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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This week on The Parenting Hangover. It's it's a travel
tips episode. And I know we've done travel tips before,
but Jordan has just done some serious traveling. You've just
returned from overseas, Bulla.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
That's just cheesy what everyone learns when they go to Fiji.
Just been to Fiji for five days, highs and some
and some you know, some kind of group some lows
there as well. So we'll cover that some tips of
things that worked really well. And we're also which I
wasn't ready for. It's just finished. Travel's just done it.
(00:38):
And yeah, Clinton kind of just bombards me with your
guys beautifully lovely feedback on my fashion makeover. I went
from zero to hero apparently, and yeah, there's some private
messages that came through.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
This is like one of those episodes of Queer Eye
for the Straight Guy where we've hit the big reveal
on our Instagram. So if you haven't seen the outfit,
go and look at it Instagram before you listen to
this episode. And at the end, we're going to talk
about Jordan's hot transformation.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So who's the queen one?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, man, it'll be me.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
We've got some other big news, guys, we've got some
very big news coming up, especially for my wife.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
All Right, we're back or should I say bulla, We're.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Back bulla tour to ba Lima or vitu Walu fead
I learned.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
How to count to ten and Fijian on my Fiji holiday.
What a great highlight. So that's the episode, guys.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I thought you're offering me a traditional Fiji and greeting
there for a second. Then I was like, no, firs, No,
he's just counting to ten, Hello, one, nine, ten.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, So it's been a you guys would have been
listening to our lovely voices, but I've been away for
a week. That was just the magic of podcast technology.
But I was in Fiji last week. So today we're
going to try and talk about some travel tips, yeah,
travel international travel tips hence and and hacks because look,
to be honest, not showboating at all, but one of
(02:14):
the perks of How to Dad success is Yeah, videos
go really well over the years, people get to know you,
and then tourism companies have reached out to us over
the years, and I've done a shit ton of international
travel with kids from all ages, like big old long
flights of twelve hour flights, and so look, I'm you're
(02:36):
still kind of new. You haven't even been camping. So
I figured I figured today you could ask me some questions.
We'll go over some highs and lows of the Fiji trip.
But look, hey, while I'm holidaying in Fiji, you're still
at home living your regular, regular dad life. So first
check in, how's the kids, bro, how's things?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's been a real mixed bagay. We had a long
weekend for King's birthday weekend and we went down to
to Do where my family lives. That's a three and
a half hour drive for us, and in the past
that's been too far for us to do. But we've
been down three times this year and we've sort of
broken the We've broken the back of dealing with long
(03:19):
car trips. We were just big softies when it came
to going away with kids at all, but we did
it this time, and I text you last night to
say I think it was our most successful trip away ever.
We had pretty good sleeps. Lucy had to sleep in
the room with the girls, but there was a nice
big bed in there and so they were They all
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got like a decent amount of sleep. We went into
the Agridome and run A, which is amazing as well.
It's like total throwback. Have you ever been to the
farm show at the Agridome?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
No I have not.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Your kids would love it. It's like classic Kiwi tourism experience.
It's the one where they bring out like twenty different
breeds of sheep and they all go on that big
riser at the front and there's like some classic sheep
sharer up the front who's wearing a black single hat.
It's very targeted at like Asian terists. But key we
(04:13):
kids would love it too because it's funny and there's
dogs and anyway, it's really good. You should do the
Agordim experience. And then we drove home yesterday and when
we got home the our hot water cylinder had burst,
so that adds a level of stress to the situation
straight away. And then last night Maggie, my three year old,
was awake for like probably three hours in the middle
(04:34):
of the night, so she's a bit The whole situation
is a little bit stressed, a little bit tense here
in the Roberts' light household. This morning, great.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Great news on the good travel, the good you've had
us successful you've got some confidence undays on, you're feeling good. Yeah,
but when you say also when you say burst, like
I'm imagining when people say I have a burst hot
water cylinder. Yeah, have you got home to just water
just shooting out the side of this massive.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Probably quite a dramatic term. Nah, there's a slow leak
and there's a big puddle of water at the bottom
of the hot water cylinder.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
That's so you have no hot water.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We've got the hot water that's left in the cylinder.
It's leaking from the top like half like two thirds
of the way up. There's still some hot water, but
it's not heating very well. It's like lukewarm water. And
I can tell Lucy's already stressed about bath time tonight
and things like that. So I'm in the process of
getting quotes and trying to rapidly get a hot water cylinder,
and then going, oh, should we be getting a heat
pump hot water cylinder? Should we be modernizing? And then
(05:33):
you find out it's when these things happens, and this
is parenting life, and this is the boring admin that
goes with being an adult, which I actually kind of enjoy.
Once you are thrown an issue in your household, you
spend the next twenty four to forty eight hours becoming
an expert on that topic. And man, I've learned so
much about direct heat, electric hot water cylinders versus heat pump,
(05:54):
hot water cylinders versus continuous gas hot water systems. Stuff
I never had any business knowing about before, But boy,
I've learned a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
My tip, sorry listeners for boring dead hot water cylinder chat.
Though we got one replacement we moved into here, yeah,
because it was a bit crap and it would run
out too quickly, and we He's like, go to gas
because gas gives you instant heat. And I was against
gas and nothing nothing else was. Gas was going to
be double the price. I was like, nah, mate, just
give us a hot water cylinder that it'll be on
(06:25):
mains pressure. Now, we had an old school one where
basically in our roof cavity there was like a spa. Yeah,
water hit a team and that gives it pressure to
your old school gravity. Instead we yeah, Instead, we got
a new hot water cylinder that's just hooked into the
mains pressure. But go big or go home. We didn't
go big enough, and we still now have to tell
(06:45):
the kids when it's shower time every night, you can't
just sit and linger and enjoy your time in the shower.
It's like get in, wash yourself, get out. Or there's
times where Jodi will go in or I'll go in
and it goes to cold and you're like, damn it,
we only just got this hot water cylinder and it's
not It just doesn't hold enough hot water.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So sorry to continue the boring dad hot water cylinder chat,
but do you remember what size you got?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No? But after this I'm gonna find out and I'm
going to help you through this, Okay. Also tell Lucy
that look, you know, with me, I'm a big ice
bath guy. Now, so just pull that water with cold water.
The kids will get dopamine, hat they'll feel great.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Give the girls. Give the girls an ice bath before bed.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I want to flip the switch on you having your
very successful travel to your three hours right, Yeah, so
then I had so from New Zealand to Fiji is
three hours, so I'm going I'm jumping here straight to
the end of our trip. We're flying home. We got
the late late flight, so we didn't fly out of
Fiji until seven thirty on Sunday night, and that was
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going to land at like teen thirty. And then we
have a little we just got the basic hotel at
Auckland Airport to then crash at come home great, life's good.
We've got movies on the in the airplane. Everything scared
the day and it comes out. Nala kind of pokes
at it. Alba's like, I don't feel hungry, Like that's strange,
(08:07):
but carry I'm watching my amazing movie. And then the
plane lands and we're in Auckland. Yeah, you're feeling good.
You're back home, and people start, you know, the line.
It's taking ages, but you can see the flow of
people hitting out the plane and Nala, it gets very
close to us. It's our turn to leave the plane.
Now we're kind of towards the back. We're only holding
up about the last one fifth of the plane is
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behind us. Of that, and Jody's like she's she's saying
she doesn't feel well. I'm like, you're right, Nla. She's
like yeah, kind of not talking, and then she was
real pale. And Jody will hear this and go shut up, Jordan,
but I'm completely right. I saw Nla And because She's
been sitting next to Jody, and I said, does she
is she sick? Like does she want to be sick?
(08:49):
And Joe's like, no, no, no, she's not sack. Okay,
come here, now, come here, Rachel come up with dad.
And she popped up into my arms. And as I saw,
and I've seen this before, she's really pale, and I
saw her pupils were real big, and I'd seen this
before when she had an ear piss yes, everything like
she gets all fainty.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And as soon as my as soon as I saw
that and put two and two together, I was like,
she's about to puke. Yeah, And she just went onto
my upper neck, down my t shirt. I've straight away
in my head, I'm like, all these people need to
get off this plane. Holy shit. So I try to
turn her. I turn her because Jody's still sitting down.
(09:28):
I let her spew kind of try to get it
to spew down to the Jody's feet, but it all
just goes down Jody's back and instantly it was just
the worst chunder smell that you like, it was bad.
I'm like, how have you got the smell inside of you?
The plane just instantly flicked a switch and it was
and you just saw people behind me being.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Like look away, yeah, yeah, yeah, don't.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Look, don't look, and they all just want to get off.
But we're in the aisle and I'm aware what's going on,
and I'm more. Jody's great and flicks her she has
him care that she's covered in spew. She just turns
to I want to care for Nala. I was torn
between I want to care for Nala. I also feel
really bad for everyone else behind me and just want
them to be able to get past us. But shit's
(10:12):
going down, and I'm like Joni's I've got whip wipes,
and I'm in a panic, and I grab because we've
all been given a blanket, so I just use it
and I'm trying to wipe spew off me. I'm trying
to wipe spew through Nala's here. It's all down Jody's
book and people were lovely from behind us. All these
baby wipes are getting handed forward to us, and I'm like,
(10:32):
that's so kind and holy shit, and Nala's and my
other two kids are like hands over the ears. They
hate spewing, so they're trying to block their ears and
They're just like, oh God, oh God, please don't let
me hear the spewing. And we kind of tidy up
as much as we can. We sit down, like, let
everyone else go and wear the last one's off the
plane and Nala's just and I end up carrying Nala
(10:54):
out and I just get to the front and the
guy looks at me and I'm like, Aisle thirty three. Bro,
It's like, don't worry, it's okay, and we walk off.
And so then just trying to now figure out can
we get from the corridor of the plane through customs
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or are you about to be a vomit tsunami? And
we've got to try and change clothes. And luckily I
had a single in my bag, so I was able
to take that off. Jodi went into the bathroom, had
to spare clothes. But you've got now this little six
year old who's really gone into a shell bad and communicating.
We managed to get through. I did the great dad
(11:36):
hack of pretending I went through the wrong customs line,
but it was just the real quiet line. They never
even called me up. It was the assisted elderly line.
We had declaration, nothing to declare, nothing to declare line
was huge and the need help assistance line was empty.
So we all jumped down Isaac quickly. I was the
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classic dad leading the leading everyone through the and you.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Did need you did need help in assistance, you needed like.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, in a sense, I was like duck under here.
They never said anything. We went straight through. Everything's like, okay,
we're getting in good space. We we had a we
had a garbage bag in the car. All we had
to do was drive five minutes. Narla's pretty crooked and
again in the car, garbage bag, get into the airport
that the hotel place couldn't sleep all of us. So
(12:23):
we're in two separate rooms next to each other. Yeah,
Jodi goes Narla wants to be with me. I was like, okay,
I'll have the other two when Chi ching, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You take Bombitron, I'll I'll say with healthy.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
What what happens at three am in the morning. Elba,
my nixt kid who is nine, wakes up. She has it,
So she's just spewing every hour at a hotel, spewing
every hour hour. Yeah, Nyla was spewing every hour on
the hour. We don't know what went through. We have
(12:56):
no idea why at the end of the trip they
decide to get sick now and get them home. You
say so, ye said there was a public holiday. We're
at home with two very sick kids. They kind of
only just came right like last night. Alba Nahla's gone
to school. She's the only one to go to school
out of three of them. Because now Meela has woken
up saying my guts a bit crop feeling. So yeah,
(13:19):
So you had a really successful time and I probably
had the worst our travel time of our lives. My
T shirt my T shirt, Bro, I had my backpack
that has my jacket in it on the plane and
my laptop and all this this T shirt I've just
taken off, and I'm like straight into just don't open.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That up, that bag up until.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
We don't open that bag up until we get home.
I mean, we survived, but it was it was rough. Bro.
If I was a person on the plane and that
was the people in front of me, I would have
been going like, I have a weak stub.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Did it cross your mind that you guys got covered
in spew whilst being surrounded by bags Like there could
not have been more. There could not have been more
places to successfully put your vomit. You couldn't have been
in a better place to spew, really, and yet you're
still wearing it.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Classic husband that will still say that I knew eyes
called it early, and my lovely wife said no, no,
I said she, what does she want to be sick? No,
she just want to be sick. Okay. Otherwise I would
have I would have gone with my gut instant and
grabbed the bag. It was too late by the time
I picked up into my arms and saw those big
saucer pupils that just went blow and you couldn't quickly
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get them. You know how quick it comes out. There
was no trying to get a bag. I was just like,
hold her head, try and put it down the aisle
and it all went.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'm going to say something that I feel like Mike
jinx me, but I'm going to say it anyway. You
have quite vomit susceptible children, like I feel like there
are a lot of spew stories that come from your family.
We haven't And I got to touch wood while I
say this. We haven't had a spew situation in quite
(14:59):
a long time. There, I touched it. I touched it
We're safe.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Why do you why did you just touch your penis?
For Companish word get it? Classic classic dad get yeah? No, yeah,
we yeah, you're right. We totally okay. We went on
a one an hour, forty five minute ferry crossing from
the mainland Fiji to an island and we had given
them sea legs. Absolutely fine, apart from Jody never spewed,
(15:24):
but she just didn't want to move. She I just
want to get up, like, let me get through this trip.
On the way home, we never gave them any sea
legs and they were fine. I'm like, my kids have
turned this corner. Yeah, what amazing kids. They're not sick anymore.
See I jinxed myself.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
You jin up and yeah yeah yeah, And you didn't
touch your penis. That's you can. You can have that thought.
But you didn't touch your penis.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
That's the go say touch word touch of penis. Yeah.
But yeah, what a way to end the Fiji travel.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Well, let's let's spin it and focus on the positive.
Because you've just spent a week in Fiji and it
looked from what I've seen on Instagram, it looked amazing.
So I think this is an This goes about saying,
but I haven't done it. Fiji's a great family holiday, right, Like,
if you're going to go on holiday with kids, Fiji
is the place to go.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, for New Zealand or Ossie's because it's really close,
depending on what coast of Australia are on. But three
hours which is not a bad flight. It's a little
bit long. It was two hours forty five there, I think, yeah,
which is like flying to Queenstown. Kind of.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Everybody raves about the kids club situations in Fiji and
like how you can go out for dinner with your
wife and leave the kids in the kids club for
a bit? Is it really that easy? And do the
kids love it?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah? So yeah, so we me and Jody both weren't.
We're not the people who were like, yeah, let's get
a Fiji because we want to just get on the cocktails. Yeah,
put the kids in here and leave them. You see
a lot of those parents around who were just like
had one too many and it's like do they even
know where their kids are? And the kids club the
kids were nervous about. And it depends what resort you're at, right, Yeah,
(16:54):
but we're at this one that wasn't too big. It
wasn't a huge resort, it was a bit smaller, and
we took them and we went in there with them
because they had this cool chalk board that every day
tells you what's happening at what time in the kids club.
And the kids club is basically a large kindergarten, right,
and the one we were at and you took them
and sat with them, and within two minutes they are
(17:14):
just in love with like the activities. There's like we
took them.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
In the even the older kids live Iguana.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, so they cater for all the kids can go in,
but then they have a different this one. This was
at Maloula Island resort on an island off Fiji, Malala Island,
and they had a different schedule of activities for nine
to twelve year olds. Okay, so if you're over twelve,
you're probably not going to kids club. You could, but
you'd be kind of too cool to have been cool.
(17:42):
And then all they wanted to do was go to kids.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Club, right, Okay, they that much.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And you wake up each day and Albert's first question
is when are we going to kids clubs?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah today.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Cool. This is a kid's club where they would take
them out of kids club and go and find coconuts
and bring them back and teach them how to husk
them oh man in it and make and seriously they
felt like family all the stuff there.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
It was just like I hear that so much.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
So you first spend five minutes filling out the forms
to register your kid and then just casually like let's
see you walk past it and the kids that you
were like, oh, actually, Mum and dad want to go
and snorkll for thirty minutes, do you guys want to
go in? And like yeah, So you walk in, write
their names back down just quickly Mela Albanala this time
in and say naka bull, thank you, yeah and you
(18:28):
and so me and Jody had a couple of dinners
on our own. Ye, we went snorkeling on our own.
At one stage we sat at the pool for like
there was there was one afternoon where because it was
usually only short stints, there was one afternoon where we
just sat by a pool. I think we scrolled our iPhones,
had some cocktails, talk to each other. It was like
three hours and because you could pop your head over
(18:52):
the fence and just scan and I'd see Meela, my
eleven year old, and you just look at her and
she's almost saying like, go all away, go way, go away.
Thumbs up. Yeah, we're good and they yeah, they loved it.
Even if you had nervous kids, it's you could go
and sit in with them for the first bit and
see and get the vibe. But it was a massive
highlight of it also just gave the kids more stuff
(19:14):
to do. It wasn't like a go in here and
they're just gonna put movies on and give you an
iPad or do. They did Fiji, and they learned Fijian language.
They had Fijian language day.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
They had to do a kava ceremony.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Flax, We've I missed it. There was one one night
and I read it on the activities thing to dinner. Yeah,
and I was like, can I leave right now and
go drink some carver. I was so keen. I was
gutted I missed out, But I know it was really good.
We had a mixed bag of weather, but made the
most of it and it was a glorious little time
with this resort had on purpose no Wi Fi in
(19:49):
the bedrooms and no TVs on purpose, on purpose, so
I was very much like, oh shit, yes, we've bought
the one iPad, which is for that morning cartoon when
they always cup at five thirty or six and you
want them to just shush for it because breakfast isn't
open till seven. Yea, here's the iPad. But I cleverly
downloaded so Netflix lets you download things to your device,
(20:13):
so before we even left here, hacks are coming out. Now.
Guys took one iPad away, downloaded all their favorite cartoons,
a few movies, and they're on there. They stay on
there for like a month, and they never I would say,
overall the whole time we were there for five days,
the iPad would have been used for maybe two hours max.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Like it was nuts.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
They would get back from all this stuff. You'd get
back from dinner, everyone'd be a bit zonked. You'd sit around,
you'd have your showers, and we all just went to
beer weirdly, like really early as a family. It was great,
Like the kids would all zonk out at like eight o'clock.
And then because we're in this open plan room, it's
like me and Jody could make noise or do anything
like watch TV. There was no TV. You were just
(20:54):
zonked anyway, so we'd kind of hop into be at
eight o'clock as well, and by eight thirty nine everyone
should snoring away. And then the next morning the kids
went waking up early. It was like seven o'clock. Everyone
starts opening their eyes and we're like, oh, should we
put some clothes on and go to breakfast?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Okay, So there was no need for.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The That sounds so relaxing like that just.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Sounds yeah, like the weather with the mixed bag. It
was relaxingly stressful or stressfully relaxing. There were times where
like those moments, yeah, I was like, this is bloody awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
But that's the That's the definition of a family holiday
with young kids, isn't it. It's either it's relaxingly stressful
or stressfully relaxing. Like I don't think. I think I've
kind of come to realize that there's never going to
be such thing as like a fully relaxing holiday. You
never kind of come back from a holiday with kids
fully recharged, are you. That's just you're not in that
(21:49):
window of life at the moment, or.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So, I'm quite a I'm almost not looking for relaxing
just for ooh, I am I'm not someone that you
can I think I've seen this before, but I'm not
a person who like, even if Fiji, let's say, let's
go sit on the beach for four hours and we'll
give you nothing and weird, just me and mommy are
just gonna sit down here. I'm not there. I could
sit for five minutes and then I want to get
up and go and find a crab or a shell.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Or hop in the ocean, like throw the vortex Omegahler.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Like jodi'say, you're an active relax I'm oh yes and no,
because then in the evenings, I like to just blob
out once the kids are in bed, I just want
to put a movie on. Just side note, Clint has
a weird rule. Were not a rule, it's just his
life thing. Clint doesn't watch movies at home during the week.
He's a weekend movie guy even if that, but he
doesn't watch movies during the week. And I'm like, mate, Netflix, Disney,
(22:36):
it's all been around for so long. You're allowed to
do it, but he doesn't do it. I just had
to get that out there because I find that really weird.
He's watched no movies. I've watched all the movies.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I feel like there's a community of people that that
are the same as me. Movies are not a weekday activity, Like,
who the hell's going to the movies on a Tuesday?
Who's sitting down to watch Titanic at their house on
a Tuesday? Movies are? Movies are a special occasion?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Well, I'm not mate, they are. They're so thick and fast.
Now if you wait, it's a special occasion. You're going
to die of watching only one percent of the amazing
movies that are out there and making amazing content and
you have seen nothing. I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I can't go.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
My wife's the same, like, we just don't watch movies
during the week.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
It's a foreign concept to me.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Getting back, getting back to travel chat. Look hopefully on
an airport flight you you.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh, I'd watched a movie on an airplane. Yeah, but
that's different. Airplanes are no man's land, Like the rules
of regular society don't apply on an aeroplane.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
But yeah, but the big tech, as mentioned is the
kids not wanting the iPad, not having a TV, and
they were just busy. We were busy and they were great.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
The one thing where I just I over the four
or five days we were there, I never got my
head around it. But they with their food right, so
we'd go to sit down to eat, and I think
it's because they had so many options and a lot
of it's always buffet options, like let's go and eat
with you, and they just turned into these little like
my kids are so good at eating, they eat anything
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and everything, like we've kind of made sure we raise
them like that. All of a sudden, like one night
it's a buffet option for kids, or like there were
a few meal options and one of them is spaghetti bolonnaise,
which is their favorite dinner at home. They're all doing
this at me because they've lifted one of the other
hatches that has just weages in it. Yeah, and they
just want to have wedges and we're still trying to explain,
like we want you to have a hearty meal so
(24:27):
you're not hungry overnight, like you need to have something decent,
and just little eye rolls and little like ah and
just ungratefulness about food. And it rarely got to me,
like I was trying to get my call, but I'm like,
you're not like this at home. We do want you
to have some of these veggis. Guys, you can't just
have wedges and sauce and a weird little mini spring
(24:50):
roll like those are. That's there for the kids that
do throw their shit and don't eat regular food. You guys,
eat good food. We want you to have some spaghetti bolonnaise,
have a bit of veggies, and if you finish that,
you can then go and have a few wedges if
you want. That's a good way to do it. But
it just didn't work. They'd just be you try and
do it and then they'd sit there and prod it
and poke and but.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
It's the curse of having of having options.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
As soon as you give a kid options, they're nothing.
Nothing will set uspy. Like you could offer a kid
two things one, two, and they'll be like, I really
feel like this one. You offer a kid six things
and they won't feel like any of them. They'll be like, oh,
I don't know if I can. Oh I just said that.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah, it was. It was so hard execut what you
just said.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It is so hard.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
But the final place was staying it. And the kid's
menu is not that healthy. It's like cheeseburger, pizzas, fish,
and chips, all this stuff, and they're like, I don't
know if I want any of this, and I just
want to be what do you mean? You're a child
and they're offering you fish and chips or cheeseburgers and chips, And.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Then I've seen how good it can be, and I
feel like I should hold out for better.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're going to bring out
the French toasts and pancakes any second now, But that
that would have been for me. The most stressful time
was the dining experiences. I could just never sit down
and relax because my own just watching my own kids
prod and make sad faces. We're at home. They'll eat anything,
because that's all there is if you get served at home.
(26:20):
And I was trying to tell educate them and talk calmly, but.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Did you take any food from home? Like, did you
take any stuff from here that you knew they would eat?
I'm looking for more like traveling tips with kids or
do you just rely resort?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
No, so morning teas. You want to keep the snack
stuff you take from home, so morning teas and afternoon
tea stuff. I have heard the hack if you're going
to Fiji. Some people you can get you can get
the food option where it's not full breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
It might be just breakfast and dinner. We heard of
a family that pack a toasted sandwich maker and toasty
(26:55):
ingredients like Kansas spaghetti. Okay, you can fly that in
and then they and their resort will make their own lunches. Right, Okay,
Actually that's not a bad idea. If you're trying to
save a few dollars, because it can be quite expensive,
that's a that's a great idea. But yeah, we packed
like the rice crackers that they like, and we had
like half the top little weird compartment part of JODI's
(27:15):
suitcase just had snacks.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I'm just picturing them. I'm just picturing the customs go
when you're like you've got anything to clear and you're like,
I've got a toasted sandwich maker, two blocks of cheese,
four kens of spaghetti, and some bag.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Beans, going, yeah, we're going into Fiji's real cruisy on that,
Like you can't there are things like I don't think
you can bring in cheese. You can't bring in chocolately.
I don't know what that is about. But other things
like no issue whatsoever. You if they make a collapsible
air fryer, you could take a collapsible air fryer.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, did you get a camping air fryer? Okay, so
you're going to the best bit about Fiji? Well, what
was the best bit?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
The kids club?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Best bit was for me? It is getting the kids
out like a highlight was we got all kids in
the water snorkling. Okay everyone, the whole thing, yes, Snor
called kids club was a massive highlight because you're going
away to a place where you don't have to fill
the itinery yourself for the day, and the swimming pools
right by the beach, but all the kids. This will
(28:13):
be with every pairent out there. You've gone to this
beautiful location and all your kids want to do a
swim in the swimming pool like you see that tropical
beautiful water and all the the beach and now I
don't want to go to the pool. Whoa a lot
of pools? Great, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
What was the best thing you took with you was
the iPad with movies on it.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
For kids hack one hundred percent. You need that backup,
you need that and with here's the icy on cake
with a three way headphone jack. I saw you post this, yeah, yes,
and then people were riddling me with questions about where
did you get this?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah? Where did you get it?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
And I can't remember. Maybe I saw it at the warehouse,
but you can google it. It's just a tiny, tiny
little headphone jack that plays into your iPad and now
all of a sudden, you have three outlets, and so
all kids like because I didn't know what Fiji airways
was like, and I didn't know if it was going
to be one that didn't have TV screens. So that's
(29:11):
what your best to. Always set yourself up for worst
case scenario. We in a panic, all bought reef shoes.
And that was before you google it. I google image
and I'd heard whispers from other people being like, yeah,
some beaches are quite reefye and you can't get out
to the sand. You got to walk over get reef shoes.
We never touched our reef shoes. We never needed them.
(29:35):
But imagine if we got there and it was riddled
with coral that cut cut your feet open, we would
have been ready.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
So plus, lady ladies love a man in reef shoes,
so you can just go oh.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Man, instantly, you're just demasculated.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Like a mid thirties man and a pair of shorts
that probably a sis more with a hole in them
in the middle of winter walking around in a pair
of reef shoes. That is really good to get the
ladies motor going, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
But yeah, always pack, always pack for not worst case scenarios,
but pack ahead. Just don't even know what's going to
pop up, so just just check it in. If you
can fit it, check it in, and if you've got
to bring it home, bring it home.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Anything else you want to add about Fiji or can
we get on to talking about your hot dad transformation?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Oh god? That is that our travel heck start, I
feel like we've chewed through spewing and Fiji and hot
water cylinders. Sorry, guys, if you if you've got questions,
I'll just fire off a few other.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Things that no one comes here for an incredibly structured experience.
We're just we're just talking about all right, Sticking with us.
We have some feedback for Jordan's heart new look coming
up next, So if you were listening too episodes ago,
we did our fashion episode and it was all an
(30:52):
aid of getting you ready for the Big Radio Podcast Awards,
which is this Thursday. By the way, today which is
today today, it will be today and and and we
sent your to Barker's for a transformation, and boy did
we do a good job. I don't know if we've
had this much feedback on something before, but we've got
so many people commenting on your new outfit.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
CLT's been teasing me. I've stayed away from the socials,
like going into the private message. I think he's gonna
I think he's gonna slap me in the face with
a few comments. Here my big fear, my big fear
for today, the day. Today is the day, right, I've
got to put it on. I've been to Fiji for
a week. I'm hoping that I.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Saw you going for a run.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I'm like, oh gosh, this is rough. One racket squeeze
into my Barker's pants.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Anyway, we sent you to bikers. We just so we
can paint the picture in case you haven't seen it
on our social media. Pair of like salvage denim jeans,
some leather boots, fresh white tea and like a like
a a blazer. That's all that. That's the whole outfit.
That's the whole outfit, which is quite a radical departure
for you from what you would normally wear.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Right, Yeah, looked it was weird. But I went in and,
like we try to teach our kids, I was very
awkward and nervous, took the tunnel vision off, except I
just went in there accepted them. I was just like,
she was a lovely lady at Barker's in matt Mung anduy,
and she did it. I came out and even Jody
instantly was like well, and I was like, oh, yeah,
(32:20):
did you feel.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
That was so weird? Did you feel good?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Though?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Like did you feel yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
At the same time, but did not recognize honestly, did
not recognize the person in the because like, that's the
that's fancier than I dressed for my wedding.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
That is not It's just a jacket and some pants.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
It's one hundred percent fancier than what I was at
my wedding. At my wedding, I was in dress pants
from Farmers, like a gay pair of suit pants, a
white shirt from Farmers. So no suit, jacket, no tie,
just a white shirt, pants and jendles.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I'll pass off.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
So so this is genuinely the fanciest you're gonna have dressed.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Well, how did Joe Jody react? First of all, did
she like what she saw? Did say that she has
been putting some pressure on you to wear to just
have some nicer clothes.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah, And just as I hit just as I came
down here to record this podcast today, she's like, oh,
what are you wearing? What are you wearing for the
pod today? We're back? We're back now, and you're this
new man And I'm like, I'm in it and she
just cracks up. I'm in it and I'm in just
a rough jump jumper. But Jodi loved it. She was
(33:30):
very kind of speechless and gobsmacked and like, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
This is wow.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Okay, yep, you look good, man, you look good. Liked it.
Thanks man. I don't like praise, but yep, look good.
That's it and that's the end of the podcast.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I don't like praise.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
He also doesn't like and we talked about this on
the fashion episode. You don't like people to think that
you have tried to look good.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Because I put up some screenshots of her and some
of the feedback on our Instagram story and then Jordan
comes in and goes, hey, guys, just so you know,
this is not me. This is not me posting this
stuff about myself. This is Clint. He's posting it.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I wouldn't do that had you receipt, because you're sometimes
right on the beauty hangover. So she ended you won't
write who's written it? And I'm like, no, this looks
like I've gone on and gone, hey guys, I'm looking.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Great, because that would be the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Feedback Jordan, here, please keep firing all the real positive feedback.
I love it all.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Here's a little bit of stuff that's come through. Oh
my god, I never thought I would see Jordan and
shoes smoking heart, nice twirl, Go get them tiger.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Is that my grandma? My auntie?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Could have been someone ad said, gorgeous, darling, gorgeous, you
have won our hearts. Smooth the brother looking stylish, looking sharp,
God speed to the ladies on the door looking good.
Holy moly, do you have a twin, Jordan? You scrub
up well, brother, that's a that's a when it's a win.
(35:00):
So even if we don't, even if we don't win,
the when the podcast award tonight it's it's already a one.
You know, we've already a cheap and look.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
And if I if I crack it on something else
right and get swept into Hollywood, you can come with
me as my full time stylist, can I? Because Clint
chose Clin chose out for guys, we didn't even try
anything else.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
I just said, you could not have worn like more
exactly what I told you to wear.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Quite stoked, I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
As we were leaving, I said to Jody, imagine if
we didn't have a list, the only reason that took
the stress off. If you sent me into Barker's and
said get dressed for these awards, me and Jody together
would have had no idea. We would have ended up
going with black pair of jeans and a playerd T
shirt like I wear all the time shirt. So having
that list to I think that was the key. Knowing
what you want it is my last because now i'n
(35:54):
fashionable guy, having a rough idea of what you want,
and because you had an exact that I opened my
phone because you saw me, I wrote notes. True. Yeah,
I was like, he's told me dark dark blue jeans.
I want your darkest blue jean and I'm like, I
need leather books and she's like what kind. I was like,
I don't know. He just said leather boots. There was
a bit of freaking out. There's a bit of freaking out.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
But that was my tip on the fashion episode, and
I'll do it again. If you're nervous about having to
dress up or something, if you can have an idea
of what you want going in, or even if you've
just seen a picture on Instagram, if you can just
screenshotter and go I think i'd look. I could try
something like that and I'll just take the pressure off it.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
But don't don't come in here and try to then
claim my tip that I stole off you originally, and
then try to like red my tip that I just
told everyone. Okay, it was one hundred percent. Make sure, guys,
make sure you're just prepared. Okaine, ready, No, it was
definitely my tip. Okay, that's the that's the episode. Next week.
We'll let you know how we went at the podcast towards.
(36:50):
Hopefully Clip plays a cool and he isn't saying everyone
to out Jordan and I dressed. Look have you seen
have you seen Jordan's real awkward about wearing his new clothes,
and I'm going to tell you that I addressed them.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly how the MAT's going to go.
All right, let's give some beers stay later.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Okay, this is way to see us