June 19, 2024 • 39 mins
This week we tackle (pun intended) the topic of the stuff your kids wanna do outside of school hours, because it can be a lot, especially if you've got multiple kids! Somehow, this also becomes a "what health problems does Clint have" episode too. We try to solve snoring OH AND JORDAN HAS A BIG VASECTOMY ANNOUNCEMENT!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hi, everybody, Welcome to a brand new episode of The
Parenting Hangover. With this week, we're going to talk about
extra curricular activities. Hard thing to say, even harder thing
to manage, especially if you've got multiple kids.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Look to be honest, we tried to theme this episode
a little bit like we were like, let's talk about
extracurricular activities. Then we just go down quite a few
random rabbit holes. There's some ibs chat, there's vasectomy chat
in there. Clint takes up at least half the podcast
complaining about his snoring. No you wanted to know, Yeah,
but geez you just like diarrhea of the mouth. We
(00:37):
went everywhere with your snoring, Like I was, just give
me what was the surgery for our chairs? Mate? And
then we to carry on with the podcast. But hang on,
So what I've done is I had this. Here's the operation.
So what happened. But that's all this week on The
Parenting Hangover. It's great. We also do sliper in the theme.
We chat about how you manage having kids that want
(00:58):
to do multiple things after.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
School, active care. It's a good thing, but it's a
tough thing to manage, you know, especially if you all
have busy lives, so it's.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
A tough thing to manage if you're home in the
afternoons to help out with it. But if you're not,
it's pretty pretty cure free.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It's fine for me. I'm at work. Let's get into
it all right. We're back, and before we do anything,
I feel like we need to reveal our men's health scores.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Last week Men's health week.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, last week Men's health wheat chat and there was
a website you could go to here in New Zealand,
and we did share it because you can excess it
from anywhere. What's hashtag hashtag not sponsored. It was just
a general men's health checkup. I did it honestly because
some of them, you know where it's like strongly agree, disagree,
And I did it honestly.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeap.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
My score came out, yeah, sixty three.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh my school was sixty four. No. Man, I've been
talking to my friend group from high school because we're
all the exact same age, and so we've been this
is this is really sort of spurred on a conversation
in our fring group, and so we were comparing scores
(02:10):
and I was crushing it. I had the highest score
of anybody. And then when you said sixty, I was like, Oh,
he's going to beat me. He's going to beat me
sixty three.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Annoyingly, my phone is recording me right now for this podcast,
and I want to double check my because I screenshoted it.
Oh yeah, maybe it was sixty five.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Maybe I'm sixty five. Maybe mom is sixty two. Let
me let me quickly have a lot hang on.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't know. Oh no, I was worse. I was
sixty two. I shouldn't have checked.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I don't know, but I'm I'm glad to have like
one in my friend group and stuff. But is it good?
Is the number out of one hundred?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah? Out of one hundred? You're like, yeah, is it
out of it? Seems it's out of it. I'm pretty
sure it's out of one hundred.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
It said the healthy range for people in our age bracket,
which is like thirty five to forty five I think
was mid forties, was a good score to get. So
I was really heavy with sixty something.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah. Look, we've got we've got saying to work on.
We'll strive towards next year. I was asking lots of things,
like exactly what you talked about. It was saying, have
you proactively gone into your doctor and got a blood
sugar level test, a cholesterol test, blood pressure? And I
was like taking no, no, no. This year, I was
like no, no, no, no, no. Where this you gave
the story about being proactive and it got a little
(03:25):
bit weird. So now when you go in there confidently
and be like, look, the website told us. I know
I'm only thirty six, but I want you to check
on my things, please, all my things.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
All my things chickens. Also, this is just a great
way to get men interested in health as turn it
into a competition. Like guys listening to this now, I'll
be like, oh, I wonder if I can beat Clinton Jordan.
Be honest with the test. Okay, it doesn't take about
ninety seconds. Be honest because we're never going to see
your score.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
That's actually quite fun now that they can go on
and try and beat us a couple of New Zealands
zedless celebrity. So what's the site one more time where
it's not sponsored.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Men's Health Week in zed or you can just google
what's your score and it'll be the first thing.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It'll pop up. What's your score in ZID and it'll
pop up, go and do it and let us know,
because I'd like to know if these other mid thirties
to forty year old guys that are smashing us or
if our score was.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Okay, I haven't met anyone with a bitter score than
me yet, but then I want to know, like what
like Art Green scorers?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You know kid out of there Green, he's the rip
dad of New Zealand and her school would be like ninety.
How's the kids, kids are? Kid's a good mate. It's
been school like teacher only days slash taking your kid in.
It's like reports, right, but they do a teacher interview,
(04:42):
teach a student interview day. That took me way too
many words to get out what it was. But last
week was teacher student interview Day. Will you go in
your kid leads the one on one interview of the
teacher and then the teacher gives you an update on
how they're going at school.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, the interview is a child lead.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, depending on the age. But yep, yep, they'll go
in there and they'll they would have worked on it
what they're going to be saying during the week, Like
it's part of what they do, and then you sit
down and they quietly go into their shell. Even though
one they're confident with their parents too. They know their
teacher really well. But if you put us, the parents
in the teacher in one room together, the kids are
just like, I'm going to be so confident, get in there.
(05:22):
So this year I've signed up to Kapa hakka. Do
you like that elbow? Yep, it's very very cute.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's the complete opposite of what mine were.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Like.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Mine was more like walking. Teacher tells the truth about
what I'm actually like at school, and Mom's like, well,
that's not what Clinton's been telling me. He told me
that he's been wearing his glasses and class and then
and I'm like, Mom, shut up.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They'll probably get like that as you get into more
your college intermediate years, but right now, at primary school level,
it's just a cute little Your kid tries to tell
you what they've been up to. They show you some artwork,
but then the teacher does give you a breakdown of
how they're going, and then a day later you get
the report come home, so it's like a more instead
of just getting a piece of paper in front of you. Yeah,
we had this whole interview thing and they kind of
talk you through the report and there was no spankings. Okay,
(06:15):
they're all doing well. Yeah, they're all doing good. Because
mine as a kid even from was it primary school age? No,
I would have been a little bit later, but everything was.
Jordan's really great if he just stopped talking and if
he applied himself a little bit more like I wasn't.
I was sharp, you know, I was above average and learning,
but I just had the gift of the gab and
(06:36):
we'd just talk talk talk talk.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I was. I was very similar. And look at us now,
talk talk talk.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Talk, talk talk. And is there anyone out they're listening.
We don't know, but we're here doing it. We're filling
this room right now. I'm the biggest star in in
my little office right now.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Haha.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
How's your kids about that?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Good? We're in big girl bid transition mode at the moment.
Maggie's about to come out of the cot and I reckon,
she's pretty late coming out of the cot. She's late
compared to Towey, but that's because.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
She's coming She's coming out.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Of the cott at three three and a half.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, coming out of the cotst I was trying to
do like a coming out of the closet gig. It's
not working. It's not working.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, she's gay, Yep, she's getting those are my two
house the kids. She's getting a big girl bed, and
she's a lesbian.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
She's told us she's at three in twenty twenty four.
You need to accept that, mate, So.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And I would now we have been lording the idea
of her getting a big girl bed.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Over her as like a like a carrot slash threat
to get her to sleep through the night because she's
ht this window where she's waking up regularly, and like we've.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Talked about on the podcast before, it disproportionately affects my
wife than me. So I'm not complaining about it on
my behalf and complaining about it on her behalf because
she doesn't want me in the middle of the night.
She only wants Lucy. So we've been going you can't
get this bed until you are sleeping through the night consistently,
and it's kinda it's kind of worked. So it arrives
(08:05):
on Friday, but Lucy has said that she is going
to because I was like, oh cool, Friday morning, I
don't have to leave for work until midday. I can
dismantle the old cot and have the space ready for
the new bed to go in. Just no, no, I
don't want you to just meantle the cot. I want
to put the cot in the corner of the room
where she can see it from the bed, so I
(08:26):
can say to her, I can continue the threat and
go if you don't stay in the big girl bed,
you're going back in the cot. It's right there. We
will just put you straight back in there. And it's
such a good idea.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That's great, I think. Also keep your threat until, like,
even though the beard arrives on Friday, you don't have
to set it up. Yes, s like get the bed right.
Here's the other side. Pitch this to Lucy. Get the bread,
slide it into her room in the box on its edge,
and don't make it up and be like, sorry, you're
not staying in your cop will daddy, Mummy and Daddy
(08:59):
will sit a bed up when you stay in your bed?
But you need And so we were big on we
had Gnala's quite a thumbsucker, so we've got to stick
a chart. Well, she's built much better now, but we
had to stick a chart and when she like filled
thirty days that we noticed that she's not sucking her thumb.
We were like, we'll get you something. It was like
a lollipop. But it blows her mind. But you need
to like stick to like five nights, Maggie, and here's
(09:21):
the little chart and get five stickers in a row.
And if you run into my we've got to start again.
Or she's only three, it might be three nights, but
you know what I mean, I think, don't rush and
set the bed up so soon have it there and
be like have it there and be like, yo, you're not.
You got to show us that you can stay in
your cot all night, because then she'll wake up to come.
(09:41):
Or you block her door off physically with the beard
in the box. She gets out of her coat and
she's like, damn it. So tell Lucy it's a great
it's that, or it's a physically a fence. It's a
barrier that your kid cannot get to.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You say, this is why this is good. You've been there,
done that. I'm here doing it. This is this is
why this works.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I'm just jumping on Lucy's evil scheming ways of just
blackmailing her kit really, So.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
It makes me wonder when that comes to Lucy, so naturally,
I'm like, I wonder if she uses any of these
techniques on me, Like I wonder if there's anything that
she's doing in our relationship where she's she's like, if
you do this, you can have.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
This, Hey babe, paper. But you know how tonight like
the kids to bed, and so you know there's like
twenty minutes behere. We could well, Clint, just you know
I'm not feeling and you know I'm not feeling it
to but you know that you know that old tree
up back, I've been asking you to RecA. She would
have done it, mate, she would have done it. You've
(10:38):
been a long time. She does it that you don't
even notice. So she's doing it all the time.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
But if you don't snore for five nights in a row,
if you get five stickers on your non snoring chart,
are you still snoring?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
It's come back a bit.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah you had a snoring operation. Yeah, I had a
siptoplasty and it's still all I over hear whenever anyone
tells me they're having those operations that aren't for esthetics.
You had too many drugs a big draggy I what
other nose things are going on? Man, You've just snorted
ten years of cocaine in about a year in the
(11:13):
way at your inner nose.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And I made that joke with the specialist because he
put the camera up there. He's like, oh, you've got
deviated tiptom.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Oh, that's the one. That's the one that all the
famous Hollywood celebrities get where they're like the bit in
the middle just disappears because the cocaine's burnt it out.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's what. Yeah, that's that's a type of deviated tiptom.
But I was like, oh, just like Stevin X, I'm
like some kind of rock star or something that's crazy.
And he didn't laugh. He didn't laugh at all.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I was like, Oh, okay, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I haven't, by the way, it's because you've gone and
you still had cocaine around your nostril. And he was like,
I'm not going to laugh. This is a this is
man's got a problem. What are all these Instagram videos
going around where it's just like a sticker plaster that
goes on the those It doesn't it's just a classic.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I've got a box of them. Beside the bed. Don't
let it work. Oh wow, I've done that one. I've
done that one. I've done the taping your mouth shut
at night, putting a tape over your mouth to force
you to breathe through your nose. And does it not work. No,
because it doesn't stick to my mustache. The tape won't
stick to my to my facial hairs. And I've even
tried you got to.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Go clean shaven for the good of your marriage. You
need to go clean, clean shaven.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
But then there's bad for my marriage because my wife
said that I look ugly with a bald face.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
So but just clean shave the mo then, and so
you just have like a Craig David beard, just.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Like a reverse Hitler mustache.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Just the last thing I've tried was it's it's this,
it's this harness that I bought off.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You can't see him right now, his hands up around
his face, and all I picture is a full vo
two athlete wearing mask.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It's like a no, it's more like rugby head gear.
And there's a strap that goes on your chin and
it holds your chin up while you sleep, but it
goes around the top of your head and it's meant
to kick your mouth shut all your sleep, but none
of it worked, none of it. I just wake up
in the morning and the somehow in the night I've
gone the strap off without knowing the tape of my mouth.
(13:07):
You can do crazy things in your sleep without knowing
about it. If you're not comfortable, your body will just
change it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Mate. This I'm just thinking now, like, if you have
the cot and the bed set up, this could backfar
on you and Lucy just ends up slipping and the
bed and you're going in the cot and you're never
going to get none. I did not realize you were
a chronic snorer.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
No, I'm not chronic. I'm not chronic. I would there's just.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, I'm a I'm a drunk snorer. Apparently if I
have a few beers that's the only time I snore.
Other than that, I don't snore. I have plenty videos
on of my wife when she's royal real tired. It's
not a snore. It's just a real heavy like, if
not a full on but it's cute. Day ten o'clock
and I'm a bed and you look over and it's
just so I have to get my phone out every time.
(13:57):
Just hold it above her and it won't be until
like three days later. I remember, I'm like, watch this.
You know you say you never snore by watch get
out of here.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's not me. You put that sound on there. The
other problem, and this is the last thing I said,
But the other problem that we've got with the snoring
is we recently upgraded to a bigger bed. We've got
a we've got a big bed now, super Keen California King, Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Kelli, fun, you're king bed. We're ten thousand males.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
We're literally ten thousand miles apart. And so now when
I'm snoring, and your wife would usually just give you
an elbow in the ribs or a little cack to
knock you out of it, Lucy's too far away. She
can't reach me when I'm snoring. So she has to
like roll, do a full roll to get to me
and then shove me just there snoring.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
And because she won't want to it's winter here in
New Seald and she won't want to venture through that
cold part of the between you. Yeah, yeah, she's going
to stick. She's to have a broomstick next to her
that she just.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
All wives think they want a bigger bed to be
further away from their big husbands and the bed, but
in reality there are some issues. So it's just something
to be aware of.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Okay, I had a grandfather that shook the house. No lie,
his snoring was so bad and him and his my
nan didn't have the same bedroom for many years because
of it. So try not to get to that. Okay,
you need to get this sorted.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, Okay, to work on.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Okay, surely you can find tape anyway. It's not a
storing episode, but surely there's tape out there that'll hold
on top of your little mustache hair.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Maybe if anyone knows about it. I'm keen to I'll
give it. I'll give anything ago.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, I think this is great that we've brought it
to the realm. We have instead of weird Google stuff
and Instagram peel, we've got people listening that may have
solved a snoring issue. So if you have, send it
in and we'll share it and Clink will try it.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
The Scepto pet plastic did help. Just got some It's
like a dryness issue that means that my nose blocks up. Anyway,
this is getting this this podcast are just becoming my
health issues, Like.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, I'm so perfect, it's tough to be anything about me.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
We want to talk about extracurricular activities this week and
how many of your kids have and how you manage them,
and no one will talk about this, but the extracurricular
activities you should steer your kids away from because of
how annoying they are for you. Like the thing that
comes to mind straight away would be rowing. It's great
if your kid wants to be a row it's great
for fitness, it's great for them going to Marty carp
(16:16):
and things like that, but nobody tells you when you
get them into rowing that you're going to have to
get up at four thirty in the morning to take
them to rowing practice twice a week.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
There'll also be so many listeners as you're saying that,
especially internationals who are like, sorry, what what are you
talking about? Rowing is big here in New Zealand because
we have a lot of water around us. We have
a lot of rivers, a lot of lakes. But there's
some of you living in middle of America. You don't
have any water anywhere, so you might be like, sorry,
what rowing? But rowing is a very big sport.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
In, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yes, we have gold medals, we have a plethora of
rowing champions, but that would be a terrible one. Rowing
would I can't think of anything the ones we have
to get up at, Like, oh, I'm going to go
support you at four am. Let's hop in the car
and the windows frosted over. I'll get you to training.
We had it to go for the college where I went. Yeah,
(17:09):
there were students that come in and I was like,
what have you been up to that I was riding
this morning?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I was like, bro, I got out of bed like
thirty minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
And there are also always a different breed of kid,
which does I'm sure there's lots of benefits to it,
it's just a bit annoying. My friend also always talks
about how annoying it is to get your kid into
cricket because it takes up your whole Saturday. You have
to take into cricket. It's not like it's over in
ninety minutes like a normal game. If your kid starts
playing cricket, you're at cricket all day.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, yeah, I'm lucky. I may be lucky. Then I'll
skip that. I remember me and Jody when we had
kids like your age, and you'd go and catch up
with friends who had the kids that were school age,
like primary school, going to school, and they would just
be saying, oh, so Tuesdays, this, Wednesdays, we've got this
after school, Thursdays, they've got this, they're doing this and this,
(17:59):
and we would leave going, let's never be the parents
that sign our kit up to everything, and they are
just full on and you're like pushing them into all
these different things. And now we are kind of there
and living it, and it's just happened naturally. We're not
pushing anyone into anything, but just from themselves putting their
hands up when they say, who wants to do drama
(18:20):
after school once a week. So now we have in
our household there's gymnastics, there's tennis, two of them, tennising.
There's three games of netball on a Saturday. There's after
school netball trainings. There's the drama, and there's Kapa Hakka
which and then and depending on the season, then we
(18:43):
get into ripper rugby as well. So independently they're not
doing a heap. It's kind of like two things each,
maybe three. But once you got three kids and they've
all got two things each. You're like, holy saturdays, bro,
like you're saying, cricket saturdays now are a massive juggle
because one of them have knitball. Kickoff at like nine am. Yeah,
you don't need to say kick off. I don't know,
(19:04):
whistle off. What's the start of it? Center pass, center pass,
center pass is at nine am. Then the others are
at like twelve and then one and we so we
got to go to Matt Manganui for this, sorry, which
is huge for us. It's twenty minutes away. Clint's like, stuff,
you I hate you not living in auclib Yeah, twenty
minutes away. And then you're like, what do we go home?
Or do we just hang out here now to one o'clock.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
But at least knitball would all be at the same court, right, Yeah,
it's all the same place. And if you've got all
girls who play the same sport, at least you can
kind of like stay in the same place. Whereas I
know a families who have got like a soccer game
over here and a rugby game over here and a
knitball game over here, and then you're just like a
your entire Saturday is just logistics.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, the good thing is never be the evil parent
and the parent group like you want to be friends
with all the parents. So when it comes to these
sporting games, you can just have a little group message like, hey,
who's taking thing to the practice this week? Guys, Yeah,
that's stuff going and lean on your village of other periods. Today, Nala,
after school, my youngest six, she gets picked up by
(20:07):
another mum and that mum takes four other kids to
her house for half an hour. They will play and
hill out together, and then she will drive them to
gymnastics which is in Tippokei, fifteen minutes away, and then
another mum, no, the same mum will then bring them
all the way back, and those mums change each week.
Very sexist off me to say mums. But in this
current setup it is the mums that are doing it.
(20:30):
One of them is a kindergarten teacher, so her work
stops bang on two thirty, so she's free to do it. Jody,
my wife currently not working. Me selling a stock left
right and center all day on the fucking seven stocks
other stock in it, t sell it. They've gone under. Okay,
get into cobalt. What is it what's in the batteries
olia mining? Okay, we got.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Someone's got to pay for these knitbull shoes. Okay, someone's
going to pay for these nitball dressings.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
But I usually in my thing is in the ripper
rugby season. I'm coach. I've it's been a time where
I coach both my girls teams, so I would sprint
from one game to the other to then coach them.
I mean, we didn't win, we didn't take the trophies home.
I put that down to my coaching. But yes, seasonality
comes into it on when you can pick up the
slack Saturdays. Though we're there, we're all there as a family.
(21:19):
Everyone the girls hate it. Miela who plays at nine am,
So why do I have to come again at one
o'clock and to have watched them?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Because we're a team, damn it.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah, And I kind of I felt that the other day.
She was so tired and I said, what's your mate
doing across the road, Like see what she's doing because
I was leaving. I left on Saturday to go to
a rugby club thing. And then I hear asking her mum,
and Jody's that Nat you're coming. We're supporting each other
All right, corp for a few seconds, be like, yeah,
(21:48):
well just go hang out your mates for the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
We're supporting each other, means Jody means if I have
to go, you have to go. You're not getting out
of that. Yeah. You talking about the mum the mum
juggle thing, which is part of it for us too,
because I am a very extra curricular activities based person,
Like I did everything everything when I was a kid,
and I've always thought of how good it would be
(22:12):
to get my kids into everything too. And Lucy pointed
out to me that I'm not here in the evenings.
My work hours mean that I don't finish until seven.
And she's like, if you encourage them to get into everything,
it's me that's going to have to do all of
the running around. And yeah, you'll be here for the
Saturday game, but it's all going to fall to her.
And she's so.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Right, She's right. I take Lucy's side here, hats off
to you being like, yeah, let's get them into everything.
But when you boil it down, you have an afternoon
radio show, yeah, five days a week and you won't
be there.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
No, Yeah, nice, So you've got to think about the
burden of that. But but it's what you were raised on, right.
I was reflecting on what my extra correct curricula. Oh
my god, when you.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Say everything we're both from. I'm smaller rural news, a
smaller town. Yeah, and like my village, you had rugby.
There was also rugby. Yeah you could maybe in the
summer do rugby.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, touch rugby.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
And then there was scouts, which is cubs. So I
went to cubs was the smaller vision those that's all
I did. My whole life was rugby or scouts. You
say you did it, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
So I was looking at what a normal week, like
in winter, would look like for me. And I would
have after school guitar lessons on a Monday, I'd have
scouts on a Tuesday. I'd have soccer practice on a Wednesday.
This is all after school stuff. I'd have mini ball
on a Thursday.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
What is mini ball?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Mini ball as basketball, but for kids you play you
played the width of the court, not the length. And
then thankfully no activities on a Friday, so we could
have fish and chips and relaxed, and then on Saturday
morning soccer. So that's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday that
I had something on after school or in the morning. Yeah,
it is full of that's but I loved it. I
(24:01):
loved it as a kid and I was like it
was normal to me. But I don't know how my mom,
because my dad worked afternoons and evenings just like me.
I don't know how my mom did it. She must
have lent on other parents in the friend group. But
because I wasn't an only child either, there's four of
us and somehow they made it work. I do think
that this stuff is more manageable if you live in
(24:23):
a town that is not Auckland, because not to say
other places don't have traffic, but if that was an Auckland,
there's just no way you would. Just the gridlock of
even just the school pickup means that that sort of
stuff is impossible, or so.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I remember. From the age of nine was the time
where we would stop getting picked up from school because
rugby training was always like let's say school for oh gosh,
my phone called fat Showing off over and I watched
there put it on the first day and now it's
interrupted the podcast. But here I am rule in New Zealand.
Back in nineteen eighty nineteen ninety five ninety six were
(25:00):
at nine and the parents have said, we're not picking
you up. You go with your mates after school and
here's a couple of dollars and we'd go down pass
the fish and chip shop. We'd order hot chips on
our own. We would then walk over to the rugby club.
It's a small little town. It would take us five
minutes to get to town and then five minutes walking
to be at the rugby club, and then we'd be there.
(25:20):
So there's just a group of like four mates where
the parents like, no one's coming. You guys, take yourself
to rugby training and we will be there to pick
you up. And multiple times it was like dad has
just got the wrong time or he's been caught out
on the lake because he was a fisherman, and he's
like I was always the like, there's many times an
the lane.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
You're fine until you're fine for until the last last
kid or the last last car, and then oh shit,
yeah this this seemed too good.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
But also also we entertained ourselves somehow. I'd never phone,
I had nothing, and you just sort of sat there
and you found a way to just occupy your mind
until your parents have showed up.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I know, mate, you just get me going on the
phone thing again. But there's a great video that goes
around and it's of someone's just filming their dad and
it's like, check this out. My sixty five year old
dad is about to just raw dog in eight hour flight. Yeah,
no movie. Look, I'm sitting in there. He's sitting before
boarding the plane, just sitting there looking into the abys
no book, no nothing, just sitting with his mind.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
This is what we all did. This is what the
world was. I can't now look at us if I'm
eating alone. I can't even eat dinner without some form
of media. Now I'm well, I'm gonna have I'm gonna
have dinner by myself. I better have something to do.
I better just scroll TikTok or something like that. And
I heard something the other day say, surely the food
should be entertainment enough, but we're not. We can't know.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
No, I'm the same, like my family's been blown away. Narla,
this is bad. It was me as a dad. Look,
I'm not a reader, okay, I don't read a lot.
And Narla, I've just bought this book and I've been
reading it quite full on. I'm into this book. And
Narla quietly goes the other evening to Jodie, my wife, Wow,
I've never seen dad read. She's sicks, she sicks apart.
(27:05):
She's seen me read the weekend newspaper, which I love,
but she's not seen me like read a book. And
that's yeah, well read. Yeah, I'm not a book reader,
but that's been really good. And now one big tick
for me is I'm like, man, I'm going to get
onto this book train. I'm going to buy another book
after this because instead of them seeing me maybe grabbing
my phone when I'm bored or scrolling or doing something
(27:27):
like all of us say we don't have an issue with,
but we all do, I've been purposely going down, grabbing
my book from next to my bed and sitting on
the catch reading a book.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Look, I'm the same. I'm not a book guy, but
I'm moving towards it as well, because it's just so
much better for you.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You're imagining the things in the book instead of just
not even using your brain when scrolling.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
But wait, this is to thirty six and thirty seven
year old men discovering books and what you Haybro got
a hot topic for the podcast this week. I've discovered
this new thing. It's called books. We should get into them.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
They're crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
You get this knowledge.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah yeah, people share their thoughts on life and you
learn some stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
It's bro Bro life hack. My wife's got this card
and there's this place you can go and you can
borrow books for free. Life hack. It's called a library.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
A liberary was the library? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It was like a hot woman there with glasses and
she just gives you free books.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Bros, sick hot woman. No, that was on another website.
But you you're at the point where your kids are
quite young, three and five, are you? Are they extracurricularly
right now if they after school?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
No, but the neighbors have have extended the invitation to
for the girls to come down to Rip a Rugby.
So it's the first one where we're like and I'm like, yeah,
do it, and Lucy's like, yeah, do it. But again,
rip a Rugby they don't play on the weekend. So
I'm going to be taking them to training and I'm
going to be taking to the games. So yes, I
(29:11):
know you want them to go, but I'll be the
one that makes the decision. Okay, I'll get the timing
for this.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Lucy. Look, Lucy, I know you listen to one in
every thirteen episodes. Maybe you'll listen to this one. Riper
Rugby at the young age. Just a note, if the
coach is like this, you could fight it in the
little parent WhatsApp group. But they don't train separately. It's
like the easiest way at that age is you just
say kick off is at four pm. As me, look,
I was a coach of my five year old's team.
(29:36):
You just asked the parents to be there fifteen minutes early,
and you have you do some little things with the kids,
and then there are games only half an hour forty
five minutes max. You're done. There's no separate training.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You combine the training and the training with the playing.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, because they're too young. Yeh, you're too young. If
you coach them on a Thursday and then shaff for
a Saturday or whatever day, they've forgotten everything. So just
before the game, you're doing a few little warm up things.
This is how we defend octupus arms. Kids arms. They
don't know at that age. It's a shambles, but you're
out there having a bit of fun with them, so
I would sign them up. Mate, give it a trial, trial, Lucy,
(30:10):
give it a trial.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Okay, Hey, we got some feedback this week, so let's
take a real quick break and come back with that.
This is some feedback from Emma who missages. Just do
you remember the other week when you talked about how
you did like a here test to diagnose your daughter's eligence?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, so Emma messages. She said, huge lover of the
podcast here. I have my husband listening now too, really boring.
But Jordan, which here sensitivity kit did you use for
your girls? I've been trying to decide which one, so
I thought i'd ask an expert.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Shit, I don't know. My lovely wife who's amazing, did it? Yeah?
Did I talk about me doing the test? No, Men's healthweek.
We're carrying on the chat really quickly. I was a
real quick story come back. So I'm thirteen working at
my dad made fish burly, which is like fish guts right,
(31:03):
and it's frozen and you put it in the water
and it attracts fish. I'm there. Used to work in
it every day after school. We'd get paid like five
dollars an hour. It was slave labor. It was terrible,
and I got a real crook gut and I was like, whoa,
oh my gosh, my stomach. My dad, we need to
go Like He's like, do you need to put it that, No,
my gut's going to fall out of itself. And so
he rushes me into town to doctor Jeff Knight, the
(31:24):
one doctor in town. Yeah, and he's like, oh, yep,
you've got ibs. Probably, here's some pills. Gave me this
jar of pills and that was it. My whole life
from the age of fourteen, I've just been told in
my head you've got ibs, and my dad and stepmom
and that didn't really care too much. So every now
and then, once a week, i'd have a real croc
gut and I'd have to and then you would you'd
(31:45):
find that you've just letting loose on the toilet, or
if it's a little bells yeah, or if you had
a little fart, it would simmer down. If you've got
a bit of gas out, oh, your stomach was way better.
And then I've gone until six months ago, my whole
life just thinking I've got ibs. It's much better. As
I've got older. I don't know what's changed, but I
still would get it now and then right My family
would go, Jordan, you can't have that chocolate putting, mate,
(32:06):
You're going to be shitting everywhere. My family were aware
that I had this IBS th and then we find
and then Jody's like, what if it's not here, let
me clip your hair, sends it off, comes back, And
we never had any test done as a kid or anything.
I am bright red, dairy intolerant, dairy free.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I don't have IBS. I'm deary free. My poor bows
br I've just been a flame for the last fifteen
years with diary garn In. Yeah, but I'm such a
stubborn person and who who The only change I've made
is I put oat milk in my cup of tea.
But if we have spaghetti boonnaise, I'm still there, great
and cheese on it.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I'm going to say your favorite drinker is a hot jockey.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
No, I've been having sorry oat hot chocolates, mate, But
we had a big chat about it recently, and Jody's like, Jordan, look,
here's Mieler being a trooper on the dear free thing,
not complaining, and then she knows that you're dairy free,
and you sit down and have sour cream and cheese
and all these things, and okay, yep, you're right. I
need to be an Instagram dad and lead by example.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
So what if you actually have a six pack but
you're just bloated from the dairy.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, So this this was actual. Today is day one.
Me and Jody had a big serious health chat last night,
and today is day one of me being better health
and going fully dairy free.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Can you pad your final mints and cheese pie?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Well, there was some chocolate in the cupboard, right, and
I love a bit of chocolate. And she gave a
big spiel and the whole time she was saying it,
my brain was just thinking. But she still didn't have
that chocolate, just as a final night. And I said
I'm gonna have that chocolate. She's like, no, Jordan, You've
got to commit. Now you're just gonna keep failing.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
So inside my dad, I swear my dad is gluten intolerant.
Like he has all the symptoms of gluten intolerance. Yea,
all of them, but he doesn't unders. First of all,
he doesn't know what gluten is And second of all,
there's no way you could tell him not to eat
white bread anymore. It just wouldn't happen. It just would
never happen. I couldn't eat burgers and white bread and everything.
(34:03):
Then hit He'll be like, well, I just I'd rather
just I'd rather just have the zide effects.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, but it's like me, like I've been since finding
out six months ago that I'm dairy free, I've still
like made the smallest changes but still. But I will
go away and I will find out what lab test
it was, and I'll let you know. This is a
New Zealand by the way, you're a Kiwi. But I
will find out and I'll find your message and I'll reply. Yeah,
I was writing it on my hand right now. What
was it, deary.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Deairye what no hair test?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yeah but dairy okay, hare test makes ways more sense here, Okay,
Now I look now it's like I've got to go
for a haircut and into the diary.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Here's a message from James yo Jordan and not Jordan's
there's a guard.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
It's just the same guy.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Yeah, No, gag is that it's all that gag is
still lagging around Jordan. Okay, let's start him again, not
Jordan's How's a Guard.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
I've got a little bit of a problem. I've just
realized that I've binged all of your episodes of the
podcast in the last two weeks, and I'm now completely
up to date, and I don't really know what to
do now. Dad stands for me.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Twenty eight year old.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
First child is due in the next couple of weeks,
so I've just been cramming the podcast to try and
get myself up to speed and get ready for it.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I've got one of Jordan's.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
How to Dad books very good. But yeah, I think
the number one piece of advice that I've learned is
don't break dance in the kitchen. So thanks for that
with Jordan, and yeah, keep doing what you boys are doing.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Love it? How good is that? How good is that
bit of pressure there? He's binged fifty odd episodes in
two weeks of our podcast and that's his preparation for
becoming a father.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That's pretty cool. Yeah, I was going to ask for
he said it. Obviously a gag answer there, but I
would love he said don't don't break dance in the
kitchen because I smashed my oven door recently. Yeah, I
would love to know though, if he can message us
back in what has it been helpful?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Has cramming all those episodes in do you Think you are?
Do you feel more prepared? Basically the same and didn't
get much from it or I just listen for the laughs.
It kind of teaches me nothing. We'd love a barometer
sometimes scale for you give us, give us a message
us back in bro and let us know it wasn't
if we've helped you.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Originally, the idea of this podcast was to give dad's
expectant dad something to lean on, but it's kind of
transformed into being this like running update on parenting life
because you can't take all the information at once, like
you need different information across the parenting journey at different times.
So yeah, i'd love to know.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Also, and snoring and you need and yeah, fifteen minutes
of it is based on intolerance and snoring and get
your nuts felt.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, that message came in three weeks ago. He just
messaged to say that their baby arrived this week. Mate.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
He's shown me a little photo, very cute.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Very cute, James, are you doing a good job? And
is it because of us. We need to know, missus.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Just let us know. Hey, side note, I've booked my vicinctomy.
Ah okay, you said, did you go with doctor Snip?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
No, no, no, no no no, I went must Snap clinic.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Oh okay, because I need. I need to cancel it
because Jodie realized I've booked it in the school holidays
and she doesn't want me being a piece of shit
during the school holidays. Because I'm like, oh, no one,
no one touched me. I can't raise my heart rate,
like it's telling me, I can't raise my heart rate
for a week. My wife gave birth. They didn't tell
her don't raise your heart right.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
It just means don't lift anything heavier than five kilos
for a week.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
What I am worried though, is about you know, morning morning, morning,
morning glory. After the operation. They're saying, you know, you
can't really do anything in that area for it. But
I'm just worried, like it's a random phantom eriction, gonna
be putting risk on my joint blowing up.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
No, okay, not connected. Well, they are connected, but not
in the same.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Imagine if you have it done and then that night
you have an awkward, wet dream. The pain you would
wake up and would.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Be that would hurt? That would that would hurt? I thought,
you're going to say, imagine if he's doing it and
while he's cutting my tubes, I get a boner.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
We're not that immature, mate or slightly.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
No, I went to snip clinic. I think, don't quite me,
but I think doctor Sniff is the whiskey guy. I
think he's the whiskey and valium guy.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Okay, okay, there's so many I'll look into snip clanicing
and see who's cheapest. I'm paying like five six hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah, it's about it.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah, but yeah, I booked it and then I canceled,
and then I'm canceling it. It's on my list to
do because it's in the school holiday, so I need
to reschedule.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Well, you need to let me know so I can
put in my diary and hit down with the microphone
so we can record it.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
And now to be our luck that because I'm old postponent, right,
and Joey, you will get pregnant, That's what's going to.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Happen, and then you'll be emmy.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
So yeah, we're gonna have four girls.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Thanks for your messages, Thanks for giving the podcast, Like
and subscribe to talk to you guys next.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Quick, let me tell your friends cheers here
Hi, everybody, Welcome to a brand new episode of The
Parenting Hangover. With this week, we're going to talk about
extra curricular activities. Hard thing to say, even harder thing
to manage, especially if you've got multiple kids.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Look to be honest, we tried to theme this episode
a little bit like we were like, let's talk about
extracurricular activities. Then we just go down quite a few
random rabbit holes. There's some ibs chat, there's vasectomy chat
in there. Clint takes up at least half the podcast
complaining about his snoring. No you wanted to know, Yeah,
but geez you just like diarrhea of the mouth. We
(00:37):
went everywhere with your snoring, Like I was, just give
me what was the surgery for our chairs? Mate? And
then we to carry on with the podcast. But hang on,
So what I've done is I had this. Here's the operation.
So what happened. But that's all this week on The
Parenting Hangover. It's great. We also do sliper in the theme.
We chat about how you manage having kids that want
(00:58):
to do multiple things after.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
School, active care. It's a good thing, but it's a
tough thing to manage, you know, especially if you all
have busy lives, so it's.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
A tough thing to manage if you're home in the
afternoons to help out with it. But if you're not,
it's pretty pretty cure free.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It's fine for me. I'm at work. Let's get into
it all right. We're back, and before we do anything,
I feel like we need to reveal our men's health scores.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Last week Men's health week.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, last week Men's health wheat chat and there was
a website you could go to here in New Zealand,
and we did share it because you can excess it
from anywhere. What's hashtag hashtag not sponsored. It was just
a general men's health checkup. I did it honestly because
some of them, you know where it's like strongly agree, disagree,
And I did it honestly.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeap.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
My score came out, yeah, sixty three.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh my school was sixty four. No. Man, I've been
talking to my friend group from high school because we're
all the exact same age, and so we've been this
is this is really sort of spurred on a conversation
in our fring group, and so we were comparing scores
(02:10):
and I was crushing it. I had the highest score
of anybody. And then when you said sixty, I was like, Oh,
he's going to beat me. He's going to beat me
sixty three.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Annoyingly, my phone is recording me right now for this podcast,
and I want to double check my because I screenshoted it.
Oh yeah, maybe it was sixty five.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Maybe I'm sixty five. Maybe mom is sixty two. Let
me let me quickly have a lot hang on.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't know. Oh no, I was worse. I was
sixty two. I shouldn't have checked.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I don't know, but I'm I'm glad to have like
one in my friend group and stuff. But is it good?
Is the number out of one hundred?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah? Out of one hundred? You're like, yeah, is it
out of it? Seems it's out of it. I'm pretty
sure it's out of one hundred.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
It said the healthy range for people in our age bracket,
which is like thirty five to forty five I think
was mid forties, was a good score to get. So
I was really heavy with sixty something.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah. Look, we've got we've got saying to work on.
We'll strive towards next year. I was asking lots of things,
like exactly what you talked about. It was saying, have
you proactively gone into your doctor and got a blood
sugar level test, a cholesterol test, blood pressure? And I
was like taking no, no, no. This year, I was
like no, no, no, no, no. Where this you gave
the story about being proactive and it got a little
(03:25):
bit weird. So now when you go in there confidently
and be like, look, the website told us. I know
I'm only thirty six, but I want you to check
on my things, please, all my things.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
All my things chickens. Also, this is just a great
way to get men interested in health as turn it
into a competition. Like guys listening to this now, I'll
be like, oh, I wonder if I can beat Clinton Jordan.
Be honest with the test. Okay, it doesn't take about
ninety seconds. Be honest because we're never going to see
your score.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
That's actually quite fun now that they can go on
and try and beat us a couple of New Zealands
zedless celebrity. So what's the site one more time where
it's not sponsored.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Men's Health Week in zed or you can just google
what's your score and it'll be the first thing.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It'll pop up. What's your score in ZID and it'll
pop up, go and do it and let us know,
because I'd like to know if these other mid thirties
to forty year old guys that are smashing us or
if our score was.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Okay, I haven't met anyone with a bitter score than
me yet, but then I want to know, like what
like Art Green scorers?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You know kid out of there Green, he's the rip
dad of New Zealand and her school would be like ninety.
How's the kids, kids are? Kid's a good mate. It's
been school like teacher only days slash taking your kid in.
It's like reports, right, but they do a teacher interview,
(04:42):
teach a student interview day. That took me way too
many words to get out what it was. But last
week was teacher student interview Day. Will you go in
your kid leads the one on one interview of the
teacher and then the teacher gives you an update on
how they're going at school.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, the interview is a child lead.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, depending on the age. But yep, yep, they'll go
in there and they'll they would have worked on it
what they're going to be saying during the week, Like
it's part of what they do, and then you sit
down and they quietly go into their shell. Even though
one they're confident with their parents too. They know their
teacher really well. But if you put us, the parents
in the teacher in one room together, the kids are
just like, I'm going to be so confident, get in there.
(05:22):
So this year I've signed up to Kapa hakka. Do
you like that elbow? Yep, it's very very cute.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's the complete opposite of what mine were.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Like.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Mine was more like walking. Teacher tells the truth about
what I'm actually like at school, and Mom's like, well,
that's not what Clinton's been telling me. He told me
that he's been wearing his glasses and class and then
and I'm like, Mom, shut up.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They'll probably get like that as you get into more
your college intermediate years, but right now, at primary school level,
it's just a cute little Your kid tries to tell
you what they've been up to. They show you some artwork,
but then the teacher does give you a breakdown of
how they're going, and then a day later you get
the report come home, so it's like a more instead
of just getting a piece of paper in front of you. Yeah,
we had this whole interview thing and they kind of
talk you through the report and there was no spankings. Okay,
(06:15):
they're all doing well. Yeah, they're all doing good. Because
mine as a kid even from was it primary school age? No,
I would have been a little bit later, but everything was.
Jordan's really great if he just stopped talking and if
he applied himself a little bit more like I wasn't.
I was sharp, you know, I was above average and learning,
but I just had the gift of the gab and
(06:36):
we'd just talk talk talk talk.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I was. I was very similar. And look at us now,
talk talk talk.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Talk, talk talk. And is there anyone out they're listening.
We don't know, but we're here doing it. We're filling
this room right now. I'm the biggest star in in
my little office right now.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Haha.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
How's your kids about that?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Good? We're in big girl bid transition mode at the moment.
Maggie's about to come out of the cot and I reckon,
she's pretty late coming out of the cot. She's late
compared to Towey, but that's because.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
She's coming She's coming out.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Of the cott at three three and a half.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, coming out of the cotst I was trying to
do like a coming out of the closet gig. It's
not working. It's not working.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, she's gay, Yep, she's getting those are my two
house the kids. She's getting a big girl bed, and
she's a lesbian.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
She's told us she's at three in twenty twenty four.
You need to accept that, mate, So.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And I would now we have been lording the idea
of her getting a big girl bed.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Over her as like a like a carrot slash threat
to get her to sleep through the night because she's
ht this window where she's waking up regularly, and like we've.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Talked about on the podcast before, it disproportionately affects my
wife than me. So I'm not complaining about it on
my behalf and complaining about it on her behalf because
she doesn't want me in the middle of the night.
She only wants Lucy. So we've been going you can't
get this bed until you are sleeping through the night consistently,
and it's kinda it's kind of worked. So it arrives
(08:05):
on Friday, but Lucy has said that she is going
to because I was like, oh cool, Friday morning, I
don't have to leave for work until midday. I can
dismantle the old cot and have the space ready for
the new bed to go in. Just no, no, I
don't want you to just meantle the cot. I want
to put the cot in the corner of the room
where she can see it from the bed, so I
(08:26):
can say to her, I can continue the threat and
go if you don't stay in the big girl bed,
you're going back in the cot. It's right there. We
will just put you straight back in there. And it's
such a good idea.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That's great, I think. Also keep your threat until, like,
even though the beard arrives on Friday, you don't have
to set it up. Yes, s like get the bed right.
Here's the other side. Pitch this to Lucy. Get the bread,
slide it into her room in the box on its edge,
and don't make it up and be like, sorry, you're
not staying in your cop will daddy, Mummy and Daddy
(08:59):
will sit a bed up when you stay in your bed?
But you need And so we were big on we
had Gnala's quite a thumbsucker, so we've got to stick
a chart. Well, she's built much better now, but we
had to stick a chart and when she like filled
thirty days that we noticed that she's not sucking her thumb.
We were like, we'll get you something. It was like
a lollipop. But it blows her mind. But you need
to like stick to like five nights, Maggie, and here's
(09:21):
the little chart and get five stickers in a row.
And if you run into my we've got to start again.
Or she's only three, it might be three nights, but
you know what I mean, I think, don't rush and
set the bed up so soon have it there and
be like have it there and be like, yo, you're not.
You got to show us that you can stay in
your cot all night, because then she'll wake up to come.
(09:41):
Or you block her door off physically with the beard
in the box. She gets out of her coat and
she's like, damn it. So tell Lucy it's a great
it's that, or it's a physically a fence. It's a
barrier that your kid cannot get to.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You say, this is why this is good. You've been there,
done that. I'm here doing it. This is this is
why this works.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I'm just jumping on Lucy's evil scheming ways of just
blackmailing her kit really, So.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
It makes me wonder when that comes to Lucy, so naturally,
I'm like, I wonder if she uses any of these
techniques on me, Like I wonder if there's anything that
she's doing in our relationship where she's she's like, if
you do this, you can have.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
This, Hey babe, paper. But you know how tonight like
the kids to bed, and so you know there's like
twenty minutes behere. We could well, Clint, just you know
I'm not feeling and you know I'm not feeling it
to but you know that you know that old tree
up back, I've been asking you to RecA. She would
have done it, mate, she would have done it. You've
(10:38):
been a long time. She does it that you don't
even notice. So she's doing it all the time.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
But if you don't snore for five nights in a row,
if you get five stickers on your non snoring chart,
are you still snoring?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
It's come back a bit.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah you had a snoring operation. Yeah, I had a
siptoplasty and it's still all I over hear whenever anyone
tells me they're having those operations that aren't for esthetics.
You had too many drugs a big draggy I what
other nose things are going on? Man, You've just snorted
ten years of cocaine in about a year in the
(11:13):
way at your inner nose.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And I made that joke with the specialist because he
put the camera up there. He's like, oh, you've got
deviated tiptom.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Oh, that's the one. That's the one that all the
famous Hollywood celebrities get where they're like the bit in
the middle just disappears because the cocaine's burnt it out.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's what. Yeah, that's that's a type of deviated tiptom.
But I was like, oh, just like Stevin X, I'm
like some kind of rock star or something that's crazy.
And he didn't laugh. He didn't laugh at all.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I was like, Oh, okay, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I haven't, by the way, it's because you've gone and
you still had cocaine around your nostril. And he was like,
I'm not going to laugh. This is a this is
man's got a problem. What are all these Instagram videos
going around where it's just like a sticker plaster that
goes on the those It doesn't it's just a classic.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I've got a box of them. Beside the bed. Don't
let it work. Oh wow, I've done that one. I've
done that one. I've done the taping your mouth shut
at night, putting a tape over your mouth to force
you to breathe through your nose. And does it not work. No,
because it doesn't stick to my mustache. The tape won't
stick to my to my facial hairs. And I've even
tried you got to.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Go clean shaven for the good of your marriage. You
need to go clean, clean shaven.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
But then there's bad for my marriage because my wife
said that I look ugly with a bald face.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
So but just clean shave the mo then, and so
you just have like a Craig David beard, just.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Like a reverse Hitler mustache.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Just the last thing I've tried was it's it's this,
it's this harness that I bought off.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You can't see him right now, his hands up around
his face, and all I picture is a full vo
two athlete wearing mask.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It's like a no, it's more like rugby head gear.
And there's a strap that goes on your chin and
it holds your chin up while you sleep, but it
goes around the top of your head and it's meant
to kick your mouth shut all your sleep, but none
of it worked, none of it. I just wake up
in the morning and the somehow in the night I've
gone the strap off without knowing the tape of my mouth.
(13:07):
You can do crazy things in your sleep without knowing
about it. If you're not comfortable, your body will just
change it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Mate. This I'm just thinking now, like, if you have
the cot and the bed set up, this could backfar
on you and Lucy just ends up slipping and the
bed and you're going in the cot and you're never
going to get none. I did not realize you were
a chronic snorer.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
No, I'm not chronic. I'm not chronic. I would there's just.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, I'm a I'm a drunk snorer. Apparently if I
have a few beers that's the only time I snore.
Other than that, I don't snore. I have plenty videos
on of my wife when she's royal real tired. It's
not a snore. It's just a real heavy like, if
not a full on but it's cute. Day ten o'clock
and I'm a bed and you look over and it's
just so I have to get my phone out every time.
(13:57):
Just hold it above her and it won't be until
like three days later. I remember, I'm like, watch this.
You know you say you never snore by watch get
out of here.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's not me. You put that sound on there. The
other problem, and this is the last thing I said,
But the other problem that we've got with the snoring
is we recently upgraded to a bigger bed. We've got
a we've got a big bed now, super Keen California King, Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Kelli, fun, you're king bed. We're ten thousand males.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
We're literally ten thousand miles apart. And so now when
I'm snoring, and your wife would usually just give you
an elbow in the ribs or a little cack to
knock you out of it, Lucy's too far away. She
can't reach me when I'm snoring. So she has to
like roll, do a full roll to get to me
and then shove me just there snoring.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
And because she won't want to it's winter here in
New Seald and she won't want to venture through that
cold part of the between you. Yeah, yeah, she's going
to stick. She's to have a broomstick next to her
that she just.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
All wives think they want a bigger bed to be
further away from their big husbands and the bed, but
in reality there are some issues. So it's just something
to be aware of.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Okay, I had a grandfather that shook the house. No lie,
his snoring was so bad and him and his my
nan didn't have the same bedroom for many years because
of it. So try not to get to that. Okay,
you need to get this sorted.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, Okay, to work on.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Okay, surely you can find tape anyway. It's not a
storing episode, but surely there's tape out there that'll hold
on top of your little mustache hair.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Maybe if anyone knows about it. I'm keen to I'll
give it. I'll give anything ago.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, I think this is great that we've brought it
to the realm. We have instead of weird Google stuff
and Instagram peel, we've got people listening that may have
solved a snoring issue. So if you have, send it
in and we'll share it and Clink will try it.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
The Scepto pet plastic did help. Just got some It's
like a dryness issue that means that my nose blocks up. Anyway,
this is getting this this podcast are just becoming my
health issues, Like.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, I'm so perfect, it's tough to be anything about me.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
We want to talk about extracurricular activities this week and
how many of your kids have and how you manage them,
and no one will talk about this, but the extracurricular
activities you should steer your kids away from because of
how annoying they are for you. Like the thing that
comes to mind straight away would be rowing. It's great
if your kid wants to be a row it's great
for fitness, it's great for them going to Marty carp
(16:16):
and things like that, but nobody tells you when you
get them into rowing that you're going to have to
get up at four thirty in the morning to take
them to rowing practice twice a week.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
There'll also be so many listeners as you're saying that,
especially internationals who are like, sorry, what what are you
talking about? Rowing is big here in New Zealand because
we have a lot of water around us. We have
a lot of rivers, a lot of lakes. But there's
some of you living in middle of America. You don't
have any water anywhere, so you might be like, sorry,
what rowing? But rowing is a very big sport.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
In, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yes, we have gold medals, we have a plethora of
rowing champions, but that would be a terrible one. Rowing
would I can't think of anything the ones we have
to get up at, Like, oh, I'm going to go
support you at four am. Let's hop in the car
and the windows frosted over. I'll get you to training.
We had it to go for the college where I went. Yeah,
(17:09):
there were students that come in and I was like,
what have you been up to that I was riding
this morning?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I was like, bro, I got out of bed like
thirty minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
And there are also always a different breed of kid,
which does I'm sure there's lots of benefits to it,
it's just a bit annoying. My friend also always talks
about how annoying it is to get your kid into
cricket because it takes up your whole Saturday. You have
to take into cricket. It's not like it's over in
ninety minutes like a normal game. If your kid starts
playing cricket, you're at cricket all day.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, yeah, I'm lucky. I may be lucky. Then I'll
skip that. I remember me and Jody when we had
kids like your age, and you'd go and catch up
with friends who had the kids that were school age,
like primary school, going to school, and they would just
be saying, oh, so Tuesdays, this, Wednesdays, we've got this
after school, Thursdays, they've got this, they're doing this and this,
(17:59):
and we would leave going, let's never be the parents
that sign our kit up to everything, and they are
just full on and you're like pushing them into all
these different things. And now we are kind of there
and living it, and it's just happened naturally. We're not
pushing anyone into anything, but just from themselves putting their
hands up when they say, who wants to do drama
(18:20):
after school once a week. So now we have in
our household there's gymnastics, there's tennis, two of them, tennising.
There's three games of netball on a Saturday. There's after
school netball trainings. There's the drama, and there's Kapa Hakka
which and then and depending on the season, then we
(18:43):
get into ripper rugby as well. So independently they're not
doing a heap. It's kind of like two things each,
maybe three. But once you got three kids and they've
all got two things each. You're like, holy saturdays, bro,
like you're saying, cricket saturdays now are a massive juggle
because one of them have knitball. Kickoff at like nine am. Yeah,
you don't need to say kick off. I don't know,
(19:04):
whistle off. What's the start of it? Center pass, center pass,
center pass is at nine am. Then the others are
at like twelve and then one and we so we
got to go to Matt Manganui for this, sorry, which
is huge for us. It's twenty minutes away. Clint's like, stuff,
you I hate you not living in auclib Yeah, twenty
minutes away. And then you're like, what do we go home?
Or do we just hang out here now to one o'clock.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
But at least knitball would all be at the same court, right, Yeah,
it's all the same place. And if you've got all
girls who play the same sport, at least you can
kind of like stay in the same place. Whereas I
know a families who have got like a soccer game
over here and a rugby game over here and a
knitball game over here, and then you're just like a
your entire Saturday is just logistics.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, the good thing is never be the evil parent
and the parent group like you want to be friends
with all the parents. So when it comes to these
sporting games, you can just have a little group message like, hey,
who's taking thing to the practice this week? Guys, Yeah,
that's stuff going and lean on your village of other periods. Today, Nala,
after school, my youngest six, she gets picked up by
(20:07):
another mum and that mum takes four other kids to
her house for half an hour. They will play and
hill out together, and then she will drive them to
gymnastics which is in Tippokei, fifteen minutes away, and then
another mum, no, the same mum will then bring them
all the way back, and those mums change each week.
Very sexist off me to say mums. But in this
current setup it is the mums that are doing it.
(20:30):
One of them is a kindergarten teacher, so her work
stops bang on two thirty, so she's free to do it. Jody,
my wife currently not working. Me selling a stock left
right and center all day on the fucking seven stocks
other stock in it, t sell it. They've gone under. Okay,
get into cobalt. What is it what's in the batteries
olia mining? Okay, we got.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Someone's got to pay for these knitbull shoes. Okay, someone's
going to pay for these nitball dressings.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
But I usually in my thing is in the ripper
rugby season. I'm coach. I've it's been a time where
I coach both my girls teams, so I would sprint
from one game to the other to then coach them.
I mean, we didn't win, we didn't take the trophies home.
I put that down to my coaching. But yes, seasonality
comes into it on when you can pick up the
slack Saturdays. Though we're there, we're all there as a family.
(21:19):
Everyone the girls hate it. Miela who plays at nine am,
So why do I have to come again at one
o'clock and to have watched them?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Because we're a team, damn it.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah, And I kind of I felt that the other day.
She was so tired and I said, what's your mate
doing across the road, Like see what she's doing because
I was leaving. I left on Saturday to go to
a rugby club thing. And then I hear asking her mum,
and Jody's that Nat you're coming. We're supporting each other
All right, corp for a few seconds, be like, yeah,
(21:48):
well just go hang out your mates for the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
We're supporting each other, means Jody means if I have
to go, you have to go. You're not getting out
of that. Yeah. You talking about the mum the mum
juggle thing, which is part of it for us too,
because I am a very extra curricular activities based person,
Like I did everything everything when I was a kid,
and I've always thought of how good it would be
(22:12):
to get my kids into everything too. And Lucy pointed
out to me that I'm not here in the evenings.
My work hours mean that I don't finish until seven.
And she's like, if you encourage them to get into everything,
it's me that's going to have to do all of
the running around. And yeah, you'll be here for the
Saturday game, but it's all going to fall to her.
And she's so.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Right, She's right. I take Lucy's side here, hats off
to you being like, yeah, let's get them into everything.
But when you boil it down, you have an afternoon
radio show, yeah, five days a week and you won't
be there.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
No, Yeah, nice, So you've got to think about the
burden of that. But but it's what you were raised on, right.
I was reflecting on what my extra correct curricula. Oh
my god, when you.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Say everything we're both from. I'm smaller rural news, a
smaller town. Yeah, and like my village, you had rugby.
There was also rugby. Yeah you could maybe in the
summer do rugby.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, touch rugby.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
And then there was scouts, which is cubs. So I
went to cubs was the smaller vision those that's all
I did. My whole life was rugby or scouts. You
say you did it, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
So I was looking at what a normal week, like
in winter, would look like for me. And I would
have after school guitar lessons on a Monday, I'd have
scouts on a Tuesday. I'd have soccer practice on a Wednesday.
This is all after school stuff. I'd have mini ball
on a Thursday.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
What is mini ball?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Mini ball as basketball, but for kids you play you
played the width of the court, not the length. And
then thankfully no activities on a Friday, so we could
have fish and chips and relaxed, and then on Saturday
morning soccer. So that's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday that
I had something on after school or in the morning. Yeah,
it is full of that's but I loved it. I
(24:01):
loved it as a kid and I was like it
was normal to me. But I don't know how my mom,
because my dad worked afternoons and evenings just like me.
I don't know how my mom did it. She must
have lent on other parents in the friend group. But
because I wasn't an only child either, there's four of
us and somehow they made it work. I do think
that this stuff is more manageable if you live in
(24:23):
a town that is not Auckland, because not to say
other places don't have traffic, but if that was an Auckland,
there's just no way you would. Just the gridlock of
even just the school pickup means that that sort of
stuff is impossible, or so.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I remember. From the age of nine was the time
where we would stop getting picked up from school because
rugby training was always like let's say school for oh gosh,
my phone called fat Showing off over and I watched
there put it on the first day and now it's
interrupted the podcast. But here I am rule in New Zealand.
Back in nineteen eighty nineteen ninety five ninety six were
(25:00):
at nine and the parents have said, we're not picking
you up. You go with your mates after school and
here's a couple of dollars and we'd go down pass
the fish and chip shop. We'd order hot chips on
our own. We would then walk over to the rugby club.
It's a small little town. It would take us five
minutes to get to town and then five minutes walking
to be at the rugby club, and then we'd be there.
(25:20):
So there's just a group of like four mates where
the parents like, no one's coming. You guys, take yourself
to rugby training and we will be there to pick
you up. And multiple times it was like dad has
just got the wrong time or he's been caught out
on the lake because he was a fisherman, and he's
like I was always the like, there's many times an
the lane.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
You're fine until you're fine for until the last last
kid or the last last car, and then oh shit,
yeah this this seemed too good.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
But also also we entertained ourselves somehow. I'd never phone,
I had nothing, and you just sort of sat there
and you found a way to just occupy your mind
until your parents have showed up.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I know, mate, you just get me going on the
phone thing again. But there's a great video that goes
around and it's of someone's just filming their dad and
it's like, check this out. My sixty five year old
dad is about to just raw dog in eight hour flight. Yeah,
no movie. Look, I'm sitting in there. He's sitting before
boarding the plane, just sitting there looking into the abys
no book, no nothing, just sitting with his mind.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
This is what we all did. This is what the
world was. I can't now look at us if I'm
eating alone. I can't even eat dinner without some form
of media. Now I'm well, I'm gonna have I'm gonna
have dinner by myself. I better have something to do.
I better just scroll TikTok or something like that. And
I heard something the other day say, surely the food
should be entertainment enough, but we're not. We can't know.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
No, I'm the same, like my family's been blown away. Narla,
this is bad. It was me as a dad. Look,
I'm not a reader, okay, I don't read a lot.
And Narla, I've just bought this book and I've been
reading it quite full on. I'm into this book. And
Narla quietly goes the other evening to Jodie, my wife, Wow,
I've never seen dad read. She's sicks, she sicks apart.
(27:05):
She's seen me read the weekend newspaper, which I love,
but she's not seen me like read a book. And
that's yeah, well read. Yeah, I'm not a book reader,
but that's been really good. And now one big tick
for me is I'm like, man, I'm going to get
onto this book train. I'm going to buy another book
after this because instead of them seeing me maybe grabbing
my phone when I'm bored or scrolling or doing something
(27:27):
like all of us say we don't have an issue with,
but we all do, I've been purposely going down, grabbing
my book from next to my bed and sitting on
the catch reading a book.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Look, I'm the same. I'm not a book guy, but
I'm moving towards it as well, because it's just so
much better for you.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You're imagining the things in the book instead of just
not even using your brain when scrolling.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
But wait, this is to thirty six and thirty seven
year old men discovering books and what you Haybro got
a hot topic for the podcast this week. I've discovered
this new thing. It's called books. We should get into them.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
They're crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
You get this knowledge.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah yeah, people share their thoughts on life and you
learn some stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
It's bro Bro life hack. My wife's got this card
and there's this place you can go and you can
borrow books for free. Life hack. It's called a library.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
A liberary was the library? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It was like a hot woman there with glasses and
she just gives you free books.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Bros, sick hot woman. No, that was on another website.
But you you're at the point where your kids are
quite young, three and five, are you? Are they extracurricularly
right now if they after school?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
No, but the neighbors have have extended the invitation to
for the girls to come down to Rip a Rugby.
So it's the first one where we're like and I'm like, yeah,
do it, and Lucy's like, yeah, do it. But again,
rip a Rugby they don't play on the weekend. So
I'm going to be taking them to training and I'm
going to be taking to the games. So yes, I
(29:11):
know you want them to go, but I'll be the
one that makes the decision. Okay, I'll get the timing
for this.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Lucy. Look, Lucy, I know you listen to one in
every thirteen episodes. Maybe you'll listen to this one. Riper
Rugby at the young age. Just a note, if the
coach is like this, you could fight it in the
little parent WhatsApp group. But they don't train separately. It's
like the easiest way at that age is you just
say kick off is at four pm. As me, look,
I was a coach of my five year old's team.
(29:36):
You just asked the parents to be there fifteen minutes early,
and you have you do some little things with the kids,
and then there are games only half an hour forty
five minutes max. You're done. There's no separate training.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You combine the training and the training with the playing.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, because they're too young. Yeh, you're too young. If
you coach them on a Thursday and then shaff for
a Saturday or whatever day, they've forgotten everything. So just
before the game, you're doing a few little warm up things.
This is how we defend octupus arms. Kids arms. They
don't know at that age. It's a shambles, but you're
out there having a bit of fun with them, so
I would sign them up. Mate, give it a trial, trial, Lucy,
(30:10):
give it a trial.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Okay, Hey, we got some feedback this week, so let's
take a real quick break and come back with that.
This is some feedback from Emma who missages. Just do
you remember the other week when you talked about how
you did like a here test to diagnose your daughter's eligence?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, so Emma messages. She said, huge lover of the
podcast here. I have my husband listening now too, really boring.
But Jordan, which here sensitivity kit did you use for
your girls? I've been trying to decide which one, so
I thought i'd ask an expert.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Shit, I don't know. My lovely wife who's amazing, did it? Yeah?
Did I talk about me doing the test? No, Men's healthweek.
We're carrying on the chat really quickly. I was a
real quick story come back. So I'm thirteen working at
my dad made fish burly, which is like fish guts right,
(31:03):
and it's frozen and you put it in the water
and it attracts fish. I'm there. Used to work in
it every day after school. We'd get paid like five
dollars an hour. It was slave labor. It was terrible,
and I got a real crook gut and I was like, whoa,
oh my gosh, my stomach. My dad, we need to
go Like He's like, do you need to put it that, No,
my gut's going to fall out of itself. And so
he rushes me into town to doctor Jeff Knight, the
(31:24):
one doctor in town. Yeah, and he's like, oh, yep,
you've got ibs. Probably, here's some pills. Gave me this
jar of pills and that was it. My whole life
from the age of fourteen, I've just been told in
my head you've got ibs, and my dad and stepmom
and that didn't really care too much. So every now
and then, once a week, i'd have a real croc
gut and I'd have to and then you would you'd
(31:45):
find that you've just letting loose on the toilet, or
if it's a little bells yeah, or if you had
a little fart, it would simmer down. If you've got
a bit of gas out, oh, your stomach was way better.
And then I've gone until six months ago, my whole
life just thinking I've got ibs. It's much better. As
I've got older. I don't know what's changed, but I
still would get it now and then right My family
would go, Jordan, you can't have that chocolate putting, mate,
(32:06):
You're going to be shitting everywhere. My family were aware
that I had this IBS th and then we find
and then Jody's like, what if it's not here, let
me clip your hair, sends it off, comes back, And
we never had any test done as a kid or anything.
I am bright red, dairy intolerant, dairy free.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I don't have IBS. I'm deary free. My poor bows
br I've just been a flame for the last fifteen
years with diary garn In. Yeah, but I'm such a
stubborn person and who who The only change I've made
is I put oat milk in my cup of tea.
But if we have spaghetti boonnaise, I'm still there, great
and cheese on it.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I'm going to say your favorite drinker is a hot jockey.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
No, I've been having sorry oat hot chocolates, mate, But
we had a big chat about it recently, and Jody's like, Jordan, look,
here's Mieler being a trooper on the dear free thing,
not complaining, and then she knows that you're dairy free,
and you sit down and have sour cream and cheese
and all these things, and okay, yep, you're right. I
need to be an Instagram dad and lead by example.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
So what if you actually have a six pack but
you're just bloated from the dairy.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, So this this was actual. Today is day one.
Me and Jody had a big serious health chat last night,
and today is day one of me being better health
and going fully dairy free.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Can you pad your final mints and cheese pie?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Well, there was some chocolate in the cupboard, right, and
I love a bit of chocolate. And she gave a
big spiel and the whole time she was saying it,
my brain was just thinking. But she still didn't have
that chocolate, just as a final night. And I said
I'm gonna have that chocolate. She's like, no, Jordan, You've
got to commit. Now you're just gonna keep failing.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
So inside my dad, I swear my dad is gluten intolerant.
Like he has all the symptoms of gluten intolerance. Yea,
all of them, but he doesn't unders. First of all,
he doesn't know what gluten is And second of all,
there's no way you could tell him not to eat
white bread anymore. It just wouldn't happen. It just would
never happen. I couldn't eat burgers and white bread and everything.
(34:03):
Then hit He'll be like, well, I just I'd rather
just I'd rather just have the zide effects.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, but it's like me, like I've been since finding
out six months ago that I'm dairy free, I've still
like made the smallest changes but still. But I will
go away and I will find out what lab test
it was, and I'll let you know. This is a
New Zealand by the way, you're a Kiwi. But I
will find out and I'll find your message and I'll reply. Yeah,
I was writing it on my hand right now. What
was it, deary.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Deairye what no hair test?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yeah but dairy okay, hare test makes ways more sense here, Okay,
Now I look now it's like I've got to go
for a haircut and into the diary.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Here's a message from James yo Jordan and not Jordan's
there's a guard.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
It's just the same guy.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Yeah, No, gag is that it's all that gag is
still lagging around Jordan. Okay, let's start him again, not
Jordan's How's a Guard.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
I've got a little bit of a problem. I've just
realized that I've binged all of your episodes of the
podcast in the last two weeks, and I'm now completely
up to date, and I don't really know what to
do now. Dad stands for me.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Twenty eight year old.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
First child is due in the next couple of weeks,
so I've just been cramming the podcast to try and
get myself up to speed and get ready for it.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I've got one of Jordan's.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
How to Dad books very good. But yeah, I think
the number one piece of advice that I've learned is
don't break dance in the kitchen. So thanks for that
with Jordan, and yeah, keep doing what you boys are doing.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Love it? How good is that? How good is that
bit of pressure there? He's binged fifty odd episodes in
two weeks of our podcast and that's his preparation for
becoming a father.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That's pretty cool. Yeah, I was going to ask for
he said it. Obviously a gag answer there, but I
would love he said don't don't break dance in the
kitchen because I smashed my oven door recently. Yeah, I
would love to know though, if he can message us
back in what has it been helpful?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Has cramming all those episodes in do you Think you are?
Do you feel more prepared? Basically the same and didn't
get much from it or I just listen for the laughs.
It kind of teaches me nothing. We'd love a barometer
sometimes scale for you give us, give us a message
us back in bro and let us know it wasn't
if we've helped you.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Originally, the idea of this podcast was to give dad's
expectant dad something to lean on, but it's kind of
transformed into being this like running update on parenting life
because you can't take all the information at once, like
you need different information across the parenting journey at different times.
So yeah, i'd love to know.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Also, and snoring and you need and yeah, fifteen minutes
of it is based on intolerance and snoring and get
your nuts felt.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, that message came in three weeks ago. He just
messaged to say that their baby arrived this week. Mate.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
He's shown me a little photo, very cute.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Very cute, James, are you doing a good job? And
is it because of us. We need to know, missus.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Just let us know. Hey, side note, I've booked my vicinctomy.
Ah okay, you said, did you go with doctor Snip?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
No, no, no, no no no, I went must Snap clinic.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Oh okay, because I need. I need to cancel it
because Jodie realized I've booked it in the school holidays
and she doesn't want me being a piece of shit
during the school holidays. Because I'm like, oh, no one,
no one touched me. I can't raise my heart rate,
like it's telling me, I can't raise my heart rate
for a week. My wife gave birth. They didn't tell
her don't raise your heart right.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
It just means don't lift anything heavier than five kilos
for a week.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
What I am worried though, is about you know, morning morning, morning,
morning glory. After the operation. They're saying, you know, you
can't really do anything in that area for it. But
I'm just worried, like it's a random phantom eriction, gonna
be putting risk on my joint blowing up.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
No, okay, not connected. Well, they are connected, but not
in the same.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Imagine if you have it done and then that night
you have an awkward, wet dream. The pain you would
wake up and would.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Be that would hurt? That would that would hurt? I thought,
you're going to say, imagine if he's doing it and
while he's cutting my tubes, I get a boner.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
We're not that immature, mate or slightly.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
No, I went to snip clinic. I think, don't quite me,
but I think doctor Sniff is the whiskey guy. I
think he's the whiskey and valium guy.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Okay, okay, there's so many I'll look into snip clanicing
and see who's cheapest. I'm paying like five six hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah, it's about it.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah, but yeah, I booked it and then I canceled,
and then I'm canceling it. It's on my list to
do because it's in the school holiday, so I need
to reschedule.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Well, you need to let me know so I can
put in my diary and hit down with the microphone
so we can record it.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
And now to be our luck that because I'm old postponent, right,
and Joey, you will get pregnant, That's what's going to.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Happen, and then you'll be emmy.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
So yeah, we're gonna have four girls.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Thanks for your messages, Thanks for giving the podcast, Like
and subscribe to talk to you guys next.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Quick, let me tell your friends cheers here
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