Speaker 1: Welcome back to Three Doting Dads.
Speaker 2: I am Mattie Jay, I'm Ash and I'm Aaron Finch.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast that's all about parenting.
Speaker 3: The good, the bad, and the relatable.
Speaker 4: And normally we always say that there's absolutely no advice
Speaker 4: to be given whatsoever.
Speaker 3: However, today it might be different.
Speaker 1: We do have our second guest.
Speaker 3: We have our second guest ever on Three Doting Dads,
Speaker 3: and we want to welcome Extra Strain one Day International
Speaker 3: n T twenty Captain Aaron Finch. Thanks for having us.
Speaker 1: I've never filmed a porno before, but neither let's get
Speaker 1: into it.
Speaker 4: Then, coming in just before, I was like, I don't
Speaker 4: know because for those who are listening, and we will
Speaker 4: have some socials up on Two Doting Dads. We're in
Speaker 4: a service department right now in Sydney's beautiful. It's a
Speaker 4: lovely apartment.
Speaker 3: And stains than I thought there would be.
Speaker 4: But we came up to reception and I've got like
Speaker 4: a bag of these ring lights. They're kind of sticking
Speaker 4: out of my Duffel bag and I didn't know if
Speaker 4: I should like say to the receptionist like this is
Speaker 4: I'm not here for long?
Speaker 3: Just the one hour. This isn't for only fans, I swear.
Speaker 4: I was like, maybe I won't say anything, and then
Speaker 4: I tried to go straight from the car park up
Speaker 4: We've got So I should preface this chat and say
Speaker 4: that Ash and I we don't know what we're doing.
Speaker 4: You've pretty much stepped into assessed nut playing with two door.
Speaker 3: It's a great perfect that's exactly how we podcast is
Speaker 3: exactly how parent which somehow work. But we nearly didn't
Speaker 3: make it because I put into the wrong like into
Speaker 3: the GPS, the wrong hotel can happen, and we stead
Speaker 3: a going to North Sydney. We went to North Rye
Speaker 3: and I got out first and I was like, just here,
Speaker 3: check in under Matthew Johnson. And then I was like
Speaker 3: they need you, they need your ID. And then he
Speaker 3: goes comes back to me, he said, I don't think
Speaker 3: we're in the right players. Have I booked the wrong thing?
Speaker 3: Have you brought us to the wrong players? And I
Speaker 3: screwed the perch. But we made it.
Speaker 4: The fact that we're sitting here, we're here and we've
Speaker 4: got to win.
Speaker 1: It's a miracle. It is, it's an absolute miracle.
Speaker 4: But Vinci, I want to start let's go back to
Speaker 4: when you were a youngster. Right, I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: going to say that I think you were someone who
Speaker 4: was very well behaved and disciplined.
Speaker 1: Would that be correct?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I was the third of four children, so I was
Speaker 2: left to my own devices. Really, I was parented by
Speaker 2: my brothers.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: One was very responsible, very intellectual, not into sport. My
Speaker 2: other brother not as intellectual. Let's go a little bit early.
Speaker 1: We won't say name.
Speaker 2: Lets school attle bit early and yeah, we I just
Speaker 2: played sport. That was all I wanted to do. I
Speaker 2: hated school. I did have great parents. Sorry, I do
Speaker 2: have they're still growing up. My parents were fantastic. They
Speaker 2: gave us everything that we needed. There wasn't a huge
Speaker 2: amount of affection in our family, but I think growing
Speaker 2: up in the country, when you're when you're out playing
Speaker 2: sport and everything, what else do you need?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're likes al right. He's just getting on with it,
Speaker 3: you know, just hitting hundreds left fronts where you know,
Speaker 3: this podcast is very much about, you know, how we
Speaker 3: dad and the silly shit that we do and we
Speaker 3: talk about. Do you see a lot of with Essie
Speaker 3: as you referred to her, who she's coming up to
Speaker 3: should be two in September. YEP, is that correct? So
Speaker 3: you're only a couple of months off my youngest Macy.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of similarities at that time. And
Speaker 3: I always look at Macy and some of the silly
Speaker 3: things she does. She's like, I always describe her as
Speaker 3: a drunk person looking for their car, because every time
Speaker 3: she's walking around she kind of looks like you're in
Speaker 3: a car park looking to where she parked a car.
Speaker 3: I remember, yeah, I can't remember. And there's so many
Speaker 3: things I see her do. Not the drunk bit, man,
Speaker 3: but there's so many things that I see her. I'm like, fuck,
Speaker 3: that reminds me so much of me and my childhood.
Speaker 3: Is there so much that you see inness as you do?
Speaker 3: You think she's a lot more like her mum, which
Speaker 3: is a good thing. Every dad says that, like when you.
Speaker 2: Find out that you're pregnant, you go through the excited
Speaker 2: stage and then you think for a minute, you're like, oh, no,
Speaker 2: are thinking to be She turns out like me, We're
Speaker 2: in real trouble. She's quite an emotional little girl. She's beautiful,
Speaker 2: she's very intelligent, and she knows what she wants. She's
Speaker 2: just starting to get into the tantrum stage where.
Speaker 3: They're not too bad.
Speaker 2: But if you offer something that she doesn't want that's
Speaker 2: not good enough, you should already.
Speaker 3: Know it should be helepathic. I love how like at
Speaker 3: that age and Matt's sort of over the little hurdle
Speaker 3: now where Lola is over to and into the terrible
Speaker 3: twos and you're just about to hit it too. But
Speaker 3: they're at the age where s he is, and like
Speaker 3: Macy is, they're really like over exaggerate, like a no,
Speaker 3: They're like, if you've give them something that I want.
Speaker 3: Mace's like that we don't have the headshat yet. We
Speaker 3: get that. No, ye, no, yeah, yeah, it feels like
Speaker 3: es there's in the room right now, really good. Do
Speaker 3: you want to watch the Wiggles? No? Are you sure? Wiggles?
Speaker 2: That means yes, we're right. And then you put it
Speaker 2: on and it'll come on to a song, be like, no,
Speaker 2: skip to the next one, No, I want Rebella, And
Speaker 2: then you go back to the start and it's, oh,
Speaker 2: this is the best song I've ever heard in my life,
Speaker 2: and everything's restored in the world together.
Speaker 4: Even that tiny level of communication is just so welcome
Speaker 4: when you've come from like two years of just like
Speaker 4: what do you want? When they're unhappy, you're kind of
Speaker 4: going through this list of like is it food? Do
Speaker 4: you want like a toy? Is there something behind me
Speaker 4: that I can't see? So when you can get any
Speaker 4: direction verbally from the kids, it's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially when they like point and it's like there
Speaker 3: could be a number of objects in that area and
Speaker 3: they're like, you're sitting there, you're picking up different things,
Speaker 3: and you're like this, no, picking up there, No, and
Speaker 3: then you pick up the right thing. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's right. But that caused the tantrum.
Speaker 2: The fact that you didn't know what it was so funny,
Speaker 2: and I'm very relaxed, I would say in my parenting style.
Speaker 2: My wife's probably the opposite. She spent a lot more
Speaker 2: time with her. I've traveled quite a bit alone while
Speaker 2: she's in the last two years, so she knows what
Speaker 2: she wants a lot quicker than what I do. But
Speaker 2: I've got a great ability to tune out any screams
Speaker 2: or crying.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's amazing, such an advantage.
Speaker 4: I think not to stereotype he but I think it's
Speaker 4: just a dad think, yeah, I can. I sleep through absolutely,
Speaker 4: And I say to Laura, my wife, I'm like, just
Speaker 4: wake wake me up, because it doesn't pin drops and
Speaker 4: Laura's up, Whereas there could be a tank smashing through
Speaker 4: the front door and I'd still be.
Speaker 3: See I'm the opposite. I'm like, I'll wake up like
Speaker 3: it's like a like Radar from mash coming April is
Speaker 3: the same. But like you know how you always make
Speaker 3: fun of me because I got to bet at like
Speaker 3: seven thirty. That's why. Because I'm not like you, he'll
Speaker 3: freight train you.
Speaker 2: Wait, oh mate, I'll sleep with the best of them. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I sleep like the best of them.
Speaker 3: Sorry. But I always find that I wake up on
Speaker 3: the kid's floor without knowing how I got there, because
Speaker 3: I would just be like already and just it's just
Speaker 3: become this thing funny. I wake up in the spare
Speaker 3: bed after a few years. Well yeah, we don't have
Speaker 3: a spare bed, just the floor and the kids.
Speaker 1: Finci.
Speaker 4: One question that we get a lot from people who
Speaker 4: are not yet with kids but thinking about having kids
Speaker 4: is when did you know that you were ready to
Speaker 4: start a family.
Speaker 1: For you and your wife?
Speaker 4: How did that conversation come about and was it something
Speaker 4: that you were leading or was it from amy.
Speaker 3: Very good question.
Speaker 2: I don't think we were ready, even though no one
Speaker 2: is that.
Speaker 3: No one, no one is ready.
Speaker 2: And we also weren't convinced that we're going to have
Speaker 2: children like we were quite selfishly I think at times. Well, no,
Speaker 2: it lost pretty good at the moment. Anything you want
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 3: You look back and like, you know what, it was
Speaker 3: really good.
Speaker 2: That's the best thing every and I would never change it.
Speaker 2: But we were like, if it happens, it happened. If
Speaker 2: it doesn't, we're both okay with that life. I guess,
Speaker 2: being able to just drop anything and go somewhere and yeah,
Speaker 2: but you take it for granted, don't you. And then
Speaker 2: but it wasn't until I found out New Year's Day.
Speaker 3: So that would have been that's pretty cool. Thousand.
Speaker 2: Well you'd think so, right, you're getting home, so we're
Speaker 2: in the we're playing Big Bash at the time, and
Speaker 2: we're in the Bubby Yeah. Yeah, and we're in Queensland
Speaker 2: on the Gold Coast and you could only go to
Speaker 2: this area.
Speaker 3: In that area, you couldn't go anywhere else. So was
Speaker 3: your wife in the she was with us. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: pretty sure. Yeah, so that was cool.
Speaker 2: And a couple of days in we were bickering quite
Speaker 2: a bit and she was like, this is ship. I'm
Speaker 2: going home, not knowing that she's pregnant at the time.
Speaker 2: And I think it was New Year's Day or Newyear's Eve.
Speaker 2: I think Newyear's Day. I got a phone call and
Speaker 2: she goes, oh, I have you checked your messages? Put
Speaker 2: the phone on loud and have a look. And then
Speaker 2: we're like, right, well that explains a lot. But your
Speaker 2: emotions are up and down, not knowing what was happening.
Speaker 3: But it was so cool up until then.
Speaker 1: Were you trying or were you kind of.
Speaker 3: Just if it happens, if it happens to happen. No,
Speaker 3: we weren't actively trying. We were practicing, weren't practicing, weren't practicing,
Speaker 3: but we weren't careful anything like that. So that's the
Speaker 3: greatest thing ever when you find out the first time.
Speaker 3: And then obviously it's so nerve wracking the steps that
Speaker 3: you take, like with all the tests and skins and stuff,
Speaker 3: and you're just praying and yeah, and I was away
Speaker 3: for a few of them, so you're doing them almost secondhand.
Speaker 3: Like passing on Amy's passing on information that they've told her.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's quite tough at times, isn't it. That
Speaker 3: everything's going well, and then you're like, right, scan shit
Speaker 3: yourself a little bit when you go okay, Well, there's
Speaker 3: these big scans and these big tests that they do
Speaker 3: and there's that time between you know, you find out
Speaker 3: and when a little bit safer through the journey. And
Speaker 3: there were so many there is so many times we
Speaker 3: were like shit. And I suppose it leads us into
Speaker 3: the dynamic with you because both of us we don't
Speaker 3: travel the world to play or work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think cricket would be a sport where you guys,
Speaker 4: of all athletes would travel the most. Yeah, I reckon,
Speaker 4: how many months are you guys away at Bullpark?
Speaker 3: Maybe ten months? Wow, it's crazy. And that's what we're
Speaker 3: talking about on the way here, because I mean, you're
Speaker 3: about to do a stint in July with San Francisco
Speaker 3: in then Major League cricket yep. And he was like, what, Like,
Speaker 3: it's so crazy how much you guys actually travel. And
Speaker 3: I know that I had to be there for all
Speaker 3: these tests, had to be there for all of the
Speaker 3: lead up the build up, the nine months build up,
Speaker 3: and then of course like when it's going to happen,
Speaker 3: and for you guys, like you're away for ten months
Speaker 3: and you know, okay, well the judate is hereabout and
Speaker 3: if they come early or come late, either you're going
Speaker 3: to miss some of your career or you're going to
Speaker 3: miss the birth of your child. Yeah, it's quite difficult.
Speaker 2: And during COVID especially was even more challenging because in
Speaker 2: the past, guys, we're booked in for a caesar or
Speaker 2: were induced on this day, so I can leave the
Speaker 2: tour up here, come home and then rejoin if everything
Speaker 2: goes well. But then with two weeks quarantine, you're like, no, no,
Speaker 2: everything has to be planned out. So I was really
Speaker 2: lucky in being able to be home for it. But
Speaker 2: then a month later I was in. Maybe three weeks
Speaker 2: later we had the World Cup in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Speaker 2: So thenngratulations on the win. But you pack your bags
Speaker 2: and you're off again. Yeah, yeah, exactly right, and then
Speaker 2: Amy's at home like a new baby.
Speaker 3: I don't know what. So after that point that everything
Speaker 3: is okay, You've got to pack your bags and going
Speaker 3: with a World Cup for us, thank you. What is
Speaker 3: it like for her, like, what's the support network there?
Speaker 2: Well, her mum lived really close, so that was handy.
Speaker 2: So she would always be over at our place or
Speaker 2: staying over when I was away, and even when I
Speaker 2: was there because I'm not an overly emotional person at all,
Speaker 2: but within the first four days, I'd had two meltdowns.
Speaker 3: Wow, so one in the hospital a couple of menty
Speaker 3: bees from I was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: What happened in the hospital first night, get back up
Speaker 2: to the birthing room and they just there's your baby,
Speaker 2: good life, good luck. And then then I said I
Speaker 2: will be back in ten minutes, and Esta's screaming and
Speaker 2: we're like, no one's coming for like an hour. So
Speaker 2: because there was a there was an emergency there, but
Speaker 2: we're like, geez, we don't know what to do. So
Speaker 2: that was like a little bit of an eye opener.
Speaker 2: And then the first night that we got home, she
Speaker 2: just wouldn't stop crying and will bottle feeding. So the
Speaker 2: formula to calculate how much you need to feed was
Speaker 2: like an older nurse gave it to us, and that
Speaker 2: was off a scale from nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 3: She was just hungry, just like Malmourish.
Speaker 2: I certainly wasn't. I was eighty six. Yeah, that was difficult,
Speaker 2: no doubt to pack up and go. But Amy her
Speaker 2: mum has been amazing for us. And then when we
Speaker 2: decided to move down to Geelong, so we're in Essenon.
Speaker 2: We moved down to Geelong, which is an hour away
Speaker 2: and m'm been a bit further away and my parents
Speaker 2: been another hour on. That had its challenges as well,
Speaker 2: just we're traveling a bit.
Speaker 4: Do you have to manage those conversation then, you know,
Speaker 4: because I guess you know what your schedule is going
Speaker 4: to look like. So do you have to say, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm going to be gone for this block and this block? Yeah,
Speaker 4: this block, because you don't want to surprise your partner
Speaker 4: with like, oh did I not mention that I've got
Speaker 4: the World Cup coming up?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You do.
Speaker 2: But there's always things that do come up. And that's
Speaker 2: when it's like a difficult conversation because when you're away
Speaker 2: for so much, I feel really bad about leaving again,
Speaker 2: especially if it's on short notice, because that's quite unfair
Speaker 2: at times because it's all for me. You can justify
Speaker 2: it however you want. At times and you say, well,
Speaker 2: I'm doing this to set our family up and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, but then reality is she's with a baby.
Speaker 3: By herself for five weeks.
Speaker 2: I was just in India commentating for five and a
Speaker 2: half weeks, and that was the most difficult that it's
Speaker 2: been because Esther's on face time and then she realizes.
Speaker 3: That she's recognizing you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not coming home, so then she doesn't want
Speaker 2: to talk to you on FaceTime and she's emotional, she's
Speaker 2: getting teeth and she's sick, and yeah, it's difficult, and
Speaker 2: my wife is amazing, But when you're away, you sort
Speaker 2: of take it for granted a bit too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure, I can't imagine that You're saying
Speaker 3: to Amy, like, all right, babe, so I'm just about
Speaker 3: to go to India, and then after India, I'm after
Speaker 3: a stage and do.
Speaker 2: Like they're coming to the States, which would be cool.
Speaker 3: That yeah, funny story.
Speaker 2: Right when I was playing in the IPL, they came
Speaker 2: to India, they had to do three days quarantine to
Speaker 2: get into the IPL bubble and then we'll confined to
Speaker 2: the hotel. So it was all, it was all pretty good.
Speaker 2: It still was I think seven months so she's just
Speaker 2: crawling around and people in India love kids, so everyone
Speaker 2: wants to hold her and stuff. Anyway, on the flight
Speaker 2: back they got to Singapore, I said, hell was a
Speaker 2: flight she has Yeah, flight was okay, Yes, to slept,
Speaker 2: But then she sent me a photo as they landed,
Speaker 2: and she had a tight turnaround as she landed. Little
Speaker 2: did we know at the time she had salmonella. Esther
Speaker 2: had salmonella and they both got COVID. It was almost
Speaker 2: like as a plane touchdown, Esther has shit everywhere all up.
Speaker 2: But then she's still got to get the carrier on
Speaker 2: to carry Amy so she can take the bags and
Speaker 2: then try and rush to the lounge have a shower.
Speaker 3: She's like, I don't know what to do baby.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, so there are the times when you're like,
Speaker 2: welcome to parenthood.
Speaker 3: The imagine poor Amy walking through the airport, Singapore airport
Speaker 3: with a baby covered in ship strapped to her chest,
Speaker 3: trying to find the nearest shower.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where is that in the baby manual?
Speaker 2: It's not that's not that's and but we didn't know
Speaker 2: that she was sick really at the time.
Speaker 3: And then just hits them, doesn't that Yeah.
Speaker 2: That stuff doesn't bother me one bit to be like
Speaker 2: nappies and ship and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so like that was like something I wanted to
Speaker 3: ask you too, because for you, like you get home,
Speaker 3: so you've been a long stint, you get home, does
Speaker 3: Amy just go his years and hand her over up? Now, mate,
Speaker 3: the next ten shits are on you.
Speaker 2: No, not really, No, it's it's more I don't want
Speaker 2: to do anything while I'm at home because I think
Speaker 2: that's then really unfair on Amy as well, because she's
Speaker 2: done it all by herself for a while. So then
Speaker 2: I come home and I'm like, well, I haven't seen
Speaker 2: the boys for all. I'm just going to go to
Speaker 2: the pub or he's going to go play golf. Sounds like, Matt,
Speaker 2: I don't even bother with that stuff anymore. If esther's
Speaker 2: at daycare or something, there are days to either be
Speaker 2: just together or yeah, be able to do something. So's
Speaker 2: it has its challenges, but it's also great when you
Speaker 2: hear baby shitting himself and where to.
Speaker 3: Be seen smell.
Speaker 4: How do you find having a baby's impacted you as
Speaker 4: an athlete?
Speaker 1: Because I know.
Speaker 3: You're not an athlete, Matt. You do a run here
Speaker 3: and there, you're not an athlete sign.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I think about when I'm working and if you have
Speaker 4: a bad night's sleep and you crap the next day,
Speaker 4: then I think for an elite athlete, having a child
Speaker 4: could be such a handicap. Like it's almost like, if
Speaker 4: you've got a kid, you should start with like six
Speaker 4: runs on the board.
Speaker 1: I you've got two kids, start with twelve runs on
Speaker 1: the board. Did you find it?
Speaker 3: Davey warned to how many kids? That guy he's got
Speaker 3: three girls. Though, if you've got three girls, you should
Speaker 3: start on fifty. I give him my leg out. I
Speaker 3: don't think Vierat would really like it.
Speaker 4: Did you find that it had any impact on how
Speaker 4: you were as an athlete?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I was lucky and unlucky. I guess. I had surgery
Speaker 2: on my knee just before Esther was born, so then
Speaker 2: I was doing rehab and stuff like that. But we're
Speaker 2: living in Melbourne, so I didn't have to travel far
Speaker 2: to do that. And then since we've moved to Geelong,
Speaker 2: which was against Amy's wishes a little bit.
Speaker 3: I was actually in I.
Speaker 2: Was in Pakistan and got a call and she said,
Speaker 2: I found.
Speaker 3: A place in Geelong. Right, it's a really nice place.
Speaker 2: And yeah, and we bought it while I was on
Speaker 2: a flight from Karachi to Dubai.
Speaker 3: Crazy.
Speaker 2: But when you move away from your family, especially her mum,
Speaker 2: who she's very close with her mum, so that was
Speaker 2: difficult because then you lose your immediate support network and.
Speaker 3: You've got a rebuild that.
Speaker 2: And when I'm away so much, it's difficult on her
Speaker 2: note doubt, And I've always not drifted, but you just
Speaker 2: someone tells you where to be, someone books your flight,
Speaker 2: someone does all that stuff. So if anything happened for
Speaker 2: this trip for the US, we're all going over together.
Speaker 2: Because originally I was going to fly over play and
Speaker 2: then Amy and Esta would come and meet me and
Speaker 2: with holiday and then do a little bit of Europe.
Speaker 2: And Amy said, there was no fucking chance. I'm traveling
Speaker 2: fifteen hours by myself with a toddler. So there's a
Speaker 2: toddler stage now.
Speaker 1: She yeah, getting her track record of flights, isn't She.
Speaker 2: Was to run around and get into stuff, so she goes.
Speaker 3: Right stop them too when they get like she walking,
Speaker 3: she runs around, she runs the house. Yeah, but like
Speaker 3: full arm still or she doesn't know what to do
Speaker 3: with her arms yet.
Speaker 2: If you say, fly, she puts them behind herself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and like you're getting at the age where her
Speaker 3: on the plane where they're just up and down there,
Speaker 3: up and down because you can't stop them. When they
Speaker 3: were like, you know, a little bit younger, and they
Speaker 3: was sitting up and they were kind of crawling on things,
Speaker 3: you could sort of manage them on the seat. But
Speaker 3: like Matt and I both know that, you get a
Speaker 3: kid on a plane now and they're like, first thing,
Speaker 3: You're like, look out the window. It's amazing, because that's
Speaker 3: fucking amazing if you're that small. But they're like bought
Speaker 3: of that. I'm just going to run up and down
Speaker 3: this hallway and annoy everyone I possibly can, and you
Speaker 3: find yourself saying like, okay, daddy wants you to stop
Speaker 3: doing that now.
Speaker 2: So I couldn't give a shit, what do you want
Speaker 2: it exactly? So the tickets came through, and we said
Speaker 2: from the start, Aman and my flight were covered, but
Speaker 2: pay for a separate ticket for esthera so she's got
Speaker 2: her own seat. So anyway, the tickets come through and
Speaker 2: there's two seats and they've booked. Look, she's under two,
Speaker 2: so I understand. It's it, he said, look really sorry,
Speaker 2: but can we book her a seat because fifteen hours
Speaker 2: that's a long time for almost two year old on
Speaker 2: your lap. They said, yep, no worries, And Amy's stressing,
Speaker 2: like the SI sent through the updated itinery. I'm like,
Speaker 2: it's all right, it'll come through, like there's people's jobs.
Speaker 2: But she's such a planner and I'm just so carefull
Speaker 2: in that regard because I know that it will happen.
Speaker 2: I've been in situations before where I'm driving to the airport.
Speaker 2: I still don't have a ticket, i haven't sent it through,
Speaker 2: but I know that if they want me to be there, yeah.
Speaker 3: You're on there. I'll be on the floor, you're on
Speaker 3: the manifest. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So it's just things like that that I'm grateful for.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just.
Speaker 4: I thought when you were playing overseas, like, obviously you're
Speaker 4: staying in hotel rooms at home, if the baby is crying,
Speaker 4: you can have some distance and you can actually you
Speaker 4: still get a good night's sleep. How do you manage
Speaker 4: that whilst you're playing abroad staying in a hotel?
Speaker 2: Best has always been pretty good. She'll grizzle, except last night.
Speaker 2: Last night, getting out of bed was shocking, and then
Speaker 2: once she's in bed she's fine. Teeth coming through a
Speaker 2: bit of a cough and daycare.
Speaker 3: But really too with the TV, yeah, it all goes south.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's always been pretty good in that regard.
Speaker 2: We've been really lucky because you hear some people were
Speaker 2: with a friend the other day and the kid wakes
Speaker 2: up every hour.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was like, I've been through that. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: that's why I look so you're really twenty two. This
Speaker 3: is my first beer.
Speaker 2: So we've been lucky like that. There's only been well,
Speaker 2: I've been home a handful of nights where often she'll
Speaker 2: wake up in the middle of the night and Amy
Speaker 2: end up sleeping on the floor, spending a lot of
Speaker 2: time on the floor and she'll just look around see
Speaker 2: that she's there and everything's good. But if you're not,
Speaker 2: where's moment she must be just starting to dream at
Speaker 2: the moment. The other night she woke up and Amy's like, right,
Speaker 2: she's not going to go back to sleep at the moment,
Speaker 2: so she brought her out. This is like ten to ten.
Speaker 2: You would have been three hours in your sleeper. There,
Speaker 2: Amy's holding her, She's still in her sleep suit, and
Speaker 2: she just sits. My nephew's name is Miller, and the
Speaker 2: week before we've been to watch him play footy, like
Speaker 2: under twelve footage footy, just picking up a car. Jay's
Speaker 2: my brother Ja drive car footy. And then she starts
Speaker 2: reeling off everyone at daycare.
Speaker 3: Her teacher, good Will Hunting.
Speaker 2: SI's her teacher said, She's like, is crazy, yeah, Mac Dakota,
Speaker 2: and she just starts reeling off everyone and then goes
Speaker 2: through our family. One minute, lady, she's asleep again. So
Speaker 2: it's like, obviously her brain is just going so hard
Speaker 2: that she's she's woken up and gone on.
Speaker 3: I just need to tell somebody everything that I know,
Speaker 3: all the words I know.
Speaker 1: Back to sleep, tick it off the list, and like, yeah.
Speaker 3: Our daughter at a similar age. It's all just obviously
Speaker 3: no sentences. It's just like one word, maybe one or
Speaker 3: two words combined, if you can really encourage them. But
Speaker 3: because now this is with my second I've readopted the
Speaker 3: internal monologue of calling myself daddy. And we made a
Speaker 3: bit of a joke about this that I always refer
Speaker 3: to myself as daddy even when the kids aren't there,
Speaker 3: and I got me thinking about like when I go
Speaker 3: to work and do work things, and I still refer
Speaker 3: to myself as daddy and awkward and very awkward. But
Speaker 3: I also wanted to ask you if you ever played
Speaker 3: a cut shot and thought Daddy just played a cut shot.
Speaker 2: No, I can't say I have it.
Speaker 3: Do you know what the next cut shot you make,
Speaker 3: you'd be like Daddy good on that cut.
Speaker 2: There's times when you hit one, you jesus, I'm good.
Speaker 3: I just rever to myself so much as a daddy thirsty,
Speaker 3: just because I talked to them like that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think for mums, especially who do quite a lot
Speaker 2: of it by themselves, like adult conversations must just be
Speaker 2: the only thing that they're craving sleep sleep obviously, and
Speaker 2: conversations with another adult that is not just mine numbing. Yes, darling,
Speaker 2: Yes I don't touch that.
Speaker 1: When you look up.
Speaker 4: Until now the time you've had with esther, is there
Speaker 4: a moment where you thought, this is so much harder
Speaker 4: than I ever imagined.
Speaker 2: All the time, my wife and I talk about it
Speaker 2: all the time. It's like, just how much you actually
Speaker 2: have to I guess occupy.
Speaker 1: Them that's never ending.
Speaker 2: And when they can move around, it's all right. When
Speaker 2: they're just laying there or just crawling. But once they're
Speaker 2: on the move, you literally you can't go to the
Speaker 2: toilet without them following you. Well, you put them down
Speaker 2: and they're not happy, so they just follow you and
Speaker 2: they grab you. And Amy's like, I just didn't get
Speaker 2: anything done. And I had on Monday. Today today's Wednesday.
Speaker 2: So on Monday I had Amy had a few things
Speaker 2: to do, so I had Esther and my two nephew
Speaker 2: and niece. But they're twelve and ten, so they helped
Speaker 2: look after it.
Speaker 3: They did majority of the parenting.
Speaker 2: They did a lot, and Bounce did a lot as well.
Speaker 2: We went to bounce and Esther's jumping around like an idiot.
Speaker 2: But I got home at the end of the day
Speaker 2: name he goes, oh, I did you do this and this?
Speaker 2: I said, I didn't have any time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: She's like no, ship, Yeah, She's like, how do you
Speaker 2: think I'd get through five weeks of this? I'm like, oh, look,
Speaker 2: I had a bit of time, but I just decided.
Speaker 3: To spend quality time with my daughter, for sure.
Speaker 2: But when they go down for their nap, that's not
Speaker 2: your reals time.
Speaker 3: And oh you bang on there. Yeah, I've become a napper.
Speaker 3: I just napped now, Oh I see I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't nap either.
Speaker 2: If I nap, then I'm up till midnight, guaranteed. I've
Speaker 2: taught myself. But that's my time to like do my
Speaker 2: numbing things.
Speaker 3: That are just like compressed, just reels and it's took
Speaker 3: and then you hear them stir and when they wake up, like,
Speaker 3: I'm not ready. I actually wanted to get a nappy,
Speaker 3: but I didn't round a goal real quick.
Speaker 4: Who was someone who you turn to for advice with
Speaker 4: any any players like Warner for example, did you go
Speaker 4: to him and say.
Speaker 1: Hey, like, how do you get through teething? How can
Speaker 1: you help me through this?
Speaker 2: Cricketers probably aren't the right people to ask that question
Speaker 2: because because everyone's on the road so much, and guys
Speaker 2: travel with their families at different times, like at the
Speaker 2: moment during the ashes, most of the families are over there,
Speaker 2: which is brilliant, But in COVID no one could travel,
Speaker 2: so it was sort of like, hey, kids going good.
Speaker 3: Good, Yeah, I think they're okay, they're breathing.
Speaker 2: Just friends, that's all you. But everyone's so different. Everyone
Speaker 2: will have similar experiences but in such a different way.
Speaker 2: And how people parent is totally different as well, So
Speaker 2: asking for advice sometimes can be the worst thing. I
Speaker 2: think just hearing people. It's all right to ask for advice.
Speaker 2: It a lot of times it will have no relevance
Speaker 2: on you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because people are always going to be different to Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, so I was always a believer. It's amazing when
Speaker 2: you when you travel a bit too, you get home
Speaker 2: and you will issue because you've upset the routine.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, now it's bath time, and because you've been wine
Speaker 2: in her up, she.
Speaker 3: Doesn't have a bath. Yeah, okay, all right. Seven. I
Speaker 3: never thought about it like that because, yeah, because they've
Speaker 3: got their routine down, pat, Yeah, we do this at
Speaker 3: dinner at five point thirty, bath at six, their routine
Speaker 3: and I'm home and all of a sudden, it's just
Speaker 3: like fun, Dad's home. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So in the early days, if she was ever crying,
Speaker 2: I'd be like, just let her cry it out, should
Speaker 2: be right, Yeah, But Amy's the polar opposite, so she's like, no, no.
Speaker 3: We've got a routine. How we do it. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: deal with it. But because you're not here five weeks.
Speaker 2: Exactly, right, So that makes it that makes it difficult
Speaker 2: and I think I'm not a planner, but I'm always early.
Speaker 2: My wife's so detailed with planning, but she'll be there
Speaker 2: like five seconds before she's meant to. That does my
Speaker 2: head in. But my carefree it'll be right, like it'll
Speaker 2: get so yeah yeah, but we're going tomorrow. Should we
Speaker 2: book the flights?
Speaker 3: It'll be right. Don't worry, someone will gould have done.
Speaker 2: So we're polar opposites in that regard, and then when
Speaker 2: it comes to parenting at times we've been polar ops.
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, we do do it this way. No,
Speaker 2: this is how we do Okay, that's how we do it. Whatever,
Speaker 2: it's not even a conversation anymore.
Speaker 4: I'm going to take a wild guess and say that
Speaker 4: you didn't read too many birthing pregnancy baby books.
Speaker 3: Not one. Did you do the classes.
Speaker 2: Heart but they weren't They weren't happening because it was COVID.
Speaker 3: They did them online. Similar time, like we did a
Speaker 3: CPR course, yeah baby CPR. Yeah yeah, so you did
Speaker 3: the life saving one. I can't control any of the
Speaker 3: other stuff. How to do a fucking nappy.
Speaker 2: I was the third kid. My sister was nine years
Speaker 2: younger than me.
Speaker 3: Wow, So so you were changing her nappy. Yeah, from nine.
Speaker 2: To sort of fifteen. That was a part of parenting her,
Speaker 2: I guess sorry. In terms of the physical stuff, it
Speaker 2: was amazing when es to come and that was what's
Speaker 2: twenty years later that you still remember like straightaway, nappy
Speaker 2: was no wish. I would always remembered how now you've
Speaker 2: got the pull up ones and so much easier. But like,
Speaker 2: it never bothered me. Nappis and stuff have never bothered
Speaker 2: me because I grew up. You did doing that on
Speaker 2: my sister, So that was It's so fascinating how you
Speaker 2: just remember shit that you thought she's that's never going
Speaker 2: to be relevant again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a huge advantage having younger siblings. I had
Speaker 4: two younger brothers, yeah, and I'm on a five so
Speaker 4: it was very much a single mom as well. So
Speaker 4: it was very much the kids had to like pull
Speaker 4: their weight, and I think that was like the best
Speaker 4: And I didn't get any classes either, but that was
Speaker 4: like the best kind of taste of parenting. That was
Speaker 4: like the beginning of the foundations for now. So mum,
Speaker 4: thanks for having five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fully, I mean, I don't know how you guys
Speaker 3: have got two. Honestly that was going to be said dad.
Speaker 3: A couple of don'ting dads. I mentioned too before and
Speaker 3: your head went, no, don't know.
Speaker 2: So one and done, one and done, one and done?
Speaker 3: Is it? Like, is that your decision or is it
Speaker 3: you are both mutual?
Speaker 2: Both yea, Like I don't understand, Like, surely after one
Speaker 2: you know how hard it is get your it's so
Speaker 2: hard teething.
Speaker 3: They don't tell you how hard you do forget.
Speaker 4: I think I do think once you've done it once.
Speaker 4: I remember driving back from the hospital, Laura and I
Speaker 4: are like, holy shit, like driving here and then like
Speaker 4: you know, you just don't know what you're doing at all.
Speaker 4: But then after one, you'd like you have a level
Speaker 4: of confidence, which is maybe.
Speaker 3: It's subconscious confidence though, because you really forget. Like I remember,
Speaker 3: I was so adamant, like no, we did talk about
Speaker 3: having two before having any like that was the ideal number.
Speaker 3: And then after the one, I was like, nah, I'm
Speaker 3: not going through that again, not going through the trauma of.
Speaker 2: It all because you had to push out a baby,
Speaker 2: that's fair.
Speaker 3: The trauma of it all for her. But yeah, like
Speaker 3: I was like, nah, the sleepless night it's like, you
Speaker 3: know what, it's like, the teething, the whole bit. You
Speaker 3: forget that, though you do, you do at a certain point,
Speaker 3: you forget that. And once we had the second one,
Speaker 3: like Matt saying, there's so much subconscious confidence you pick
Speaker 3: up and.
Speaker 1: You've got the equipment.
Speaker 3: Now, there was so cool. There were so many things
Speaker 3: that I did as a with the first baby that
Speaker 3: I fumbled and bumbled my way through and I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm fucking shit at this and that's no joke. But
Speaker 3: then when the same instance happened with the second kid,
Speaker 3: I was like, I got this, no fucking worries, even
Speaker 3: though that was years ago and I never thought I
Speaker 3: learned anything from it. Yeah, you just subconsciously the confidence
Speaker 3: comes back and how you do that. Having two for
Speaker 3: us in the end now is a blessing because Macy's
Speaker 3: my favorite is probably listening, you heard me right, but
Speaker 3: take the rubbish out. I get on your feet and
Speaker 3: take the rubbish out, But.
Speaker 2: Not at the bribery or reasoning stage. Yet she doesn't
Speaker 2: quite understand that looking forward to that because my wife's
Speaker 2: got a very very strong will, so do I and
Speaker 2: my daughter is stubborn as well. So there could be
Speaker 2: some Mexican stand up for a long time.
Speaker 3: It happens. No one's seen the Finches for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Esther's still standing up.
Speaker 3: I'm not going anywhere exactly.
Speaker 1: Do you think you'll be playing a good cop then?
Speaker 3: And some one's going to be in a good cop.
Speaker 3: But know, whether you like it or not, it doesn't
Speaker 3: bother me.
Speaker 2: My wife naturally, she likes structure and tidiness, and she
Speaker 2: naturally leans that way, whereas I'm.
Speaker 3: You can bend it a bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wouldn't bother me if I had to be. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I probably should be more often. Yeah, for her
Speaker 2: mental state than anything else.
Speaker 3: I'm the bad Yeah. Well we'll just talked about this today.
Speaker 3: My wife just sneaks my kid's chocolate and shit just
Speaker 3: to keep on the good side. Yeah, I'm definitely the
Speaker 3: bad cop.
Speaker 4: When it came to retirement. What was that conversation like
Speaker 4: with Amy?
Speaker 2: It happened at the back of where we were sitting
Speaker 2: in Cancer. We're playing in Cans three game series against
Speaker 2: New Zealand. After the first game, I said to her,
Speaker 2: I'm just not feeling it. My drive and my passion
Speaker 2: isn't my performance has been pretty ordinary, and my body
Speaker 2: wasn't great. And then after the second game I got
Speaker 2: out and she was walking esther around in the pram
Speaker 2: in cans and I just said I'm done.
Speaker 3: He goes, all right, Wow was that quick? Yeah? And
Speaker 3: like what were her what were her reactions to that?
Speaker 3: She wasn't surprised.
Speaker 2: I'm still playing ten twenties and I'm still playing a
Speaker 2: little bit domestically, all a bit overseas and commentating.
Speaker 3: So it was meant to be.
Speaker 2: This year was meant to be a bit more of
Speaker 2: home time and less traveling, spend more time with my family,
Speaker 2: and I've been on the road more this year than
Speaker 2: ever before. So transitioning into commentating and broadcasting, you've sort
Speaker 2: of got to take all the opportunities that you can.
Speaker 3: So that's made it a bit more difficult when you're
Speaker 3: playing full time. I think maybe, like you know, networks
Speaker 3: and stuff, probably thinking he's playing full time, he's got
Speaker 3: that's his main career, and now it's like, okay, well
Speaker 3: Aaronthon's just going to step away and retire from international cricket.
Speaker 3: He is still doing domestically. Let's grab hold of him,
Speaker 3: you know, and bring and sort of pull you in
Speaker 3: a couple of different directions instead of just like the
Speaker 3: one direction of playing.
Speaker 2: So well, I think the difference with our relationship compared
Speaker 2: to a lot of others I guess is that we
Speaker 2: met after I was already playing for Australia when I
Speaker 2: was twenty seven, twenty six, twenty seven years as the
Speaker 2: same age. So even our initial dating and stuff like
Speaker 2: dated for a bit. Then I went away for a
Speaker 2: few months, I went to India and England. So yeah,
Speaker 2: she knew what she was getting into beforehand. Doesn't mean
Speaker 2: that I haven't made some selfish decisions over the time
Speaker 2: based on my career, putting my career first and yeah,
Speaker 2: but you don't think about it that way until you retire.
Speaker 3: You sit back and you go, shit, I did that?
Speaker 2: Did I need to go and play there for a
Speaker 2: month when it could have been anyway?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean that's that's the thing. At the time,
Speaker 3: it was what was right for you. Yeah, and yeah,
Speaker 3: it being your whole career and the fact that you know,
Speaker 3: you guys met when you were really in the thick
Speaker 3: of it, as you know, playing international cricket and knew
Speaker 3: what what was to be expected. It's kind of like
Speaker 3: she stuck around for that and now you've trapped it
Speaker 3: with a child. It's too late.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you the biggest mistake I made, please, yeah,
Speaker 2: we hear it. The biggest mistake I made was met
Speaker 2: up a few times and then I went to India.
Speaker 2: I was playing ipl and I invited her over. So
Speaker 2: we've got a ten day stretch. We're in hydrobad at
Speaker 2: the time, I was playing for hydro Bread. Would you
Speaker 2: like to come over? She goes, yeah, no worries, that'll
Speaker 2: be good. And I was trying to impress her, so
Speaker 2: I bought her a business class ticket.
Speaker 3: Lovely, beautiful, good gesture.
Speaker 1: Did it go down?
Speaker 3: Well? Went down great. She has not set an economy since.
Speaker 2: So it's cost me an absolute fortune, all because I've
Speaker 2: got my dick out and tried to But that's quite funny.
Speaker 2: So we're big Texters aiming. I so will message all
Speaker 2: day and then have quick calls and then at night
Speaker 2: it'll be however longest it can be entertained on the
Speaker 2: phone for. Yeah, that's how long our phone calls generally are.
Speaker 2: There's not a huge amount of we don't ring.
Speaker 1: And coming home back, coming home.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, because I'm either away or I'm homefully nothing in between. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So we don't have that, but we'll message all day.
Speaker 3: Then you get to the end of the day and
Speaker 3: you go, how's your day. Yeah, But it's also your
Speaker 3: way of keeping your relationship, like as a relationship, like
Speaker 3: you got that's the thing that you guys do to
Speaker 3: communicate all day And like I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people take the text for granted. Like April and I
Speaker 3: we barely text all day, but even though sometimes we
Speaker 3: sit down and have dinner, we have nothing to talk about.
Speaker 3: So it's good that that's your communication method to keep
Speaker 3: that keep that little One.
Speaker 4: Question we had in the last episode of the podcast
Speaker 4: was how did you maintain the relationship with your partner
Speaker 4: after you had kids, And we kind of spoke about
Speaker 4: the fact that you know, you're definitely the adjustment is
Speaker 4: really hard to get used to. How did you guys.
Speaker 3: Find that difficult?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's probably still difficult as well because you're traveling.
Speaker 2: When their babies, I think is a bit easier because
Speaker 2: they don't know. But when when they're toddlers start to
Speaker 2: recognize you, yeah, and recognize but miss you, I guess,
Speaker 2: and then everything just becomes about the kids, the toddler baby.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so then you end up that's all you
Speaker 2: talk about. It's like, hell, was she today?
Speaker 3: Yeah? She was good? And then you get to the
Speaker 3: end you're like, right, I've got to go. So we
Speaker 3: were saying, it's kind of like being a roommate with kids. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, you kind of end up like that, a
Speaker 3: little bit like coworkers. Yeah, and then when you finally
Speaker 3: recognize that, hang on a minute, we need to work
Speaker 3: on our relationship. And you go to plan to do
Speaker 3: something and then you're both like fuck it, I'm too tired.
Speaker 3: Or you go dinner and we sit down and all
Speaker 3: you do is talk about the kids. Yeah's your life
Speaker 3: just becomes so revolves entirely around Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we're probably still working through that, to be honest.
Speaker 2: It's I think going to the US will be really
Speaker 2: cool because we're a bit of playing, bit of holiday,
Speaker 2: a bit of playing again.
Speaker 3: How many weeks is it we're going to be away
Speaker 3: ten weeks? Yeah, okay? And how many games you play
Speaker 3: in that ten weeks?
Speaker 2: Five maybe eight games all but play the US tournament,
Speaker 2: do a bit of holiday, and play another little tournament
Speaker 2: like eight days, and then we go to Europe for
Speaker 2: a month and then that's finished off with all friends
Speaker 2: wedding in Italy. So I think that'll be a really
Speaker 2: good time that we're all just together and be able
Speaker 2: to connect, and there's going to be other kids around,
Speaker 2: so that'll be cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really cool.
Speaker 4: Have you at any point gone? I think she's old
Speaker 4: enough now to give her a bat and ball and
Speaker 4: we're going to see if she's.
Speaker 3: Got's hand hand.
Speaker 2: I was good, she can catch, but wow, but catch
Speaker 2: like a big, bigger ball. She's she's pretty good with that.
Speaker 3: You could probably catch a cold daycare Jesus kinder cough
Speaker 3: as well. They just come home and now because I
Speaker 3: can't shake it four years mate, you're always sick, aren't you?
Speaker 3: Always quite lucky? Touchwood?
Speaker 1: Will you try?
Speaker 4: And I guess inspire her with some of your interests.
Speaker 3: She loves like singing and dancing a.
Speaker 1: Bit like yourself Taken Away.
Speaker 3: He's going to release an album. I refuse to dance.
Speaker 2: So we did rehearsals for our wedding dance and got
Speaker 2: there and I just totally forgot. You could have just
Speaker 2: done cricket moves good call. My wife is the biggest
Speaker 2: John Farnham.
Speaker 1: What did you guys dance to find himself?
Speaker 2: Two strong hearts? So I don't dance, I sing, but
Speaker 2: not in public. She can do whatever she wants.
Speaker 3: She just wanted to be happy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, she she loves dancing and entertaining. And last
Speaker 2: night we had the tea set out and she's walking around.
Speaker 3: She's filling up your tea. There you go, dadda. She
Speaker 3: is dadda. So that's quite cool. It's amazing when they
Speaker 3: start doing the little things like that, Like Macy's got
Speaker 3: this thing where she just throws everything in the bin.
Speaker 2: It's so cute though. Do you fish the food out
Speaker 2: and put it back on the plate?
Speaker 3: No, we don't want to go there. Let's not go there. Yes,
Speaker 3: and mainly in the middle of the night, I fish
Speaker 3: it out reheatd and it absolutely that's on a different episode,
Speaker 3: but yeah, it's really cute when they start getting a
Speaker 3: mind of their own. Yep. That she loves to entertain
Speaker 3: by doing those little things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just watching them explore and watching them trying to
Speaker 2: figure out like a drunk, Yeah, what is the use
Speaker 2: of this? Yeah, but they keep looking around and then
Speaker 2: they work it out pretty quick. Yeah, but they just
Speaker 2: copy everything.
Speaker 4: Don't You must be fascinated though with like your cricket equipment.
Speaker 4: Does she not look at your pads and your bat
Speaker 4: and I.
Speaker 3: Don't know if she will have seen them. Doesn't want to.
Speaker 3: She doesn't want to smell that cup. That's where they kept.
Speaker 2: At home, just in the garage, in the garage. I
Speaker 2: don't have bats around the house or anything. My wife
Speaker 2: is a clean freak.
Speaker 3: Were usually it's funny because we usually do these interviews
Speaker 3: in the guest house, like I was saying, and we're
Speaker 3: the dirty are the better.
Speaker 2: So it's probably like it doesn't exist in our house exists.
Speaker 2: That's if I if I have a shower, five minutes
Speaker 2: after I have a shower, if I haven't picked it up,
Speaker 2: she's like the towel clothes.
Speaker 3: That I was just wearing. Or it's like, that's so funny.
Speaker 3: Is how is it that straight?
Speaker 4: Yeah, esther's not picking up your baggy green and taking
Speaker 4: that out out.
Speaker 1: Of the sand.
Speaker 2: She's not not quite there yet. Everything else she gets into.
Speaker 2: We've got one of those baby gates, Yeah they're great.
Speaker 1: Oh you got it's a for You've got to sit
Speaker 1: up the house like it's a fortress. Now.
Speaker 2: But when somebody leaves it open, she finds it. You
Speaker 2: look up and she's at the top of the stairs.
Speaker 2: You go, hi, dadda escape, But then she wants to
Speaker 2: come down down backwards. I want you to come down,
Speaker 2: but you're going to blow up if I just go
Speaker 2: and pick you up and bring you down.
Speaker 1: So we really can't have you get in concussion.
Speaker 3: Lock down fifteen stairs, like, have.
Speaker 1: You had any trips to the emergency room yet?
Speaker 3: Not yet? Touch wood? Wood, that's that's definitely wood, guys, finchy.
Speaker 4: I've seen the time, and I know that we are
Speaker 4: itching towards your get out time.
Speaker 1: Because you've got to go to work, a.
Speaker 3: Job to do at the Ashes. I had a childhood
Speaker 3: dream of mine is to bowl a ball to a
Speaker 3: first class cricketer. Right, so what will you just make
Speaker 3: him say?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: We'll be talking about it for weeks if you would
Speaker 3: allow us just a few, just a couple of balls
Speaker 3: straight down the hotel room. Here, I've got a bat
Speaker 3: and ball six teacher, don't worry about the windows, we'll
Speaker 3: take care of that. Have half an over each? Is that?
Speaker 1: Do we have time? We've got We've got a beautiful
Speaker 1: little bat. That's the finest willow in England. Yes, from Kmart.
Speaker 3: It's not. Actually, it's the finest plastic from China. Perfect.
Speaker 1: Got a crack.
Speaker 4: But thanks so much for jumping on the podcast, for
Speaker 4: having me, for sharing your wisdom. As always, we always
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Speaker 1: And let's get Finchy padded up.
Speaker 3: And again, thank you for jumping on. We really appreciate
Speaker 3: you spending some time with us.
Speaker 2: Thank you mate.
Speaker 3: Thirty odd years of dream coming through.
Speaker 5: Ready, that's terrible. I was worried about it. Hit my
Speaker 5: hand on their buddy you think about sixteen so oh
Speaker 5: got it.
Speaker 3: I thought it was the bottom edge. There's not much
Speaker 3: bounce on the alright, we gotta this is the first
Speaker 3: hit a pad for walk. Oh that was great.
Speaker 1: Alright let's get one more.
Speaker 3: Mad you want some? Look? Ok, one more? Jesus didn't
Speaker 3: miss that? All right, we go. Hell that's man. Good
Speaker 3: off the cracking them all right, man, you're off.
Speaker 4: This is uh when we started the podcast.
Speaker 1: This is not how I imagine we'd be doing things.
Speaker 3: Well, just bowling, bowling at the first class batsmen.
Speaker 5: Oh je not a bad not.
Speaker 1: A bad hold.
Speaker 3: More careful than sports, are you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: I'll give us one, he said, he doesn't have any defense.
Speaker 3: But yeah, let's go more. Here we go.
Speaker 1: I reckon that the sun.
Speaker 3: You can have that money. Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Two Doting Dads. Podcast acknowledges the traditional custodians of country
Speaker 4: throughout Australia and the connections to land, sea and community.
Speaker 3: We pay our respects to their elders past and present
Speaker 3: and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Straight
Speaker 3: Islander people's today. This episode was recorded on Gadigle Land