Speaker 1: Dude, all of board, you do look like the kind
Speaker 1: of guy who'd be into trains.
Speaker 2: Nah, I prefer a train over a bast just because
Speaker 2: it's more smooth.
Speaker 1: Have you ever gone plane spotting?
Speaker 2: We used to walk to the end of the runway
Speaker 2: at the Gold Coast Airport because it was quite close
Speaker 2: the fence. And he's going to sound pathetic. We used
Speaker 2: to take people there when they come and visit. That
Speaker 2: was like the attraction. What kind of people? Just people
Speaker 2: that would stay with us. We were like, you should
Speaker 2: see this, come down and shoot big flying birds. I
Speaker 2: take people.
Speaker 3: There's a big burden, the scar and it flies over you.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to.
Speaker 1: Two Dating Dads. I am Maddie j Pennimash and this
Speaker 1: is a podcast all about parenting. It is the good,
Speaker 1: it is the bad, and the real later ball and
Speaker 1: if you've can't wanting any type of advice, stop right now.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Sung in a while, we have
Speaker 4: not sung. We need to do more singing. We do
Speaker 4: right right right? Write that down. I need to pull
Speaker 4: you up on something. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wait, you beat me home to my house where we
Speaker 1: are currently recording, and I was shocked at what I
Speaker 1: saw on the street. So a car parked just in
Speaker 1: the middle of the road.
Speaker 4: That's not mine. Have you seen your car?
Speaker 1: Is it right than another street? Is it we're going
Speaker 1: to I'm gotta take a photo. I'm going to post
Speaker 1: it on the Facebook's.
Speaker 4: Not that bad, are you kidding?
Speaker 2: I'm it's the person next to me. Have you seen
Speaker 2: how far across they are?
Speaker 4: People?
Speaker 1: People weren't sure they thought you were Like in the car,
Speaker 1: a guy was like stopped, he didn't know which way
Speaker 1: to go. Your car is like just parked across a
Speaker 1: whole lane just there in the street called the ambulance.
Speaker 1: And it's not even it's not even backed up.
Speaker 4: I get things out of it.
Speaker 1: It's literally just in the middle of it.
Speaker 4: I really hope.
Speaker 2: Someone just fucking cleans it up. That's the plan. But honestly,
Speaker 2: I thought that I thought it was playing on. I
Speaker 2: didn't see. The person next to me is quite far over,
Speaker 2: So it's their fault. I nearly couldn't get out of the door.
Speaker 1: You're better than that.
Speaker 4: I'm not well.
Speaker 2: I'm really you live very fresh, very fresh. I mean
Speaker 2: the pendulum swings. You know that with me?
Speaker 4: What eerr are we in now? Balance error?
Speaker 2: We spoke about it last week, and I am continuing
Speaker 2: with balance where I'm not drinking as much during the
Speaker 2: week okay, and I'm exercising much more to keep myself distracted.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know how they give mice cocaine, Yes,
Speaker 2: and then imagine weaning one of those mice off cocaine.
Speaker 4: But cocaine's the beer for the records, for the records. Yeah,
Speaker 4: just keep him distracted, keep him on a wheel.
Speaker 1: How are you.
Speaker 4: Feeling, I'm all right, okay, I'm not sleep very well.
Speaker 4: Go on, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I get like you laughed at me last time when
Speaker 2: I said this restless legs syndrome.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's really really ramped up.
Speaker 1: You know what will make you feel better? I have
Speaker 1: some very exciting years.
Speaker 2: Before you go into that news before, I just want
Speaker 2: to wish Macy a very happy birthday. I forgot sometimes
Speaker 2: we forget about Matcie.
Speaker 4: She's so quiet. She's like, hey, I'm down.
Speaker 1: Here, I've forgotten something and she's just like outside the
Speaker 1: car still, So happy birthday to MACI can we just
Speaker 1: confirm because people are wanting to know the answer to
Speaker 1: one question and one question only, have you thrown a
Speaker 1: birthday party for the one and only Macy.
Speaker 4: No, we had like a gathering.
Speaker 1: That's a party.
Speaker 4: It wasn't a party. That's a party.
Speaker 2: No, it was a gathering because April and Macy are
Speaker 2: a week apart in birthdays, different years.
Speaker 1: And did you have a birthday cake? Damn it, Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a birthday party.
Speaker 4: It didn't cost me anything. That's that's a wind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had like a little gathering, but not like Antler,
Speaker 2: not like the hurrah that was Oscars.
Speaker 1: You've become a fledged fucking dad birthday parties and all
Speaker 1: stop fighting it. You're one of us now.
Speaker 4: It's not happening anymore one of us. It's over the.
Speaker 1: Old actual dependulum swinging. It's swinging now in favor of
Speaker 1: you being an amazing dad.
Speaker 2: Don't try and fight it. Just embrace it, all right,
Speaker 2: I'll embrace it. Let me know next year when we
Speaker 2: have a you know.
Speaker 4: What, Christmas is canceled.
Speaker 1: Also, I must have I must have missed my invitation
Speaker 1: to the gathering because I must have not checked my
Speaker 1: phone because I didn't see anything coming through.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know it was happening two the day before.
Speaker 2: And there's no I know what you are like, I
Speaker 2: didn't want to add.
Speaker 1: Some extra What am I like?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 1: If you know what I'm like, well go.
Speaker 2: On, I think throwing something at you last minute, an
Speaker 2: hour away, throw away bro, I'll catch anything, okay, all right,
Speaker 2: next time I'll be like, hey, bro, this afternoon, if
Speaker 2: you can make it over to mon Vale all the
Speaker 2: way from North Bonde, packy kids up into the car,
Speaker 2: and Ellie because she's definitely invited, Elly so you don't
Speaker 2: see earlier there nodding.
Speaker 4: Then we'll do it. That was a terrible do it.
Speaker 4: That was a terrible joke. Sorry, I was trying to
Speaker 4: make you feel I did lose Eli for a couple
Speaker 4: of hours. I was wondering she was.
Speaker 2: Look, it was more of impromptu afternoon. And then someone
Speaker 2: brang a cake, and then the whole pub stopped and
Speaker 2: sang for Mazie. And then there were presents. They're gift bags.
Speaker 2: But you weren't about it. Nah, I'm kidding, fucking work
Speaker 2: me up like that. Also, someone's wedding anniversary. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if you know that.
Speaker 1: Well I do now, but I didn't. I didn't in
Speaker 1: the lead up too.
Speaker 4: I just don't. I've missed it somehow.
Speaker 1: It's only two years I know, And it's just a
Speaker 1: busy period right now. Ash, In hindsight, getting married in
Speaker 1: November was the worst month to get married because it's
Speaker 1: just so freaking busy, Like it's just it's awful.
Speaker 4: It's awful. I got a lot of my plate, Ash.
Speaker 2: I think you know someone who's more of a veteran
Speaker 2: and I'm like, coming up to eight years next year.
Speaker 1: And what advice have you got for me?
Speaker 4: Just don't forget it. Bro.
Speaker 1: In my defense, I forgot. Laura forgot. We were at
Speaker 1: a birthday party and someone who was at the birthday
Speaker 1: party was also at our wedding and they actually said,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it's your wedding anniversary coming up. And
Speaker 1: we were like, oh.
Speaker 4: We forgot to this year. We were in BALI must
Speaker 4: be nice.
Speaker 2: It was the day after and April I were kid
Speaker 2: free for a little while.
Speaker 1: What's your date of the wedding? The sixth of October.
Speaker 1: That's a tricky date. That's a hard day to remember.
Speaker 4: And is it the sixth of October? Oh?
Speaker 1: Fuck yes it is.
Speaker 2: Sorry, And it was the seventh of October and a
Speaker 2: friend that we were with came up to us and
Speaker 2: we were sitting in the lobby of the hotel, right,
Speaker 2: and he goes, hey, I.
Speaker 4: Forgot to wish you. I have the anniversary yesterday. Oh
Speaker 4: and we're like shod we all of us have sex now.
Speaker 1: Well, it was that weird moment where Laura and I
Speaker 1: we both were in the situation going we have forgotten,
Speaker 1: Like are you called doing nothing? I'm called doing nothing?
Speaker 1: But then we have to keep saying, like you're not
Speaker 1: secretly planning something, right, I'm not kind.
Speaker 4: Of disappointed when no one to see it really planned anything.
Speaker 1: I had the present under the house.
Speaker 4: And when did you let him out?
Speaker 1: That was Yeah, it was a quiet anniversary. We'll celebrate
Speaker 1: it next two years. It's not even worthy of a celebration.
Speaker 4: I just want to laugh at that.
Speaker 2: That is such like an old person sentence to say, what,
Speaker 2: we'll celebrate it next year. There's like something my grandmother
Speaker 2: would say if we forgot her birthday.
Speaker 4: She'd be like, celebrate it next year when I'm dead.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, we need to make more of an.
Speaker 2: Effort everyone does. I think, just look, you're busy, you
Speaker 2: do what you can. Thank you, thank you for understanding.
Speaker 2: You get to no. Well, I'll have a quick word
Speaker 2: to her. I recall after this ended up. I had
Speaker 2: we had, didn't you. Let's let's move on.
Speaker 6: I have.
Speaker 1: Okay, this exciting news.
Speaker 4: Ash.
Speaker 1: This will make you feel a lot better because I
Speaker 1: have something to show you, something that I've been working on.
Speaker 1: We've spoken about the fact that we need merch right.
Speaker 1: The podcast needs it. Every podcast needs to have this.
Speaker 1: It's like the full stop at the end of the sentence.
Speaker 1: We've not had it for a while.
Speaker 4: Now you've done this behind my back.
Speaker 1: The wag is over.
Speaker 2: It was like when I sponsored that football team behind
Speaker 2: your back, I've.
Speaker 1: Done the same thing.
Speaker 2: Who just wants to well, oh, you didn't know you've
Speaker 2: got No, I'm just looking at I just I'm looking
Speaker 2: at hats that say you must be not Matthew.
Speaker 4: What you didn't I did? Ah? How do I let
Speaker 4: you down?
Speaker 1: It must be nice?
Speaker 4: How do I let you down? Must have these looking good?
Speaker 2: Oh, don't get me wrong, they look great. However, I
Speaker 2: don't know if you've seen the Facebook post of how
Speaker 2: much and Andy did the same thing.
Speaker 1: No, there's was no, no, no, there's was lost touch
Speaker 1: with the common man.
Speaker 2: I know they've got must be nice hats. How similar
Speaker 2: are the hats identical? To the point they could sue it.
Speaker 2: How many did you order these five hundred?
Speaker 1: What is it really similar?
Speaker 4: It's identical? Okay, but okay, let's look it up. Look
Speaker 4: it up, look it up. Look, let's get our producer
Speaker 4: to bring that up for us.
Speaker 1: Although big point of difference. We have a full stop
Speaker 1: at the end of ours.
Speaker 4: Right, play on, I play on, I say, I think
Speaker 4: we're good. I don't know if we are. I really
Speaker 4: like it.
Speaker 1: It's like the same fune everything.
Speaker 4: Well, hang on, there's a difference.
Speaker 1: Well, there's this curve curve, there's this curved and ours
Speaker 1: is a full stop.
Speaker 2: What we should have done is should have done the
Speaker 2: Star Wars Wars version, and it could be the Yoda one.
Speaker 4: Nice must be.
Speaker 2: Nice must be, nice must be. But look, fuck, you've
Speaker 2: how many five hundred? We're gonna have to shut the
Speaker 2: podcast down because that's the whole merch budget. Now, what
Speaker 2: are we gonna do with them? Well, we might be
Speaker 2: able to sell them. Do you know what I'm going
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 4: I'm going to wear mine for the rest of the podcast.
Speaker 2: As we can't do that or we get in trouble,
Speaker 2: please wear away.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like Hamish Nandy, that big of
Speaker 1: a podcast. Surely they don't have a strong legal team
Speaker 1: behind they.
Speaker 4: Come after us. It's all good things for us, I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we actually we need to have some type of like,
Speaker 1: we need some conflict.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we want a battle. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if you're going to fight someone, go after the
Speaker 1: big dog Hamish Nandy come for us.
Speaker 2: All right, So we're bringing out a new one then
Speaker 2: that says nice, must be.
Speaker 4: Nice? Comma nice be.
Speaker 1: I do want to put my hand up and say
Speaker 1: my bad.
Speaker 4: Who else is going to put their hands up?
Speaker 2: No, you know what, it's not your fault. That's our
Speaker 2: producer's fault that she didn't double check that. Jessica.
Speaker 4: Shame shame, that's shame on you. That's a written warning.
Speaker 1: Shame on you.
Speaker 2: We'll make it work, maybe if we changed it to
Speaker 2: must be nice. Matt Okay, right, well it feels quite
Speaker 2: nice on the top of my head.
Speaker 1: Well, back to the drawing board we go.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well it's a nice try.
Speaker 2: I like the thought behind it, but you've opened up
Speaker 2: to a potential lawsuit, which you know what. Bring it on, Matthew. Yes,
Speaker 2: we spoke last week. You had Marley's orientation. I believe
Speaker 2: you had another one today week next week, and you
Speaker 2: had an information session not that long ago. Well we've
Speaker 2: had our information session finally your first one. No, no,
Speaker 2: So we did. We did it differently. We did like
Speaker 2: a school tour. Then we did oscar like a handover
Speaker 2: with a buddy or whatever. Nice, And then we did
Speaker 2: one the other day that was a handover, but we
Speaker 2: stayed in the library. The kids were in class, and
Speaker 2: they gave the informations by the kids were in class, which.
Speaker 1: Is a great way to do it. Two birds with
Speaker 1: the one stone.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 1: Continue, I like it.
Speaker 4: No one told me how boring this thing was going
Speaker 4: to be. Fuck, it was boring.
Speaker 1: This is your child's education, this is their future.
Speaker 4: I started to act out like I was at school again.
Speaker 2: April sat in front of me, and I was with
Speaker 2: a mate because all our kids going together, and I
Speaker 2: was just like poking and poking a rounder the arm
Speaker 2: or she would like murmur to one of the girls.
Speaker 2: Next t I was like, you're listening, like just little
Speaker 2: things like that. I wanted to play the penis game,
Speaker 2: but no one else wanted to play with me.
Speaker 1: You're fucking terrible.
Speaker 4: Also, the PA didn't work.
Speaker 1: That would have just lost your straight off.
Speaker 2: Straight away, I said, can you hear what are we
Speaker 2: talking about? Then they went on for fifteen twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't sleds in school too much because I've my
Speaker 2: kids about to go there for six years.
Speaker 4: But they there was like a big.
Speaker 2: Change in like New South Wales teaching curriculum about job
Speaker 2: share and whatever, which I think job share.
Speaker 4: Is great for the record. What is job share? So
Speaker 4: like a teacher because.
Speaker 2: Of the lack of teachers there are out there, right,
Speaker 2: there's job share now, so a mum can be a
Speaker 2: teacher for two days a week and there's another teacher
Speaker 2: who also teaches that class for the other three days
Speaker 2: of the week paid. It's like a part time teacher.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so like your kids have two teachers? Of course,
Speaker 2: was it a recruitment drive? No, no, no, they wanted
Speaker 2: they have to pass on the information because it's legislation
Speaker 2: that in schools Now it's it's essentially across the board.
Speaker 4: They're allowed to offer it to potential teachers. Love that before,
Speaker 4: like the school that.
Speaker 2: He's going to already implemented that because they're allowed to
Speaker 2: do it individually.
Speaker 4: But now it's like across the board.
Speaker 2: You're elite, you're illegally allowed to I could have that wrong.
Speaker 4: Once again.
Speaker 1: If you are a parent with a child entering into
Speaker 1: the school system, do not use this way.
Speaker 2: And I look and honestly I cannot concentrate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at all it is. It's obviously I care where
Speaker 1: my child goes. But at the same time, the school,
Speaker 1: it's in our catchment. That's why we picked it. We
Speaker 1: know it's a goodish school. Like it's KINDI as well,
Speaker 1: Like I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know how critical is it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, if it's bad, I'll figure that out when
Speaker 1: I drop them off and I start funning out that
Speaker 1: is bad.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think, like, I'm not good with information.
Speaker 2: Don't give me any information, give me visuals.
Speaker 4: How come you just didn't? If it was a puppet show,
Speaker 4: I would be like, but yeah.
Speaker 2: It was hard work two hours.
Speaker 4: That's come on on a plastic seat. How's your back fucked?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And look love the school. I went there as a kid,
Speaker 2: so not the school's great. I already know it's great.
Speaker 2: I looked over at April and I said, this is
Speaker 2: really a one parent job totally. You don't need me
Speaker 2: here for this. But then they were like, we're going
Speaker 2: to give you all of this information in a pack.
Speaker 2: Just give me the fucking pack and give you went
Speaker 2: two hours back. Look, it was necessary information.
Speaker 4: I get it. Okay, I get it. They've got to
Speaker 4: do it, and.
Speaker 2: But it was so boring. I look over and a
Speaker 2: dad another dad has nodded off and I'm talking swaying.
Speaker 1: He was like, I don't know if we can post
Speaker 1: a video because I can't. I saw the video and
Speaker 1: it was like someone was hit with a tranquilize.
Speaker 2: I can't because he's going to go to school with
Speaker 2: my kids, going to find out he could be dangerous.
Speaker 1: But he was sitting on the edge of a desk like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was fully upright.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like in the back corner did no one
Speaker 1: tap him on the shoulder and say, hey, dude, you
Speaker 1: gotta I was jealous.
Speaker 4: I was like, how do you do that? Good effort fall?
Speaker 2: Honestly, And then afterwards, fucking that guy was full of energy.
Speaker 2: It was running up and down and then I it
Speaker 2: finished up and all the parents congregated out in the
Speaker 2: front of the library, and you know me, I don't
Speaker 2: really like a lot of people, you know, like, I
Speaker 2: get a bit overwhelmed very much. So I got really overwhelmed,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I just said to April, I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm just going to go and sit over there. I
Speaker 2: think I tried to call you to try just focus
Speaker 2: on one person. Thanks for answering, by the way, sorry,
Speaker 2: And I was like, Okay, well, I need to just
Speaker 2: distract myself because I was feeling a little bit overwhelmed
Speaker 2: with all like the interaction. And then I'm sitting there
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, the bell goes and within
Speaker 2: ten seconds, I'm surrounded by fucking kids. Like so I
Speaker 2: was like, and then I came back, and no one
Speaker 2: else knew except for April, that I needed to just
Speaker 2: get away from the situation. And my mates that were
Speaker 2: there were just like, I just look over and you're
Speaker 2: fucking sick with a bunch of kids.
Speaker 4: So anyway, do.
Speaker 1: You think you'll be the type of parent who donates
Speaker 1: their time to the cafeteria?
Speaker 4: Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: They Actually there's a guy who works in the cafeteria
Speaker 2: who's got kids that go to the school there.
Speaker 4: He's a cool dude. I liked him.
Speaker 1: He was not probably because he was talking about food,
Speaker 1: because they do make it sound very enticing. They were like,
Speaker 1: the kids love it when they come to got their
Speaker 1: lunch and they seem the more dad in the cafeteria.
Speaker 1: And I was like really, I was like, hanging a second,
Speaker 1: you're just trying to fucking bait me for that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Oscar to see me. He was like.
Speaker 1: That, Yeah, we had an orientation this morning for high school.
Speaker 1: She's just skipping it all together. Will do You've got
Speaker 1: a There are people who, at the age of one
Speaker 1: and two are already enrolled at high school.
Speaker 4: Is that why when you came in after me?
Speaker 2: You waited until I wasn't looking at what you were wearing,
Speaker 2: and then you ran up the stairs and I looked
Speaker 2: up and you were in a nice collared shirt tucked in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was looking respectable. They were screening us already.
Speaker 4: Fuck, are you serious? That is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: You have to enroll them before grade three to begin
Speaker 1: with the chance to be considered for a particular school
Speaker 1: for Yeah, I won't say the name of the school,
Speaker 1: but you have to there. There were people there in
Speaker 1: the orientation. One of the head of departments was like,
Speaker 1: just out of interest, you've got some kids here.
Speaker 4: How old are yours?
Speaker 1: How old are yours? There was a mom there who
Speaker 1: was due and four weeks who was already at the
Speaker 1: orientation for high school life.
Speaker 4: Get a get a life. That's all I've got to
Speaker 4: say to that, Like if if your place your child's future,
Speaker 4: it's his future, not mine, like suck it up.
Speaker 2: And then I went to a I went, okay, they
Speaker 2: explained a lot, so I just I'll just keep a
Speaker 2: mouth shut now.
Speaker 1: But there was a there was a part they did
Speaker 1: a talk and then they afterwards they split people up
Speaker 1: into different groups, and they then give you a tour
Speaker 1: of the school and they said, listen closely. Right now,
Speaker 1: we're going to explain to you how your groups get
Speaker 1: split up. And as a joke, they were like, and
Speaker 1: these two instructions, listen carefully because if you get it wrong,
Speaker 1: this is how we know who are the good parents
Speaker 1: and the bad parents.
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh fuck, that was me. I'd
Speaker 4: be fucked.
Speaker 1: I stood outside and I was like, who's the good group?
Speaker 4: Where's my group? Oh my god, I just can't get
Speaker 4: over there.
Speaker 1: Everyone everyone had their like they're like student leader who
Speaker 1: then took them on their tour. I was there by myself,
Speaker 1: how's left behind? Wondering the whole and then like just
Speaker 1: followed a group. I was like, okay, there's got no
Speaker 1: chance anyway. I think, okay, I can't get my head
Speaker 1: around there.
Speaker 4: But why, like, why do you want the girls to
Speaker 4: go to this particular school? Is it like a it's
Speaker 4: a private school.
Speaker 1: It's a private school, and they value not only education,
Speaker 1: but but co curricular education as well. Ash we want
Speaker 1: to give them an experience that covers all areas of
Speaker 1: life in addition to drama, music, sport as well as education.
Speaker 4: Given risties and the bushes and then education, is it?
Speaker 1: I didn't that wasn't on the pamphlet.
Speaker 2: That's definitely what's happening in some Catholic school is the
Speaker 2: handies handies Saturday mornings. Yeah, look, I just think, man,
Speaker 2: it's both girls.
Speaker 4: I just want fip a coin. Who gets it? No,
Speaker 4: I reckon, we know who's going to get it. I
Speaker 4: think that's okay.
Speaker 2: But just for the record, yes, everyone listening out there,
Speaker 2: I think for the record, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I agree, Okay, I'm glad that. But look, also, okay,
Speaker 4: I know whose idea it was.
Speaker 2: I know exactly whose idea was to go whose she
Speaker 2: shall remain nameless, Laura Ellie.
Speaker 1: No, to be honest, it was my sister who listens
Speaker 1: to this podcast. So I do want to say thanks
Speaker 1: to my sister. No, you don't, I do know, ire
Speaker 1: winking at me. I want the kids. Ideally they all
Speaker 1: go to the same school with the cousins. The cousins,
Speaker 1: that's great, perfect, But do you know what's happened? All
Speaker 1: this preparation for school next year has given me one
Speaker 1: of the words, weeks of my life.
Speaker 4: Explain. So on Monday morning, I've got.
Speaker 1: A text that sent shivers down my spine. It read,
Speaker 1: don't forget everybody. This week is lunchbox week.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what they do to try and little baby steps.
Speaker 4: Week in week out. I know what they do.
Speaker 1: If any parent's out there, explain what that is. So
Speaker 1: there's certain little things, activities, milestones that they like the
Speaker 1: kids to do who are transitioning to KINDI this is
Speaker 1: at daycare. One of them is like you for the
Speaker 1: week you wear your school uniform to week you know,
Speaker 1: you practice what's going to happen next year. Lunchbox week
Speaker 1: and my daycare, for the record, is one where the
Speaker 1: food is provided. We never have to pack a lunch,
Speaker 1: which is just beautiful. That task, the fact that I
Speaker 1: don't have to do that each morning, it makes me
Speaker 1: so happy. It's painful, bro, It's fucking awful. So get
Speaker 1: this text lunchbox Week. And I also I'm conscious of
Speaker 1: the fact that you don't want your kid to be
Speaker 1: the only one. Oh shit, hang on a second, damn it.
Speaker 1: I forgot to upload these photos for money for a
Speaker 1: show and tell sorry, that's another thought. This is very classic.
Speaker 1: Remind this record. So this is like, I need to
Speaker 1: upload these photos because Marley keeps.
Speaker 2: There's parents out there now listening to this check and
Speaker 2: they did the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: I always forget. So my hey, lunchbox week, what do
Speaker 1: we got? And of course, like Monday, Monday afternoon is
Speaker 1: when I do my shopping.
Speaker 4: There's some old gold rowings.
Speaker 1: So open the pantry. I have a pack of Doritos
Speaker 1: that we were weirdly given by Halloween. People gave out
Speaker 1: chips perfect ground that in the lunch box it goes.
Speaker 1: I have an old apple that's almost soft to touch
Speaker 1: because it's at the bottom back corner of the fridge.
Speaker 1: I'm like cool. I put that in there as well.
Speaker 4: Still fresh.
Speaker 1: And then Marley goes, I really want something. Everyone gets something.
Speaker 4: I believe it.
Speaker 7: If the apple is squishy, it means it's ripe. Anyway,
Speaker 7: moving up, it bounced yeah. And then Marley was like,
Speaker 7: I need a treat. People get a treat. And I thought,
Speaker 7: do they get a treat? And she goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: You know those chop chip cookies, my chopship cookies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I take an ownership of that box.
Speaker 4: I've eaten majority of them.
Speaker 1: They're very good. Marley says, can you please give me
Speaker 1: one of those? Everybody gets a treat? And I said,
Speaker 1: I think I remember getting a treat like you get
Speaker 1: like a little some so pretty easy lunchbox she had changed.
Speaker 1: She had an off Apple, a packet of Doritos, and
Speaker 1: one chop chip cookie wrapped up in glad wrap.
Speaker 4: That's a good effort.
Speaker 1: Came picked her up.
Speaker 4: She'd eate none of it.
Speaker 1: Teacher had to pull me aside and be like, just
Speaker 1: the cookies had nuts in it. And then the Toritos
Speaker 1: were not good. They were like, oh, we try not
Speaker 1: to give them too many sweets as well. So I
Speaker 1: got reprimanded when I picked her up and you were like,
Speaker 1: it's okay, tomorrow, I'll send it. I'll send the room
Speaker 1: with McDonald's.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, we did talk about this last week and
Speaker 2: last year. I'm pretty sure the exact same thing happened.
Speaker 2: Did you have the same We didn't do it last
Speaker 2: you witnessed it.
Speaker 4: Maybe she maybe because she was in that group.
Speaker 2: And I do recall you complaining about still having to
Speaker 2: pay full child fees.
Speaker 1: That's right, yeah, were still they're getting a week off food.
Speaker 1: It's also extra shit because Lola is missing out Lola's
Speaker 1: group which is still upstairs but separate another room. None
Speaker 1: of those kids are having lunchbox week Every morning I
Speaker 1: pack Miley's lunchbox and Lola's going.
Speaker 4: But what about me?
Speaker 1: I want a lunch box.
Speaker 2: It's hell yeah, look nightmare hell out there, Ash, I
Speaker 2: know it. And I've been making Oscar well, April does
Speaker 2: majority of I made Oscar's lunch last night for today.
Speaker 4: What do you have?
Speaker 2: He has a vegemint sandwich every day, loves it. That's
Speaker 2: that's a start and also handy hint. I'm going to
Speaker 2: give you a tip.
Speaker 4: Laid on me.
Speaker 2: Get one of those little Bento box with their name
Speaker 2: on it. You can go sandwich fruit, keep it all
Speaker 2: separate so the fruit doesn't make the sandwich soggy?
Speaker 4: Am I a good parent? This is all Aple's doing?
Speaker 1: What is this weird universe that I'm working on it?
Speaker 2: If it was April's doing, it'll be in a fish
Speaker 2: tackle box anyway, next to the lures. Yeah, next none
Speaker 2: o the hooks, the old rusty one.
Speaker 1: This morning I did because we did some grocery shopping.
Speaker 1: I gave her some blueberries. I gave her.
Speaker 4: It took you to Wednesday to get it right.
Speaker 1: And then I gave her some cheese and some crackers.
Speaker 4: Will she eat any of it? Probably not?
Speaker 2: Has it cost me like fifteen dollars? Yes, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: April does it majority of the time. Sometimes if I'm
Speaker 2: just like on the go, I'm like done.
Speaker 4: But how are you?
Speaker 1: So very good?
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's a paint.
Speaker 2: Macy's going to that school next year, so I'll be
Speaker 2: making two lunches.
Speaker 1: Was it you who told me the I g A
Speaker 1: sells lunchboxes? No friend of mine. They have I g
Speaker 1: their local I G A. I think I think they're
Speaker 1: up a Noosa their local. Ida's a long way to
Speaker 1: go to your lunch.
Speaker 4: They are just you got a boogie on that side. Sorry,
Speaker 4: I've just seen it. It's not like I let you
Speaker 4: talk to it. He made me laugh and just went.
Speaker 1: Clean it.
Speaker 4: Can I just yeah.
Speaker 1: The young boy who was taking orientation this morning, he
Speaker 1: did it. It was a little strange. And then midway through,
Speaker 1: as when miss meandering around the school, I look at
Speaker 1: him and he's picking his nose and he ate it nice.
Speaker 4: It's hungry.
Speaker 2: Obviously his parents didn't packing lunch lunchboxes from I g
Speaker 2: a yes, but I'll get April to send you a
Speaker 2: website that has the what we have great and the
Speaker 2: middle comes out so you can watch it separately or
Speaker 2: no one likes to show off, I'm going to show
Speaker 2: it right off.
Speaker 1: You have a video that you've been teasing.
Speaker 2: I have a video that I've been teasing you. Our
Speaker 2: producer couldn't watch it, so disclaimer for you right now.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you recall Macy did what we
Speaker 4: thought was a massive shit.
Speaker 2: I showed you and it was like as thick as
Speaker 2: my arm. I remember, Yeah, someone's beaten it. Someone has
Speaker 2: beaten Is this off the internet or is this a friend?
Speaker 2: This is so you know my friend Mike love Mike, Mike,
Speaker 2: handsome Mike.
Speaker 1: His kid is very handsome Tom.
Speaker 4: What's this kid called Lenny?
Speaker 1: Lenny? What's her name?
Speaker 2: Oscar's best friend? Yeah, Oscar's best friend Lenny. Anyway, so
Speaker 2: this is look just mind you. This is in Bali, okay,
Speaker 2: which also a solid shit in Bali. That also just quickly,
Speaker 2: I did a ship in Bali. Clean snap that in Bali.
Speaker 1: Why have you withheld that from me for so long?
Speaker 4: I forgot until just now A clean snap.
Speaker 1: That's thank you, very good effort, well done, well done.
Speaker 1: Can I watch the video?
Speaker 4: Yeah? It looks yeah.
Speaker 1: I love how it starts off and there's like eight
Speaker 1: pairs of feet.
Speaker 2: We're all, yeah, yeah, there two families.
Speaker 4: There's actually three families.
Speaker 1: In there selling tickets front row seats.
Speaker 4: What you're so proud of?
Speaker 2: It looks like, oh my god, it looks like a
Speaker 2: grid iron football. It's hugely we can show people that,
Speaker 2: do you know?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You can? Do you know?
Speaker 2: It was funny because I feel that I film that,
Speaker 2: But before I filmed it, I'm in the other villa
Speaker 2: and Mike, thirty four year old Mike, comes a running
Speaker 2: and he's like bro.
Speaker 4: Don't ever look at this anyway. We've all just come
Speaker 4: in and there's Lenny just.
Speaker 2: Like so happy, so proud of himself, And I was like, fuck,
Speaker 2: that is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Is that like a twenty four hour period from the
Speaker 1: How long has that been building up.
Speaker 4: For a couple of days?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, good on him forgetting it out. That must he
Speaker 2: be so he was like a different kid.
Speaker 4: It was like, yeah, he came out. He was just like,
Speaker 4: I'm like, who's this? Skey, little boy?
Speaker 1: You didn't disappoint Thank you for that video.
Speaker 2: I knew you needed to see that. Just a quick
Speaker 2: update on something last week. I carried on like a
Speaker 2: child whilst oscar carried on like a child during a
Speaker 2: massive tantrum which we tried to want one up each other,
Speaker 2: and I threw a NERF gun into the back paddock
Speaker 2: that was, I would say, chest high of.
Speaker 4: Weeds and grass and other plant like formations.
Speaker 1: Thank you for such a descriptive picture of your backyard.
Speaker 4: But on Friday I had someone coming to clear it out.
Speaker 1: The nerf gun or the garden.
Speaker 4: The garden.
Speaker 1: You're a gardener.
Speaker 4: It was hang on, no, no.
Speaker 8: No, you have a gardener now all and and you
Speaker 8: fucking messaged me and said, what's the name of your cleaner?
Speaker 4: No cleaner, opted for the gardener instead.
Speaker 1: Oh, you've got like a suite of servants working to
Speaker 1: your manner.
Speaker 2: They all live under the house, cached up anyway. You
Speaker 2: know how I've launched this nerve gud. Guess what's turned
Speaker 2: back up again?
Speaker 4: The nerve guard.
Speaker 2: It's I was like, you've done an amazing job. And
Speaker 2: I looked at down and sitting down there on a
Speaker 2: rock nice and perched is the nerf gun.
Speaker 1: That's a good gardener.
Speaker 4: Yeah, keep him. Yeah. He also found a hose useful
Speaker 4: and a dead body moving on really really quickly, really quickly.
Speaker 1: I was attacked by a wild animal.
Speaker 4: Where at were you in my backyard?
Speaker 1: I went for a run the other day, Ash, You
Speaker 1: know I like to run.
Speaker 4: I do you like to go for a run around Rose?
Speaker 2: A trot a trot as they yet lovely round there
Speaker 2: by the water just gorgeous, the sea breeze up your nostrils. Nice,
Speaker 2: must be very very good, very plant that seed will
Speaker 2: water it in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: We'll grow like my backyard.
Speaker 1: So then a mid run three kilometers in there's a
Speaker 1: little section there's Rose Bay Village where there's a couple
Speaker 1: of shops, gets a little bit busy. But when I
Speaker 1: was running, maybe five thirty in the afternoon, dodge a
Speaker 1: few people. I run past the group, like biz, because
Speaker 1: you're so fast. Yeah, I run like you cook.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I run past this guy who has two dogs,
Speaker 1: and one of them leaps up right. It's all happened
Speaker 1: in the blink of an eye. It's quite hard for
Speaker 1: me to talk about because it was very traumatic. Again,
Speaker 1: that's type of dog it was. It was an English bulldog,
Speaker 1: little fat thing. Do you mean a little fat thing,
Speaker 1: A little ferocious thing, A bulldog?
Speaker 2: English bulldog? Yeah, yeah, a big fat, thick thing. It
Speaker 2: leaps up, flies through the air.
Speaker 4: Okay. Yeah. The owner has it on a lead.
Speaker 2: Lead snaps snatches like okay, I didn't snap to make
Speaker 2: that part up. The dog is flying, comes right for
Speaker 2: me and bites me on the top of my leg,
Speaker 2: missing my dick by a matter of millimeters.
Speaker 4: No, you've got a wound.
Speaker 1: I've got a wound.
Speaker 4: I don't. Happened a few days ago. I don't know
Speaker 4: if it's healed.
Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't inspected it lately. So it may
Speaker 1: not be a photo of have a photo, but I'll
Speaker 1: show you the actual wound.
Speaker 4: Just cover your eyes. You've got a puncture that's from
Speaker 4: a dog.
Speaker 1: That's from a dog. Did they put the dog down?
Speaker 1: So this all happened really quickly, and I was in shock.
Speaker 1: I was there going you know when you're in shock
Speaker 1: and you go.
Speaker 4: Shocked hands, you're at shock. Faith.
Speaker 1: I looked at I looked at the owner went I
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't speak, and he goes, have you been attacked?
Speaker 1: And I said, yes, I I had saliva, like all
Speaker 1: over my pants.
Speaker 4: It's pronounced semen. I've always got to go disgusting anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he said, he said, did he bite you?
Speaker 1: And I said, look at look at the pack is
Speaker 1: the wound you look at the pagans riddled with saliva?
Speaker 1: And then I kind of thought it's not that bad.
Speaker 1: And you know when you have a moment where you.
Speaker 4: Think you're a fully grown man with it, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean.
Speaker 2: I always have that moment, not the story, when you
Speaker 2: get when you get attacked by something, You're like, I'm
Speaker 2: not a child, I'm a fully grown man.
Speaker 4: Let's move on with it.
Speaker 1: As in like just suck it up and walk on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, do I really ark
Speaker 1: up and be like what the fuck?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 1: I don't know what. I don't know what accent that was,
Speaker 1: but I was like, do I get really angry because
Speaker 1: it's a pretty serious thing attacked.
Speaker 4: I think it depends on what the owners like. Well,
Speaker 4: he was very apologizing, I'm so to get angry.
Speaker 1: And also I was on a good pace. I can't
Speaker 1: let you down, so I was I'm just gonna let
Speaker 1: this one slide. But I did think I need to
Speaker 1: go the line of like I walk my daughters.
Speaker 4: Through here, I gotta been my daughter dramatic.
Speaker 1: I could be without a dick right now.
Speaker 4: Then I'd have a crack. Then I'd have a crack.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I kept I kept running.
Speaker 2: And I think if it was like if the owner
Speaker 2: was like sorry, bro, you'd be like sorry, bra, like yeah,
Speaker 2: how about your fucking control?
Speaker 1: Your don't sort your dog out? And the dog also
Speaker 1: was was. I think he just got startled, startled by
Speaker 1: how fast do you go? How far the stride of
Speaker 1: a young agile man. I was wearing a bright yellow
Speaker 1: shirt as well.
Speaker 4: Maybe they do like running in Fluoro except for at night.
Speaker 1: Big flu a guy, Big for a guy. I came home.
Speaker 1: I told Ellie the story, and Ellie was like.
Speaker 4: Let's get it.
Speaker 1: It's a wild beast.
Speaker 4: Looten Rose.
Speaker 1: Take the children there, come back. So just a word
Speaker 1: of warning to anyone out out there who may be
Speaker 1: walking around Rose Bay.
Speaker 4: There's a wild dog on the liff.
Speaker 1: You come across an English bulldog, shoot it, tread ca.
Speaker 4: Hit it with your car. More than one just on that.
Speaker 2: I got attacked by cock spaniel two days ago running
Speaker 2: as well, just saying it didn't bite me, but it
Speaker 2: came after me in what way.
Speaker 4: Well, let's put it this way.
Speaker 2: I was doing six and a half minute kilometers that
Speaker 2: kilometer five and a half minutes.
Speaker 4: You adjase me.
Speaker 2: The actually adrenaline is very he me. It was really
Speaker 2: old cocker spaniel too. Owner was inside, I know, yeah,
Speaker 2: got away.
Speaker 4: What do the owners say?
Speaker 2: I was gone, I didn't stop. It just came after me,
Speaker 2: little brad cocker spaniel.
Speaker 1: The streets of Sydney.
Speaker 4: Very dangerous dogs.
Speaker 1: To all runners out there, be careful after herself.
Speaker 4: Cocker spaniels, they'll get you. Beware ash the competition.
Speaker 1: Okay, my neck is cracked like you're getting old.
Speaker 4: I'm so old.
Speaker 1: The competition, Yes, the hundredth and second giveaway episode in
Speaker 1: Hendon Island. We have a winner. Yep, we have announced
Speaker 1: winner on social media. But for those who are not aware,
Speaker 1: the winner is.
Speaker 2: Her name's Hannah and I don't know if you remember
Speaker 2: the video, but her kids got messed up with a
Speaker 2: bit of blue paint.
Speaker 1: I almost thought, I almost thought, this is such an
Speaker 1: insane amount of paint, blue paint that has been spread
Speaker 1: throughout the house. I thought it might have been a
Speaker 1: fake video. I thought, I did wonder. I was like,
Speaker 1: has Hannah. Has Hannah just like gotten a tub of
Speaker 1: dual luxe paint and just tipped it over everyone to
Speaker 1: win this prize?
Speaker 4: If so still worthy?
Speaker 1: If you're going to destroy your own apartment like that,
Speaker 1: you deserve an absolutely. But a few people said, we
Speaker 1: want to hear from Hannah, we want the backstory.
Speaker 4: Yes, I agree, and we do have it.
Speaker 1: I have a number. Let's give it a quick call. Hannah.
Speaker 4: Congratulations, Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Who was so excited.
Speaker 1: When you discovered that scene? A crime scene? If you
Speaker 1: will have blue paint? Did you ever think that it
Speaker 1: would win? You a trip to a tropical island.
Speaker 5: No, no, look, it almost makes it.
Speaker 2: Worth it almost is the blue paint still in the carpet.
Speaker 5: We got professional carpet cleaners in. Well, they actually said
Speaker 5: they could have it.
Speaker 4: I was not expecting that.
Speaker 6: So what you've said on the videos is just the
Speaker 6: start of it.
Speaker 9: That went through that poor patrol car went through all
Speaker 9: and went through all the bedroom.
Speaker 1: Who was in charge of the kids when this happened.
Speaker 5: Well, both me and my husband.
Speaker 4: Oh, you have to say that.
Speaker 1: Was it a case where things were silent for a
Speaker 1: little bit and yet no?
Speaker 6: No, so this was this happened. They must have been
Speaker 6: up at the cracker down. We were still asleep. The
Speaker 6: big brother got the paint out of the car.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so the big brother got the paint out, and we, honestly,
Speaker 9: we were asleep and we woke up like a key
Speaker 9: that core patrol car going up and down the hallway,
Speaker 9: and that's when we walked into the disaster.
Speaker 1: God just got worse and worse and worse. Although I
Speaker 1: have to give it is it Tom, is it thee
Speaker 1: I have to give.
Speaker 4: Him credit for the eyebrows.
Speaker 9: Oh look, I.
Speaker 5: Think that's why I couldn't even get cross with him
Speaker 5: at the time.
Speaker 4: That's so funny.
Speaker 1: Did you get any type of punishment for that?
Speaker 2: No, well just save it up, wait till he's eighteen,
Speaker 2: and then punish him.
Speaker 9: I think when you're in that situation, you realize there's
Speaker 9: nothing that can fix it.
Speaker 5: So and it would look it was a crillic paint
Speaker 5: as well, Like it wasn't even like, oh, just admit defeat.
Speaker 2: Basically, well, you've earned You've earned this holiday, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll be honest.
Speaker 1: When we got through all the submissions, we saw yours
Speaker 1: and instantly we were like, holy shit, this.
Speaker 4: One is going to be near and possible to beat.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're still finding, like we're still finding.
Speaker 5: Then.
Speaker 4: I love that never changed. I've never changed, never changed.
Speaker 5: No, he has been like that forever. And you look, keeps.
Speaker 4: Us, keep us business.
Speaker 1: You're very lucky. So well done. Once again, enjoy the holiday.
Speaker 1: Don't bring paint. I don't know the Sundays is carpet
Speaker 1: it or I think it's floorboards.
Speaker 2: We'll make sure that it's plastic wrapped. Well, she was
Speaker 2: lovely deserving of a holiday. Interesting that she replaced it
Speaker 2: with more carpet. Did she not learn from a mistake.
Speaker 1: That's on New Hannah. If it happens again, don't come
Speaker 1: back to us for a second holiday.
Speaker 2: I would suggest with children like that, vinyl replaceable.
Speaker 4: Now for a serious message, Matthew.
Speaker 2: Usually this is the part of the episode where we
Speaker 2: have a segment one hacks or what's the other one?
Speaker 4: We do live.
Speaker 2: But not today, not today, We're just going to do
Speaker 2: some questions. That's a serious announcement. I know, I got
Speaker 2: really seriousness.
Speaker 1: That was great, good time, good time. If you ever
Speaker 1: have to deliver bad news, you're the guy to do it. No, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it was nice to get a taste of your serious
Speaker 1: voice for a few second. We have questions. Can I
Speaker 1: ask you this question? Ash is lying about your kid's
Speaker 1: age to get cheaper tickets?
Speaker 2: Appropriate as absolutely play on green Light for me? I
Speaker 2: did this, Remember I did this with Oscar because at
Speaker 2: sorry manley Man, specifically, when you take your kid under four,
Speaker 2: they're free. So I just had to convince Oscar that
Speaker 2: he was four until we got in.
Speaker 1: Do you not worry that you're setting up your child
Speaker 1: for a life of dishonesty.
Speaker 4: Like he's going to become a hard and criminal because
Speaker 4: of it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know the foundations are they said at a young age.
Speaker 2: If he can go from lying about his age to
Speaker 2: being a hardened criminal that think of the steps along
Speaker 2: the way, if he can get through those, that's something
Speaker 2: that you should be celebrated.
Speaker 1: Okay, A couple of quick questions. Easter show? Can you lie?
Speaker 4: Lie?
Speaker 1: Okay? What about restaurant for lie? Okay? Okay?
Speaker 4: What about all?
Speaker 1: Okay, here's one for you, not to put you on
Speaker 1: the spot, but I would appreciate your honesty right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think it's two and a half when you have
Speaker 1: to start bowing there he is aeroplane, Yeah, aeroplane you can't.
Speaker 2: You can do it domestically, yeah, but internationally you can't
Speaker 2: because you need a passport.
Speaker 1: Right, So what about flying domestic? Have you ever purchased
Speaker 1: a ticket and lied about the age of your child
Speaker 1: to get them a free seat, because you know that
Speaker 1: when they're like two and one month, they're still going
Speaker 1: to sit on your lap anyway, right? Yeah, and they don't.
Speaker 1: I don't ask for the idea because you just check
Speaker 1: in at the key ask. No one knows if they are.
Speaker 4: He just kick up a stink.
Speaker 1: Have you lied?
Speaker 2: I'm told I'm told, I'm told told, I don't want
Speaker 2: to dip a certain lady in our household.
Speaker 4: I don't want to throw her any under the bar. No,
Speaker 4: we haven't.
Speaker 2: Also, hotels is a good one as well.
Speaker 4: Oh what about you? Surely sure? Never?
Speaker 5: Not me?
Speaker 4: Not once? Too much to lose? Eh?
Speaker 2: Oh well, can't wait for us going to be a
Speaker 2: hardened criminal?
Speaker 4: That's any fun? Okay, I've got on for you, Matt.
Speaker 2: And look, this one was a running joke in my
Speaker 2: house for a while.
Speaker 4: It was a joke for me, but maybe not for her.
Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on a push present?
Speaker 2: Now? First of all, let me answer that. Let's explain
Speaker 2: what a push present is. It's when you gift your wife, partner, whatever,
Speaker 2: a present after they've pushed out a child.
Speaker 4: I personally think the child is the present. I agree,
Speaker 4: you agree with that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I didn't get Laura a push present partly because she
Speaker 1: earns more money than me that if she wants a present,
Speaker 1: she's probably better off buying it herself.
Speaker 4: Totally agreed. But I look, it's pretty it's pretty awful.
Speaker 1: What women have to go through.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with the whole, but it's not like it's a
Speaker 2: non consensual birth.
Speaker 1: No, I know, but when you look at when you
Speaker 1: weigh up the two scenarios, the roles and responsibilities of
Speaker 1: pregnancy and childbirth, man versus woman.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Fuck?
Speaker 4: But when did it?
Speaker 1: It's very the the imbalance is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: But when did it become about materialistic items? Think about that.
Speaker 2: That was a really big sentence out of my mouth.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry, But when did it become about the
Speaker 2: material things?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 4: Okay, why can't you just be like.
Speaker 2: You know what, You've done an amazing job pushing out
Speaker 2: our child. Yeah, I'm going to do my very best
Speaker 2: now to be the most supportive, be the most present.
Speaker 1: Isn't that?
Speaker 4: Isn't that father?
Speaker 1: Isn't that just isn't the bare minimum?
Speaker 4: Yeah? No, But why does it have to be about materials?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Okay, what's the diamond going to do for you? It's
Speaker 2: not going to cook you fucking dinner, is it. I
Speaker 2: just think it's ridiculous. I think I would much rather
Speaker 2: buy April something because not because of that, just out
Speaker 2: of the kindness of my heart, not because of I know,
Speaker 2: I make myfi.
Speaker 4: Look, if that's what you're into, fine.
Speaker 1: Look for Laura and I were not big present people. Obviously,
Speaker 1: when you look back at the anniversary, we've got tie
Speaker 1: takeaway in front of the TV. You know we're not
Speaker 1: extravagant gift bearers. So parents, I thank you. Fuck what
Speaker 1: was I thinking? I was thinking that the Three Wise
Speaker 1: Men like bearing gifts. Yes, I mean you look at
Speaker 1: look at Mary's the name Mary. So then she gave
Speaker 1: birth to Jesus and what does she get? She got
Speaker 1: three push presents?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but from from other people, from other families. From
Speaker 2: you get a gift, it's you, technically you, I think. Okay,
Speaker 2: I think if we start social media these days, if
Speaker 2: we put the expectation on couples to provide push present,
Speaker 2: there's some people out there that can't provide a push
Speaker 2: fucking diamond like Pooky.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a diamond, ash doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be that's what.
Speaker 4: That's what.
Speaker 2: That's what If you go back to the origin of it,
Speaker 2: of this whole ridiculous thing, it's actually diamonds.
Speaker 4: But I'm certain it's actually diamonds.
Speaker 1: But I do agree with you. I think there is
Speaker 1: no greater present that can be given to your partner
Speaker 1: who has just given birth to your child. Then being
Speaker 1: entirely present, giving their time, their energy, to helping around
Speaker 1: the house, to being an attentive partner, cooking, cleaning, doing
Speaker 1: everything they can to lighten the load for their partner.
Speaker 1: That is the best gift of.
Speaker 2: All, well said, my wife's a jeweler. She's got all
Speaker 2: in your own present. Let's leave it at your words,
Speaker 2: the bare minimum. Yeah, if you've liked this episode, please
Speaker 2: leave a review. Hey, can I just say I'm trying
Speaker 2: to finish a sentence.
Speaker 1: I know, but sorry, I apologize, but I do have
Speaker 1: to say because at the moment, I don't know what's happened. Okay,
Speaker 1: but we've been blessed with a couple more listeners.
Speaker 4: Oh, we have welcome.
Speaker 1: Like, we watch it very closely.
Speaker 2: Let's just rephrase that Matthew watches it very closely. I
Speaker 2: don't know how to access it. Also, you haven't given
Speaker 2: me authority to edit any documents in this business, which
Speaker 2: I like.
Speaker 1: But lately we've had a couple new people listening to
Speaker 1: the podcast, and please stay.
Speaker 4: Stay and share. If we each share to ten other people, we'll.
Speaker 1: Be in a much better place and where we're at
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 4: Yes, so to those would be nice to.
Speaker 1: Those new listeners, is that anyone work.
Speaker 4: It will be nice, It would be nice.
Speaker 1: It would be nice.
Speaker 4: That'll get them. We're coming find out that. Please leave
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Speaker 4: Okay, really I'm joining.
Speaker 1: It's hard.
Speaker 4: I'm joining off the back of that.
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Speaker 4: I love it. Two point four We've got two point four.
Speaker 1: But yeah, join us. It's you won't regret it. It'd
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Speaker 4: We don't think you'll regretted. No, you won't and you
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Speaker 1: So let's get out of here.
Speaker 4: Let's go, Bye bye.
Speaker 1: Two Doting Dads podcast acknowledges the traditional custodians of country
Speaker 1: throughout Australia and the connections to land, sea and community.
Speaker 2: We pay our respects to their elders past and present
Speaker 2: and extend that respect to all.
Speaker 4: Aboriginal and Torrestraight Islander people's today. This episode was recorded
Speaker 4: on gadagal Land.