speaker 3: big occasion, very big deal, very big deal.
Speaker 1: But I took your advice.
Speaker 2: One of the thought, let's get into this game, getting
Speaker 2: used to the disappointment that backfiright because they won. We
Speaker 2: went with another friend and his kid who's been before,
Speaker 2: so he knew what to expect. Same age, a little
Speaker 2: bit younger than Oscar. But you know, we sat in
Speaker 2: that weaseled my way to the friends and family area.
Speaker 3: How do you do that?
Speaker 1: Never? You mind? And well right at the front is
Speaker 1: great because and there's the.
Speaker 2: The All the players come up past there because their
Speaker 2: families are there.
Speaker 1: So Oscar's like, what the fuck's going on here and then.
Speaker 2: They have two eagle mascots they come up and take
Speaker 2: photos of the kids. It was brilliant and I was
Speaker 2: sitting there with him thinking, holy shit, this is why
Speaker 2: you do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: This was a moment where it's like this why core
Speaker 2: core call memory? Hard call memory. And I was like,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to you know, because you know.
Speaker 1: What toddlers are like of that age.
Speaker 2: Well, kids at that age like four and a half,
Speaker 2: they get distracted really easy. As soon as the fireworks
Speaker 2: went off, by the way, daytime fireworks, it's good. The noise,
Speaker 2: bit of fire, bit of smoke. He was like, holy fuck, yeah,
Speaker 2: when are the fireworks coming back?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, whenever we score, there's gonna be fire.
Speaker 1: Did they put fireworks at the start? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was like five o'clock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they're like they're kind of like smoke works.
Speaker 2: There's no fire involved.
Speaker 1: Interesting call from at a home game. Blew the whole budget.
Speaker 2: He was following along with the score because he can
Speaker 2: read numbers now, can't count that high. So when Manly
Speaker 2: started to really flog them and he's like what number
Speaker 2: is that, I was like, that's right, son, it's high
Speaker 2: it's up.
Speaker 1: You know, Manly's doing well when I can't even read
Speaker 1: the score.
Speaker 2: I did say to him early on, I said, it's
Speaker 2: Manly versus the Panthers, very specifically, but because we beat
Speaker 2: them so badly, he started calling them the pandas.
Speaker 3: Yes, love that and take that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, take that. So you know, Daddy had a few
Speaker 1: beers because I was excited.
Speaker 3: Did it make it more special? Like it's a big
Speaker 3: game to win against, a huge game to win. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like core memories for Oscar. But to me, that's that's
Speaker 3: pretty He's.
Speaker 2: Never going to another game again, so he can hold
Speaker 2: his perfect record.
Speaker 3: But it must be pretty I don't want to sound
Speaker 3: corny here, but it must pretty magical as.
Speaker 2: It was awesome honestly, one of the highlights of my
Speaker 2: parenting career. Wow, So me and Cherry had big days
Speaker 2: that day. Oscar got to meet daily Cherry Evans.
Speaker 1: It was brilliant. And then you.
Speaker 2: Know, making the way out of the fortress and it
Speaker 2: was like, fuck, what a successful afternoon is?
Speaker 3: Anything you do differently?
Speaker 1: No, I think get there early with them. They love it.
Speaker 2: Honestly, we got there pretty early because there's like a
Speaker 2: New South Wales game before like that's how we got
Speaker 2: into that. We just walked into this section, got a
Speaker 2: wristband and then we're in there. But like right at
Speaker 2: the front, kids are a lot of As soon as
Speaker 2: any player walk past, you know they're giving them away,
Speaker 2: and which is a credit to the NRL, both teams Penrith,
Speaker 2: Pandas and Manly. Anytime that a sub would walk past
Speaker 2: and there was all these kids in the area.
Speaker 1: I was they were The players were like hey, like it.
Speaker 3: Was great, misimagining all the kids there and you're there
Speaker 3: like wedged in between them, like HET's me.
Speaker 2: But it was great, and I just wanted to highlight
Speaker 2: that it was very, very one of my favorite parenting moments.
Speaker 1: I think that is beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yet to take Marley to any kind I took it
Speaker 3: to a cricket match when she was two. Didn't like it,
Speaker 3: as you can appreciate.
Speaker 1: It's just like, do you don't like pointing out players?
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it. And she was the lab of Shane.
Speaker 3: But I cannot wait.
Speaker 1: Oh. I was really.
Speaker 2: Apprehensive at first because you know, he is only four
Speaker 2: and a half, well nearly five actually in a couple
Speaker 2: of months. But like they're so easily distracted. They get
Speaker 2: so easily bored with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean probably three or four movies
Speaker 3: with the kids a couple of times loved it. It's
Speaker 3: that the way through, start to finish. A couple of
Speaker 3: times after that five minutes and they're like, well I'm done. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm sit down any longer. And you know, I imagine,
Speaker 3: I can imagine if imagine if like halftime, you know,
Speaker 3: game was on the line, Manly is winning, an Oscar's like,
Speaker 3: I want to go home.
Speaker 1: Too bad. He didn't even mention that he wanted to
Speaker 1: go home, which I was shocked.
Speaker 3: Well, congratulations, not just to Manly but to you as dad.
Speaker 1: As a sports fan. It's a milestone. Winds are around
Speaker 1: for dad.
Speaker 3: It's easy to forget just how much of an impact
Speaker 3: that is on Oscar's little life. Yeah, obviously it's a
Speaker 3: core memory for you as a parent, being like, hey,
Speaker 3: this is one of the highlights. I still remember. My
Speaker 3: mum took me to my very first game, Yeah, to
Speaker 3: Bristin Broncos. It was Petro seven receiver's first game. I remember,
Speaker 3: it's weird. I remember it was aynz Ed Stadium and
Speaker 3: it was me and my mom and I don't know
Speaker 3: she was in for some reason. I think she was
Speaker 3: just like trying to give me lots of experiences that
Speaker 3: little kids would enjoy. And you know, she pushed me
Speaker 3: into cricket, pushed me into NRL, and that to me
Speaker 3: sticks in my mind.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think it's easy to forget that.
Speaker 3: Oscar is going to remember that for the rest of
Speaker 3: his life.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely.
Speaker 2: There's like when I was a kid too, Like I
Speaker 2: remember going to brook Vale Oval, you know, as as
Speaker 2: at a similar age.
Speaker 1: It's like wild.
Speaker 2: I vividly remember going to a Sydney King's game when
Speaker 2: I was a few years older than that. And the
Speaker 2: only reason I vividly remember that is that we were
Speaker 2: in a photo in the paper, me, my sister and
Speaker 2: the Big Lions.
Speaker 1: And the only reason I remember it is my sister's
Speaker 1: fly was down, so cool memory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, honestly, we'll go again as much as
Speaker 2: we can.
Speaker 1: We have to bring Marley lungs each other, do it.
Speaker 2: Do it in a friendship kind of waymon take because
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Speaker 3: on Saturday. Gosh, it's a big game. What would you
Speaker 3: do if Manly and Brisbane are in the finals together,
Speaker 3: We'd have to sit on different sides of the stadium.
Speaker 1: I'd be torn. The way that you guys gave up
Speaker 1: the win last year. I'm not worried. What else have
Speaker 1: they got? Man Well?
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Speaker 2: I want to just run a scenario by you and
Speaker 2: if it's ever happened to you and the circumstance in
Speaker 2: which had happened to me. So on Thursdays, as you know,
Speaker 2: I have Macy on Thursdays, but because Oscar.
Speaker 1: Finishes candy, it like three point thirty on Thursday.
Speaker 2: What I'll usually do in April's working from home instead
Speaker 2: of bringing them both home, and it'd be chaos for
Speaker 2: to try and wrap up her week because it's her
Speaker 2: last day of the week. I usually pick them up,
Speaker 2: and I go to there's a shopping center with a
Speaker 2: Baker's Delight. But across from that is a park right
Speaker 2: next to where we can park the car. So we
Speaker 2: get out, go get something from the Bakers, like, come
Speaker 2: back to this park.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this has ever happened to you,
Speaker 2: A bit of a strange one got out of the car,
Speaker 2: went and got.
Speaker 1: The Baxers, like, come back to the park gated.
Speaker 2: It's like a gated community, but the car spots are
Speaker 2: right up against the gate.
Speaker 1: So I walk in with the kids. Bakers are like they're.
Speaker 2: Running around blah blah blah blah blah, and I've gone,
Speaker 2: oh shit, left my phone in the car.
Speaker 1: Okay, what am I going to do in the park?
Speaker 1: You know? And I was like, I better just go
Speaker 1: get my phone.
Speaker 2: I can still see them, right I go out the gate,
Speaker 2: cars right there, and I come back.
Speaker 1: There's some people in the park still as well. It's
Speaker 1: not like a park in the middle of the.
Speaker 3: Roughly just give me a distance from the gate of
Speaker 3: the park ten meters, okay.
Speaker 2: Is that I don't take I can't. I can't lose
Speaker 2: sight of them whatsoever. That's not the issue. The issue
Speaker 2: is I've walked back into a park, so people have
Speaker 2: walked into the park while I wasn't in the park.
Speaker 2: Now picture this, I've walked into a park with no
Speaker 2: kids with a phone and just walked my way into
Speaker 2: a park to a dark and dingy corner of the
Speaker 2: park to be on my own. The people that have
Speaker 2: come into the park while I wasn't, I've probably now
Speaker 2: a shit that this guy just walked into a park.
Speaker 2: Did someone say something to someone said something to me?
Speaker 1: What they say?
Speaker 2: They walked up to me. I'm standing there on my phone,
Speaker 2: not filming the kids. It kind of might have looked
Speaker 2: like I was filming kids, and she walks.
Speaker 1: Up to me. She was like, do you do you
Speaker 1: have any kids in the park. I was like classic
Speaker 1: me style. I thought I'd just fuck with her a bit.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, the fuck is and then Oscar's
Speaker 2: run over and grabbed told.
Speaker 1: Him and her face.
Speaker 2: She was so embarrassed, To be fair, but I just
Speaker 2: fucked with her a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I just was like, like he used here, and then
Speaker 1: I started to you know what my personality having a
Speaker 1: bit of a laugh with her, and moved on. But
Speaker 1: has it like Honestly, I am not a predator.
Speaker 2: Looks can be to see it, But at that moment
Speaker 2: I felt what a predator would have felt, and I
Speaker 2: didn't like it.
Speaker 1: I did not like it. But just the circumstance in
Speaker 1: which that happened to me, that's that's fucking that's put
Speaker 1: on her.
Speaker 2: For coming up to be like yeah, because it's kind
Speaker 2: of like, I get what they would have seen. They
Speaker 2: would have seen fully grown cut man covered in tattoos,
Speaker 2: walk in mustache hat on.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, wait wait wait wait wait wait.
Speaker 3: I think it's a bit much.
Speaker 1: To do that. She's looking at for the kids.
Speaker 3: She's looking at for the kids. Yeah, but I think
Speaker 3: you're not doing anything which is which is warranting of
Speaker 3: someone kind of like pulling you up.
Speaker 1: No, the only thing that I could think of was
Speaker 1: that I had no pants on. No I was.
Speaker 2: I you know, I just gingerly walked in and walking
Speaker 2: around with my phone to like a corner of the.
Speaker 1: Kids park and just stood us. I probably did in
Speaker 1: the moment. I don't think you do. It just looks
Speaker 1: suss enough for someone who walking What were you doing?
Speaker 2: I was walking like Randall from Monsters, Inc. Okay, a
Speaker 2: little bit skeevy. And did she apologize, Yeah, profusely.
Speaker 1: She was very embarrassed. I was like, good on you,
Speaker 1: which was wrong of me. No, I think I couldn't
Speaker 1: help myself.
Speaker 3: I think you react in the same way.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I had to go through that a few times. I
Speaker 3: don't want to say this, but a few times. And
Speaker 3: we've been like together, and like I've gone to the
Speaker 3: bathroom and I've come back, and you've been with Marley.
Speaker 3: People have said do you know this guy? And I said,
Speaker 3: I said, yeah, he's a friend of mine. Okay, wearing
Speaker 3: any pants, no pants, and he's got a.
Speaker 1: Mustache full brain. You just got that kind of like
Speaker 1: get that look about you that you're up to no good.
Speaker 1: I'm skiving.
Speaker 3: Let's not bring up your criminal record.
Speaker 2: No, let's not do that anyway. Obviously it's never happened
Speaker 2: to you, or has it. You did try and coax
Speaker 2: some kids back to your house.
Speaker 3: That was one time there was anyone Anyone doesn't know
Speaker 3: they're trying to sell candy.
Speaker 1: I didn't have cash cash back at my house. Let's
Speaker 1: not go into it.
Speaker 3: That's I've not had that happen to me, not yet,
Speaker 3: not yet anyway, good to hear.
Speaker 1: Not yet. Let's go into my favorite segment, meltdowns. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a.
Speaker 3: Fun Can I tell you a quick meltdown this morning
Speaker 3: at the moment it's a little bit colder in Sydney
Speaker 3: right now, winter is creeping in. Kids are into porridge
Speaker 3: and made porridge this morning. Marley, big fan of porridge,
Speaker 3: big porridge girl loves it. And she looked at it
Speaker 3: started bawling her eyes out and I was like, what's wrong.
Speaker 3: She goes, it's got milk in it. Like that's the
Speaker 3: whole fucking point of porridge porridges unless you're a freak
Speaker 3: like my mom and she has water.
Speaker 2: Actually, I have done it for desperate times. I asked
Speaker 2: her how to melt down similar sort of situation where
Speaker 2: he wanted usually in yogurt, and I put it in
Speaker 2: a pink bowl instead of any other color bowl and
Speaker 2: it would ended up on the floor.
Speaker 1: Man, okay, picture of this, Matt.
Speaker 2: I have gone to Kmart Okay, quite a big shop
Speaker 2: as we know there there's all sorts of things for people.
Speaker 3: Who aren't familiar with Kmart. They sell many goods from
Speaker 3: home weares to sporting.
Speaker 1: Goods, probably by the brand name of.
Speaker 3: Ancho fucking great brand.
Speaker 2: Anyway, there's lots of stuff in there, and you think
Speaker 2: in a meltdown segment about kids that a kid might
Speaker 2: be melting.
Speaker 1: Down a toy. Not in this case.
Speaker 2: Go on, I am in the kitchen section and I
Speaker 2: hear this kid.
Speaker 1: I date it, and I immediately thought toy. I really
Speaker 1: thought toy.
Speaker 2: And anyway, I've heard it a few times with this
Speaker 2: kid not being either stopped or removed or whatever.
Speaker 1: This kid's having a food meltdown.
Speaker 2: I need it, I need it, screaming very loud, one
Speaker 2: of those loud kids. You know, I do feel sorry
Speaker 2: for that household because that child is loud as fuck.
Speaker 2: And I pop around the corner and see all these
Speaker 2: people like looking, and I'm like, what's going on here?
Speaker 2: This kid has clung onto a trolley, like you know
Speaker 2: how Tolally got this tiny little bars and you can
Speaker 2: wrap your fingers around here.
Speaker 1: And really get a good grip. He's got a good
Speaker 1: grip of this trolley and it's shaken it like this,
Speaker 1: like fucking giving it a good old fucking go, and
Speaker 1: he's gone, I need it. I need it, like kicking
Speaker 1: and screaming.
Speaker 2: Anyway, the parent didn't do anything about it pretty much
Speaker 2: and just let.
Speaker 1: It play out.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm going to completely ignore this
Speaker 2: as much as I can, as much as I wanted
Speaker 2: to stand and watch, I was like, this would be
Speaker 2: over in a moment.
Speaker 1: I finished my shopping.
Speaker 2: I'm in the checkout line, which is no cas in
Speaker 2: the middle. This guy's at the front door having this meltdown.
Speaker 2: Ten minutes it had been ten whole minutes that this
Speaker 2: kid screamed and screamed his head off.
Speaker 1: I can hear your frustration directed towards the mum a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think you can't.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll take that back.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to judge the mum because that's not
Speaker 2: very fair, correct And I agree with that.
Speaker 1: Why didn't anyone remove the child from the situation? It
Speaker 1: would look straw music for everybody.
Speaker 3: But then how about this? What about if that mum
Speaker 3: needs to do a bloody shopping at kmart, So for
Speaker 3: her to like leave Camart is going to be a
Speaker 3: huge meltdown. She's going to come back into Kmar.
Speaker 2: There's nothing critical at Camar you need. How do you
Speaker 2: know that she named one critical item in Cama that
Speaker 2: you would need microwave. Damn, it will die in the
Speaker 2: house unless you get a microbe. Okay, I get what
Speaker 2: you're saying.
Speaker 3: She could be at her wits end, and she could
Speaker 3: be at the point of having a menty bee.
Speaker 1: Meanty be away baby.
Speaker 3: But then she could just be like, you know, I
Speaker 3: just don't have the energy to even try and attack
Speaker 3: this little meltdown because the kid might be dealing with
Speaker 3: something that's fair.
Speaker 2: Usually meltdowns are really funny mat That's what I'm getting at,
Speaker 2: but this one was a little bit.
Speaker 3: You should have gone over, given her a hug and
Speaker 3: said it's gonna be I just got a.
Speaker 1: Question about being a predator, and I'm hugging random women.
Speaker 2: We're wearing pants, right, No, I just wanted to highlight
Speaker 2: it because it's been on my mind.
Speaker 1: I feel sorry for the mum.
Speaker 2: The grandmother was also there, I think, but I do
Speaker 2: feel sorry for them because you don't know what they're
Speaker 2: going through. And I don't want to sit here and
Speaker 2: judge people, because that sucks. I would hate if someone
Speaker 2: judged me. But also, shut that fucking kid up.
Speaker 3: My kids have a meltdown. I find the best thing
Speaker 3: is and this is not me giving advice. This is
Speaker 3: just me explaining to judgmental parents like yourself, we go
Speaker 3: on a kmart and fucking throw shade at other people
Speaker 3: who are having identfull time. I have said finished, the
Speaker 3: quickest she reaches her peak, the quickest you'll come back down.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's what this parent was? I think so.
Speaker 1: I think she don't know.
Speaker 3: She was probably like, why is Billy taking ten minutes
Speaker 3: with this meltdown?
Speaker 1: This is not normal. I didn't know. I didn't know
Speaker 1: that was a thing. See ignorance, But also shut your
Speaker 1: kid up a little bit.
Speaker 2: Like if it was me, I'm not that my my
Speaker 2: method is right, I would just go We could always
Speaker 2: come back to kmar. I could always come back in
Speaker 2: some instance or circumstance. I can always find my way
Speaker 2: back to come Do you know why? Because the sign
Speaker 2: is just huge and I know where it is. But
Speaker 2: if he's there having a complete crazy meltdown.
Speaker 3: What about if she took the bar it took four
Speaker 3: buses to get to kmart, and I'm like, did that
Speaker 3: ever end to your mind? Maybe she took her like
Speaker 3: three hours to get the kmart and she needed the microwave?
Speaker 1: How poor are you so you need to get a bus.
Speaker 1: She could be homeless. I'm not going down that way again,
Speaker 1: because let's move on.
Speaker 2: If you wanted to successfully make me feel bad, you've
Speaker 2: done it, so thank you.
Speaker 3: As she did time for questions. Also just wanted to
Speaker 3: reiterate that we would love to have any of your
Speaker 3: questions admitted. You can do it two ways. One is
Speaker 3: via our instagram at two Doting Dads against in a DM,
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Speaker 1: At hello at two Doting Dads dot com.
Speaker 3: The first question is Ash, what do you wish you
Speaker 3: were better at as a parent?
Speaker 2: Oh? Good question, I think for me and I actually
Speaker 2: tried to practice.
Speaker 1: This on the weekend. Okay, bear with me.
Speaker 2: When you do go to the park with your kidders,
Speaker 2: just say it's a Sunday morning, which it was a
Speaker 2: Sunday morning, Like, okay, this morning, you got to get
Speaker 2: these kids out of the house. You've got to get
Speaker 2: them down in the park, burn some energy so they
Speaker 2: can go home have lunch. Then we've got to pretty
Speaker 2: much do the same thing again because they just recoep
Speaker 2: their energy so quickly. But I often find myself going
Speaker 2: to the park and with my phone in my pocket
Speaker 2: end up on my phone. It's so easy done. It
Speaker 2: could be a quick message and then you just end
Speaker 2: up doom scrolling. So what I did was I left
Speaker 2: the phone in the car. I felt like a pretty
Speaker 2: good person when I did that at first, which you know,
Speaker 2: as you do into the park, I'm on the zip
Speaker 2: line thing with Oscar, the swing with Oscar, the spinny
Speaker 2: thing with me, see that, whatever it is. And then
Speaker 2: I see a made of mine who's in the park
Speaker 2: on his phone and I was like, oh when I
Speaker 2: was a good eight and his wife was.
Speaker 1: There playing with the kid and he's on his phone.
Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, I leave my phone in
Speaker 2: the car, you know, I just find that like.
Speaker 3: Kids get away.
Speaker 2: And then I just said to April after they left,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm just gonna get my phone out of
Speaker 2: the garden.
Speaker 1: So I wish I was better.
Speaker 2: At sticking to separating that. Look, parks are boring. Fuck
Speaker 2: they're boring.
Speaker 1: I hate it.
Speaker 2: But I have noticed the times that I've done something
Speaker 2: similar like that, Like I was on the zip line,
Speaker 2: I was helping Oscar.
Speaker 1: There was other kids on the zip line too, I
Speaker 1: was wearing pants.
Speaker 3: Thank you for clarifying.
Speaker 1: And it just felt like it was a more fun environment.
Speaker 3: Dude, I'm one hundred percent the same. I it's so
Speaker 3: freaking easy to get distracted, especially weekends. I'm pretty good,
Speaker 3: like I can focus with the kids, but like during
Speaker 3: the week kids come home, it's like five point thirty,
Speaker 3: there's a little bit of the little gap before you
Speaker 3: start having dinner.
Speaker 1: And they were all ratty from kindom, and yeah, they're.
Speaker 3: All tired, and but a few times Miley's wanted to
Speaker 3: play and I'm just like, oh, just needs a rat
Speaker 3: and then like, hey, sometimes that's fine, but I've been
Speaker 3: I've been a bit shit.
Speaker 1: The last we can it's easy done. Yeah, I'm in this.
Speaker 3: Bad routine of just like and even having dinner on
Speaker 3: my phone, getting the bath and then I know, you know,
Speaker 3: give a few minutes in the bar before I start
Speaker 3: go through a routine of like washing them and brushing
Speaker 3: the teeth and just on my phone again. And I'm like, dude,
Speaker 3: I've got like arthritis in my thumb. Yeah, scrolling too much.
Speaker 3: It's a real bloody problem. But it's so nice. Someone
Speaker 3: said to me, it's just trying to do ten minutes
Speaker 3: ten minutes of like kids are your attention, not on
Speaker 3: your phone, and I'm the same. I actually thought about
Speaker 3: when I picked the kids up from daycare, I'm going
Speaker 3: to leave my phone in the car. Yeah that way,
Speaker 3: I'm just not tempted because if it's in my pocket.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. And look, I did.
Speaker 2: An hour at the Park of Self Righteousness, which that's
Speaker 2: katty impressive for an hour.
Speaker 1: Lady was talking to a mate.
Speaker 3: Was Oscar like, can you just back off? Leave me alone?
Speaker 3: And also, in light of the disagreement with Laura, I'd
Speaker 3: be better at better communication with my wife. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: what I need to get on that one. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: one thing an idiot, no phone and communicator.
Speaker 2: Taking aside Laura that one. Thank you, but also your
Speaker 2: feelings are valid. Thank you, thank you what I did there.
Speaker 2: Your question, My question is it's from erin. Do you
Speaker 2: guys actually not care.
Speaker 1: What our bodies look like after kids? That's all we've
Speaker 1: got time?
Speaker 3: I think. I think when I was I was ready
Speaker 3: for the fact that Laura's body was going to go
Speaker 3: through a hell of a lot of change trauma too, Yeah,
Speaker 3: because of pregnancy and then childbirth. I think for me,
Speaker 3: the biggest deterrent from having sex with Laura was the
Speaker 3: fact that I was so afraid that it was going
Speaker 3: to be painful for her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I can't remember how long we waited.
Speaker 1: I think it was a day or two. I'm joking,
Speaker 1: not a joke, joking. Put the pitchforks down, A joking, madam.
Speaker 3: I can't remember. Okay, So when Marley was born, Laura
Speaker 3: had an episiotomy. And for any guys that are listening
Speaker 3: who don't know what that is, it means you need
Speaker 3: to have a cut made during childbirth, which is stitched up.
Speaker 3: And where is the cut cut is downstairs. So Laura
Speaker 3: had to go through that with the birth of Marley.
Speaker 3: Very traumatic and I can't remember how long it was,
Speaker 3: but I remember Laura was like, hey, I'm now ready
Speaker 3: to have sex again. And I was like, I was like,
Speaker 3: are you sure you didn't need more time? And she
Speaker 3: was like no, like, let's do it.
Speaker 1: I don't think I think it took a few turns.
Speaker 3: I was really worried. I was like, yeah, this is
Speaker 3: we don't have to do this. That was my biggest
Speaker 3: qualm in my head.
Speaker 1: I wasn't worried about I wasn't worried about baby.
Speaker 3: Wait, I wasn't like, hey, it's been a couple of
Speaker 3: months now that baby waits hanging around.
Speaker 1: Are we're gonna sort that out? Remembers you Merry Christmas?
Speaker 2: Oh, there'd be they'd be dudes out there like that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and if they are, fuck you dudes, block us. No,
Speaker 2: actually we need the listeners.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's April had.
Speaker 2: Obviously two c sections, so the first one was it's
Speaker 2: like going major surgery. So there's like she pushed for
Speaker 2: so long, which also traumatized the vagina area.
Speaker 1: And then also had to be cut open.
Speaker 2: So it was like my main priority was obviously her
Speaker 2: recovering from a major surgery, and sexual organs were not
Speaker 2: like hurry up.
Speaker 1: And when I hear.
Speaker 3: About guys who are like, hey, work, when are we
Speaker 3: gonna Like when are we?
Speaker 1: When are we going to do this?
Speaker 3: Get back on the sex train, Like you're just a
Speaker 3: boy bro. Yeah, you know a man who's who's educating
Speaker 3: these young men.
Speaker 2: It's fuck day. It's funck day when you hear shit
Speaker 2: like that. But people are like, I think it's not
Speaker 2: about you, bro.
Speaker 1: Jerk off.
Speaker 3: For a couple more monthsly, the only person who was
Speaker 3: putting pressure on Laura to get back into the gym
Speaker 3: to start exercising again. Was herself like she kind of
Speaker 3: wanted to. You know, it's hard to exercise when you're
Speaker 3: eight months with any time of pregnancy, and then even
Speaker 3: then after birth. She was kind of like, I want to,
Speaker 3: I want to feel good again.
Speaker 1: And it's not just physically too mentally.
Speaker 2: April was like a big thing about out of the
Speaker 2: gym and wanted to get back in the gym as
Speaker 2: soon as she could. Wasn't physically for a physical health,
Speaker 2: that was for a mental health.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So again, it's not about us, and I don't
Speaker 1: give a didn't give a shit about what weight she
Speaker 1: would put on or whatever after it was whether she
Speaker 1: was feeling okay, that's my answer. Yeah, I'm the same.
Speaker 3: I think anyone who was putting pressure on their partner
Speaker 3: to try and return the body back to pre baby shape,
Speaker 3: get real.
Speaker 1: It's an absolute dick.
Speaker 2: Get real loser, and then our way, we'll knock them out.
Speaker 2: We'll do a very bad wow, bigger than us.
Speaker 4: Then.
Speaker 3: No, if they're under five foot seven, send them, we'll
Speaker 3: set them out. Anyone who was six foot no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: no no.
Speaker 2: Anyone over six foot one and a half, well Matthew,
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Speaker 1: It's been countless days and sleepless nights.
Speaker 3: Well, it's been a labor of love.
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