WEBVTT - Three Doting Dads feat. Larry Emdur 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:17.040 Welcome to three doting Dads. 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.439 I am Maddie Jay, I'm Ash, I'm Larry with a 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:21.279 sock on my mic. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.200 This is a podcast all about parenting. It's the good, 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:30.040 the bad, relatable and if you've come for any type 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.440 of advice, I'm going to be stop you right now. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:34.920 Although today might be different. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.559 And we have Larry, and we've been pitching learn from 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:38.839 Larry all week. 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:41.600 Each other, like do you know what learn from Larry? 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:42.280 That'd be great. 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.000 People have been going to be so confused. Ye, if 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:49.360 you're coming for advice, sit down, attention, no distractions. But Larry, 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.600 I'm going to pash your ego right now for a second. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.240 If I may, he's usually pashing mind, let me tighten 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:55.720 up my sock. 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:02.160 Look, when we think about dad who are successful, you 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.440 are at the top of that list. You've got a 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:06.679 beautiful wife that you were still madly in love with 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:12.280 as far as I'm concerned, see on social Instagram. Never lie, never, never, exactly. 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.120 You've got a very successful career right now, and more important, 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:16.919 when you say. 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:22.760 Right now always, it'll never end, it will never end. 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:27.039 And more importantly, you've got two beautiful children who not 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.959 only are very successful, but it seems like you're still 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.959 best friends with them. Yeah, what is the secret? 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:35.880 Oh? 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:37.080 Tell us everything? 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:38.759 You know what? 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.840 I don't know? And I get asked that a lot too, 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:43.959 And I feel very blessed and very lucky. I think 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.080 most dads would say that about their kids. But I 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.160 don't know. I've just written a book recently where I 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.920 tried to work that out and I couldn't work it out. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.160 It was nothing you always want. You want to be 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:55.760 a great dad, you want to be a great parent, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:57.320 you want to be a role model, you want to 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.480 be helpful for the kids. But there's nothing that I did. 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.120 I didn't set off down a path of being I 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:02.400 want to. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.440 Be great mate, going to be perfect, and it's just, 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:05.760 you know, it's just. 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.520 Worked out that one. I feel very lucky because I 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.600 know that's not everyone's story. I know that, but I 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.920 feel very lucky now that I'm best mates with my 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.200 son and best I was with my daughter yesterday and 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:16.720 they're older and they, you know, they've got every reason 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:17.160 to not want to. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.920 Hang out with the Yeah, because your kids are similar 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.919 age to me. Really right, I'm thirty two. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:24.080 I've had a sec to me. 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.720 Apparently that's young, but your son's thirty. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:30.400 Twenty nine, twenty nine, how would you do it? 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:31.040 Twenty four? 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.560 Okay, so your son's really close to my age, and 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.560 it's kind of like you're coming out the back end 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.520 of what we're just really embarking on. 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.359 Yeah, yeah, you've cross the finish line on that about 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.320 pretty much had to go into like a grandparenthood at 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.359 some stage in the next probably five to. 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.560 Ten years, right, And like for us, we've both got 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.680 a four year old, two year old really embarking on 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:56.320 that entry level. Yeah, sucked in, dad, Yeah, I was 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:57.760 going to invite you over to change and happy. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.040 Let's start right back at the very beginning, right before 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.960 you have kids. You're expecting kids. Sylvie is pregnant, and 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.720 I'm going to talk about this almost like it's in 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:10.919 like the Dark Ages, which I know it's not, but 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.400 back then it was very different from where we're at 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.760 right now. It's almost you know, I think back to 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.720 when Laura was pregnant and we had too much information 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.880 is every other website was podcast there was we were inundated, 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.400 And I'm going to blame that for the fact that 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.200 I didn't read any book or I went to one 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.760 birthday class. But what was it like for you when 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.640 you were expecting kids and how did you prepare? 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.800 Well, we had no electricity, so it was like you 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.360 had to light candles and no Netflix. There was no television. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:40.920 Look at they were very different times. We didn't have 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.200 the resources. I think you're exactly right, the answers to 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.360 all your questions on Siri now and on the phone 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.360 and oh and there wasn't that there. But you know, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.000 we had a great It wasn't that long ago, but 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.280 we had great support system, my mum and Sylvie's mum 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.680 and we lived actually in an apartment in Bondi on 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.240 the top floor. It was one hundred stairs and Sylvie 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.440 was seventh. Sylvie was seven months pregnant and broke a leg. 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.160 Oh so that was breaking leg running away from me. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.920 I think no, no, she fell over, fell over, broke 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.000 a leg. There's different traumas and different challenges right at 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.960 every different stage. But everything we needed to know was there. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.279 Did I go to the classes maybe once or twice, 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.240 but I was working very very hard hosting the prices, right, 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:23.760 I don't have time to go and sit in the 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.040 bean bag and watch those videos which I should have. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:28.760 Well, said, I went to two of them. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.839 There were eight hours long on a Saturday, the worst 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.279 two saturdays of my life. I'll never get that back. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.440 And I don't think I learned anything well that I 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:40.000 can remember. And like, yeah, like Matt was saying, there's 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.080 a very big technological difference between like when I was 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.279 born we could talk about because of similar age first 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.040 our kids now where we just. 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.280 Literally did a whole episode the other day on how YouTube. 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.400 Is the best parent because they, yeah, they pretty much 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.520 look after my kids. If I'm just like, here's my phone, kid, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.720 It's like back then, I don't know. I always it 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.920 rattles me how you did it and how much pay 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:01.760 you would have had to have Back then? 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:03.760 Was it something that came easily? 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.640 It was okay, you know, it wasn't about Joie was 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.560 actually sick when he was born. He had his sort 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.720 of an underdeveloped valve, and so it was indigestion, but 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.960 major indigestion every time he laid back even a little bit. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.440 So he for the first probably better part of a 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.520 year of his life, he never slept for more than 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:26.120 forty or fifteen minutes. Yea. So it was full on 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.240 and I was traveling I was in Melbourne every second 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.720 week for four days at a time doing Prices Right. 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.279 So poor Sylvie here brokenly with a child who was 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.720 not sleeping at all, and so I'd come home from 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.080 Melbourne after four or five days and find this wreck, 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.840 you know, not in Sylvie, but just in the situation. Yeah, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.160 it was horrible and I felt really bad. I'd open 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.520 the door, she hadn't slept for four days, should throw 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.520 gipe me go? It's yours, It's yours now. Yeah. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:51.640 Yeah, it was. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:56.120 Interesting the challenge in that from a relationship perspective of course, 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.560 and a parenting perspective, but you know, like all things 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.240 in that situational, most things in that situation, it turned 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:02.800 out okay. 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:03.680 Yeah, for sure. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.360 I think at that time too, you kind of like, well, 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.560 we'st We've got to get on with that because there's 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.120 not much we can do with the situation. 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.080 But also the pressure as well, like the Price is 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.480 Right was just huge. It was one of the biggest 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.560 shows in the history of TV in Australia. And what 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:19.840 were you at the time when you were hosting it, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:21.480 late twenties. 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.919 Yeah, I was late twenties. I mean, it was nothing 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:25.800 compared to what Sylvia was going through at home. 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:26.080 But it was fun. 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.919 I was going to work to hang on last No, no, no, no, no, 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.560 I don't hear this. Probably she will probably hear it. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:33.039 No. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.040 I was going to work in playing games and from 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.720 you know, a mother, a new mother's perspective, who wasn't 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.640 sleeping sitting at home. I'm in Melbourne. I'm surrounded by 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.400 girls in bikinis and launcher, you know, like you know, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:45.680 like it was, it was. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:46.599 It was interesting, you know. 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.680 I felt for Sylvia during that time. It was difficult 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.280 to go like that with no sleep and be stressed 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.040 and all the anxiety around that, and then see how 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.080 you sort of down there playing games and having fun. 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.159 Did you watch the show while you were down there? 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.040 And I don't. 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:06.480 Like she says no, but I feel like she's hidden 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.000 cameras around this place. She's Polish, so I think I 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:10.720 like to keep an eye on. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:12.040 Yeah. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:14.960 So when it came to the prices, right when you 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:19.240 were given that contract, how did that conversation happen with Sylvie? 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.800 Was it always a case of I finally been given 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.640 what I've always wanted. I'm going to take this, questions asked? 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:26.320 Or was there ever a case of maybe not doing 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:27.040 the prices right. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.640 No, No, there was never that because my life was TV. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.200 It's all I'd ever done. I couldn't do anything else, 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:33.480 you know, she said, you want to go away and 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.760 get a job closer to home as a surveyor or 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.160 an engineer as well. There's nothing else in my life 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.480 that I've ever done or I could do, So there's 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.040 never a question of that. But it's just I had 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.240 to take the show because it was a huge show. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.280 As you said, it was an enormous opportunity, and for 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.880 me to have a career in television or and entertainment 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.200 and to say no to that opportunity would have made 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.960 no sense at all. And it was a good thing. 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:57.720 It was good. 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.040 That money was good. It gave us good lifestyle. I 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.920 have some nice house, It gave us all the good things. 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.360 Have you a real platform too, Yeah, yeah. 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:07.200 It's set us up for life basically. But at the time, 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.520 you know, all of that whittles itself down to screaming 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.760 sick kid at home, you know. But I couldn't leave 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.600 the prices, right. I don't think she would have wanted 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.080 me to not work. I don't think she would have 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.280 wanted to be sitting around the house. Yeah, but yeah, 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:20.840 there was never. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.200 A take care of two kids then, yeah, exactly. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.280 But there was never a question of you know, that 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.000 was the culmination of everything I'd done for years and 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:28.840 years and years before. 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.000 And how long did you do prices right before? Because 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:33.960 your kids are what five years apart? 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.079 Yeah? So I did price for I think four or 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.400 five years in the first block. Then I had a 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.000 break for a while, and then went back and did 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.040 it for another three or four years, then had a 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:44.559 break for ten years, went back and did it for 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.839 another year or so. It's been on and off, So 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:48.800 people think it's been on for twenty I've been on 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.760 for twenty years because that run repeats like i'd finished. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.160 Rare looks really young. What's his secret? Yeah? 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.520 Those double breasted suits? Are they still live? So there 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.520 was this sort of perception that I was doing it 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.200 for ever and ever and ever, which was fine by 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:05.719 me as well. I mean, I'm very happy to be 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.079 that none as that guy. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.959 When you look back at those first few years being 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.599 very very difficult, was it always on the cards to 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.360 have too or did you guys come out of no no. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:21.760 In fact, no, no, no, no, no, no, Sylvie was 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.480 a flight a's in it and we were traveling all 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.000 over the place very cheaply or for free, and we 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.480 were love it, having this great lifestyle, right, and then 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.719 we decided, that's so bloody selfish. And we got to 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.480 a point where I think all our friends who had 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.480 had kids were having other kids, and we thought, of course, 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.560 you know, we've got to try try for another one, 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.480 another one. And we got a perfect little you know, 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:42.040 perfect little daughter. 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:42.400 Yeah. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.000 And did you find when you decided to have a 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.000 second child and you did have your second child, what 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.280 was your work life and family life then like different 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:50.800 to the first child? 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:51.199 You think? 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.719 So? I think we were probably better set up, like 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:55.800 we were in a comfortable so when Jie was born, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.520 we were in an apartment on the top floor with 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:58.160 no lift. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.079 You know this seven hundred. 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:06.559 And before we'll work or coals would delivered to your doors, right, 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.240 so I away. So we've got the baby and the 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:10.680 shopping and this and. 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.959 The you think, you know, there's that thing where it's 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.200 like you got to carry every grocery bag the one 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:20.280 tree like that we lack seven hundred steps to take sixteen. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:25.040 You leave one bag down there next time it's the frozen. 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.640 So I think the next time we had a house, 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.319 we were more comfortable financially, We're in a better place 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.719 career wise, I was in a better place. And I 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.720 think all those things play into, you know, a comfortable, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.400 I don't want to say happier house, but just a 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:42.439 more settled house. 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.120 Yeah, cool, do you think? 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.199 Yeah? And we we spoke about this the other day 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.920 as well, that you sort of subconsciously with your second 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.920 child remember things and how to do things, and all 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:53.480 of a sudden, you're way better than than you were 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.439 with your first trouble without even really thinking about it. 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.600 And I think, like, we set out to have two 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.760 on stage, then we had one, and I'm like, I'm 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:07.400 not doing that again. And then I had a second, 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.959 but so thankful had the second because I had a 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.440 girl second as well, and it was like, well, she's 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:13.000 my favorite. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.400 Yeah right, you know, it's just like but it's also 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:16.920 down to. 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.360 That I'm much more patient and much more calm. Why 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.800 It's like I definitely don't get upset with her as 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:23.559 much as I would have with my son, because the 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.880 first one, you're just you're learning how to do it 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:26.199 as you go. 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.560 Yeah. Yeah, So after the first one where you said 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:30.360 I'm never doing that again. Was it because it was 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:31.640 just so hard for you? 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:36.199 Yeah, it was, yeah, so hard, But it was sort 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.960 of like our story is sort of similar with Oscar 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.240 had silent reflux and forty minutes around the clocks and 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.360 really took a toll of my wife, which was the 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:48.160 hardest thing to watch that happen, and I think I 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.319 was just traumatized from that. I've never really spoken a 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.880 whole heap about it with Matt and Keish, but it 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.839 was sort of like, yeah, watching a shell of a 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.360 person that was my wife because of how hard that 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.640 time was, made me think I can't do that again. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.280 Not for me, but I can't watch this happen again. 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.040 To her, she was adamant, she wanted the second one, 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.520 and then so obviously so glad that we did in 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:11.880 the end. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.640 Also my thing for yourself, Larry, one of the hardest 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.040 things I'm assuming it was hard is the fact that 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.360 you're a new family. You know your wife is doing 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.640 her very best, but there's also that added pressure of 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.959 the fact that you know this notoriety right now is building. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.440 You're becoming such a familiar face. How did you guys juggle. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:35.160 That was it something that you guys found quite difficult? 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.680 Well, I mean there was nothing that we ever had 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.440 to really focus on. Like I think Sylvia came into 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.560 my life where I'd been hosting TV for a while, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.400 so we're getting a bit of that anyway, So it 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.080 was all right too, you know, and we lived at 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:50.000 Bondai and we walk up. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:51.520 And down in the front of WHO magazine. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.480 Yeah, I know your situation. You know that happens in 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.640 a short space of time, right, you go bang and 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.599 all of a sudden, you're famous guy. But for me 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.840 back then, it was this slow crawl up and then 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.240 you get you're kind of you're kind of getting used 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.040 to it. Social media wasn't around, so it was really 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.319 just that face to face walking along Bondi Beach and 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:09.719 people saying nice things to you. 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.240 But how did the kids react when they're a little 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.000 bit older and you know, if you guys would go 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.160 out because I remember seeing you when I was younger 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.200 at Perisher and I remember thinking to myself, holy shit, 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:22.599 it's Larry, And you know, I was like, do I 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.400 go up, do I say anything? But obviously so many 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:26.839 people will come up to you and speak to you 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:28.280 your kids, like. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.079 Dag, what is going on? 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:35.720 Sometimes sometimes it's okay and then sometimes it's less okay. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:37.040 When is it not okay? 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.600 If you're having sort of a private ish moment, it's 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:42.200 not okay. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.520 You know, like if you're trying to put the kid 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.120 in the back of the car and there's kicking a. 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:50.640 Screen, there's that they're sitting down at a nice restaurant 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.920 with Sylvie. That might not be okay. But now with 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.400 social media, everyone just wants you all the time, you know, 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:57.080 it wants a bit of that. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:57.719 All of the time. 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.920 There's no boundaries now, I find then you get the 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.240 strange people come out hiding their phone, going you know, 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:08.560 like trying to sneak just say hi. It's a very 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:09.280 strange world. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.240 I think like a lot of people can't pick up 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.240 on like you were saying, like you know, a personal moment. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.200 A lot of people can't pick up on that personal 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.559 moment that you're having with your family to wait to 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.000 go okay, well there now they're walking back down you know, 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.040 Bondo Beach. Maybe now I can say hi, Larry, Yeah, yeah, 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.120 I loved you on the prizes right, are you still 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:26.440 doing it? 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.560 Or come on down. 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.120 So I was sitting yesterday in a coffee shop in 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.440 Crown Street in Sydney with my daughter and was a 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.360 lovely day. We chose to sit outside. We only had 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:38.560 she had time for a coffee on a work break, 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.640 and we sat there and three four people stopped and 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.000 said start. I mean I should have sat on the street, 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.320 you know, for that I wanted that time with her. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.920 It's funny because one person stops, and then if someone 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.560 stopping and take yourself, you know, and then the next 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.200 person goes, oh's what's happening over? 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:54.600 It starts this. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.480 Thing I created a So maybe you know, I should 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.640 have gone sit with tea for twenty minutes half an hour. 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.280 Maybe we don't sit on the street on a nice day. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.200 And most people are nice because the shows I've been 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.360 involved in Price is Right and Chase the Morning Show, 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.840 they're nice show so they're not a villain. So people 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.280 are just saying nice things. A guy the other day 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.600 walk past and goes, oh, you're a pisser, Carl, and 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.720 I'm like, okay, you. 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:23.800 A compliment. 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.720 I'm Eddie, I'm not I'm coffee. 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:28.040 Okay. 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:31.960 Did you ever have to have the conversation with your 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:33.080 kids and you know it's out. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:34.080 Yeah, there's been things. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:35.400 Yes, I'm a fucking big deal. 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.040 Maddy's just gearing up because he's going to have to 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:39.280 have that. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:43.120 It's a thing. No, you know, it's been part of 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.720 their lives forever too, and it's okay, Like it's not bad, 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.200 and it's it's got me a place and a car, 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.560 and it's got you right here and here I am, here, 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.160 I am so you know, we live with it and 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.880 it's nice. An old TV executive one said to me, 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.600 if you're on TV and people aren't wreckinging you, that's 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.680 when you've got a problem, not when they are recognize 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.680 you when they aren't. So okay, that's good. 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.640 When you think back now all of those years being 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.000 a dad, what do you think is the hardest part. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:14.720 Stumped him? Got him? 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.920 No, I think I think it's in yourself. I think 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.560 it's in yourself thinking am I doing this right? 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:22.360 Yeah? 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:26.000 And constantly challenging so like what is right? Yeah, that's right? 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:30.120 Is that thought process one that's just reoccurring every single year? 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:31.880 Or like, you know, are you now at the point 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.840 where you're like, do you know what I've done? A 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:35.240 good job? 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.840 I can tell you both happily, it just goes from 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.640 one chapter to the next. So Tea is now engaged, 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.360 so it's totally consumed with the wedding. It eyes on 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.520 well on his career path. So we're talking about that 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.160 all the time. We've got our family dinner tonight, which 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.680 I love, and it's all about hearing from them, but 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.800 hearing them articulate things and face their challenges and get 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.960 better at things. That's you know, that's a beautiful thing 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.520 as well. But they're going through they have issues as 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.120 well all the time still, But luckily and with Sylvia 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.040 and I feel very grateful for this. They still come 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:06.840 to us for that, They lean on us. We're still 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:07.480