November 11, 2025 • 9 mins
Katie had a Mum fail when she chose to go to a long lunch instead of an important day for her daughter. But in a world where Gen Z's are reducing their alcohol consumption, millennial Mum's are making up for it!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Appolgiate Production. Welcome back to you another episode of I
ad Mom. We're on Instagram too? Am I a bad mum?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We are?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You put some funny stuff up there so lately?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Did you see them?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I can be pretty funny, I think, I actually, genuinely speaking, hesitate.
This is like a little insight to where my brain
works with that stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I hesitate if I'm going to offend someone.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Oh, I don't well, I don't know that saying that.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
With some of the stuff we talk about this podcast,
I know, but this is this for me is like
my say, I don't know why because it is exactly
the same as Instagram, YouTube, any of that. This podcast
is exactly that, and this, for some reason feels like
safe space. Then I get online and this was exactly
the conversation I was having with my trainer. And he
was like, he said something along the lines so, yeah,
(01:13):
I just put up anything I think about. I looked
at him, I was like, you're weird, why would you
do that? And he just goes, Oh, my last video
about a chicken got two million views.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I said about a chicken.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, And he was like all he did was literally
walk into woolies or coals and go, I'm picking up
my emotional support animal. And he walked up to the
hot rotisserie area and picked up a chruk.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I've got a friend, Rach, who this post got something
like millions of you know when it goes viral. It
was which cushions he wanted to buy, like he really
liked don't cushions, And he put it on his feed.
And remember how feeds used to be all about highlights
real just put a pretty picture of yeah, yeah, the races. Yeah,
(01:56):
And now it's like normal content, which I like.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I like, Yeah, so do I I very much do.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
But I still find myself like, yeah, don't worry to
like if I put up really what you're thinking.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, I don't think i'd have one follower. I think
I'd have a lot of hatemail.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Am I bad mom for missing her first day? Well?
This is a weird thing to say for teenagers because
you don't really need to do that anymore. They're kind
of you know, they're older, they can do stuff by themselves.
But I've got one very anxious child when it comes
to work. Now, she's worked at maccas for a year now. Honestly, Rach,
(02:44):
every single shift. Every single week she gets all worked up,
sets an alarm for way earlier than she needs to
be because she needs to mentally prepare herself. Like it's
a whole big thing. We sit in the car park.
Is it going to be okay? Is it going to
be a good shift? Am I going to get in trouble?
Blah blah blah. It's a whole thing. And this kid
(03:05):
does not like work. And we chatted on another episode
about going for her interview at wooll and we were
practicing in the car and she said all this stuff
like like, why do you be good at working for
wool West? You know I'm hard working, blah blah blah.
And we had a laugh about the fact that I
(03:26):
was like, none of those, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Like sell it, sell it. Yeah, And she got the job.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I wouldn't employ you at home, n.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
She got the job.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, And we had the same thing, and it was
probably it was even more because it was first day
coming up without her sister, which.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
A very big thing though for them.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, you do everything everything together. And anyone with twins,
particularly identical twins who are into the same thing, like
I know twins who have always wanted to do different things,
different circles of friends. One did dance, won did football,
whatever it might be, might have always done the same,
exactly the same. It's a weird one. It's an interesting
(04:11):
one because, like I have no experience that none of
us have experienced what that feeling is. You're never starting
something on your own. No, So anyway, she was super
anxious about it, and then I'm like, oh no, it'd
be fine, like I'll take you and you know, we'll
chat in the car and we'll get there early and
all the rest of it. Then I realized, rach it
(04:32):
was the same day as Melbourne Cup.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Just before we started recording this. You were like, oh god,
what did I miss? And I was like, you missed
their first at work? It was on Tuesday. You're at
Melbourne Cup.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Oh yeah, you're like, thanks for remembering, thank you for
my life.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, I know it. And so yeah, Melbourne Cup and
we had a jay and I had a Melbourne Cup
lunch booked and it wasn't cheap. It was one of
those how do you.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Know, you don't know. You didn't know she was going
to get a job. You didn't know that she was
going to start on that day.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No, Yeah, so I had to say, oh, sorry, darling,
Dad and I are going to be drunk when you
so we won't be able to drive you. But that's okay,
we'll get you a new but you'll be fine. Fine,
Amelia's gone, I'll go in the uber and I'll just
walk around the shops for a few hours.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Oh, she's a good one.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, And so, I mean, look, missing her first day
is a weird thing to say when it's a seventeen
year old got to a new job. However, it was
more about I can't take you and help with your
anxiety because I'm going to be at a drunk lunch.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
That part, I mean, it's hard to explain. But at
the same time, she didn't get the job, and then
you booked it, booked lunch and just said, oh it's fine, Yeah,
you had the lunch booked, you'd already paid. And then
she got a job, and then her first day having
to be on melbm cup Yeah SUTs circumstantial.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Still that she doesn't need you to know that.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, so anyway, she had to navigate that herself.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
And Okay, she's seventeen, she's grown up now, she's got
a license.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, and picks her up in an uber Kids are
so funny with alcohol. Yeah, Like I feel like there's
two types of teenagers and they might get there. And
it's also a gen Z thing in that some of
them are drinking alcohol like we're used to, but nowhere
there as many like we all would. Millennials were all
(06:34):
drinking alcohol too young, in excess, binge drinking at the weekends.
Gen zs aren't like that. I heard someone talk about
it the other day. The fact that the alcohol companies
are now all really worried about the fact that these
kids growing up aren't drinking like we did, and they're
trying to come up with rage new drinks to entice
(06:56):
them to be drinking alcohol, like they're gonna have to
do freaking kombucher and vodka.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I don't think they'll ever have a problem. We're still alive,
still got a while ago.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, and as we get older, I feel like we
drink more.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, that's because life becomes harder, does it, Does it
become easier or do you become bored? Maybe so good
like you were White Probably White girled on Melbourne. Carp
I drank for Australia on the Saturday for Derby day.
So then by the time I went to Melbourne carp
(07:30):
I was like, you're like, I'm going out and I'm like,
yay for you. I genuinely had a wine or a
bubbles on the plane coming home to try and make
myself feel better.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Why do we do that? On the Monday? I had
one to try and make myself feel better.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Why, yeah, you don't you feel bad because of that
the night before?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah? But sometimes. I was talking to my girlfriends the
other day. It was the weekend and she'd been to
a Halloween party. It had been at two am finish
too much drink, and at nine o'clock in the morning,
I was out walking. I spoke to her on the
phone and she was having a wine and I was,
what the fuck are you doing? She's like, I've tried everything.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I'm not that early.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I get that lunchtime if you've already tried to have
like a can of coke, and like, yeah, you know
everything that you've tried.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Off the back of the Melbourne cup, I had a
lovely time. I don't love day drinking, like I don't
love you feel.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
One of the rare kinds that doesn't like day drinking.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
No, I mean don't get me wrong, I can have fun. Yeah,
I don't love them going to bed early. Like Melbourne
Cup Day, I was in bed by eight thirty and
I did not feel refreshed in the morning from going
to bed at eight thirty. I prefer evening drinking.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, yeah, I genuinely topic. What were we even talking about?
Oh yeah, your kid's not drinking. Yeah, even impressed by.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
But I do think what we can recap here is
your kids are the less of drinking. I just don't
think it's anything for them to worry about in terms
of the people that are making these drinks, because we're
still going strong and there's a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Of people like us.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, we don't need to worry about Dan Marfie's fine.
We will keep him in business.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
If we don't, my girlfriend who was drinking at nine
o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Definitely where it really is.
Appolgiate Production. Welcome back to you another episode of I
ad Mom. We're on Instagram too? Am I a bad mum?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We are?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You put some funny stuff up there so lately?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Did you see them?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I can be pretty funny, I think, I actually, genuinely speaking, hesitate.
This is like a little insight to where my brain
works with that stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I hesitate if I'm going to offend someone.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Oh, I don't well, I don't know that saying that.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
With some of the stuff we talk about this podcast,
I know, but this is this for me is like
my say, I don't know why because it is exactly
the same as Instagram, YouTube, any of that. This podcast
is exactly that, and this, for some reason feels like
safe space. Then I get online and this was exactly
the conversation I was having with my trainer. And he
was like, he said something along the lines so, yeah,
(01:13):
I just put up anything I think about. I looked
at him, I was like, you're weird, why would you
do that? And he just goes, Oh, my last video
about a chicken got two million views.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I said about a chicken.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, And he was like all he did was literally
walk into woolies or coals and go, I'm picking up
my emotional support animal. And he walked up to the
hot rotisserie area and picked up a chruk.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I've got a friend, Rach, who this post got something
like millions of you know when it goes viral. It
was which cushions he wanted to buy, like he really
liked don't cushions, And he put it on his feed.
And remember how feeds used to be all about highlights
real just put a pretty picture of yeah, yeah, the races. Yeah,
(01:56):
And now it's like normal content, which I like.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I like, Yeah, so do I I very much do.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
But I still find myself like, yeah, don't worry to
like if I put up really what you're thinking.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, I don't think i'd have one follower. I think
I'd have a lot of hatemail.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Am I bad mom for missing her first day? Well?
This is a weird thing to say for teenagers because
you don't really need to do that anymore. They're kind
of you know, they're older, they can do stuff by themselves.
But I've got one very anxious child when it comes
to work. Now, she's worked at maccas for a year now. Honestly, Rach,
(02:44):
every single shift. Every single week she gets all worked up,
sets an alarm for way earlier than she needs to
be because she needs to mentally prepare herself. Like it's
a whole big thing. We sit in the car park.
Is it going to be okay? Is it going to
be a good shift? Am I going to get in trouble?
Blah blah blah. It's a whole thing. And this kid
(03:05):
does not like work. And we chatted on another episode
about going for her interview at wooll and we were
practicing in the car and she said all this stuff
like like, why do you be good at working for
wool West? You know I'm hard working, blah blah blah.
And we had a laugh about the fact that I
(03:26):
was like, none of those, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Like sell it, sell it. Yeah, And she got the job.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I wouldn't employ you at home, n.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
She got the job.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, And we had the same thing, and it was
probably it was even more because it was first day
coming up without her sister, which.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
A very big thing though for them.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, you do everything everything together. And anyone with twins,
particularly identical twins who are into the same thing, like
I know twins who have always wanted to do different things,
different circles of friends. One did dance, won did football,
whatever it might be, might have always done the same,
exactly the same. It's a weird one. It's an interesting
(04:11):
one because, like I have no experience that none of
us have experienced what that feeling is. You're never starting
something on your own. No, So anyway, she was super
anxious about it, and then I'm like, oh no, it'd
be fine, like I'll take you and you know, we'll
chat in the car and we'll get there early and
all the rest of it. Then I realized, rach it
(04:32):
was the same day as Melbourne Cup.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Just before we started recording this. You were like, oh god,
what did I miss? And I was like, you missed
their first at work? It was on Tuesday. You're at
Melbourne Cup.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Oh yeah, you're like, thanks for remembering, thank you for
my life.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, I know it. And so yeah, Melbourne Cup and
we had a jay and I had a Melbourne Cup
lunch booked and it wasn't cheap. It was one of
those how do you.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Know, you don't know. You didn't know she was going
to get a job. You didn't know that she was
going to start on that day.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No, Yeah, so I had to say, oh, sorry, darling,
Dad and I are going to be drunk when you
so we won't be able to drive you. But that's okay,
we'll get you a new but you'll be fine. Fine,
Amelia's gone, I'll go in the uber and I'll just
walk around the shops for a few hours.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Oh, she's a good one.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, And so, I mean, look, missing her first day
is a weird thing to say when it's a seventeen
year old got to a new job. However, it was
more about I can't take you and help with your
anxiety because I'm going to be at a drunk lunch.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
That part, I mean, it's hard to explain. But at
the same time, she didn't get the job, and then
you booked it, booked lunch and just said, oh it's fine, Yeah,
you had the lunch booked, you'd already paid. And then
she got a job, and then her first day having
to be on melbm cup Yeah SUTs circumstantial.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Still that she doesn't need you to know that.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, so anyway, she had to navigate that herself.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
And Okay, she's seventeen, she's grown up now, she's got
a license.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, and picks her up in an uber Kids are
so funny with alcohol. Yeah, Like I feel like there's
two types of teenagers and they might get there. And
it's also a gen Z thing in that some of
them are drinking alcohol like we're used to, but nowhere
there as many like we all would. Millennials were all
(06:34):
drinking alcohol too young, in excess, binge drinking at the weekends.
Gen zs aren't like that. I heard someone talk about
it the other day. The fact that the alcohol companies
are now all really worried about the fact that these
kids growing up aren't drinking like we did, and they're
trying to come up with rage new drinks to entice
(06:56):
them to be drinking alcohol, like they're gonna have to
do freaking kombucher and vodka.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I don't think they'll ever have a problem. We're still alive,
still got a while ago.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, and as we get older, I feel like we
drink more.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, that's because life becomes harder, does it, Does it
become easier or do you become bored? Maybe so good
like you were White Probably White girled on Melbourne. Carp
I drank for Australia on the Saturday for Derby day.
So then by the time I went to Melbourne carp
(07:30):
I was like, you're like, I'm going out and I'm like,
yay for you. I genuinely had a wine or a
bubbles on the plane coming home to try and make
myself feel better.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Why do we do that? On the Monday? I had
one to try and make myself feel better.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Why, yeah, you don't you feel bad because of that
the night before?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah? But sometimes. I was talking to my girlfriends the
other day. It was the weekend and she'd been to
a Halloween party. It had been at two am finish
too much drink, and at nine o'clock in the morning,
I was out walking. I spoke to her on the
phone and she was having a wine and I was,
what the fuck are you doing? She's like, I've tried everything.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I'm not that early.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I get that lunchtime if you've already tried to have
like a can of coke, and like, yeah, you know
everything that you've tried.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Off the back of the Melbourne cup, I had a
lovely time. I don't love day drinking, like I don't
love you feel.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
One of the rare kinds that doesn't like day drinking.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
No, I mean don't get me wrong, I can have fun. Yeah,
I don't love them going to bed early. Like Melbourne
Cup Day, I was in bed by eight thirty and
I did not feel refreshed in the morning from going
to bed at eight thirty. I prefer evening drinking.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, yeah, I genuinely topic. What were we even talking about?
Oh yeah, your kid's not drinking. Yeah, even impressed by.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
But I do think what we can recap here is
your kids are the less of drinking. I just don't
think it's anything for them to worry about in terms
of the people that are making these drinks, because we're
still going strong and there's a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Of people like us.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, we don't need to worry about Dan Marfie's fine.
We will keep him in business.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
If we don't, my girlfriend who was drinking at nine
o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Definitely where it really is.
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