WEBVTT - 🍽️ Do You Still Use Your Dining Table?

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<v Speaker 1>Gold, hello there. It's Jonesy Demander driving you home. Double

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<v Speaker 1>A Chattery, the podcast you do with your forensic psychologist

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<v Speaker 1>friend Anita McGregor, drops today. Something you were talking about,

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<v Speaker 1>the end of the dining table.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and not just the physical table, but the rituals

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<v Speaker 2>that go with having a family shared meal. It's hard

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<v Speaker 2>for some families. I absolutely get why the face of

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<v Speaker 2>the family is changing and so is the house. But

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<v Speaker 2>do you still sit down and have dinner at your table?

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<v Speaker 2>There are so many knock-on effects, mental health effects, better

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<v Speaker 2>academic outcomes for your kids, better dietary habits if you

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<v Speaker 2>all sit down and mindfully share that time together. But

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<v Speaker 2>it's not that easy in a modern life.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not that easy. And we all can't be like

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<v Speaker 1>Brad Pitt in Ocean's Eleven just standing up eating all

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<v Speaker 1>the time.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to be that. I like to sit

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<v Speaker 2>with some lumbar support, as you know, Brendan. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>like to eat on my lap. I like sitting at

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<v Speaker 2>a table.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't like food courts?

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<v Speaker 2>No, the seats are, I just don't feel comfortable.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't like sitting on a stool.

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<v Speaker 2>No, that's quite true. But we thought we'd put it

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<v Speaker 2>to you.

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<v Speaker 1>This is gemetic stuff. That's jam etiquette.

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<v Speaker 2>Sitting at the dining table to eat together. Is this

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<v Speaker 2>how it works in your house?

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<v Speaker 1>How does it work?

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<v Speaker 3>We've always done meals together. We wait till everyone's got

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<v Speaker 3>their meal to eat at restaurants. Dinner time is that

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<v Speaker 3>one time when we can all connect and model and

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<v Speaker 3>teach the kids about table manners.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, we have 11 kids and seven of them are

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<v Speaker 4>still at home. Four of them have moved out. But religiously,

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<v Speaker 4>every night, we set the table. The younger kids do

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<v Speaker 4>the placemats. Then some of the other kids do the cutlery.

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<v Speaker 4>And then we sit, regardless of what they're doing, gaming, whatever, homework,

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<v Speaker 4>everything's stopped. We sit as a family and eat dinner.

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<v Speaker 3>My kids are grown up now, but when they were younger,

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<v Speaker 3>we used to sit around the dinner table at least

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<v Speaker 3>three or four nights a week.

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<v Speaker 4>They'd come home from school. What did you do today? Nothing.

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<v Speaker 4>What did you learn?

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<v Speaker 1>Nothing.

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<v Speaker 3>Who did you play with?

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<v Speaker 4>Nobody.

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<v Speaker 1>But by the time dinner time came around, they were.

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<v Speaker 4>Actually ready to talk. They were ready to download about

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<v Speaker 4>their day. We sit down at the dinner table. I've

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<v Speaker 4>got three boys.

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<v Speaker 2>They're now in their 20s. The eldest one often brings

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<v Speaker 2>all his friends around on a Friday evening to sit around.

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<v Speaker 2>and have dinner with us because it's an odd thing

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<v Speaker 2>for them to do.

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<v Speaker 4>TV is off. If we're at the dinner table, no phones,

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<v Speaker 4>no magazines, no nothing. We go out to dinner to

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<v Speaker 4>a restaurant, no phones on the table. All the grandkids,

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<v Speaker 4>no phones. Simple rule. Oh, it's great.

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<v Speaker 3>I love the dining room table.

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<v Speaker 4>We sit down, we eat at the dining room table

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<v Speaker 4>every night.

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<v Speaker 3>We set the table, we prepare a meal and we

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<v Speaker 3>sit there and we converse.

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<v Speaker 4>I just love it.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a very nice ritual, isn't it?

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<v Speaker 1>Who's reading a magazine at the table?

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<v Speaker 2>You never know. What have you got there?

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<v Speaker 1>A new idea?

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe doing the crossword in the new idea. Excuse me.

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<v Speaker 1>Big and bouncy.

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<v Speaker 2>But it just shows you how important that table still

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<v Speaker 2>is to so many families.

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<v Speaker 1>True dat.

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<v Speaker 2>Righto, you two.

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<v Speaker 3>That's enough.

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