1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the Morning. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 2: Sam, Well, how about this story? 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 3: A woman has shared on Reddit that she had a 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 3: baby and her husband didn't show up until an hour 5 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 3: after she'd given birth. She's twenty five, he's twenty nine. 6 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 3: It's his alibi that really threw her. I asked why 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 3: he took so long to get there. He said he 8 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 3: had to help his friend clean the garage. Clean his 9 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 3: friend's garage, and he planned to be here after it 10 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 3: was done. She said, I was furious at him for 11 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 3: prioritizing someone else's clean garage over me going into labor. 12 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:32,639 Speaker 3: He said he didn't see it as a big deal. 13 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 3: He didn't feel he had to be there. 14 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 2: Ooh, missing the birth. 15 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 3: I mean in my dad's era when I was born, 16 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 3: men weren't allowed anywhere near there. 17 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 4: Now you're given a pack of cigarettes and told to 18 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 4: wade out in the waiting room. 19 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, well that was conception as well, smoked or not. 20 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 3: But these days there's a lot of pressure on the 21 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 3: guys and if you're not there, And then these days 22 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 3: of mobile phone contact, he can't say I didn't have 23 00:00:58,800 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 3: my phone with me. 24 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 2: Sorry, I didn't know. 25 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 3: I was out chopping trees for six days I didn't know. 26 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 2: Those excuses don't wash anymore. 27 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, but there'd be a lot of guys that would 28 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 4: get a lot of grief for missing out on their partners. 29 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 3: Of course, it's a hell of a thing to go through. 30 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 3: And if you have to go through that without your 31 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 3: partner there, without them to witness what you're going through, 32 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 3: it's expected that you're both there now. 33 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 4: Because you might have a good reason, like a really 34 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 4: good reason. 35 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 5: That's what. 36 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 2: Did you have to be at the tram Museum. 37 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 4: Might have been at the tram museum, might have been 38 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 4: doing something else. I don't know, but you might have 39 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,119 Speaker 4: a good reason not to be at the birth. 40 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 3: Well, they'd be very that's the kind of thing your 41 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 3: partner would never forget. The woman giving birth would find 42 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 3: it very hard to forgive that you forgot to be there. 43 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 3: You're cleaning out someone's garage, you didn't have your phone, 44 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 3: blah blah blah. 45 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 2: So let's discuss that this morning. We've called it this 46 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 2: five that month, it's the birth edition. Okay, did you 47 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 2: miss it? Did your and miss? 48 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 4: And maybe by talking to us on the radio, we 49 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 4: can judge whether or not you've got a reasonable excuse. 50 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 2: Well, and well, let's see what's gone on. Give us 51 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 2: a call. 52 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 4: Robin of Bronte joins us. 53 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: Hello Robin, Hello JONESI and Amanda, how are you very well? 54 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 2: Did your partner miss the birth? 55 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: He missed it by two days? Why he was out windsurfing? 56 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 2: Whoa talk us through how this went down? 57 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: But it didn't go down very well at all. I 58 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: was assisted in the birth by a very good friend, 59 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: a female friend. And he turned up two days later. 60 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 2: Did he know the birth was imminent? 61 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. He'd driven me to the hospital the 62 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: night before, two days before. Yep. And so when he 63 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: turned up two days later, I said, where were you? 64 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: He said, I've been out windsurfing. 65 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 2: I can't get my hair out of. 66 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,959 Speaker 4: And get caught in a storm. Was he blown off 67 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 4: to a remote island or something? Perhaps? 68 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: I think he was windsurfing with another woman. 69 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 2: Why are you still together, Robin? 70 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: No? Thank god? 71 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 2: Did this ever resolve in your marriage? 72 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 5: No? 73 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,119 Speaker 1: I never got a good explanation. 74 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: So he drops you. 75 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 3: At the hospital and takes off. That's that's horror. Number 76 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 3: one turns. 77 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 2: Up like three days later, two days later, two days 78 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 2: Come on, guy, he. 79 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 3: Knew you were about to have a baby because he 80 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 3: dropped you at the hospital. 81 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 2: I can't get over it. 82 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: I can't get over it either, But that so happened. 83 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 2: How many years ago was that, Robin? 84 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: Thirty four years ago? 85 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 4: Jeeps? 86 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 3: Wow, Well in those days though, were guys encouraged to 87 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 3: be in the birthing area as. 88 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: It worked as much as I am now, but. 89 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 2: To you, it was still a big deal that he 90 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 2: wasn't there. 91 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: Of course. Yeah, that's a hula for twenty one hours, 92 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: you poor thing. 93 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 2: Oh wow. 94 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: And then I had to have a cesaian. 95 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 4: So he went through all the labor and then that's 96 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 4: terrible and he wincaus any consolation, windsurfing is very hard, 97 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 4: hard on your body. 98 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 3: It can be very hard, Robin, thank you, cripes, cripes indeed, Helen, Hello, Hi, my. 99 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 6: Husband, Nit well f husband, the birth of our last child. 100 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 6: But unfortunately I was stty inconsiderate and I went into 101 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 6: the late at the end of the month. 102 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 2: Bad me. 103 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 6: And he works in finance, which is a very busy time. 104 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 6: So he came into the labor ward but he was 105 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 6: sitting to the side doing his zinters and I was 106 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 6: making too much noise. He couldn't concentrate on his figures. 107 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 6: So he left and went back to work where he 108 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 6: could focus and concentrate, And about five hours later I 109 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 6: delivered a four kilo wonder. 110 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,280 Speaker 2: And how long after that did he reappear? 111 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 6: Was that the next day? 112 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 2: That's a big head. He missed all of that, tell. 113 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: Me about it. 114 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 2: He missed all of that and came to the hospital 115 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 2: the next day. 116 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 6: Well, because after work you had to go have a 117 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 6: few drinking poos with his mates. 118 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, because that was when the baby's head. That's 119 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 4: what you've got to do. 120 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 6: You've got to get your priorities right. 121 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're going to do. 122 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 2: You're making too much noise to go to the office. 123 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,479 Speaker 4: Poor guy, hard days work. 124 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 3: We know the whole wedding, the baby's head thing. He's 125 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 3: supposed to have seen your baby first, aren't you. 126 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, but that kid's forty one sentiment of circumference. 127 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 5: Head. 128 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:32,799 Speaker 4: That's a lot of head wetting right there. 129 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 2: Wow, a lot of bed wedding too. Sharon's in Glenmore Park, Holo, Sharon. 130 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 5: Hello, Lovely Jones in a mendo. 131 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 2: Hello, have you. 132 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 3: Sharon missed it by that much? Did he miss the birth? 133 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 2: What happened? 134 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 5: Yes, it was my cousin. They already had two boys, 135 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 5: and she was she was actually over due, but the 136 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 5: boys have football, so he took them to football and said, yes, 137 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 5: I'll have my phone. Have my phone. For whatever reason, 138 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 5: the rest got injured. My cousin filled in his ref 139 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 5: therefore missed the important call for the birth of their 140 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 5: third child, which was they knew was going to be 141 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 5: a girl. So he not only arrived at the hospital 142 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 5: with the two boys, missing the birth in trouble. He 143 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 5: then took it upon himself to think, well, because my 144 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 5: cousin's wife always loved the name Shane, so he took 145 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 5: it upon himself, thinking, yep, I'll surprise her. I'll fill 146 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:33,239 Speaker 5: out all the paperwork. He stuffed that up. And although 147 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 5: we all call her Shanee on her birth certificate, she's Sheila. 148 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 4: How much to get you. 149 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 5: Well, uch, They are still happily married. She is sixteen, 150 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 5: and when she turns eighteen he has to take her 151 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 5: on whatever trip she wants to do after graduating from 152 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 5: school and change her name to Shane. 153 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 2: Ah, that's great, that is great. Sharon. Also this out, 154 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 2: I'll make everything all right. 155 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 3: That's such a bloke thing. I had to take over 156 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 3: as the ref. Sorry, everybody, that's what men do. 157 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 4: PAMs with us. Hello, Pam, go morning. 158 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 3: How are you very well missed it by that much? 159 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 3: Was this your husband who missed the birth? 160 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 7: No, it's actually my dad. So my mom went into 161 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 7: labor on Christmas night. So Daddy has had a few bees, 162 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 7: as everyone does. So Mom went into labor. The only 163 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 7: vehicle was the old work truck. Dad in stubbies and 164 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 7: sols drop Mum at the hospital and the nurse told 165 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 7: him to, you know, bugger off, because you know, you 166 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 7: had a few. 167 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 6: Beers and look what you're dressed in. 168 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 7: And so he didn't go back for three days. So 169 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure he was met. The baby said for 170 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 7: three days, and many did arrive at the hospital. My 171 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 7: mom was called in the Sharon. 172 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: She's named me. 173 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 7: Sharon, and Dad did not go to. 174 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: Call in the sheriff. 175 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 7: Her name is going to be Pamela. So thank god 176 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 7: I'm not a Shad and I'm Tamla. 177 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 2: Wow, so three days you can't come. 178 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 3: You think you'd go home, drink a thousand coffees, put 179 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 3: on some different clothes and come back in. 180 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 4: But three later, men, when the women, when the woman 181 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 4: has the baby, this is what happens with men. Their 182 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 4: brain goes out of their head because what happens other 183 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 4: people say, well, look, you go and do something else, 184 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,559 Speaker 4: but they don't actually give any return information, so they'll say, 185 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,559 Speaker 4: you go and do something three days, yeah, and until 186 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 4: someone else tells you otherwise. I'm just giving you a 187 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 4: bit of an explanation of what happens. 188 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 3: There, because the woman's completely compassed and is saying I'm 189 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,559 Speaker 3: in control. No, it's not true that being ironic. This 190 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 3: is hard yards for the woman. How hard is it 191 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 3: for the guy to remember to go back to the hospital. 192 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 2: This is what happens what you do, no excuse. Luckily 193 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 2: you're not a shazzer, as you say Jones and Amanda 194 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 2: in the morning