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Speaker 1: Jum mission with Jonesy and Amanda. So yesterday Valentine's Day

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Harley and I fishly became empty nesters.

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Speaker 1: So Jack started UNI yesterday. He's going to Sydney UNI,

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Speaker 1: but he's living on campus. He is so ready to

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Speaker 1: spread his wings with Liam. Liam was more of a homebody,

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Speaker 1: but he wanted to study away from home as well.

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Speaker 1: He's at Newcastle UNI. But Jack is a very social

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Speaker 1: animal and is just ready for all the adventure. As

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Speaker 1: you know, Jones you, I've spoken a lot about this

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Speaker 1: for you in the last couple of weeks. He's getting

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Speaker 1: him organized to get there has taken some of the

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Speaker 1: emotion out of it. He's a really creative, big picture guy.

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Speaker 1: The small details kind of elude him, so filling in

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Speaker 1: the forms getting himself organized. In the end, we had

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Speaker 1: to look at forms that the mother of another boy

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Speaker 1: who's going had sent us. Jacket received but I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you read them, And I'm saying, do you

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Speaker 1: know you need this and this?

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Speaker 2: You'll get on to it.

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Speaker 1: So yesterday I dropped him off. We had to be

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Speaker 1: there at one o'clock, like at ten o'clock when I

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Speaker 1: got home. Here so he's just getting out of bed.

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Speaker 1: He had impact, so it's been it's been a journey

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Speaker 1: to get him organized and get him ready. But so

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Speaker 1: yesterday when we walked in and there was there were

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Speaker 1: all these other boys and their parents and they're carrying luggage,

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Speaker 1: they're carrying Douner's this wave of young men.

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Speaker 2: Oh bugger, here's the emotion.

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Speaker 3: I'm keeping together. You're doing very well, know.

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Speaker 2: But this is the stuff and it's all about to

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Speaker 2: start for him. And I had a real burst off

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Speaker 2: when you went to bathforston me.

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Speaker 1: But also just I'm so excited for him. It's all

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Speaker 1: ahead of him, the adventure and looking around him, all

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Speaker 1: these young men. They will be his best friends.

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Speaker 2: For his whole life. He doesn't even know it yet.

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Speaker 1: There were kids from New Zealand and Canada and England

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Speaker 1: and all across Australia and China. And it'll be amazing.

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Speaker 1: And and and I went home. I thought, when will

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Speaker 1: this hit me? And I think I'll notice on the weekends.

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Speaker 2: Of course I'm picking up there's no towels to pick

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Speaker 2: up from the floor. That's how I've noticed him lately.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and for dinner, I'll probably not okay, but just

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Speaker 1: as a presence in the house, making a coffee, leaving

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Speaker 1: his stuff in the laundry, shoe and.

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Speaker 2: All that kind of stuff. And I tell myselfie's just

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Speaker 2: down the road. But it's a universal way as it

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Speaker 2: should be. It should be him being away from us.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting.

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Speaker 1: A friend of mine whose son goes to UNI with

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Speaker 1: liamhe yeah, thank you. She has said none of this

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Speaker 1: hit her until he left UNI and went lived in

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Speaker 1: a flat off campus. And she said when he was

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Speaker 1: at UNI, even though it's away from home, she could

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Speaker 1: tell herself he's just at UNI. But suddenly when he

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Speaker 1: became a flat mate, she just lost it. It's funny

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Speaker 1: where this stuff hits you. And so his room looks

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Speaker 1: so empty. This morning I went by this and looked

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Speaker 1: in and it's clean, and it's empty, and all the

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Speaker 1: things that I've railed against the stuff I'll miss.

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Speaker 2: But you know what, last night I had to.

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Speaker 1: Shower and I watched TV with Harley, and I had

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Speaker 1: a T shirt without a bra on it.

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Speaker 2: I thought, this is my new.

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Speaker 3: Life, Jack saying, I'm glad.

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Speaker 2: That's right. That's why you know now he's gone, don't

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Speaker 2: at home.

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Speaker 3: That's a hell of a thing, you know, because I've

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Speaker 3: known you for so long, and I knew you before

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Speaker 3: you had kids, and I went through the whole thing

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Speaker 3: when it looked like you weren't going to have kids.

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Speaker 3: And then to those both those boys we've been doing

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Speaker 3: the show and they were little guys and Jacket, Jacket

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Speaker 3: come over because he's similar age to my youngest John.

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Speaker 3: They came over for a little sleep.

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Speaker 1: Oh they were their birthday parties together, go bowling, Allie.

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Speaker 1: And why did Jack's first day of school from home?

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Speaker 1: Remember we broadcast from my house.

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Speaker 2: So it is it's it just.

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Speaker 3: It feels like we've stood still doing the show and

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Speaker 3: everything's just moved around us.

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Speaker 1: As it should be, as it is, all as it

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Speaker 1: should be, and I'm very grateful, but this is the journey.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, interesting is I hadn't felt it until I

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Speaker 2: started saying, you're.

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Speaker 3: Getting it out of his system. So we are you

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Speaker 3: going to put in that room, model train or a gym?

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Speaker 1: Actually, when Liam went to UNI, he said that COVID

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Speaker 1: hit like a month later, and all I had to

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Speaker 1: go home and one of the girls her parents had

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Speaker 1: turned it into a gym.

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Speaker 3: Already, you're sleeping on a treadmill.

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Speaker 2: Honey, we weren't expecting you back so soon.

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Speaker 3: He's going to be great.

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Speaker 2: He's going to love it.

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Speaker 3: And I envy the hell out of him because now

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Speaker 3: know what's so that would be so cool.

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Speaker 2: I envy him too. It's so good.

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Speaker 3: And you look back to your time. When I was young,

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Speaker 3: I remember leaving home and heading down the snow and

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Speaker 3: just you know, driving my dad's old van with a

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Speaker 3: drum kit and just listening to cold chisel and heading

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Speaker 3: down the snow to work. And you know where I

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Speaker 3: would go on to meet my wife.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, But isn't it funny that I can look at

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Speaker 1: Jack yesterday and I remember how wonderful it was when

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Speaker 1: I did it. But you look back without the fear

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Speaker 1: at the time. It's terrifying, but you look back on

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Speaker 1: and just remember how amazing it was.

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Speaker 2: You make me miss. I know you want to go

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Speaker 2: back to the snow and drive that bag.

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Speaker 3: I want to get down the snow again. I love

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Speaker 3: that place.

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Speaker 2: I want to take my bra off. We've all got

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Speaker 2: our things.

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Speaker 3: It's a quarter past eight. Thanks for that.

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Speaker 2: They know.

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Speaker 3: It's good to hear that.

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Speaker 1: And also, you know what I looked at the schedule

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Speaker 1: for their fresh As Week, as they call it.

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Speaker 2: They've got them up at seven o'clock every day.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't that just mean drinking?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it is. Maybe

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Speaker 2: it is. Maybe you said to vomit up a milkshake

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Speaker 2: this morning. I don't know. Maybe the less you know

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Speaker 2: about that the best, I think so. Jonesy and Amanda's