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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask you how did Jack go? He did

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Speaker 2: his final exam yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you.

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Speaker 2: Jonesy sent him a text yesterday to say, good on

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Speaker 2: you make congratulations, you've done well, You've done all the work,

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Speaker 2: be safe at schoolies.

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Speaker 1: Did you have a text back now? Of course not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was quite emotional about it yesterday. Of course, Harley

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Speaker 1: said to me that I get emotional on garbage night.

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Speaker 2: You do, but still I can't believe that's going all

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Speaker 2: my stuff.

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Speaker 1: It was an emotional day in that the build up,

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Speaker 1: and if you're an HSC parent this year, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you feel the same. This has been such a hard

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Speaker 1: year and to have his schooling finish. He had his

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Speaker 1: last exam, he went straight from school to the airport

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Speaker 1: to go to bar and Bay for schoolies. And I

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Speaker 1: spoke to him and he sounded like the old Jack

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Speaker 1: because for the last few weeks, the stress of all

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Speaker 1: of this, you know, during all of lockdown, all of that.

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Speaker 1: The resilience of these kids is remarkable. And so we

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Speaker 1: poured a glass of Charlie and I and we clinked

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Speaker 1: a glass and I had a bit of a weep.

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Speaker 1: Of course, did we clink a glass to the fact

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Speaker 1: that aren't we lucky to be his parents? But we

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Speaker 1: But that's an end of an era. We finished our

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Speaker 1: school years as we finished our parenting as school parents.

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Speaker 1: But this year in particular was so tough. This HSC

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Speaker 1: build up so tough, and off they go to find

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Speaker 1: and you know in the week that we hear about

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Speaker 1: new variants, blah blah blah, off to their new lives,

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Speaker 1: whatever they will be. But I did think what I'd

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Speaker 1: give to bottle how he would be feeling at the

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Speaker 1: end of his exam he turned eighteen and missed all

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Speaker 1: the eighteenth birthdays. He'll be he was having a beer

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Speaker 1: at the airport before flying. I thought, wouldn't you love

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Speaker 1: to bottle what they're feeling and not this morning, but

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Speaker 1: last night, last night's feeling. But look at you.

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Speaker 2: When we started doing this show back in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and five, they were little munchkins, you boys. There were

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Speaker 2: two little munchkins that are love of five and four

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Speaker 2: four and.

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Speaker 1: Weed Jack was who I think.

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Speaker 2: We did our radio show from your house for Lilliam's

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Speaker 2: first day of school and Jack's first day of school.

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Speaker 2: So now at the end of it. You have two

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Speaker 2: fine young men who have entered the world and they're lovely.

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Speaker 2: And I always think, I don't think I say this

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Speaker 2: to you enough. You are such a great mother, brend No,

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Speaker 2: we don't go the blob on this, no, but really

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Speaker 2: you are yourself. You're always there for them, you're not

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Speaker 2: critical of them, you're always supportive, you say all the

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Speaker 2: right things. But you're not one of those parents that

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Speaker 2: spoils their kids. You don't have douchebag sons. They're lovely boys.

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Speaker 1: What a nice thing to say. Thank you. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I feel we've been very lucky as parents to have

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Speaker 1: two great kids. And I just it really hit me

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Speaker 1: yesterday that the end of an era and who would

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Speaker 1: have pictured it being like this, sitting in HSC in

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Speaker 1: a mask and one you know, it was as you know,

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Speaker 1: what a strange couple of years it's been. And thank

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Speaker 1: you for your kind words. But it's funny because I

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Speaker 1: put a thing up on Instagram with a photo of

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Speaker 1: him as a baby and a photo the two glasses

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Speaker 1: next to Jack's Matt's books, and I made a mistake

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Speaker 1: and put two photos of that up and Jack wasn't

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Speaker 1: in the house, and he couldn't edit.

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Speaker 2: It, he couldn't fix her.

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Speaker 1: So that's the future as well.

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Speaker 2: There's your future.

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Speaker 1: Apologies for future instant mistakes, but thank you for your

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Speaker 1: nice It's okay, deep breath, it's you know what a

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Speaker 1: strange time for our lives too, Harley and I. Jack

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Speaker 1: wants to study into State next year and Liam's at

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Speaker 1: Newcastle UNI. What will it mean? I don't know how

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Speaker 1: I'll be next year, you know, no kids living at home?

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Speaker 1: Strange times. That'd have to take in.

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Speaker 2: A border or put a treadmill in the room.

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Speaker 1: Harley said, why don't we do it while Jack's at school?

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Speaker 1: Is remake his room? We're too lazy to even be.

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Speaker 2: Bothered treadmill or a train set or a drum kit.

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Speaker 1: Finally, get a drum kit for me. Your parents put

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Speaker 1: in a pool after you'd left home.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much, that's what they do. So as I

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Speaker 2: left home, turned the house turned into disney Land, came back.

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Speaker 2: Where's my room? You left us? Rush Moon?

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Speaker 1: He's so nice? Jonesy and Amanda's Jamation