Speaker 1: Ash. It's not often that we can say that the
Speaker 1: guest who's going to jump on this podcast is one
Speaker 1: that you've had sex with. Oh look at Rosy. Your
Speaker 1: cheeks are going you have flustered.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I do not wish to talk about it. Look,
Speaker 2: I'm happy she's here. Let's be honest. We are a
Speaker 2: little worried.
Speaker 1: We are, of course talking about April, who is your
Speaker 1: beloved wife.
Speaker 2: I thought we were talking about your um.
Speaker 1: Oh c hey, hey, sorry, sorry, sorry, Let's not go there.
Speaker 1: April is going to dish all the dirt on her
Speaker 1: husband God the co host of this podcast, Two Doting Dads.
Speaker 1: His name is Ash Wicks. Ash, you worried about what
Speaker 1: the listeners are going to find out today?
Speaker 2: Not at all. No, A little bit worried, tiny bit.
Speaker 2: But we'll get through. I'm sure we'll get through.
Speaker 1: She has been one of the most requested guests that
Speaker 1: we've ever had, and it's taken a very long time,
Speaker 1: lots of convincing that this is a good idea. All right,
Speaker 1: as she is excited, let's get into it.
Speaker 2: Stop touching my knee.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to two doting dads and one doting mum.
Speaker 1: I am Mattie J.
Speaker 2: I'm ash and April she is everyone much anticipated. I
Speaker 2: think we've teased it the most.
Speaker 1: But this is a podcast all about parenting.
Speaker 2: It's the good, the bad, and the relatable.
Speaker 1: And April, I dare say you have a lot of
Speaker 1: advice to give.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like you have wisdom of bursting out of
Speaker 1: your seams.
Speaker 4: More so than Ashton. Probably that's about right.
Speaker 1: Can I ask we were meant to record this last
Speaker 1: week and you had a tooth or teeth removed? Did
Speaker 1: that actually happen? I wasn't sure if that was made up.
Speaker 1: They're all there, did you I.
Speaker 4: Had some dental work, yeah, and so I decided to
Speaker 4: postpone see the.
Speaker 2: Mouth mechanic and waste all that money down there, Okay.
Speaker 1: Because I was like, maybe maybe this will never happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, she played hard to get for a little while.
Speaker 4: I was I was going to cancel this morning.
Speaker 1: To be honest, I was expecting when I came in
Speaker 1: the front door, I didn't think you'd be upstairs. I
Speaker 1: thought you'd be like running errands. But it's great to.
Speaker 2: Have you heard.
Speaker 3: Have you?
Speaker 1: Finally, I do want to say we don't have many listeners.
Speaker 2: Not many.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this to make but they were all
Speaker 1: very excited on Facebook, on Instagram, the Facebook man, on
Speaker 1: the Facebook. Everybody was very keen to hear your voice.
Speaker 4: That's reassuring, I hope.
Speaker 1: One of them. The most common questions we had was
Speaker 1: the story of how you and ash Met. Can you
Speaker 1: recall the day, yeah, at.
Speaker 2: The time, exact moment.
Speaker 1: How did you two come together?
Speaker 4: So our stories may vary, but my story goes, well,
Speaker 4: we did know each other at the age of like
Speaker 4: fourteen through mutual friends from high school.
Speaker 2: April went out with one of my friends in high school.
Speaker 4: That's not really how we met, Like, no, no, we
Speaker 4: just knew each other.
Speaker 1: And then was what was your opinion of ash or
Speaker 1: was he just kind of someone you knew a little bit?
Speaker 1: Are we like, Oh, he's quite nice, he's fun.
Speaker 4: I didn't really know him that well. I just knew
Speaker 4: who is, what his name was, and who he was
Speaker 4: and whatnot. There was no reputation, no reputation. No, I
Speaker 4: think he was fourteen, so he was just another boy, just.
Speaker 2: Another set of legs.
Speaker 1: And so how long was it before you guys introduced romantically?
Speaker 4: So I think you moved down in like you moved
Speaker 4: away and then you moved back down to Sydney when
Speaker 4: you're twenty. And then we ran into each other at
Speaker 4: the pub Mona pub, No, I want to say. It
Speaker 4: was a Saturday and I was doing my usual rounds
Speaker 4: as you do when you're twenty, doing a round of
Speaker 4: the pub, and I ran into you and you stopped
Speaker 4: me in my tracks and you go like we're just
Speaker 4: sweachit chat, basic chit chat. How are you going? And
Speaker 4: then I was like, okay, I'll keep going, Like you know,
Speaker 4: I just wanted to keep going. Lap got to finish
Speaker 4: my lap like you know, single.
Speaker 2: Girl paps Mayonni's Manies exactly.
Speaker 4: And you're like, oh, just one dance because it was
Speaker 4: right next to the dance well, and I was like,
Speaker 4: oh look look I'm just on a mission and I
Speaker 4: just want to keep going.
Speaker 1: Can I say you have dance experience?
Speaker 4: Yes, you're a good dance How did you know?
Speaker 1: I remember seeing a video of you we were on
Speaker 1: the cruise and I was like, wow, April can really move.
Speaker 4: I was one of the dancers.
Speaker 1: It's a bold moves, A bold guy. Like does dance
Speaker 1: rank highly? Then you like I would always want to
Speaker 1: be with someone who's a dancer. Totally, totally.
Speaker 4: I did love a dance or but yeah, so I
Speaker 4: said on just I'll just dom around and then you're
Speaker 4: like one dance and literally I was like, okay, one dance.
Speaker 4: You know, he's pretty persuasive.
Speaker 2: Guy is going to be a long episode.
Speaker 4: And we just had a dance and I think we
Speaker 4: literally spent the rest of the night together.
Speaker 1: Was he a good dancer?
Speaker 4: I can remember his style of dance. You have to
Speaker 4: remind me what it's called. But I remember you tried
Speaker 4: to show off with you like, was it like a
Speaker 4: a crib walk or something.
Speaker 2: I regret this. It was a shuffle a.
Speaker 4: Shuffle and I don't know. I thought it was all
Speaker 4: right and yeah, and then you did like we just
Speaker 4: hung out the rest of the night and you're making
Speaker 4: me laugh and then yeah, next thing you know, we're
Speaker 4: going on some dates.
Speaker 1: I have seen some photos of the two of you
Speaker 1: when you were a little bit younger from Ash's Facebook
Speaker 1: you the two of you very attractive couple. You still are.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: I'm getting lost of words to you two are very spicy.
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 1: You're very attractive?
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, you would have been like the couple. No,
Speaker 2: definitely not.
Speaker 4: I laugh about it now. But the thing I think
Speaker 4: that I was attracted to you were like your whole
Speaker 4: two tattoos that you at the time, and.
Speaker 2: I was like, that's hot, and they're like the worst
Speaker 2: tattoos I have, yeah, under my arm and under that
Speaker 2: they're like one of them was done by a tattoo
Speaker 2: artist that I was pissed and it was like, so
Speaker 2: it's so bad, and the other one was just like
Speaker 2: a dumb seventeen year old tatoo.
Speaker 1: Did you show with the tattoos that night?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just walked around these.
Speaker 4: By the way, he was skinnier than me as well.
Speaker 4: It was tiny.
Speaker 2: I was so small.
Speaker 1: The photos of you when you were younger, you're a
Speaker 1: bit of a trim young lad.
Speaker 2: Oh now what am I fat? Dad?
Speaker 1: Very clean cut?
Speaker 2: You're allowed ten kilos for every kid you have.
Speaker 1: You didn't have the mustache. No, did that version of
Speaker 1: events match what happened from you?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah, that was pretty bang on. I think I
Speaker 2: tried really hard to go home with her. She said, no,
Speaker 2: kick me off the bus.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did catch a bus home, got a bus home.
Speaker 2: Well, young I was poor, and then I spent weeks
Speaker 2: weeks courting, courting weeks to the point where it was
Speaker 2: a joke between her and her friends. So I was
Speaker 2: a joke really.
Speaker 1: Because you were you were like playing hard to get.
Speaker 4: Or he was very keen. And I remember joking like
Speaker 4: because he sent like, not millions, but he said plenty
Speaker 4: of messages throughout the day. And at that time I
Speaker 4: had a job where my phone was locked away in
Speaker 4: a locker and you'd send like a couple of messages
Speaker 4: like just like, how's your day, but then another one
Speaker 4: would come.
Speaker 1: Through one You're going back to back to back.
Speaker 4: Back to back to back.
Speaker 2: In those days. Yeah, I'd never do that now.
Speaker 4: And I joked to one of my friends at the
Speaker 4: time and I was like, oh my god, this guy's
Speaker 4: so keen. Imagine if I end up marrying him.
Speaker 2: There you go, guys persistence.
Speaker 1: Do you remember after you guys met at the pub,
Speaker 1: like what your first date was? Yes, where did you go?
Speaker 4: So you'd been out like that whole day, so I
Speaker 4: think you'd been drinking as well, so you were like
Speaker 4: it does not sound like that. You were like, Oh,
Speaker 4: we should go out for dinner, but I think you
Speaker 4: need to can you pick me up?
Speaker 2: WHOA. I was out during the day, but I had
Speaker 2: tried to see April at other occasions but she was
Speaker 2: playing hard to get. And then the one occasion I
Speaker 2: was in Bondai actually, and the one occasion where she
Speaker 2: was like, oh I'm free tonight, I was. I caught
Speaker 2: up with a girlfriend of mine that had moved down
Speaker 2: as well, and we just hadn't seen each other yet.
Speaker 2: She moved to bond Diam so we caught up for
Speaker 2: a drink and lunch. I only had like two or
Speaker 2: three beers, but I got a bus and a train there,
Speaker 2: you know, thinking Okay, I'll probably just spend the evening
Speaker 2: in Bondai and see what that's about. Sure, and then
Speaker 2: it was like oh shit, So I pretty much stopped
Speaker 2: whatever I was doing and got on a bus and
Speaker 2: then got on a train. But the thing is, I
Speaker 2: was like to April, you're gonna have to drive. So
Speaker 2: I got dropped at her like pretty much at her place,
Speaker 2: and then we drove to where I was living, which
Speaker 2: was on the floor of Pete's house, who was in
Speaker 2: the cafe straight So just to clear that up, carry on.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure as well you did send in a message.
Speaker 4: I think that's when you told me. You're like, oh,
Speaker 4: I can't afford dinner. I can't remember how I found
Speaker 4: out that you couldn't pay for dinner much.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm pretty sure you like told me straight up,
Speaker 4: You're like, I haven't got money for dinner, but I'd
Speaker 4: love to take you out.
Speaker 2: So I was like, context, context, context is everything, guys.
Speaker 2: I had. I had packed up my car from living
Speaker 2: in my parents' house, moved here, was working three jobs
Speaker 2: that paid cash, and it was like the worst time
Speaker 2: because I was in Bondou with all my money that
Speaker 2: I had and had pretty much spent it on lunch
Speaker 2: and everything, thinking Okay, I'm just going to go home.
Speaker 2: I get paid the next couple of days from one
Speaker 2: of these jobs, but then I didn't want to miss
Speaker 2: the opportunity.
Speaker 4: So honesty, honesty is the best, suppose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't think. I don't recall saying it.
Speaker 4: Well, I just I can't remember how I found out
Speaker 4: that I had to pay because I did have to pay?
Speaker 1: Was that to that?
Speaker 2: No, let's get to that. Okay, you didn't have to pay.
Speaker 2: He didn't make you pay, because no, he did.
Speaker 4: He gave me a discount, didn't he because you worked? Well,
Speaker 4: we end up going for dinner. So yeah, we drove.
Speaker 4: We drove somewhere. We didn't really have plans and I
Speaker 4: was driving. I think we went to go to a
Speaker 4: sushi place, but we couldn't park or something, and then
Speaker 4: we end up going to You were like, oh, I
Speaker 4: work it.
Speaker 2: I work at this jizza.
Speaker 4: Pizza place, so we'll go there. And so we went there.
Speaker 4: I had dinner and whatnot, and obviously all his coworkers
Speaker 4: were like behind my back, which I know now, yeah,
Speaker 4: she's down. And then the bill came and I went
Speaker 4: not to pay, and I could.
Speaker 2: Afford to pay, but into my name.
Speaker 1: I think the important thing to remember is that you
Speaker 1: can start with the bar really low and then from
Speaker 1: then on that's what I did. Everything's a plus.
Speaker 4: Yeah and you did? You did? You used to spoil
Speaker 4: me rotten o in what way?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: I remember like one of the first Valentine's Days. I
Speaker 4: think you brought me an iPad mini, buy me jewelry. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like like literally spent probably credit card debt.
Speaker 2: Make up for that one dinner I couldn't pay for.
Speaker 2: But it was the most important dinner obviously, but I
Speaker 2: meant at the time, I recall, I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: well the people I was with in bond, but I
Speaker 2: got to go, and it was like I got to go.
Speaker 2: I have to go for a particular reason. I could
Speaker 2: have easily just been like no, not yeah. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: that's how that's how the first date went.
Speaker 1: Do you remember thinking on that date this feels different
Speaker 1: to other dates that I've been on.
Speaker 4: Definitely.
Speaker 2: Yeah. She had to pay for it, like I felt
Speaker 2: slightly lighter in the wallet. It wasn't expensive, all.
Speaker 4: Right, No, And like you know, you're talking when we
Speaker 4: were twenty, there was not a high expectation of like
Speaker 4: long whiny and it was about but yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 4: enjoyed his company.
Speaker 1: Your dog is very into the story. I don't want
Speaker 1: to ask questions that are too personal. Did you have
Speaker 1: a kiss after dinner? Was there a kiss that night? Oh?
Speaker 4: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: I can't remember. I think so well, I don't.
Speaker 4: Know where, Like I wouldn't have been at the restaurant.
Speaker 2: I remember when are we because we had to stop
Speaker 2: at my place before we went, and I was living
Speaker 2: with Pete and there's three brothers in the house. Oh
Speaker 2: walked in, had to get some fresh clothes, and Pete
Speaker 2: was like, where are you going. I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm going on a date with April Gates and he
Speaker 2: was like, bullshit, you lying bullshit. And then I was
Speaker 2: like and then he's like walked out open the front doors,
Speaker 2: like Gavin. She had a big crush on April. So
Speaker 2: I stole a stolen something Dolar.
Speaker 4: I don't think I was ever his, but.
Speaker 2: He still thinks. He still thinks he's got to change.
Speaker 1: And then how long was it then until you guys
Speaker 1: got engaged?
Speaker 2: Seven years?
Speaker 4: No, that's when we got married. We got engaged, that's
Speaker 4: what I mean. We got engaged. I think it was
Speaker 4: five years and then we had a two year engagement.
Speaker 4: Because we're quite young, we'll engaged at like twenty four.
Speaker 2: Four twenty five.
Speaker 4: It was yeah, that's young, fifteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we it was like we had been together for
Speaker 2: like five years. We took a little trip to the
Speaker 2: States with some friends Josh and Chian. Shout out to them,
Speaker 2: they're probably listening. Probably not, they probably are. We did
Speaker 2: like a big big stin over there and I got
Speaker 2: like the ring made and everything here, and I remember
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm definitely going to do it. Josh
Speaker 2: and ceanne knew what was happening, and I said, I
Speaker 2: definitely want to do it over there. I had to
Speaker 2: hide the ring the whole time, but I didn't trust
Speaker 2: the baggage handlers. No, no, no. I was just going
Speaker 2: to say sorry guys, but I.
Speaker 1: Was like, I was like, no, you can't trust No,
Speaker 1: You've got to have it on you all time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So what I did was I didn't put it
Speaker 2: in my pocket. I put it and tucked into my
Speaker 2: underpants on the side here and so it just like
Speaker 2: just held there for the whole flight from from Brisbane
Speaker 2: to San Francisco. And I remember like it was the
Speaker 2: next day and we're like going to do this, go
Speaker 2: up to this big lookout and April was like, why
Speaker 2: are you acting so weird? I was like, oh, I
Speaker 2: just feel a bit sick from the pipy jet lag.
Speaker 2: I was just fucking nervous, and I was I was
Speaker 2: still like holding this ring, so she didn't know. And
Speaker 2: then I think, at one point, we'll let this look
Speaker 2: out somewhere and you put your arm around me right
Speaker 2: in the aar it like like just around my back
Speaker 2: and right and I was like, oh, fuck you we
Speaker 2: goes of know what's this? Didn't say anything?
Speaker 1: Did you have any idea? April?
Speaker 4: No, no clue at all. I like, no, no clue
Speaker 4: at all.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, we just went up to this place
Speaker 2: in San Francisco and the cab driver cried.
Speaker 4: He got the best footage out of everyone. He got
Speaker 4: his phone out and he got like and.
Speaker 2: Then he called his wife and was like, you're not
Speaker 2: going to believe. Where was it at San A place
Speaker 2: called Twin Peaks.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I remember the cab driver the whole way up
Speaker 4: was joking about Twin Peaks. Don't you remember that? Yeah,
Speaker 4: and like Twin Peaks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's yeah, I've been there. They try the wings.
Speaker 2: I remember we were on the way out there and
Speaker 2: he was like, do you want me to hang around
Speaker 2: because it's hard to get back, and.
Speaker 1: I was like no, no, I don't need a crowd.
Speaker 2: And then it was like got up there and those
Speaker 2: people around. April first, as a boyfriend would do, I
Speaker 2: would like pretend to like when you really like, oh
Speaker 2: you know, and she thought I was doing that, but
Speaker 2: I was trying to get to turn around.
Speaker 4: And then grabbed me by the arms and I was like, what.
Speaker 6: He's packing Yeah, and then yeah, and then the cab
Speaker 6: driver was like on the phone with his wife obviously
Speaker 6: Josh and Shan.
Speaker 2: Who knew what was going on. Obviously she said yes,
Speaker 2: but it was funny in the cabin the way back.
Speaker 2: The guy was like, I had no idea. You were
Speaker 2: pretty cool to me. I was like, I was sweating,
Speaker 2: like fuck, Like why did I I could have just
Speaker 2: done it like old mate did on the jet STARFF
Speaker 2: the other day. Did you see that? Oh? Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't want to shame them because people have got their
Speaker 2: own things. Yeah, this couple were flying to Bali and
Speaker 2: he obviously couldn't wait any longer the pressure he proposed
Speaker 2: to her on the jet Star just before it too economy.
Speaker 1: Hey those drinks are expensive on the flight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's yeah, twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: I always I'm always like, what would it be like
Speaker 1: in the moment for yourself when your partner's dropping your knee?
Speaker 1: Do you remember like do you straight away go oh
Speaker 1: my god, he's about to propose. Did you like did
Speaker 1: you realize or is it like a bit is you
Speaker 1: have a moment of confusion of like is this actually happening?
Speaker 4: It's definitely surreal at first, and then I feel like
Speaker 4: it's still surreal until you watch footage after you like
Speaker 4: that actually happened.
Speaker 1: I sucked on mind? Can I just cry?
Speaker 2: You're on TV.
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was We're in Fiji. I just
Speaker 1: dropped in it and started crying, and Laura thought that
Speaker 1: I was going to say that I had cancer. It
Speaker 1: was like, something's wrong.
Speaker 2: I was like, I can just imagine you, like.
Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds stupid when you think back, You're like,
Speaker 1: it's no big deal, but it is.
Speaker 2: It's like it was.
Speaker 1: Actually at twenty four, I.
Speaker 2: Was fucking ship.
Speaker 4: No one really we really knew had been engaged.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the first were married. Yeah, who were with?
Speaker 2: But that was really it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What was it do you think about Ash that made
Speaker 1: you think, Yeah, this is a guy I want to
Speaker 1: spend the rest of my life with.
Speaker 2: Don't hold backpack, don't hold look.
Speaker 4: To be honest, I don't think those like we were
Speaker 4: still so young. I don't think those like I always thought, yeah,
Speaker 4: this is it, this is it. I don't know, but
Speaker 4: I just feel like it wasn't like yeah, that's definitely why,
Speaker 4: just the whole It's just always I just I loved
Speaker 4: his company. The vibe I always I always joke he's
Speaker 4: my best friend, and he rolls his eyes and always goes, are.
Speaker 2: You my best am? I your best friend? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think you want to have that friendship as a foundation.
Speaker 1: Is always like we can be best friends forever.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I already got his a ship from my boss
Speaker 2: at the time, who was like who was at the
Speaker 2: wedding and he was like, don't get up and do
Speaker 2: this speech where you go you're my best friend because
Speaker 2: I'll be like god, And it was like it's so cliche,
Speaker 2: and it's like, that's why I roll my eyes so much.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean she's not my best friend, but I
Speaker 2: also like to stir up a lot.
Speaker 4: That's the first time you've admitted that I'm your best friend.
Speaker 2: It was I said, it's not that I'm not or
Speaker 2: you're not.
Speaker 1: He's a for your best friend.
Speaker 4: Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1: I love that you can kiss if you want and
Speaker 1: I pretend like I'm not here. Noe who proposed the
Speaker 1: idea of having kids first? How did that come about?
Speaker 4: I would definitely say me, Yeah, we're working in child Yeah,
Speaker 4: an early educator. If that's what.
Speaker 2: After us?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was definitely me like I have
Speaker 4: always thought, you know, family of four, that's what I wanted.
Speaker 4: And literally what we've got is what I wanted. Boy girl,
Speaker 4: tic tick, the dream, the dream.
Speaker 2: Husband just got it all. With the thing with April
Speaker 2: worked in a child care when we first met as
Speaker 2: an early education teacher, mystad Well said, ah, and the
Speaker 2: thing is like it was great, Like I could tell that,
Speaker 2: like she definitely wanted to be a mum one day.
Speaker 2: But I think that she brang home so much sickness
Speaker 2: because April was so immune to it all. Like April
Speaker 2: would be sick for like three hours and then like
Speaker 2: bedridden and then she's like, oh, I'm fine because she's
Speaker 2: so used to it. I just remember being sick every
Speaker 2: two or three days and I still hang around. No
Speaker 2: one's asking me any questions, and I just remember a
Speaker 2: bit like me being so so sick. And then it
Speaker 2: was like I knew April was more like it's something
Speaker 2: I didn't want kids. It wasn't that it was like
Speaker 2: the classic man thing where you can't admit that you yeah,
Speaker 2: you want to you know, yeah, just do that thing
Speaker 2: where it's like if it happens, it happens whatever. Which
Speaker 2: after we got married, it was like, okay, well maybe
Speaker 2: we'll start to not not try instead of we're going
Speaker 2: to actively pursue try. Is that right?
Speaker 1: How long did you have to try with Oscar first?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It's very best two goes. But I shouldn't say
Speaker 2: that because it is so hard for so many other couple.
Speaker 2: Very very lucky, very lucky lucky. I don't want to
Speaker 2: be canceled lucky.
Speaker 1: As someone who works in daycares, I have to ask
Speaker 1: the question, do you guys just flat out lie when
Speaker 1: you talk about the kids eating all their food?
Speaker 4: Oh, you're bringing me back. I haven't worked in daycare
Speaker 4: for ages.
Speaker 1: It is like a contract that you have to sign.
Speaker 4: Back. When I worked in daycare, there weren't the apps,
Speaker 4: so it wasn't it was just like rock and like
Speaker 4: Flintstone start. Yeah, I think it was like a scrap
Speaker 4: book even just put it up when all the parents
Speaker 4: picked up. It was just like you put it off photos,
Speaker 4: just this is what we did today, annual.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you have one of those old timey cameras?
Speaker 2: Just like I thought.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe working in early education it might did
Speaker 1: tell you because you're like, oh my god, you get
Speaker 1: a taste of the realities of what it's like to
Speaker 1: look after kids.
Speaker 4: It's so different.
Speaker 2: So in what way?
Speaker 4: In what way that you don't you're not you're not
Speaker 4: emotionally attached to them like they melt down.
Speaker 2: It's against the law.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just very different. I'd say, do.
Speaker 1: You ever when a kid would either like finish, they
Speaker 1: go on to like kindie and they would leave. Do
Speaker 1: you have those moments where you're like, I'm going to
Speaker 1: miss little Timmy.
Speaker 4: Yes, but no.
Speaker 2: We had this conversation the other day where you were saying
Speaker 2: that you see kids now or they were kids that
Speaker 2: she still look up and they're like adults.
Speaker 4: They're like, yeah, almost finishing school, and I'm just like,
Speaker 4: I haven't aged that much. How are these kids this
Speaker 4: age now? Obviously I have so just too young?
Speaker 2: You fresh, I know, you were like, there's the thing
Speaker 2: working in early education. I suppose at twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: you were there too.
Speaker 4: You're like twenty, it was straight out of school, so
Speaker 4: eighteen till yeah, you can still kid yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: It must have helped them. I guess being a mom
Speaker 1: having the experience.
Speaker 4: You'd think, so, yeah, didn't. No, I don't I think
Speaker 4: it was just so like the emotional thing. You're just
Speaker 4: emotionally attached now to something like the baby.
Speaker 2: I feel like when you know, becoming parents with the
Speaker 2: changing nappies, I'd never done. I never even held a baby.
Speaker 2: I'd had one baby before, one of my kids, and
Speaker 2: it was against my will. I was like where I
Speaker 2: was at the public with my mate Mick and he
Speaker 2: had a baby at the time, and he was like,
Speaker 2: hold this for a second, and I was like, so
Speaker 2: when I the confidence that I had in April was
Speaker 2: like when we were having kids, was like, she can
Speaker 2: do all that, Like she can teach me how to
Speaker 2: do that stuff because I don't know. So I feel
Speaker 2: like I learn a lot from April in terms of
Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. But she might have not been
Speaker 2: feeling confident about a lot of it, but she definitely
Speaker 2: picked up all you're changing appy, you go do this,
Speaker 2: They're doing that, they're doing that. I'm like, fuck, I
Speaker 2: would have had no idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the practical things I may have known it, it's.
Speaker 2: The emotional thing. Yeah. I mean every parent, I suppose
Speaker 2: new parent like you would know. I think you're kids,
Speaker 2: every parent would know where you're like you kind of
Speaker 2: just like working it out. Oh yeah, emotionally at the
Speaker 2: same time. This morning, I'm trying to have a cuddle
Speaker 2: with Oscar and he just got so worked up because
Speaker 2: he thought the coudle was so forced that he's had
Speaker 2: a meltdown. And I'm just like, I don't know what
Speaker 2: have I done? One and two is like I just
Speaker 2: love you. Yeah, And it's like you're still going to
Speaker 2: work out like those kinks and you know, like even
Speaker 2: now with Oscar you think you've worked it out, something changes.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: There's when I look at parenting. I don't want to
Speaker 1: talk about it negatively, although I always do. There is
Speaker 1: a lot that is really hard because toddlers are just
Speaker 1: hard work, NonStop. But then you get these little moments
Speaker 1: where you're like, ah, this is fucking great. I love this.
Speaker 1: What are your moments as a mum where you're like,
Speaker 1: I absolutely love this so much.
Speaker 4: It would be the cuddles and the kisses, like Oscar
Speaker 4: is just saying to Ashton, I asked you. I was like,
Speaker 4: does Oscar just randomly just come up sit next to
Speaker 4: you and give you a kiss on the cheek And
Speaker 4: he said yeah, And I was like, he does that
Speaker 4: to me too. Just like out of the blue.
Speaker 2: Without yeah, it sounds like, yeah, I just said, yes,
Speaker 2: I can fit in all right.
Speaker 4: I just feel like obviously we've shown them him that
Speaker 4: love that he knows how that makes him feel. So
Speaker 4: now he's learned, you know, if he does it to us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even the day I caught him with were I
Speaker 2: didn't catch him, gotcha. We're at the park, just at
Speaker 2: the back here, and Macy was on the swing, and
Speaker 2: he just walks up and goes, can I have a
Speaker 2: cuddle to Macy? And like gave Macy kiss on the
Speaker 2: top of the head, and just like toddled off. I
Speaker 2: don't know. He either loves to do that or he's manipulating.
Speaker 2: They'll talk about me on the podcast you watch.
Speaker 1: How did you find going back to work?
Speaker 4: Ah? So funny enough. I thought I would love being
Speaker 4: a full time stay at home mum, and then once
Speaker 4: I had Oscar, I was like, I need some work
Speaker 4: back in my life. So yeah, I took the year
Speaker 4: off and then I went back and I went back
Speaker 4: three days, which I think has been a good balance
Speaker 4: because I needed it. I didn't want to be a
Speaker 4: stay home mum.
Speaker 2: I recall, I do recall how excited April was to
Speaker 2: go back to work, even just first couple of days.
Speaker 2: I think a lot more for the adult interact. We
Speaker 2: still have a really great mother's group that was super supportive,
Speaker 2: and you get that adult interaction. But I think when
Speaker 2: you go back to an office where you're like there's
Speaker 2: no kids inside.
Speaker 4: You barely even talk about that, that's.
Speaker 2: Called child ladies that you know, Like I remember that.
Speaker 2: She was like, yes, like it kind of after a long,
Speaker 2: hard year. It was kind of like a bit of
Speaker 2: a It was kind of like going on holidays a
Speaker 2: little bit, and it was.
Speaker 4: A break from parenting.
Speaker 2: She looked at me, it was a break.
Speaker 1: Speaking of work, do you remember when Ash first grabbed
Speaker 1: a tea towel, draved it over his head and filmed
Speaker 1: a video And what was your reaction to that.
Speaker 4: I actually can't remember the first one you ever did.
Speaker 4: Do you remember the first one you ever did?
Speaker 2: No, the first one I do recall doing where I
Speaker 2: thought I'm onto something. There was other stuff where it
Speaker 2: was like I would pretend to be you, bits and
Speaker 2: pieces here and there, But the one that really grabbed
Speaker 2: me was the pointless phone call home when you're leaving work,
Speaker 2: where it would be me ringing you. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: I myay home and you were just like okay, well,
Speaker 2: okay bye.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: And the thing is that so many people had different
Speaker 2: interpretations of what that call meant to them, and I
Speaker 2: was like, there's something here, psychologically, there's something here, because
Speaker 2: it wasn't people always say, oh no, you took the
Speaker 2: piece out of your wife. I'm not taking the piece
Speaker 2: out of her whatsoever. According to me, I remember saying
Speaker 2: to you, I don't know if you recall. I was like,
Speaker 2: so many people must have this conversation. Yeah, let's find out,
Speaker 2: and that's how where we ended up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've always found it funny. I remember a girlfriend
Speaker 4: actually asking me like, well, probably about a year ago now,
Speaker 4: because you've been doing it for a while, and she
Speaker 4: was like, have you ever thought like taken offense to
Speaker 4: anything that he's ever posted? And it had never crossed
Speaker 4: my mind that any of it would be offensive to
Speaker 4: me because I'm literally laughing at all of them.
Speaker 1: Because it's you, Hey guys, it's me Matt.
Speaker 2: And also ashes here alongside.
Speaker 1: We recorded this at a different time, so when we
Speaker 1: sat down with April, we wanted to let you know
Speaker 1: that we stuffed up.
Speaker 2: Well you did.
Speaker 1: We agreed that it was both of our faults.
Speaker 2: You agree that it was Actually, no.
Speaker 1: It wasn't our fault. It was the equipment's fault.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was the equipment's fault. In that's equipment.
Speaker 1: It decided to stop recording. So the audio from this
Speaker 1: point on is a little bit different to what you've
Speaker 1: just been listening to.
Speaker 2: It's still great, but you don't want to miss what
Speaker 2: she says.
Speaker 1: You want to Oh my god, I can't believe she
Speaker 1: admitted that.
Speaker 2: And we shared a cheeky kiss.
Speaker 1: Not me and April.
Speaker 2: You did light it with the audience like that. Again,
Speaker 2: the only thing she ever gets offended by is if
Speaker 2: the house is a little bit messing. Yeah, you could
Speaker 2: have cleaned up before you film that.
Speaker 4: Yes, a number I need to say I do not
Speaker 4: far the amount of times.
Speaker 3: Talk about.
Speaker 2: Let's not get into that.
Speaker 1: Do you remember thinking, oh shit, my husband's going to
Speaker 1: become a content creator?
Speaker 3: Yeah, when he got made Redundant.
Speaker 2: I actually never thought it would be something I would
Speaker 2: do full time. I never really thought that until people
Speaker 2: started like got management and then I remember when we
Speaker 2: first started doing this podcast, even just doing content, I
Speaker 2: was doing both jobs. I don't know how I did that.
Speaker 2: I did not have the spam for that. Now I
Speaker 2: think I've just completely checked out from that. But I
Speaker 2: was like I checked out then, and I was lucky
Speaker 2: that my job was so slow at the time. But
Speaker 2: I remember April was like, you're not quit. You're not
Speaker 2: quitting your job, which is fair enough, and I understood
Speaker 2: that I couldn't just quit to pursue a dream that
Speaker 2: came out of nowhere. It's never been a lifelong dream
Speaker 2: in mind to be doing this. It's sort of I
Speaker 2: sort of started doing it, and then April was also
Speaker 2: like how happy it made me. I remember there was
Speaker 2: those years through COVID and stuff, and like, you know,
Speaker 2: we've sort of struggled with Oscar. We were struggling to
Speaker 2: be with being stuck at home, and then you know,
Speaker 2: I was working from home and then April was also
Speaker 2: working from home.
Speaker 3: You asked me specifically.
Speaker 4: I remember you were like, because you're hating your corporate job,
Speaker 4: and you were like, we just got a what's it
Speaker 4: called approved?
Speaker 5: I remembered it, Yeah, I remember, yeah, And.
Speaker 4: So you know, things were looking good and then next
Speaker 4: you know, Ashton goes, oh, do you think I can
Speaker 4: quit my job and do this full time.
Speaker 3: This is before redundancy, and I just thought, definitely, not like,
Speaker 3: what do you mean we'll get a house. We'll get
Speaker 3: that all our ducks in a row first, and.
Speaker 4: Then maybe three months after that then you can maybe
Speaker 4: look at doing it.
Speaker 2: And April has always been like this too, just like
Speaker 2: you know what whatever will be will be. Everything happens
Speaker 2: for a reason.
Speaker 1: I welcome the redundancy because I knew that once you could,
Speaker 1: once you had that removed, you would go all in.
Speaker 2: Yeah. For me then and even for us then it
Speaker 2: was like I had to prioritize where I was getting
Speaker 2: paid consistently. Even though I wasn't as you know, like
Speaker 2: amazing money, it was still like it was good. It
Speaker 2: kept us a flight, whichould we be two kids? If
Speaker 2: we didn't have two kids, should probably like to do
Speaker 2: what the fuck you want? But I think like that
Speaker 2: conversation then, to be made redundant week that it just
Speaker 2: shows that the universe was like, that's what you meant
Speaker 2: to be doing. And I think there's nothing she could
Speaker 2: have done about it because it was made redundant.
Speaker 1: Would you say, Ash, I think I should look for
Speaker 1: another job, or we like, well, let's give the content
Speaker 1: creation a crack.
Speaker 4: It was like, okay, if there's an opportunity, it's gonna
Speaker 4: be now.
Speaker 3: Like otherwise, I would never have let it happen. I
Speaker 3: literally there wasn't She.
Speaker 2: Would have called that job and said you keep him there.
Speaker 2: We don't want him here, you keep him there?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: So no, And I think ever since that did happen, like,
Speaker 4: I've never seen you more happy or even more driven
Speaker 4: in what you're doing now.
Speaker 2: I sleep every day lunchtime.
Speaker 3: I took it.
Speaker 1: At that point, there would have been occasions when you
Speaker 1: guys would have been out in public and someone would
Speaker 1: have gone, oh.
Speaker 5: My gosh, it's that guy from the town head. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny. We talk about this because no one
Speaker 3: ever comes up when I'm there. I know, what does
Speaker 3: that say? Who knows?
Speaker 2: They're too scared of you? Yeah I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm a scary person.
Speaker 4: But because Ashton would be like, come back from the
Speaker 4: shops and like, oh I had like three people come
Speaker 4: up to me.
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm always at the shops of you.
Speaker 3: No one has ever come up to you, So.
Speaker 5: People are listening. I mean, a lovely.
Speaker 3: Woman, very friendly and I yeah, bring it on.
Speaker 5: Just nice. Do you like that or do you dislike that?
Speaker 5: Are you indifferent?
Speaker 3: I think it's nice. I think it's actually really really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bit off. Like for me, you know,
Speaker 2: two years ago less would never have happened. And now,
Speaker 2: like you know, like just last week, can't go on
Speaker 2: a magic ground and with a whole congregation of people,
Speaker 2: you know, couples and stuff that go into and enjoying
Speaker 2: sport they both love together and then they see me
Speaker 2: on the the middle of the street and they're like
Speaker 2: it's you Like, it's just it's a really weird feeling
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 3: Question for you does it get old?
Speaker 2: Damn on time?
Speaker 5: It's time?
Speaker 2: It's weird? Is where I mean, I'll be honest. For me,
Speaker 2: it really happens.
Speaker 1: More so if people have been drinking, I think they're
Speaker 1: kind of like, oh I I don't really care.
Speaker 2: They're just like a bit ofebreated.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're more inclined to be like holy ship. Normally
Speaker 5: people don't bat nilid. But the other morning I.
Speaker 1: Was getting the kids in the car and the lady
Speaker 1: walked past and she was like hey, And there's a
Speaker 1: split second where I was like fuck, Is that a
Speaker 1: month from daycare before?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 1: I couldn't the tone of the high I couldn't quite like, yeah,
Speaker 1: just said it was.
Speaker 5: And that's why I'm like, I do I know, Like no, no,
Speaker 5: I just you know, I just love the podcast and
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, thank goodness, where's that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a segment called petty Couples.
Speaker 3: I'm well aware.
Speaker 1: People want to know how you deal with ashes pediness.
Speaker 1: More so, particular was a scenario where he only made
Speaker 1: one side of the bed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he didn't tell you the end of the story. Please,
Speaker 3: he doesn't let me see it. Then he literally will
Speaker 3: make the other side of the bed.
Speaker 1: If you had to say what a bad habits are,
Speaker 1: what would they be?
Speaker 2: God, your bad.
Speaker 3: Habit would just be like.
Speaker 2: All the time, I'm sorry, how dare I have natural
Speaker 2: humanly bodily functions? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Definitely, yet farting and can you stop it?
Speaker 2: That's me?
Speaker 5: I mean, if that's the worst that he's doing, that's
Speaker 5: pretty good.
Speaker 2: You're pretty lifely at the start. Do you reckon?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: What would his best habit? Then?
Speaker 4: One that comes to mind, actually is I do like
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a habit, But I do
Speaker 4: love that.
Speaker 3: You're an impulse person.
Speaker 4: Like if we're hesitating on, you know, purchasing something big,
Speaker 4: I should be like, just do it, just do it,
Speaker 4: Whereas I hesitate I think too much about it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: if it's like, you know, let's book flights, like just
Speaker 4: do it, I'm like, oh.
Speaker 3: But it's like two thousand dollars, just do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just do it. It's like what if I wait
Speaker 2: like two days and say fifteen buck may just book it?
Speaker 2: I think like we Yeah, I've always been like that,
Speaker 2: and You've always been like so cautious.
Speaker 3: To buy anything anything.
Speaker 2: So it kind of works for us. If we're both cautious,
Speaker 2: we would have nothing. We would have no, we couldn't
Speaker 2: make a decision. April's dad very much like April, right,
Speaker 2: whereas he's like so cautious about everything, and it does
Speaker 2: drive me crazy. But then also it helps that she
Speaker 2: listens to when I'm like, just do it, especially if
Speaker 2: it's something for her, because She'll be like, oh do
Speaker 2: I really need like this, and I'll be like, just
Speaker 2: get it. What's the worst is going to happen? If
Speaker 2: the worst is gonna happen is you've got it. That's it.
Speaker 2: You know, he's to pull the trigger.
Speaker 4: Guy definitely, and I need that, but then you also
Speaker 4: need the other way around.
Speaker 7: The perfectly we're talking about for the business for no
Speaker 7: reason able.
Speaker 2: To be like, Nope, definitely not.
Speaker 1: One of the most common questions we got was how
Speaker 1: does April feel about how she's perceived in the videos
Speaker 1: at Ash makes Oh, I.
Speaker 3: Don't care what other people think about I know what.
Speaker 2: I am like so like that.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had to say, Ash, I don't want
Speaker 1: that video published or I want no one taken down?
Speaker 4: No, Like I said, I think I do find them
Speaker 4: all funny and maybe call me naive, but I think
Speaker 4: there's ones that I'm like, I don't do that.
Speaker 2: I'm not like that. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Have you ever do something and go oh fuck, that's
Speaker 5: gonna do?
Speaker 3: I do something just in my head and I'll be.
Speaker 5: Like, have you done this?
Speaker 2: You maam you. There's so many instances where we've just
Speaker 2: had a quick conversation and I have laughed and You've
Speaker 2: gone yeah, yeah, because you're walking content and I tell
Speaker 2: everyone that that. Like You'll be like, do you think
Speaker 2: it's going to rain? And I'll be like why, like,
Speaker 2: or you'll be like if it rains, if you ring
Speaker 2: the washing in, it's like yeah, but that's like you're
Speaker 2: just walking content, You're welcome. That's why it goes into
Speaker 2: enjoy it than.
Speaker 1: Have you ever tried the tea towel on yourself whilst
Speaker 1: she's not been around?
Speaker 3: Never has it ever crossed my mind to do that.
Speaker 2: Someone asked me if you've ever want to drink sex?
Speaker 3: Well, that's weird.
Speaker 5: I asked one time that in confidence, have you ever
Speaker 5: tried to hide the tea taul?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: I do find myself like they're just lying around the house,
Speaker 4: and she's probably a petty thing, and I'll just like.
Speaker 3: Pick them up and throw them, like you know, and
Speaker 3: he might be looking for it. I don't know. Well,
Speaker 3: it's more you've just left them in the way.
Speaker 2: I honestly I'll lose them or just get another one out.
Speaker 4: Or felt if you folded up nicely and put it down,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have to throw it away.
Speaker 5: How many tea towels do you think there are in
Speaker 5: this house right now?
Speaker 4: Well, we started with about forty, and I've only ever
Speaker 4: seen two at the moment.
Speaker 2: That we kind of them as Jim towers too. Here
Speaker 2: and there like the ones that are going to be
Speaker 2: They're good size, they're perfect size. I do need to
Speaker 2: pop in a Camart get another ten pack.
Speaker 5: If you're listening, new hair you sponsored? The Pope just
Speaker 5: came anko.
Speaker 2: Ah yeah, I mean there's been some instances where April
Speaker 2: has been like or the trouble we're with we're with
Speaker 2: people somewhere and I like, disappear it and you're like,
Speaker 2: he's just gone, film video is gone, just disappeared.
Speaker 1: It's just what I'm like, Such a lucky lady, isn't she.
Speaker 1: When you first started dating Ash, there was no MO.
Speaker 1: Currently has the MO?
Speaker 2: Are you four or against the MO?
Speaker 3: Have you seen before photos?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I have.
Speaker 5: He was handsome.
Speaker 4: I would say you look like a baby. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm like all for the MO, thank you.
Speaker 1: But how do you find like Laura's probably was that
Speaker 1: I had to remove mine because she hated kissing them out.
Speaker 3: I think it's been many years now that I'm.
Speaker 2: Just used to it. Yeah. Yeah, so lord, if you're listening,
Speaker 2: real men have more stashes like for me, I you
Speaker 2: used to hate it. I remember when I get early days, Yeah,
Speaker 2: when I would just like try it out here and
Speaker 2: there and I think over lockdown. I just decided that
Speaker 2: it's going to be a permanent picture on my face now.
Speaker 2: And April was like, whatever, this may be prying too much.
Speaker 1: But we had a story on the podcast where a
Speaker 1: lady would not shave downstairs because her husband would grown mustache.
Speaker 5: Is that the same with yourself, April?
Speaker 3: So the lady wouldn't shave because he wouldn't shave.
Speaker 5: Exactly?
Speaker 3: Is that I've never thought that.
Speaker 5: Okay, let it, marry it, thanks man.
Speaker 1: There was a story that we've heard before about Ash
Speaker 1: passing out during the birth of Macy.
Speaker 5: Do you remember how those events unfolded?
Speaker 4: Yes, very clearly actually, because Macy's birth is like, you know,
Speaker 4: a good birth.
Speaker 3: It was like you know good, it.
Speaker 4: Was planned, it was all very relaxing, the what's the
Speaker 4: guy who puts your needle and so.
Speaker 2: Just just for those listeners out there, and like a
Speaker 2: plan cit section, it's kind of like booking into a hotel.
Speaker 2: You pick a day, you pick a checking day, you
Speaker 2: check in time, you pick a time you're going. You
Speaker 2: do like the normal hotel checking stuff sort of and
Speaker 2: obviously with all the medical stuff.
Speaker 3: And all very relaxed.
Speaker 4: And I'm the one who would usually be fainting and stuff.
Speaker 3: So we get in and I'm getting the epidural I
Speaker 3: think it is.
Speaker 2: So it was side saddle on the bed doing so
Speaker 2: like you see anyways, horse of go. So I saddled
Speaker 2: on the bed and I'm in front, and so that
Speaker 2: the the drug guy he was on behind, so I
Speaker 2: couldn't even see him. I couldn't see anything that was happening.
Speaker 2: So that's the situation we're in.
Speaker 4: Like I'm all cool, current collected, and just starting to
Speaker 4: feel relaxed and.
Speaker 3: Numb and lying back down. And then I hear asked him,
Speaker 3: going I don't feel good. I don't feel good. And
Speaker 3: then obviously like they take it.
Speaker 4: Quite seriously because I've probably seen so many men just yeah.
Speaker 4: And so I just remember not necessarily looking because I
Speaker 4: don't think I could move that much. Uh, And but
Speaker 4: my obstitution stayed with me, but everyone else was hands
Speaker 4: on deck down below, and my obstitution. I remember her saying, Johnny,
Speaker 4: take some photos. I was like, yeah, yes, please, that
Speaker 4: was fine.
Speaker 2: I was like whatever, you looked me looking over at me,
Speaker 2: and I was like legs up on the chair, on
Speaker 2: flat on my back with a like a wet flannel
Speaker 2: over my head and a thing of apple, and she
Speaker 2: was like this meant to be about me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3: But you must have got up pretty quick.
Speaker 5: How long was it before you were back on your feet?
Speaker 2: They wouldn't let me get back up off for a
Speaker 2: while until we're pretty much done.
Speaker 3: No, you were standing up.
Speaker 2: There when No, I actually I was. You're right, I
Speaker 2: was sitting right behind it where your head is. You
Speaker 2: can't stand I remember that they put Then they dropped
Speaker 2: the curtain. I was like, a.
Speaker 4: Dropped the curtain and I got to touch macony and
Speaker 4: stuff and then probably well, thank.
Speaker 3: You anyway, it's a miracle.
Speaker 2: That I survived. In true me fashion, I made it all.
Speaker 2: But you know, like I didn't miss it. You didn't
Speaker 2: miss anything, thank god. But it's always a funny story.
Speaker 2: I was just laugh because it was it was a
Speaker 2: plan Z section during the first pregnancy. There was none
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 3: It was all adrenaline.
Speaker 2: It was all adrenaline this just because it was so
Speaker 2: I remember we were sitting in a room.
Speaker 3: And it was kind of like taking photos.
Speaker 2: Baby then and in a minute and it's just a
Speaker 2: weird situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Laura was introduced and it was like it's so
Speaker 1: strange to go like, oh, we're going to have a
Speaker 1: kid and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah weird.
Speaker 5: And before we go over, like you have one last
Speaker 5: question for you? Is there anything that you would.
Speaker 1: Like to say to Ash now that you haven't had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to set up until now, anything at all?
Speaker 3: Anything at all?
Speaker 2: Mmm?
Speaker 3: Could? I?
Speaker 4: I think I just want to say that, like, super
Speaker 4: proud of everything that you do and I know I
Speaker 4: see you hustle and everything.
Speaker 3: I know it's for the family.
Speaker 4: So even though you put on this persona that you are,
Speaker 4: what would what would people say? Yes, smart ass, you
Speaker 4: are a good egg and not everyone gets to see
Speaker 4: that side.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Welcome, guys are so beautiful. Yes, I really delivered perfectly.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys.
Speaker 5: Want to kiss by all means? Don't hold back in front?
Speaker 2: Oh yes, take it off lovely.
Speaker 5: Thank you, April, Thank you, Welcome. I know you've been reluctant.
Speaker 5: Can I just say you're an absolute natural? It was
Speaker 5: a pleasure having on the podcast.
Speaker 3: Don't take my job, Yes, don't, I'll go back to.
Speaker 1: There is nothing I enjoy more Ash than watching you
Speaker 1: be affectionate with squirm your wife.
Speaker 2: I guess you're all squirmy, don't I love it? Problem.
Speaker 1: I would have preferred a bit of tongue, but that's okay,
Speaker 1: that's okay.
Speaker 2: On the inside of the outside.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful, lovely to see the two of you.
Speaker 1: You're squirming right now.
Speaker 2: Thank you April for coming on and making me feel
Speaker 2: really uncomfortable for that whole chat. I really appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what other family members can we rope?
Speaker 2: And Nan would be a bit red hot.
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