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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apologie Production.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome back to am I a Bad Mum podcast?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Well into term four tan four?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, Oh my goodness, turn four countdown.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I feel like I need a holiday weekend, don't you?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yes say that if we were to compare holidays, we
had very different holidays.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, you were very different full of kids.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I don't think my kids left me for the whole
entire holidays.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
But also like the extra curricular stuff usually in the
holidays stops because it's like term time. But you had
the first week of dance and the second week was napple.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And then the weekend was football. Yeah, and I tapped
out of that years ago, but that was exciting. The
football led us to what I'm about to tell you,
which was probably not the response most parents would give
their children when they are lucky enough to come across
something as fun as this. But both the girls were
allowed to. I don't know if they're allowed to, but
(01:22):
they had the passes that got them there. Go out
in the field with dad pre game and postgame at
the NRAL Grand Final. Now Bristoine Broncos were playing. Sam
played for the Brisbane Broncos, but they thought they were
pretty damn special. Now, the pre Game Entertainment not as
cool as AFL, I must say, Snoop Dogg put on
a hell of a show, but was the amazing Teddy swims? Yeah,
(01:45):
And so then my girls disappear, and I have no
idea when they're coming back. So I've just got to
stand there and hope for the best and hope that
I see when they come back. Anyway, Pregame Entertainment kicks off. Amazing,
the show's finished. They come back to the seats, Katie,
and they're running like they're coming up these stairs. And
I'm thinking, oh my gosh, what's happened. Something's happened, Like
(02:06):
that's where I go. Something's happened, mom, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Wait does my Teddy swims?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
And he shook my head and I can't even wash it.
I was like, oh my gosh, but he's really sick
with the sore throats. You should probably wash your hands.
I would go wash your hands, Go wash your hands now,
and they're like, no, we can't. I was like, he's sick.
Still didn't wash their hands, Still haven't still unshowered me
my head does. I don't care who he is, he's unwell.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You should go wash your hands, am I a bad
mom for letting safety go straight out of the window.
Oh yeah, well, what an irresponsible parent I was in
BALI isn't it funny when you're on holiday like the
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standards you have at home? Yeah, like completely different. So right,
I thought it would be really fun to jump on
the back of a scooter. So I've talked in a
previous episode about the fact that it's like Uber, it's
called grab and you can either book a car or
a bike. Great ideas, so cheap. A twenty five minute
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journey from where we were staying to like the center
on a bike. Yeah a dollar seventy.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, I know. I was like, but do you all
have the same app and then you all just book
them all at the same time? Is that how you
do it? Because you wouldn't be able to book multiple
bikes at once, would you? No?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But I had the app and Jay had the app. Yeah,
but with the bikes.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Or two of you on one bike, two v on
one bike.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
But it wasn't until close to the end of the
holiday that I realized that it was in fact illegal
to have two people on the back of that bike.
Oh my god, because I was ordering them one of
the guys went oh, two people.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
No, I can't take two Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I went why and he said, because this route that
we need to go police officer.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
There I get in trouble.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I was like, oh, we've been getting two people in
the back of the bike this whole time.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Is that not allowed? He was like no, no, but all.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Of the previous ones would go two people, it's going
to be extra money, and I'd go no, I'm using
the app, and then eventually they would be like okay, yeah,
all right, rach. Jay didn't want to do it. Jay
thought it was highly dangerous. Him and Amelia jumped in
a car went back. I went, no, we're getting bike, Holly,
come on, we're getting on the bike. So I've got
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on the back of the bike. Interesting thing is that
the drivers have to wear a helmet. However the passengers don't,
which is not a logic I fully understand.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I don't think there's any logic. They're just like, you're
riding at your own risk.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
That doesn't make any sense to me at all, because
you see the families where they're all on one bike.
So you might have dad driving the bike. Yeah, and
then you got two kids. Dad's wearing a helmet. But
the two young kids, they're not sense anyway, I've jumped
on the back of this bike. I've watched other people
do this and like they look so cruisy that like
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just sat on the back taking a selfie, just holding
onto the back of the bike, like they look so cruisy,
like you got the influence, look all cool and cash.
I'm like grabbed around the driver. Like you're like, I'm
like holding onto the driver. I said to hold around
my ways, like hold around my way.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
She's behind me.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
She's like, mom my following would have fallen off. This
is not meant for three people. It's meant for like.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
One two max.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Anyway, She's like, you know at the back of the
seat where you've then got like a kind of great
like thing.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
She's on that.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
She's like, we're going on a normal main road, right.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I put it on my Instagram.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Sorry, someone went, where is your friggin helmet?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I was like, good question, that's.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
A great question.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm not really sure where it was. Actually, would I
ever do that here?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
No, just also a little bit more dangerous there. I'm
not putting it on a downer on it, but it
is it is a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Risky because they're all there's so many more of them
on the road, single in one lane, every single If
they were all next to each other, they're all over
taking each other.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
They beat all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Beat me.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
What I learned is that that just means to me
about the way I'm about to overtake you. It was
just so interesting when I look back at how my
safety as a mom, the safety of my child just
went completely out of the window. I just led her
on the back of that bike. This driver's talking to
me rage right. This is super busy road. He's going fast.
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We're on the back, holding on for dear life, no helmets.
He's then said, where are you from Australia? Oh, I
know someone from Australia. I was like, oh, yeah, he's
on his phone so driving us.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
He's on his phone showing me the picture of the
like I'm going to know everyone in Australia, this picture
of the person he knows that lives in Melbourne. I'm like,
making ki your eye on the road.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
So we don't really drive in text, So.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
We especially don't drive in text whilst two passengers on
the back of the bike going fast with no helmets.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I think. Also the other part is have you ever
rode with the passenger? Have you ever been the person
in control of a motorbike with a passenger? It's hard work,
like not for everyone, but especially if you've got like,
let's just say, someone that's like really nervous, so then
they're rigid with the movement. So actually, as a rider,
it's so hard sometimes to do that because you're sort
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of trying to move the bike's weight with the weight
of your passenger. Imagine two of you and.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
He's chatty, he's chatting's looking over.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, he must be so used to it's.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Talking to me, she said, be from Australia. I said,
ever been to Australia before? And he went yes, yes,
many times. And then he laughed and he went in
my dreams and I went, oh, yeah, right. I said, oh,
it's not that far, like I think five to six
hour flight, and he went, oh, like two three minutes
(08:20):
for me to get there in my dreams. Anyway, we
got to the destination unharmed. I actually kind of felt
like if I was driving this scooter, I think I
would be less safe than this guy driving the scoter.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, that's where most of the things come from the
horror stories come from people trying to take on all
of the people that ride and drive it every day.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, well that wasn't the only safety issue that we
had whilst in Bali, or the only moment of being
a bad mum that wasn't thinking about her children's safety,
because we decided to do the quad bikes, and they
were quad bikes. You go through a village like, oh,
that sounds nice, through a traditional village and then you
(09:09):
go onto the beach and you ride.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
On the sand and I was like, this sounds amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Rach took us three hours to drive out there, as
we were getting further and further away from like the
busyness of the tourist areas and this is completely me Yeah,
and my anxiety and paranoia. I'm going we're so far
away from a hospital now, like if one of us
has a medical emergency, like, how.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Where are we going to go?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
This is just a traditional village, Like they look like
they just look after themselves Chinese medicine.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I started getting a bit panicky. Right we got there.
There was another Australian family doing it. There's going to
be eight of us on the bikes.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I was like, okay, just like, enjoy it, enjoy the
stop being paranoig.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Just enjoy the experience.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Rach went into the safety Please make sure you do
the safety briefing. Okay, have a look at the safety
briefing card, Rach. The safety briefing card says, please drive
safely for your own safely.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Oh that's a really clear instruction about what you need
to be doing.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah. And so anyway, we've gone through the village. It's great.
It's really hot.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I've forgotten to tell the kids to put sunscreen on,
just to add to the bad parenting.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I mean, in my mind are sixteen.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I've done the education on that, and it's great, and
we're having a good time. And we've gone through the
village and we've got to the beach.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
It's beautiful. There's no one there.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It's not a beach that anyone's at because I don't
think anyone was. Just such a quiet village regulation of seventeen,
that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
It's so far away.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I people go, they said, okay, they will always be
a tour guide.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
At the start.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
We're all in single file at the start and at
the end. And I was like, okay, great. So someone's
at the back, someone's at the front. They're all watching
out for us. Great, and we're like going for it.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And let's go fast.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
And you know, we're on the sand and go all
the way to the end of the beach and then
you turn around and you come back. And I'm a
little bit behind everyone else because I'm like the cautious mum.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
They're all taking the piss out of me. You say, slow,
hurry up. I know that these things can flip.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, quads are actually more unsafe than a normal motorbike.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And when you're on sand and you're on uneven sand,
so it wasn't flat.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
It was like we were doing it in wa. It's
hard work. We're doing it down the sand dunes. Yeah,
it's hard, hard work. Yeah. I mean, as you're being
safety safety sally, which you were.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Oh, I was being very safely. I was speaking safe.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
However, one particular child by the name of Holly was not.
She is an adrenaline junkie. She will absolutely go for it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I'm at the end of the beach at this point.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
By the way, this tour guid that's supposed to be
at the back, he is nowhere to be seen. I
have looked up ahead of me and I've gone, holy shit.
One of the cord bikes had completely flipped and was
upside down. My heart right, I just went, oh my god,
that kills people, right, you flip that, you're dead.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
All I kept thinking of was when Ozzy Osbourne.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Remember the story Ozzy Osbourne had cord bike and he
flipped it in his garden and he broke his neck
and he was in a coma.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Oh my gosh. No, I didn't know this. Yes, all
a new story. I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I'm just paranoid because I'm like, I knew it was
one of the girls because they were in front of me,
and I was like, fuck, is she under there?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
She under there?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And I'm like looking ahead and I'm like I'm going
faster and trying to get up. And all of a sudden,
I see both the girls standing up, and I was like,
thank god, she's not dead under under a bar.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
She went mum.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I felt it tipping, and so I just rolled out
on the sand. I just rolled away from it and
then it went completely over.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
It must have been a bit slow in order for
her to feel it.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, but it was definitely a moment of going Okay,
I've gone to Bali. All safety has gone completely out
of the window. Anything I would normally do, am.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I just rain it in a little bit, raining it
in just a little bit. No more quad biking for
this trip, guys.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I don't even wear a seat belt in any of
the cars, not once.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I know.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh my gosh, I mean, thank goodness, we have come
back to Brisbane alive. No thanks to the deathly wine
that Virgin Australia serve on their flights.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I did swear that they had grant burge at one stage. Anyway,
that's up the front, but I don't know it was not.
It's not.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I think.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You know, beggars can't be choosers. You're on holidays, you've
been in Bali for a couple of weeks. It's not
a bad thing. I'm glad that you did wrap up
safely though I was reckless. You are reckless. You just
need those little sprinklings to like bring out that inner reckless.
It just goes away for a bit when you come home.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I know so many rules you pretend like you are.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
No, that's not me, that's not that, yes, it is.
It just hides for a bit, then it comes back
out again, and then it hides her a bit. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I got into Carlo Tawny. I was like, oh shit,
got a seat belt, look at me.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Safety selling