August 14, 2024 • 43 mins
The most important day in the Dad calendar behind, of course, Christmas, your birthday, the kid's birthday, and maybe his own birthday. What do dads REALLY want for fathers day? The answer may be simpler (and cheaper) than you think...
Plus some amazing ideas for the Dad olympics and a terrifying revelation about taking your kids out of school for trips away.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (01:04):
If we get a biscuit deal straight off the back
of this, like, my mind's gonna be blown.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah right, believe it to receiver it. Look, I don't
want to freak anybody out. You've still got time. But
it is just over two weeks until Father's Day. I know,
I know, it's the most important day of the year.
I know, I know you want to show Dad how
much you love him and how much he means to you.
But there is a chance that you're going to buy
a crappy gift and this week we're going to help
you avoid.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
That Father's Day. So if the answer is Sunday, what
is the question?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh see, I don't know eight. That's one of the
great all time videos that was actually recorded the first
radio station I ever worked at.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Wow i E. A follow up to that amazing input
is the TV show worked on with Guy Williams. We
went and found her.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
You found her?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yes, she's in red ru Yeah, yeah, we fond with her.
A lot of your confused right now. But to famous
New Zealand meme viral clip back in the day before
the Internet was really a big thing. Was a woman
on a radio show who got very confused. I've had
a really simple radio show game. They were talking about
Father's Day and it was if the answer is Sunday,
what is the question? So all she had to do
was say what day is Father's Day? She couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So we are very clear Father's Day is on the
first of September, and today we're going to help figure
out what is the.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Best Father's Day present Sunday.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
FA reverse trivia answer to I Sunday, what are you reckon?
The question might be Father's Day?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
What what?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
What about father?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Father's Day is on Sunday?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, but what's the question?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Clint's looking sharp, He's I've opened my laptop. I see
his beautiful face. And you've committed because you you mentioned
that Lulu loose, Sorry Lulu, Lucy. There's kids we have
to drop off to score every day. One of them
is Lulu. There's a Luca. You're married to Lucy. I
live a very confused life. But you've committed, and you've
(02:58):
you've trimmed up your new host. So you've just said
to Lucy nut, this is it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Babe that she didn't like. Yeah, she did tell me
about two weeks into that it was starting to grow
on her, which is kind of a ringing endorsement by
her standards, Like she hasn't give me a lot to
go off, so for her study to.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Grow on her because it's actually growing out, she's it's
stayed to grow because it's getting longer.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
You can't if you can't see it, if you haven't
seen her videos. I had quite a styled hairdoo, not
no over the time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, I don't know what you've told it, but yeah,
you kind of short sides the longer on top and
it kind of gets swipped to the side, not a
comb over, a trendy combover.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I had the standard white guy side part haircut, didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah yeah, yeah TV presenter. He was ready to be
on it. He was waiting for his moment for New
Zealand Idol to start up because Dominic Bowden has left
our shores. Surely he's gone and it was your time.
It is your time, And annoyingly, New Zealand Idol has
not come back.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well, annoyingly, as I have finally nailed the haircut for
TV TV is no longer thing. They're just shutting TV
down all together.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So so you so you cut your hair up at
the same time TV's dead, I'm going to cut my hair.
I don't have to have my TV here.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Cut, So yeah, I've cut it off. And the reason
I was saying to you, I'm trying to understand the
psychology of why I like the haircut so much. And
I think it's because one it's low maintenance and low effort.
But it looks low effort, and I think I'm at
a stage of my life where I don't want to
look like a dad who's putting in too much.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
If you want to be naturally hot, that's what you'll want.
We roll out a bit and we're just like we
see ourselves in the mirror, like what a specimen? What
a natural specimen?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And it's what we talked about when I was trying
to dress you for the Radio Awards, where you were going,
I don't want to look like a try Haad. I
don't look like a try Haad with my hair do anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I get you because you're here. Yes, your last haircut
looks like it needed you know you had to, you
had to forgot Missy. It was gonna be terrible, so
it had to be kept sharp at all times. Where
now you wake up and you're basically I'm trying to
think of an actor with short hair like you, and
you just wake up. You do nothing, You do nothing,
nothing like you run your fingers short. Yeah it's great.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, it's great. Shout out to all the balding dads
who are loving all this chat about all this hair
that we've got and we're cutting it off on purpose.
We see you, we feel you. Sucks to be you, bro.
There's probably some dads out there as well who are like,
who cares what your wife thinks?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm very much I need validation like I'm still like
a teenage boy, because I don't. I've never been a
big hairstyle change. Basically, my head right now has very
similar to when I was fourteen. I've always had curly hair,
so you keep a kind of mid length, let it
curls do its thing, because I've I figured out a
young teenage age and I can't do spiked hair, and
I can't do undercuts because it all curls. The decks
where my curls will fight dex wax, and so I
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don't make big changes, and so if I do do
anything slightly new, I'll go back into teenage head mo
like even as a thirty five year old man. Recently,
we trim the sides and I'm a bit more Moulay
mullets at the back. And I get home and I
told Jodie frown and she's like, yeah, yeah. I get
home and she kind of looks up and care He's on,
you can't just look up at me and say nothing, like,
(06:03):
I need you to validate that the haircut looks okay.
I'm freaking out internally. All right, it's good.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I need you to be attracted to me.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
I need you.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You are the one person that has left in this
world that I'm trying to impress. I'm not trying to
impress any other woman.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I need you to be attracted to me.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So please just just throw me a broan, like, give
me a little bit of a little bit of something.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But luckily she does like the current style, so I'm fine.
I'm not a nervous reconcide.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'll go and ask Leslie what she thinks. Now, double
down on it.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
How's the kids? The kids are good, very similar, just
you know, like all the extracurricular activities one though, that
you get signed up to and then you forget and
you're like, shit, I'm real busy. But I went on
a Marii trip with Nala, a little Nala, six yearld
Naraha on her first Madai trip for school. Yes school, yep,
school no no, no. All these to a local mad
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I hear and all the which Mariai for internationals is
a true ditional Maori meeting house. I think that's a
great way to put it for you to understand. You
go there and there Mary's speeches spoken and Marty songs,
and the kids are there and they're six years old,
and they've all been practicing these little wiater Maldi songs
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and singing their hearts out. It's like, how great is this?
No one's freaking out, No one's I remember going on
one when Miela was young, probably the same age. And
you get up at the end of it and you
need to do a hony, which is a traditional Maldi
welcome where you touch four heads and noses together with
the person in front of you, so it's like a
you lean forward, you take a breath, and you that's
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how you kind of pressed it it's a very beautiful
way of sharing your spirit, sharing a moment with someone.
And they made at this one in Auckland. All these
little six year olds get up to try and do it,
and it was just terrible, like kids really out, some
kids crying, some kids trying to run away. And you
understand that there's an age where if they've never been
briefed about it or told or understand, and that could
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be scary intimidating, but here it was a slick. They
were like, let'sous teachers and parents, only the kids you
can gave you morning tea.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It was just a really well run operation, and yeah,
really really cool. We went up into the hills behind
me and the pup More Hills, Yeah, and we were
near them up in the hills and the view up
there and went for a hike with the kids and
it was just a cool little afternoon with the kid.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I liked what you said about how they're singing the
wyata and it's not a big deal, like no one's
kicking off about it. I was listening to talk Back
this week and they were talking about the Olympics and
the Kiwis that have meddled, and you know how they
played the anthem for the gold medalist, only they don't
put any lyrics. They just play the orchestral tune of
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the national anthem for the country that's won. Because we
have two versions of our anthem, the Maldi version and
the English version, so it gets played twice at sporting events,
but at the Olympics they only play it once through.
And this talkback host that I was listening to pointed
out that every athlete that was mouthing along to the
national anthem was mouthing the Mali version and not the
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English version, which is like a cultural shift that has
happened within a generation.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, which is awesome, a quick feed, quick history lesson.
But yes, our anthem has you sing it through completely
in Mary and then we all sing it in English.
And there will be people listening to that talkback show,
as that host said, all our athletes were singing it
the Mali version, there will be so many elderly listeners
spitting their cups of tea out. New Zealand has a
(09:29):
lot of casual, subtle underlying racism, definitely with the older generation.
Am I going to say all I think everybody I'm
listening now, Yeah, but who are very against any don't
speak Maori. We shouldn't say the Maori words. We're not.
Like there was a metal tally and people were kicking off.
It got posts on social media because alter Or was
called a New Zealand was called alta Or, which you
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could say as a Maori version of New Zealand, and
someone was, oh, should be called New Zealand in there,
this is the Olympics, not altera Or. And the guys,
if you actually have a look, I've done everyone's traditional
names and so like the Netherlands was nedolins or apologies,
but it had like it's Italy. Italy was like like
(10:12):
all these China started with Z. Like he used all
the traditional names, and so I love that he was
able to slap this racist person back in the face. Actually,
if you looked at the whole chart, I've used all
the old alternative traditional name. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
We are that in between generation. I think us millennials,
we are we watched the change happen, and anybody below us,
the Gen Z's and the Gen alpha's, whatever our kids are,
just won't even be a thing our kids.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Our kids don't care about learning about ted Maori Mary
in school they're not kicking off and they'll grow up
and yeah, of course it's going to be well so
much better well received. But the issue is you still
have the kids going to school where the parents are
our age. There's still parents that are so against it
because their parents were so against it, and so you've
(11:05):
still got kids at school who were like, vocally, oh,
I don't want to do thismiss, I'm never going to
use this all that kind of shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
so you're right. Every country probably has a lick of
this going on, I think. So, yeah, how's your tribe?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Good tribe. We went to where I'm from over the weekend,
but it was me and the kids trip. We left Lucy,
my wife behind, she had a birthday party on so
we went to stay with my parents, which my girls love.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You babysitting, bro? Did you have to babysit your kids?
You're a dad with your kids on your own. That's
not that's babysitting, bro.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
WHOA.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
That must have been rough.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
They still see two days and as a holiday, which
is awesome. They're like, we're going on a holiday. Yeah, yep, sweet,
it's a holiday. So we do some fun things. We
went to the swimming pools, and we went to the playground.
We went climbing in the treetops and the redwoods, which
is great if you go down there.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yep. And I've done the nighttime walking there to nighttime.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's great. And then we came back after a couple
of days, which was nice, but I kind of wish
we'd stayed away for longer because my wife is making
sour kraut at the moment, and I don't know if
you've ever eaten sour kraut. The idea of sour kraut
terrifies me. I find it disgusting, but apparently it's very
good for you. She's making homemade sauer kraut, which is
essentially just rotten cabbage in a bucket. The whole house
(12:24):
smells like fats. The whole house just smells like rotting
cabbage farts.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
We've got to get this mysterious woman on the podcast.
She's charging crystals, she's making buckets of sour kraut, and
just in the lounge, she's you come home, and I
picture her walking with bare feet in a ten lead
of red bucket and she's mushing sour kraut. Hello Clinton,
Welcome home. I've got my crystals charge of Sorry, Lucy,
(12:50):
she doesn't listen. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We're having to burn a candle round the clock to
mask the smell of saur kraud at the moment.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
So this is her.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
She's making saur kraut to store for her. I'm guessing
the kids don't eat it. You don't eat it.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I think they'll lead it. I think they leader if
she puts it in front of them. It's me who
has a phobia of sour kraut.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
But watch, but where does she put it? How do
you eat it?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
She's making it in a pot.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
But then how does she eat it? Does she put
it on a sandwich? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I think you do.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Will you put it as a side dish or you
mix it into a cold slaw or something like that.
I don't actually know. I don't plan on eating it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Okay, carry on, I'll stop interrupting. She told me so.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
She's just moved the sour kraut outside because the smell
is so bad that the sutcraut snails to outside. It's
been three days and I said to her, how long
does the saur kraut take to ferment? She goes about
two weeks. So, yeah, that's my life at the moment.
And then AFARTI sauer Kraut house and.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You're going back to your dad trip away, very hamish
blake of you didn't even think about it. Look, just
just throw it out there. You took the kids on
your own, no biggie, and I'm guessing they were rock
stars for you. That's superstars.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
That's so good.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Turned a corner, say, kids are great. I took to
my head. Listen they yeah. They didn't try to say,
oh I don't eat that, I want the other one.
They just ate it. They actually just ate the thing
I gave them.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Moms do.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But it's all known mums. It's all known, though Mums
just don't want to accept it. But dad's are superstars.
You know, We're the real heroes. Were the real glue
of their household. We keep it together.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
That's why we've got the podcast and you don't.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, exactly, and to celebrate us dads. Furthermore, we just
wanted to educate you guys on Father's Day, which is
coming again. If you're not an our part of the world,
you'll be like, sorry, what, but Father's Day here is
the first Sunday of every September.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I believe so.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yes, So I think it lands on September first, that's right.
And we're giving you guys some good heads up as
to what you could do and maybe what the kids
you know, didn't have to do.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, like, yeah, you don't have to do it.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah. If you see your kids frantically the night before
because you've forgotten to tell them to make Dad a
cool card next you put some effort into it. If
you see them just running to the printer yankee out
a piece of paper and getting one brown felt and
just start scribbling on it, just stop them, like, just
say no, don't worry it, Just give Daddy a hug. Yeah,
my big thing I want to put out there into
the universe. I know they're excited. I know the kids
(15:21):
might be excited. You might be excited. I'm not a
morning guy. I don't like to leap out of bed.
Father's Day I think is the one day and your
birthday where you let Dad sleep, let Dad emerge from
the cave at his own time, and don't try to
run in and give the presence in the bed. That's
my thing, Okay, Because I think you get a much
happier dad coming out of that bed. I could be
(15:42):
wrong if you know your man's like, I'm up at
five and I want the kids to run and do that.
But for me and you might have a partner that
doesn't verbalize his ideas, just let us sleep by the
day where we could sleep, let us.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I think that's one of the greatest gifts you can give.
And it's free, which dads appreciate even more. You haven't
spent any money, you know, and you can do it
with the kids. You can creep around the house. You
can turn it into it. You're like, we're going to
be super quiet. We're actually going to go for a
walk down to the beach. So we can let dad
have a couple of extra hours sleep.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And mum, mum, you could tie a ribbon quietly on
the outside of the bedroom door handle. And so when
he wakes up and he's like, and did you get
me anything, you can be like, yo, I got you that,
I got you that sleeping. The sleeper is the present.
There is the river that's the present.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Stick a little bow to Dad's forehead while he's asleep,
so when he gets up and looks in the mirror.
He realizes that was his gift.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Because my kids will say to me, Dad, what are
you getting for Jody for Mother's Day? And my mom
she's not my mom. You know, I don't have to
do anything anymore. My mom passed away a few years ago.
I'm scot free here on Mother's Day. No, no, we
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did I got I think I got her a message.
I kind of got appreciated to getting her a message,
which I think it. I played squash once a week
with some guys and they mentioned what they were doing.
I was like, oh shit, I think I am meant
to impress my my wife on Mother's Day. Who's win?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
When's Wife's Day?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Wife Dale in there? Yeah, I'll be in the Wife's Day.
Will Joan? I can't even think. Will Jody do something?
Get me something potentially? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Or ran Like there's been there's been Father's Days where
I tease her where she's got me something, but it's
really like something she's wanted for asias and it's good
for the house. Like that's what she kept going on
about wanting a hose reel. And then one Father's Day,
I'm like, that's a massive box for Father's Day. Open
it up. Oh it's a twenty meter hose reel.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I would love but thanks, babe.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I thought we could go through some things people who
do want to spend some money maybe or go to
a bit of effort and just give you some honest
ad feedback about it. And the first thing I thought
about when I thought about Father's Day was vouchers and
how people go. Vouchers are a bad idea. It's not thoughtful.
It means you don't know the person at all. Can
I just say, as a dad, bullshit? If you want
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to get me something hardware related for Father's Day, please
get me a voucher because you don't know the exact
model or the exact specification or whatever it is that
I want.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So if you want to get me the tool, great,
give me the voucher and then we'll go and buy
the tool.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Let's hammer at home right now. Vouchers are the best
thing almost like it's the vouchers are the best thing
you can get a dad. Yes, it can be for
a hardware store. It could be for an electronics store,
like we'll go in and get ourselves like a wireless
phone charger, that I can plug it next to my bed,
like that stuff gets us up in the morning. That
was like the excitement of it. Does I have a
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Superhero voucher card in my wallet and I'm going to
go and do something awesome with this today.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
And when we buy the thing with it, we will
associate that thing with you. Even though you gave us
the voucher and then we win and bought the power drill,
we will so that power driller is from you.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You got us. Next week when we come home and
the kid's like, what's that dad about? You guys got
me this with the card. I went in and got this.
It works just as well. It's like for the kids,
two exciting moments. They get to hand over a voucher right,
and they're like this is stink. But then a week
later they're celebrating with dad again.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Exactly right. There's so many little details about the thing
that you don't know about the thing that we want,
So just let us go and get it. Just let
us just let us get the thing.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Please. Yeah, it would be it would be like us
going out pretty blind. Like let's say we opened your
drawers and we went through your collection of yoga pants.
And we were like, ah, holy shit, I don't know
if she needs full length three quarter ones or does
she like the short ones? So she like the ones
that go right up your butt or the ones that
don't go right up your butt. And then we went
out right pretty uneducated and just went to a yoga
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pants shop bought some wrap them up, you know, and
don't try to lie. You're not going to open it.
Yes you'll open it and say, oh my gosh, babe,
thanks so much, but inside you're thinking those are the
wrong ones that we got the wrong like they will
just be wrong, and you're gonna have to pretend that
you like it, and for your entire life of that
(20:08):
pair of that item, you have to pretend you like it.
That goes the same way if you go to get
us a tool and we open it and like, did
they not know I've got one of them? And we've
got to be like, oh, thanks, I needed that. And
so it's just let's just we it's a safe space.
Let's just call the bullshit out. Okay, don't try to
walk into a man's shed and figure out what they
need and go and get it. We we're not gonna
(20:29):
be happy. We're gonna say we are, but we won't be.
I've sat the.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Ucher because otherwise it's a waste of money, which brings
me to the next one. Some dads for Father's Day,
the ultimate gift, especially at the moment in the current situation,
the ultimate gift would be, don't spend any money on me.
Don't spend any don't don't. I don't want any any
monetary gift for Father's Day. So that you know, that's
where the sleeping comes in.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That's where breakfast. Breakfast is huge. Yeah for me, my
Father's Day is done by that, and I'm a yeah,
don't ask me to do I think me going around
the house is sleeping on the newspaper. The kids get
all excited. They know the breakfast Dad loves for anything.
It's pancakes with bacon mate pulsare at bananas and they
all love that. So it's basically a birthday breakfast for them.
(21:14):
And then basically for the rest of the day, I'm
pretty chill. Just don't ask me to do anything. Like
if Jody says to me, hey, babe, could you go
clean up the spa or it's fine, like that's the
moment I can throw Father's Day back in people's face. Well,
it's Father's Day. I could chill here, but we'll naturally
go and do something as a family, like just go
to the beach. At some moment, we'll go for a
walk or go to the bike track. But really it's
(21:36):
like just the morning mail the morning and then don't
expect us to be mowing the lawn or cutting a
tree down or you know, if it came to a
big lunch dishes to do, maybe the kids are going
to do the lunch dishes because.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
It's Father's Day, the Ultimate as part of the ultimate gift.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And this is free. All what we just said there's free.
I want to go back to the tool thing. I
take my words back slightly. If you are being on
the opposite side and going a bit boogie and spending
some money, you can walk into a man's shed and
see what power tools he has, and if he's missing one,
that's an easy tool to get. But if you're going
to get something that's not a power to the.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Right brand because it's got to work with the right battery.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah you can, he's got you'll talk out the brand.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
There's a bit of there's a bit of research that
needs to be done. But yeah, yeah, if you want to,
if you want to, just keep the.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Receipt, yeah, exactly, keep the receipt. But power tools. That's
the ultimate. That's the.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Ultimate dad birthday.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Oh I'm a I'm a real dad with my new
haircut and I've got a new power tool.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
If I wake up to a blue not naming the brand,
but battery powered skills for Father's Day, I'll be a
happy dad.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
If I wake up to I can't say blue green because.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Green florescent, fluorescent.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Green, fluorescent green, I'll be those blue ones. Blue brand breaks. Man,
there's yellow ones. They break. I don't trust any other
color but yellowy green.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Do you want a break on Father's Day? I think
this is an interesting one because sometimes people think that
dad wants a day off and away from the family,
which I don't like. I'm not on Father's Day. I
do want to spend Father's Day with you, but I
don't want to do any jobs. Do you want to
be out golfing?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I hear like it would feel with nah. Nah, it
would feel weird to go out fishing on your own
or golfing like with friends. That would feel weird because
Father's day, it would feel weird, only because your kids
want want to be with you so much. You're like, yeah,
but we we do so much as a family anyway.
But I'd carry on doing that. It'll just be another
day of doing stuff with the kids. Yeah, okay, but
(23:36):
I'm not going to be like, let's ah, well, it
depends where you live. Like for me, the driving range
is only fifteen minutes away, and if there was like
an afternoon with the kids will round off to their
friends houses. Yeah, and I wouldn't get an iroll from Jody.
She'd be like, Yeah, that's fine, I'm going to go
the driving range. I'll be home in an hour. They'd
be fine. But I don't think you can be like
it's Father's Day. I'm on a fishing ship with the lads,
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kitchen kids. Later.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
One of the best Father's days I've had, Lucy organized
for me and a bunch of other dads in our
friend group to go to a pub lunch. And it
was just the dads and we had a pub lunch
and a few beers, and then after the lunch, all
of the mums with the kids were at the same house,
and so then we rolled into the house and joined
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everybody for the afternoon. So they had been playing with
the kids while dads went out for lunch, and then
we all joined up together.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
That was pretty awesome cool. That's that's some great wife
points there.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
We had. We had the morning together and did like
breakfast and the card and things like that, and then
I went to this pub lunch and then I joined
all of the families with all of the mums and
all of the dads for this big joint Father's Day thing.
That was pretty It's hard to organize, but that was
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And the dads get back with three or four beers
deep with double bounced kids on a trampoline, way too much.
Mums thinking out.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I don't know you were there. Everybody says that dads
don't want socks and undies for Father's Day or their birthday?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Do you agree? This is one where you could go
through our drawers. My family knows my constant sock and
undie struggle. My kids laugh as they fold my washing.
They'll laugh as I get up in the morning and
three of my toes are sticking out the end of
my sock. Like some of those people that I don't
care too much for myself, so it's a weird way
to put it. But like, if my socks have a hole,
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it's not it's not the top of my list. I'm
not like, oh my gosh, I have to go to
Farmers or Barkers staying and get myself some new socks.
Oh my ah, No, that'll be fine. I'll wear it tomorrow.
My socks I have everyone right now have holes in them.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Not caring for yourself. If I have holes in my undies,
I'm not replacing my undies for me, I'm replacing them
out of respect for my wife.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Seventy six percent of men listening to this podcast right
now have a small hole in the gooch part of
the other easily easily. We've talked to it. I think
we've talked about before. No one's figured out the science
as to why men's underwear just in the gooch bit
we'll get a hole there. And these brands that come
out and say we don't get the holes.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
You do.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I've bought them, and I get the holes. I'm not sure.
I think it's just I have such a large penis
it has to be that I can't roll and gooch.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
So so again, I think there if your family's aware
of your undie and socker, Like if you're in a
place like I am right now, if I work up
Father's Day with a three pack of new undies and
a three pack of socks, I'd be pretty stoked. Me too,
Not as stoked as like a power tool, but i'd
be pretty stoked.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I'm just fine with it, ladser gift. I think it's
I am if you're stuck and you can't think of
anything else. Fresh pair of Grundies, fresh pair of socks,
I think.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
But if you're a well groomed dad who has a
great wardrobe, and you look after everything you've got getting
him socks and undies, he's probably gonna be like, oh,
I didn't really like I've got seventeen beige colors. I've
got a subscription.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah, they just arrived monthly.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, good point. Like Clint. If Clint's kid's got him
undies and socks three months ago when he had his
slick haircut, he'd be like, I didn't really need these,
But now that he doesn't care about life, he needs
that shit because has everything giving me. He's just one
of these guys now, man like his lawn's a bit unkept.
He's just a regular one of the dudes. Now he's
finally one of the dudes.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You touched on this before. But do you want handmade
artworks for Father's Day?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
It's so hardy, It's so hard. How many years now,
so many years of having cards, rushed cards or scribble pictures.
I want to, like I I do this. So if
it's Jody has something like a birthday or mother's day,
I will brief the kids so much and I'll be like,
you're not giving her a quickly made thing. Even Nala
(27:33):
who's six, will do something. I'll go, Nala, that's and
I'll say, that's darling. You got to take your time.
You've rushed. I want you to start again, and you
draw your picture again, because I know you can draw
better than they're just rushing. They're rushing because they've left
it late or they're too excited, and I call them out.
Some people be disagreeing with that, but I call them
out and I'm like, it's mum, it's her birthday. The
(27:54):
level here for the cards up here, guys, I want
you to take time, like you know back in the day,
and a few did it, but you folded the piece
of paper for the card, and then you cut shapes
in the spine, and so then when they.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Opened forgotten memory, Oh, my kids.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Don't My kids don't do that. I've told them about it.
I think they did it one year once. They don't
do that. There was my go to for every card,
spending time cutting shapes into the spine of a piece
of paper, and when they opened it up, it was
like your parents were back in the seventies sixties. They're
at woodstock and those shapes were like whoh, they were
like tripping out at that spine.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You're right about how many psychedelic psychedelic birthday card would
stock flashbacks.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Dad's like, ah, I'm a sweet waters.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You're right about how many years. I think the novelty
of handmade art work definitely weirs off, Like you're in
Father's Day number eleven.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, and then you times it by you know how
many kids? Yeah, Like for on average now for eight
or nine, eight of those years, I've had three cards.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Whereas our new dad's listening to us. Maybe you've got
a kid who's just old enough to start doing some
crafty stuff. Now, like a card from a two year
old you love it the best.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Father they ever old bloody love it, absolutely love it,
because and like that, he's going to keep that. He's
going to keep that one, Like he'll put that in
his top drawer next to his socks and his random charges.
And then the next one he'll probably remember and put
that there. And then by the time they're nine and
they give you one, and then I don't even know
(29:33):
where things go now. But there's no draw there's no
special box anymore. Our boxes are full. We have a
closet full of things from when they were all. Which
I get is that cute younger age where you did
keep everything. But just like a kitten or a puppy, look,
they grow up and they're not so cute anymore. These pictures.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
The law of diminishing returns as well, Like you've done that,
I've already, I've already had it. My mum gave me
a box of my childhood artwork back recently in the
last year or so. She bought a whole bunch of
myst up up and she gave me all my kinder
art and I was like, I don't fucking want that,
and she's like, well, neither do I. I'm like, true,
well you've kept it for thirty five years, but I
(30:12):
guess it's going on the bed.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Did you keep one piece out of it?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah? I keep one piece.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, yeah, you got to go through and find your
best bit.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
But then I showed it to Lucy and I was like, ah,
look at this from when I was a kid. And
she was like, yeah, so who have your parents don't
care about it? Who's going to get you?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Got to have those highlight moments like I loved recently
with the Olympics. He just reminded me. They were talking
about something and it sparked a memory because Meela is
eleven now and I was like eleven, that was me
form one to co for the college. I was like,
I was the athletics minor boys champion, which means you
got enough, you won enough things over the athletics state
that I ended up being the champion. All flooded back
(30:51):
to me. I'm telling her all excitedly, you've it's in you,
You've got it any if you had to wear off
at some age, like I clearly didn't make the New Olympics,
but for now, the jeans and you mean you can
do this. Your dad was the dakofa the College mindor
Boys Champion. Yeah, your school's got like five hundred kids.
My school had seventy. It doesn't matter. Let's not focus
on that. Don't in your DNA. It's sweet.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I think we've now Father's Day. Are there any other
gifts you want to throw out there to the universe
that you think dads would love?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
No, I think we've I think we've now now. And
look if and again, if you're not a tall dad,
or you'll know what they're in to do. The voucher.
I don't think any dad missus justin, please miss to Justin.
If you're a dad listening right now, who's like I
hate vouchers? I want to hear why. I was just
about to proudly say I don't think any dad out
there would open a voucher and be like, oh gosh,
(31:40):
a vouchure? What what do they expect me to do
with this? Sometime as I do they hate me? Well,
have they got to me this amazing thirty dollar voucher
for the warehouse and.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Money spent? Say that say that early that you don't
want any money spent on you? And the sleep and
Breakfast card. Cuddle newspaper. What a great brother's day and
a relaxed and a relaxing afternoon.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, a relaxing day again, like we can go to
stuff as a family. But I just don't want to
be like all right, and you know, getting pressure because
my wife started weed eating, which means usually when she
starts weeding, that means because I'm going to follow with
the lawnmower. You know, I don't want that pressure. Don't
start weed eating, okay, or don't start don't start just
walking and being like man that that drains still loose
out there? Ah, that drain pipe.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I don't don't not on Father's Day, Not on Fathers Day.
Do it on the Saturday or the Monday. Okay, let's
take a quick break and then we've got a bunch
of feedback this week feedback.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Coming up after this. I think that was pretty good.
That was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Okay, the other week. It's finished now, but we were
talking about launching WOA.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Feedback. Here it is we clinch you around the period
you have over a scout. Sorry, of course, my bad
continue the sting's finished.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Okay, cool, Sorry, I wasn't sure I've never heard this
thing we were talking about Olympacks. The other week, haileyd
Olympas Yeah, Hailey J sent us this message.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Hey guys, Ozzy mum here mom's stance. I have a
son who is six in kindergarten and a daughter who's
thirteen just started high school, so I'm sort of at
both ends at the spectrum, which is super interesting. Loved
this week's podcast, super funny hearing your take on the
Olympics and you know all we want now is a
live dad Olympics on the podcast. Had a few ideas
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for you, Dad by grace pulling one of those wagons
with four kids in it screaming, of course. Fastest dad
to pack a car for camping. Fastest grocery shop with
two whining kids in the trolley asking for everything. Definitely
add some obstacles and oldie on a zim frame, young
kids packing shelves, maybe a few spills on the floor.
Fastest dad to drop all the kids off to different sports. Anyways,
(33:51):
still giggling over last week. Thanks guys for a bit
of light but real talk in a busy life that's
really tough sometimes.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Thanks guys fills my bucket. Just heads on those little
nice just four seconds of nice words there about the podcast.
I'm going to be I'm on the clouds today for
the rest of the day.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
That's all I wanted from my wife about my haircut,
you know, That's just all I needed, just that little She.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Also like, we put in a bit of effort coming
up with our dad Olympic ideas, and she just smoked them,
smashed them all out of the water. So why did
we not think of any of them? The one my.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Favorite, I'm kin to know yours packing the car for
a camping trip.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Like the exact same two cars, two identical identicals, open,
two piles of executly the same stuff load. Yeah, and
then you get in trouble that right at the end
as the boot shuts and if you haven't left a
little window bit so you can see what're following you
for safety points deducted.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
But it's also subjective, kind of like the like the breakdance,
the breakdancing or the diving, where like it's gotta it's
gotta be scored, and dads will be like, this isn't
structurally sound. Yeah, you haven't maximized as much space here
as you can. That kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
You put the Christmas presents here on the bottom and
they could be crushed. They should have crash top. Yeah, Okay,
this heavy object that you've stacked so much, you know
that if you break hard, that's just going to come
straight over the back and you are decapitated. So you
lose points if you have to slam the boat to
get the stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
The slam it down, that's a points deduction.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
A lot of those electric boots now and you just
hate that, you know, as you shut it, come on,
come on, will you? And as you're walking away, you
here and it opens back up. Damn you, damn you.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Time Mears sent us a message about your theory that
you don't get in trouble for taking your kids out
of school. If you want to go to the snow Ties,
come in with some pretty official founding advice.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Hey guys, just got to say I love the podcast.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
So yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Fines for deliberate non attendance are a thing, and they
have been a thing for quite some time. This actually
featured in the original Education Act from nineteen eighty nine,
but more recently. David Seymour's in charge of the Act
at the moment, so there's plenty of news articles about
him finding people or being able to find people anyway,
(36:07):
doing a great job. Just wanted to say keep it up.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Fine, but the deliberate non attendance.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
What the hell? You can't just stop the message there? Like,
what do you mean he's finding people and it did
you say fines? Are they fines like you you have?
Just that's just like saying, hey, guys, just got a message.
There's a guy right and he wants to shoot you anyway,
gotta go?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
What?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Sorry? Who finished the story of the who?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
How? What? What? So?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Can I take my kids to the slow or is
David Seymour going to find me or.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Find me and find me, find you and then find you?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah? What he is?
Speaker 4 (36:42):
What? What?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Fine?
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Is this?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
How much am I getting fined? Yeah? Ty?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Actually you really like on detail? Can we get that information?
Can we follow up message next week?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Please?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
We need to know how is it like a three
strikes thing as well? Because I took my girls out
of school on Friday to go down to and that's
the day that I heard that miss from Ty when
I was in road Row. When I've taken them out
of school.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
You're a dead man, mate. You can't take your kids
with that time? Oh wait, what's that you got? To
read Laser on your Head, David Sema and the Bush
took we got them.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
This is a message from Candy about We've talked a
bit about this about who gets up in the night
and dad's potentially sleeping through.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
Hey, guys, just want to let you know what I'm
getting out of the podcast. I've listened to most episodes
and they've been really great to listen to. I'm a
mom of three. I've got an eight year old almost
nine year old girl and then five year old boy
girl twins, and funny enough, the most recent episode, I
felt like it was a bit of a relief when
you said, Jordan, that your wife had said to you
when you had babies that Okay, I'm going to be
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the one getting up doing nighttime stuff because you need
to be well rested for work. And I had essentially
said the same thing to my husband. He's an airline
pilot and so rest is very important in their job.
And my friends, especially when the twins came along, they
were like, oh, I can't believe he's not helping you
at night, and I was like, well, he's got to
work the next day, and like I don't want him
to crash An airplane. That would be horrific. But then
(38:06):
that gave me a little bit of doubt in myself that,
oh my gosh, am I to being taken advantage of.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
But it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
And it's such a relief to know that I wasn't
the only one and we weren't the only ones with
that setup.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
So thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Yeah? I love that we gave her that reassurance that
you would and even our setup, it was never a yes.
It's a toxic relationship if the man in your partner,
in your relationship has said you are getting up every night,
I have to work.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
You had these kids, you get up.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
We didn't deliver it like that whatsoever. It was a
conversation between both of us, and it was more JODI's idea.
She's like, no, no, you sleep, you got work in
the morning, and I was just like, oh, sorry, sorry,
what did you just say.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, it's the divide of UK mentality that you do
all the time. You divide and conquer to get through
parenting during the day, you divide and conquer to get
through parenting at night too. I really find it interesting.
If it doesn't work for you, guys, that's fine as well.
I'm not saying every dad should be allowed to sleep through,
but I find it really interesting that her view of
it was colored by feedback from friends who are like,
(39:07):
how dare he sleep through? I'd love to know if
those friends have kids, you know, I'd love to know
if they had done it.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Yeah, and you're completely right, and this isn't This isn't
me trying to be like whoa, WHOA. Don't like defending
our idea or thinking it's bad. But everyone is in
a different boat. Correct his dad's listening. Now, he'll be like, boh,
I wish I could do that, bro, but my kid
is seriously up all hours of every night and I
need to actually skit up and help otherwise. But we didn't.
We weren't in that boat. We had a kid that
woke maybe twice for like a forty five minute feed,
(39:36):
and they were back to We never had the times
where it was like our kids are up all night. Then, yeah,
you've got to kind of put your fly on your
plane to side and actually help out for an hour maybe,
But yeah, if your husband's a brain surgeon and you're
making him be up six hours a night because you
need your sleep, I think you need to recheck your
priorities there. Guys.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You're like, Babe, I'm gonna make funny videos in the morning, Okay,
I cannot.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah, see six hours sleep. It depends what your profession is.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Last message that we got in is from Hoary car.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Killed the Lads.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
I was just listening to your podcast about having the
problems with the sweet set night when you're a bit unwell,
and I.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Just wanted to share my life.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Heck, what I do is I sleep on a towel
and make sure I get the fluffiest, comfiest and largest
tower that I possibly can, which often turns out to
be the expensive one which my wife doesn't like, and
I'll sleep on that. And I'm telling you it's a
game changer. Eventually you'll get demoted to a scratch you
a little beach towel. But live up the old, comfy,
expensive towel as long as you can, and it'll change
(40:37):
your game when it comes to having the night's sweats.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Simple.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
What a great idea, It seems simple. It has backfired
on me once I forgot I hadn't told my partner
what Jodie, that I was sick, And so we've gone
to go to bed and she's just walked in and
there's a towel down on the bed and she's just
around walked straight back out. She's I don't know what
weird asked finish, you were thinking it was gonna happen tonight.
(41:03):
I'm out, no, no, no, no, it's for sweat. It's
for sweet absorption. She's like, oh, what sweat. Well, I'm sick,
trust me, it's okay. It's just it's for me. Look
that a tower for one. Yeah, it's a tower. Yeah,
it's a tower for one. You gotta make that. You
gotta make that so clear. I here with the towel
down for the flu though I think I did, but
my wife still it goes through. Bro. The amount that
(41:26):
I got second was crop that sweat, if you're just
sitting on it will go through. So I get to
motor to like an ear mattress, or we have to
go get the kids, like pee the bed topper that's
stored away, and we have to go put the topper.
You have to put the p the bed topper on
top of your nice mattress and then sleep.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
And that is the benefit of that is that you
can then pee the bed as well, so you don't
have to get up, you're already sung, you already feeling
run down, Just pee the bed and.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Then just tell your wife. Man, there's so much sweet yellow.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Sweat, yellow sweat, so much stinky sweat.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Weird Man, what a beautiful way to finish the podcast
us and beautiful visuals to give you guys there. Look,
you've got a few weeks till Father's stay here in
New Zealand. We hope we've given you some amazing professional
insight because again we both have degrees and dadding. We're
in New Zealand's number ones Dad's New Zealand's number one
haircuts on Dad's Dads, and we just have all the
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answers for the most things in life. Couple dads. You'll
find that most dads in a circle talking could answer
the words problems straight away.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yeah, you guys just didn't ask.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
You just need to put a bike in front of them.
And that's what everyone wanted, what everyone wanted when they
heard about this podcast, Like, sorry, two dads just talking
and you're going to record it and put it out there. Yeah,
solving problems.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
If you if you think you know what the best
Father's Day gift is maybe you've brought it before, maybe
you've got it this year. Or you're a dad and
you know exactly what you want for Father's Day, and
you think all people should know what that is. For
the greater good of Dad's send us a voice message
on our Instagram. A lot of those are from Facebook today,
so maybe I can check Facebook to Instagram or Facebook Messenger,
(43:04):
little voice message, keep it under a minute, and we'd
love to get it on next week's Parenting Hangover podcast.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
And or if you work for the government and you
understand the rules around kids in or out of school,
miss message or voice notice in because I'm real confused,
I would like to say I want to finish with
I'm guessing that law is for sorry, bad parents who
are letting their kids just skip school and not being
on top of that, as opposed to attacking parents that
are taking their kids away on a trip down to
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where my dad grew up because it's his birthday or
over here or to the snow, Like.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Surely I'm not truancy versus whatever the other thing.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
That's yeah, I'll fight it, I'll go I'll protest to
government if I'm getting in trouble for taking my kids
out for life again, life skills, taking them out of school.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
For life skills, for the school of life.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
All right, See you guys next week.
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Speaker 2 (01:04):
If we get a biscuit deal straight off the back
of this, like, my mind's gonna be blown.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah right, believe it to receiver it. Look, I don't
want to freak anybody out. You've still got time. But
it is just over two weeks until Father's Day. I know,
I know, it's the most important day of the year.
I know, I know you want to show Dad how
much you love him and how much he means to you.
But there is a chance that you're going to buy
a crappy gift and this week we're going to help
you avoid.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
That Father's Day. So if the answer is Sunday, what
is the question?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh see, I don't know eight. That's one of the
great all time videos that was actually recorded the first
radio station I ever worked at.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Wow i E. A follow up to that amazing input
is the TV show worked on with Guy Williams. We
went and found her.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
You found her?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yes, she's in red ru Yeah, yeah, we fond with her.
A lot of your confused right now. But to famous
New Zealand meme viral clip back in the day before
the Internet was really a big thing. Was a woman
on a radio show who got very confused. I've had
a really simple radio show game. They were talking about
Father's Day and it was if the answer is Sunday,
what is the question? So all she had to do
was say what day is Father's Day? She couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So we are very clear Father's Day is on the
first of September, and today we're going to help figure
out what is the.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Best Father's Day present Sunday.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
FA reverse trivia answer to I Sunday, what are you reckon?
The question might be Father's Day?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
What what?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
What about father?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Father's Day is on Sunday?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, but what's the question?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Clint's looking sharp, He's I've opened my laptop. I see
his beautiful face. And you've committed because you you mentioned
that Lulu loose, Sorry Lulu, Lucy. There's kids we have
to drop off to score every day. One of them
is Lulu. There's a Luca. You're married to Lucy. I
live a very confused life. But you've committed, and you've
(02:58):
you've trimmed up your new host. So you've just said
to Lucy nut, this is it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Babe that she didn't like. Yeah, she did tell me
about two weeks into that it was starting to grow
on her, which is kind of a ringing endorsement by
her standards, Like she hasn't give me a lot to
go off, so for her study to.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Grow on her because it's actually growing out, she's it's
stayed to grow because it's getting longer.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
You can't if you can't see it, if you haven't
seen her videos. I had quite a styled hairdoo, not
no over the time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, I don't know what you've told it, but yeah,
you kind of short sides the longer on top and
it kind of gets swipped to the side, not a
comb over, a trendy combover.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I had the standard white guy side part haircut, didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah yeah, yeah TV presenter. He was ready to be
on it. He was waiting for his moment for New
Zealand Idol to start up because Dominic Bowden has left
our shores. Surely he's gone and it was your time.
It is your time, And annoyingly, New Zealand Idol has
not come back.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well, annoyingly, as I have finally nailed the haircut for
TV TV is no longer thing. They're just shutting TV
down all together.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So so you so you cut your hair up at
the same time TV's dead, I'm going to cut my hair.
I don't have to have my TV here.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Cut, So yeah, I've cut it off. And the reason
I was saying to you, I'm trying to understand the
psychology of why I like the haircut so much. And
I think it's because one it's low maintenance and low effort.
But it looks low effort, and I think I'm at
a stage of my life where I don't want to
look like a dad who's putting in too much.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
If you want to be naturally hot, that's what you'll want.
We roll out a bit and we're just like we
see ourselves in the mirror, like what a specimen? What
a natural specimen?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And it's what we talked about when I was trying
to dress you for the Radio Awards, where you were going,
I don't want to look like a try Haad. I
don't look like a try Haad with my hair do anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I get you because you're here. Yes, your last haircut
looks like it needed you know you had to, you
had to forgot Missy. It was gonna be terrible, so
it had to be kept sharp at all times. Where
now you wake up and you're basically I'm trying to
think of an actor with short hair like you, and
you just wake up. You do nothing, You do nothing,
nothing like you run your fingers short. Yeah it's great.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, it's great. Shout out to all the balding dads
who are loving all this chat about all this hair
that we've got and we're cutting it off on purpose.
We see you, we feel you. Sucks to be you, bro.
There's probably some dads out there as well who are like,
who cares what your wife thinks?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm very much I need validation like I'm still like
a teenage boy, because I don't. I've never been a
big hairstyle change. Basically, my head right now has very
similar to when I was fourteen. I've always had curly hair,
so you keep a kind of mid length, let it
curls do its thing, because I've I figured out a
young teenage age and I can't do spiked hair, and
I can't do undercuts because it all curls. The decks
where my curls will fight dex wax, and so I
(05:43):
don't make big changes, and so if I do do
anything slightly new, I'll go back into teenage head mo
like even as a thirty five year old man. Recently,
we trim the sides and I'm a bit more Moulay
mullets at the back. And I get home and I
told Jodie frown and she's like, yeah, yeah. I get
home and she kind of looks up and care He's on,
you can't just look up at me and say nothing, like,
(06:03):
I need you to validate that the haircut looks okay.
I'm freaking out internally. All right, it's good.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I need you to be attracted to me.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
I need you.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You are the one person that has left in this
world that I'm trying to impress. I'm not trying to
impress any other woman.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I need you to be attracted to me.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So please just just throw me a broan, like, give
me a little bit of a little bit of something.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But luckily she does like the current style, so I'm fine.
I'm not a nervous reconcide.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'll go and ask Leslie what she thinks. Now, double
down on it.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
How's the kids? The kids are good, very similar, just
you know, like all the extracurricular activities one though, that
you get signed up to and then you forget and
you're like, shit, I'm real busy. But I went on
a Marii trip with Nala, a little Nala, six yearld
Naraha on her first Madai trip for school. Yes school, yep,
school no no, no. All these to a local mad
(06:55):
I hear and all the which Mariai for internationals is
a true ditional Maori meeting house. I think that's a
great way to put it for you to understand. You
go there and there Mary's speeches spoken and Marty songs,
and the kids are there and they're six years old,
and they've all been practicing these little wiater Maldi songs
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and singing their hearts out. It's like, how great is this?
No one's freaking out, No one's I remember going on
one when Miela was young, probably the same age. And
you get up at the end of it and you
need to do a hony, which is a traditional Maldi
welcome where you touch four heads and noses together with
the person in front of you, so it's like a
you lean forward, you take a breath, and you that's
(07:37):
how you kind of pressed it it's a very beautiful
way of sharing your spirit, sharing a moment with someone.
And they made at this one in Auckland. All these
little six year olds get up to try and do it,
and it was just terrible, like kids really out, some
kids crying, some kids trying to run away. And you
understand that there's an age where if they've never been
briefed about it or told or understand, and that could
(07:59):
be scary intimidating, but here it was a slick. They
were like, let'sous teachers and parents, only the kids you
can gave you morning tea.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It was just a really well run operation, and yeah,
really really cool. We went up into the hills behind
me and the pup More Hills, Yeah, and we were
near them up in the hills and the view up
there and went for a hike with the kids and
it was just a cool little afternoon with the kid.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I liked what you said about how they're singing the
wyata and it's not a big deal, like no one's
kicking off about it. I was listening to talk Back
this week and they were talking about the Olympics and
the Kiwis that have meddled, and you know how they
played the anthem for the gold medalist, only they don't
put any lyrics. They just play the orchestral tune of
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the national anthem for the country that's won. Because we
have two versions of our anthem, the Maldi version and
the English version, so it gets played twice at sporting events,
but at the Olympics they only play it once through.
And this talkback host that I was listening to pointed
out that every athlete that was mouthing along to the
national anthem was mouthing the Mali version and not the
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English version, which is like a cultural shift that has
happened within a generation.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, which is awesome, a quick feed, quick history lesson.
But yes, our anthem has you sing it through completely
in Mary and then we all sing it in English.
And there will be people listening to that talkback show,
as that host said, all our athletes were singing it
the Mali version, there will be so many elderly listeners
spitting their cups of tea out. New Zealand has a
(09:29):
lot of casual, subtle underlying racism, definitely with the older generation.
Am I going to say all I think everybody I'm
listening now, Yeah, but who are very against any don't
speak Maori. We shouldn't say the Maori words. We're not.
Like there was a metal tally and people were kicking off.
It got posts on social media because alter Or was
called a New Zealand was called alta Or, which you
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could say as a Maori version of New Zealand, and
someone was, oh, should be called New Zealand in there,
this is the Olympics, not altera Or. And the guys,
if you actually have a look, I've done everyone's traditional
names and so like the Netherlands was nedolins or apologies,
but it had like it's Italy. Italy was like like
(10:12):
all these China started with Z. Like he used all
the traditional names, and so I love that he was
able to slap this racist person back in the face. Actually,
if you looked at the whole chart, I've used all
the old alternative traditional name. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
We are that in between generation. I think us millennials,
we are we watched the change happen, and anybody below us,
the Gen Z's and the Gen alpha's, whatever our kids are,
just won't even be a thing our kids.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Our kids don't care about learning about ted Maori Mary
in school they're not kicking off and they'll grow up
and yeah, of course it's going to be well so
much better well received. But the issue is you still
have the kids going to school where the parents are
our age. There's still parents that are so against it
because their parents were so against it, and so you've
(11:05):
still got kids at school who were like, vocally, oh,
I don't want to do thismiss, I'm never going to
use this all that kind of shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
so you're right. Every country probably has a lick of
this going on, I think. So, yeah, how's your tribe?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Good tribe. We went to where I'm from over the weekend,
but it was me and the kids trip. We left Lucy,
my wife behind, she had a birthday party on so
we went to stay with my parents, which my girls love.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You babysitting, bro? Did you have to babysit your kids?
You're a dad with your kids on your own. That's
not that's babysitting, bro.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
WHOA.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
That must have been rough.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
They still see two days and as a holiday, which
is awesome. They're like, we're going on a holiday. Yeah, yep, sweet,
it's a holiday. So we do some fun things. We
went to the swimming pools, and we went to the playground.
We went climbing in the treetops and the redwoods, which
is great if you go down there.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yep. And I've done the nighttime walking there to nighttime.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's great. And then we came back after a couple
of days, which was nice, but I kind of wish
we'd stayed away for longer because my wife is making
sour kraut at the moment, and I don't know if
you've ever eaten sour kraut. The idea of sour kraut
terrifies me. I find it disgusting, but apparently it's very
good for you. She's making homemade sauer kraut, which is
essentially just rotten cabbage in a bucket. The whole house
(12:24):
smells like fats. The whole house just smells like rotting
cabbage farts.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
We've got to get this mysterious woman on the podcast.
She's charging crystals, she's making buckets of sour kraut, and
just in the lounge, she's you come home, and I
picture her walking with bare feet in a ten lead
of red bucket and she's mushing sour kraut. Hello Clinton,
Welcome home. I've got my crystals charge of Sorry, Lucy,
(12:50):
she doesn't listen. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We're having to burn a candle round the clock to
mask the smell of saur kraud at the moment.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
So this is her.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
She's making saur kraut to store for her. I'm guessing
the kids don't eat it. You don't eat it.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I think they'll lead it. I think they leader if
she puts it in front of them. It's me who
has a phobia of sour kraut.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
But watch, but where does she put it? How do
you eat it?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
She's making it in a pot.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
But then how does she eat it? Does she put
it on a sandwich? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I think you do.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Will you put it as a side dish or you
mix it into a cold slaw or something like that.
I don't actually know. I don't plan on eating it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Okay, carry on, I'll stop interrupting. She told me so.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
She's just moved the sour kraut outside because the smell
is so bad that the sutcraut snails to outside. It's
been three days and I said to her, how long
does the saur kraut take to ferment? She goes about
two weeks. So, yeah, that's my life at the moment.
And then AFARTI sauer Kraut house and.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You're going back to your dad trip away, very hamish
blake of you didn't even think about it. Look, just
just throw it out there. You took the kids on
your own, no biggie, and I'm guessing they were rock
stars for you. That's superstars.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
That's so good.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Turned a corner, say, kids are great. I took to
my head. Listen they yeah. They didn't try to say,
oh I don't eat that, I want the other one.
They just ate it. They actually just ate the thing
I gave them.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Moms do.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But it's all known mums. It's all known, though Mums
just don't want to accept it. But dad's are superstars.
You know, We're the real heroes. Were the real glue
of their household. We keep it together.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
That's why we've got the podcast and you don't.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, exactly, and to celebrate us dads. Furthermore, we just
wanted to educate you guys on Father's Day, which is
coming again. If you're not an our part of the world,
you'll be like, sorry, what, but Father's Day here is
the first Sunday of every September.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I believe so.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yes, So I think it lands on September first, that's right.
And we're giving you guys some good heads up as
to what you could do and maybe what the kids
you know, didn't have to do.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, like, yeah, you don't have to do it.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah. If you see your kids frantically the night before
because you've forgotten to tell them to make Dad a
cool card next you put some effort into it. If
you see them just running to the printer yankee out
a piece of paper and getting one brown felt and
just start scribbling on it, just stop them, like, just
say no, don't worry it, Just give Daddy a hug. Yeah,
my big thing I want to put out there into
the universe. I know they're excited. I know the kids
(15:21):
might be excited. You might be excited. I'm not a
morning guy. I don't like to leap out of bed.
Father's Day I think is the one day and your
birthday where you let Dad sleep, let Dad emerge from
the cave at his own time, and don't try to
run in and give the presence in the bed. That's
my thing, Okay, Because I think you get a much
happier dad coming out of that bed. I could be
(15:42):
wrong if you know your man's like, I'm up at
five and I want the kids to run and do that.
But for me and you might have a partner that
doesn't verbalize his ideas, just let us sleep by the
day where we could sleep, let us.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I think that's one of the greatest gifts you can give.
And it's free, which dads appreciate even more. You haven't
spent any money, you know, and you can do it
with the kids. You can creep around the house. You
can turn it into it. You're like, we're going to
be super quiet. We're actually going to go for a
walk down to the beach. So we can let dad
have a couple of extra hours sleep.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And mum, mum, you could tie a ribbon quietly on
the outside of the bedroom door handle. And so when
he wakes up and he's like, and did you get
me anything, you can be like, yo, I got you that,
I got you that sleeping. The sleeper is the present.
There is the river that's the present.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Stick a little bow to Dad's forehead while he's asleep,
so when he gets up and looks in the mirror.
He realizes that was his gift.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Because my kids will say to me, Dad, what are
you getting for Jody for Mother's Day? And my mom
she's not my mom. You know, I don't have to
do anything anymore. My mom passed away a few years ago.
I'm scot free here on Mother's Day. No, no, we
(16:55):
did I got I think I got her a message.
I kind of got appreciated to getting her a message,
which I think it. I played squash once a week
with some guys and they mentioned what they were doing.
I was like, oh shit, I think I am meant
to impress my my wife on Mother's Day. Who's win?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
When's Wife's Day?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Wife Dale in there? Yeah, I'll be in the Wife's Day.
Will Joan? I can't even think. Will Jody do something?
Get me something potentially? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Or ran Like there's been there's been Father's Days where
I tease her where she's got me something, but it's
really like something she's wanted for asias and it's good
for the house. Like that's what she kept going on
about wanting a hose reel. And then one Father's Day,
I'm like, that's a massive box for Father's Day. Open
it up. Oh it's a twenty meter hose reel.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I would love but thanks, babe.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I thought we could go through some things people who
do want to spend some money maybe or go to
a bit of effort and just give you some honest
ad feedback about it. And the first thing I thought
about when I thought about Father's Day was vouchers and
how people go. Vouchers are a bad idea. It's not thoughtful.
It means you don't know the person at all. Can
I just say, as a dad, bullshit? If you want
(18:07):
to get me something hardware related for Father's Day, please
get me a voucher because you don't know the exact
model or the exact specification or whatever it is that
I want.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So if you want to get me the tool, great,
give me the voucher and then we'll go and buy
the tool.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Let's hammer at home right now. Vouchers are the best
thing almost like it's the vouchers are the best thing
you can get a dad. Yes, it can be for
a hardware store. It could be for an electronics store,
like we'll go in and get ourselves like a wireless
phone charger, that I can plug it next to my bed,
like that stuff gets us up in the morning. That
was like the excitement of it. Does I have a
(18:44):
Superhero voucher card in my wallet and I'm going to
go and do something awesome with this today.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
And when we buy the thing with it, we will
associate that thing with you. Even though you gave us
the voucher and then we win and bought the power drill,
we will so that power driller is from you.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You got us. Next week when we come home and
the kid's like, what's that dad about? You guys got
me this with the card. I went in and got this.
It works just as well. It's like for the kids,
two exciting moments. They get to hand over a voucher right,
and they're like this is stink. But then a week
later they're celebrating with dad again.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Exactly right. There's so many little details about the thing
that you don't know about the thing that we want,
So just let us go and get it. Just let
us just let us get the thing.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Please. Yeah, it would be it would be like us
going out pretty blind. Like let's say we opened your
drawers and we went through your collection of yoga pants.
And we were like, ah, holy shit, I don't know
if she needs full length three quarter ones or does
she like the short ones? So she like the ones
that go right up your butt or the ones that
don't go right up your butt. And then we went
out right pretty uneducated and just went to a yoga
(19:46):
pants shop bought some wrap them up, you know, and
don't try to lie. You're not going to open it.
Yes you'll open it and say, oh my gosh, babe,
thanks so much, but inside you're thinking those are the
wrong ones that we got the wrong like they will
just be wrong, and you're gonna have to pretend that
you like it, and for your entire life of that
(20:08):
pair of that item, you have to pretend you like it.
That goes the same way if you go to get
us a tool and we open it and like, did
they not know I've got one of them? And we've
got to be like, oh, thanks, I needed that. And
so it's just let's just we it's a safe space.
Let's just call the bullshit out. Okay, don't try to
walk into a man's shed and figure out what they
need and go and get it. We we're not gonna
(20:29):
be happy. We're gonna say we are, but we won't be.
I've sat the.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Ucher because otherwise it's a waste of money, which brings
me to the next one. Some dads for Father's Day,
the ultimate gift, especially at the moment in the current situation,
the ultimate gift would be, don't spend any money on me.
Don't spend any don't don't. I don't want any any
monetary gift for Father's Day. So that you know, that's
where the sleeping comes in.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That's where breakfast. Breakfast is huge. Yeah for me, my
Father's Day is done by that, and I'm a yeah,
don't ask me to do I think me going around
the house is sleeping on the newspaper. The kids get
all excited. They know the breakfast Dad loves for anything.
It's pancakes with bacon mate pulsare at bananas and they
all love that. So it's basically a birthday breakfast for them.
(21:14):
And then basically for the rest of the day, I'm
pretty chill. Just don't ask me to do anything. Like
if Jody says to me, hey, babe, could you go
clean up the spa or it's fine, like that's the
moment I can throw Father's Day back in people's face. Well,
it's Father's Day. I could chill here, but we'll naturally
go and do something as a family, like just go
to the beach. At some moment, we'll go for a
walk or go to the bike track. But really it's
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like just the morning mail the morning and then don't
expect us to be mowing the lawn or cutting a
tree down or you know, if it came to a
big lunch dishes to do, maybe the kids are going
to do the lunch dishes because.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
It's Father's Day, the Ultimate as part of the ultimate gift.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And this is free. All what we just said there's free.
I want to go back to the tool thing. I
take my words back slightly. If you are being on
the opposite side and going a bit boogie and spending
some money, you can walk into a man's shed and
see what power tools he has, and if he's missing one,
that's an easy tool to get. But if you're going
to get something that's not a power to the.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Right brand because it's got to work with the right battery.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah you can, he's got you'll talk out the brand.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
There's a bit of there's a bit of research that
needs to be done. But yeah, yeah, if you want to,
if you want to, just keep the.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Receipt, yeah, exactly, keep the receipt. But power tools. That's
the ultimate. That's the.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Ultimate dad birthday.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Oh I'm a I'm a real dad with my new
haircut and I've got a new power tool.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
If I wake up to a blue not naming the brand,
but battery powered skills for Father's Day, I'll be a
happy dad.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
If I wake up to I can't say blue green because.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Green florescent, fluorescent.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Green, fluorescent green, I'll be those blue ones. Blue brand breaks. Man,
there's yellow ones. They break. I don't trust any other
color but yellowy green.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Do you want a break on Father's Day? I think
this is an interesting one because sometimes people think that
dad wants a day off and away from the family,
which I don't like. I'm not on Father's Day. I
do want to spend Father's Day with you, but I
don't want to do any jobs. Do you want to
be out golfing?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I hear like it would feel with nah. Nah, it
would feel weird to go out fishing on your own
or golfing like with friends. That would feel weird because
Father's day, it would feel weird, only because your kids
want want to be with you so much. You're like, yeah,
but we we do so much as a family anyway.
But I'd carry on doing that. It'll just be another
day of doing stuff with the kids. Yeah, okay, but
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I'm not going to be like, let's ah, well, it
depends where you live. Like for me, the driving range
is only fifteen minutes away, and if there was like
an afternoon with the kids will round off to their
friends houses. Yeah, and I wouldn't get an iroll from Jody.
She'd be like, Yeah, that's fine, I'm going to go
the driving range. I'll be home in an hour. They'd
be fine. But I don't think you can be like
it's Father's Day. I'm on a fishing ship with the lads,
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kitchen kids. Later.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
One of the best Father's days I've had, Lucy organized
for me and a bunch of other dads in our
friend group to go to a pub lunch. And it
was just the dads and we had a pub lunch
and a few beers, and then after the lunch, all
of the mums with the kids were at the same house,
and so then we rolled into the house and joined
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everybody for the afternoon. So they had been playing with
the kids while dads went out for lunch, and then
we all joined up together.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
That was pretty awesome cool. That's that's some great wife
points there.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
We had. We had the morning together and did like
breakfast and the card and things like that, and then
I went to this pub lunch and then I joined
all of the families with all of the mums and
all of the dads for this big joint Father's Day thing.
That was pretty It's hard to organize, but that was
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And the dads get back with three or four beers
deep with double bounced kids on a trampoline, way too much.
Mums thinking out.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I don't know you were there. Everybody says that dads
don't want socks and undies for Father's Day or their birthday?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Do you agree? This is one where you could go
through our drawers. My family knows my constant sock and
undie struggle. My kids laugh as they fold my washing.
They'll laugh as I get up in the morning and
three of my toes are sticking out the end of
my sock. Like some of those people that I don't
care too much for myself, so it's a weird way
to put it. But like, if my socks have a hole,
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it's not it's not the top of my list. I'm
not like, oh my gosh, I have to go to
Farmers or Barkers staying and get myself some new socks.
Oh my ah, No, that'll be fine. I'll wear it tomorrow.
My socks I have everyone right now have holes in them.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Not caring for yourself. If I have holes in my undies,
I'm not replacing my undies for me, I'm replacing them
out of respect for my wife.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Seventy six percent of men listening to this podcast right
now have a small hole in the gooch part of
the other easily easily. We've talked to it. I think
we've talked about before. No one's figured out the science
as to why men's underwear just in the gooch bit
we'll get a hole there. And these brands that come
out and say we don't get the holes.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
You do.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I've bought them, and I get the holes. I'm not sure.
I think it's just I have such a large penis
it has to be that I can't roll and gooch.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
So so again, I think there if your family's aware
of your undie and socker, Like if you're in a
place like I am right now, if I work up
Father's Day with a three pack of new undies and
a three pack of socks, I'd be pretty stoked. Me too,
Not as stoked as like a power tool, but i'd
be pretty stoked.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I'm just fine with it, ladser gift. I think it's
I am if you're stuck and you can't think of
anything else. Fresh pair of Grundies, fresh pair of socks,
I think.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
But if you're a well groomed dad who has a
great wardrobe, and you look after everything you've got getting
him socks and undies, he's probably gonna be like, oh,
I didn't really like I've got seventeen beige colors. I've
got a subscription.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah, they just arrived monthly.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, good point. Like Clint. If Clint's kid's got him
undies and socks three months ago when he had his
slick haircut, he'd be like, I didn't really need these,
But now that he doesn't care about life, he needs
that shit because has everything giving me. He's just one
of these guys now, man like his lawn's a bit unkept.
He's just a regular one of the dudes. Now he's
finally one of the dudes.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You touched on this before. But do you want handmade
artworks for Father's Day?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
It's so hardy, It's so hard. How many years now,
so many years of having cards, rushed cards or scribble pictures.
I want to, like I I do this. So if
it's Jody has something like a birthday or mother's day,
I will brief the kids so much and I'll be like,
you're not giving her a quickly made thing. Even Nala
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who's six, will do something. I'll go, Nala, that's and
I'll say, that's darling. You got to take your time.
You've rushed. I want you to start again, and you
draw your picture again, because I know you can draw
better than they're just rushing. They're rushing because they've left
it late or they're too excited, and I call them out.
Some people be disagreeing with that, but I call them
out and I'm like, it's mum, it's her birthday. The
(27:54):
level here for the cards up here, guys, I want
you to take time, like you know back in the day,
and a few did it, but you folded the piece
of paper for the card, and then you cut shapes
in the spine, and so then when they.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Opened forgotten memory, Oh, my kids.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Don't My kids don't do that. I've told them about it.
I think they did it one year once. They don't
do that. There was my go to for every card,
spending time cutting shapes into the spine of a piece
of paper, and when they opened it up, it was
like your parents were back in the seventies sixties. They're
at woodstock and those shapes were like whoh, they were
like tripping out at that spine.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You're right about how many psychedelic psychedelic birthday card would
stock flashbacks.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Dad's like, ah, I'm a sweet waters.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You're right about how many years. I think the novelty
of handmade art work definitely weirs off, Like you're in
Father's Day number eleven.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, and then you times it by you know how
many kids? Yeah, Like for on average now for eight
or nine, eight of those years, I've had three cards.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Whereas our new dad's listening to us. Maybe you've got
a kid who's just old enough to start doing some
crafty stuff. Now, like a card from a two year
old you love it the best.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Father they ever old bloody love it, absolutely love it,
because and like that, he's going to keep that. He's
going to keep that one, Like he'll put that in
his top drawer next to his socks and his random charges.
And then the next one he'll probably remember and put
that there. And then by the time they're nine and
they give you one, and then I don't even know
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where things go now. But there's no draw there's no
special box anymore. Our boxes are full. We have a
closet full of things from when they were all. Which
I get is that cute younger age where you did
keep everything. But just like a kitten or a puppy, look,
they grow up and they're not so cute anymore. These pictures.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
The law of diminishing returns as well, Like you've done that,
I've already, I've already had it. My mum gave me
a box of my childhood artwork back recently in the
last year or so. She bought a whole bunch of
myst up up and she gave me all my kinder
art and I was like, I don't fucking want that,
and she's like, well, neither do I. I'm like, true,
well you've kept it for thirty five years, but I
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guess it's going on the bed.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Did you keep one piece out of it?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah? I keep one piece.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, yeah, you got to go through and find your
best bit.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
But then I showed it to Lucy and I was like, ah,
look at this from when I was a kid. And
she was like, yeah, so who have your parents don't
care about it? Who's going to get you?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Got to have those highlight moments like I loved recently
with the Olympics. He just reminded me. They were talking
about something and it sparked a memory because Meela is
eleven now and I was like eleven, that was me
form one to co for the college. I was like,
I was the athletics minor boys champion, which means you
got enough, you won enough things over the athletics state
that I ended up being the champion. All flooded back
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to me. I'm telling her all excitedly, you've it's in you,
You've got it any if you had to wear off
at some age, like I clearly didn't make the New Olympics,
but for now, the jeans and you mean you can
do this. Your dad was the dakofa the College mindor
Boys Champion. Yeah, your school's got like five hundred kids.
My school had seventy. It doesn't matter. Let's not focus
on that. Don't in your DNA. It's sweet.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I think we've now Father's Day. Are there any other
gifts you want to throw out there to the universe
that you think dads would love?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
No, I think we've I think we've now now. And
look if and again, if you're not a tall dad,
or you'll know what they're in to do. The voucher.
I don't think any dad missus justin, please miss to Justin.
If you're a dad listening right now, who's like I
hate vouchers? I want to hear why. I was just
about to proudly say I don't think any dad out
there would open a voucher and be like, oh gosh,
(31:40):
a vouchure? What what do they expect me to do
with this? Sometime as I do they hate me? Well,
have they got to me this amazing thirty dollar voucher
for the warehouse and.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Money spent? Say that say that early that you don't
want any money spent on you? And the sleep and
Breakfast card. Cuddle newspaper. What a great brother's day and
a relaxed and a relaxing afternoon.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, a relaxing day again, like we can go to
stuff as a family. But I just don't want to
be like all right, and you know, getting pressure because
my wife started weed eating, which means usually when she
starts weeding, that means because I'm going to follow with
the lawnmower. You know, I don't want that pressure. Don't
start weed eating, okay, or don't start don't start just
walking and being like man that that drains still loose
out there? Ah, that drain pipe.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I don't don't not on Father's Day, Not on Fathers Day.
Do it on the Saturday or the Monday. Okay, let's
take a quick break and then we've got a bunch
of feedback this week feedback.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Coming up after this. I think that was pretty good.
That was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Okay, the other week. It's finished now, but we were
talking about launching WOA.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Feedback. Here it is we clinch you around the period
you have over a scout. Sorry, of course, my bad
continue the sting's finished.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Okay, cool, Sorry, I wasn't sure I've never heard this
thing we were talking about Olympacks. The other week, haileyd
Olympas Yeah, Hailey J sent us this message.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Hey guys, Ozzy mum here mom's stance. I have a
son who is six in kindergarten and a daughter who's
thirteen just started high school, so I'm sort of at
both ends at the spectrum, which is super interesting. Loved
this week's podcast, super funny hearing your take on the
Olympics and you know all we want now is a
live dad Olympics on the podcast. Had a few ideas
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for you, Dad by grace pulling one of those wagons
with four kids in it screaming, of course. Fastest dad
to pack a car for camping. Fastest grocery shop with
two whining kids in the trolley asking for everything. Definitely
add some obstacles and oldie on a zim frame, young
kids packing shelves, maybe a few spills on the floor.
Fastest dad to drop all the kids off to different sports. Anyways,
(33:51):
still giggling over last week. Thanks guys for a bit
of light but real talk in a busy life that's
really tough sometimes.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Thanks guys fills my bucket. Just heads on those little
nice just four seconds of nice words there about the podcast.
I'm going to be I'm on the clouds today for
the rest of the day.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
That's all I wanted from my wife about my haircut,
you know, That's just all I needed, just that little She.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Also like, we put in a bit of effort coming
up with our dad Olympic ideas, and she just smoked them,
smashed them all out of the water. So why did
we not think of any of them? The one my.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Favorite, I'm kin to know yours packing the car for
a camping trip.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Like the exact same two cars, two identical identicals, open,
two piles of executly the same stuff load. Yeah, and
then you get in trouble that right at the end
as the boot shuts and if you haven't left a
little window bit so you can see what're following you
for safety points deducted.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
But it's also subjective, kind of like the like the breakdance,
the breakdancing or the diving, where like it's gotta it's
gotta be scored, and dads will be like, this isn't
structurally sound. Yeah, you haven't maximized as much space here
as you can. That kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
You put the Christmas presents here on the bottom and
they could be crushed. They should have crash top. Yeah, Okay,
this heavy object that you've stacked so much, you know
that if you break hard, that's just going to come
straight over the back and you are decapitated. So you
lose points if you have to slam the boat to
get the stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
The slam it down, that's a points deduction.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
A lot of those electric boots now and you just
hate that, you know, as you shut it, come on,
come on, will you? And as you're walking away, you
here and it opens back up. Damn you, damn you.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Time Mears sent us a message about your theory that
you don't get in trouble for taking your kids out
of school. If you want to go to the snow Ties,
come in with some pretty official founding advice.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Hey guys, just got to say I love the podcast.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
So yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Fines for deliberate non attendance are a thing, and they
have been a thing for quite some time. This actually
featured in the original Education Act from nineteen eighty nine,
but more recently. David Seymour's in charge of the Act
at the moment, so there's plenty of news articles about
him finding people or being able to find people anyway,
(36:07):
doing a great job. Just wanted to say keep it up.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Fine, but the deliberate non attendance.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
What the hell? You can't just stop the message there? Like,
what do you mean he's finding people and it did
you say fines? Are they fines like you you have?
Just that's just like saying, hey, guys, just got a message.
There's a guy right and he wants to shoot you anyway,
gotta go?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
What?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Sorry? Who finished the story of the who?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
How? What? What? So?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Can I take my kids to the slow or is
David Seymour going to find me or.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Find me and find me, find you and then find you?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah? What he is?
Speaker 4 (36:42):
What? What?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Fine?
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Is this?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
How much am I getting fined? Yeah? Ty?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Actually you really like on detail? Can we get that information?
Can we follow up message next week?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Please?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
We need to know how is it like a three
strikes thing as well? Because I took my girls out
of school on Friday to go down to and that's
the day that I heard that miss from Ty when
I was in road Row. When I've taken them out
of school.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
You're a dead man, mate. You can't take your kids
with that time? Oh wait, what's that you got? To
read Laser on your Head, David Sema and the Bush
took we got them.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
This is a message from Candy about We've talked a
bit about this about who gets up in the night
and dad's potentially sleeping through.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
Hey, guys, just want to let you know what I'm
getting out of the podcast. I've listened to most episodes
and they've been really great to listen to. I'm a
mom of three. I've got an eight year old almost
nine year old girl and then five year old boy
girl twins, and funny enough, the most recent episode, I
felt like it was a bit of a relief when
you said, Jordan, that your wife had said to you
when you had babies that Okay, I'm going to be
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the one getting up doing nighttime stuff because you need
to be well rested for work. And I had essentially
said the same thing to my husband. He's an airline
pilot and so rest is very important in their job.
And my friends, especially when the twins came along, they
were like, oh, I can't believe he's not helping you
at night, and I was like, well, he's got to
work the next day, and like I don't want him
to crash An airplane. That would be horrific. But then
(38:06):
that gave me a little bit of doubt in myself that,
oh my gosh, am I to being taken advantage of.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
But it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
And it's such a relief to know that I wasn't
the only one and we weren't the only ones with
that setup.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
So thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Yeah? I love that we gave her that reassurance that
you would and even our setup, it was never a yes.
It's a toxic relationship if the man in your partner,
in your relationship has said you are getting up every night,
I have to work.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
You had these kids, you get up.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
We didn't deliver it like that whatsoever. It was a
conversation between both of us, and it was more JODI's idea.
She's like, no, no, you sleep, you got work in
the morning, and I was just like, oh, sorry, sorry,
what did you just say.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, it's the divide of UK mentality that you do
all the time. You divide and conquer to get through
parenting during the day, you divide and conquer to get
through parenting at night too. I really find it interesting.
If it doesn't work for you, guys, that's fine as well.
I'm not saying every dad should be allowed to sleep through,
but I find it really interesting that her view of
it was colored by feedback from friends who are like,
(39:07):
how dare he sleep through? I'd love to know if
those friends have kids, you know, I'd love to know
if they had done it.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Yeah, and you're completely right, and this isn't This isn't
me trying to be like whoa, WHOA. Don't like defending
our idea or thinking it's bad. But everyone is in
a different boat. Correct his dad's listening. Now, he'll be like, boh,
I wish I could do that, bro, but my kid
is seriously up all hours of every night and I
need to actually skit up and help otherwise. But we didn't.
We weren't in that boat. We had a kid that
woke maybe twice for like a forty five minute feed,
(39:36):
and they were back to We never had the times
where it was like our kids are up all night. Then, yeah,
you've got to kind of put your fly on your
plane to side and actually help out for an hour maybe,
But yeah, if your husband's a brain surgeon and you're
making him be up six hours a night because you
need your sleep, I think you need to recheck your
priorities there. Guys.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You're like, Babe, I'm gonna make funny videos in the morning, Okay,
I cannot.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah, see six hours sleep. It depends what your profession is.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Last message that we got in is from Hoary car.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Killed the Lads.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
I was just listening to your podcast about having the
problems with the sweet set night when you're a bit unwell,
and I.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Just wanted to share my life.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Heck, what I do is I sleep on a towel
and make sure I get the fluffiest, comfiest and largest
tower that I possibly can, which often turns out to
be the expensive one which my wife doesn't like, and
I'll sleep on that. And I'm telling you it's a
game changer. Eventually you'll get demoted to a scratch you
a little beach towel. But live up the old, comfy,
expensive towel as long as you can, and it'll change
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your game when it comes to having the night's sweats.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Simple.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
What a great idea, It seems simple. It has backfired
on me once I forgot I hadn't told my partner
what Jodie, that I was sick, And so we've gone
to go to bed and she's just walked in and
there's a towel down on the bed and she's just
around walked straight back out. She's I don't know what
weird asked finish, you were thinking it was gonna happen tonight.
(41:03):
I'm out, no, no, no, no, it's for sweat. It's
for sweet absorption. She's like, oh, what sweat. Well, I'm sick,
trust me, it's okay. It's just it's for me. Look
that a tower for one. Yeah, it's a tower. Yeah,
it's a tower for one. You gotta make that. You
gotta make that so clear. I here with the towel
down for the flu though I think I did, but
my wife still it goes through. Bro. The amount that
(41:26):
I got second was crop that sweat, if you're just
sitting on it will go through. So I get to
motor to like an ear mattress, or we have to
go get the kids, like pee the bed topper that's
stored away, and we have to go put the topper.
You have to put the p the bed topper on
top of your nice mattress and then sleep.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
And that is the benefit of that is that you
can then pee the bed as well, so you don't
have to get up, you're already sung, you already feeling
run down, Just pee the bed and.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Then just tell your wife. Man, there's so much sweet yellow.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Sweat, yellow sweat, so much stinky sweat.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Weird Man, what a beautiful way to finish the podcast
us and beautiful visuals to give you guys there. Look,
you've got a few weeks till Father's stay here in
New Zealand. We hope we've given you some amazing professional
insight because again we both have degrees and dadding. We're
in New Zealand's number ones Dad's New Zealand's number one
haircuts on Dad's Dads, and we just have all the
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answers for the most things in life. Couple dads. You'll
find that most dads in a circle talking could answer
the words problems straight away.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yeah, you guys just didn't ask.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
You just need to put a bike in front of them.
And that's what everyone wanted, what everyone wanted when they
heard about this podcast, Like, sorry, two dads just talking
and you're going to record it and put it out there. Yeah,
solving problems.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
If you if you think you know what the best
Father's Day gift is maybe you've brought it before, maybe
you've got it this year. Or you're a dad and
you know exactly what you want for Father's Day, and
you think all people should know what that is. For
the greater good of Dad's send us a voice message
on our Instagram. A lot of those are from Facebook today,
so maybe I can check Facebook to Instagram or Facebook Messenger,
(43:04):
little voice message, keep it under a minute, and we'd
love to get it on next week's Parenting Hangover podcast.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
And or if you work for the government and you
understand the rules around kids in or out of school,
miss message or voice notice in because I'm real confused,
I would like to say I want to finish with
I'm guessing that law is for sorry, bad parents who
are letting their kids just skip school and not being
on top of that, as opposed to attacking parents that
are taking their kids away on a trip down to
(43:30):
where my dad grew up because it's his birthday or
over here or to the snow, Like.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Surely I'm not truancy versus whatever the other thing.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
That's yeah, I'll fight it, I'll go I'll protest to
government if I'm getting in trouble for taking my kids
out for life again, life skills, taking them out of school.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
For life skills, for the school of life.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
All right, See you guys next week.
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