Speaker 1: My porridge this morning. Is this going to be your
Speaker 1: opener or is my open? Okay, strap yourself in. This
Speaker 1: is going to be good. Well, I've got one too,
Speaker 1: so I'll do mine after and then the people can
Speaker 1: decide who's was better. Oh my's really shit, it's great.
Speaker 1: I put porridge in the microwave, but I was running
Speaker 1: very late with the kids, so then I didn't get
Speaker 1: to eat it until after the school run. So it
Speaker 1: was like fucking rock hard, rock hard, that's my, that's
Speaker 1: my that's your open. I got a joke for you.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to I'm Mad, And this is a podcast
Speaker 1: all about parenting.
Speaker 2: It is the good, it is the bad, and relatable
Speaker 2: and just.
Speaker 1: Because there may be new people joining us for the
Speaker 1: first time. And I are definitely not espert expert a
Speaker 1: far out experts experts in the parenting space. We're not. No,
Speaker 1: we don't give advice. We love our kids.
Speaker 2: We give fake advice, fake advice. I tell you what
Speaker 2: we do do. We talk about porridge all the time.
Speaker 1: That's actually, to be fair, that's the first time I've
Speaker 1: talked about porridge.
Speaker 2: That is the first time holding back. You're a big
Speaker 2: porridge guy, what do you got for you. Don't mind
Speaker 2: a bit of porridge? Do you know what I really like?
Speaker 2: I love for breakfast? No, the por If I'm going
Speaker 2: to pick a porridge, please, this is rooting stuff. The
Speaker 2: berry packet one with the biddle berries in it?
Speaker 1: Too sweet? Too sweet for me? Yeah, yeah, I just
Speaker 1: like things to be natural. It's like, you're a real
Speaker 1: synthetic guy, living this synthetic life.
Speaker 2: I've got something for you, which is every husband's nightmare.
Speaker 1: So you know how, We're like, let's see who's a better.
Speaker 2: I think this is going to be an easy win
Speaker 2: for me because the porridge story, as riveting as that.
Speaker 1: Was, people like it. People like porish. People are telling
Speaker 1: us it's relatable. Should we bring back the Trump impressions?
Speaker 1: Nut triggering?
Speaker 2: Worst possible thing happened today? This morning happens to be
Speaker 2: Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1: The worst possible thing you got hit in the nuts. No,
Speaker 1: I heard the garbage truck. April was pregnant.
Speaker 2: Well, if that's the case, she's got some questions. The
Speaker 2: answer the bin truck.
Speaker 1: Ah, where with the bins?
Speaker 2: The bins were not out. God, this is the only
Speaker 2: time I've ever forgot. But I heard the bin truck
Speaker 2: coming while I was mid pooh.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me the guys are working on the roof.
Speaker 2: No, I was mid pooh, and April goes, are the
Speaker 2: bins out?
Speaker 1: And I'm scrolling and I went.
Speaker 2: And she was like quick, I'm like and I had
Speaker 2: to convince her that I was not in an appropriate
Speaker 2: fashion to come out of the bathroom. Hadn't even snapped
Speaker 2: off yet. I was going for a bit of cable.
Speaker 2: So she she ran out without didn't take the bins.
Speaker 1: She just ran out to see where the truck was.
Speaker 1: So now I could have stopped I guess she could
Speaker 1: have stopped them. She was in a ninety. It's like,
Speaker 1: what's that, she's sick as well? Square with that guy
Speaker 1: like stood in front of a tank. Oh, it's like
Speaker 1: that with just just standing in front the truck. Don't move.
Speaker 2: It's going to be historic photo that people look back at.
Speaker 2: So I didn't make it. I didn't make it for
Speaker 2: the red bin, which is the which is the general.
Speaker 1: Ways, which is tiny. Anyway you can survive. You miss
Speaker 1: a yellow bin for those you miss a cardboard bin.
Speaker 1: Not ideal, not an ideal, but red bin.
Speaker 2: You're out there, you're out especially we've got kids I
Speaker 2: was like, fuck, what do I do?
Speaker 1: What do I do with it?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: That's my question if anyone can help me, if anyone.
Speaker 2: Wants to come and take my bins, if the council's listening,
Speaker 2: what do I do with it?
Speaker 1: You dude, you haven't under the house area, Just store
Speaker 1: it under there. Dude, you have like two football fields
Speaker 1: in your backyard. Just dig a hole. I'm worried I
Speaker 1: might dig up a body. It's landfill. Maybe I'll just like,
Speaker 1: don't put at my father in law's house.
Speaker 2: Absolutely coming in hot, Frank, there's a few nappy's in there.
Speaker 1: I remember. One of the worst times to forget to
Speaker 1: put the bins out was around Christmas.
Speaker 2: Oh that's the worsd especially when this prawns and the
Speaker 2: prawns and I had the prawns went back inside the freezer,
Speaker 2: but then the other I had it in my garage.
Speaker 1: I just had like this mountain of bins and then
Speaker 1: maggots come real quick. Where did they come? They just spawn?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, how do they even All the
Speaker 1: bags are tied up, and next thing, I got maggots everywhere.
Speaker 1: But here's a question for you. Go, Okay, Runda next
Speaker 1: door Yep, she's eighty odd. She's probably listening right now.
Speaker 1: She has incredible hearing for an eighty year old. She's
Speaker 1: definitely like got her ear to the brick wall right now,
Speaker 1: to Bungey house. Yeah, I put her bins out. You
Speaker 1: are such a good guy, Such a good guy. Only
Speaker 1: ever puts the red bin out, maybe like once a
Speaker 1: month because she lives by herself. Would she put when
Speaker 1: the recycling bins out? Is it okay? Yes? Right? Do
Speaker 1: you think I was gonna like? Last night the bins
Speaker 1: went out and her blue bin the cardboard empty. I
Speaker 1: was like, can I just use her bin and put
Speaker 1: I've already put her red bin out? Can I put
Speaker 1: her blue bin out? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Ignorance is blissed, as they say, so I would just
Speaker 2: assume that it's light because cardboards light, and then just
Speaker 2: don't even look in there. Just take it out and
Speaker 2: then fill it up with your shit was down there.
Speaker 2: It feels so illegal. People talked talked about this a
Speaker 2: lot because I got caught. Remember, if you want, you
Speaker 2: could have brought some of your I.
Speaker 1: Don't have to drive away here with the fucking garbage
Speaker 1: in the garbage. No, I know you never would That's
Speaker 1: why I'm offering.
Speaker 2: Just straight up, maybe I'll just burn the house down.
Speaker 2: Fuck it, it's all over now. For the next week,
Speaker 2: it's going to be carne Jamaica. Do we need to
Speaker 2: flag that with April? She would just do it, Just
Speaker 2: do it. It's just going to attract rats and all
Speaker 2: sorts of wildlife.
Speaker 1: Also, we have possums.
Speaker 2: That scamper across the roof at night. They seem to
Speaker 2: be getting heavier. I don't know if someone's feeding these
Speaker 2: bossoms because I'll be sitting.
Speaker 1: There and at first I was like, Oh, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: no worry. Now they're like like an elephant's crossed on
Speaker 1: the fucking the neighbors. I'm not sure. Have you got
Speaker 1: athletics day coming up?
Speaker 2: We do in September September April and are away for it.
Speaker 1: Where are you going to be Bali juice you on April? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Five nights. Wow.
Speaker 2: April was like, oh, I feel bad not taking the kids.
Speaker 2: I'm like, they've had their fucking holiday. This is my
Speaker 2: holiday because every holiday we go with them, I don't
Speaker 2: enjoy it at all. It's just a fucking chaos.
Speaker 1: But you know what's going to happen you'll be there
Speaker 1: and you'll be in the pool. Then you see another family,
Speaker 1: a young kid and you go, oh me, man, see
Speaker 1: how blank I looked at you.
Speaker 2: Then now won't be kids their mate because we have
Speaker 2: opted for a.
Speaker 1: Kid free tell resort. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's a boutique kid free resort. Let's go with that.
Speaker 1: It's got to be nice. It is going to be nice.
Speaker 1: May I ask you a question, Ash, Yes, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if you've seen the news recently in France? France,
Speaker 1: do you know what they're saying? I don't speak French.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what they're saying over there. Okay,
Speaker 1: that was pretty good. So I missed it. Missed it again.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry again. No, I don't want it. It feels fast.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 1: I looked at the headline. The listeners are going, that
Speaker 1: was good. Gear. You said, do you know what they're
Speaker 1: saying in France? And what do you say? And I said,
Speaker 1: I don't speak French, so I don't know. Jess is cacking.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, and also a nod to jest not being
Speaker 1: here on holidays. That's nice, is very nice. You're having
Speaker 1: a great time with her mother. So Ash, this headline
Speaker 1: It says adult only hotels risk being banned in popular
Speaker 1: European country France because they're a threat to society. A threat. Okay,
Speaker 1: hang on a minute.
Speaker 2: I think the word threat's been thrown around a little
Speaker 2: bit too loosely.
Speaker 1: It's not a threat. Who threatening? The terrorists are like, hey,
Speaker 1: I've taken our title hat. You know what it's like.
Speaker 2: It's not how they need to learn what threat actually means.
Speaker 2: Can I give you a bit more context than you
Speaker 2: can go? Okay, So adult only hotels, campsites and restaurants
Speaker 2: could be banned in France as part of a planned
Speaker 2: government cracked down.
Speaker 1: Sarah L. Harry, France's High Commissioner for Childhood, has said
Speaker 1: that the country's no kids trend has caused violence violence
Speaker 1: against children, reports The Times. The commissioner said that people
Speaker 1: who complain about children being noisy are spreading the idea
Speaker 1: that the children are a nuisance. They're right, gifts. What
Speaker 1: do you mean spreading a rumor? I want a petition
Speaker 1: to petition against that. I think, how is that? Okay?
Speaker 1: There's bigger problems, is there? Okay? Do you think it's
Speaker 1: a problem. There's growing intolerance to kids. I feel like
Speaker 1: we're pretty good.
Speaker 2: If you don't like kids, that's so what Like, that's
Speaker 2: why does the government need to step in and be
Speaker 2: like you must love kids?
Speaker 1: Kids are going to be at your hotels? Is it here?
Speaker 1: Like you check in and there's like a baby waiting
Speaker 1: then and you're like, what the hell? Love it? It's
Speaker 1: like sitting there, it's like pat it. You're not allowed in?
Speaker 1: Is it? Maybe maybe children are being like you know,
Speaker 1: on a plane being weaponized. Oh do you know what
Speaker 1: the terrorists needs to do?
Speaker 2: Scrap the bombs, just drop kids everywhere. They'll be like
Speaker 2: metal detectors. They are like kid detectors.
Speaker 1: Are you carry any kids shirt bag? Don't come outside children?
Speaker 1: Everyone is one of those kid bombs. I think. I
Speaker 1: think as someone who has two kids soon have three,
Speaker 1: I think in absolutely welcome at only hotels and restaurants,
Speaker 1: only adult hotels and restaurants.
Speaker 2: People are fucking brave. Yeah, it's like they are a nuisance.
Speaker 2: What are we assuming that they are? It's definitive they
Speaker 2: are a nuisance. But it's like, let's not be naive here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like I segregation from kids and non kid places.
Speaker 2: I'm all four as a parent because it's like if
Speaker 2: I'm going here with my kid and the kids are
Speaker 2: allowed there, fine, that is fine.
Speaker 1: But it's a nice little treat that I can go
Speaker 1: somewhere in there.
Speaker 2: Not Yeah, exactly, treat yourself as I say.
Speaker 1: Imagine that. Imagine that your holiday ruined, right.
Speaker 2: I did say to April when we were organizing this trip.
Speaker 2: She said, look, I feel bad not taking the kids.
Speaker 2: I said, Look for the last two years, let's say
Speaker 2: sick weeks in total, I have dragged these kids through
Speaker 2: Indonesia and I've only enjoyed myself maybe ten percent of that.
Speaker 2: Otherwise I'm carrying or I'm repeating myself for kids in
Speaker 2: environments where it's like I feel like I shouldn't have
Speaker 2: to do that. So this time they can stay home.
Speaker 2: They'll have my parents to look after them, they'll have
Speaker 2: her parents, they'll have their own little sleepover holidays. They'll
Speaker 2: have a good time. Are you going for just five nights? God?
Speaker 2: And I even said if I go, if we are
Speaker 2: going without the kids, and if we go somewhere and
Speaker 2: I see a kid, it's going to ruin my holiday booth.
Speaker 1: Just know that I hope you enjoy your holiday, but
Speaker 1: what you're doing your trip away is contributing to the
Speaker 1: downfall of society. I'm threatening everything about human human life.
Speaker 1: It's on your shoulders. I think there's more to worry about.
Speaker 2: I agree, right than I agree, it's what do they say,
Speaker 2: threatening our society?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're harsh words. Well, we're not a news podcast,
Speaker 1: but we will continue to follow the story. Actually, where
Speaker 1: was that story published? TikTok? Actually, well, originally The Times,
Speaker 1: but I'm reading it from Sydney Morning Herald ASH, one
Speaker 1: of the country's finest news outlets. I see. So wait,
Speaker 1: what dates are you go on September?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not saying the dates because just like you
Speaker 2: did in the last couple of episodes where you nearly
Speaker 2: ruined a wedding in Bali, you're not going to ruin
Speaker 2: my holiday by having.
Speaker 1: People bombard me record a bonus episode with all this information.
Speaker 1: So what you might miss, You might miss the birth
Speaker 1: of Yobby. I know, I know. I didn't think about
Speaker 1: that until just now when you brought it up. I
Speaker 1: might do.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to wait, Lord is gonna have to
Speaker 2: hold it in cross your legs.
Speaker 1: Well, I think she's going to be induced.
Speaker 2: Let's were allowed to give that.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm allowed to tell you. What
Speaker 1: I'm as I said that, I was like.
Speaker 2: Oh, fuck, yeah, you're gonna get in trouble. Hey, something
Speaker 2: you to just quickly bring up. You did ask me
Speaker 2: about athletics. I wanted to ask you about have you
Speaker 2: had a school disco yet?
Speaker 1: We had a school fate It's in Paddington. It was
Speaker 1: Was it a drop and go situation? It was at
Speaker 1: a school fate, There was a there was a disco
Speaker 1: going on Element disco? Element? Was it a threat to society?
Speaker 1: My dancing was Oh no, you're a very good dancing
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. So it wasn't really like it
Speaker 1: wasn't the main feature. So I would say long answer, sorry,
Speaker 1: no you took them. Sorry.
Speaker 2: I did give you an opt out of this story
Speaker 2: where I said it was a drop and go situation
Speaker 2: like no, and then you continued and.
Speaker 1: That was that was me getting you out of this.
Speaker 2: Were invented in the early seventies when people did a
Speaker 2: lot of this. No you went to a disco, No,
Speaker 2: I didn't go I did the drop off. But as
Speaker 2: you know, Oscar goes to the same primary school. Who
Speaker 2: is Oscar six?
Speaker 1: Who which I.
Speaker 2: Went to at the same age and this was his
Speaker 2: first disco. And when I tell you this school has
Speaker 2: not changed at all, I mean and it has not.
Speaker 2: The only difference is now there's more fences around schools.
Speaker 1: Have you noticed that? And when you were a kid,
Speaker 1: I guess getting in is harder. I'll tell you what's
Speaker 1: a threat.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, so it's I mean it's like for like
Speaker 2: same hall where they have the disco, all this sort
Speaker 2: of stuff, and we did do the drop so we
Speaker 2: walk them down. It was like a glow themed obviously
Speaker 2: glo sticks, glow sticks everywhere, kids glowing pants were glowing.
Speaker 2: What a site, what a sight. So went to do
Speaker 2: the drop off. A lot of flashbacks coming back to me.
Speaker 1: At this year.
Speaker 2: Have had a lot of flashbacks because of this situation
Speaker 2: of nostalgic, I know, very nostalgic. And look disc goes
Speaker 2: back when I was a kid, were a combination of
Speaker 2: fun and traumatizing. Yeah, because you just dance with a girl,
Speaker 2: answer with the girl, like it's segregated. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of hair spray involved because kids doing mohawks and yeah,
Speaker 2: back in the day, like it was like a moh
Speaker 2: or that you'd spray the hair coloring, not that because
Speaker 2: your parents wouldn't let you die.
Speaker 1: Went all out and that wasn't a thing back in
Speaker 1: Brisbane when I was growing up.
Speaker 2: Well you missed out, No you didn't, because there was
Speaker 2: traumatizing at the same time because like I said, like
Speaker 2: we were saying, you don't know whether to dance with
Speaker 2: a girl. How do you dance with a girl?
Speaker 1: You just grind and kids, that's how babies are made.
Speaker 1: We only really had like like high school, Like there
Speaker 1: was another school that was an all girls school and
Speaker 1: they would have discos that other people would get invited to.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so my memory, but that's high school stuff.
Speaker 1: I just grind Oscar leaves. You're like he's like taking
Speaker 1: him with glow sticks and you like, remember kid, anyone
Speaker 1: were coming up to you, just grin and grab on
Speaker 1: and hold on for dear life.
Speaker 2: But it reminded me of a simpler time Ash's childhood
Speaker 2: where I attended a disco. I was a little bit
Speaker 2: older than Oscow was a few years into my prime.
Speaker 2: It might have been a year five or something like
Speaker 2: that when it was like really getting to the point
Speaker 2: end where it's kind of like you're like you know girls,
Speaker 2: you're asking girls to the dance, that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: As cringe as it sounds right now, I can't even
Speaker 2: think about this stuff without.
Speaker 1: Like shivering, shivering, being like, oh, I'm the worst.
Speaker 2: I asked this girl to the dance as a kid.
Speaker 2: She said yes, which is great. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: but she went.
Speaker 1: To the same school with you. Yeah, you can't go
Speaker 1: as a date.
Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful together whatever that means at that age. But
Speaker 2: it's actually where I shared. Is it a kiss? Not
Speaker 2: first lip kiss? It was like cheek kiss. Oh you
Speaker 2: started on the cheeks. Yeah, how old? How I'm trying
Speaker 2: to remember. I think I was like ten or eleven. Yeah, nice,
Speaker 2: I mean cool, just grind that was gonna yeah, but
Speaker 2: I aways remember it was just like just cringing out
Speaker 2: of the whole how the whole thing's unfold where your
Speaker 2: friends like egg you want you got to do it?
Speaker 1: You can do it.
Speaker 2: You know you do it all those other kids that
Speaker 2: have already done it, And it's like, I'm going to
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: What are the teachers doing when you're French kissing? I
Speaker 1: wasn't friends kissing someone. It was like a little I
Speaker 1: remember that you used to have to dance like.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like you didn't know how to dance, so
Speaker 2: you're just like that's how Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1: Actually here just grind. We're grinding. Just made me really
Speaker 1: remember that moment.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, you know, and then it made
Speaker 2: me think like, actually, side note.
Speaker 1: Oh fuck, actually I've just had a well what is it?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 2: A girl? I won't mention any names, but no, Rachel,
Speaker 2: you can be here or I'm not going to get it.
Speaker 1: Elizabeth. Damn.
Speaker 2: The whole thing was very nostalgic and cringeing for me.
Speaker 2: Quite frankly, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sick of it.
Speaker 2: So we were like asking the boys, because that all
Speaker 2: of his friends are all boys, you know, the.
Speaker 1: Boys, you know, and we were like, oh, you know what.
Speaker 2: Jeffanny, Jeff girlfriends and stuff like that, and one of
Speaker 2: one of one of the other kids, mums, was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he keeps talking about this Jade girl because a girl Jade,
Speaker 2: Like is there a boy talking about no, No, someone
Speaker 2: else one of the other kids. I'm like, they're a
Speaker 2: bit young like to be talking about girls.
Speaker 1: And then afterwards Marley talks about there's one boy from
Speaker 1: daycare that she still talks about marrying. She's like, I'm
Speaker 1: having kids with them. Wow, yeah, grinding. I think it's
Speaker 1: I think it's it's only normal, only normal. Okay.
Speaker 2: Cool Because then when they they discut finished and I
Speaker 2: spoke chatting to ask about the disco and he was like,
Speaker 2: they played some really good songs and every time a
Speaker 2: song comes on and they played at the disco, now's
Speaker 2: they play.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, what did you what did
Speaker 1: you do?
Speaker 2: And you know, he was like, oh, you know, we
Speaker 2: dance and stuff like that. And then I was talking
Speaker 2: to one of the mums who was a volunteer and like, like,
Speaker 2: what actually goes on in there?
Speaker 1: Because it's in a b hall? Fill me in, fill
Speaker 1: me in.
Speaker 2: She's like, all I do is just a bunch of
Speaker 2: kids running around Like it's like they're in a playground.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what's disco about it? She's like, the music,
Speaker 1: that's it.
Speaker 2: It's just a bunch of six year old kids running
Speaker 2: around a hall to disco music.
Speaker 1: I would pay good money to be in that mindset
Speaker 1: where all you have to worry about is like not
Speaker 1: pissing yourself. Yeah, Like that would just be like where's
Speaker 1: the ext closed coming from? Yeah, that's it just so
Speaker 1: naive to life's troubles. You picked osk her up and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what's that on your head?
Speaker 2: He's got one of those tattoos on his head, like
Speaker 2: the wash on tatoos on his forehead.
Speaker 1: And I was like, why, dude, why living man? Don't
Speaker 1: bring me down anyway.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to more discos, No, because I just
Speaker 2: have flashbacks and we can.
Speaker 1: I'll come next disco. I'll volunteer with you. You just
Speaker 1: said just grind and now you want to volunteer.
Speaker 2: This the fun. I'm not judging you or anything, but
Speaker 2: that sounds a bit okay, Well you got creditor is.
Speaker 1: I'll stay outside the school fence. I refuse to volunteer
Speaker 1: for anything at the school. I don't want to get.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get. Do you know what it is?
Speaker 2: Once you open the floodgates of volunteering and those who
Speaker 2: do it and the mums who love it, credit to
Speaker 2: credit to you, sucker, No credit to you, but for me,
Speaker 2: not for me? You know?
Speaker 1: Very fair? Very fair? Have you have you been asked
Speaker 1: to volunteer for anything at school? They did they did
Speaker 1: a like a cinema night. They did a movie night.
Speaker 1: And they did ask me to host it, but I
Speaker 1: said no, but I will. I will hang on a minute.
Speaker 1: What are you going to do in the in the movie?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: I think the kids made it's like a what do
Speaker 1: you call? How do you? How do you say they
Speaker 1: made a move? Like a film festival? Fiver? They're very
Speaker 1: good film festival. How old are these kids as a
Speaker 1: whole school? Like grade sixes as well? Yeah? Right still, yeah.
Speaker 1: I gave them my fees and they say we can't
Speaker 1: afford it, and I said, this is a public school.
Speaker 1: There's no helicopter ride. You can forget it. I want
Speaker 1: to drive her to pick me up, take me to
Speaker 1: the airport, so the school's down the road. I will volunteer.
Speaker 1: But it's like once you give him an inch'll take. Yeah,
Speaker 1: April keeps like cand of throw me under the bus
Speaker 1: a little bit. I do I do just for one day.
Speaker 1: Want to volunteer in the cafeteria, just to see what
Speaker 1: it's like, just to experience that thrill. What do you
Speaker 1: think happened? Do you think it's going to be like
Speaker 1: the bear? I don't know. The guy back there, guys
Speaker 1: something different. Gordon Ramsay's Back's a new experience what you
Speaker 1: can always just.
Speaker 2: Go down there and ask, hey, can I just I
Speaker 2: will I just I'm busy, bro, I'm busy do it.
Speaker 1: I'll do it on Fridays. You obviously know this. You
Speaker 1: know that I'm having a baby. Sorry, Laura's having a baby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it is such a big difference when you're expecting
Speaker 1: your third child compared to number one and number two.
Speaker 1: So I think for your first yeah, a, you're completely ignorant.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you got no idea how I've had a
Speaker 1: dog before. Yeah, exactly, very different. And you're like, this
Speaker 1: is going to be beautiful, It's going to change my life,
Speaker 1: which like it is, and it does. It's like it is,
Speaker 1: but you're totally ignorant to just how hard it could be.
Speaker 1: You find yet fine, you pretty much find that. You
Speaker 1: just like once you have it, you're learning on the job,
Speaker 1: and you're like me and my partner, you know, well,
Speaker 1: will never argue, we'll get along. Bullshit wrong, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: will hate each other. There's so much you are wrong
Speaker 1: about before having your first kid. Put that on T shirt.
Speaker 1: We'll said thank you. And at the same time, everyone's
Speaker 1: reaction to you having your first child, it's pretty much
Speaker 1: the same, like it's met with oh my gosh, that's
Speaker 1: so incredible, amazing, congratulations, like well done.
Speaker 2: I think the further away the separation of person you tell,
Speaker 2: the less heartfelt it is. I agree, but family, immediate family,
Speaker 2: oh my god, second tier, Oh congratulate.
Speaker 1: You could argue that it's still pretty consistent.
Speaker 2: Everyone one's always like, oh, there's always one mate.
Speaker 3: It is like.
Speaker 1: You, And so that's what it's like for number one.
Speaker 1: Number two is pretty similar. People are still like, this
Speaker 1: is a beautiful thing. You've got, you know, two children,
Speaker 1: you know, the family is complete. Now well done, Greg
Speaker 1: got great, pat on the back. And then there's the
Speaker 1: odd person who's like two or it does creep in, yeah,
Speaker 1: you go on again, it does. Yeah. Yet there all
Speaker 1: of a sudden people start to like, there's a little
Speaker 1: peppering of people being like good luck. But also for
Speaker 1: us number one, Marley Dream Child so easy was incredible.
Speaker 1: So we experienced what it was like having like a
Speaker 1: ten out of ten. The unicorn the Unicorn child. Lola
Speaker 1: was the complete other end of the spectrum. She's a donkey.
Speaker 1: Yeah sorry, Lola.
Speaker 2: When you do listen to these when you're older, if
Speaker 2: hey Donkey was an indearment.
Speaker 1: There is a video on my phone. It's taken at
Speaker 1: like three in the morning. And for the first eight
Speaker 1: months it was really just like the anxiety of every
Speaker 1: night time, knowing that you're going to go in and
Speaker 1: at the absolute best case scenario you're going to get
Speaker 1: like two hours of solid sleep. Before she would just scream,
Speaker 1: scream in your arms for a good forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: And I have a video where I'm feeling myself just
Speaker 1: walking down the hallway with a screaming child like it's
Speaker 1: being murdered and there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, that's to me, that's what the newborn
Speaker 1: phase was like with Lola. Yeah, and that's the latest one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so in my head, I've got a reference point
Speaker 1: for how incredible it can be, but also then how
Speaker 1: incredibly hard it can be, just like the complete other extreme.
Speaker 1: There's nothing that you can do as a parent that
Speaker 1: controls where you end up on that scale. It's just
Speaker 1: complete random pot luck. Oh yeah, and you just hope
Speaker 1: that you get one that eats and sleeps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, eats and sleeps, that's all you want, Like, I
Speaker 2: don't if it shits itself. It pisces, don't care, do
Speaker 2: not care whatsoever, eat, sleep.
Speaker 1: The absolute dream. They're like the two most important criteria
Speaker 1: for having a nice child. And so at the same time,
Speaker 1: we've got this level of apprehension where Laura and I
Speaker 1: are both kind of like fuck, like what are we
Speaker 1: going to get? We don't know, probably a baby hopefully
Speaker 1: if it's not concerning. But everyone's reaction to number three
Speaker 1: is like whoa shot? Your brave?
Speaker 2: And even when like I talk to people about it
Speaker 2: and they're like Matt having his third they're like, what.
Speaker 1: It's like saying I'm going on a solo flight around
Speaker 1: the world, and they're like, you don't know how to fly?
Speaker 1: What is doing? Everyone's reaction is like holding my hand
Speaker 1: being like good luck. Yeah. It's kind of like you
Speaker 1: need to go from being a people manager to crowd control. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just like that. It's like, oh, fuck, I've got there's
Speaker 1: more of them than there is of you and and Laura. Now,
Speaker 1: so that will be the difference now, is that we're
Speaker 1: going into September. Was so much apprehension. Yeah, I'm like
Speaker 1: just bracing myself right now for what's to come. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like I couldn't do it. I'm sorry. Look, we
Speaker 1: had Oscar, and Oscar he was the demoned he was.
Speaker 2: He was the Lola in the situation where he to
Speaker 2: be fair after some after some you know, doctor's appointments
Speaker 2: and stuff, there was other things going on. But yeah,
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, fucking holl this thing doesn't he doesn't sleep.
Speaker 2: I was like fox sake, and it was to the
Speaker 2: point where I was like, I don't want another one.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing point I would if I waive
Speaker 1: a magic wand I would almost skip the first twelve
Speaker 1: months because I think that's the hardest part of parenting.
Speaker 1: And I know, obviously like there's a lot to still come,
Speaker 1: but I'm like newborn phase. I know some people love it,
Speaker 1: though so do people. You're going to get people are
Speaker 1: going to come out at you for that and come
Speaker 1: at me. If you love that newborn phase, great for us.
Speaker 1: It is the absolute hardest. But then something happened where
Speaker 1: I think it was it was the biggest switch of
Speaker 1: Like obviously when Laura was first pregnant, was so excited,
Speaker 1: we were stoked, and then the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: it's just been this stuck in this cycle of like
Speaker 1: bracing for what's to come. And then something happened where
Speaker 1: it was like the biggest change in my mentality. And
Speaker 1: so Laura messaged me a couple of weeks ago and
Speaker 1: she's like I'm bleeding and I was like, uh, like
Speaker 1: is it bad? And She's like it's not good, Like
Speaker 1: it's enough to be like this is concern shit. And
Speaker 1: it was weird in that the whole time, I mean
Speaker 1: this mindset of like like you know, apprehension, I'm like tense,
Speaker 1: I'm excited, but it's not the overwhelming feeling that I
Speaker 1: have a lot of the time. Yeah, because the apprehension
Speaker 1: sort of trumps it a bit because it's there. And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, it was it was such
Speaker 1: an immediate switch where I was like, oh shit, you know,
Speaker 1: we're not in the clear at all. Something could go wrong.
Speaker 1: And then the thought of we might lose this baby
Speaker 1: was just the surge of a realization of how much
Speaker 1: I do want this child and obviously you know I
Speaker 1: want to have with a kid, but that overtook the
Speaker 1: apprehension totally totally, and it was such not that you
Speaker 1: want to go through that. I have to say that
Speaker 1: after twenty four hours, the bleeding stopped, we went, Laura
Speaker 1: was checked out. Everything was fine, Thank goodness, and you
Speaker 1: wouldn't wish that's situation and that you know, intense twenty
Speaker 1: four hours upon anyone. But at the same time, it
Speaker 1: was really important for me to just have that reality
Speaker 1: check of like, don't forget you will do anything with
Speaker 1: this kid for.
Speaker 2: Sure, and like the apprehension is just from past experience,
Speaker 2: right yeah, where you're like, Okay, well, look, we're going
Speaker 2: to get what we're going to get, but maybe I
Speaker 2: should concentrate on being more excited about it.
Speaker 1: Than worried about what we're going to get. Anyone who's
Speaker 1: reached out being like, well you're brave, that's not a
Speaker 1: dig year. I think it's great. I love people haven't
Speaker 1: had that chat. Oh yeah, yeah yeah, but it's yeah.
Speaker 1: It was an important moment for me during this pregnancy,
Speaker 1: which is also just like we're flying so fast. I
Speaker 1: know for me, Laura is like no, it's fucking not.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeh, Syla. But yeah, we're like, well,
Speaker 1: well passed the halfway mark. Well I'm glad, everything's okay.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're having worried for a second there because
Speaker 2: I haven't seen Laura in a little while.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, she's doing good. She's doing good. She's doing good.
Speaker 1: So poppy at the moment, I think there's definitely poppy,
Speaker 1: definitely poppy. I think we're debating at the moment on
Speaker 1: the middle name. I will not reveal because I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm allowed to or not.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, start it, Rupert, Oh, that's actually that is
Speaker 2: beautiful poppy, Rupert Johnson.
Speaker 1: We've got a message ash from Live. You know, we
Speaker 1: joke about the song on pair rants that's the greatest?
Speaker 1: Is it the greatest? Or is it lies?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because let's have for those of you who don't remember,
Speaker 1: let's have a little listen. Now, tell me loud, tell
Speaker 1: me little loud. That's a great theme song. That's a
Speaker 1: bob is one of our best That is Yeah, it
Speaker 1: just fits in so well. And Live has requested that
Speaker 1: segment to come back because she loves the theme song
Speaker 1: so much. And I said, look, if you can get
Speaker 1: some lies in the Facebook group, we'll bring it back.
Speaker 1: And we're bringing it back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So she's back right one week only for now,
Speaker 2: and we decide to rehash it now.
Speaker 1: Now, would you like to go first, man, would you
Speaker 1: go first? My guy first?
Speaker 2: One from Gemma This is great. The warm spots in
Speaker 2: the water is where the fish have swam. Don't follow
Speaker 2: me around Bali because heeps the fish in those pools.
Speaker 1: This one's from Lauren. Hi, Lauren, and Lar's what's up?
Speaker 1: She says, we wave goodbye to dad as he goes
Speaker 1: to work for the day. Really he's walking down to
Speaker 1: the front study as he works from home half the time.
Speaker 1: But if the kids know that, they will hassle him,
Speaker 1: that's genius. That's a hack. If anything, what happens if
Speaker 1: you need to go to the bathroom and they're like
Speaker 1: o'ld diapers, baby, it's genius though.
Speaker 2: Because April works from home like all the time, and
Speaker 2: sometimes if there's a kid off sick or whatever, or Thursdays,
Speaker 2: I have Macy Emily just home. She will not leave
Speaker 2: her alone, like able to be on a meeting with
Speaker 2: like a screen full of people and makes you just
Speaker 2: bobbing her head in and she's mosy's in like she's
Speaker 2: late for the meeting.
Speaker 1: With her eclipsement and a bowl of heads from the
Speaker 1: lego that she's been capitatd.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and she's got a notepad though, taking notes.
Speaker 2: The next one is from Crystal. Anytime we have a
Speaker 2: card le scrape, we like to take a photo and
Speaker 2: send it to the doctor. The doctor evaluates the injury
Speaker 2: and writes back if it requires a band aid or not,
Speaker 2: it's a no.
Speaker 1: But if the doctor says so, then tantrum avoid it.
Speaker 1: That is genius. These are hacks as well, though you
Speaker 1: know you're lying is the ultimate parenting hat. It is.
Speaker 1: It is because the T shirt very good. Lola man,
Speaker 1: she's like, we bought some we bought some superhero bandaids,
Speaker 1: and she's just it's like crack for her. She used
Speaker 1: to be addicted to dummies. Now she's just like, give
Speaker 1: me what.
Speaker 2: She's like scratch, which she finds nicorette patches. This is
Speaker 2: Daly finished the lie because there's more to it, she says,
Speaker 2: she finishes with Really, it's just me sending the pick.
Speaker 1: She actually sends the pick, so that's commitment to the lie.
Speaker 2: Sends the pick to one of my friends, who writes back,
Speaker 2: no band aid required works every time.
Speaker 1: Who's the friend? Yeah on the payroll.
Speaker 2: Imagine trying to explain that message to someone that you've
Speaker 2: just met. That sees you get that message and it's
Speaker 2: like a picture of a kid with it. I was like,
Speaker 2: what are you into?
Speaker 1: It's like now you n u Oh Crystal, Chris has
Speaker 1: got too She's got too Wow. Put her on the payroll.
Speaker 1: Absolutely the backbone of this podcast. But also it's concerning
Speaker 1: how much she lies. Yeah, not hit a judge. You
Speaker 1: aren't rich from you sorry. The lollly Man delivers lollies
Speaker 1: to the shop daily. However, there is never enough for
Speaker 1: all the kids, and sometimes when mom or dad goes
Speaker 1: to the shops there's none left.
Speaker 2: Genius.
Speaker 1: This goes with ice creams and fizzy drinks. The lollie
Speaker 1: Man is super busy and sometimes he gets to the
Speaker 1: shops late, sometimes at all. Genius. Crystal is a diabolical genius. Yes,
Speaker 1: she's like she's like the villain. I love the ashy one.
Speaker 1: Last little short while we get squeezed in there. Sure
Speaker 1: from from Jode's Jodes.
Speaker 2: Very quick, but very good. Jody says, all meat is chicken.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of that time I gave Oscar steak
Speaker 2: for the first time and he was.
Speaker 1: Like his chicken's brown. Yeah, he's already like critiquing my
Speaker 1: cooking very good Ash. One of my favorite things to
Speaker 1: do each week is to give parents in this country
Speaker 1: from all over the world a chance to have a rant.
Speaker 1: Oh I love that about their life.
Speaker 2: People love to get it off their chest. So, without
Speaker 2: further ado, let's do You don't mostly progression, you don't
Speaker 2: want tomsel, Just tell me what your parent do?
Speaker 1: You want my grandpa at the shop? You don't want
Speaker 1: advice refrangers, Go and tell me what is your part? Matta.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go first because your sister has actually sent
Speaker 2: through a submission.
Speaker 1: Well, how come you speaking to my sister? Never mind,
Speaker 1: he Kate, I'll see you later. What has she got
Speaker 1: to say? Ladies? What's doing? This is what she has
Speaker 1: to say?
Speaker 3: Hi, guys, I just wanted to contribute to your parant segment.
Speaker 3: I have a complaint that there are not enough gyms
Speaker 3: with child minding facilities. Every health practitioner is on about
Speaker 3: moving your body, but what a parent's meant to.
Speaker 1: Do when you've got to look after kids.
Speaker 3: Gyms need to have more child minding facilities.
Speaker 1: Fair, I'd say move, that's pretty fair. I remember cracious crash.
Speaker 2: If you don't know, it's referred to as a crash
Speaker 2: or crash however you want to pronounce they are.
Speaker 1: They're dwindling numbers to do. Someone say it's a threat,
Speaker 1: existential threat, it is. I don't know what the problem is.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it's got to be expensive, right
Speaker 1: to run the gym plus have There was one up
Speaker 1: the road and it was great. Sometimes I just do
Speaker 1: my shopping and I just leave the kids down and
Speaker 1: be like, well, off to the gym. How long can
Speaker 1: you leave them there? For? Days? Oh? Definitely not to know.
Speaker 1: I know, I agree, And I think what's really important
Speaker 1: is the fact that my sister, she wants to get
Speaker 1: a gains, she wants to come on. What come on?
Speaker 1: She does need to come What does April do? April
Speaker 1: squats nat? What does she do with the kids?
Speaker 2: Sometimes there's a crache at her cult Jim she goes
Speaker 2: to It must be nice, yes, but it's also a
Speaker 2: bit cult vibes. I'm waiting for my kids to be
Speaker 2: converted into something. They come home, they'll be like hell,
Speaker 2: little fage, they just protein squat.
Speaker 1: Ask her what very good? Thank you Kate?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 1: Which is Matt's sister Shout out to Kate. This one
Speaker 1: is from Piper and ooh, this is a good one.
Speaker 1: When strangers touch my babies in the pram or worse,
Speaker 1: when they've just fallen asleep. Why are strangers touching your bait?
Speaker 1: Why are you letting them touch you? I've had it's
Speaker 1: happened before where someone's like, that's such a cute baby,
Speaker 1: and you're like, thank you so much, and then before
Speaker 1: you know it, they're like stroking a child and you're like,
Speaker 1: get off my child. What do you say? Like, you
Speaker 1: don't want to be rude, but there's boundaries, I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's a bit of an eck, isn't it.
Speaker 2: I Mean it's like, could you imagine me just coming
Speaker 2: up to you on the street and being like, you're
Speaker 2: a handsome man.
Speaker 1: Scratch on the top of your head. Ah, you know
Speaker 1: what else? You can scratch the side of your head
Speaker 1: your cock? Yeah? I agree, Piper, are not on I'm
Speaker 1: not into it. I am not into it at all. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't even to read this.
Speaker 2: One off my phone because I have a personal gripe.
Speaker 2: But you got kids sport. Let's talk about that really quickly.
Speaker 2: Go Okay, I'm all for the health aspect. You just
Speaker 2: copying my sister no, no, no, no, this is very
Speaker 2: vastly different. But the problem I have with it is
Speaker 2: the expense of it. And now let me tell you
Speaker 2: why I've got shits about it. Okay, So we did
Speaker 2: a trial for jiu jitsu with Oscar yesterday because he's
Speaker 2: like a spider monkey.
Speaker 1: You need to harness this spider monkeyness. But that a
Speaker 1: jiu jitsu is it's a cheap sport. Is like, that's
Speaker 1: what you think. What happened? That's what you think.
Speaker 2: There's no balls involved, and we know expensive balls are
Speaker 2: chiodow for a draw. Loved it finally something that he
Speaker 2: really really loved, and like, great, I'm happy. I'm happy
Speaker 2: he likes it because you can defend himself too. And
Speaker 2: then I get home and I was like I had
Speaker 2: to go great and I was just showing April all
Speaker 2: of his moves. He's pumped, and April goes, how much
Speaker 2: is it? Two hundred bucks a month? Not too bad?
Speaker 3: Bro?
Speaker 1: Are you for real? How many classes?
Speaker 2: Well that's unlimited, but he's not going to go every day.
Speaker 2: I've got to take him. He lives us. He's moving
Speaker 2: in seriously two hundred and that's because only it's only
Speaker 2: two hundred because you've got to sign up for twelve months.
Speaker 2: He might not like it after six months, So like
Speaker 2: they're trapping you, I think.
Speaker 1: Not just on the floor, but financially. Very good, very
Speaker 1: good from you.
Speaker 2: But I think we should overhaul the kids' sports, make
Speaker 2: it cheaper than that.
Speaker 1: They're tiny. He doesn't. He's gonna have to get a job.
Speaker 2: That's my rant round away anyway, so as he's going
Speaker 2: to be doing jiu jitsu five days a week.
Speaker 1: Now, get our money's worth. Very good. This one is
Speaker 1: from Caitlin. Caitlyn, what's happening? She says, shops that don't
Speaker 1: open before nine am. I've lived forty two lives before
Speaker 1: nine am. Just let me go and get hit my
Speaker 1: groceries with my little no sleep gremlins at seven am,
Speaker 1: since I'm already awake. Very good, very good.
Speaker 2: Sunday morning shop before ten am, because everything opens at
Speaker 2: ten am on a Sunday is the best barely anyone around.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 2: It makes it so much easier parking, moving your trolley
Speaker 2: up and oh goodiful love it the dream, the dream.
Speaker 2: Final one from me today is and I don't know
Speaker 2: if your kids do this. This is from Jess and
Speaker 2: it says my producer, No, I should have kids. No,
Speaker 2: why can't kids just be bored for once? That's the
Speaker 2: that's the start of the rant. Now I'm going to
Speaker 2: extend on that because Oscar is the worst at this
Speaker 2: one second of not doing doing some sort of activity,
Speaker 2: I'm bored.
Speaker 1: H almost like he's got add How dare you?
Speaker 2: How do you diagnose my child like that? But also
Speaker 2: bro come on, it started to become like a trigger
Speaker 2: word for me. It's like, I'm bored. And before he
Speaker 2: even finishes with the word bored, I'm like, find something
Speaker 2: to do back.
Speaker 1: In my day. Oh, that's another one. Let's not start
Speaker 1: on that. Be bored, kids of the world, be bored.
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Speaker 1: Let should we finished this off with a couple of
Speaker 1: questions today, A couple of questions. Look, I've got one
Speaker 1: that I want to ask you. Just want to get
Speaker 1: your opinion here. Every couple does this. We have a
Speaker 1: little argument, a little tiff if you will, And I
Speaker 1: would love to get a third party opinion of who
Speaker 1: was in the wrong. If that's okay, you may be
Speaker 1: a bit biased towards me, but it's important that you
Speaker 1: stay spit it out. Okay. So we went to the
Speaker 1: alid other house. Is this putting you and Laura? You're wrong?
Speaker 1: Full stop? Moving on, go on, okay, what just listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to cross a pregnant woman full stop.
Speaker 1: You're right. It gives me anyway. So we're going down
Speaker 1: to the olid other house on Friday, as you know,
Speaker 1: must be nice, thank you. It is my job to
Speaker 1: pack the car, yeah, because you're not let to lift
Speaker 1: anything heavy. So I packed the car, put everything in there,
Speaker 1: and even Laura looked at the boot because we like
Speaker 1: had to bring some like a vacuum cleaner down with
Speaker 1: us as well, like lots of you know, wives love
Speaker 1: packing unnecessary things. I do brought half the kitchen sink.
Speaker 1: I don't need that, but I got all of the cars.
Speaker 1: So we get to the car and Laura goes, wow,
Speaker 1: you got everything in there. I go, yeah, look, you know,
Speaker 1: like Tetris, it was just full to the brim and
Speaker 1: I even said, oh, do you reckon? I could squeeze
Speaker 1: in my spearfishing gear and she says, yeah, yeah. I
Speaker 1: put it like in front of Marley, put the floor
Speaker 1: there and I was like, Greg, are great, drive down
Speaker 1: that it's three and a half hours from Sydney. We
Speaker 1: get there, I unpacked the car because it's my job,
Speaker 1: and then Laura goes, hey, can you just get my
Speaker 1: bag out of the car. I said, your handbag and
Speaker 1: she goes no, no, no, no, my suitcase. And I said, no,
Speaker 1: you're it's here. It's the big suitcase because we we
Speaker 1: would always just put all of our clothes into one
Speaker 1: big suitcase. Road trip. It's in a couple of nights
Speaker 1: and she goes, no, I told you that I packed
Speaker 1: a separate bag. I was like, did you and she goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: Now you remember. I actually bring up the small bag
Speaker 1: a few nights to go and I put some stuff
Speaker 1: in there and I said to you can you put
Speaker 1: the bags in the car And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: that's because we had a few bags. So I said,
Speaker 1: where did you leave the bagage? Because in the bedroom
Speaker 1: m because you can't lift it too. It's not meant
Speaker 1: to be lifting. I could She's not meant to be.
Speaker 1: It's advised.
Speaker 2: It's a small bag. It's like you could drink if
Speaker 2: you're pregnant, but it's advised.
Speaker 1: Not to great point. Thank you. So Laura has now
Speaker 1: realized that she has nothing. She's a phone, you's a
Speaker 1: charge out, a laptop at a bottle of water, but
Speaker 1: sheould be hydrated. Also doesn't help that she pissed herself
Speaker 1: in the car. Ah, she coughed, had a roade cough.
Speaker 1: So I would like to know.
Speaker 2: Okay, who's your fault here? I've told you I knew it.
Speaker 2: I knew it immediately because she did say packed the bags.
Speaker 2: But I'm not crossing are pregnant woman here?
Speaker 1: Bro, don't change, don't change the setup. We always packed
Speaker 1: the one big family bag, but.
Speaker 2: You've got you're going to have to adapt because you're
Speaker 2: gonna have another kid. So you can't just assume that
Speaker 2: things are going to be regular moving forward. You should
Speaker 2: be like, hang on a sec. We usually pack this
Speaker 2: one bag, but there's another child on board my wife
Speaker 2: at the moment. So maybe she's changing, Maybe she changing
Speaker 2: the routine change, Maybe she's getting used to that we're
Speaker 2: going to need more than one one bag. She's going
Speaker 2: to have a separate bag from now on to now, well,
Speaker 2: every time you're going to have to look out for
Speaker 2: that extra bag.
Speaker 1: I double down. You have to double down, and I
Speaker 1: double down, and that I was like, I'm not a faulty.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I said, I taught you nothing.
Speaker 2: Never double down, especially when it's unclear who said what
Speaker 2: if there's pure evidence.
Speaker 1: I don't remember her saying, but then she remembers saying it.
Speaker 1: That's because she's lying. Yeah, but that you could be lying,
Speaker 1: I'm not. Oh, well, that holds up in court.
Speaker 2: I would say, just assume she's right all the time,
Speaker 2: for an hour, for an how well she's pregnant. It's
Speaker 2: it's fair for you to say, look, okay, I get it.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but I missed it because it wasn't with
Speaker 2: the other stuff. That's fine. But you can say my bad,
Speaker 2: it was my bad. It's hard to say that though,
Speaker 2: swallow you.
Speaker 1: I can't. It's too big lie and so I packed
Speaker 1: it must have fallen out lies. I worked for kids,
Speaker 1: they work for partners. Ah, yeah, you're in the wrong.
Speaker 1: They big anyway.
Speaker 2: Anyway, your question, I have a question for you, A
Speaker 2: damn good one, Matthew, Maddie J if you will, what
Speaker 2: are your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Between public and private school. So I know I know
Speaker 1: what you mean for your kids, not just as I think.
Speaker 1: I don't want to generalize here, but I feel like
Speaker 1: any child who goes to a public school ends up
Speaker 1: a drug addict. Yep, Like I'm just joking. Did you
Speaker 1: go to public school or private school? I went to
Speaker 1: private school. I went to St. Peter's Lutheran College, Lutheran Okay.
Speaker 2: And how many brother and sisters do you have? I
Speaker 2: want to find, Well, that must have been expensive.
Speaker 1: Well not all of us went to a private school.
Speaker 1: And the truth shall seck you free?
Speaker 4: The younger two went to public Look where they're and
Speaker 4: look where they ended up drug addicts. Wow, your mum
Speaker 4: has some explained to do.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: My dad just gave up. Fair enough, fair and enough.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts with Lola and Marley? Marley is
Speaker 2: at a public school. I mean what I liked ash
Speaker 2: about going to the private school.
Speaker 1: And obviously, you know, very expensive and not everyone has
Speaker 1: a luxury of being able to afford a private school.
Speaker 1: I like that it was great for sport, Okay, a
Speaker 1: lot of sport. You find a lot of them, like support,
Speaker 1: very heavy, like union, love my rugby love my athletics.
Speaker 1: Why all religious schools too? Like? Since something? Very good question.
Speaker 1: I don't know right off, I don't know who knows
Speaker 1: their tax exam? Actually, what are your thoughts? Well, I
Speaker 1: went to both.
Speaker 2: I went to both public, when got kicked out of
Speaker 2: the public, and then went to private, kicked out of
Speaker 2: the private, back to the public, and went back to
Speaker 2: the private again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bared yourself out, Yes, yes I did, Matthew. I
Speaker 1: also moved as a student. What did you find better?
Speaker 2: I hated it all, to be honest, but I think
Speaker 2: I did learn that if you if you could, you
Speaker 2: could be if you wanted to learn, you can. You
Speaker 2: can excel in a public school. So this is how
Speaker 2: this is my philosophy for my kids. It'll be public
Speaker 2: school until you can see whether they like it or not. Okay,
Speaker 2: but they like to learn or they don't. At the moment,
Speaker 2: Oscar's six, he loves to learn because it's all so
Speaker 2: fucking new. But eventually you're like, I'm bored with this.
Speaker 2: So yeah, exactly right. So my assumption is Oscar's probably
Speaker 2: going to be a bit like me, and which he
Speaker 2: can just stick with the public school system. Okay, but
Speaker 2: it's like, if Macy goes in and she's quite a
Speaker 2: bright kid, not saying's not bright, he's really fat. If
Speaker 2: she really likes to learn and stuff like that, and
Speaker 2: then there'll be the option. But I'm not going to
Speaker 2: force them to do it. I think it's expensive.
Speaker 1: If you know they're going to be a drop kick,
Speaker 1: you put them into public with the drop kicks. Put
Speaker 1: him in a gen pop.
Speaker 2: But like, yeah, if Oscar's like, you know, if he's
Speaker 2: like really excelling in football or whatever it is he's doing,
Speaker 2: and it's like, well, he can go to this school
Speaker 2: and progress and there's and there's actual But if he's
Speaker 2: like can't catch the ball and can't kick and he's
Speaker 2: got two left feet, I'm not going to throw him
Speaker 2: in the Knox graandmar I play rugby union with the
Speaker 2: with the big boys. So yeah, I think, like I
Speaker 2: think they both have positives and negatives negatives.
Speaker 1: Last question, did you thrive? I'm assuming the private school
Speaker 1: was more strict? Is that good or bad? Just made
Speaker 1: me naughtier?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Really you were naughty in the private school?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I do recall in the last private school
Speaker 2: I went to was a Catholic school, and you have
Speaker 2: to do religion. And I remember the question that was
Speaker 2: given to me because they always preach about you know,
Speaker 2: like relationships and sex, sex before marriage. And they were like,
Speaker 2: what's the best form of contraception, which the answer was
Speaker 2: meant to be abstinence, right, and I said, just pull it.
Speaker 1: Out expelled, boom done. Parents in the office.
Speaker 2: Also, I'm not Catholic, and my mom had to and
Speaker 2: sorry mum, to throw you on the bas My mom
Speaker 2: faked that I was Catholic and they were like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we just need the baptism and stuff for you. It's
Speaker 2: just like, yeah, you're faks it to you never did,
Speaker 2: so my misbehavior comes from mam.
Speaker 1: I reckon.
Speaker 2: So I look like you said if Oscar, If Oscar's excelling,
Speaker 2: then yes.
Speaker 1: We'll look at it, but I won't force it. And
Speaker 1: same with the macon that hey, if you're excelling at
Speaker 1: listening to the podcast, very good, you went to private school,
Speaker 1: why don't you review us, subscribe, write a review and
Speaker 1: Apple podcast or Spotify. Just let us know what you
Speaker 1: think of the podcast, as long as it's great.
Speaker 2: And if you like public school and put down your
Speaker 2: meth pipe and jump onto the socials.
Speaker 1: Day. Sorry two got into heads on TikTok, Instagram and
Speaker 1: Facebook and that's what we have time for. We're going
Speaker 1: to get out of here. See you guys next week.
Speaker 1: Goodbye bye. Sorry it fucking sorry, Sorry Apoos two. Doting
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