Speaker 1: Welcome to them Christian None Show podcast.
Speaker 2: So how do you get on their longest road trip
Speaker 2: so far with little seven week old baby Gordon.
Speaker 3: We stripped him in and went out to Yarra Glenn,
Speaker 3: beautiful part of Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we staid at there a couple of times. It's
Speaker 2: stunning in there're those beautiful wide open space.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Out near Hillsville. We went to a country footy match
Speaker 3: and he was actually pretty good for his long car trip,
Speaker 3: over an hour in the cart, so a little worried
Speaker 3: about it. He slept on the way there, He slept
Speaker 3: at the game. He was great, chatting to everybody.
Speaker 1: But then do you worry you're going to pay the
Speaker 1: price in the evening?
Speaker 3: That's the thing coming back, you know, it gets to
Speaker 3: that itchy time of night where he's always stressed, like
Speaker 3: six o'clock. Yeah, witching, How honestly it is because something
Speaker 3: clicks in him. He's like, I'm not happy anymore, nothing's changing.
Speaker 1: Find that it's all so delicate.
Speaker 2: Just one little thing that you do, like one degree
Speaker 2: that you've done slightly different during the day. How's a
Speaker 2: dramatic consequence.
Speaker 3: And they go He can go from smiling to what
Speaker 3: seems like the greatest pain in the world within a
Speaker 3: milli seconds. So he flicked that switch. On Saturday, as
Speaker 3: we're getting into the car and like, oh no, we
Speaker 3: got an air ahead of us. And he's already getting
Speaker 3: in the car. Grumpy Bank is sitting in the back
Speaker 3: with him. He's screaming, he's cracked it. I just want
Speaker 3: to get home because I'm starving. I'm really hungry.
Speaker 1: But that's the way you're saying he's cracked it.
Speaker 2: He's seven weeks old, can't even hold his head straight
Speaker 2: up yet control his boals, but he knows how to
Speaker 2: crack it.
Speaker 3: He has he's well and truly threw the toys out
Speaker 3: of the cot.
Speaker 2: And did he poop himself a well, because sometimes when
Speaker 2: they're really angry, it's like they summon a poop and
Speaker 2: then you're driving along you're like, you know, you didn't
Speaker 2: need to look around.
Speaker 1: There's a smell that fills the cor Oh god, we'll
Speaker 1: put over somewhere and change it.
Speaker 3: All of the above. He's stinky, he's hungry, I'm hungry.
Speaker 4: Everybody's image as an adult if you cracked it, and
Speaker 4: there's part of that, you actually saw it with yourself
Speaker 4: you didn't like the takeaway, you didn't want to go
Speaker 4: and see dinner party while you're there.
Speaker 1: You cracked it so bad you actually sold yourself. Dave,
Speaker 1: we've spoken about this, go and change your pants.
Speaker 3: Well, that dumpling pace I told you was booked on
Speaker 3: Friday night, right, Well, so we're driving home. We still
Speaker 3: got more than an hour ago, and he's got to
Speaker 3: pull over to feed, and I'm like, oh, I'm hungry too,
Speaker 3: But I guess his hunger outweighs my hunger for well.
Speaker 1: Dumped, well done, don't guess.
Speaker 2: It does take the guess work out of being the dad.
Speaker 3: So we pull into some random car park. It's a
Speaker 3: basketball court in Diamond Creek, and we're about to feed him.
Speaker 3: I get out of the car to help him get
Speaker 3: onto banker and feed. As I'm getting out of the car,
Speaker 3: I smelled the unmistakable scent of a sausage sizzle heaven Sin.
Speaker 1: Suddenly everything's okay.
Speaker 3: A sausage from God. Gordon feeds. I go up and
Speaker 3: get two sausages. I eat them in the time he's
Speaker 3: still feeding another twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: I've made your proper sort of that's all even wants
Speaker 2: a snag white bread onions.
Speaker 3: Perfect, it's you're bunning snag. It just happens to be
Speaker 3: this time for the diamond belly Eagles.
Speaker 1: The old tap or did you have cash? Who has cash?
Speaker 3: Even had cash on? Everything was sinking up. Twenty minutes later,
Speaker 3: he's still feeding. He takes him about half an hour
Speaker 3: to feed. Made room for a third, one three sausages.
Speaker 2: Yes, don't you find in that moment when there's this
Speaker 2: unexpected thing, a little just a sliver of joy, right,
Speaker 2: and when a day looked like it was running away
Speaker 2: from you, that's better than going to a restaurant. You've
Speaker 2: had book for six weeks and going up for a
Speaker 2: big meal. It actually means more to you.
Speaker 3: You're right, A pricing meal couldn't even outdo like seven
Speaker 3: to fifty dollars seven dollars fifty worth of sausages. And
Speaker 3: it's probably the best meal I've had since the start
Speaker 3: of the year.
Speaker 1: And Gordon gets a feed as well.
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