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Speaker 1: chosen podcast platform. This chat, I'm joined by Ali Langdon
Speaker 1: from Channel nine, who has proven to be one of
Speaker 1: the network's most popular personalities. Allie Langdon made a big
Speaker 1: splash when she joined Karl Stefanovick a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago on The Today Show, and then she kind of
Speaker 1: graduated to aca the host of a Current Affair, but Today,
Speaker 1: we'll be talking about her return to the reality series
Speaker 1: Parental Guidance as season two premieres on Monday, June fifth,
Speaker 1: at seven thirty pm on Channel nine and nine Now.
Speaker 1: In this fresh and thought provoking reality series, parents with
Speaker 1: twelve remarkably distinctive methods and approaches to parenting take center stage.
Speaker 1: The diverse range of parents do bring unique perspectives, differing
Speaker 1: greatly from one to another, so watching them critically, examine, compare,
Speaker 1: and reassess their own parenting styles with fresh eyes is
Speaker 1: very engaging television. I will talk to Ali about how
Speaker 1: hard it is to get families to agree to being
Speaker 1: on the show and how important it is to get
Speaker 1: different parenting techniques. Ali will talk about her own parenting
Speaker 1: techniques and if this show can at times make her
Speaker 1: feel a little self conscious. Plus, we will discuss how
Speaker 1: the show has evolved and will take a sneak peek
Speaker 1: at one of the twists added to series two. Plus,
Speaker 1: we will get plenty of exclusives from behind the scenes
Speaker 1: of Parental Guidance, which I can tell you is really enjoyable.
Speaker 1: Even if you don't have kids. You sell anyway. Let's
Speaker 1: bring Allie into the podcast and guys, I really hope
Speaker 1: you enjoyed this episode of TV reload yod Avan.
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm really well, I'm very excited about this.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, so am I. It's just it's the
Speaker 3: funniest bloody show I know.
Speaker 1: And I went out with my two best girlfriends last
Speaker 1: night who have parents, like they're both parents, and was
Speaker 1: talking about this series and they're like one of them
Speaker 1: is like I love this show, and the other one's like, no,
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't deal with how are these parents
Speaker 1: being on this show. I don't understand.
Speaker 3: No, well, I mean that's that's it, right, And I
Speaker 3: have moments when they shine, and then they have moments
Speaker 3: when it all fours apart. So you know, there's moments
Speaker 3: to get Oh, you can get annoyed rhythm because they're
Speaker 3: doing really well, and then they're like, nah, you're normal
Speaker 3: like the rest of us. You have good days and
Speaker 3: bad days. It's fine.
Speaker 1: It's also really quite intoxicating because I just because because
Speaker 1: on the screening room there was like six episodes I think,
Speaker 1: you know, all of a sudden, I just sat there
Speaker 1: with a cold and watched like all of them in
Speaker 1: one go, and then I just was upset. Yes, So anyway,
Speaker 1: why were you obsessed? Why don't have kids? But I'm
Speaker 1: a gay uncle basically to all of my girlfriend's children.
Speaker 1: So we just have We have a permanent car seat
Speaker 1: in our car and have done for the last six years.
Speaker 1: So we are like kind of like on the peripheral
Speaker 1: of watching how parents parent and seeing how different children are.
Speaker 1: So this show's very fascinating to me.
Speaker 2: I love it your uncle Ben, Uncle, yes, exactly, the
Speaker 2: love Uncle Ben.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sat late, give you too much chocolate?
Speaker 1: Well, I let them watch. I let one of them.
Speaker 1: He loves Minecraft. Have you heard about this about Minecraft?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I know, Yeah, I've got to know about Minecraft.
Speaker 1: Oh so they love Most of these kids want to
Speaker 1: watch other people play Minecraft. They don't want to play
Speaker 1: it themselves. They're youtubing other kids playing Minecraft that are
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 2: It and oh wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And none of the parents want them because there's
Speaker 1: no None of my friends, none of the women that
Speaker 1: I'm friends with, think that there's any educational value in
Speaker 1: that at all, So won't let them work at home. However,
Speaker 1: Uncle Ben's house is called Minecraft House, so there's no rules.
Speaker 1: And once we tried to see how long it would
Speaker 1: take before minecraft would get boring, and it turned out
Speaker 1: it never did. At at twelve o'clock a night, we
Speaker 1: had a four year ol go to bed. My girlfriends
Speaker 1: will be like, don't ever talk. There's a contract now,
Speaker 1: don't ever talk about our children ever again. So Parental
Speaker 1: Guidance is back for series two. You're obviously back, which
Speaker 1: is very exciting. What is it about this show that
Speaker 1: you really enjoyed from series one and then came back
Speaker 1: for series two.
Speaker 3: I think it's just a great opportunity right to celebrate parenthood.
Speaker 3: And by saying celebrate parenthood, it means like those joyous
Speaker 3: moments when we see our kids have a win and
Speaker 3: what have you, and also kind of celebrate the mess
Speaker 3: and the chaos and the failures. And it's just really
Speaker 3: cool for me to look at all these different parenting
Speaker 3: styles because I don't really think I have one. What
Speaker 3: I've probably learned through the show is that monsters really
Speaker 3: consistent and what I do one day, I don't do
Speaker 3: when they says I'm probably totally stuffering the kids up.
Speaker 3: But it's just cool to see all the different ways
Speaker 3: these parents, you know, parent their kids and will be
Speaker 3: one challenge where you go, wow, that's that's the best
Speaker 3: parenting style, like that they made us now that out
Speaker 3: of the park perfect, and then the next one they
Speaker 3: just everything falls apart. And so while there's lots of
Speaker 3: funning the show too, we talk about someone's really serious
Speaker 3: stuff like screen time and what are our kids doing
Speaker 3: on when they're on their screens that the parents do
Speaker 3: or don't know about, and so all of the challenges
Speaker 3: we have, like we work with like child psychologists and
Speaker 3: the strange Federal police. And in episode one, we kind
Speaker 3: of hit everyone between the eyes with this online gaming
Speaker 3: and the kids are playing and there's one set of
Speaker 3: parents they sort of say, look, we haven't really talked
Speaker 3: to our kids about it because we wanted to be
Speaker 3: kids as long as they possibly can. We don't want
Speaker 3: to open that can of worms. And then you see
Speaker 3: an adult so through strong federal police so pretending to
Speaker 3: be a kid, acting like you know, a predator, and
Speaker 3: how they get this kid to talk, and the information
Speaker 3: that this child gives up and what this child agrees
Speaker 3: to do as in like meet up with this person
Speaker 3: or within a couple of minutes, and I think that's
Speaker 3: really it's kind of scary to watch how quickly it
Speaker 3: can happen, and how easily our kids are manufay, and
Speaker 3: we all sit in the room and we're actually really angry.
Speaker 3: Ye're angry that there are people like them to actually
Speaker 3: do this and target our kids. But that's the reality.
Speaker 3: It's just about giving our kids, like the best tools
Speaker 3: to kind of to sort of navigate that and realize
Speaker 3: what doesn't look right. And some of the kids nail it.
Speaker 3: Their brilliant they spotted a mile away and they like
Speaker 3: and and sort of do something else, and so it's
Speaker 3: you know, it's great and sing in seeing that which
Speaker 3: we tackle some really tricky issues.
Speaker 1: I guess, well, yeah you do. I mean, and you
Speaker 1: know what's really interesting about this show is when I
Speaker 1: first saw it Ti, I was like, oh, that's a
Speaker 1: show for you know, people who've got children, But I think, you.
Speaker 3: Know, oh for everyone.
Speaker 1: It's for everyone because I think people who don't have
Speaker 1: kids can be even more opinionated on what is right
Speaker 1: and wrong of what other people are doing with their parenting,
Speaker 1: which means that you can sit in that in that
Speaker 1: zone watching the show, because you know, I think parents
Speaker 1: are are very conscious where you know, people who are
Speaker 1: not parents, they're very maybe too opinionated. I would say yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think.
Speaker 3: Even like grandparents to sit there and sort of stay
Speaker 3: you know, there's sometimes a bit of a simplistics the
Speaker 3: wrong way, but you know, it was easy at a
Speaker 3: parent before all the screen time and all of these
Speaker 3: kind of dramas. It's modern day issues that parents face.
Speaker 3: It's great for grandparents and and everyone can just sort
Speaker 3: of have a view on it.
Speaker 1: I think parenting can be also quite taboo. I always
Speaker 1: think of talking about styles of parenting around the table
Speaker 1: can be a bit like politics and religion, you know,
Speaker 1: but you've kind of way, you've kind of made a
Speaker 1: way to talk about this in mainstream media with such integrity,
Speaker 1: which I think must have been really hard for them
Speaker 1: to work out how to do this show. To do that,
Speaker 1: I think it's why.
Speaker 3: We haven't seen a show like this until now, because
Speaker 3: it's tricky to do because you're filming with kids. You've
Speaker 3: got to protect kids, but you've also got to see
Speaker 3: how these parenting styles, what works and what doesn't. So
Speaker 3: to get that right. Where you are at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, just celebrating parenthood, and the room's pretty supportive,
Speaker 3: Like there are some epic fails in certain challenges and
Speaker 3: it's not at any point people in the room like, haha,
Speaker 3: see you, you know what happened here even kind of
Speaker 3: wrap their arms around the other parents when that happens,
Speaker 3: because we all want to see all of our kids succeed, right,
Speaker 3: And it's kind of hard when we see the opposite
Speaker 3: of that tape play out. So just so in many ways,
Speaker 3: like it gets fiery and people defend their parenting styles,
Speaker 3: but there's also a lot of like kindness, and there's
Speaker 3: a lot of laughs, like it's just a fun show.
Speaker 1: The thing about the show that really shocks me his
Speaker 1: even more so the marrit at first sight, is how
Speaker 1: do you even find parents that are willing to do
Speaker 1: this show? I mean, putting yourself out there with your
Speaker 1: parental guidance, I mean, with your parental style must be
Speaker 1: you'd have to be very courageous. This is what I think.
Speaker 3: Well, I think you know a lot of people have
Speaker 3: thought a lot about how a parent. I'm like me,
Speaker 3: I haven't thought a lot about it, but you know,
Speaker 3: they really think about it, and I think it's not there.
Speaker 3: We've counter that and you know, and they wanted sort
Speaker 3: of share what they do. But also a lot of
Speaker 3: them come on with the idea of like, we do
Speaker 3: this and we love how we parents ourselves, but they're
Speaker 3: open to becoming better parents, like okay, what additional kind
Speaker 3: of tools? And a Ciners doctor Justin Coolson opens his
Speaker 3: mouth with advice. You see everyone in the room lean
Speaker 3: forward and take everything in. They're very different when I
Speaker 3: speak for some reason, I.
Speaker 2: Have no idea why, but when they're sharing his wisdom
Speaker 2: and what he's like. And he also has six girls,
Speaker 2: so he's in a house with seven females, that's a
Speaker 2: lot of female energy, so he knows.
Speaker 3: What he's talking about. Everyone is there to be better
Speaker 3: because we just want to raise good, kind humans who
Speaker 3: go out and live their very best life.
Speaker 1: How many changes did you guys make to the format?
Speaker 1: I mean, did you listen to what parents might have
Speaker 1: said last year and tried to evolve certain things. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're probably not a producer, so you're probably not working
Speaker 1: on the format, But what did you notice about the
Speaker 1: evolution from series one to series two?
Speaker 3: Look, I think it was tweaked a little because what
Speaker 3: we did in season one had never been done before.
Speaker 3: It was a new formats, Like we look at something
Speaker 3: that was happening overseas and said, okay, let's do it here.
Speaker 3: It was brand new, so none of us really knew
Speaker 3: what we were doing, and a lot of it worked,
Speaker 3: and then I think we looked at it and went, okay,
Speaker 3: what's you know what could work better this time around?
Speaker 3: And so that's been tweaked. We've got a few more
Speaker 3: parenting styles involved. We don't throw them all in the
Speaker 3: house together at the end, but there is a big
Speaker 3: challenge that sort of the winning team to have to
Speaker 3: take part in, which is just very fun.
Speaker 1: Did you feel do you find this is why I
Speaker 1: kept thinking? I kept looking at your face the whole time.
Speaker 1: Do you feel self conscious about not coming across as
Speaker 1: to opinionate it or upsetting any of the parents? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm always looking at you thinking, because I mean you're
Speaker 1: so famous and so recognizable. I'm assuming that they all
Speaker 1: want to be your friend and have you weigh in
Speaker 1: on it and say, you know, you're the parents that
Speaker 1: I believe in, and I don't feel like you're able
Speaker 1: to or you should be doing that. Are you self
Speaker 1: conscious about how you're interacting and watching everything that's going on?
Speaker 3: Okay, if you saw how our parents home do you
Speaker 3: realize that there is no judgment coming from me in
Speaker 3: anything that we do. I'm happy. I'm very happy to
Speaker 3: sort of, you know, challenge a parenting style if I
Speaker 3: feel it needs to be. But that's also what the
Speaker 3: room does. The other parenting styles do that, so I
Speaker 3: can almost you know, I almost leave it up to them.
Speaker 1: What is something from behind the scenes, something that we
Speaker 1: won't see on the show, kind of like a behind
Speaker 1: the scenes secret on making this show.
Speaker 3: Ooh, it's the secret that at the end of the
Speaker 3: day or these all be having parents, have a little
Speaker 3: last champagne and a little dance before we go home.
Speaker 1: That's the best way to finish it. Come here and
Speaker 1: show us your parenting and then have a few drinks
Speaker 1: that'll make you feel Allie, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your time.
Speaker 2: It was gorgeous to talk to you.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan.
Speaker 3: Really, no, thank you lovely to chat. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 1: Look after yourself.