October 23, 2024 • 41 mins
Clint's put himself up as a prize at the school gala, but will anyone bid? Jordan recalls his prolific rugby career and teaches us all some core skills. Do we remember our childhood better than it was because there's very little video footage of it to prove otherwise? And Clint needs to make a decision about the dog.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is an iHeartRadio New Zealand podcast This week on
the Parenting Hangover. I've got my kids first school gala
coming up, and I've been asked to contribute something like
a service, like a like a something that can be
bid on, something that I have that I can give
(00:28):
though that won't cost me anything that somebody in the
school community will see value in. But I'm not sure
anybody walks the thing that I've got, and I've got
I've got gala anxiety.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We didn't talk about this in the podcast. We're going
to bring it up right now. Do you remember, and
I forget the name of it. Is your gala going
to be as banging as the thing that traveled around
New Zealand and Lana Kocroft was part of it and
it came to your school. Do you did you have this?
Do you remember this?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Does it jump rope for heart? Is it the variety? Variety?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
No, there's bash something bash.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh, the variety, Big kids, bad.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Ship. Someone's going to have to answer it, and we'll
figure out an answer. I won't tell you this podcast,
I'll tell you next week. That was banging and celebrities
would come and it was a big line of crazy
cars and the bouncy castles and your school got kidded out.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well am II. The Lana Cocroft of the West Auckland
Primary School Gala.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah will will you have? For some reason all of
the dads lining the school bank to watch the school
bash or just coc I.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Don't even think of the pool of larda cocrop to
the gala. The dads like tribute to a time. I
better go and support her.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Like back then, Lana was the only female celebrity when
we were Cauca, even the Bulgarian.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That was all we had. We're back. We've just been
talking about one hell of a weekend of sport, classic
dad chat. But it was a great weekend of sport
for New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Wasn't it New Zealand all round? It was just back
to back uppercuts, left hooks of sporting triumphs.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
We there's a strong argument that we've just experienced the
greatest weekend in New Zealand's sporting history. When you put
everything that happened, the cricket men's and women's, the netball,
the sailing, the triathlon, the canoe polo World Championships.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I missed the nipple. What happened to the nipple?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We smoked? We smoked Australia by fourteen guys.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, I'm a sport nut. How did I miss that?
It was so much busy.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
You would have been busy watching the Canoe Polo World Championships,
wouldn't you know?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I hadn't heard about that one either, But wow, you
know our America's Cup, the p the.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Paddle ferns our New Zealand Women's canoe Polo team World
champions World.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Shit, that's insane, because I bet you there's a country
out there that that's the number one sport. Then we've
come along and just no.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
House. The kids.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The kid's a good mate where I live anyway, Papa,
very close to the beach, very lucky to live where
I am. But the just the vibe changes, mate. You
see the sun now and the kids are excited and
they want to get out there. They want to go
to the beach. They want like I chucked the rugby
ball around with me yesterday, laughing that I felt like
my stepdad Tim throwing a rugby ball around. But even
(03:26):
though I do it with her often, it's good. I'm
very proud that My eleven year old will be at touch.
She's got touched this afternoon. And then after the game,
I like, I put up I've got quite a thunderous thigh,
and I put up the highest kick I can with
rugby ball, and she's just calmes under it. I got it,
catches it?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Will she take?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Catches? Yeah, catches bombs. The adults, regular adults who don't
play sport couldn't even catch.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And she's just like, what's your tip for getting for
catching the high ball?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It's same stuff as I remember being taught as a
kid myself. A lot of kids will just kind of
put their hands over their head like they're shooting a
basketball to try and catch a falling ball. That's wrong.
Your hands need to be facing the heavens, and your
elbows need to be together, so if you do miss
it with your hands, it doesn't go straight through your whole,
(04:15):
you know, so your elbows are kind of almost together.
And then it's guiding. It's guiding into the chest. It's
bringing the loaf of bread into the chest. Don't try
to catch in your hands. You're catching it in your
hands and boff into your chest. And it works. And
I teach other kids there that are like trying to
do them. I'm like, bro albos together, man, bring it
into the chest. And then they're like.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
WHOA pretty terrifying for an eleven year old to catch
this falling comet of a rugby ball.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I know. But she's like and she's like, oh, my
arms are stinging, and I'm like, yeah, that's my kids. Good,
that's my girl. Hey, I'm a little boy, eleven year
old boy, come try and catch this. And then he
fumbles it and Alba's all excited. My nine year old.
So she's got her last year of primary school or
(05:01):
alementary school next year. But today is the meeting for
everyone who wants to put their hand up and go
for things like house leader and live leader and all this,
and she is this is coming from a kid who
was very similar to Mela, very shy, very reserved, not
(05:22):
wanting to kind of put her hand out there and
try things. And now she's like, I'm going to go
for house leader. Cool, I'm going to walk myself. I'm
going to go to school myself. You don't have to
come and yeah, see you, it's very cool.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It's cool seeing this switch. I saw it. Untiwey not
to the same level, but from being painfully awkwardly shy
to wanting to do everything in the last year. It's
just so cool and it makes you feel better as
a parent, and you're like, oh cool, they are going
to enjoy their life and get out there and do things,
(05:55):
you know, because before that she didn't want to do it.
They didn't want to do anything.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
She's not just going to suck her thumb and ask
for fluffies every morning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know she's
gonna and Mela, Meela this morning she's like, deck cock,
I just go to tell you so. So she's at intermediate,
she's eleven, and they're like, we need EMC's for the
school assembly next week and Meeta's like, hands straight.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Up, I'm just asking you to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
No, no, no, sorry, the kids do it. The kids
run the assembly. And this is like to say two
years ago to Mela, that did you know that at
intermediate in front of eleven time and thirty year olds
you're going to put your hand up and volunteer to
m C and speak in front of that. And she
would be like crying it you saying no, it won't.
Why are you lying? Don't be a dick. I hate that.
(06:41):
I will never do that, and now just a completely
different kid. It's very cool. It's amazing when that kind
of stuff happens. You're like, whoa, Yeah, it's like a Transformer, bro.
It's like you've been slowly trying to figure out how
to get it to turn into Optimist Prime the truck,
and then all of a sudden, they just do it themselves.
And I am here, I am Mila, and as I
(07:02):
look upon this school. No, sorry, very bad, dad joke,
really bad.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That's good. I'm glad to hear. It means you guys
must be doing something right.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I just tried to make deep and meaningful moments into
an Optimus Prime Transformer analogy.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah. To be honest, it was a getting a bit
too deep and meaningful for me. So I'm glad that
you went down the transformer.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah. Okay, it's good. Okay, it's too early, A well,
too early? What are we We're only five minutes in
and I'm almost tearing up, Clint, how's your kids?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Mate?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Good man? It's school photos day for my five year
old today, so it's her first ever school photo.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, that's the smile.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'm expecting the plasic smile for the photo.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And as she left today, I was about to say,
I want to see the biggest smile you can do,
but I stopped myself from saying that, because she will
do that. She will just go.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Do the hulk, the hulk smash smile.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We're actually just sit there, just sit there and that'll
be okay. She got her self dressed. My wife, Lucy,
had a pretty shith house sleep with our three year
old last night, and so I was feeling pretty under
the weather today and I was watching two e get
dressed for her school photos, and I said to my wife,
imagine just waking up and looking that good, like you
(08:20):
just brush your hair a little bit, pop your school
dress on, fresh faced, rested, looking rested, ready to go.
It just it doesn't. It doesn't happen for adults. I
reckon once you turn twenty three, you just look more
and more haggard every morning. Obviously didn't say that to
my wife. I said, oh, you look beautiful too, yeah,
(08:41):
you know, yeah, but you just look at them and
you go, that's the most beautiful girl in the whole world,
which is crazy because I look at his sister and
then I go you're that's also the most beautiful girl
in the whole world. But then it's crazy because I
know that you also have three of the most beautiful
girl in the whole world, and it's just like, wow,
(09:01):
how lucky are we?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And I'm and I'm the most beautiful boy in the world.
You know, you got to think that, you gotta think
it's got to come. So this this will be your
first school photo packs apparent. You're going to get the
photopack thing where you select and they have the weird
email thing where they have big writing through the photo
so you can't just screenshot it. Okay, you can't like
(09:24):
at this They figured it out, like you can't screenshold
or you can't take a little photo, and then you
get the pack, and I think they're always quite.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
There's one hundred some families out there, though, that have
got school photos in their lounge with the writing across them.
Doesn't matter, doesn't matter, You're still in the photo. It
doesn't matter if it says not for a single resale
on the photo, I can still see you. That's all
we need.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Our kids laugh, because we've got them printed on the
wall as well as the sisters together, so Miela and
Elba had three years together at primary and it's just
the same. It's the same photo company, the same person
taking them. And it's like, so you'll be here, you're
sitting down, you're slightly taller than her, and Mila, please
place your hand like you would like any loving sister
(10:13):
would and wants to do. Please place your hand onto
your sister's forum. So they're very eighteen hundred's like the
pose and we've got three of them and it's the
exact same smile, the exact same pos exact same look.
And then Mela left. So it was Alba's first time
last year to have a sister photo. Now she was
the older kid with Nala, and we're like teasy and go, oh,
you're going to get to do the hand on Nala.
(10:35):
You're gonna get to put your hand on Alba's arm.
And she come home and go Alba was like disappointed.
She said it didn't happen. I was already for it.
They didn't do the hand on arm thing.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Do you think it's quite a lucrative business getting into
the school photo game.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I think it's very I think it's very lucrative. Of course, Yeah, if.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
You live somewhere, well, did I have schools? Like, surely
you've got your always you've always got something to shoot.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Speaking of lucrative, I don't know if I talked about
it at the time, but I only got my haircut
months ago. This lady's side hustle, and I was like,
this is genius. Maybe we did talk about it. Is
She'll call up like kindergartens and be like, hey, I'm
a hairdresser. I can come into Kindy. Can you put
the word out to the parents of what who wants
a haircut? What kid needs a haircut? And I'll come
(11:20):
in for a whole day and we'll smash out haircuts.
And she's now building that, building that into a bigger
and bigger business. And at the time that I spoke
to she had like twenty kindergartens signed up. It's how
easy is that? I wonder if you worry.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I don't know I ever heard of that before. That's
such a good idea because what you've already been doing
as you're putting the stress of the haircut onto the
Kindy teachers. As a parent, you go, hell, yeah, if
I can outsource the stress of taking this kid who
doesn't want to have the haircut and to the teachers,
(11:54):
I'll pay twenty five dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
She says it works so well because all the kids
just stand around in amazement and watch and then realize
there's nothing to it. And then it's almost like a me, me, me,
me next. I want to go next, I want to
get next.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
There's a few bits heads like that that someone will
have the school disco DJ market sewn up and they'll
actually be quite angry at me for coming into DJ
the school disco for Twey's school later this year for free.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You know, yeah, yeah, I've had something. I've had something similar.
So I went. I got invited down to this corporate
thing as a guest, not as the MC, and I
had the best time talking to the MC guy. He's
not a celebrity, he's just a really quality MC. Great
guy owned the room and I was talking to him
and he's like, I've got four gigs this week, and
(12:40):
I was like that's amazing. Like in my head, I
just didn't realize non celebrity MC's we're just smashing out
work like that, because you know, in New Zealand, it's
very much the books are open and everyone who's anyone
is on these of a celebrity scale, from a list
to zedlist as on these MC books. And then they've
emailed me since going Jordan, we would love you to
MC excuse a bit, and I'm like, I've kind of
(13:03):
ghosted the email because I feel so bad. I was like,
I met this guy, here's a family. I wasn't. I
wasn't coming along to try and be the MC guy.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Dave's kidding his lunch cup by Jordan.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I had not shown up to do that. I don't
really m C. I need to, but I get too
awkward and nervous.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And but it pays a lot of money. We're talking
about lucrative gigs, the the seless celebrity MC circuit. It
pays pretty well known. You do, can you do it?
Done pretty well out of it?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Nah? I do.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I do the I do the odd one. But I've
never cracked. I've never cracked the MC market either.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
My biggest thing is all people suggest to me, Jordan,
you should do like a keynote. A keynote is like
having a good twenty to forty minute chat up your
sleeve that you can just blurt out. But my argument
is good keynotes are people that are exports, stars have
gone through trauma or have something climbed Mount Everest yeah,
(14:06):
or overcome adversity.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Where a billion dollar company yeaheah.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I meet none of them. I'm a really lucky dad
who cracked a video and jumped on it, you know,
like I've done some cool things. But also I feel
like to be able to be one of those speakers,
you have to have a certain quite a strong level
of hit up your own ass to have the confidence
to get out there and share your story confidently. Like
if you have done something not the over adversity is
(14:34):
great because you want people or mental health, that's great,
But I mean if you're getting up there to boast
about yourself and the amazing thing that you've done, that
comes with it as well. And I'm very much not that.
I love to take the piss out of myself and
beg humble pie. So then for me to switch on this,
Hey guys, check out what I did. I've got now
over six million followers across social media, and I'm going
(14:56):
to tell you how I did it. Sign up to
my and click the link. Now I get twenty percent off.
It's all weird for me, and I need to overcome that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, because you kind of do your kind of parody
celebrity a bit with what you do. And like yesterday
when you referred to yourself as a celebrity on your
Instagram story, Someone's like, I was just following a humble
dad on Facebook and now you're calling yourself a celebrity.
What a shame?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Like?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, it's hard though, because in the reality is I
am New Zealand's number one celebrity. So like Tiker White,
who you know.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Before we move on? Do you know who New Zealand's
two This is what I've heard. New Zealand's two premiere
celebrity mcs are that command the most money? That very good.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Jeremy Corbett, Yes, one of them, Yes, that's one of them.
Oh and the other he wouldn't do it. He's too rich.
A male or female?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, very sexist to view to assume it was another male.
It's a female.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I didn't so I asked, oh my first I see,
I said, he he's too rich. It's a female and
it is Wendy Petree.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Hillary Barry so close.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh yes, okay, yeah, that's how you need to do. Yeah. No,
and they'll be getting ridiculous over ten grand to go
and stand up and talk.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just gesturing to join. How much
it is he had to put up both his feet,
both his hands, and my tongue.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
How do you know why you pretending? And then what
they're getting.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It's all gossip. It's all rumor.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That's true. I don't get out of bed for that.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
We want to talk. I want talk about a couple
of things this week. First thing is two E's school
gala is coming up, first ever school gala that I've
been a part of. And the principal emailed me and
she said, hey, Garla's coming up, big school fundraiser. What
do they call a school galler overseas? School fair?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, but when then you think of fair, I'll bring
straightaway switches to American movies and their affairs are insane
and off the hook and crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
This is not that fundraiser at the school on the
field there's some stall selling some home baking and a
bouncy castle and that sort of thing, and the idea
to raise money for the school. It's their big fundraiser
for the year. And the principal emailed me and she
said hey, because she knows that I'm on the radio.
And she said, Hey, we're just asking parents what they
(17:19):
could contribute for the school gala. Anything would be great.
Maybe you could get the radio station trucks down, the
promotional trucks, the Black Thunders to come down to the gala. Also,
I am offering up a prize for sale. I'm offering
somebody the chance to be a principal for the day.
(17:40):
And she did the classic whatever you think you could
contribute would be good, and I was like, I know
what she wants. She wants me to offer up radio
DJ for the day.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Come be part of the radio, Come be on the
radio show. Yeah, And I'm happy to do that, Like,
I'm really happy to offer that up. My issue was,
I don't know if kids want to be on the
radio anymore. I don't know if kids still see radio
go as a cool job.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So I reluctantly said, look, if you want it, if
you think it will be valuable, absolutely, let's have someone
come into the radio station meet the hosts, have some
photos that can record their own voice break on the microphones.
If you think that would go well, And she's like, absolutely, yep, definitely, yep, yes, please, yep.
To put it in the auction, and in my mind,
I'm going, what if no one bids? What if no
(18:32):
one bids on this? And then I am just the
guy who thinks that I'm a big hobnobin celebrity who's like,
you know what the Gala needs. They need to come
into the Brian Clint radio show and experience life like
I do it every day.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Mate, you're cutting yourself short. It's definitely going to be
a hot seller. My daughter both thought. Two of my
daughters have said one of their they have their lists
of jobs is to be on the radio. Really okay, yeah,
your job's not. Your job is every time they are
in the car, the radio was on and they're listening
to the games. And now that they're older, they're actually
listening to your Guys Afternoon Chat. Where it used to
(19:07):
be like they'll cut out Bri and Clin are talking,
it's like just wins the music back on. I want
to listen to Taylor Swift. Yeah, but now they're listening intently.
And then sometimes I look at Jody because a risk
joke has been said and I'm hoping it's gone over
their heads. Yeah, you know how you guys quite dirty mouthed,
you know, terrible, terrible. I think we're going to start
(19:28):
listening to Life FM.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, I think probably a good idea, which.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Is our question radio.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
The Good Newsers went up yesterday and it's already had
a bird and it's at one hundred.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And fifty dollars, so boom.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, whatever happens from here, it's all good.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Hey, hey, I'll make you feel good.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Brent.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I did a big fundraiser earlier on in the year
for Kids Can, a charity and side hustle to that
is they wanted to do some trade me auctions and
they're like, Jordan, and I was like, oh, I've got
some how to Dad books, Like I could sign some books.
I've got an old box of them. They're great, like
coffee table levelers, and they're like, yeah, that'll be great coffee.
And I was like, and I was like, and I will.
(20:08):
Because I was kind of throwing everything behind this. I
was like, I'll give you my because it just hangs here,
my gold million YouTube subscriber pluck, and you can put
that on trade me. And they chose the thing. They
put it in one thousand dollars. It got one bid
and it went to one thousand and one. Yeah, that's it.
And then that person never paid, so it's still wrapped
(20:29):
up in the kids Can office and they're like, do
we just ship this back to you? And I'm like, yeah,
I'll have it back. It didn't work and the books,
the books will put it like twenty five dollars, and
they went for like twenty six. Like ten books went
for twenty six dollars. So I just mean, though, I
hope you feel okay, like that one bed might be
all you get.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
It's fine. I just needed to zero. I needed it
to not be one of the leftover auctions.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
We did not pre talk about this, and you can
jump back into any other Garla chet you've got. But
my wife I had to go work on Saturday. My
wife took the three girls to her a little she
went to so everyone in New Zealand might know. When
you come into Totonga, you drive up the Kaimi Rangers,
which is the famous hills, the Windy Hills. Right at
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the top on your right is a little primary school,
a tiny little primary school. Just as you get to
the top of the Kaimis there's this little primary school.
She went there as a kid and they were like,
it's one of those schools that have twenty six kids
back in her day and the whole school and they
had a gala and she was so fizzed to be like,
I'm going to take the girls to the Kaimi School gala,
(21:39):
my old school gala. And they go and they do
the garda stuff. I catch up with them that afternoon.
I'm like, Babe, how's the garla? And she's like, pretty shit,
it's real bad, Like I don't know, Like the hall
that I thought was huge was actually really tiny, and
I like had to remind I was like, you've just
done the classic adult thing. Yes, as a kid, everything
was awesome and meg, and then I asked the kids.
(22:01):
I go to the kids, how was the garla? And
they're like amazing, Oh, so good. All of them were
like it's so oh good. They had so this is Jody.
They had like three lambs, and then this is the kids.
They had lambs and we got to touch the lambs,
and then Joe's they had like corn hole and gum
boot throwing and they're gum boot throwing but only had crocs.
I couldn't do it, but they had gum boot throwing
(22:22):
and it was very funny to see. I'm like, surely
you could take off the Auckland view that you had
of some kind of Auckland gala and your little school
and surely and she's like, no, it wasn't that great.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I'd love to know what Jody was expecting from the
Kaimi School gala. She's like, I thought that'd have like
at least in Michael Jackson impersonator or something.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Hey, Kaimi School, because I feel bad that in case
one of the twenty three people are listening that are
part of kim It's an amazing school.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Though.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Now we stop there to go and play. Oh, they
have a concrete skate pump track. They have a dirt
BMX track pump track. Yeah, and then mean playground, Wake up,
wake up, come on. My kids loved it. Do not
judge your gala on the thoughts of a slightly tired
(23:07):
thirty six year old mum when I she is tired.
She started this new diet regime and she's just gone
the new diet in the working out, so she's a
bit She might have been a bit crinchy.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I was just hungry.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
She was just hungry. The kids, the kids, loved the gala. Okay,
so keep it exactly. That's all you need to in
press is the kids don't care about the parents.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And it's a good reminder to always try and see
things through the eyes of a child, right, Yeah, like
as jaded. We get more and more jaded as we
get older. But actually, if you could look through the
eyes of a kid, it's like sleeping in a tend
in the backyard. You might be like, oh, this is
stink school holidays, but for a kid, you go, this
is so cool. We're sleeping in a tent. We're camping
at our own house.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
A couple of years ago, I got asked to speak
at my old college to ko fun to college hadn't
been for a long time. And I'm then and I'm
talking to these kids that are kind of showing me
around the school for a bit, and it's like eight
of them, and I'm like, what are you guys? Like
fourth form? Fifth form? And they're like, we're seventh form.
Was in my head, It's like, bro, when I was
when I was symp form, I was like, in my head,
(24:07):
I was like a grown I was a grown man,
Like you guys are tiny children, And it just again,
that was the same thing as like Jodie felt with
the Hall. She's like the Hall used to be so big,
or like I still think back. I've got quite the
elephant memory. Not short term, but long term memory is great.
And so when Mela has all these things coming up
at intermediate and camps at eleven, I am so thick
(24:30):
and I can remember all of that vivid thick memories.
I don't think that's the right word, and I just
girthy memories. I teally port straight back there and I'm like, yeah,
I remember all this, and but in my memories though
at eleven, I'm like, I also had like five girlfriends
at this stage. Every few weeks I was breaking up
(24:51):
with some girl like Marlene Bernardine Francine.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Which is cool because you can remember it however you want,
Like it probably wasn't like that, but that's how you
remember it.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
And I definitely was. I was smoking a pack of day.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But perception is reality, right, and so we have that
benefit where we can just remember it and retell these stories.
No one's ever going to question it. I do worry
about how much stuff gets documented now, and this is
back to like the social media thing. These kids will
have like a really stark, official, accurate representation of what
that stuff was like. And they could be good to
(25:23):
have memories, but really a little bit of embellishment is
quite good, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, Like I tell some people, you know that I
made the first fifteen, I never did. But kids these days,
when they get older, they can't say they made the
top rugby team in college because people be like, I've
actually seen a video, or you didn't. I saw all
your videos. You were in the second fifteen.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
My girls, because I've told my daughters that I played
rugby and they've only watched rugby on TV, they in
their minds, I'm a really good rugby player, Like I
played at a really high level. There's no footage of me.
There's only one or two photos of me playing rugby,
So there will never be unless they talk to the
guys that I played rugby with, there'll never be anything
to dissuade their opinion of me as a rugby player
(26:05):
and to tell her what I was really like as
a rugby player. But you know, we get to live
in that but where there's no evidence it just happened.
There's no evidence.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah, my kids, even as they get older. Albert is
nine and we'll sit down to watch the All Blacks
and she'd be like, why are you out there?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
She think that I'm like basically an All Black. Yeah.
I would like to think that my kids will never
know how good or bad I was at rugby. But
Jody came to one game and my brother was there too.
This is years ago. I would have been like twenty two,
twenty three, and I was put. I was. This is
when I was living in Auckland. I was real committed
(26:43):
to my old team down in Morensville. So every weekend
I wouldn't have to train, but I'd show up on
a Saturday because they needed numbers. I'd get a full game.
It was great. But this Saturday I used to play
second five. There was some other guy who'd been showing
up to training, so I got bumped to the wing. Yeah,
and I'm up against this guy I remember from school.
He was a year older than us on this other team,
and I knew he was amazing. Darryl Toughy was his name.
(27:04):
I could step was it okay? His name might have
been similar to Daryl Tuffy, Darryl's something, And he just
side stepped me. All afternoon, Crow and Joy. If I
go to if I start telling any rugby story, or
like me and Dad you have it a few beers
(27:25):
and Dan talking about his rugby, then I'll get rugby
stories going and they'll look over to Jody and all
Jody will do It's very hard for me to do audibly,
but it's someone shimmering to the left and then to
the right, trying to get someone and then kind of
giving up. So if ever I start telling a rugby story,
I'll look over to Jody and joj do go And
that's her one memory of my rugby because she came
(27:48):
to this one game and this guy was just double
my speed and half my weight and which just darts
around me and there goes another try and that's the
one like, that's the last rugby game she ever came to.
She didn't come to the game the Centenary game where
I tackled Don Clark grandson who was like half like
(28:10):
flying down the sideline and I smashed them out and
all the crowd goes, oh, how to tackle? Yeah, how
to tackle? Because I was how to Dad at the time,
and that was a moment that's in the memory back forever.
Was there were the kids there. I told her to
come that. She's like, I don't want to come to
your Centenari. You'll be on the pestle weekend and I
don't want to come to that.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
So that's that's the Rugby memory that Jodie holds on too,
and I'm hoping she doesn't share it in detail to
the kids, because in their eyes, I am quite the athlete.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Take a quick break unless you want to say anything
else here, because let's not talk for forty five minutes
this week. And I do have some feedback to share.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Not rugby feedback, not Rugby feedback.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Okay, so last week one of the big topics was
that we were thinking about getting a dog, and I
think I landed on we're not getting it?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Was it not?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Was it not your mustache?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
The big topic.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I think I told you that we decided not to
get the Golden retriever. Yeah, newsflash, update, the dog's coming
back this week for another stay. We're going to give
it another go. This message from Anaka, I think this
is what I needed to hear. Have you listen to this.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Cuta guys? Anaka here, I just finished listening to last
week's school Holidays podcast. Great to have you back. Really
missed you over the last few weeks. But I have
to just chip in here, Clint. I've already private message
you about this, so I'm very team dog. But you
(29:44):
just had a chat about parents separating and summed it
up with the kids. Will be fine, Clint, it's a cat,
It'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I've followed you.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
For donkeys as well. Your cat's handled you guys having kids,
the Reno's it'll handle the Golden retriever. Just think of
all the happy memories that you guys will make as
a fano with having a beautiful Golden Retriever that added
to the household.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Okay, we'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
You just got to do it. Do it, please get
the dog. I'm only one car. I just felt like
an emotional up sound need to happen. Then, and I
see you and the family and you're in a family
portrait the dog runs in. Do it? And I don't think,
don't I don't think. Treat this as a trial. Like
when that dog shows up, treat it like it's your
(30:34):
dog now, Otherwise you're going to be looking for negatives
and be like, oh and yeah, it's done. A poopy
on the It's done a poopy on the lawn. It's
done a poopy. I don't know if I can deal
with that.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, I feel like I've had a like a stern
word from someone that I needed, like the shake up
that I needed for that message trum.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, because you were you were looking. You're you're kind
of you're subconsciously looking for reasons not to win, the
reasons to.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Out wayh Yeah, yeah, there's you're right. You're right. There's
always going to be like with everything. It's like with
having children, the decision to have children. There's always going
to be reasons not to. But actually you just need
to die then and trust that the good will outweigh
the hard.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Do you have my biggest question, this would be my
only noble Yes. Do you have a fully fenced yard? Yeah? Yeah,
so your dog can hang outside for then tired, like
if you're at work, great, that's what Chock does. But again,
we work from home a lot, and you're home a
lot more than a regular person.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
My wife was as well.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah, so your dog is going to live a very
life like my dog Chok, who owns the inside and
has the outside we needed. And you find a good
if you ever go away, which at the moment you're
still you guys are a little bit scared of going
away for too long, so that's not an issue. But
we have an awesome I'll do a plug for them.
Rainbow Kennels out in Tipooky Chok goes there. The first
(31:56):
day we go there, there's dogs jumping on an in
ground trampoline trying to look over the fence to see
what dog's coming. And Chock's just gone in there and
just like if she could talk, she's just gone on
and gone, Holy fuck shit. That's a ground trampoline. It's
just on this tramp and you're like, see your chalk,
and she's I don't care for you. I'm staying here.
This is my happy place.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Going to them was their idea of the big day
out of anything.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Because you're lucky it's not a puppy, you said. It's
already chill, so huge headache of having a new dogs
out the window. It's going to be it's going to know,
to poop out on the lawn. You're not going to
have little surprises in the bathroom. The yes is outweigh
right now. My dog Chalk, I know, is sitting calmly
in the sun on the deck and you don't even
know she's here.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Okay, yeah, good, Okay. I'll update you guys next week
on the dog. Do you remember I talked to you
about how I met a lady at the Blood Donation
Center who said that she listened to the podcast but
didn't get her name, and we decided that we do
the millennial name guessing games. Yes, jess said, yes, yeah, yeah,
I've got a message here. Hi, Clint, it's your friend
from Blood Donation. I listened to your latest podcast today,
(33:05):
loved it as always, and thank you for the shout out.
You were super close guessing my name. It's not Jessica,
it's Jennifer.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
We were super close.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Classic millennial name. I had at least two or three
Jennifer's in my class growing up. Of course you did,
of course you did.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yes. See. Any I love hearing these millennial names that
you forget about, because right now is anyone coming into
the room and saying, here's our daughter gin No, like,
here's my newborn daughter Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
It's weird how they're so normal to us when we
meet them at our age, but for a baby. But
now what is it? Apple? Here's my baby Apple.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
But it'll come back around. Our kids will name their
kids Rebecca, you.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Know, Clint, Yeah, Jordan the baby are you Clinton?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah? Clinton?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Yeah? Yeah. What's your middle name? Paul? Clinton? Paul, that's Paul,
your dad's name.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Middle name?
Speaker 2 (33:59):
A real millennial thing, like eighty percent of my group
of mates had it was your middle name was? Your
dad's name's Gary? Jordan, your dad's name and dad's name
is Gary.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, yeah, Jordan, Gary.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Well, so then Alba Alba has my name? Elba is
alber Jordan.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Oh that's nice because you've got a bisexual name.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, I do have a very bisexual name.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Here's a message from Morgan, Hi, Clinton, Jordan.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I really enjoy listening to your podcast. I had a
question for Jordan about his boxing match and just getting
into boxing. So my husband has talked about just really
enjoying getting hit.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
In the face.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
I mean, just that kind of I don't even know.
I don't understand it, but he enjoys like fighting and
like there's something like a visceral like enjoyment of being hit.
Apparently I might have to have him explain it. But
is that something that you feel the same way about Jordan, Like,
is that why you got into boxing? Do you enjoy
(35:04):
getting hit in the face anyway?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Thanks? Guys, absolutely not. I haven't even talked to you
about it. Oh but yes, so no, I've got into
boxing for the kickout the ass fitness goals. So for
two months I have to be dedicayd. There's no opting out.
The coaches at this gym are like, we're not the
nice normal coaches that you know.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Now.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
If you're in the boxing thing, if you're late, you're
in trouble. Like if you can come to a class,
you're in trouble. So the commitment is huge, and I've
been committed hard out the getting it. We've had two
sparring sessions which are quite full on and my head
are quite full on for someone who's never been really
punched in the face and you've got your head gear on.
And the first class I felt like it was okay,
like a few little jabs nothing. Last Friday I felt
(35:50):
like I took a whole three week step backwards. I
got pummeled in the nose, I got a blood nose,
and then throughout the whole half an hour training, everyone
just kept heating me in the nose and I just
didn't know what way was up and I did not
enjoy it. I'm not that I hear that there's people
who have that kind of mentality in the head, like,
oh yeah, I've got hit. I think there's a cup
one of them in our gym like going I don't mind,
(36:11):
Like I don't even wear a head gear and it's
his first time and I'm like part of me though,
and I know it makes me look like a big
softy because I think a couple of them take their
head gear off. I'm like, I can't for my job,
like I can't be getting a paid video from like
in New Zealand and I have to film it on Monday,
and I have because you do, you can get a
fat lip. And like me, I had a bruisell down
(36:31):
my nose and I had an eyelid that was purple.
So I've gone and bought bitter head gear because I
saw that some of the trainers had head gear that
kind of comes around the cheek. But no, I just
want to say, no, I'm not in the at the moment.
Maybe I'll get better once you get used to getting smacked,
but I'm definitely not going, oh, mate, we had sparring
on Friday. I got smacked in the face eight times.
(36:52):
Love today. Like every smack, I was just like, come on, ma,
I'm like, I'm like, ah shit, what the okay? Sorry,
I need to keep my hands here, okay.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
It was my least part of playing rugby was any
kind of smack to the face too. And it's the
bit that I was like, oh, I don't want that.
I don't want that so bad, like putting your head
in a rack. I was like, oh, but what about
my face?
Speaker 2 (37:10):
What about my face? Rugby? Rugby? I was more fine
with I hear rugby because I was trying to compare
it because I really was slept for six last Friday,
and I was saying I played rugby for so many
years head knocks, running into things, and the confidence and
the body I think was just more used to it.
This is just brand new, yeah, and I'm still acclimatizing.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
But no, to answer your question, no, you not like it.
I'm not crazy like your husband.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
This last message, remember how we always said that no
one challenges our opinions on this podcast, and we're an
echo of our own thoughts. AJ very kindly has offered
an opposing opinion on our stamps on kids and phones.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
You mean a wrong you mean a wrong opinion?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
What our opinion wrong? Obviously this is aj.
Speaker 6 (37:59):
You guys wanted an opinion that doesn't line up to yours.
And go back to the phone argument. I'm wondering if
taking away your phone early on, sorry, but making the back,
if you're actually doing more damage to them socially by
not letting them communicate with their friends. When I was
a kid, I only really use my phone to text
my friends. I wasn't at least it didn't start with
(38:23):
anything bad. Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I'm just offering my other opinion out there.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
It's fine, it's good, it's a great opinion. It's opinion
I still have. It's a thing we still think about.
It's me still thinking do I get her one delete
everything and all that there is as Messenger Kids, because
right now that's all she wants. She just wants to
be able to come home and check Messenger Kids for
twenty minutes because all her friends from her who went
to the other school are all chatting and she wants
(38:52):
to be part of that circle, and us not letting
her have her own one or she gets to do this,
But yeah, that weighs on me. Man. That's a great
point that.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
AJ sent quite a few messages to about how you
can lock a phone down and that sort of thing,
and absolutely way that whole interview with the Safe seven
people about how you can do that. So yeah, I
think I think you're constantly checking in with yourself on
the stance though I'm not there, but I imagine we
would be too. Where you're going, is now a good
time to allow them a little bit more freedom? Is
(39:22):
now the time? But it just keeps coming back to
hold out as long as you possibly can.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Yeah, My number one is, do not just go and
buy a new phone, unbox it and give it to
your kid and be like great, out of my head.
If you're going to do it, you need to be
having those restrictions, figuring out what apps they shouldn't be having,
because that's your kid going to bed and from eight
to eleven PM scrolling TikTok the same feed that you see.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Yeah, and that's that's just a scary thought. You can't
go back. That's the thing. You get to give it
to them once and it's very hard to go back
from there. To take it away, isn't it Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
But because Mila's like, surely there's like some dad's got
like some old phone like that. I could just and
JODI's I know, and then I'm going through a cupboard
the other day. I've got I do, I've got all
these iPhone four and she's I don't care. It could
be like an iPhone one. I just want like my own.
You can just put message of kids on it, but
I don't want to have to share the the great
(40:22):
Three weeks ago, I smashed the iPad screen by accident.
We went to the snow and I stood on it
and it's in a bag to be repaired. And I
haven't done anything and they haven't been asking for it.
Annoyingly though, that means that Mila is using Jody's phone.
Jody's giving Mila her phone to go and messenger kids
and chat with her friends. But it's also been great.
(40:43):
They haven't been asking for the iPad, yeah, which is cool. Yeah,
it's like we did the whole anti TV thing for
a few months once and that was great, Like you're
not you don't come home and go on the TV. Yeah,
and then they stop and then they stop asking.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Once you get over the hum hey, they go, oh, actually, but.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
We've fallen It's clearly we've fallen out of it because
they're back on the TV bandwagon.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
But it's also counting when you need to cook dinner
or something like that. To be able to put them
in front of the TV just for half an hour,
it's a big help, but does a means to an end?
I think totally quite. We're not We're not completely anti
screen appearance that way. We're not those people.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
No, no, those those great people.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Yet normal Okay, yeah, okay, sorry, that'll do.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Let's go okay, yeah, we've got to go do something. Okay,
see you guys, see you guys next week.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
You get it.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Sounds like we're in the same room. We're about to
make love. Oh yeah, get out of here. Cross the door.
This is an iHeartRadio New Zealand podcast This week on
the Parenting Hangover. I've got my kids first school gala
coming up, and I've been asked to contribute something like
a service, like a like a something that can be
bid on, something that I have that I can give
(00:28):
though that won't cost me anything that somebody in the
school community will see value in. But I'm not sure
anybody walks the thing that I've got, and I've got
I've got gala anxiety.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We didn't talk about this in the podcast. We're going
to bring it up right now. Do you remember, and
I forget the name of it. Is your gala going
to be as banging as the thing that traveled around
New Zealand and Lana Kocroft was part of it and
it came to your school. Do you did you have this?
Do you remember this?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Does it jump rope for heart? Is it the variety? Variety?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
No, there's bash something bash.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh, the variety, Big kids, bad.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Ship. Someone's going to have to answer it, and we'll
figure out an answer. I won't tell you this podcast,
I'll tell you next week. That was banging and celebrities
would come and it was a big line of crazy
cars and the bouncy castles and your school got kidded out.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well am II. The Lana Cocroft of the West Auckland
Primary School Gala.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah will will you have? For some reason all of
the dads lining the school bank to watch the school
bash or just coc I.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Don't even think of the pool of larda cocrop to
the gala. The dads like tribute to a time. I
better go and support her.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Like back then, Lana was the only female celebrity when
we were Cauca, even the Bulgarian.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That was all we had. We're back. We've just been
talking about one hell of a weekend of sport, classic
dad chat. But it was a great weekend of sport
for New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Wasn't it New Zealand all round? It was just back
to back uppercuts, left hooks of sporting triumphs.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
We there's a strong argument that we've just experienced the
greatest weekend in New Zealand's sporting history. When you put
everything that happened, the cricket men's and women's, the netball,
the sailing, the triathlon, the canoe polo World Championships.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I missed the nipple. What happened to the nipple?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We smoked? We smoked Australia by fourteen guys.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, I'm a sport nut. How did I miss that?
It was so much busy.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
You would have been busy watching the Canoe Polo World Championships,
wouldn't you know?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I hadn't heard about that one either, But wow, you
know our America's Cup, the p the.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Paddle ferns our New Zealand Women's canoe Polo team World
champions World.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Shit, that's insane, because I bet you there's a country
out there that that's the number one sport. Then we've
come along and just no.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
House. The kids.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The kid's a good mate where I live anyway, Papa,
very close to the beach, very lucky to live where
I am. But the just the vibe changes, mate. You
see the sun now and the kids are excited and
they want to get out there. They want to go
to the beach. They want like I chucked the rugby
ball around with me yesterday, laughing that I felt like
my stepdad Tim throwing a rugby ball around. But even
(03:26):
though I do it with her often, it's good. I'm
very proud that My eleven year old will be at touch.
She's got touched this afternoon. And then after the game,
I like, I put up I've got quite a thunderous thigh,
and I put up the highest kick I can with
rugby ball, and she's just calmes under it. I got it,
catches it?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Will she take?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Catches? Yeah, catches bombs. The adults, regular adults who don't
play sport couldn't even catch.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And she's just like, what's your tip for getting for
catching the high ball?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It's same stuff as I remember being taught as a
kid myself. A lot of kids will just kind of
put their hands over their head like they're shooting a
basketball to try and catch a falling ball. That's wrong.
Your hands need to be facing the heavens, and your
elbows need to be together, so if you do miss
it with your hands, it doesn't go straight through your whole,
(04:15):
you know, so your elbows are kind of almost together.
And then it's guiding. It's guiding into the chest. It's
bringing the loaf of bread into the chest. Don't try
to catch in your hands. You're catching it in your
hands and boff into your chest. And it works. And
I teach other kids there that are like trying to
do them. I'm like, bro albos together, man, bring it
into the chest. And then they're like.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
WHOA pretty terrifying for an eleven year old to catch
this falling comet of a rugby ball.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I know. But she's like and she's like, oh, my
arms are stinging, and I'm like, yeah, that's my kids. Good,
that's my girl. Hey, I'm a little boy, eleven year
old boy, come try and catch this. And then he
fumbles it and Alba's all excited. My nine year old.
So she's got her last year of primary school or
(05:01):
alementary school next year. But today is the meeting for
everyone who wants to put their hand up and go
for things like house leader and live leader and all this,
and she is this is coming from a kid who
was very similar to Mela, very shy, very reserved, not
(05:22):
wanting to kind of put her hand out there and
try things. And now she's like, I'm going to go
for house leader. Cool, I'm going to walk myself. I'm
going to go to school myself. You don't have to
come and yeah, see you, it's very cool.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It's cool seeing this switch. I saw it. Untiwey not
to the same level, but from being painfully awkwardly shy
to wanting to do everything in the last year. It's
just so cool and it makes you feel better as
a parent, and you're like, oh cool, they are going
to enjoy their life and get out there and do things,
(05:55):
you know, because before that she didn't want to do it.
They didn't want to do anything.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
She's not just going to suck her thumb and ask
for fluffies every morning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know she's
gonna and Mela, Meela this morning she's like, deck cock,
I just go to tell you so. So she's at intermediate,
she's eleven, and they're like, we need EMC's for the
school assembly next week and Meeta's like, hands straight.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Up, I'm just asking you to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
No, no, no, sorry, the kids do it. The kids
run the assembly. And this is like to say two
years ago to Mela, that did you know that at
intermediate in front of eleven time and thirty year olds
you're going to put your hand up and volunteer to
m C and speak in front of that. And she
would be like crying it you saying no, it won't.
Why are you lying? Don't be a dick. I hate that.
(06:41):
I will never do that, and now just a completely
different kid. It's very cool. It's amazing when that kind
of stuff happens. You're like, whoa, Yeah, it's like a Transformer, bro.
It's like you've been slowly trying to figure out how
to get it to turn into Optimist Prime the truck,
and then all of a sudden, they just do it themselves.
And I am here, I am Mila, and as I
(07:02):
look upon this school. No, sorry, very bad, dad joke,
really bad.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That's good. I'm glad to hear. It means you guys
must be doing something right.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I just tried to make deep and meaningful moments into
an Optimus Prime Transformer analogy.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah. To be honest, it was a getting a bit
too deep and meaningful for me. So I'm glad that
you went down the transformer.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah. Okay, it's good. Okay, it's too early, A well,
too early? What are we We're only five minutes in
and I'm almost tearing up, Clint, how's your kids?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Mate?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Good man? It's school photos day for my five year
old today, so it's her first ever school photo.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, that's the smile.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'm expecting the plasic smile for the photo.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And as she left today, I was about to say,
I want to see the biggest smile you can do,
but I stopped myself from saying that, because she will
do that. She will just go.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Do the hulk, the hulk smash smile.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We're actually just sit there, just sit there and that'll
be okay. She got her self dressed. My wife, Lucy,
had a pretty shith house sleep with our three year
old last night, and so I was feeling pretty under
the weather today and I was watching two e get
dressed for her school photos, and I said to my wife,
imagine just waking up and looking that good, like you
(08:20):
just brush your hair a little bit, pop your school
dress on, fresh faced, rested, looking rested, ready to go.
It just it doesn't. It doesn't happen for adults. I
reckon once you turn twenty three, you just look more
and more haggard every morning. Obviously didn't say that to
my wife. I said, oh, you look beautiful too, yeah,
(08:41):
you know, yeah, but you just look at them and
you go, that's the most beautiful girl in the whole world,
which is crazy because I look at his sister and
then I go you're that's also the most beautiful girl
in the whole world. But then it's crazy because I
know that you also have three of the most beautiful
girl in the whole world, and it's just like, wow,
(09:01):
how lucky are we?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And I'm and I'm the most beautiful boy in the world.
You know, you got to think that, you gotta think
it's got to come. So this this will be your
first school photo packs apparent. You're going to get the
photopack thing where you select and they have the weird
email thing where they have big writing through the photo
so you can't just screenshot it. Okay, you can't like
(09:24):
at this They figured it out, like you can't screenshold
or you can't take a little photo, and then you
get the pack, and I think they're always quite.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
There's one hundred some families out there, though, that have
got school photos in their lounge with the writing across them.
Doesn't matter, doesn't matter, You're still in the photo. It
doesn't matter if it says not for a single resale
on the photo, I can still see you. That's all
we need.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Our kids laugh, because we've got them printed on the
wall as well as the sisters together, so Miela and
Elba had three years together at primary and it's just
the same. It's the same photo company, the same person
taking them. And it's like, so you'll be here, you're
sitting down, you're slightly taller than her, and Mila, please
place your hand like you would like any loving sister
(10:13):
would and wants to do. Please place your hand onto
your sister's forum. So they're very eighteen hundred's like the
pose and we've got three of them and it's the
exact same smile, the exact same pos exact same look.
And then Mela left. So it was Alba's first time
last year to have a sister photo. Now she was
the older kid with Nala, and we're like teasy and go, oh,
you're going to get to do the hand on Nala.
(10:35):
You're gonna get to put your hand on Alba's arm.
And she come home and go Alba was like disappointed.
She said it didn't happen. I was already for it.
They didn't do the hand on arm thing.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Do you think it's quite a lucrative business getting into
the school photo game.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I think it's very I think it's very lucrative. Of course, Yeah, if.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
You live somewhere, well, did I have schools? Like, surely
you've got your always you've always got something to shoot.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Speaking of lucrative, I don't know if I talked about
it at the time, but I only got my haircut
months ago. This lady's side hustle, and I was like,
this is genius. Maybe we did talk about it. Is
She'll call up like kindergartens and be like, hey, I'm
a hairdresser. I can come into Kindy. Can you put
the word out to the parents of what who wants
a haircut? What kid needs a haircut? And I'll come
(11:20):
in for a whole day and we'll smash out haircuts.
And she's now building that, building that into a bigger
and bigger business. And at the time that I spoke
to she had like twenty kindergartens signed up. It's how
easy is that? I wonder if you worry.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I don't know I ever heard of that before. That's
such a good idea because what you've already been doing
as you're putting the stress of the haircut onto the
Kindy teachers. As a parent, you go, hell, yeah, if
I can outsource the stress of taking this kid who
doesn't want to have the haircut and to the teachers,
(11:54):
I'll pay twenty five dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
She says it works so well because all the kids
just stand around in amazement and watch and then realize
there's nothing to it. And then it's almost like a me, me, me,
me next. I want to go next, I want to
get next.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
There's a few bits heads like that that someone will
have the school disco DJ market sewn up and they'll
actually be quite angry at me for coming into DJ
the school disco for Twey's school later this year for free.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You know, yeah, yeah, I've had something. I've had something similar.
So I went. I got invited down to this corporate
thing as a guest, not as the MC, and I
had the best time talking to the MC guy. He's
not a celebrity, he's just a really quality MC. Great
guy owned the room and I was talking to him
and he's like, I've got four gigs this week, and
(12:40):
I was like that's amazing. Like in my head, I
just didn't realize non celebrity MC's we're just smashing out
work like that, because you know, in New Zealand, it's
very much the books are open and everyone who's anyone
is on these of a celebrity scale, from a list
to zedlist as on these MC books. And then they've
emailed me since going Jordan, we would love you to
MC excuse a bit, and I'm like, I've kind of
(13:03):
ghosted the email because I feel so bad. I was like,
I met this guy, here's a family. I wasn't. I
wasn't coming along to try and be the MC guy.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Dave's kidding his lunch cup by Jordan.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I had not shown up to do that. I don't
really m C. I need to, but I get too
awkward and nervous.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And but it pays a lot of money. We're talking
about lucrative gigs, the the seless celebrity MC circuit. It
pays pretty well known. You do, can you do it?
Done pretty well out of it?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Nah? I do.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I do the I do the odd one. But I've
never cracked. I've never cracked the MC market either.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
My biggest thing is all people suggest to me, Jordan,
you should do like a keynote. A keynote is like
having a good twenty to forty minute chat up your
sleeve that you can just blurt out. But my argument
is good keynotes are people that are exports, stars have
gone through trauma or have something climbed Mount Everest yeah,
(14:06):
or overcome adversity.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Where a billion dollar company yeaheah.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I meet none of them. I'm a really lucky dad
who cracked a video and jumped on it, you know,
like I've done some cool things. But also I feel
like to be able to be one of those speakers,
you have to have a certain quite a strong level
of hit up your own ass to have the confidence
to get out there and share your story confidently. Like
if you have done something not the over adversity is
(14:34):
great because you want people or mental health, that's great,
But I mean if you're getting up there to boast
about yourself and the amazing thing that you've done, that
comes with it as well. And I'm very much not that.
I love to take the piss out of myself and
beg humble pie. So then for me to switch on this,
Hey guys, check out what I did. I've got now
over six million followers across social media, and I'm going
(14:56):
to tell you how I did it. Sign up to
my and click the link. Now I get twenty percent off.
It's all weird for me, and I need to overcome that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, because you kind of do your kind of parody
celebrity a bit with what you do. And like yesterday
when you referred to yourself as a celebrity on your
Instagram story, Someone's like, I was just following a humble
dad on Facebook and now you're calling yourself a celebrity.
What a shame?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Like?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, it's hard though, because in the reality is I
am New Zealand's number one celebrity. So like Tiker White,
who you know.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Before we move on? Do you know who New Zealand's
two This is what I've heard. New Zealand's two premiere
celebrity mcs are that command the most money? That very good.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Jeremy Corbett, Yes, one of them, Yes, that's one of them.
Oh and the other he wouldn't do it. He's too rich.
A male or female?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, very sexist to view to assume it was another male.
It's a female.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I didn't so I asked, oh my first I see,
I said, he he's too rich. It's a female and
it is Wendy Petree.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Hillary Barry so close.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh yes, okay, yeah, that's how you need to do. Yeah. No,
and they'll be getting ridiculous over ten grand to go
and stand up and talk.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just gesturing to join. How much
it is he had to put up both his feet,
both his hands, and my tongue.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
How do you know why you pretending? And then what
they're getting.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It's all gossip. It's all rumor.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That's true. I don't get out of bed for that.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
We want to talk. I want talk about a couple
of things this week. First thing is two E's school
gala is coming up, first ever school gala that I've
been a part of. And the principal emailed me and
she said, hey, Garla's coming up, big school fundraiser. What
do they call a school galler overseas? School fair?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, but when then you think of fair, I'll bring
straightaway switches to American movies and their affairs are insane
and off the hook and crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
This is not that fundraiser at the school on the
field there's some stall selling some home baking and a
bouncy castle and that sort of thing, and the idea
to raise money for the school. It's their big fundraiser
for the year. And the principal emailed me and she
said hey, because she knows that I'm on the radio.
And she said, Hey, we're just asking parents what they
(17:19):
could contribute for the school gala. Anything would be great.
Maybe you could get the radio station trucks down, the
promotional trucks, the Black Thunders to come down to the gala. Also,
I am offering up a prize for sale. I'm offering
somebody the chance to be a principal for the day.
(17:40):
And she did the classic whatever you think you could
contribute would be good, and I was like, I know
what she wants. She wants me to offer up radio
DJ for the day.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Come be part of the radio, Come be on the
radio show. Yeah, And I'm happy to do that, Like,
I'm really happy to offer that up. My issue was,
I don't know if kids want to be on the
radio anymore. I don't know if kids still see radio
go as a cool job.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So I reluctantly said, look, if you want it, if
you think it will be valuable, absolutely, let's have someone
come into the radio station meet the hosts, have some
photos that can record their own voice break on the microphones.
If you think that would go well, And she's like, absolutely, yep, definitely, yep, yes, please, yep.
To put it in the auction, and in my mind,
I'm going, what if no one bids? What if no
(18:32):
one bids on this? And then I am just the
guy who thinks that I'm a big hobnobin celebrity who's like,
you know what the Gala needs. They need to come
into the Brian Clint radio show and experience life like
I do it every day.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Mate, you're cutting yourself short. It's definitely going to be
a hot seller. My daughter both thought. Two of my
daughters have said one of their they have their lists
of jobs is to be on the radio. Really okay, yeah,
your job's not. Your job is every time they are
in the car, the radio was on and they're listening
to the games. And now that they're older, they're actually
listening to your Guys Afternoon Chat. Where it used to
(19:07):
be like they'll cut out Bri and Clin are talking,
it's like just wins the music back on. I want
to listen to Taylor Swift. Yeah, but now they're listening intently.
And then sometimes I look at Jody because a risk
joke has been said and I'm hoping it's gone over
their heads. Yeah, you know how you guys quite dirty mouthed,
you know, terrible, terrible. I think we're going to start
(19:28):
listening to Life FM.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, I think probably a good idea, which.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Is our question radio.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
The Good Newsers went up yesterday and it's already had
a bird and it's at one hundred.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And fifty dollars, so boom.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, whatever happens from here, it's all good.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Hey, hey, I'll make you feel good.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Brent.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I did a big fundraiser earlier on in the year
for Kids Can, a charity and side hustle to that
is they wanted to do some trade me auctions and
they're like, Jordan, and I was like, oh, I've got
some how to Dad books, Like I could sign some books.
I've got an old box of them. They're great, like
coffee table levelers, and they're like, yeah, that'll be great coffee.
And I was like, and I was like, and I will.
(20:08):
Because I was kind of throwing everything behind this. I
was like, I'll give you my because it just hangs here,
my gold million YouTube subscriber pluck, and you can put
that on trade me. And they chose the thing. They
put it in one thousand dollars. It got one bid
and it went to one thousand and one. Yeah, that's it.
And then that person never paid, so it's still wrapped
(20:29):
up in the kids Can office and they're like, do
we just ship this back to you? And I'm like, yeah,
I'll have it back. It didn't work and the books,
the books will put it like twenty five dollars, and
they went for like twenty six. Like ten books went
for twenty six dollars. So I just mean, though, I
hope you feel okay, like that one bed might be
all you get.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
It's fine. I just needed to zero. I needed it
to not be one of the leftover auctions.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
We did not pre talk about this, and you can
jump back into any other Garla chet you've got. But
my wife I had to go work on Saturday. My
wife took the three girls to her a little she
went to so everyone in New Zealand might know. When
you come into Totonga, you drive up the Kaimi Rangers,
which is the famous hills, the Windy Hills. Right at
(21:17):
the top on your right is a little primary school,
a tiny little primary school. Just as you get to
the top of the Kaimis there's this little primary school.
She went there as a kid and they were like,
it's one of those schools that have twenty six kids
back in her day and the whole school and they
had a gala and she was so fizzed to be like,
I'm going to take the girls to the Kaimi School gala,
(21:39):
my old school gala. And they go and they do
the garda stuff. I catch up with them that afternoon.
I'm like, Babe, how's the garla? And she's like, pretty shit,
it's real bad, Like I don't know, Like the hall
that I thought was huge was actually really tiny, and
I like had to remind I was like, you've just
done the classic adult thing. Yes, as a kid, everything
was awesome and meg, and then I asked the kids.
(22:01):
I go to the kids, how was the garla? And
they're like amazing, Oh, so good. All of them were
like it's so oh good. They had so this is Jody.
They had like three lambs, and then this is the kids.
They had lambs and we got to touch the lambs,
and then Joe's they had like corn hole and gum
boot throwing and they're gum boot throwing but only had crocs.
I couldn't do it, but they had gum boot throwing
(22:22):
and it was very funny to see. I'm like, surely
you could take off the Auckland view that you had
of some kind of Auckland gala and your little school
and surely and she's like, no, it wasn't that great.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I'd love to know what Jody was expecting from the
Kaimi School gala. She's like, I thought that'd have like
at least in Michael Jackson impersonator or something.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Hey, Kaimi School, because I feel bad that in case
one of the twenty three people are listening that are
part of kim It's an amazing school.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Though.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Now we stop there to go and play. Oh, they
have a concrete skate pump track. They have a dirt
BMX track pump track. Yeah, and then mean playground, Wake up,
wake up, come on. My kids loved it. Do not
judge your gala on the thoughts of a slightly tired
(23:07):
thirty six year old mum when I she is tired.
She started this new diet regime and she's just gone
the new diet in the working out, so she's a
bit She might have been a bit crinchy.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I was just hungry.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
She was just hungry. The kids, the kids, loved the gala. Okay,
so keep it exactly. That's all you need to in
press is the kids don't care about the parents.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And it's a good reminder to always try and see
things through the eyes of a child, right, Yeah, like
as jaded. We get more and more jaded as we
get older. But actually, if you could look through the
eyes of a kid, it's like sleeping in a tend
in the backyard. You might be like, oh, this is
stink school holidays, but for a kid, you go, this
is so cool. We're sleeping in a tent. We're camping
at our own house.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
A couple of years ago, I got asked to speak
at my old college to ko fun to college hadn't
been for a long time. And I'm then and I'm
talking to these kids that are kind of showing me
around the school for a bit, and it's like eight
of them, and I'm like, what are you guys? Like
fourth form? Fifth form? And they're like, we're seventh form.
Was in my head, It's like, bro, when I was
when I was symp form, I was like, in my head,
(24:07):
I was like a grown I was a grown man,
Like you guys are tiny children, And it just again,
that was the same thing as like Jodie felt with
the Hall. She's like the Hall used to be so big,
or like I still think back. I've got quite the
elephant memory. Not short term, but long term memory is great.
And so when Mela has all these things coming up
at intermediate and camps at eleven, I am so thick
(24:30):
and I can remember all of that vivid thick memories.
I don't think that's the right word, and I just
girthy memories. I teally port straight back there and I'm like, yeah,
I remember all this, and but in my memories though
at eleven, I'm like, I also had like five girlfriends
at this stage. Every few weeks I was breaking up
(24:51):
with some girl like Marlene Bernardine Francine.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Which is cool because you can remember it however you want,
Like it probably wasn't like that, but that's how you
remember it.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
And I definitely was. I was smoking a pack of day.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But perception is reality, right, and so we have that
benefit where we can just remember it and retell these stories.
No one's ever going to question it. I do worry
about how much stuff gets documented now, and this is
back to like the social media thing. These kids will
have like a really stark, official, accurate representation of what
that stuff was like. And they could be good to
(25:23):
have memories, but really a little bit of embellishment is
quite good, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, Like I tell some people, you know that I
made the first fifteen, I never did. But kids these days,
when they get older, they can't say they made the
top rugby team in college because people be like, I've
actually seen a video, or you didn't. I saw all
your videos. You were in the second fifteen.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
My girls, because I've told my daughters that I played
rugby and they've only watched rugby on TV, they in
their minds, I'm a really good rugby player, Like I
played at a really high level. There's no footage of me.
There's only one or two photos of me playing rugby,
So there will never be unless they talk to the
guys that I played rugby with, there'll never be anything
to dissuade their opinion of me as a rugby player
(26:05):
and to tell her what I was really like as
a rugby player. But you know, we get to live
in that but where there's no evidence it just happened.
There's no evidence.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah, my kids, even as they get older. Albert is
nine and we'll sit down to watch the All Blacks
and she'd be like, why are you out there?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
She think that I'm like basically an All Black. Yeah.
I would like to think that my kids will never
know how good or bad I was at rugby. But
Jody came to one game and my brother was there too.
This is years ago. I would have been like twenty two,
twenty three, and I was put. I was. This is
when I was living in Auckland. I was real committed
(26:43):
to my old team down in Morensville. So every weekend
I wouldn't have to train, but I'd show up on
a Saturday because they needed numbers. I'd get a full game.
It was great. But this Saturday I used to play
second five. There was some other guy who'd been showing
up to training, so I got bumped to the wing. Yeah,
and I'm up against this guy I remember from school.
He was a year older than us on this other team,
and I knew he was amazing. Darryl Toughy was his name.
(27:04):
I could step was it okay? His name might have
been similar to Daryl Tuffy, Darryl's something, And he just
side stepped me. All afternoon, Crow and Joy. If I
go to if I start telling any rugby story, or
like me and Dad you have it a few beers
(27:25):
and Dan talking about his rugby, then I'll get rugby
stories going and they'll look over to Jody and all
Jody will do It's very hard for me to do audibly,
but it's someone shimmering to the left and then to
the right, trying to get someone and then kind of
giving up. So if ever I start telling a rugby story,
I'll look over to Jody and joj do go And
that's her one memory of my rugby because she came
(27:48):
to this one game and this guy was just double
my speed and half my weight and which just darts
around me and there goes another try and that's the
one like, that's the last rugby game she ever came to.
She didn't come to the game the Centenary game where
I tackled Don Clark grandson who was like half like
(28:10):
flying down the sideline and I smashed them out and
all the crowd goes, oh, how to tackle? Yeah, how
to tackle? Because I was how to Dad at the time,
and that was a moment that's in the memory back forever.
Was there were the kids there. I told her to
come that. She's like, I don't want to come to
your Centenari. You'll be on the pestle weekend and I
don't want to come to that.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
So that's that's the Rugby memory that Jodie holds on too,
and I'm hoping she doesn't share it in detail to
the kids, because in their eyes, I am quite the athlete.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Take a quick break unless you want to say anything
else here, because let's not talk for forty five minutes
this week. And I do have some feedback to share.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Not rugby feedback, not Rugby feedback.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Okay, so last week one of the big topics was
that we were thinking about getting a dog, and I
think I landed on we're not getting it?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Was it not?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Was it not your mustache?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
The big topic.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I think I told you that we decided not to
get the Golden retriever. Yeah, newsflash, update, the dog's coming
back this week for another stay. We're going to give
it another go. This message from Anaka, I think this
is what I needed to hear. Have you listen to this.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Cuta guys? Anaka here, I just finished listening to last
week's school Holidays podcast. Great to have you back. Really
missed you over the last few weeks. But I have
to just chip in here, Clint. I've already private message
you about this, so I'm very team dog. But you
(29:44):
just had a chat about parents separating and summed it
up with the kids. Will be fine, Clint, it's a cat,
It'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I've followed you.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
For donkeys as well. Your cat's handled you guys having kids,
the Reno's it'll handle the Golden retriever. Just think of
all the happy memories that you guys will make as
a fano with having a beautiful Golden Retriever that added
to the household.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Okay, we'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
You just got to do it. Do it, please get
the dog. I'm only one car. I just felt like
an emotional up sound need to happen. Then, and I
see you and the family and you're in a family
portrait the dog runs in. Do it? And I don't think,
don't I don't think. Treat this as a trial. Like
when that dog shows up, treat it like it's your
(30:34):
dog now, Otherwise you're going to be looking for negatives
and be like, oh and yeah, it's done. A poopy
on the It's done a poopy on the lawn. It's
done a poopy. I don't know if I can deal
with that.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, I feel like I've had a like a stern
word from someone that I needed, like the shake up
that I needed for that message trum.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, because you were you were looking. You're you're kind
of you're subconsciously looking for reasons not to win, the
reasons to.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Out wayh Yeah, yeah, there's you're right. You're right. There's
always going to be like with everything. It's like with
having children, the decision to have children. There's always going
to be reasons not to. But actually you just need
to die then and trust that the good will outweigh
the hard.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Do you have my biggest question, this would be my
only noble Yes. Do you have a fully fenced yard? Yeah? Yeah,
so your dog can hang outside for then tired, like
if you're at work, great, that's what Chock does. But again,
we work from home a lot, and you're home a
lot more than a regular person.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
My wife was as well.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah, so your dog is going to live a very
life like my dog Chok, who owns the inside and
has the outside we needed. And you find a good
if you ever go away, which at the moment you're
still you guys are a little bit scared of going
away for too long, so that's not an issue. But
we have an awesome I'll do a plug for them.
Rainbow Kennels out in Tipooky Chok goes there. The first
(31:56):
day we go there, there's dogs jumping on an in
ground trampoline trying to look over the fence to see
what dog's coming. And Chock's just gone in there and
just like if she could talk, she's just gone on
and gone, Holy fuck shit. That's a ground trampoline. It's
just on this tramp and you're like, see your chalk,
and she's I don't care for you. I'm staying here.
This is my happy place.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Going to them was their idea of the big day
out of anything.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Because you're lucky it's not a puppy, you said. It's
already chill, so huge headache of having a new dogs
out the window. It's going to be it's going to know,
to poop out on the lawn. You're not going to
have little surprises in the bathroom. The yes is outweigh
right now. My dog Chalk, I know, is sitting calmly
in the sun on the deck and you don't even
know she's here.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Okay, yeah, good, Okay. I'll update you guys next week
on the dog. Do you remember I talked to you
about how I met a lady at the Blood Donation
Center who said that she listened to the podcast but
didn't get her name, and we decided that we do
the millennial name guessing games. Yes, jess said, yes, yeah, yeah,
I've got a message here. Hi, Clint, it's your friend
from Blood Donation. I listened to your latest podcast today,
(33:05):
loved it as always, and thank you for the shout out.
You were super close guessing my name. It's not Jessica,
it's Jennifer.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
We were super close.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Classic millennial name. I had at least two or three
Jennifer's in my class growing up. Of course you did,
of course you did.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yes. See. Any I love hearing these millennial names that
you forget about, because right now is anyone coming into
the room and saying, here's our daughter gin No, like,
here's my newborn daughter Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
It's weird how they're so normal to us when we
meet them at our age, but for a baby. But
now what is it? Apple? Here's my baby Apple.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
But it'll come back around. Our kids will name their
kids Rebecca, you.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Know, Clint, Yeah, Jordan the baby are you Clinton?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah? Clinton?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Yeah? Yeah. What's your middle name? Paul? Clinton? Paul, that's Paul,
your dad's name.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Middle name?
Speaker 2 (33:59):
A real millennial thing, like eighty percent of my group
of mates had it was your middle name was? Your
dad's name's Gary? Jordan, your dad's name and dad's name
is Gary.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, yeah, Jordan, Gary.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Well, so then Alba Alba has my name? Elba is
alber Jordan.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Oh that's nice because you've got a bisexual name.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, I do have a very bisexual name.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Here's a message from Morgan, Hi, Clinton, Jordan.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I really enjoy listening to your podcast. I had a
question for Jordan about his boxing match and just getting
into boxing. So my husband has talked about just really
enjoying getting hit.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
In the face.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
I mean, just that kind of I don't even know.
I don't understand it, but he enjoys like fighting and
like there's something like a visceral like enjoyment of being hit.
Apparently I might have to have him explain it. But
is that something that you feel the same way about Jordan, Like,
is that why you got into boxing? Do you enjoy
(35:04):
getting hit in the face anyway?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Thanks? Guys, absolutely not. I haven't even talked to you
about it. Oh but yes, so no, I've got into
boxing for the kickout the ass fitness goals. So for
two months I have to be dedicayd. There's no opting out.
The coaches at this gym are like, we're not the
nice normal coaches that you know.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Now.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
If you're in the boxing thing, if you're late, you're
in trouble. Like if you can come to a class,
you're in trouble. So the commitment is huge, and I've
been committed hard out the getting it. We've had two
sparring sessions which are quite full on and my head
are quite full on for someone who's never been really
punched in the face and you've got your head gear on.
And the first class I felt like it was okay,
like a few little jabs nothing. Last Friday I felt
(35:50):
like I took a whole three week step backwards. I
got pummeled in the nose, I got a blood nose,
and then throughout the whole half an hour training, everyone
just kept heating me in the nose and I just
didn't know what way was up and I did not
enjoy it. I'm not that I hear that there's people
who have that kind of mentality in the head, like,
oh yeah, I've got hit. I think there's a cup
one of them in our gym like going I don't mind,
(36:11):
Like I don't even wear a head gear and it's
his first time and I'm like part of me though,
and I know it makes me look like a big
softy because I think a couple of them take their
head gear off. I'm like, I can't for my job,
like I can't be getting a paid video from like
in New Zealand and I have to film it on Monday,
and I have because you do, you can get a
fat lip. And like me, I had a bruisell down
(36:31):
my nose and I had an eyelid that was purple.
So I've gone and bought bitter head gear because I
saw that some of the trainers had head gear that
kind of comes around the cheek. But no, I just
want to say, no, I'm not in the at the moment.
Maybe I'll get better once you get used to getting smacked,
but I'm definitely not going, oh, mate, we had sparring
on Friday. I got smacked in the face eight times.
(36:52):
Love today. Like every smack, I was just like, come on, ma,
I'm like, I'm like, ah shit, what the okay? Sorry,
I need to keep my hands here, okay.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
It was my least part of playing rugby was any
kind of smack to the face too. And it's the
bit that I was like, oh, I don't want that.
I don't want that so bad, like putting your head
in a rack. I was like, oh, but what about
my face?
Speaker 2 (37:10):
What about my face? Rugby? Rugby? I was more fine
with I hear rugby because I was trying to compare
it because I really was slept for six last Friday,
and I was saying I played rugby for so many
years head knocks, running into things, and the confidence and
the body I think was just more used to it.
This is just brand new, yeah, and I'm still acclimatizing.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
But no, to answer your question, no, you not like it.
I'm not crazy like your husband.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
This last message, remember how we always said that no
one challenges our opinions on this podcast, and we're an
echo of our own thoughts. AJ very kindly has offered
an opposing opinion on our stamps on kids and phones.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
You mean a wrong you mean a wrong opinion?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
What our opinion wrong? Obviously this is aj.
Speaker 6 (37:59):
You guys wanted an opinion that doesn't line up to yours.
And go back to the phone argument. I'm wondering if
taking away your phone early on, sorry, but making the back,
if you're actually doing more damage to them socially by
not letting them communicate with their friends. When I was
a kid, I only really use my phone to text
my friends. I wasn't at least it didn't start with
(38:23):
anything bad. Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I'm just offering my other opinion out there.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
It's fine, it's good, it's a great opinion. It's opinion
I still have. It's a thing we still think about.
It's me still thinking do I get her one delete
everything and all that there is as Messenger Kids, because
right now that's all she wants. She just wants to
be able to come home and check Messenger Kids for
twenty minutes because all her friends from her who went
to the other school are all chatting and she wants
(38:52):
to be part of that circle, and us not letting
her have her own one or she gets to do this,
But yeah, that weighs on me. Man. That's a great
point that.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
AJ sent quite a few messages to about how you
can lock a phone down and that sort of thing,
and absolutely way that whole interview with the Safe seven
people about how you can do that. So yeah, I
think I think you're constantly checking in with yourself on
the stance though I'm not there, but I imagine we
would be too. Where you're going, is now a good
time to allow them a little bit more freedom? Is
(39:22):
now the time? But it just keeps coming back to
hold out as long as you possibly can.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Yeah, My number one is, do not just go and
buy a new phone, unbox it and give it to
your kid and be like great, out of my head.
If you're going to do it, you need to be
having those restrictions, figuring out what apps they shouldn't be having,
because that's your kid going to bed and from eight
to eleven PM scrolling TikTok the same feed that you see.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Yeah, and that's that's just a scary thought. You can't
go back. That's the thing. You get to give it
to them once and it's very hard to go back
from there. To take it away, isn't it Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
But because Mila's like, surely there's like some dad's got
like some old phone like that. I could just and
JODI's I know, and then I'm going through a cupboard
the other day. I've got I do, I've got all
these iPhone four and she's I don't care. It could
be like an iPhone one. I just want like my own.
You can just put message of kids on it, but
I don't want to have to share the the great
(40:22):
Three weeks ago, I smashed the iPad screen by accident.
We went to the snow and I stood on it
and it's in a bag to be repaired. And I
haven't done anything and they haven't been asking for it.
Annoyingly though, that means that Mila is using Jody's phone.
Jody's giving Mila her phone to go and messenger kids
and chat with her friends. But it's also been great.
(40:43):
They haven't been asking for the iPad, yeah, which is cool. Yeah,
it's like we did the whole anti TV thing for
a few months once and that was great, Like you're
not you don't come home and go on the TV. Yeah,
and then they stop and then they stop asking.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Once you get over the hum hey, they go, oh, actually, but.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
We've fallen It's clearly we've fallen out of it because
they're back on the TV bandwagon.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
But it's also counting when you need to cook dinner
or something like that. To be able to put them
in front of the TV just for half an hour,
it's a big help, but does a means to an end?
I think totally quite. We're not We're not completely anti
screen appearance that way. We're not those people.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
No, no, those those great people.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Yet normal Okay, yeah, okay, sorry, that'll do.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Let's go okay, yeah, we've got to go do something. Okay,
see you guys, see you guys next week.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
You get it.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Sounds like we're in the same room. We're about to
make love. Oh yeah, get out of here. Cross the door.
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