October 16, 2024 • 44 mins
Another 2 weeks of looking after your own kids 24/7 is done and dusted! So let'd catch up. Clint's thinking about getting a dog, Jordan is losing weight and getting ripped, Clint gets a great compliment from a listener, Mila is too good at touch rugby and needs humbling.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is an iHeartRadio New Zealand podcast. The school holidays
are over, which means the parenting hangover is back and
we've got to catch up after two weeks of solid
parenting on the tools doing the work, well at least
for my wife.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Anyway, some of you have been lost confused, not because
of the school holidays, but for the fact that we've
not been in your ears over the last two weeks.
But we're back and we're catching up on what we
got up to. Your parenting spirit guides have returned Windshime effect.
We don't have a producess still, but look, it was
a busy school holiday. We survived. We also start giving
(00:49):
it some real heavy life advice at the end of
the episode because we realize maybe we are now certified
life account.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Maybe it's time you, Maybe it's time.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, maybe it's time that we start charging and we
get people to set horizontally in leather seats and we
just tell them our life should be.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
In the feedback section of the Day's at the end
of the podcast, should you get a divorce? Jordan win
Clint will weigh in on the topic.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I hold for effect because I thought if I said
anything there you know, have I ruined it? I think
I ruined it. Now. Welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back,
welcome back. What's that song?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That's Mace? Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
There you go, We're back. We're back from school holidays.
Clint's a little bit up in personal with me because
my zoom for some reason, we zoom each other on
the laptop. It's zoomed. It's my zoom is zoomed in.
All he can see is the top of my head
to the chin of my face. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Jordan is wearing his hot guy hat today.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, I figured, first day back, I'll check on my
hot gy hat.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Hat that his wife saw and went, oh, you know
you should have bought I hope you did. You should
have bought like four of those, because it'll get dirty
and the hotness will fade over. It'll be like yeah, yeah,
and then in four months time, don't say anything, just
sweitach to a fresh hot guy hat and you'll go, oh,
he's back.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Because if you're a dad like me who doesn't no fashion,
and then your wife just comments one time on anything
like oh I like that, this is the hat forever.
She brought me this hat, and I was like, I
don't really like this hat. Then I put it on
like three days later, like I'm never gonna wear that,
and she's just like, damn, look at you in that hat.
So I've put the hat on. Guys, this is the hat.
You'll see it in the video. Okay, we'll post this,
(02:35):
but rate the hat. Okay, hot? Wait? Wait am I hot?
Or and now it'll be hat here. Put the hat
back on you just regularly, guy, and then had on Damn,
it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That you seriously need to wash your hair, bro, Like,
keep that head on.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's saltwater, man, I live at the beach. You wash it,
you go in the water, and then the hairdresser judges
you and says you haven't washed your hair, and I have.
It's just salt, bro.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Remember the two thousands when it was cool to have
dreadline and everyone was like, you don't wash dreadlocks. You
go in the ocean and the ocean washes your dreadlocks.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You know that that wasn't a thing. They would just
think as people, Well, I still wash my hair, but
as soon as you have going the salt water with
hair my length, the salt just thickens it up. Anyway,
how we went to house the kids. Really, we've just come.
Both of us have just had school holidays. Yeah, which
is the kids. The kids are off for two weeks.
For me, that's all of my three kids. For Clint
(03:34):
that's just two. Eat Maggie no tooy, while of them candy. Oh,
both of them have two weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Maggie's at kindy.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh is that Maggie's that candy?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So daycare you go straight through. But Kendy goes to
the school calendar. So yeah, they have school holidays. Yeah,
how to go pretty good. I mean I worked the
whole way through, so it didn't really affect me. Wasn't much.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
No skin off your nose.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Lucy was the superhero. She took the girls down to
the beach for a few days to her parents' place
in the Corimandel, which was good. Classic. Meggie got sick
on the first day of the school holidays, but she came.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Right, I'll pause you because we're gonna pause. Well, you're
not just gonna skim through because we're catching up. She's
taking them away. What is your in the back of
your head? Because A I have a dad mate across
the road. His thing is as soon as oh, yeah,
the wife's gone with the kids. He's like KFC Hot Wings.
Oh y, it's all he does, it's all he wants.
He'll go get a buck at a KFC hol Wings.
What's your dad thing that you're like.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh, dinner on the barbieue, dinner on the barbecue. Every night,
every dinner was cooked outdoors on the barbecue. And it
was the first week of Daylight Savings as well, So
I was like a real celebration.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You're not allowed to do that when she's there. Isn't
that like the dream?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
At the moment, I am, but I don't. Usually I
work and I don't get home until seven, So my
wife cooks dinner. But yeah, she's looking for myself. So
when I come home, I'm like, I'm gonna cook dinner
inside like some kind of it's like some kind of idiot.
So every night for dinner, every night, I had a
steak in Vigi's on the barbecue, and I stood out
(05:07):
at the barbecue to cook my dinner with either a
glass of red wine or a beer. And you know,
it's just those small things that make you feel They
made you feel like a free man.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah man, and you had nature around you, no kids,
pulling on your lead now.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And then I went inside and I watched Sopranos. This
my family, obviously, but life was very good.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And then second day, second day, you kicked the barbecue
on the garts, you started cooking, and then you're like,
kind of quiet, wish my kids were here.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
No, the probably would have happened on the day six
or seven. But it was a great five days. And
then school holidays was chill, like they went to the zoo,
they did all those things. I took them out some
mornings so Lucy could do some things. But really it
was Lucy who shouldered the weight of the school holidays,
and she did a great job. And the kids were
chomping at the bit to go back to school and kindy,
(05:56):
which is good. Do your kids get that at the
end of the holidays, they're like, we're ready to go back.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Alba and Nala and me, yeah, all
three of them. Mila was a little bit nervous because
they've been having to do this. It's kind of she's
at intermediate, which is year seven, year eight, so these
are kids that are eleven, twelve, thirteen, and she's at
her first year of intermediate. So now it's all about
applying and writing your letters and getting your speeches ready
(06:22):
to put your hand up to be like a house
leader next year or a learning center leader and all
this kind of Yeah, yeah, she's been doing them, but
it's been like eating her up during the holidays. She's
and I've realized very quickly that she's a chip off
the old block where she's had the entire she's had
the entire holidays right, and she's let it eat away
at her. But instead of just getting on top of
(06:43):
the problem or just filming the video idea that she
has in her head and just getting it done, she's
waited to like the last weekend, and then has been
like panicky at me, like, Dad, do you have good news?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Let it?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Like, are you gonna look at it? Like I've written it?
You haven't even even And I'm like, what have you
finished a whole draft? I'm not gonna look until you've
written a whole letter, and then I'll put I can
help you out, but I don't want to. I'm not
giving you the first bloody line.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I meant that that's funny, but I meant that she
was like you in a positive way. But it's also
a bit of a curse because she clearly always has
work or the project, the next project that she's working
on in the back of her mind. And I'm like
that too, Like if I have something that needs to
be done, even if it's even if I've got meant
to be having some downtime, I'm like, yeah, but I
could just have a I could chip away at it
(07:27):
now and I could get a little bit done. And
you're kind of always always thinking about always on, yeah,
always on.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, She's she's one hundred percent like that, and she's
always on. Her goes to bed, and everything will go
through her head before she closes her eyes. Even at
the age of eleven, everything is going through her head now,
Like there'll be a you're right melon and she'll be saying,
about three weeks away, yeah, what do you think will
have to have for our shoes on that trip? And
(07:54):
you're like, gosh, please, you almost want to learn the
action man sleep thing on her. Or I could just
jabber in the neck with my fingers and she'll fall
asleep and she can just sleep.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Dad, what ski boo do you think I'll wear three
winters from now? I'm just trying to work out thing will.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Be so but they all love it. They all love
school and they're all excited to go. So I'm very lucky.
I know these parents out there going, Oh, I wish
my kids would like that, but all three of my
girls are like, yeah, school's back, cool, let's go.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
It's the dream. I want to hear about your school holidays,
but before I do, otherwise I'll forget. I was giving
blood last week at the community center up the road
from US and I was one of the last ones
in there, and there was this lady, one other lady
that was giving blood too, And she's probably going to
hear this because as I was leaving. As I was
leaving the donation, she was leaving at the same time
(08:41):
as me, and she turned around and she said, I'm sorry,
I just I just have to say, and I went, oh,
she must know me from the radio. She must listen
to the Brian Clint Show on ZM. And she goes,
I absolutely love the Parenting Hangover podcast and I was like, oh,
that actually mean we've talked about this. That means more
to me, that is because than any Yeah, the radio
(09:04):
show has got the hundreds of thousands of dollars of
marketing budgets, and it's on billboards and it's broadcast nationwide.
But when someone comes over and says they listen to
the little old podcast, it was great. It was such
a little other and I had to pass it on
because I know you feel the same. And so if
that person is listening, I didn't catch your name. She
has one daughter who's quite young, and she said she
(09:27):
loves the podcast and she hates the school holiday break
because there's no podcast for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
We had a chat about millennial names a few weeks
ago that have gone like me and Clint, like people
naming their kid Peter Jordan. So right now, let's try
and guess her. So what what age? I don't want
to be our age. Okay, So she's like, I'm going
to say her name was jess.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I was gonna say jess Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But now if you think is anyone having a kid,
no offense if you have, but that's rare. If one
of your mates is a daughter right now and you're like, oh,
have you named her? And they said, oh, it's Jessica,
it just feels old, like it feels older.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Now, this is my one and two year old Jessica,
And Jeff Jeff.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I've got a mate Jeff, and he hates it because
in my phone I've saved him as as G E
O if IF and he's like, no, it's j E
I f IF. I was like, nah, bro, all Jeff's
to me start with a gen in the middle.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, you should tease him a G and your friend group.
You should tease him and go, good news. We're having
another kid and we want to name it Jeff. And
he'll be like, oh my god, that's so nice, and
you go, just kidding. No one's naming their baby Jeff.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And the best but is there's a famous cartoon in
New Zealand Brotown from years ago. They had a character
called Jeff the Marty and Jeff as a Mary. So
he's actually in my phone as spout wrong and Jeff
the Marty. I always do that when I first meet people,
I write little descriptions about them in my phone when
I saved them, because I'll forget so like your your
(11:08):
Clint from sixty Seconds of Fame or you had that
TV show the host was sixty seconds or something. You know,
no one remembers it, but I do it so because
I've got lots of clents, because then I've got then
I've got hot Clint, which is the Clint from that
other radio show. I'm joking. You're just You're the only
Clint I have mates, so you're just clean.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
How to get under my skin?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You mother?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
How was your school holidays?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I had a big success. My wife did a similar
thing to you, except I was the legend who took
the kids away. So I the first three days, so Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Meela and Albert had like a three hour school holiday
tennis thing every morning, so from nine am to twelve
pm they were out of our hair, which was quite good.
And then just a lot of friends coming round and
(11:54):
playdates and doing things. And then I wanted to go
over to the West Coast and see Dad over at
Port Waiteuttle. Jody out of the blue was like, I've
actually got a mate's birthday party. I was like, I
kind of neat go because I haven't seen Dad since
he went on his oe. I think I mentioned that
he went traveling all round with these so we kind
of need to go. And the kids want to see
their cousins and so I said I'll take them, so
(12:16):
I did the I was the Lucy Legend and I
took all the kids and Jodie had this three days away,
which I'll get to shortly on how she managed it.
But the big tick going from coast to coast, no spewing,
No one's saying please pull over. I think we're over
the hump. Like my kids are ridiculous when it comes
to travel sickness. And there was no sign, there was nothing.
(12:38):
There was no like usually just as we get into porn,
like you can see the first little dairy, we have
to pull over because the kid's like, oh gee, that
last minute, that shook me up, dad, But no spew this.
That's if I had if we had a producer, there'd
be sound horns and.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Scientists in me. And I'm not a scientist, but the
scientist in me would say, yeah, it could be that,
but actually you need to look at the variables and
what has been removed from the situation. It's Jody, So
perhaps your kids don't get sick when their mum is
not in the car.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Fuck yeah, bro, Yeah, you've just hit You've just had
a potential nail on the head. Because look, we've talked
about this before. We're not we're not mums. Can agree
and they'll get angry at it. But it's like when
we hand our kids to our grandparents and oh they
were great. Sometimes our kids, if the dad is the
enforcer in the in the relationship, sometimes our kids are
(13:36):
good when mum's away. They don't run up to me
every twenty minutes and say, Dad, I'm hungry, because they
know that if I say that to Dad, he'll say,
you just had morning tea, wait till lunch. So potentially
they they haven't even been sick all these times and
they just kind of are a bit bored, a bit tired.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Maybe they have it on Jody and like, I don't know,
something something in.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
There, something man, yeah, something, I'm going to I'm going
to bring this up to her.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
This is a do the same drive with us and
see if they.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah and not and not say anything. Oh, do the
same d Yeah, we're going. We're going next weekend and
we're going to be able to we're gonna be able
to report on this. It's going to be a hot take.
I've just done it and in two weeks we're doing
the exact same trip. I'm not going to say anything
actually to Jody. She doesn't listen to this shitty little podcast.
So that's fine, Lucy and I will report back.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Man.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
That'll be funny if they all pull out the sick
card and the.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Good news if you find out that it is Jody.
You've always got the cage trailer that Jody could write
in to put on that.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Roof.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
You've got the roof wreck pod thing. There's lots of options.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
You get the you get the roof, coffin ones, the
storage one, put her in the in the lady thal,
or we put her say mum can't make it, but
this is Dad's friend Steve. And Jody's just in like
a mask and in a costume and she just hops in.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah. Or second car, Nah, that's too hard, that'd be
too hard. The other options are better.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Than or she or she sneaks into the boot as
I'm putting bags in and that's actually great, and she
can just sleep all the way to Port. Cool thing.
Cool thing at Port, also without wives is when Dad
says things like Meela, do you want to come drive
the car?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Like?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Usually usually JODI's like hmm, maybe not. So Dad has
this support as a place that has a population of
two hundred people, and there's this big Sandy Bay and
he's got an old little red four that he drives
around the town and it's manual. He ended up not coming,
(15:47):
so it was me. I was like, Miela, all right,
jump in. You're in the front seat, you're driving. I'm here,
and she's eleven. Manuel I remember, but I also remember
we've talked about this. My dad was the old school,
like just screaming at you like it wasn't great. He
wasn't a great teacher. What are you doing where? I've
remembered all of that. He taught me some great stuff too.
So we went all through the gears first, which is
(16:07):
a lot of people will force a gear stick. A
gear stick wants to go into the gears. It doesn't
not want to go there. And I remember him saying,
so I'm using this hand because of New Zealand. But
a gear stick when you're when it's in the middle there,
it's floppy and neutral. To go to first, you're just
putting your hand on the side and up on that
angle and it'll go there. And it does. If you
want to go to second, you're just putting it here
(16:29):
and it'll go not like I'm telling you know this.
And then third you just it'll come sit right behind
third and then just gently push it up. He used
to make us change gear with one finger as we
were learning, just show how easy a gearstick wants to
go in. So we're doing I'm doing all this with Meela.
We're only going to stay in first anyway, and then
teaching her about a clutch and I was like, feel this,
(16:49):
and I've kind of got a hand on her knee
and I was like, feel this. You're gonna let you
just gently. There was no bunny hopping, there was nothing.
She's just eh and we're going around first and I
was like, you really just slap second, bro? Yeah, And
I just then fast and furious music came in my
head and I was like, oh, slap second, bro. It
was a bit jolty, but we got into second and
we're just slowly doing circles and I was just like,
(17:11):
this took me so long as a kid, how could
be girl brain? She can multitask a little bit better.
But she nailed it and it was very cool where
we would not have done that if Jodie was there.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
So I was taking videos, just sending them of Mela
and sending them through to Jodey. It's just Mela fully
just can hardly see over the window.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It's a great how to dad video, How to teach
a kid to drive a car?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, I did one years ago, a piss take with
n Alba when she was like two years old. And
it's me teaching a kid a person to drive, and
I'm in the passenger seat and you don't really realize
who's driving. And then right at the end it cuts
to it it looks like this two year old's been
driving a time, So maybe I do a new new agent.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I love the idea of teaching. You're lucky you've got
a manual to teach the man because you'll teach her
and it's a very important skill I think for for
kids to learn how to drive a manual, but she'll
never drive one, she'll never own one. Very few car
manufacturers are even making them anymore. I know.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Iose I purposely, like even now we're looking to upgrade.
I've got an old, shitty UT that's kind of needs
to be sold, and I'm looking at newer utes, and
I'm purposely looking for manuals just so the kids will
know something. Because I love to think. I love to
think that when they're twenty two, someone somewhere there's vans
in the way and it needs to be moved. It's
a manual, and my kid just steps on through. My
(18:31):
daughter's just like I'll move the Americans you would have
caught up. But I think you call them stick. You
don't call it a manual. Yeah, yeah, anyway, we're talking
about our kids driving stick, which also like that has
another weird thing in New Zealand. But anyway, we'll stick
(18:52):
to manual. Calling it a manual wants to go whoa wah,
whoa whoa, whoa whoa. But how cool is that when
like my twenty one year old daughter just.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Walks on watch our guys, I'll do that if she
can change the tire too, which all girls need to
learn how to do just as much as boys do.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
So yeah, yeah, I plan on teaching them all this
kind of little helpful stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Hey, I text you, why not? I text you over
the school holidays with a question about your dog and
I said, hey, how much do you spend on dog
food every month?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, and you didn't know?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And I sent this's emoge you, yeah, the hands up one,
Like I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
The reason I sent you that is because we were
experimenting with maybe possibly getting a dog for.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I love that you're sensible enough to first financially figure
out if you can do it or not so many.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
People that I was going through everything. It's a The
dog is an adoption dog. He is already three years old.
It's from some friends of ours. We can't keep him,
and we had him come and stay at our house
over the weekend and his three year.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Old how big? How small?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Big dog? Three year old Golden Retriever.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Lots of fur, Yeah, lots of food, lots of.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Similar sized dog to yours, which is why I was
curious about your dog food budget.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
So yeah, I'll jump in because I sent you this
Emergie because it was way easier to send that than
the big detailed list on how because it's almost like
how long's a piece of strang?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I have a wife who took Chalk to the vet
the first time Chuck had to go to the vet,
and they sold her on you need to buy this
food here that's on this shelf at our vet clinic here,
because this will make sure that she stays healthy and
she'll have the best teeth. She won't do big poos
because this is food that a lot of the food
from the grocery stores that they sell is actually shit.
(20:48):
It's just filler for them, makes the dog feel full,
but they actually do a lot of poos around the
yard because it is shit. This stuff much less poos
because all the food is getting absorbed because it's good
for them, like it's actually going into creating energy and
blah blah. And so we've been quietly buying this brand
for whatever, and I never really thought of, oh, this
must be until I think it might have been. Your
(21:10):
message came through and Jody said, oh, you need to
get to animates and grab a bag of dog food.
And I go to get this one, which is the
same brand as the VET, and I'm a holy shit,
cake that seems real expensive. And then I go to
the grocery store and I'm looking and I'm doing all
my mat The grocery store stuff's like under half the
(21:30):
price of what we're buying for Chop, and Jody's like,
it's for Chock's health. Okay, she goes, you can go
buy it, Jordan, but you're gonna pick up all the
extra shits that she does because she's gonna be shitting everywhere.
So I have I've gone to the supermarket and bought
the fanciest stuff from the supermarket. The fancy stuff at
the supermarket is half the price of the stuff we're
buying from the crazy and we're gonna try. We're gonna
(21:51):
work that into her diet and give her that for
a bit and see how she goes. Because the money
we could be saving chalk is eating better then.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah. But the reason I asked you is because you've
always prided yourself on your dog's health and how you
have a labrador who's not a fat door. You have
a lean, fit labrador. And you told me that you
buy your dog the good shit for that reason.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yep, yep, true. And I seriously though, I don't know,
and neither is Jodie, because we just we don't know
how often we fill the dog bin back up. So
when you ask me how much it was a month,
I have no idea, bro. We don't know if we
go through a bag every two months, or a bag
every month or a beg every.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I know some people. I know some people who do both.
So they'll buy the vet good vet stuff and the
supermarket stuff and they'll mix it like so it's like
tooth yeah, and then a little bit of filler in there,
which brings the budget down a bit, hopefully in the
animal's health too much. Anyway, it's not I won't all
(22:48):
come down to budget for the dog. Obviously we need
to be able to afford it, but we had it here.
The big concern for us is integrating the dog with
the cat and how the girls took to the dog.
But because this is a parenting podcast, it's focused on
the kids first. They loved it, particularly Maggie, the three
year old. The dog is bigger than her, and she
was She would just randomly walk past the dog while
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it was here, and she would just give it a
kiss on the forehead and then carry on with what
she's doing. She never does that with the cat. She
just she's kind of ambivalent to the cat. But the dog,
I guess it's so big and it's so present, and
it does follow you around the house. She just took
to it, and I just watched her. It was quite amazing.
We only had it for two days. Untilly, my older
girl who's five, was into the dog, but I didn't
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see her like really gravitate towards the dog. Anyway, at
the end of the weekend, we decided that it probably
wasn't the right decision for us because we weren't sure
that the cat was going to be able to adjust.
Our cat's like eight and rules the house, and so
we took the dog home. Was really sad. We were
really sad. Me and Lucy were really sad. But then
(23:54):
that night when we're putting to eat to bed, and
since then, she's been really upset that the dog is
not here, and she's like, I missed that dog. I
missed that dog so much. And after just two days,
like we all kind of like adopt did this dog
into our family and our hearts even though we hadn't,
which is really bad thing to do. We should have
put up some more emotional barriers or something, but so
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much so that we're completely reassessing our decision to say no,
we were like, oh, maybe the cat will just figure
it out. Maybe maybe for the ket'll be maybe we
just maybe we just do it.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Just do it, bro just do it. The has the
dog come from a house of cats and cats? Yeah,
oh great, so it knows not to be a deck
and chase cat.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
It loves it loves the cat that it lives with,
it doesn't chase the cat.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Nah, then yeah, I'd say get it. Your cat will
get over it. Your cat will have a week of
figuring out, like who are you? What are you doing?
But if it isn't a crazy dog that's going to
be chasing your cat, you're away such.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
A nice, low energy dog. It's like, oh, I don't
know anything about dogs. I've never had a dog. I
thought Golden retrievers were like around all the time, chasing things,
running around the house, running up here, running up here,
just constantly retrieving. But he's been most of the time
of sleep.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Now, if they get too that, you've got at a
good age. Chock was very much like that. Now Chalk
is coming up four at the end of this year,
and she's way more chill. Most of her day is
her sleeping and just waiting to be taken on a walk.
But then like, I'll go for runs with her now,
and she like I have to drag her the last
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bit because she's just skidding. She's not as fit as
she was. It still looks amazing, but they just start
to slow down, right, which is good. You've got it
in a way more zin age. If you had it
just a six months before, a year before, you'd be like,
holy shit, we can't have this dog.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
We really want to change our mind after saying no now,
and I've gone back to the lady, a friend of
ours whose dog it is. But unfortunately because we said no,
we're now in the queue, so someone else wants to
adopt the dog. So but I've already emotionally adopted the dog.
Yesterday I went to the dealership and I was looking
at cars that were big enough to fit the dog
in the back, like I'm doing all the things to
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get the dog, but we don't have the dog. So
oh man, it's like, I think I want the dog.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
If you do get the opportunity, my three cents would
be get it. You know what, you never really regret
a dog?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, look I get again.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yes, there's some terrible stories out there about animals that
do crazy shit, but if you just got a regular,
normal house family.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Dog, nice dog, like, we're not like we know even.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
When Chock does do something stupid like jump in the
bloody sewage pond, which she's not me to jump into,
and you're like, ah, but you're not, like I wish
I didn't have you. Yeah, dog, it's the same as
a kid. Yeah, you know, you can't really ever say that.
You can't ever really say it.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I wish I didn't have you because you don't wish.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And they're great. Yeah, they're great for the kids like
Miela and her friend will walk Chock on their own
to the beach. Now they feed them. You feel better.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
About them going out on their own too, the fact
that they have the dog with them, right.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
A little bit. Chock's not the Chock's not the biggest,
She's quite the skinny she. I see these videos online
where people will pretend like they've fallen over, Like I
pretend a faint in front of my dog. Chok would
just like lick me and then go off and try
find food in the try and eat off the four
She would not care. She is Yeah, dogs are great
(27:10):
dogs and kids are great. You should do it if
you can. Meela had touched yesterday, which was cool. Touches
like rugby without the tackling. And she's had a couple
of trainings over the school holidays which I've helped with.
I'm not a coach, but I this is Jeff, so
he's like he's he's like, he's like, come along, bro,
(27:31):
come along. I'm terrible at touch, so I come along
and be like the assistant coach. But Mela scored two tries,
so a great start to the last term of school.
She's real stoked with them. She's like this, you know,
on the wing, out of the action, but just managed
to get a few great passes and scored the try
and then putting it to bed. Great, great work today,
(27:51):
I scored two tries. Yeah, she's saying it in the
way she's saying it in a sense that she thinks
she's like the top dog in the team.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Now it's gone straight to her head.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I was like, that's gonna actually yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And then I could see that and I was like,
I did. I did knock it down a bit. I
said to I gave this great, And I said, this
doesn't mean you're top dog and the team. Like Richie mccaugh,
who she knows of. She's read about him in a book,
A Great New Zealand All Black and Captain. I said,
no matter what, Richie mccaugh had this notebook and people
could tell him that he had the best game, a
flawless rugby game, and they won one hundred zero and
(28:26):
he's the best player ever. He would still come away
and write things that he could work on. And no
matter how great you get at anything, Meler, I'm always
I want you to take that on and be able
to do that yourself. But until you can figure that out,
I'll be letting you know. I'm always going to Like
straight away after the game, went to Jeff on the sideline,
I go, what do we need to work on, Jeff,
And we'll go home and work on it. Mela's not
(28:46):
thinking that, She's thinking two tries, I'm the bomb. But
I like to have some reality about it. You're not
six and seven and eight anymore. You're eleven getting into
now your older years of sport. You need to be
aware that you need to keep working like you can't
just be like, oh, you're the best, Well, let's go
get ice cream. You're the greatest. I think that's a
(29:07):
great mentality.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It's it's not tackle because then you could like run
it straight at her so that she understood that this.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yeah, get home, Yeah, get yeah, get home.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Me.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Let's stand there in the middle of the yard tackle dad.
I just get up full speed. Although guys, yeah, just
just want to throw out there. I wouldn't knock her
back as much as I used to because I know
for the last ten years I've been in the one
hundred kilo club. I'm now proudly ninety nine killers.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
He's done. He's a double digit man.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I'm out of the triple digits guys.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Because of the fit boxing training. When's the fight by the.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Boxing not it's a long time, not to late the
end of November, but we've started this training. It's the
hardest I've done rugby seasons right where you do your
pre season stuff and your coach is making you sprint everywhere,
and I've done a half marathon. What else is hard?
Like sprints up the Mount mungan Eui and stuff. This
boxing stuff, holy shit, it's another level. Like and everyone
(30:03):
you're sharing this with the thirty people that are German
signed up to this, everyone is just looking at each
other like what the fuck was that? And that's day
one on a Monday, and then you show up again
to meet them on a Thursday for the other class,
and that class is harder than the Monday, and then
Friday is harder than both days, and then you repeat
for eight weeks.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Has has Jodie noticed yet noticed?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
What?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Just that?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I could one too, just smash it at any moment
like I'm a killer out the weight loss like that. Uh.
I live with her so not dramatically.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
But that's what you want. Hasn't been a moment where
she's gone, because we've talked about that. We want to
just that little comment where she.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Goes, oh yeah, no, no, no, the hairs, the hairs she said,
saying about She's like, bless her. How do you not
know the name of human anatomy? This morning she had
a sore lower leg and she's pointing at the back
of her leger. Jordan, Oh this is from what's this again?
I said, that's your calf muscle. Oh yeah, but I'm
there the other night getting dressed and she's like, oh,
(31:04):
I like that, and that's new. I go, She's like that,
you know, it looks it looks firm. I was like, what,
she's like that, she's touched your arm. I go, bicep.
She's like, yeah, how do you not know simple bulging
things that children though? But yeah, little notes from Jody, Yeah,
they'll keep me going, you know, it's all it's all
for little notes from.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Joe's all this exist is why you're doing the post.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
For Jody, It's what's why I'm getting going to get
my head pummeled in. We've done sparring, which is just
a whole nother world of like, wow, never you get
in there and you think you got your head gear
on and your big soft gloves so things aren't meant
to hurt, and you're lining this guy and you're getting
hit of it, and you're thinking, oh, I've got him now,
I'm going to try this. By the time your brain
has thought about I'm going to try this, I've just
(31:48):
been jabbed twice in the face. It's it's I'm laughing.
I'm inside. I was laughing the whole If if you're
a real angry competitive person, you'd be getting angry in
there it yourself. But I'm just laughing because it's day one,
like sparring first time ever, and the people that come
to spa US were ex guys that have done the
thing we're doing now, so they all showed up like
as volunteers. It's like, I'm like, who are you psychos? Though,
(32:10):
when the gym says, hi, guys, we need some people
to come spar These guys like you're fishing a barrel.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
We'll come a bunch of images.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah, I was teasing them all. I was like, you
guys are the psycho wides who've agreed to come and
punch virgin boxes in the face. But I'm in a
constant state of soreness. But it started. It's like the
first great kick up my ass, and you can't, you
can't pull out like you've just got a It's I'm jealous.
It's the life right now. I'm jealous. And my last
(32:38):
note from school holidays is Jody went to the skate park.
And we have friends that live down at the Mount
Mount mong Andoy right now has a brand new, insanely
massive skate park, like it's nuts, and all of our
friends with kids, our Mount friends with kids live there
every day at the school holidays, like parents are dropping
them off and be like we'll see you soon. Like
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you guys just look after each other. Took Alba Alba
all of a sudden just gets this new confidence and
dropped in on a ramp like dropped in brow because
she well, she's got a long board. And then the
boy mates are like, oh, you want to try it
on this and gave them a skater her skateboard, and
then she learned to drop in.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
So now now we've dusted off the old skateboard and
she's hard out wanting to get into skating. She's dropping
against I can't drop it. I'm not a skater whatsoever.
And I tried, so I looked at what she dropped
in on. I got up there. I was like, nah,
my brain will not let me do this. And she's
dropping in everywhere on her own.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Now, well, if they do that, they get good so
fast as well.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yes, Like she's real cool, real cool to see. And
now we've got the Now we've got the constant. We've
talked about this sister competition where Mela out of the blue,
the oldest one. It's like, I can do that, give
me a go I can. I can, and she can't,
but she has to think and say that she can
because I'm the oldest. Of course I can. And so
she gets on this board and it's like just stop, Okay.
(34:03):
Alba's been doing it now for like she's had me
wasn't here that day, right, so I was doing it
all on her own and then Meela just day one
first dropping I'm gonna do that. I can do it.
I can do it.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Let's take a quick break because I've got some feedback
that came in over the school holidays. Okay, first message
is from ash Kitchen, which I feel like is the
name of the person from Pokemon.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Isn't it that one hundred percent is a fake name?
That that is the guy from Pokemon Ash Ketchen.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Well, it's a girl this time, ash kitchen Pie, So
I wanted you to put the kitchen in to be funny,
or if she actually has the same name as the
guy from Pokemon. Anyway, that's great. Here's the message.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Good morning, Clint and Jordan. I thought I would leave
your message because I've just recently listened to your podcast
about your sliding into the DMS. One of the funny
things I think you might appreciate is I when I
started listening to you guys, right at the start, I had.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Seen how to Dad.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
I live in Australia. I'd seen how to Dad on Facebook,
but I hadn't heard of Clint before, so I started
listening to the podcast with no expectations of what Clint
look like. I also then went and started following you
guys on Instagram and Facebook, and I'd say I finally
got around to looking at what you guys post and
I was surprised. Clint, just to let you know your
(35:21):
wife is wrong about the mustache. It's fabulous, absolutely fabulous.
I think you'll appreciate that anyway. Jordan, you're great too,
just just putting that out there.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Please play that to Lucy. Please play it to Lucy.
She'll roll her eyes, she'll go like this at the individual,
roll her eyes and go fuck.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Can I say, Ash, I haven't seen this before, but
I think you might be my favorite listener to the
parenting hang of a podcast. That's just that's just the perfect.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Perfect I love that Clint say, hey, we'll go to break, guys,
we'll come back with some feedback.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That's the only one, like he's skimmed through. He's heard
some of you guys are the chats, But that's the one.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Podcast I've just been thinking about that messages like yeah, yeah,
but when can I play usage where the lady thinks
I'm hot?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Okay, last thing we talked about, I think it was
not on the pod, but over the break, was you
saying I have to get rid of the mo, I've
got this thing or something. It's come, You've got, it's there,
it's back. Yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I just trimmed it. I just shaved it down to
I shaved my beard to a one and a mustache
to a three so I can just keep the shadow
of the mustache.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, you're you're still very mustache right now. Yeah, so
you you're committing this is your new thing to at
least for the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yeah. I like it too much.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
So if I keep, if I keep losing weight, I'll
be able to do Clint Roberts and actually shave my
beard to such a shortness and keep the mow that
you can see my chin line.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Is that why you?
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Oh confident? I've got a I've got a brother. I've
teased him about this. Who I tell them all the time.
Stop shaving your beard right off? Just it adds tinkilos on.
If you don't have if you don't have that video
randomly so big anyway, if you don't have the chisel
chin of Clint Roberts and you shave off your beard,
(37:09):
you regret it straight away because all of a sudden
you're like, what is that little excess little just it's
not like a double chin. But so what's this little
pouch under Here's like a little kangaroo pouch. So you're
holding a baltezer in your throat chin.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
This is from Rebecca. This is a message from a
grandma who listens to the podcast, which is great.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Hi guys, I am a bit behind, but I am
a grandmother and now if oldest kids are six, and
I'm dreading their poor parents going through the cell phone thing.
When I was a poor single mother, I told my kids, yeah,
they can have a cell phone once they can afford
their own. So I deleted them a little bit, but
it was nothing like it is now because those kids
(37:48):
are now in their mid thirties, same age as you guys.
But I would be agreeing with Jordan's and saying, Nope,
as long as possible delay it because it's an addiction
and those kids will be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
The reason I played it is we've talked about delaying
the phone thing as much as you can a lot.
We've talked about it ad nauseum. But Rebecca's right, you can't.
You cannot compare when you got a phone to when
kids are getting a phone these days you can't go, well,
I got a phone when I was twelve, so they
can have a phone at the same age as I did.
Because the phones are not the phones that we were given.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
All we did was not text that much because it
costs twenty cents per text here in New Zealand's and
we weren't. If we weren't texting, we were playing the
one game that came on our Nokia phone, and that
was Snake. Yeah, we were playing Snake, and we weren't
addicted to playing Snake. We weren't head down in the
corner go away, and we weren't late at night. Were's
(38:42):
my phone shit as it charged? Because it lasted a month,
but you never charged it. It didn't it didn't go out.
But yeah, you cannot compare it to when we were
kids whatsoever. Like we were, we were weirdly paying for
our own top ups and stuff. Remember now I feel
like now I feel like for some reason, why has
(39:03):
that changed? But I feel like if a parent gets
their kid of smartphone now they're adding it to their
own account. And I don't know if all these kids
are I don't think these kids are paying for their
own phones. We're back in our day. Yeah, when I
got my phone straight off the bed, it was you
pay for your own topic. I wasn't getting Its a.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Good way to tend to limit the phone use you.
You can get a phone, but it's prepaying. You're in
charge of paying for it. They just gone the Wi
Fi all day at home. That's the problem, but it
could be that could be a good way of doing it.
Kids are very good WiFi though.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
You you changed the WiFi pass with.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
It, and then.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
You've pushed your kid weirdly down the block to sitting
outside weird shots that have left their WiFi passed with unlocked.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Or here's a written message from Blaine. It says, howdy team,
I'm a mum to a high needs, non verbal, autistic
almost six year old. I am in the fucking trenches,
but surprisingly this age is a walk in the park
compared to two. I've followed you both individually for donkeys,
(40:02):
but started listening to the parenting hangover only yesterday. A
couple of days days ago, my partner and I started
the separation chat due to the strain of our son's
needs on both of us. Your episodes have made me
actually laugh for the first time in a minute I
feel lighter from it, and quite literally, quite literally now too,
(40:22):
because I'm currently on my mental health walk. Listening to
the podcast, I've got nothing to contribute except to say
parenting a what the fuck? Enjoy the school holidays?
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Well, glad we've glad, we've given a glimmer of smile
or happiness and rough times. I love that you're on
a mental health walk. I'm a big fan of all
that stuff. Boxing anything, get a sweet up, go hit
some stuff, Go make yourself run somewhere, do something hard physically,
and you feel amazing afterwards.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Brutal to think, because nobody ever thinks that this is
going to be the case. But brutal to think that
you are looking at separating from your partner because of
the strain that your kid has put on the relationship.
You know, and I've heard I've heard of that before,
and that it just drives awach people with high needs kids.
I followed somebody on Instagram for a long time who
(41:11):
had one kid and them and their partner wanted one
more kid. So they got pregnant and she had one, two, three, four.
She had quads, so they went from one kid to
five kids overnight, and she was pretty open about how
that stress ended their relationship. And I guess you could
(41:32):
argue that no, if the relationship was going to end,
it was going to end anyway. But I think that it. Yeah, man,
that is brutal. That's so brutal because you need each other.
But this challenge that you've been given has driven a
wige between you. Guys. Man, it would be devastating.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
I tried to wrap up her message initially with some
positive like glad we've given you a smile and then
you've really ham at home there. But you are true, true,
like people say.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
True, I need to go positive at the end. But
you'll always have you. You always have each other.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Hey, my classic parents divorced and it ends up being
even as kids very quick. I was eight, but by
the time I was ten, I already realized that so
much better Mum and dad being apart, right, like Mum
and dad together fighting, arguing, like at a very quickly
or ten or eleven, you weren't hoping for mum and
dad to get back together anymore, because then you were
(42:21):
having your own realization of oh this is reality, Mum
and dad together terrible, Mum and Dad apart, Oh well,
they're happy. Mom and dad like we gonna see they're happy.
So it does come. Yeah, you never want to be
those people that are just let's stick together for this.
That's the worst. When parents are like, we just got
to stay together because yeah, wetly yeah, or at least
(42:43):
until they're fifteen, that's that's the worst. I mean, initially,
I've been through separation. Initially, separation sucks, but you talk
to so many A lot of my friends have all
gone through it. We all talked about it through college
and that we had parents breaking up, and no one
is ever like you're never like fifteen and talking about Man,
I wish my mum and dad were still together. Okay,
that's not you tend to. I would say. It takes
(43:05):
a year or so, but you get part and you
soon start to see your parent in a new light
and you're like, oh wow, and and this new guy,
Jeff that she's pretty cool guy. He's pretty good the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
My real dad doesn't have that.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
My stepdad. When I first met my mom's new partner, Tim,
he threw the rugby ball around with me in the carport.
He was a forestry worker, had the biggest beard ever.
I thought he was wolverine and real scary and had
a city out of his mouth and then picked up
a rugby ball, didn't speak and just started passing it
to me. And then that's how easy kids work. I
would have been nine, and I was just like, great,
terms of the man, you're in the family. Now, terms
(43:42):
the man, you're pretty cool. And he had real big,
real big arms because he worked in the forestry. Last message,
that's how so that's how easily kid's own priest, you'll
be okay.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Last message is about that video that we posted about
millennial baby names, which blew up the video and I
just found this funny because we're talking about how no
one's kidd has named Peter, no one's kidder's named Jeff.
We got a message from Courtney who said, I mean
a kid called David Sinclair the other day. He was three,
(44:15):
the combination of David Sinclear.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah, why would if the last name was Sinclear, why
would you name him David? That's just that's a that
is a politician.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Name or a principal. Yeah, yeah, just David.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Oh my gosh, what a what a cute little nine
pound baby? How was the birth year? Good? What'd you
name him, David, David Sinclair.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
It's just he's doing a stand.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Up just even without the sin clear, David's terrible. A
great chat back, guys. We'll talk about something else next week.
Follow us on all the socials and all that stuff,
and we'll see you next week.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
That's okay, okay, cool, all right, don't get a divorce,
but if you do, John.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
That yeah good. We are a certified life advisory panel.
Thank you.
This is an iHeartRadio New Zealand podcast. The school holidays
are over, which means the parenting hangover is back and
we've got to catch up after two weeks of solid
parenting on the tools doing the work, well at least
for my wife.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Anyway, some of you have been lost confused, not because
of the school holidays, but for the fact that we've
not been in your ears over the last two weeks.
But we're back and we're catching up on what we
got up to. Your parenting spirit guides have returned Windshime effect.
We don't have a producess still, but look, it was
a busy school holiday. We survived. We also start giving
(00:49):
it some real heavy life advice at the end of
the episode because we realize maybe we are now certified
life account.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Maybe it's time you, Maybe it's time.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, maybe it's time that we start charging and we
get people to set horizontally in leather seats and we
just tell them our life should be.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
In the feedback section of the Day's at the end
of the podcast, should you get a divorce? Jordan win
Clint will weigh in on the topic.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I hold for effect because I thought if I said
anything there you know, have I ruined it? I think
I ruined it. Now. Welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back,
welcome back. What's that song?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That's Mace? Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
There you go, We're back. We're back from school holidays.
Clint's a little bit up in personal with me because
my zoom for some reason, we zoom each other on
the laptop. It's zoomed. It's my zoom is zoomed in.
All he can see is the top of my head
to the chin of my face. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Jordan is wearing his hot guy hat today.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, I figured, first day back, I'll check on my
hot gy hat.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Hat that his wife saw and went, oh, you know
you should have bought I hope you did. You should
have bought like four of those, because it'll get dirty
and the hotness will fade over. It'll be like yeah, yeah,
and then in four months time, don't say anything, just
sweitach to a fresh hot guy hat and you'll go, oh,
he's back.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Because if you're a dad like me who doesn't no fashion,
and then your wife just comments one time on anything
like oh I like that, this is the hat forever.
She brought me this hat, and I was like, I
don't really like this hat. Then I put it on
like three days later, like I'm never gonna wear that,
and she's just like, damn, look at you in that hat.
So I've put the hat on. Guys, this is the hat.
You'll see it in the video. Okay, we'll post this,
(02:35):
but rate the hat. Okay, hot? Wait? Wait am I hot?
Or and now it'll be hat here. Put the hat
back on you just regularly, guy, and then had on Damn,
it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That you seriously need to wash your hair, bro, Like,
keep that head on.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's saltwater, man, I live at the beach. You wash it,
you go in the water, and then the hairdresser judges
you and says you haven't washed your hair, and I have.
It's just salt, bro.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Remember the two thousands when it was cool to have
dreadline and everyone was like, you don't wash dreadlocks. You
go in the ocean and the ocean washes your dreadlocks.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You know that that wasn't a thing. They would just
think as people, Well, I still wash my hair, but
as soon as you have going the salt water with
hair my length, the salt just thickens it up. Anyway,
how we went to house the kids. Really, we've just come.
Both of us have just had school holidays. Yeah, which
is the kids. The kids are off for two weeks.
For me, that's all of my three kids. For Clint
(03:34):
that's just two. Eat Maggie no tooy, while of them candy. Oh,
both of them have two weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Maggie's at kindy.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh is that Maggie's that candy?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So daycare you go straight through. But Kendy goes to
the school calendar. So yeah, they have school holidays. Yeah,
how to go pretty good. I mean I worked the
whole way through, so it didn't really affect me. Wasn't much.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
No skin off your nose.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Lucy was the superhero. She took the girls down to
the beach for a few days to her parents' place
in the Corimandel, which was good. Classic. Meggie got sick
on the first day of the school holidays, but she came.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Right, I'll pause you because we're gonna pause. Well, you're
not just gonna skim through because we're catching up. She's
taking them away. What is your in the back of
your head? Because A I have a dad mate across
the road. His thing is as soon as oh, yeah,
the wife's gone with the kids. He's like KFC Hot Wings.
Oh y, it's all he does, it's all he wants.
He'll go get a buck at a KFC hol Wings.
What's your dad thing that you're like.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh, dinner on the barbieue, dinner on the barbecue. Every night,
every dinner was cooked outdoors on the barbecue. And it
was the first week of Daylight Savings as well, So
I was like a real celebration.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You're not allowed to do that when she's there. Isn't
that like the dream?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
At the moment, I am, but I don't. Usually I
work and I don't get home until seven, So my
wife cooks dinner. But yeah, she's looking for myself. So
when I come home, I'm like, I'm gonna cook dinner
inside like some kind of it's like some kind of idiot.
So every night for dinner, every night, I had a
steak in Vigi's on the barbecue, and I stood out
(05:07):
at the barbecue to cook my dinner with either a
glass of red wine or a beer. And you know,
it's just those small things that make you feel They
made you feel like a free man.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah man, and you had nature around you, no kids,
pulling on your lead now.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And then I went inside and I watched Sopranos. This
my family, obviously, but life was very good.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And then second day, second day, you kicked the barbecue
on the garts, you started cooking, and then you're like,
kind of quiet, wish my kids were here.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
No, the probably would have happened on the day six
or seven. But it was a great five days. And
then school holidays was chill, like they went to the zoo,
they did all those things. I took them out some
mornings so Lucy could do some things. But really it
was Lucy who shouldered the weight of the school holidays,
and she did a great job. And the kids were
chomping at the bit to go back to school and kindy,
(05:56):
which is good. Do your kids get that at the
end of the holidays, they're like, we're ready to go back.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Alba and Nala and me, yeah, all
three of them. Mila was a little bit nervous because
they've been having to do this. It's kind of she's
at intermediate, which is year seven, year eight, so these
are kids that are eleven, twelve, thirteen, and she's at
her first year of intermediate. So now it's all about
applying and writing your letters and getting your speeches ready
(06:22):
to put your hand up to be like a house
leader next year or a learning center leader and all
this kind of Yeah, yeah, she's been doing them, but
it's been like eating her up during the holidays. She's
and I've realized very quickly that she's a chip off
the old block where she's had the entire she's had
the entire holidays right, and she's let it eat away
at her. But instead of just getting on top of
(06:43):
the problem or just filming the video idea that she
has in her head and just getting it done, she's
waited to like the last weekend, and then has been
like panicky at me, like, Dad, do you have good news?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Let it?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Like, are you gonna look at it? Like I've written it?
You haven't even even And I'm like, what have you
finished a whole draft? I'm not gonna look until you've
written a whole letter, and then I'll put I can
help you out, but I don't want to. I'm not
giving you the first bloody line.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I meant that that's funny, but I meant that she
was like you in a positive way. But it's also
a bit of a curse because she clearly always has
work or the project, the next project that she's working
on in the back of her mind. And I'm like
that too, Like if I have something that needs to
be done, even if it's even if I've got meant
to be having some downtime, I'm like, yeah, but I
could just have a I could chip away at it
(07:27):
now and I could get a little bit done. And
you're kind of always always thinking about always on, yeah,
always on.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, She's she's one hundred percent like that, and she's
always on. Her goes to bed, and everything will go
through her head before she closes her eyes. Even at
the age of eleven, everything is going through her head now,
Like there'll be a you're right melon and she'll be saying,
about three weeks away, yeah, what do you think will
have to have for our shoes on that trip? And
(07:54):
you're like, gosh, please, you almost want to learn the
action man sleep thing on her. Or I could just
jabber in the neck with my fingers and she'll fall
asleep and she can just sleep.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Dad, what ski boo do you think I'll wear three
winters from now? I'm just trying to work out thing will.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Be so but they all love it. They all love
school and they're all excited to go. So I'm very lucky.
I know these parents out there going, Oh, I wish
my kids would like that, but all three of my
girls are like, yeah, school's back, cool, let's go.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
It's the dream. I want to hear about your school holidays,
but before I do, otherwise I'll forget. I was giving
blood last week at the community center up the road
from US and I was one of the last ones
in there, and there was this lady, one other lady
that was giving blood too, And she's probably going to
hear this because as I was leaving. As I was
leaving the donation, she was leaving at the same time
(08:41):
as me, and she turned around and she said, I'm sorry,
I just I just have to say, and I went, oh,
she must know me from the radio. She must listen
to the Brian Clint Show on ZM. And she goes,
I absolutely love the Parenting Hangover podcast and I was like, oh,
that actually mean we've talked about this. That means more
to me, that is because than any Yeah, the radio
(09:04):
show has got the hundreds of thousands of dollars of
marketing budgets, and it's on billboards and it's broadcast nationwide.
But when someone comes over and says they listen to
the little old podcast, it was great. It was such
a little other and I had to pass it on
because I know you feel the same. And so if
that person is listening, I didn't catch your name. She
has one daughter who's quite young, and she said she
(09:27):
loves the podcast and she hates the school holiday break
because there's no podcast for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
We had a chat about millennial names a few weeks
ago that have gone like me and Clint, like people
naming their kid Peter Jordan. So right now, let's try
and guess her. So what what age? I don't want
to be our age. Okay, So she's like, I'm going
to say her name was jess.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I was gonna say jess Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But now if you think is anyone having a kid,
no offense if you have, but that's rare. If one
of your mates is a daughter right now and you're like, oh,
have you named her? And they said, oh, it's Jessica,
it just feels old, like it feels older.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Now, this is my one and two year old Jessica,
And Jeff Jeff.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I've got a mate Jeff, and he hates it because
in my phone I've saved him as as G E
O if IF and he's like, no, it's j E
I f IF. I was like, nah, bro, all Jeff's
to me start with a gen in the middle.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, you should tease him a G and your friend group.
You should tease him and go, good news. We're having
another kid and we want to name it Jeff. And
he'll be like, oh my god, that's so nice, and
you go, just kidding. No one's naming their baby Jeff.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And the best but is there's a famous cartoon in
New Zealand Brotown from years ago. They had a character
called Jeff the Marty and Jeff as a Mary. So
he's actually in my phone as spout wrong and Jeff
the Marty. I always do that when I first meet people,
I write little descriptions about them in my phone when
I saved them, because I'll forget so like your your
(11:08):
Clint from sixty Seconds of Fame or you had that
TV show the host was sixty seconds or something. You know,
no one remembers it, but I do it so because
I've got lots of clents, because then I've got then
I've got hot Clint, which is the Clint from that
other radio show. I'm joking. You're just You're the only
Clint I have mates, so you're just clean.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
How to get under my skin?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You mother?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
How was your school holidays?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I had a big success. My wife did a similar
thing to you, except I was the legend who took
the kids away. So I the first three days, so Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Meela and Albert had like a three hour school holiday
tennis thing every morning, so from nine am to twelve
pm they were out of our hair, which was quite good.
And then just a lot of friends coming round and
(11:54):
playdates and doing things. And then I wanted to go
over to the West Coast and see Dad over at
Port Waiteuttle. Jody out of the blue was like, I've
actually got a mate's birthday party. I was like, I
kind of neat go because I haven't seen Dad since
he went on his oe. I think I mentioned that
he went traveling all round with these so we kind
of need to go. And the kids want to see
their cousins and so I said I'll take them, so
(12:16):
I did the I was the Lucy Legend and I
took all the kids and Jodie had this three days away,
which I'll get to shortly on how she managed it.
But the big tick going from coast to coast, no spewing,
No one's saying please pull over. I think we're over
the hump. Like my kids are ridiculous when it comes
to travel sickness. And there was no sign, there was nothing.
(12:38):
There was no like usually just as we get into porn,
like you can see the first little dairy, we have
to pull over because the kid's like, oh gee, that
last minute, that shook me up, dad, But no spew this.
That's if I had if we had a producer, there'd
be sound horns and.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Scientists in me. And I'm not a scientist, but the
scientist in me would say, yeah, it could be that,
but actually you need to look at the variables and
what has been removed from the situation. It's Jody, So
perhaps your kids don't get sick when their mum is
not in the car.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Fuck yeah, bro, Yeah, you've just hit You've just had
a potential nail on the head. Because look, we've talked
about this before. We're not we're not mums. Can agree
and they'll get angry at it. But it's like when
we hand our kids to our grandparents and oh they
were great. Sometimes our kids, if the dad is the
enforcer in the in the relationship, sometimes our kids are
(13:36):
good when mum's away. They don't run up to me
every twenty minutes and say, Dad, I'm hungry, because they
know that if I say that to Dad, he'll say,
you just had morning tea, wait till lunch. So potentially
they they haven't even been sick all these times and
they just kind of are a bit bored, a bit tired.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Maybe they have it on Jody and like, I don't know,
something something in.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
There, something man, yeah, something, I'm going to I'm going
to bring this up to her.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
This is a do the same drive with us and
see if they.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah and not and not say anything. Oh, do the
same d Yeah, we're going. We're going next weekend and
we're going to be able to we're gonna be able
to report on this. It's going to be a hot take.
I've just done it and in two weeks we're doing
the exact same trip. I'm not going to say anything
actually to Jody. She doesn't listen to this shitty little podcast.
So that's fine, Lucy and I will report back.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Man.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
That'll be funny if they all pull out the sick
card and the.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Good news if you find out that it is Jody.
You've always got the cage trailer that Jody could write
in to put on that.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Roof.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
You've got the roof wreck pod thing. There's lots of options.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
You get the you get the roof, coffin ones, the
storage one, put her in the in the lady thal,
or we put her say mum can't make it, but
this is Dad's friend Steve. And Jody's just in like
a mask and in a costume and she just hops in.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah. Or second car, Nah, that's too hard, that'd be
too hard. The other options are better.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Than or she or she sneaks into the boot as
I'm putting bags in and that's actually great, and she
can just sleep all the way to Port. Cool thing.
Cool thing at Port, also without wives is when Dad
says things like Meela, do you want to come drive
the car?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Like?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Usually usually JODI's like hmm, maybe not. So Dad has
this support as a place that has a population of
two hundred people, and there's this big Sandy Bay and
he's got an old little red four that he drives
around the town and it's manual. He ended up not coming,
(15:47):
so it was me. I was like, Miela, all right,
jump in. You're in the front seat, you're driving. I'm here,
and she's eleven. Manuel I remember, but I also remember
we've talked about this. My dad was the old school,
like just screaming at you like it wasn't great. He
wasn't a great teacher. What are you doing where? I've
remembered all of that. He taught me some great stuff too.
So we went all through the gears first, which is
(16:07):
a lot of people will force a gear stick. A
gear stick wants to go into the gears. It doesn't
not want to go there. And I remember him saying,
so I'm using this hand because of New Zealand. But
a gear stick when you're when it's in the middle there,
it's floppy and neutral. To go to first, you're just
putting your hand on the side and up on that
angle and it'll go there. And it does. If you
want to go to second, you're just putting it here
(16:29):
and it'll go not like I'm telling you know this.
And then third you just it'll come sit right behind
third and then just gently push it up. He used
to make us change gear with one finger as we
were learning, just show how easy a gearstick wants to
go in. So we're doing I'm doing all this with Meela.
We're only going to stay in first anyway, and then
teaching her about a clutch and I was like, feel this,
(16:49):
and I've kind of got a hand on her knee
and I was like, feel this. You're gonna let you
just gently. There was no bunny hopping, there was nothing.
She's just eh and we're going around first and I
was like, you really just slap second, bro? Yeah, And
I just then fast and furious music came in my
head and I was like, oh, slap second, bro. It
was a bit jolty, but we got into second and
we're just slowly doing circles and I was just like,
(17:11):
this took me so long as a kid, how could
be girl brain? She can multitask a little bit better.
But she nailed it and it was very cool where
we would not have done that if Jodie was there.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
So I was taking videos, just sending them of Mela
and sending them through to Jodey. It's just Mela fully
just can hardly see over the window.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It's a great how to dad video, How to teach
a kid to drive a car?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, I did one years ago, a piss take with
n Alba when she was like two years old. And
it's me teaching a kid a person to drive, and
I'm in the passenger seat and you don't really realize
who's driving. And then right at the end it cuts
to it it looks like this two year old's been
driving a time, So maybe I do a new new agent.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I love the idea of teaching. You're lucky you've got
a manual to teach the man because you'll teach her
and it's a very important skill I think for for
kids to learn how to drive a manual, but she'll
never drive one, she'll never own one. Very few car
manufacturers are even making them anymore. I know.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Iose I purposely, like even now we're looking to upgrade.
I've got an old, shitty UT that's kind of needs
to be sold, and I'm looking at newer utes, and
I'm purposely looking for manuals just so the kids will
know something. Because I love to think. I love to
think that when they're twenty two, someone somewhere there's vans
in the way and it needs to be moved. It's
a manual, and my kid just steps on through. My
(18:31):
daughter's just like I'll move the Americans you would have
caught up. But I think you call them stick. You
don't call it a manual. Yeah, yeah, anyway, we're talking
about our kids driving stick, which also like that has
another weird thing in New Zealand. But anyway, we'll stick
(18:52):
to manual. Calling it a manual wants to go whoa wah,
whoa whoa, whoa whoa. But how cool is that when
like my twenty one year old daughter just.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Walks on watch our guys, I'll do that if she
can change the tire too, which all girls need to
learn how to do just as much as boys do.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
So yeah, yeah, I plan on teaching them all this
kind of little helpful stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Hey, I text you, why not? I text you over
the school holidays with a question about your dog and
I said, hey, how much do you spend on dog
food every month?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, and you didn't know?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And I sent this's emoge you, yeah, the hands up one,
Like I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
The reason I sent you that is because we were
experimenting with maybe possibly getting a dog for.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I love that you're sensible enough to first financially figure
out if you can do it or not so many.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
People that I was going through everything. It's a The
dog is an adoption dog. He is already three years old.
It's from some friends of ours. We can't keep him,
and we had him come and stay at our house
over the weekend and his three year.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Old how big? How small?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Big dog? Three year old Golden Retriever.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Lots of fur, Yeah, lots of food, lots of.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Similar sized dog to yours, which is why I was
curious about your dog food budget.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
So yeah, I'll jump in because I sent you this
Emergie because it was way easier to send that than
the big detailed list on how because it's almost like
how long's a piece of strang?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I have a wife who took Chalk to the vet
the first time Chuck had to go to the vet,
and they sold her on you need to buy this
food here that's on this shelf at our vet clinic here,
because this will make sure that she stays healthy and
she'll have the best teeth. She won't do big poos
because this is food that a lot of the food
from the grocery stores that they sell is actually shit.
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It's just filler for them, makes the dog feel full,
but they actually do a lot of poos around the
yard because it is shit. This stuff much less poos
because all the food is getting absorbed because it's good
for them, like it's actually going into creating energy and
blah blah. And so we've been quietly buying this brand
for whatever, and I never really thought of, oh, this
must be until I think it might have been. Your
(21:10):
message came through and Jody said, oh, you need to
get to animates and grab a bag of dog food.
And I go to get this one, which is the
same brand as the VET, and I'm a holy shit,
cake that seems real expensive. And then I go to
the grocery store and I'm looking and I'm doing all
my mat The grocery store stuff's like under half the
(21:30):
price of what we're buying for Chop, and Jody's like,
it's for Chock's health. Okay, she goes, you can go
buy it, Jordan, but you're gonna pick up all the
extra shits that she does because she's gonna be shitting everywhere.
So I have I've gone to the supermarket and bought
the fanciest stuff from the supermarket. The fancy stuff at
the supermarket is half the price of the stuff we're
buying from the crazy and we're gonna try. We're gonna
(21:51):
work that into her diet and give her that for
a bit and see how she goes. Because the money
we could be saving chalk is eating better then.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah. But the reason I asked you is because you've
always prided yourself on your dog's health and how you
have a labrador who's not a fat door. You have
a lean, fit labrador. And you told me that you
buy your dog the good shit for that reason.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yep, yep, true. And I seriously though, I don't know,
and neither is Jodie, because we just we don't know
how often we fill the dog bin back up. So
when you ask me how much it was a month,
I have no idea, bro. We don't know if we
go through a bag every two months, or a bag
every month or a beg every.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I know some people. I know some people who do both.
So they'll buy the vet good vet stuff and the
supermarket stuff and they'll mix it like so it's like
tooth yeah, and then a little bit of filler in there,
which brings the budget down a bit, hopefully in the
animal's health too much. Anyway, it's not I won't all
(22:48):
come down to budget for the dog. Obviously we need
to be able to afford it, but we had it here.
The big concern for us is integrating the dog with
the cat and how the girls took to the dog.
But because this is a parenting podcast, it's focused on
the kids first. They loved it, particularly Maggie, the three
year old. The dog is bigger than her, and she
was She would just randomly walk past the dog while
(23:10):
it was here, and she would just give it a
kiss on the forehead and then carry on with what
she's doing. She never does that with the cat. She
just she's kind of ambivalent to the cat. But the dog,
I guess it's so big and it's so present, and
it does follow you around the house. She just took
to it, and I just watched her. It was quite amazing.
We only had it for two days. Untilly, my older
girl who's five, was into the dog, but I didn't
(23:33):
see her like really gravitate towards the dog. Anyway, at
the end of the weekend, we decided that it probably
wasn't the right decision for us because we weren't sure
that the cat was going to be able to adjust.
Our cat's like eight and rules the house, and so
we took the dog home. Was really sad. We were
really sad. Me and Lucy were really sad. But then
(23:54):
that night when we're putting to eat to bed, and
since then, she's been really upset that the dog is
not here, and she's like, I missed that dog. I
missed that dog so much. And after just two days,
like we all kind of like adopt did this dog
into our family and our hearts even though we hadn't,
which is really bad thing to do. We should have
put up some more emotional barriers or something, but so
(24:15):
much so that we're completely reassessing our decision to say no,
we were like, oh, maybe the cat will just figure
it out. Maybe maybe for the ket'll be maybe we
just maybe we just do it.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Just do it, bro just do it. The has the
dog come from a house of cats and cats? Yeah,
oh great, so it knows not to be a deck
and chase cat.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
It loves it loves the cat that it lives with,
it doesn't chase the cat.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Nah, then yeah, I'd say get it. Your cat will
get over it. Your cat will have a week of
figuring out, like who are you? What are you doing?
But if it isn't a crazy dog that's going to
be chasing your cat, you're away such.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
A nice, low energy dog. It's like, oh, I don't
know anything about dogs. I've never had a dog. I
thought Golden retrievers were like around all the time, chasing things,
running around the house, running up here, running up here,
just constantly retrieving. But he's been most of the time
of sleep.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Now, if they get too that, you've got at a
good age. Chock was very much like that. Now Chalk
is coming up four at the end of this year,
and she's way more chill. Most of her day is
her sleeping and just waiting to be taken on a walk.
But then like, I'll go for runs with her now,
and she like I have to drag her the last
(25:26):
bit because she's just skidding. She's not as fit as
she was. It still looks amazing, but they just start
to slow down, right, which is good. You've got it
in a way more zin age. If you had it
just a six months before, a year before, you'd be like,
holy shit, we can't have this dog.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
We really want to change our mind after saying no now,
and I've gone back to the lady, a friend of
ours whose dog it is. But unfortunately because we said no,
we're now in the queue, so someone else wants to
adopt the dog. So but I've already emotionally adopted the dog.
Yesterday I went to the dealership and I was looking
at cars that were big enough to fit the dog
in the back, like I'm doing all the things to
(25:59):
get the dog, but we don't have the dog. So
oh man, it's like, I think I want the dog.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
If you do get the opportunity, my three cents would
be get it. You know what, you never really regret
a dog?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, look I get again.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yes, there's some terrible stories out there about animals that
do crazy shit, but if you just got a regular,
normal house family.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Dog, nice dog, like, we're not like we know even.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
When Chock does do something stupid like jump in the
bloody sewage pond, which she's not me to jump into,
and you're like, ah, but you're not, like I wish
I didn't have you. Yeah, dog, it's the same as
a kid. Yeah, you know, you can't really ever say that.
You can't ever really say it.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I wish I didn't have you because you don't wish.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And they're great. Yeah, they're great for the kids like
Miela and her friend will walk Chock on their own
to the beach. Now they feed them. You feel better.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
About them going out on their own too, the fact
that they have the dog with them, right.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
A little bit. Chock's not the Chock's not the biggest,
She's quite the skinny she. I see these videos online
where people will pretend like they've fallen over, Like I
pretend a faint in front of my dog. Chok would
just like lick me and then go off and try
find food in the try and eat off the four
She would not care. She is Yeah, dogs are great
(27:10):
dogs and kids are great. You should do it if
you can. Meela had touched yesterday, which was cool. Touches
like rugby without the tackling. And she's had a couple
of trainings over the school holidays which I've helped with.
I'm not a coach, but I this is Jeff, so
he's like he's he's like, he's like, come along, bro,
(27:31):
come along. I'm terrible at touch, so I come along
and be like the assistant coach. But Mela scored two tries,
so a great start to the last term of school.
She's real stoked with them. She's like this, you know,
on the wing, out of the action, but just managed
to get a few great passes and scored the try
and then putting it to bed. Great, great work today,
(27:51):
I scored two tries. Yeah, she's saying it in the
way she's saying it in a sense that she thinks
she's like the top dog in the team.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Now it's gone straight to her head.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I was like, that's gonna actually yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And then I could see that and I was like,
I did. I did knock it down a bit. I
said to I gave this great, And I said, this
doesn't mean you're top dog and the team. Like Richie mccaugh,
who she knows of. She's read about him in a book,
A Great New Zealand All Black and Captain. I said,
no matter what, Richie mccaugh had this notebook and people
could tell him that he had the best game, a
flawless rugby game, and they won one hundred zero and
(28:26):
he's the best player ever. He would still come away
and write things that he could work on. And no
matter how great you get at anything, Meler, I'm always
I want you to take that on and be able
to do that yourself. But until you can figure that out,
I'll be letting you know. I'm always going to Like
straight away after the game, went to Jeff on the sideline,
I go, what do we need to work on, Jeff,
And we'll go home and work on it. Mela's not
(28:46):
thinking that, She's thinking two tries, I'm the bomb. But
I like to have some reality about it. You're not
six and seven and eight anymore. You're eleven getting into
now your older years of sport. You need to be
aware that you need to keep working like you can't
just be like, oh, you're the best, Well, let's go
get ice cream. You're the greatest. I think that's a
(29:07):
great mentality.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It's it's not tackle because then you could like run
it straight at her so that she understood that this.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yeah, get home, Yeah, get yeah, get home.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Me.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Let's stand there in the middle of the yard tackle dad.
I just get up full speed. Although guys, yeah, just
just want to throw out there. I wouldn't knock her
back as much as I used to because I know
for the last ten years I've been in the one
hundred kilo club. I'm now proudly ninety nine killers.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
He's done. He's a double digit man.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I'm out of the triple digits guys.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Because of the fit boxing training. When's the fight by the.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Boxing not it's a long time, not to late the
end of November, but we've started this training. It's the
hardest I've done rugby seasons right where you do your
pre season stuff and your coach is making you sprint everywhere,
and I've done a half marathon. What else is hard?
Like sprints up the Mount mungan Eui and stuff. This
boxing stuff, holy shit, it's another level. Like and everyone
(30:03):
you're sharing this with the thirty people that are German
signed up to this, everyone is just looking at each
other like what the fuck was that? And that's day
one on a Monday, and then you show up again
to meet them on a Thursday for the other class,
and that class is harder than the Monday, and then
Friday is harder than both days, and then you repeat
for eight weeks.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Has has Jodie noticed yet noticed?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
What?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Just that?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I could one too, just smash it at any moment
like I'm a killer out the weight loss like that. Uh.
I live with her so not dramatically.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
But that's what you want. Hasn't been a moment where
she's gone, because we've talked about that. We want to
just that little comment where she.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Goes, oh yeah, no, no, no, the hairs, the hairs she said,
saying about She's like, bless her. How do you not
know the name of human anatomy? This morning she had
a sore lower leg and she's pointing at the back
of her leger. Jordan, Oh this is from what's this again?
I said, that's your calf muscle. Oh yeah, but I'm
there the other night getting dressed and she's like, oh,
(31:04):
I like that, and that's new. I go, She's like that,
you know, it looks it looks firm. I was like, what,
she's like that, she's touched your arm. I go, bicep.
She's like, yeah, how do you not know simple bulging
things that children though? But yeah, little notes from Jody, Yeah,
they'll keep me going, you know, it's all it's all
for little notes from.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Joe's all this exist is why you're doing the post.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
For Jody, It's what's why I'm getting going to get
my head pummeled in. We've done sparring, which is just
a whole nother world of like, wow, never you get
in there and you think you got your head gear
on and your big soft gloves so things aren't meant
to hurt, and you're lining this guy and you're getting
hit of it, and you're thinking, oh, I've got him now,
I'm going to try this. By the time your brain
has thought about I'm going to try this, I've just
(31:48):
been jabbed twice in the face. It's it's I'm laughing.
I'm inside. I was laughing the whole If if you're
a real angry competitive person, you'd be getting angry in
there it yourself. But I'm just laughing because it's day one,
like sparring first time ever, and the people that come
to spa US were ex guys that have done the
thing we're doing now, so they all showed up like
as volunteers. It's like, I'm like, who are you psychos? Though,
(32:10):
when the gym says, hi, guys, we need some people
to come spar These guys like you're fishing a barrel.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
We'll come a bunch of images.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah, I was teasing them all. I was like, you
guys are the psycho wides who've agreed to come and
punch virgin boxes in the face. But I'm in a
constant state of soreness. But it started. It's like the
first great kick up my ass, and you can't, you
can't pull out like you've just got a It's I'm jealous.
It's the life right now. I'm jealous. And my last
(32:38):
note from school holidays is Jody went to the skate park.
And we have friends that live down at the Mount
Mount mong Andoy right now has a brand new, insanely
massive skate park, like it's nuts, and all of our
friends with kids, our Mount friends with kids live there
every day at the school holidays, like parents are dropping
them off and be like we'll see you soon. Like
(33:00):
you guys just look after each other. Took Alba Alba
all of a sudden just gets this new confidence and
dropped in on a ramp like dropped in brow because
she well, she's got a long board. And then the
boy mates are like, oh, you want to try it
on this and gave them a skater her skateboard, and
then she learned to drop in.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
So now now we've dusted off the old skateboard and
she's hard out wanting to get into skating. She's dropping
against I can't drop it. I'm not a skater whatsoever.
And I tried, so I looked at what she dropped
in on. I got up there. I was like, nah,
my brain will not let me do this. And she's
dropping in everywhere on her own.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Now, well, if they do that, they get good so
fast as well.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yes, Like she's real cool, real cool to see. And
now we've got the Now we've got the constant. We've
talked about this sister competition where Mela out of the blue,
the oldest one. It's like, I can do that, give
me a go I can. I can, and she can't,
but she has to think and say that she can
because I'm the oldest. Of course I can. And so
she gets on this board and it's like just stop, Okay.
(34:03):
Alba's been doing it now for like she's had me
wasn't here that day, right, so I was doing it
all on her own and then Meela just day one
first dropping I'm gonna do that. I can do it.
I can do it.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Let's take a quick break because I've got some feedback
that came in over the school holidays. Okay, first message
is from ash Kitchen, which I feel like is the
name of the person from Pokemon.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Isn't it that one hundred percent is a fake name?
That that is the guy from Pokemon Ash Ketchen.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Well, it's a girl this time, ash kitchen Pie, So
I wanted you to put the kitchen in to be funny,
or if she actually has the same name as the
guy from Pokemon. Anyway, that's great. Here's the message.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Good morning, Clint and Jordan. I thought I would leave
your message because I've just recently listened to your podcast
about your sliding into the DMS. One of the funny
things I think you might appreciate is I when I
started listening to you guys, right at the start, I had.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Seen how to Dad.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
I live in Australia. I'd seen how to Dad on Facebook,
but I hadn't heard of Clint before, so I started
listening to the podcast with no expectations of what Clint
look like. I also then went and started following you
guys on Instagram and Facebook, and I'd say I finally
got around to looking at what you guys post and
I was surprised. Clint, just to let you know your
(35:21):
wife is wrong about the mustache. It's fabulous, absolutely fabulous.
I think you'll appreciate that anyway. Jordan, you're great too,
just just putting that out there.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Please play that to Lucy. Please play it to Lucy.
She'll roll her eyes, she'll go like this at the individual,
roll her eyes and go fuck.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Can I say, Ash, I haven't seen this before, but
I think you might be my favorite listener to the
parenting hang of a podcast. That's just that's just the perfect.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Perfect I love that Clint say, hey, we'll go to break, guys,
we'll come back with some feedback.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That's the only one, like he's skimmed through. He's heard
some of you guys are the chats, But that's the one.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Podcast I've just been thinking about that messages like yeah, yeah,
but when can I play usage where the lady thinks
I'm hot?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Okay, last thing we talked about, I think it was
not on the pod, but over the break, was you
saying I have to get rid of the mo, I've
got this thing or something. It's come, You've got, it's there,
it's back. Yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I just trimmed it. I just shaved it down to
I shaved my beard to a one and a mustache
to a three so I can just keep the shadow
of the mustache.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, you're you're still very mustache right now. Yeah, so
you you're committing this is your new thing to at
least for the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yeah. I like it too much.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
So if I keep, if I keep losing weight, I'll
be able to do Clint Roberts and actually shave my
beard to such a shortness and keep the mow that
you can see my chin line.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Is that why you?
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Oh confident? I've got a I've got a brother. I've
teased him about this. Who I tell them all the time.
Stop shaving your beard right off? Just it adds tinkilos on.
If you don't have if you don't have that video
randomly so big anyway, if you don't have the chisel
chin of Clint Roberts and you shave off your beard,
(37:09):
you regret it straight away because all of a sudden
you're like, what is that little excess little just it's
not like a double chin. But so what's this little
pouch under Here's like a little kangaroo pouch. So you're
holding a baltezer in your throat chin.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
This is from Rebecca. This is a message from a
grandma who listens to the podcast, which is great.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Hi guys, I am a bit behind, but I am
a grandmother and now if oldest kids are six, and
I'm dreading their poor parents going through the cell phone thing.
When I was a poor single mother, I told my kids, yeah,
they can have a cell phone once they can afford
their own. So I deleted them a little bit, but
it was nothing like it is now because those kids
(37:48):
are now in their mid thirties, same age as you guys.
But I would be agreeing with Jordan's and saying, Nope,
as long as possible delay it because it's an addiction
and those kids will be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
The reason I played it is we've talked about delaying
the phone thing as much as you can a lot.
We've talked about it ad nauseum. But Rebecca's right, you can't.
You cannot compare when you got a phone to when
kids are getting a phone these days you can't go, well,
I got a phone when I was twelve, so they
can have a phone at the same age as I did.
Because the phones are not the phones that we were given.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
All we did was not text that much because it
costs twenty cents per text here in New Zealand's and
we weren't. If we weren't texting, we were playing the
one game that came on our Nokia phone, and that
was Snake. Yeah, we were playing Snake, and we weren't
addicted to playing Snake. We weren't head down in the
corner go away, and we weren't late at night. Were's
(38:42):
my phone shit as it charged? Because it lasted a month,
but you never charged it. It didn't it didn't go out.
But yeah, you cannot compare it to when we were
kids whatsoever. Like we were, we were weirdly paying for
our own top ups and stuff. Remember now I feel
like now I feel like for some reason, why has
(39:03):
that changed? But I feel like if a parent gets
their kid of smartphone now they're adding it to their
own account. And I don't know if all these kids
are I don't think these kids are paying for their
own phones. We're back in our day. Yeah, when I
got my phone straight off the bed, it was you
pay for your own topic. I wasn't getting Its a.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Good way to tend to limit the phone use you.
You can get a phone, but it's prepaying. You're in
charge of paying for it. They just gone the Wi
Fi all day at home. That's the problem, but it
could be that could be a good way of doing it.
Kids are very good WiFi though.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
You you changed the WiFi pass with.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
It, and then.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
You've pushed your kid weirdly down the block to sitting
outside weird shots that have left their WiFi passed with unlocked.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Or here's a written message from Blaine. It says, howdy team,
I'm a mum to a high needs, non verbal, autistic
almost six year old. I am in the fucking trenches,
but surprisingly this age is a walk in the park
compared to two. I've followed you both individually for donkeys,
(40:02):
but started listening to the parenting hangover only yesterday. A
couple of days days ago, my partner and I started
the separation chat due to the strain of our son's
needs on both of us. Your episodes have made me
actually laugh for the first time in a minute I
feel lighter from it, and quite literally, quite literally now too,
(40:22):
because I'm currently on my mental health walk. Listening to
the podcast, I've got nothing to contribute except to say
parenting a what the fuck? Enjoy the school holidays?
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Well, glad we've glad, we've given a glimmer of smile
or happiness and rough times. I love that you're on
a mental health walk. I'm a big fan of all
that stuff. Boxing anything, get a sweet up, go hit
some stuff, Go make yourself run somewhere, do something hard physically,
and you feel amazing afterwards.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Brutal to think, because nobody ever thinks that this is
going to be the case. But brutal to think that
you are looking at separating from your partner because of
the strain that your kid has put on the relationship.
You know, and I've heard I've heard of that before,
and that it just drives awach people with high needs kids.
I followed somebody on Instagram for a long time who
(41:11):
had one kid and them and their partner wanted one
more kid. So they got pregnant and she had one, two, three, four.
She had quads, so they went from one kid to
five kids overnight, and she was pretty open about how
that stress ended their relationship. And I guess you could
(41:32):
argue that no, if the relationship was going to end,
it was going to end anyway. But I think that it. Yeah, man,
that is brutal. That's so brutal because you need each other.
But this challenge that you've been given has driven a
wige between you. Guys. Man, it would be devastating.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
I tried to wrap up her message initially with some
positive like glad we've given you a smile and then
you've really ham at home there. But you are true, true,
like people say.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
True, I need to go positive at the end. But
you'll always have you. You always have each other.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Hey, my classic parents divorced and it ends up being
even as kids very quick. I was eight, but by
the time I was ten, I already realized that so
much better Mum and dad being apart, right, like Mum
and dad together fighting, arguing, like at a very quickly
or ten or eleven, you weren't hoping for mum and
dad to get back together anymore, because then you were
(42:21):
having your own realization of oh this is reality, Mum
and dad together terrible, Mum and Dad apart, Oh well,
they're happy. Mom and dad like we gonna see they're happy.
So it does come. Yeah, you never want to be
those people that are just let's stick together for this.
That's the worst. When parents are like, we just got
to stay together because yeah, wetly yeah, or at least
(42:43):
until they're fifteen, that's that's the worst. I mean, initially,
I've been through separation. Initially, separation sucks, but you talk
to so many A lot of my friends have all
gone through it. We all talked about it through college
and that we had parents breaking up, and no one
is ever like you're never like fifteen and talking about Man,
I wish my mum and dad were still together. Okay,
that's not you tend to. I would say. It takes
(43:05):
a year or so, but you get part and you
soon start to see your parent in a new light
and you're like, oh wow, and and this new guy,
Jeff that she's pretty cool guy. He's pretty good the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
My real dad doesn't have that.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
My stepdad. When I first met my mom's new partner, Tim,
he threw the rugby ball around with me in the carport.
He was a forestry worker, had the biggest beard ever.
I thought he was wolverine and real scary and had
a city out of his mouth and then picked up
a rugby ball, didn't speak and just started passing it
to me. And then that's how easy kids work. I
would have been nine, and I was just like, great,
terms of the man, you're in the family. Now, terms
(43:42):
the man, you're pretty cool. And he had real big,
real big arms because he worked in the forestry. Last message,
that's how so that's how easily kid's own priest, you'll
be okay.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Last message is about that video that we posted about
millennial baby names, which blew up the video and I
just found this funny because we're talking about how no
one's kidd has named Peter, no one's kidder's named Jeff.
We got a message from Courtney who said, I mean
a kid called David Sinclair the other day. He was three,
(44:15):
the combination of David Sinclear.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah, why would if the last name was Sinclear, why
would you name him David? That's just that's a that
is a politician.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Name or a principal. Yeah, yeah, just David.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Oh my gosh, what a what a cute little nine
pound baby? How was the birth year? Good? What'd you
name him, David, David Sinclair.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
It's just he's doing a stand.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Up just even without the sin clear, David's terrible. A
great chat back, guys. We'll talk about something else next week.
Follow us on all the socials and all that stuff,
and we'll see you next week.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
That's okay, okay, cool, all right, don't get a divorce,
but if you do, John.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
That yeah good. We are a certified life advisory panel.
Thank you.
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