1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 2: It's so much easier to travel than it used to be. 3 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 2: When we traveled beyond two thousand, there was no GPS, 4 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,320 Speaker 2: there was no blah blah blah. Now you can put 5 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 2: on your phone that wherever you are and say I 6 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 2: want to go to blah blah, and you press a button. 7 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: It tells you how to get there on the subway, 8 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 2: how much it will cost, how much, how long it 9 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 2: will takes. It's so much easier now with the phones. 10 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 2: But I left that to them obviously. 11 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: How cold was. 12 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 2: It, Well, it was we had great, great weather. I 13 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 2: think they've got some big weather coming. But it was 14 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 2: blue sky and maybe five or six degrees, so it 15 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 2: was chili but there was no wind and it was 16 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 2: blue sky. And then we had a couple of days 17 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 2: of big, fat snowflakes falling. 18 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: I can't take anything, but we did so much. 19 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 2: I've been there a few times before and I haven't 20 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 2: sort of played tourists, but we did this time. We 21 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 2: went to the Natural History Museum, to the nine eleven Museum. 22 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 2: I had been there before that I was really keen 23 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 2: for the kids to see that. We went to MoMA 24 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 2: Museum of Modern Art. We went to the Guggenheim. We 25 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 2: went to did the Statue of Liberty. We went to 26 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 2: the top of the Rockefeller. We also saw a couple 27 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 2: of Broadway shows. But we did basketball, Americ NFL, American football, 28 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 2: and ice hockey. 29 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: We did all the sports I know. We fitt. 30 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 2: I saw Hamilton, which I hadn't seen here, and I thought, well, 31 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 2: if I'm going to see a show, let's see Hamilton. 32 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 2: Oh it was just brilliant, but we were running late 33 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 2: to get in there. It was a stressful lead up 34 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 2: and we had to get you were a jack thing. 35 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: It was a bit of both, so not Liam. Liams 36 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: totally out of the equation. Liam's furious. 37 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 2: Liam's furious because we hadn't left ourselves enough time because 38 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 2: I thought, well, walking takes half an hour, and we 39 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 2: had walked up there before. But I thought, okay, let's 40 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 2: get an uber and it was just stuck in traffic 41 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 2: the whole time. So we got out and just ran 42 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 2: and ran and ran, and I thought we're going to 43 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 2: miss the first bit. I was so anxious, And in 44 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 2: the end we walked in at seven o four. The 45 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 2: show started at seven o five. We sat down as 46 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 2: the actors drides under the stage and it all begins. 47 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 2: But you know, it's an interesting place in New York 48 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 2: in that to go to any of the museums, to 49 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 2: go to any of the sporting events, full security. My 50 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 2: hips set it all off. I got padded down. I 51 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 2: got this in the advoctation and in the cold weather. 52 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 2: Take off your coat, take off your beanie. You know, 53 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 2: when you put a beanie on, you think I have 54 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 2: to keep it on all day because the hair underneath 55 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: is going to be dreadful. Taking your beanie off, going 56 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 2: through security, going through your bag. And yet the only 57 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 2: place they didn't do that was going into the theater. 58 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 2: Don't they remember that they had a president, Abraham Lincoln 59 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 2: who was assassinated in the theater. 60 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: He was shot in a theater. But their laws are 61 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: weird too. 62 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 2: From an Australian point of view, Jack's twenty he's twenty 63 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 2: one in a couple of months. 64 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 1: You can't drink until you're twenty one. 65 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 2: But they wanted to see and even for me at 66 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 2: a sporting event, they said, your driver's license, you're from overseas, 67 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 2: you have to show us your passport. 68 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? 69 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 2: This just happened at one place and I said, I'm 70 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 2: not going to bring a might bring my passport to 71 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 2: a stadium, take my coat on and off to go 72 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 2: through security. I said, I don't think this Australian government 73 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 2: would appreciate me just throwing my passport around and carrying 74 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 2: it around loosey goosey, going in and out of my coat. 75 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 2: And she said, sorry, they're all So I went to 76 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 2: the little booth next door and got a drink. Yeah, 77 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 2: but you know, you can buy a gun in America. 78 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 2: We all know this at age of eighteen. You can 79 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 2: buy a death machine at eighteen, but you can't. 80 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 1: Have a drink. That's what it's about. But we did 81 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: have a great time. It was great. 82 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 2: My two sons have very different characters. Liam is very 83 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 2: ordered and structured and likes to know what's happening throughout 84 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 2: the day. Jack just likes to sit down and eat 85 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 2: oysters and have a beer. 86 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: And isn't this wonderful? He's like the Great Gatsby Jack. 87 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 2: I look at him one minute, he's in some sort 88 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 2: of pub in Surrey Hills, and then he's on some 89 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 2: guy super yacht he bought while we were away, and 90 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 2: he used his own money for this, And I was 91 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 2: thrilled to shout them this trip, but he why wouldn't 92 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 2: you buy this when you're overseas a pair of boxing gloves. 93 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 2: He bought some boxing gloves and then he put had 94 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 2: to wheezed them into his luggage to bring them home 95 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 2: because the guy in the shop was cool and nice 96 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 2: to him, and he thought he could do his pretend 97 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 2: boxing in the shop. So he buys his boxing gloves. 98 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: What'd you buy me? I bought you a pen? Where 99 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: is this? 100 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 2: Peen? 101 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: Actually I didn't. I brought you some chocolate. Okay, where 102 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: is this? 103 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 2: I've given you the chocolate that was your present and 104 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 2: also pickleus cage. Remember I bought you a magnet this 105 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 2: Nicholas cage as a pickle. 106 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: Thank you. You're welcome. I know it's something you've wanted 107 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: for a long time. Thank you.