Speaker 1: I did see on the way here, which I thought
Speaker 1: was gave you a giggle. I gave me a giggle.
Speaker 1: It sucks because it's happened to me before I was
Speaker 1: at the lights driving. Someone was standing at the lights
Speaker 1: wrestling with their AirPods and their AirPod case. You know,
Speaker 1: happidly they can be, especially in the morning. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, you could be tired. Maybe pre coffee for sure.
Speaker 1: Everyone fell out and it fell out about a couple
Speaker 1: of times and straight down the train.
Speaker 2: Oh no. Welcome back to two doting dads. I'm Maddie
Speaker 2: Jay and I'm as This is a podcast that's all
Speaker 2: about parenting. It's the good, the.
Speaker 1: Bad, and the relatable.
Speaker 2: And if you've come wanting any type of advice, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: not here, not today. Ash is getting distracted by a
Speaker 2: little toy dinosaur.
Speaker 1: I'm going to name him Leticia.
Speaker 2: Sorry, no advice, no advice, Okay, not today.
Speaker 1: Then, Also, before we do get into it, yeah, I've
Speaker 1: got something for you.
Speaker 2: You've come bearing gifts, mate, you got another one. Okay
Speaker 2: for people who are listening. It's a legionnaire's hat pink
Speaker 2: and blue, and mine reads Hi, I'm Matt and I
Speaker 2: like the.
Speaker 1: Party and mine reads Hi, I'm ash and I like
Speaker 1: to party.
Speaker 2: Where'd you get them from?
Speaker 1: Someone tagged us in that and I laughed ha ha
Speaker 1: on there and then this particular brand, Uncle Rico, reached
Speaker 1: out and they're like, do you want one? I was like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, so they send one age.
Speaker 2: They're very comfy.
Speaker 1: They are.
Speaker 2: I have not worn a Legionaires hat since grade five.
Speaker 1: Were going to wear every the whole eversode.
Speaker 2: You look fucking beautiful.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Not many men can pull off a Llegion's hat. April
Speaker 2: is a very lucky lady.
Speaker 1: I thought you'd like that. Also, before we get started,
Speaker 1: we like to thank Stonewood.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: We're drinking a Pacific aal today. Get to sname after
Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean from its home Byron Bay. They call
Speaker 1: it Byron Bay in.
Speaker 2: A bottle you know where I was drinking a stone
Speaker 2: and wood the other day. We've spoken about certain situations.
Speaker 2: Certain occasions make stone and wood even more delicious.
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon in the sun, very very good.
Speaker 2: That's up there. I think I've got one that's on
Speaker 2: part maybe even better. Wizzle my way into Alian Stadium
Speaker 2: recently for a Rooster's game. Guess what was on tap?
Speaker 2: Stonewood Stone would so I got a last minute ticket.
Speaker 2: Sitting down watching the kickoff Stonewood in hand. It was
Speaker 2: fucking beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yes, choose to stonin Wood for making this episode possible.
Speaker 2: I don't want to offend you. The hat's great. I'm
Speaker 2: going to take mine off.
Speaker 1: You take that off. I quit this podcast.
Speaker 2: Thank god. You can wear yours.
Speaker 1: I will be wearing mine.
Speaker 2: I went full dad Mo at the footy. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: and it felt good. It felt really good. Explain exciting
Speaker 2: for anyone who doesn't know Roosters. The homeland is Bondai
Speaker 2: bond Junction. Recently awful attacks there, and before the game,
Speaker 2: they had some beautiful words that were spoken. We had
Speaker 2: a moment of silence before the game and I was
Speaker 2: sitting next to four or five young men. I want
Speaker 2: to call them. They are about I want to say
Speaker 2: they were fourteen. And so the entire stadium, we're talking
Speaker 2: like twenty thousand people here, most of whom are from
Speaker 2: these suburbs. You know everyone. It's hit everyone really hard,
Speaker 2: and we have a moment of silence and we're like
Speaker 2: three seconds in you can hear a pin drop in
Speaker 2: the stadium and the boys to my left were making
Speaker 2: fart noises and I looked over and I and I
Speaker 2: did this, and I dropped my voice just a little bit,
Speaker 2: like this, you go on, man, And I was so
Speaker 2: fucking filthy that they were doing this. They were egging
Speaker 2: each other on, they were making fart noises, they were laughing,
Speaker 2: and I said, you better shut the fuck up and
Speaker 2: show some respect. And I was ready to punch on.
Speaker 2: I don't care that these boys were twelve and thirteen
Speaker 2: that one was swinging right there and there. But you know,
Speaker 2: it's always when you take an aggressive stance like that,
Speaker 2: when you're trying to have a display of your dominance,
Speaker 2: sometimes it can go either way. Sometimes young kids can
Speaker 2: be like, who the fuck are you? Whereas it went
Speaker 2: down like a tree, all of them stopped and looked
Speaker 2: at me with a look of fear. Because I'm a
Speaker 2: very intimidating.
Speaker 1: Man, I've always said that they've probably picked up that
Speaker 1: you were a dad, a doting one at that.
Speaker 2: I think so. I think so. I'm surprised no one
Speaker 2: else said anything. But I also said it loud enough
Speaker 2: that people like in the rope in front and behind
Speaker 2: could have.
Speaker 1: Heard, were you like king shit for the whole game?
Speaker 2: Also, I kind of ruined the aim for them beyond
Speaker 2: because we have to then sit next to each other
Speaker 2: for the entire game. And they were supporting Melbourne and
Speaker 2: I was supporting the Roosters. But they did they apologize
Speaker 2: and said we're really sorry.
Speaker 1: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2: So it went. It went down. And if they were like,
Speaker 2: what are you going to do about it, I'll be.
Speaker 1: Like, because kids are brazen these days, they could have
Speaker 1: gone an opposite way. They just got no they've got
Speaker 1: no respect.
Speaker 2: These kids, they don't make they don't. I want to say,
Speaker 2: you did the right thing. I'm proud of you, thank you.
Speaker 2: People around there would have been like.
Speaker 1: This guy, the balls on this guy. How many kids
Speaker 1: were there? Four of them?
Speaker 2: It was four? It was four. But and the reason why,
Speaker 2: just for anyone who needs context, the friend who I
Speaker 2: was with lost someone in the attacks. And so that's
Speaker 2: why I was like, how fucking dare you?
Speaker 1: You should have just started swinging.
Speaker 2: I was so close to just that.
Speaker 1: Two wrongs don't make it right.
Speaker 2: They correct correct and luckily I shouldn't have sworn these kids.
Speaker 2: I want to I want to, I want to say
Speaker 2: that they were like sixteen seventeen, just to make it
Speaker 2: seem like I wasn't going after a bunch of nine
Speaker 2: year olds.
Speaker 1: It was just a poor little told actually doing a pero.
Speaker 2: Mine. It feels good to tell off a kid and
Speaker 2: then get the rest and get some respect back. Not
Speaker 2: that I want this to be a regular occurrence now.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be telling off kids left right center,
Speaker 2: but every now and then you got to just put
Speaker 2: your foot down, absolutely make your presence.
Speaker 1: I completely agree with you. I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 2: But my mate was like, really, you really changed your
Speaker 2: voice for that, didn't Jed? I was like, yeah, I did,
Speaker 2: if I made my normal voice. And I'm like, can
Speaker 2: you guys be quiet? Like that's got nothing hooligans anyway,
Speaker 2: how are you, mate?
Speaker 1: I'm good. I wanted to ask you. Having two kids, Matt,
Speaker 1: we all know that I have two kids. Sometimes the
Speaker 1: second child can get I mean, I know I hate you,
Speaker 1: but sometimes the.
Speaker 2: Second thank you for reminding me, sorry about that.
Speaker 1: But the second child sometimes doesn't get the the things
Speaker 1: the first child got, I e. Clothing, Oh yeah, thing,
Speaker 1: so like I mean for you, and there'd be parents
Speaker 1: out there listening as well, who've got more than two kids,
Speaker 1: and the hand me down thing is just it's very
Speaker 1: cost effective. I will say friends of ours who have
Speaker 1: had girls and Macy's youngest, like, we've got all these
Speaker 1: clothes and of course we're going.
Speaker 2: To take it. Well. Luckily, Marley was a pretty scrawny
Speaker 2: little kid and Lola was an absolute nugget, so it
Speaker 2: didn't take long for Lola to reach Marley's size. Like
Speaker 2: I think from the age of two, they were both
Speaker 2: throwing pretty much the same down, which was kind of
Speaker 2: like it's calm on both ways. Now, So when I
Speaker 2: was buying, when I was buying anything, and it's one
Speaker 2: of the great things about having two girls, I would
Speaker 2: just buy two of the same pretty much this I
Speaker 2: just by the same size. It would be like a
Speaker 2: little bit big on Lola, but it's fine, she'll grow
Speaker 2: into it. But I think, yeah, like the down side
Speaker 2: of a second child is that they get they get scraps,
Speaker 2: they get a scrap.
Speaker 1: I'm all for the hand me downs. I'm not dissing that.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to understand that it's not like you're
Speaker 1: in the same boat. Everyone else will be in the
Speaker 1: same boat. And for me, I've got a boy and
Speaker 1: a girl, so you think it could make it a
Speaker 1: little bit more difficult, which it does because Oscar's a
Speaker 1: boy and she's a girl, and he's also very inquisitive.
Speaker 1: So it's like, why is Macey wearing my T shirt?
Speaker 1: Because we've been over this. You've got a new T
Speaker 1: shirt because you're getting bigger, taller, she's growing into you. Like,
Speaker 1: So there's some things that cross over, there's some things
Speaker 1: that don't. Okay, I get that. Pajamas is a good
Speaker 1: one that cross over because they just sleep in it,
Speaker 1: and that's that's easy. Juice is pretty easy too, because
Speaker 1: they're usually like white shoes or black shoes. Macy's taken
Speaker 1: Oscar's gum boots. Also, they stink. Fuck this kid's feet stink.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lola, Lola got into a period where she didn't
Speaker 2: want to wear socks. They Oh yeah, it sucks. These boots.
Speaker 1: They're like cheap plastic boots. And the other day I
Speaker 1: went to change a nappy and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it was like the fuck, this shit stinks. Open the
Speaker 1: nappy up, no shit in there. It was her feet. Ah,
Speaker 1: it's fucking gross. So she gets all the hand me
Speaker 1: downs But the other day we April and I realized
Speaker 1: that she needed something. It's something major, it's just something
Speaker 1: that's like we need. So we went to the shops.
Speaker 1: We said, should we go and get this right? And
Speaker 1: she was like, yeah, you know, Mazie, she's bumped pump
Speaker 1: A woman of a girl, A woman what a girl
Speaker 1: of very few words? Yeah, okay, and like worked at
Speaker 1: Oscar of course, was like, I want something too, that's
Speaker 1: another story. Oh that's right. He got new gun boots
Speaker 1: because Macie stile his but and I want to show
Speaker 1: you a video that I've got of Macie and I
Speaker 1: just want you to guess what you think she's received
Speaker 1: is new?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, plenty of time for Macy. Can I just
Speaker 2: say I feel like she's warm to me?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Not enough time for Oscar.
Speaker 2: Well, I just feel like the last few times been
Speaker 2: in your plays, she's been there.
Speaker 1: She's been there.
Speaker 2: And we have that little game which is not too
Speaker 2: dissimilar to the game that ruled my relationship with Oscar,
Speaker 2: where I scare her.
Speaker 1: But you planning on abducting Macy too. For those listening,
Speaker 1: it's a video I've taken of Macy. I want you
Speaker 1: to guess what's new.
Speaker 2: She's shrudding down the aisles like she's on a catwalk
Speaker 2: in Milan, looking fan fuckingtastic in a set of brands
Speaker 2: making new pink goggles. Ah. She was palmed so pumped
Speaker 2: that we were like, I think they've even got the
Speaker 2: protective film.
Speaker 1: So she's got their hand me down goggles from Oscar
Speaker 1: her and Oscar where goggles in the bath for fun?
Speaker 1: What it's not weird. There's parents out there listening to
Speaker 1: that guy. Yeah, they think it's fun. They think it's funny.
Speaker 1: It's fun. Also saves with a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of water in the eyes actually, because they should have
Speaker 1: a bath together.
Speaker 2: So I guess it's a good thing. When you're washing
Speaker 2: their hair, they don't get so pop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a good thing. Yeah, it's in their mouth.
Speaker 2: Still I've never done that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they wanted it. And also Oscar was practicing. He's
Speaker 1: going under in the bath and now Macey's like watching him,
Speaker 1: following along, going I want to go on. So she
Speaker 1: had Oscar's hand me down goggles for a long time
Speaker 1: and we were like.
Speaker 2: What was the problem with that.
Speaker 1: There wasn't a problem with that other than they'd been
Speaker 1: in the bath. They've been wet for a long time,
Speaker 1: and wetness contracts mold.
Speaker 2: And we're like turning into a science podcast, Science with
Speaker 2: Doctor Carl and trucks mold. I'm listening.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So you've got molder goggles the teacher. Essentially, the
Speaker 1: teacher said, it's swimming. She needs to start going under.
Speaker 1: All this is a waste.
Speaker 2: Say, the teacher was like, you can't met your child
Speaker 2: wear these moldy pieces. She's going to contract some kind
Speaker 2: of illness and you're like, what's wrong with them? She'd
Speaker 2: be right, I've got barnacles growing on them.
Speaker 1: And the teacher was like, she's got to start going
Speaker 1: under or you're just wasting your money. Essentially, that's what
Speaker 1: she said. Like she's great at floating.
Speaker 2: That's on you. You're the teacher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she's she's encouraging and like it made her
Speaker 1: sound like a real asshole then, but like she was saying, look,
Speaker 1: we you need to start encouraging it more from your
Speaker 1: side or something, because she just gets traumatized if the
Speaker 1: teacher just goes plump plump anyway, So we're like, okay,
Speaker 1: how do we do that? We go get you some
Speaker 1: new goggles. You don't go so turn it into something
Speaker 1: that's into something that's exciting. Anyway, she wore the goggles
Speaker 1: around the shop for the rest of the shopping and
Speaker 1: then she when we got in the car and she
Speaker 1: eventually took him off. She had that big thing like
Speaker 1: that's Macy's first none of her first thing she's gotten new.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that, but.
Speaker 2: Goggle are they fall into the category of items that
Speaker 2: are so easily lost, And like, I just want to say,
Speaker 2: prepare yourself for the frustration of every morning when you
Speaker 2: have sim class being like, where the hell are these goggles?
Speaker 1: Man? I've he was obsessed with you, so we don't
Speaker 1: lose them. He's got him on me. He's just like watch.
Speaker 2: Literally every every swimming class. Every we come home and
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm going to put these here, and then
Speaker 2: the next week rolls by and I'm like, in the morning,
Speaker 2: I'm late.
Speaker 1: Just take them into the bath.
Speaker 2: That raad your voice choke. I'll try that's all the time.
Speaker 2: I'll try that.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 2: My kids, I don't know, they're like they're not like
Speaker 2: they're not big goggle kids.
Speaker 1: Oscar the Goggle kids, A big Goggle boy. He's a
Speaker 1: big goggle. Actually he's got big goggles too. They're not
Speaker 1: those little ones like that, they're like huge, like scoomas.
Speaker 1: He'd hate that. I was laughing at them.
Speaker 2: Actually part time yesterday didn't have any goggles problem.
Speaker 1: There's your first problem.
Speaker 2: But something happened, yeah, Ash And And you know, like kids,
Speaker 2: my kids especially, they're at daycare four days a week.
Speaker 2: There are a lot and so they hang around the
Speaker 2: other kids an awful lot. And Marley's now four. Pretty
Speaker 2: sure she's taking five. She is, thank you Durning.
Speaker 1: Five very soon on the nineteenth of June.
Speaker 2: Fuck he's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because Oscar is the fourteenth and I've got a
Speaker 1: friendish due on the twenty first.
Speaker 2: See something in the water nine months ago, everybody was
Speaker 2: what was that?
Speaker 1: Fucking all the parents? We need that.
Speaker 2: September October October time.
Speaker 1: Oh, a notorious month for mounting your partners.
Speaker 2: But we'll get Marley into the bar. And you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes from daycare I'm around other kids, they pick up
Speaker 2: certain words, certain phrases. You know, they'll say something and
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, We're like, yeah, you'd you get that
Speaker 2: from the Like oh, I got it from Timmy At.
Speaker 1: Dacare fucking Timmy.
Speaker 2: And Marley put the hand in the water and she's like,
Speaker 2: holt ship, that water is hot.
Speaker 1: And I was like, Timmy needs to check himself.
Speaker 2: And I was like, what did you say? And Lula's
Speaker 2: already in there like none the wiser and she's like
Speaker 2: that water is hot. And I'm like that's a naughty word.
Speaker 2: And she's like what of it. She's like, no big deal.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, you know that's a naughty word and
Speaker 2: she goes, yeah, we say naughty words at daycare. I
Speaker 2: also say you're a asshole. That's a piece of What
Speaker 2: the fuck is up? Get just starts rolling and she's like,
Speaker 2: she's like you're a piece of ship. You're a fucking asshole.
Speaker 2: He's a bastard.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm sending my kid to this dude.
Speaker 2: She's just like changing through this.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, she sounds like my grandmother.
Speaker 2: This robust vogueab of nothing but swear words. And so
Speaker 2: so I'm also like, Laura, if you got there and
Speaker 2: there's just a board and the sucker kids are there
Speaker 2: with beers in hand, like smoking cigarettes. The daycare teacher
Speaker 2: is Irish, so nothing against Irish people that was racist.
Speaker 2: They do, like I swear. So then Laura's in the kitchen,
Speaker 2: She's heard this come out of Marley's mouth. Also, I'm
Speaker 2: saying it in front of Lola, and Lola's there kind
Speaker 2: of being like what's going on. We pull Marley aside
Speaker 2: and we're like, where's this coming from. Also, I know
Speaker 2: that we're not completely innocent. Every now and then we
Speaker 2: drop a swear word.
Speaker 1: Also, I expect that sort of language out of Lola,
Speaker 1: not Marley just saying.
Speaker 2: I agree, I agree. But apparently apparently the kids at daycare,
Speaker 2: it's like all the rage right now. Words they're like
Speaker 2: they've come together and they're like teaching each other. There's
Speaker 2: one kid i'll call him Timy. I don't want to say
Speaker 2: his real name. I feel like he's the ring leader.
Speaker 2: But we explained to Marley, like that's a naughty word.
Speaker 2: You can't say that. I sent her under the bath
Speaker 2: and she was like, get me the fuck out of here.
Speaker 2: But dropped her a day care the next day, and
Speaker 2: I will say the day the girls go to. In
Speaker 2: case any of the teachers are listening, they may be
Speaker 2: big fans of the podcast. I can only assume they're
Speaker 2: like I didn't see that on the cricket, but I
Speaker 2: was like, Laura, Laura said, you got to you got
Speaker 2: to say something.
Speaker 1: It's so easy for them to say you've got to
Speaker 1: say something, You say something.
Speaker 2: I pulled the teacher aside and I was like, look,
Speaker 2: I just want you to know that the kids that
Speaker 2: O'Malley was saying, if you swear words, she's saying that
Speaker 2: she's learned from other kids. But I didn't want to
Speaker 2: point the finger at this kid, you know, I said,
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 1: Hate I don't want to point the finger at this kid,
Speaker 1: potentially this one.
Speaker 2: I had him by the collar, check him out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I said, I would hate for Marley to be
Speaker 2: the ring leader here, just to make it seem like
Speaker 2: it did.
Speaker 1: It turned out she was actually we were going to
Speaker 1: know now that.
Speaker 2: She's a bit older. Now that she's a bit older,
Speaker 2: she could possibly be the ring leader. She's pretty smart too,
Speaker 2: She's very clever. She could be the one instigating this.
Speaker 2: But they said it's hard right now. Because they had
Speaker 2: noticed that the kids were starting to swear. They quickly
Speaker 2: tried to nip it in the butt and were like,
Speaker 2: this is very naughty. But then the more attention they
Speaker 2: gave it. The more the kids were then like dobbing
Speaker 2: and other each other. The kids were like, hey, Rachel
Speaker 2: just said fuck you.
Speaker 1: Like it's really hard on the moment because we just
Speaker 1: hired Chopper reed to be a full time.
Speaker 2: The white noise yeah, been playing the background. So then
Speaker 2: they're like, we're trying to you know, trying to manage this.
Speaker 2: But the more attention we give it, then the more
Speaker 2: airtime it gets and the more the kids can't drop it.
Speaker 1: Sounds like excuses to me, Matt sounds like excuses, not Mike.
Speaker 1: K Indie probably guess it's bad. That's it is a
Speaker 1: fine line between me like laughing at it and I
Speaker 1: know we speak about this a lot. She was using
Speaker 1: a little gig.
Speaker 2: There's nothing funnier than the context Toddler using a swear word. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I mean, like, is it the worst thing in
Speaker 2: the world that she's using it in the right context?
Speaker 2: Not my mind.
Speaker 1: I'd much rather use like the F word than like
Speaker 1: sledge someone, unless it's a cleverly crafted sledge.
Speaker 2: Then playing on proud moment, But there's also because Lola
Speaker 2: is in the group below Marley, so they're a little
Speaker 2: bit younger people who don't know Lola's three just turned three?
Speaker 1: Was that a question?
Speaker 2: I was? I should have said that Lola is three? Good?
Speaker 1: She is definitely three confidence.
Speaker 2: I like it. But Lola's picked up on something which
Speaker 2: she's now using a home as well, really smoking and
Speaker 2: this one. Yeah, she is now doing class run the
Speaker 2: fucking bar. These kids are run it rings around me,
Speaker 2: but she drink. She is now using a phrase which
Speaker 2: again kids are using it without really understanding the full
Speaker 2: impact of the words that they're using.
Speaker 1: Yeah they don't. Yeah, a lot of the time they
Speaker 1: don't know what they're saying.
Speaker 2: And it really hurts me. Man, I can see the
Speaker 2: pain in your eyes. She drips it, she drops it.
Speaker 2: I'm being sworn out by Marley. And Lola's now started
Speaker 2: saying I hate.
Speaker 1: You early on to we start saying that ship to you.
Speaker 2: I can only assume she doesn't realize what she's saying.
Speaker 2: She knows full well.
Speaker 1: Do you just hate you too? She doesn't know that
Speaker 1: really hurts you?
Speaker 2: Feel better? That really hurts Do.
Speaker 1: You do what I do? Away for him to turn
Speaker 1: around and give him the finger.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I come downstairs and I'm like, that's funny, man,
Speaker 2: under my breath. Laura is like, you can't say that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, she's not listening. It's fine.
Speaker 1: I heard that, so Lola.
Speaker 2: Now every little time, it doesn't matter what it is.
Speaker 2: If it's like getting her shoes on in the morning
Speaker 2: or getting pajamas on, she's just like, I hate so
Speaker 2: much as she draws it a part of her Winnie
Speaker 2: Blue when he red.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not some sort of pussy. It's a Winnie Red.
Speaker 1: Now drink.
Speaker 2: Gone to the days of this household being like a beautiful,
Speaker 2: peaceful environment for all of us to get along, and
Speaker 2: it's turned into I'm living in this is silver Water
Speaker 2: prison essentially.
Speaker 1: This is what it's genes at silver Water. We love you.
Speaker 2: Shout out to all the prisoners out there. Dude, it's
Speaker 2: your kids. Say that as Oscar is Oscar dropping that.
Speaker 2: What's he saying to you?
Speaker 1: Nah? If he well, I would come down wrath if
Speaker 1: he was like, I hate you, because I would just
Speaker 1: be like, I hate you too, man, Fire with fire,
Speaker 1: Fire with fire in my house a lot of the time. Wow, okay, well,
Speaker 1: keep me posted. One day She'll love you, mate.
Speaker 2: The only thing that makes it hit a little softer
Speaker 2: is the fact that she's kind of saying it to everyone.
Speaker 2: It's not just me.
Speaker 1: She's dropping it because you're always at your button heads
Speaker 1: a lot anyway lately.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm already. I'm already that relationship is it's fragile.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, hard, because it's hard to work
Speaker 1: on with a kid of that age too, because it's
Speaker 1: like you can just be like really overly after them
Speaker 1: and they figure that out.
Speaker 2: So now I'm also like, I'm avoiding her. Awakenp in
Speaker 2: the morning, she's downstairs, and I'm like.
Speaker 1: Well, look, keep me posted on that. I really want
Speaker 1: to know if she turns it around. I really want
Speaker 1: to know if she starts to say it with intent.
Speaker 1: She's just saying it to everybody. And then she was like,
Speaker 1: I love you mommy, I hate you daddy. I want
Speaker 1: to know.
Speaker 2: Oh she does it as well.
Speaker 1: She does.
Speaker 2: She's I'm now waiting for her to start like I'm
Speaker 2: bracing myself for her to start spitting on me, which
Speaker 2: actually she does. She's done already, like she she's out
Speaker 2: of control. She's out of control.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some listeners out they have kids that
Speaker 1: are similar.
Speaker 2: So when Lola drops this comment, I kind of I
Speaker 2: turn into like a bit of a weakling. I just
Speaker 2: I take it. I copy it. I do say I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't like that Laura is trying. I run to Laura,
Speaker 2: Laura when it happens, she's doing it again.
Speaker 1: You just said it, just doing it again.
Speaker 2: She listens to Laura. She doesn't listen to me.
Speaker 1: That's fair.
Speaker 2: And so Laura has to explain to her that they're
Speaker 2: naughty words and say that you can't you can't say.
Speaker 2: And then Laura will look at me and she's like,
Speaker 2: she doesn't mean it, and I'm like, she does. She
Speaker 2: knows that, she knows she's doing.
Speaker 1: She knows what she's doing. She said it enough to
Speaker 1: know exactly what it means.
Speaker 2: And then it just makes me not want to do
Speaker 2: any of those tasks because I don't want to be
Speaker 2: copy it. So I just I do. I avoid her.
Speaker 2: But I did a podcast with a lady called Jen Mua,
Speaker 2: How Human, and I explained to her her what Lola
Speaker 2: was saying to me. And I was keen to get
Speaker 2: her taking it because she's a child behavioral expert, and
Speaker 2: I don't know if I believe her. With her response,
Speaker 2: she said that apparently kids between the ages of like
Speaker 2: two to five. They're testing boundaries, right, and the horror
Speaker 2: the fact that Lola keeps pushing me away as much
Speaker 2: as she does, to the point where now she tells
Speaker 2: me that she hates me. It's a good thing. Oh,
Speaker 2: I love her.
Speaker 1: They're just trying to make you feel better.
Speaker 2: Okay, And I'm like, please, Jen, go on and explain
Speaker 2: to me how this is a good thing, because right
Speaker 2: now I don't see any good coming from this at
Speaker 2: all other than the fact that I'm feeling very fragile.
Speaker 2: And then she goes, it means that Lola is so
Speaker 2: safe around you, She is so certain with her relationship
Speaker 2: with you that she can push you away without any
Speaker 2: fear of abandonment.
Speaker 1: She knows.
Speaker 2: It's working. So apparently, apparently that that is a good sign.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, well, why doesn't she do it to Laura?
Speaker 2: Is it just me? And she's like, that's all I
Speaker 2: got time for, apparently. So yeah, if you're a kid,
Speaker 2: if you're a parent out there and your kid hates you.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, congratulations.
Speaker 2: It means they feel so safe in your company.
Speaker 1: Very good, very very good.
Speaker 2: So when she's fifteen and she's still doing it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, she'll actually hate you. Then, Matt Kao's
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Speaker 2: I'm drilling into Maley that she is going to be
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Speaker 1: So couple of weeks ago, we talked about replacing a
Speaker 1: segment that we have been running for a long time,
Speaker 1: which is a meltdown or tantrum of the week, however
Speaker 1: you want to call it, with that amazing theme song
Speaker 1: that we do have that people love.
Speaker 2: I can hear right now, the gasps.
Speaker 1: The sigh of relief. Oh God. Well, Matt and I
Speaker 1: are going to do a live edition of it for
Speaker 1: you right now, but we're going to replace it with
Speaker 1: something that we discussed two weeks ago on an episode
Speaker 1: Petty Things that you do to your partner. Now, it's
Speaker 1: not overly parenting. It can be parenting because there's some
Speaker 1: things you do that you could do that involves the kids,
Speaker 1: involves the kids that are petty, of course.
Speaker 2: But mostly this is like, this is couples.
Speaker 1: This is a couple's kind of get some couple of
Speaker 1: stuff because I think it's fun. And it came from.
Speaker 2: I saw you doing your socials and I thought straight away,
Speaker 2: I was like, what do we got here? What we
Speaker 2: got here?
Speaker 1: So I Abral and I had a disagreement, okay, And
Speaker 1: I don't know how you solve things in your house.
Speaker 1: I don't know the same way that we solved the
Speaker 1: things in my house.
Speaker 2: How do you solve things?
Speaker 1: The more immature, the better, okay, because then we laugh
Speaker 1: about it. It's fun. So Abil and I had a
Speaker 1: disagreement about something, and it's my job to make the bed.
Speaker 1: So out of spite and pettiness, I made my side
Speaker 1: of the bed and didn't make her so what you like,
Speaker 1: split down the middle, split down the middle, messy clean.
Speaker 1: But I made my side of the bed way more
Speaker 1: neat than I've ever made a bed in my life.
Speaker 1: Like I was like, it could get a medal. I
Speaker 1: was like, fold over the top, sheet pillow stacked nicely,
Speaker 1: even like Stemm steamed them. And then her side looked
Speaker 1: like it had just gone off and an.
Speaker 2: Exploded, like pissed on her side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. I left it deuce in there.
Speaker 2: Can I ask was she working from home at this point?
Speaker 2: When did you expect her to respond?
Speaker 1: She was in a meeting when I made the bed,
Speaker 1: and I knew the meeting and probably go for a
Speaker 1: little while, and I knew I was leaving, so I've
Speaker 1: gone and I made a video about it because I
Speaker 1: thought this is funny, and also my whole shtick is
Speaker 1: I want to try and get those relatable moments and
Speaker 1: things that you do that people go, oh, fuck, we do.
Speaker 2: That, that's funny or shit like that.
Speaker 1: And anyway, I'm like on the way I think I
Speaker 1: was on the way here, and I get a phone
Speaker 1: call and she was like, what's the deal with a bet?
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: and she was like, very funny, ha ha, And we
Speaker 1: had to laugh about it and then the argument eventually
Speaker 1: fixed itself. But it got me thinking about what are
Speaker 1: the petty things that you do to your significant others.
Speaker 1: So we've decided to create a new segment called Petty
Speaker 1: Couple Welcome down the Street, Petty Couple.
Speaker 2: They kind of liked it with me dirty couple, I
Speaker 2: love you, but immiture.
Speaker 1: No one can push me bad. Lag you.
Speaker 2: Ash. When I found out about this segment, I was
Speaker 2: thinking to myself, do I do anything petty? I was like,
Speaker 2: surely not.
Speaker 1: Of course you do it.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know. That's not me. It's not in
Speaker 2: my nature. I'm not that type of person. And then
Speaker 2: I was like, oh gosh, there are a few things. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and one of them is off the back of the
Speaker 2: fact that I am and Laura will probably disagree with this,
Speaker 2: but I do the washing at home that falls into
Speaker 2: my remit the clothes washing. Wow, you actually do That's
Speaker 2: my job, bro, that's my job because I'm always.
Speaker 1: Say you clothes always looks so nice.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Thank you for noticing. Except I
Speaker 2: made a mistake. This caused such a big argument at
Speaker 2: the time. I got the washing. If it's white's great,
Speaker 2: If it's colors, cool, That's how I separate them. Laura
Speaker 2: had I think it was a silkish dress. It was colored,
Speaker 2: so I was just like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You don't know what to do with it? I don't
Speaker 1: know tag either.
Speaker 2: No, I'm like, cool, if it's in the washing basket,
Speaker 2: that's just play on. Right do you wash silk?
Speaker 1: What do you do with it?
Speaker 2: Apparently not? Well, like it needed to be washed on
Speaker 2: a delicate cycle. I now know, okay, but at the
Speaker 2: time I just lumped in with everything else. So I
Speaker 2: ruined a beautiful silk dress, which I now also know
Speaker 2: is very expensive. But Laura came home and she was like,
Speaker 2: what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You you're wearing I know this is a segment, but
Speaker 1: she was like, you like, you.
Speaker 2: Do not read the instructions. And I'm like, I don't
Speaker 2: own a dress. I don't. I don't own anything silk.
Speaker 1: You know, all right?
Speaker 2: Upsetting me up, and so I was like, it's not
Speaker 2: my fault. This is you should tell me, be like, hey,
Speaker 2: there's a silk dress in there. It needs to be
Speaker 2: handled differently, right right, just back me, back me up.
Speaker 1: I'm not not backing you. Why. You can see where
Speaker 1: it's going, Like looking at the table, I can see
Speaker 1: where it's going.
Speaker 2: You always fucking side with Laura. Sorry, don't you dare
Speaker 2: range your voice to me? Sorry? I apologize. Good anyway.
Speaker 2: So what I do now, which is a little bit petty,
Speaker 2: and what annoyed me is the fact that I was like,
Speaker 2: I do all the washing, all right, instead of you
Speaker 2: being grateful for the fact that you don't have to
Speaker 2: put any washing on. She does sometimes, but ninetaersent the
Speaker 2: time it's my job.
Speaker 1: She never does it.
Speaker 2: So when I do the washing, I remove her items.
Speaker 2: I don't wash her items. I just washed mine.
Speaker 1: I washed the kids stay. I've done a similar thing.
Speaker 1: I hung my stuff up and not hers. So all
Speaker 1: my stuff was dry, and all the stuff was still
Speaker 1: in the washing machine.
Speaker 2: And it's stunk. Is that just all the titles out
Speaker 2: of the back of an argument. That's just for fun.
Speaker 1: We have got some from listeners, Matt, that's a great one,
Speaker 1: and this is what I'm talking about. That's my fucking
Speaker 1: bread and butter. So if you do, we're going to
Speaker 1: read a couple out here. But if you do have any,
Speaker 1: please send some to Hello at two Doting dads dot
Speaker 1: com or d m us on two Doting Dad's Instagram page,
Speaker 1: or send it to Matt and right. Either way we
Speaker 1: will try and get to as many as we can.
Speaker 1: But for now we're going to just read off a
Speaker 1: couple what.
Speaker 2: Do you got? What do you got? What do you got?
Speaker 1: People are fucked read me? Okay this one, this one
Speaker 1: comes from I'm just going to go anonymous and case
Speaker 1: it's not meant to be. They don't want to give
Speaker 1: themselves away because they must do this behind their back,
Speaker 1: which is way better. They got to say, if he
Speaker 1: leaves a fingernail lying around the house, I shove it
Speaker 1: into his deodrant.
Speaker 2: What do you mean in the I'm.
Speaker 1: Assuming it's a role. So he rolled ends up rolling
Speaker 1: the fingernail or toenail into his armpit that he obviously
Speaker 1: doesn't know. So it's kind of a little for her
Speaker 1: internally to be like, fuck you.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's like a speed stick. Yeah, she's embedding the
Speaker 2: nails into the.
Speaker 1: That's the first one I read that's really brilliant.
Speaker 2: And this one is from Dannielle. I won't say last name,
Speaker 2: what's her address? She says, the petty thing I do
Speaker 2: with my partner, I feel the bin bag as much
Speaker 2: as I fucking can, because that's that's his job. I
Speaker 2: want to know, like, is she finding things to throw
Speaker 2: out just so He's like he's just feeling he's just
Speaker 2: taking the bin bag out and she's like filling it
Speaker 2: up in five minutes.
Speaker 1: It's so good. I love them. I know that you're
Speaker 1: all doing something petty to each other and I want
Speaker 1: to know about it because I fucking love it, or
Speaker 1: so it gives me ideas. Oh poor April, I know
Speaker 1: I said the other day, and I haven't quite executed
Speaker 1: it yet. I'm trying to execute it before this comes
Speaker 1: out right and then I can update you. But April
Speaker 1: does this thing at the moment where she's not complaining
Speaker 1: about my cooking. She's more like getting over the meals.
Speaker 1: The meals like she's like, it's not your cooking because
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm just over steak for example.
Speaker 2: Okay, so how many meals?
Speaker 1: Who the fuck is over steak?
Speaker 2: I feel like men vegetarians? And how many meals do
Speaker 2: you have on rotation?
Speaker 1: I'm not even rotating. I'm not even there's just like
Speaker 1: something if I'm like, oh, just cook that because it's
Speaker 1: easy this week, and she'll be like, I probably haven't
Speaker 1: cooked in ages.
Speaker 2: I don't really like, what are you having the steak with?
Speaker 2: Can I just ask? Quickly?
Speaker 1: Meeting too? Veg? What veg you got We're going to
Speaker 1: do brocoli if she wants broccoli. I'm pretty flexible. Also,
Speaker 1: it's not a fucking restaurant. Jesus. Anyway, that's not the point.
Speaker 1: So I thought to myself, and I'm going to do this,
Speaker 1: and before I'm going to do it, because she will
Speaker 1: complain about my cooking between now and then. I was
Speaker 1: going to cook the next time, Just cook me dinner
Speaker 1: and then be like dinner's ready, and be at the
Speaker 1: table and her play empty and I play full. And
Speaker 1: then when she's like, there's mine. That is what's hard
Speaker 1: for you to complain when there's nothing to complain about.
Speaker 2: That is such, that's such an aggressive move, it's warranted.
Speaker 2: That's like, that means it's war.
Speaker 1: That is like she'll forget, she'll forget before having any paypack.
Speaker 2: Once you're going to like, once you're entering that level
Speaker 2: of pettiness, it's like it's so fun. It's m hmm.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll see. I'll keep you updated with that.
Speaker 2: I like. I like the pettiness where the other person's
Speaker 2: not quite sure that it's happening, like I do. I
Speaker 2: do sometimes I think like Laura might look at the
Speaker 2: laundry basket and be like, oh, my thing is really
Speaker 2: maybe mine would just at the bottom.
Speaker 1: Of the pi.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe we just didn't make that load I had,
Speaker 2: whereas it's all absolutely strategic. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I when I used to work at the Timb, I
Speaker 1: don't want to my own many jobs. I used to
Speaker 1: share like this long desk with someone. Right, It's a
Speaker 1: really long desk and there was a pole in the
Speaker 1: middle of it, and it determined who's how big eachhit
Speaker 1: of our desk work. That was the divider. And I
Speaker 1: was so pety that every time he pissed me off,
Speaker 1: I would get When he wasn't there, I'd get under
Speaker 1: the table, unscrew the leg and move it towards his
Speaker 1: side so my desk could slowly get bigger. I did
Speaker 1: that for three years, and then when I left, he
Speaker 1: looked under the I said, look under the table, and
Speaker 1: there was all the screw marks from ad moved it
Speaker 1: like that far.
Speaker 2: You are a psychopath.
Speaker 1: I've got time.
Speaker 2: Can I just quickly? Can I have one more from
Speaker 2: from Maddie? And this is a great why oh mad
Speaker 2: mad d She says, my husband is terrible at returning
Speaker 2: coffee up to the kitchen, so I make my coffee
Speaker 2: in the nice mug, and then I use the mugs
Speaker 2: that I know he hates for his coffee. And that
Speaker 2: is so beautiful because you can just you can, you
Speaker 2: can act innocent, be like I didn't realize. Oh that's correct.
Speaker 2: Deep down there's such deep seated hatred, I know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: between couples.
Speaker 1: When you do something like that'll get them.
Speaker 2: Enjoy that mug, piece of shit.
Speaker 1: Oh very good. All right, keep coming. Let's move on
Speaker 1: to some questions. Matt, what have you What have you
Speaker 1: got for me?
Speaker 2: Okay? Question number one is from Ginger says, vasectomy or
Speaker 2: pill advice on who you think should be responsible for contraception?
Speaker 1: Very good. I think it depends on the circumstance. Go on. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things here. In what circumstances?
Speaker 2: Say Mary, I think this is in reference to married
Speaker 2: couples obviously obviously obviously ash those who were no longer
Speaker 2: wanting to have kids, hence the vasectomy. Yeah. So I
Speaker 2: think if you're at a position where you are certain
Speaker 2: that you do not want to have kids anymore, it
Speaker 2: should be up to the guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely it was. Look how it happened is
Speaker 1: like I was a typical man where it's like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing it, I'm gonna lose my supervower that
Speaker 1: sort of shit, you know, like dumb shit, immature shit.
Speaker 1: But then I remember I told the story as well
Speaker 1: that I got it done trying to get sex right,
Speaker 1: didn't backtfight completely.
Speaker 2: Just remind me, did April say that like, if you
Speaker 2: don't get it, we won't have sex.
Speaker 1: No, I wasn't that. I was trying to impress her. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just because because she she obviously didn't want
Speaker 1: to go on the pill, because there's obviously side effects
Speaker 1: to to being on the pill.
Speaker 2: With ye, Laura is not on the pill at the moment.
Speaker 1: I never was like you better get back on the
Speaker 1: pill or anything like that, because I think that's disrespectful.
Speaker 1: All right. I think it should be an open conversation
Speaker 1: and what works best for you. If April was like, look,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to go back on the pill, there was
Speaker 1: no real side effects for me whatever, we would have
Speaker 1: gone down that route. We used condoms because she didn't
Speaker 1: want to do that, and I never was like you
Speaker 1: should do that, but she was like, I think you
Speaker 1: shouldet to asect me, and I was like, no, realistically
Speaker 1: like sense, it makes total sense. It's so quick and easy.
Speaker 2: I mean, guys have got it pretty fucking good when
Speaker 2: it comes to all things contraception and childbirth and raising kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that the least you could do it when you're
Speaker 1: gettingnuts chopped off when you get So.
Speaker 2: What is it like in your mid thirties forties, like
Speaker 2: your partner for their entire life has been in charge
Speaker 2: of the contraception.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, I'll do it. Yeah, carry the load for
Speaker 1: a little while. Yeah, not literally, but also if she
Speaker 1: believes me, man I go up as I go up
Speaker 1: a few points in the singles Game of the fifty
Speaker 1: year Olds where it's like, have you heard astress out
Speaker 1: of a sectomy? And he's ready to go.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest, you're never leaving April.
Speaker 1: No, she will have duel run. Okay, all right, here
Speaker 1: we go. The other question, this is from Christina. Do
Speaker 1: you ever fear you aren't being a good enough parent?
Speaker 2: I think every parent feels like they're doing in moments,
Speaker 2: not all the time, feeling like they're not doing enough,
Speaker 2: Like it's never you're never going to be. There's no
Speaker 2: such thing as a perfect parent.
Speaker 1: This is this different for everyone.
Speaker 2: Good you are, those little assholes will make life hell.
Speaker 1: They'll figure out a way.
Speaker 2: That's what they do. That's what they do, it's what
Speaker 2: they're good. Are that way out, And like there's always
Speaker 2: going to be moments where you're exhausted and you've got
Speaker 2: no patience.
Speaker 1: And also whether you question, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: the time you not in the moment, but maybe in
Speaker 1: reflection you think, like that was shiit. I know for me,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty confident in not my parenting, not that it's
Speaker 1: correct or perfect or the best way to do it.
Speaker 1: I'm confident, like call, don't you dare, But like I'm
Speaker 1: pretty confident with my abilities. And they're not great, they're
Speaker 1: not amazing. They're there where I think they should be,
Speaker 1: and I'm happy with that. Other people might not be,
Speaker 1: and that's fine. Fucking mind your own fucking business. But like,
Speaker 1: sometimes sometimes I'm with other parents that are so their
Speaker 1: intuition and their parent skills because whether they've learned, they've
Speaker 1: taken the time to learn, or they're just built different. Okay,
Speaker 1: but there's sometimes where I've gone like that when I
Speaker 1: was I was telling you the story about like we
Speaker 1: went away with these other with these other parents and
Speaker 1: their kids. And one of the moms is so great,
Speaker 1: she's built to be a mum. And she was like, like,
Speaker 1: we were making the kids lunch, and I just give
Speaker 1: the kids a fold over and if you don't know
Speaker 1: what to foldover is were you're butter. I'm oh, this
Speaker 1: is such a horrible thing to do. I just essentially
Speaker 1: make half a sandwich folded over and give it to them.
Speaker 1: That's a foldover, Okay, it's a classic.
Speaker 2: What's on it?
Speaker 1: Peanut butter whatever, usually just peanut butter. And she was
Speaker 1: making like a sandwich platter and she wasn't doing it
Speaker 1: to show off that's stuff she does. And it was like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm feel like a shit parent. But then I was like,
Speaker 1: food turns into shit.
Speaker 2: So what's the big deal?
Speaker 1: What's a big deal?
Speaker 2: Do you ever have some moments when you're at the
Speaker 2: park and it's a bit like sport and that some
Speaker 2: days you know you just got your eye in and
Speaker 2: you're on point and you're playing well. And there's other
Speaker 2: times where like, there are times where I can get
Speaker 2: on my kids level. I'm playing tea parties, they're enjoying
Speaker 2: my company. There's other times where like I can't. I
Speaker 2: find it hard to interact with my kids, Like it's
Speaker 2: just it's just not happening, right, Yeah. And there's some
Speaker 2: moments where I look like another dad at the park
Speaker 2: and he's like he was he was playing, like he
Speaker 2: was catching his kids. He was he was just dragged
Speaker 2: and he was like rah, and the kid was running
Speaker 2: away and he was like, come here, Timmy. And I
Speaker 2: was having a day where I was struggling to get
Speaker 2: on my kids levels of Mola was like I hate
Speaker 2: you and I was like, oh, the dragon's coming, and
Speaker 2: she's like fuck off. And it's those moments where I
Speaker 2: see someone else like out parenting me, like out dubting me,
Speaker 2: where I'm like, oh, I'm a bit crap. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: a bit crap. There was even at daycare. The kids
Speaker 2: have been working on doing a little project a presentation.
Speaker 2: So they choose a topic they four therefore therefore, so
Speaker 2: they do it with the teacher obviously, so it's they
Speaker 2: get like a big cardboard piece of paper. Marley chose snails.
Speaker 2: She will draw some pictures of snails, stick it to
Speaker 2: the cardboard, and she wrote a couple of facts, I e.
Speaker 2: Snails have the most teeth out of any animal.
Speaker 1: Or snails are slow? Fact? Fact, do they have the
Speaker 1: most teeth out of any animal? That's like when that's bullshit?
Speaker 2: Do you know what's hanging out?
Speaker 1: It's like when they say long legs are the most
Speaker 1: poisonous spiders just because they can't pierce.
Speaker 2: The skin, garbage, you call them Maley a liar. Yes,
Speaker 2: well I didn't fact check this point. I just put
Speaker 2: it in there.
Speaker 1: She's at a school going Danny said, the name got
Speaker 1: the most teeth.
Speaker 2: Let me even have mouths.
Speaker 1: They've got the ugliest eyes, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Mate. A garden snail has about fourteen thousand teeth. Well,
Speaker 2: some species have up to twenty.
Speaker 1: Thousand, blinding dar there you go, but imagine the dental bills.
Speaker 2: Ah, so all the kids do a presentation on their topic, right,
Speaker 2: Laura and I came in. They did the presentation Maley's cardboard.
Speaker 2: You know it was done by a four year old, right,
Speaker 2: it was a kid. When Marley went to the corner
Speaker 2: of the room where all the projects were lined up,
Speaker 2: there was one. Marley was even like, look at this
Speaker 2: one over here. They chosen spiders and they had done
Speaker 2: they'd recreated spy it is with like a little like
Speaker 2: phone ball with like the pipe cleaners, and I was like,
Speaker 2: this project was incredible.
Speaker 1: It was an adults, it.
Speaker 2: Was an adults job. And I was like, Oh, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, Maley's project looked a little shit shit.
Speaker 2: But keeping in mind it's by a four year old,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, I'm a I'm a bad parent.
Speaker 1: Let your kid do the project.
Speaker 2: Let your kid do the project, all right, But it's
Speaker 2: not that they're scoring him unless that kid did do
Speaker 2: the project. And I'm like, damn, that was red hot.
Speaker 1: Kid needs to be tested. Yeah, I know what you mean,
Speaker 1: but I don't really know what you mean because I
Speaker 1: haven't had to do the presentation yet. Looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Good luck to Oscar when that time comes, you and
Speaker 2: him both.
Speaker 1: Ah, what are we going to do? What are we
Speaker 1: going to do?
Speaker 2: Whatever it will be, it'll be lackluster and and Ash's words,
Speaker 2: he's okay with that.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'm fine with that. There's nothing wrong with mediocracy.
Speaker 1: That's a big word for me.
Speaker 2: I do want to say that you may have seen
Speaker 2: on our socials that we do have. Pre Order is
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Speaker 2: ever written. Absolutely, those people are myself an act.
Speaker 1: Only two have actually read it.
Speaker 2: I can only dream a bit like the hungry caterpillar
Speaker 2: that generations to carmash. Even at a point where you
Speaker 2: and I are no longer around, that kids are still
Speaker 2: reading this book and it's being enjoyed by not just
Speaker 2: the parents, but the kids as well. That is my dream.
Speaker 1: They're going to make it into a movie. Each film,
Speaker 1: that's what we hope what that will happen.
Speaker 2: But it is available for pre order. It doesn't come
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Speaker 2: We would love your.
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Speaker 2: Or before we go, oh fuck, before we go. This
Speaker 2: is concerning Oh fuck, what have I done? This is
Speaker 2: concerning good friend of mine currently pregnant.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: They were talking to the midwife and the husband said, hey,
Speaker 2: can you recommend any podcasts out there? Parenting podcast? No?
Speaker 2: Guess what was recommended by the midwife to shut up traded,
Speaker 2: feel traded?
Speaker 1: Please stop what you're doing.
Speaker 2: The next generation is absolutely doomed.
Speaker 1: I would like to say that we're going to have
Speaker 1: a hand in that.
Speaker 2: If you've been directed here by New South Wales.
Speaker 1: Health, turn right around. Get a new midwife.
Speaker 2: I don't know who this midwife is.
Speaker 1: We need to if she's listening, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. But also no, no no no,
Speaker 1: no no no no, keep it. I was going to
Speaker 1: say something else, nice, go on, you're doing a great job.
Speaker 2: That feels weird.
Speaker 1: I feel dirty saying it. Anyway. I you enjoyed this episode,
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Speaker 2: We love it.
Speaker 1: We get together every Sunday and we read them. So
Speaker 1: we do We still do that. We still do that.
Speaker 2: That's a great feedback on Spotify, We get the odd
Speaker 2: one on Apple podcast. I love more. I'll be honest.
Speaker 1: Jump on, yeah, jump on our socials. Give us a
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Speaker 2: I think that's everything.
Speaker 1: That's everything for today.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on wearing the Legions hat the entire episode.
Speaker 1: My head is itchy. We'll see you guys, okay you
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