February 11, 2025 • 44 mins
Mama Laura Byrne is back to filling in for her husband while he soaks in the last few remaining days in the jungle and is child free.
Meanwhile, Laura continues to solo parent the chaos at home, but Lola is taking things to a whole new low!
Ash is gearing up for Oscar's first day of school and feels more nervous than his son. Macy is also trying to be more helpful around the house, but she's doing a terrible job of it by exposing Daddy's phone addiction.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I thought I shipped myself at the park. This is recently,
this is over the Christmas break, so obviously it's festive
festive season. Yes, I spent a lot of time on
the booze on the boozer, and we were down to.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The park and I was sitting there and I.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Slipped out a farts and I thought I shipped myself.
And I said to it, oh, I think I shipped myself.
Instead of like laugh, thought it was funny. She thought
it was disgusting.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
There is only that reaction to that.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
She was like so disappointed, and she was like, do
you know what that's divorcible?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh wow?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And I said that all it would take and she
was like, it's not very funny. Anyway, I wipe myself and.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I was clean.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
So you didn't chet yourself.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I didn't. It just felt like I did. How good
it feel like you did? Just the velocity of the fart.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Your fart.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Happy.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm happy that you guys are still happily married.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, but I know how to get at a quick divorce.
Just ship myself in public. Welcome back to two doting dads, well,
(01:15):
one doting dad and another doting mom.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Laura, I'm back again.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I'm back, You're back. This is a podcast all about parenting.
It's the good, the bad, and the.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Relatable, reasonable reasonable, the reasonably relatable.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I didn't I wasn't going to tell you that shitting
myself story. I forgot till you just reminded me.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
What was it that I said that actually reminded you
because I can't.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Did you shoot yourself again? And I was like, I
was like, how do you know? No, it wasn't. It
wasn't a ship myself. I did shit myself the other day.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Though. No, we can't talk about me sitting myself. I
haven't said a single thing. I'm just sitting here with
my mouth closed.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
And the more silent I am, the craziest stuff comes
out of your mouth.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I want to tell you a little story actually before
we kick off.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Trap on in everyone.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
No, no, this happened yesterday last night. Actually. So I
live in close proximity to like.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
A group of shops that there's a couple of like restaurants, takeaway,
so convenient, convenient. It's just like it's just the hill.
So I ride my electric bike. It's great, nice, it
is nice. Had a couple of beers yes afternoon, and
I drove down to pick up. They do five dollars
tacos at this place, which is great. Not that that's
specifical any anything to do with the story, but all.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Of these flags all yeah, and the picture is that
you might have shuit yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
This is not a shit myself.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
It sounds like, sorry, Jess, she's just looking at us.
She's used to it, rolling her eyes like that, are
we here already?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
She gets paid?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Okay, I beg to do anyway. Anyway, So I rode
the electric bike down and what I do is I
don't ring this place to order. I go down order
because they do beers on tap, and I have a
beer away for the food.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's kind of like my little escape. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Nice, that's a little bit of metime. Fill my cup up,
as one would say. But anyway, I pulled up yesterday
my electric bike. I went, I ordered, got a beer,
sat near the door near my electric bike. I'm sitting
there mine my own business, and the lady come up
behind me and said, your food's ready and handed me
the food was in an Uber Eats bag.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I picked it up.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I walked over to my bike, sat on my bike,
and this guy leans over and he goes, have you
run out of content ideas? Have you? And I was
like what he was like, are you drive an Uber now?
Because I'm holding it over eats back.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I thought what you were going to say is that
because you had an e bike, the woman thought you
were an Uber driver.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, she does know that. She handed someone delivery.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No, no, no, no, no no, she handed me the bag.
But a fellow patron of the restaurant leaned over to
me and said, have you run out of content ideas?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And he was a delightful two doting dads listen.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, so if you are listening, thank you for that.
It was very funny and very comedically timed.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Do you remember his name?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
No, i'd even ask.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I just was like, fuck you, Just so you know,
I am not out of content ideas, and I don't
ride Uber to make ends meet.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And if you do, there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
There isn't no, there isn't anything wrong with that. Just
so the general public. No, I don't drive for Uber.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah. Unfortunately, if you were looking forward to receiving your
delicious tacos with hat show myself. I'm delivered by Ash,
it won't be happening. Hey, I have something that I
wanted to ask you, because when we're recording this, it's
a Wednesday. We're doing this in advance everyone, But in
terms of timing and what's happening in the world, tomorrow
is a very big day in both of our households,
(04:47):
and that is because Oscar is starting school and Marley
is starting school.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
How are you feeling about it?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I should ask how Oscar's feeling about it, because I
know it's big for him, but I also think it's
it's like such a huge day in the life of
a for the first time that your kid's going to school.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, look, just really excited he's got I mean, I
think he'll be really exciting, really excited tomorrow morning when
he's in the uniform. He's got his school backpack on,
cry school hat on, and do you know what also
(05:22):
is he's going to the same school I went to.
So it's a bit surreal in that way. I haven't
I think tomorrow I'll be a bit more emotional about it.
I haven't really put a lot of pressure on it
because I'm like, because that would just put pressure on him.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I thought you were about to say you hadn't put
much thought into it, and I was like, well, that
doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Thanks, No, I put a lot of thought into it.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, it's just I haven't openly shown a lot of
pressure about the whole situation because I don't want him
to feel any more pressure on him because he's only
a little boy, and I think it'd be really good
for him. He needs it, he needs the learning he needs.
Like Marley, like they're quite they're quite sponges. I mean,
(06:10):
Lola and Macy a bit different. Always, Yeah, the first kid.
It's like I'm feeling tomorrow after he's off, and maybe
after we pick him up tomorrow, then I'll be like,
you know, I'll probably be able to decompress a bit
about it.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
We I mean, firstly, it's a big thing because Matt's
not here right so like and for Marley, she is
like such a little clone of Matt, Like there's such
their buddies. They do everything together. And I definitely think
that she's feeling it that Matt's not here in different ways.
She doesn't have how to communicate it, but she she
it makes her sad, you know, And he'd be.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So gutted, he would be so gut it completely.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
But when it comes to Marley's starting school tomorrow, so
many things, like Matt's usually the organizer in our household. Yeah,
he's the one that would organize the school uniforms. He's
the one that would like book in for the after
school activities, like stuff that normally gets done by him.
I find myself doing and I'm not very good with
the life admin side of things. So even yesterday I
bought their school unif her school uniform ages ago. But
(07:10):
the uniform shop is closed and the only time it's
open is during the same duration that I'm at work,
so it's impossible.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Eight till eleven or something else.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Only open for one hour on a Wednesday, and I'm
in radio.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, They're like we could, Hey, you could buy you
could buy your kids uniform. However you need to come
at midnight between twelve and twelve oh one, and you
have to bring cash but not Australian currency. They make
it so hard, so hard. Yesterday I was like, April
was like, we need to just go by the school
and quickly grab something else. And I was like, okay,
no worries, and she was like, ah, they're closed.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I was like, oh okay. She was like yeah, they're
only open tween eleven and eleven oh five.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I'm like, fuck hell, they let certain people in.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Also, can we just say, like to all the parents
out there, who are the actual P and C committees
who run these things? Because no one's getting paid for
doing this stuff. So that's why that the opening hours
are so terrible. Lunch break, you're good people, better than
us anyway. Yeah, So Marley up until today, the day
before school, did not have a backpack.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
It did not have her school hat.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
She's got shoes, and she's got a hand me down
school uniform for her cousins.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
But nothing else wrong with that, Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
But there was something that felt really and miss sending
my kid to school without her dad and without like
two very important pieces of the uniform and my message.
Because there is this insane WhatsApp group now that's happening
with all of the parents.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Oh my god, kill me. I don't hate that.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
There is a hundred, one hundred people in a group chat.
Parents said in her group chat, it's the whole year.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I've never been in a more robust group chat in
my life. And every day.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's like who's kids doing soccer? Whose kids doing ballet?
Whose kids doing it? And I'm like, I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I do.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I genuinely can't wait to meet them all. I hope
maybe some of your listeners. But I'm a I'm a
group chat mute.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Usually yeah, I'm like five people in a group chat.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I'm like, this is a good number if I if
someone invites me to a group chat, there's got more
than five people in it. The next thing that comes
up on that group chat is ashes removed has left
the group. I've left the group and I don't care, no,
do you know.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
What we're taking the piece? But I will say this,
it was the first time that actually it really came
in handy because there was I was like, oh, I
have a question about school.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I don't have any uniform.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I was, I can ask the brains trust.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
So I messaged the massive WhatsApp group and I was like, hey, guys,
I'm in a bit of a pickle. I don't actually
have any of the stuff that I need. And so
many other parents were like, oh my god, asks either
like and then other parents were like, don't worry about
You could send your kid in a sequin gown and
they wouldn't care.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
At that school. They don't worry about it.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
So it made me feel heaps better and I was like, Okay,
maybe this, maybe this group chat thing was less.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Everyone's as useless as me. It's it is a lot,
it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I didn't do any of it, So you're one has
step ahead of me because April is our admin person. Yeah,
I'm doing everything without April.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The castle falls down.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It's like, I know that there was all this stuff
that you had to buy for your kids, but also
for the classroom as well. In certain instances.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Ash has not read a single form. I know that
there's stuff that you need for school. I remember going
once and I think I had a ruler.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, one of those flopping ones.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
It doesn't break, so I well, I don't know. Apparently
at the school that Marla's going to, you don't need
to take any stuff except for uniforms and you send
them school, like.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I use these gold pens.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
She's going to stay, Like, what's what's for lunch? Cavia, lobsters,
the usual.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
She's got a private chef.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, they've got a chef.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Shut Up's gone to public school too, and we had
like it was like a like a I had to
buy tissues.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
For the classroom and do you know what?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And that's fine because they're public schools and I'm happy
to do that, but I know some parents can't afford that,
sort of like can't afford the cost of living.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Look at me pretending like I care about everyone else.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Ash ash every week you do your dandas to get
yourself cancer and still here.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
It's to me.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
People expect it out of my man, They really do,
they do.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Look, I think one big thing I want to say
though about this, because like I would have loved to
have been able to do this record after we'd taken
them to school, like I know exactly like how they
reacted and everything else. But there's part of me that
feels way more emotional thinking about it than I thought
I would. And I and I think that part of
that is because I think back on when I was
in primary school and imagining how big everything felt, like
(11:44):
that school becomes the center of your world. The friends
that you have at that school become the center of
your world, Like the little crush you have on that
boy that actually doesn't matter in the loring run. You
think that that's like the most important thing. And and
I guess like for me knowing that like Mally's gonna
have those experience is in school and she's going to
have to like figure out what it is to socialize
with real friends and to have friendship breakups and all
(12:06):
that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
This is the start of that And that's a lot
to think.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
About it like that, and it just reminds me of
like I have.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I have thought about it like this a little bit
as well, Like I've thought about like the experiences and
the emotions that I had.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yeah, like think about the first girl you had a
crush on in primary school April.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
No, it made me think about because it's the start
of term and I was a one of those kids
that used to cry every term at the start.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
So plus, yeah, that wasn't me. I was like, get
me out of my house and go back to school.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
But it made me think about how I felt because
I used to walk to the same school, the same
primary school. My mum used to walk me. She used
to get the bus from out the front of the
school and go into the city. And you know, two
working parents. I barely saw them really, but like it may,
I remember going back to school every term right up
(13:04):
until I went to high school and I would.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Cry, Oh, that breaks my heart, thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And it makes me think, like Oscar's got gonna have
those feelings of what I felt going to and I
can't really remember what those feelings were, but I think
I just wanted to be home with my mom. I
think I just wanted to be home with my parents.
But I look at him now and I'm like, you're
going to have those feelings, and it does scare me
(13:33):
a little bit, because you're right, everything about what's going
to happen from tomorrow is going to shape the person,
the person they're going to become.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
The friend.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Like, yes, he's going with his friends, which is great,
but there's so much of the unknown that he doesn't
know yet that's coming tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
And there's also no way of explaining to a kid that, like,
none of this stuff is going to matter when you're
twenty or you're thirty. Absolutely, but it is the biggest
thing that happens to them. And you know, and I
just think about like girls that were mean to me,
all things that happened, and at the time, it was
absolutely soul destroyingly devastating.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, And it's.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Because it's everything, it's a whole world, And I think
the thing that makes me emotional is like I fear
for Maley having those feelings and not being able to
fix it, and also knowing that I can't fix it,
and I shouldn't fix it because that's like the essence
of resilience building exactly right.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But I want to fix it. I don't want it
to feel that way.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I don't want You don't want to put your kids
in a position where they're going to have to feel
those big those feelings that when you were a kid
now and as an adult when you look back and
you're like, the embarrassing things you did, the little bits
and pieces that you did that you look back that
sort of sit in your mind subconsciously, that a little
bit traumatic in a way. You don't want them to
(14:46):
feel that. You're like, I want everything to be happy
for you, want everything to be but it's you're right,
it's so good for them to like experience the sadness
of having to go back to school, because then you're like,
I appreciate the other things outside of.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
It, maybe, and they also all need to embarrass themselves,
like a talent show or something like that's just the
first day.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It's a Bride of Passage. We've all been there.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I once stood on stage and sung Tears on My
Pillow by Celindon.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
And did big arm actions, and then.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I got bullied for an entire year for it because
I fucking deserved it, to be honest, that is good
gear years on my pillow, that's great pain.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
And I was in year three in my heart God
like you Sorr.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You just lost a whole lot of subscribers.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Then I remember, and I've told this story on the
pot I think before where one of the teachers created
it because there was always like dance class and stuff
like promise you. So they decided that they wanted to
have an all boys dance class, and me and all
my friends joined, and then we got bullied for.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It and we all quit. We quit the boy band.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
The teacher cried, oh so, And now I look back
back then, I was like, but now I'm like, oh no,
because she was like, this is something back then would
have been like, this is an all boys dance class.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
This is cool, man done something think of like Backstreet boys.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You were that actually screams that you were living out
her dream.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Not yours.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
That's what that's and then we all went we all
got bullied for it, and we're like.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh, that sounds like a teacher that has attachment issues.
This issue is just like it's like mister g oh
summer high TI.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, it was like she was like that.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
She was like, you've got like a professional quality at
a teacher's price.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
And then she's like I've got an all boys dance crew.
Oh wait.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
They all just quit and she cried and I felt
horrible about it, but like we all got bullied for that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Still when I bring it up, the other bullied for it.
I'm still forty. We're talking about forty.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Old?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Are you me? It's a secret thirty five? I'm thirty
five this year?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Are you you are a baby?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Fuck? This one shits me. People are like thirty six
and they're like.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Oh, you're just a little boby, little boby, we should
be talking about you as a child.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Look a little baby baby. I'm starting to sweat.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I'm thirty nine.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
In a couple of weeks, I know. April asked me
and she was like, how was Laura. I was like.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Old, she's fast dust, She's that old.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Literally, Yeah, everything's got a pension guard. Everything creaks now
my back hurts, but for no reason.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I like hurt my ribs.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
It's just because I've sneezed.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, but you sleep wrong?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yeah well that no, that's actually happens. My shoulders heard
every night from sleeping. But that's a whole other story. Okay,
look something else. Getting away from the kids and stop.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
What did you get the backpack? And do you get
the hat?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I think so. I think I think that Annie Kate
went and picked him up.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Matts sister. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
She Everyone was like Molly can't go to school without
these things.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, because people rallied.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah, you know what, It's like I've experienced with Oscar
before where in terms of inclusivity. So I think we
went to like rugby training once and it was it
was like the first rugby training when no one had
any kid, blah blah blah. I think maybe we were
a week It might have been a week late because
we were away and we went to the first training
(18:19):
with Oscar and he was just in normal clothes and
everyone was in their kids start and their kid and
it broke him and I felt horrible not to put
any pressure on you.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
But it's good, like I said, resilience building if she
goes there with her Gabby Dollhouse backpack, she's going to
either be like I stand out on I'm a star,
or she's going to be like, Okay, this is a hurdle.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
This is going to be one of those things that
he hid in the bathroom for fuck.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And look, it doesn't kill you, make too strong.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Exactly, and like he's never been the same, but he's fine.
He recovered, all right.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I did want to talk to you about something that
I know has been really upsetting for you lately. We've
been talking about it in group chats. Oh yeah, the
Australian media has been talking about it. And if anything,
I'm worried about the future of this podcast to be honest.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, Look, I don't know if you should be worried
for me. Are worried for Matt? Because I've reached worried
for me, I've reached out. No, I don't worry about you.
I've reached out to all the.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Other lifeguards on Bondai Rescue and now we're all chummy.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Have you really?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I'm just getting some backup.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
After that reeks of desperation.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Don't know, I'm just out of BONDI going.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
So if you don't know what we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Obviously Matt being on I'm a Celebrity, he has striped
up quite a romance with Harrison, who is one of
the lifeguards from Bondai Rescue.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
They've called themselves Marison. I think that just sucks.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I got the instant dick for my own husband, Marathon.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Surely we go out with something other.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Than that, So we had to do these.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Sandra Sully comes on. So if you haven't watched IM
a celeb or a whole season before, about three quarters
of the way through, so I would say any day now,
Sandra Sully comes on with this like news from Home segment.
Oh yeah, yeah, so like she'll read out letters from
loved ones or she'll show photos from loved ones. No
one called me for all the big things that they're
miss You picked her on the emails.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You didn't get that email. I'm not on an email.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I would have made something, okay, So like news from Home, right,
and my my news from Home was like some things
were funny, some things that were obviously nice and sentimental,
like Lola had her fourth birthday, and then at the
end of it, I was like Harrison stopp cutting my grass.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I was like, I really hope they include that. Stop
cutting my grass more like it.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
My mother in law yesterday said to me, she was like,
how do you feel about it?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And I'm like what she was like, She's like.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Oh, we love a bromance and it's it's a it's
a good move.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It is a good it is a good move.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Australia does love a bro mat I love it.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And look, I'm on it seems like a nice guy.
It's got no kids, so it's got no life experience.
I'm not bitter at all.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
That's not two things that, to be fair, I think
I would normally find them really funny.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I found one of them quite funny. But one of them,
I was.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Like, that made me kind of annoyed at you what.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Because I know, I know, are you watching math?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It's it's not it's my husband.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
No.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
So there's been two things that he's done.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
The first thing, and let me put this in perspective,
I am very sensitive because I'm on my own at
the moment, like I'm doing everything with the kids and
managing multiple like I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Managing a renovation, like, but I'm doing a lot.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I'm doing a lot of plus I'm also managing his
social media, Like I can't be doing any.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
More recording podcast? What else am I doing? You might
as well just be him too. So I'm doing a.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Lot of stuff for him to support him.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Can I just say one thing?
Speaker 1 (21:59):
You do a great job?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Thanks, Ash, That's what I needed all.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Listen's going to love that.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
See everyone, Ash's got a heart. So there was this
joke around and it was kind of like a like
a trivia how well do you know your camp mates?
And so it was a question this or that and
there and the rest of the camp mates had to
guess what they thought the person who had been asked
the question would guess. So, for example, Matt went into
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a room and he his question was, if you won
a holiday to Bali, who would you take your wife?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Or Harrison hilarious.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Hilarious, I can take a joke.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Would have found that very funny had I not had
a really hard day with the kids. So he came
out and was like, all very funny, ha ha. The
stupid thing though, is like the camp mates were objectively like, Okay,
how would he really answer this? Like what's the honest answer?
What would any normal husband write down? And they wrote
down Laura.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Oh you take your mates, and then stands there and.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
He's like, I know that this is going to piss
off Laura. He also said some zings. He's like, I
know that this upset her.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
He's like, but I'm taking And the grand reveal was
Harrison and everyone who was because I was watching with
Falcon and a couple of Matt's really good friends and
everyone was like so funny, and.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I just could feel the lack of laughter on my face.
I was watching the.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
TV like stoneface.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I can't fucking wait to go on a Bali girls
trip and you're not coming.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And that's the first thing I'm going to do when
you get home.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
And then the second thing he said recently was that
he'd rather eat a mango than have sex with me
live on National TV.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
So that's okay.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
This is what I wanted to ask you because I
have been in and out watching.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I've got a laugh too.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
You're not a dedicated viewer.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
No, it's the ads, man, it kills you.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
And also that's a ADHD sit through an Adverbs.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Also went to have an ADHD appointment today stood me up,
which is.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
So annoying because I mean, you being organized is part
of the thing, Like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I was.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
It was a telehealth and it was like, you're in
the lobby and I was like, it's been thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You need to check that you actually got the time right. No,
I did. I figured that that but your mistake A
there's mine?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
No, no, no, that was a true question.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It was theirs.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
You shouldn't even have to go for the diagnoses, like
you should just be like I missed the appointment because
I was disorganized.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
It was in it and I was like to Apral'm like,
I've been in this virtual lobby for like fifteen twenty minutes.
She's like, maybe this is the test. It is and
forty minutes. Anyway, I got a call from them. I
fixed it anyway, just skewed us off track there, Sorry,
what was I saying?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, I can't I can't.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, I can't sit through that long of anything, like
I cannot do it.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
We know, Oh, okay, just just check it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I can't stop fidgiting with things anyway. And I missed
the mango thing and I forgot to ask our producer, yes,
what it meant?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
So the mango for anyone who did miss it, and
may have seen that. I'd post it on Matt Stories.
I was on his grid. Was that basically they've split
the team now, so it's women verse men. The men
won the challenge that the men got the food that night,
and the food was steak and vegetables, and then for dessert,
the dessert is like the elite dessert.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
They got a mango or multiple mangoes.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Right, that's pretty good. And the women's team were obviously
super upset by it because they were starving having rice.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And horrible beans.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
She's got some The beans are so flavorless because there's
no salt, there's no nothing. And the boys had like
the best meal ever. And so Matt's sitting there and
he's like eating the mango and he goes, I know,
I shouldn't say this out loud, and he's like, then
then says it a completely normal volume. He's like, I
shouldn't say this out loud, but I'm going to say
it so that everybody hears.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
He's like, if I had the choice between having sex
with my.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Wife and eating this mango, I would choose this mango.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
That's fair.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I think that's fair saying to be honest.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Fair.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, I think if April was like, either you can
have sex with me or you can eat this delicious mango.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Oh can you color up for me?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But can you do it with the little lines?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah? Look, I mean I saw that was just in
the moment.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yeah, And do you know what's funny is that the
producers so like I get emails most days from like
different producers to tell me and update me on things
because I can't speak to him, but I do get
bits of updates, and every day it's almost like they're
just reassuring me that he does actually miss me, because
every day they're like, I know it didn't make it
onto the show, but he talks about you and the
girls all the time. Just just want you to know
how much he loves you and adores you. And I
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was like, thanks for that, because what you're showing doesn't
really reply.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I'm a bit but hurt the mango just maybe one
sentimental moment we can have anything at all.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I'm just jealous of a fucking mango and Harrison at
this point and yeah, exactly me too. Actually, did I
tell you?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Did I tell you?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
My sister was like, hey, are you holding up to me?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
It's because everybody is worried that the absolute wheels fall
off this wagon without mad here.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
They're like fuckingh on his arm.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
No, she was like, you pretty much were inseparable for
two years and then now you can't have in con him,
And that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
That's what it's like. It must be for you for
years and then now you carr contact him. Yes, except
ash I have children with him, so doesn't matter. Speaking
of my children, There's one other thing I wanted to
tell you. So Lola, Lola has.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I don't know how to describe her.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I know that you guys have.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Talked about Lola a lot on the show, obviously, like
she is a unique little character.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
She is full of personality.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
How did you describe her on your podcost I called.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Her the personality higher of our family.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
But I think that that actually might be quite offensive
and maybe, no, it's not the way I meant it
to be.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
She's just so annoying. No, she's so funny. She is
very funny.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
She's just like so different to any other kid I've
ever met.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
You never know, and I noticed this with Lola from
the outside looking in. And look, I think I have
a pretty good relationship with Lola. I'm like, Matt, you
don't know what face she's going to pull at you
when she looks at you.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
You have no idea what you're going to get, what
you're going to get.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
To me, she is quite consistent normally because she has
Matt to hate. But I just get like the most.
I don't even know how to describe it. Like, so,
for example, when I leave for work in the morning,
she'll be like, mmy, kiss me, and I get like
this routine of kisses, right, this is how she says
goodbye to me every day. And she's very specific about
little things. But she'll kiss me on the lips. Then
she'll kiss me on this cheek, kiss me on this cheek,
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kiss me here on the nose, kiss me here on
the head, kiss each ear.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Then she'll go back and do that whole rotation again.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Then she'll say I have to hug you twice, and
so then she hugs me twice, and then I'll be out.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The door and she'll be like one.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
More time, one more time.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
And she just is a genuinely a very sweet and
funny kid, and she has very big feelings. And I
think it's because she can't and doesn't know how to
control them more, communicate them properly, yet that sometimes they overflow,
and that's what Matt often cops. The problem is is
that there's no one else for her to direct that
at at the moment, So it is one hundred percent
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all love for me and all hate for me, Like
I'm getting everything at the moment. Yeah, happy, she's four now,
Everyone who lit Lola? So she knows she can't hit me, right.
We've had many conversations about it because often when she
gets so like you know, upper level in terms of
like her anger or energy, the only way that she
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kind of like explodes is that she starts hitting. She
either hits her sister or she hits me, and she
really really hits now, like she's quite a big little.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Mate. It really big wind up from across the room.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Yeah, so she she hit me so hard in the face.
There was when I was talking about do you remember
the other week I was mentioning how she hit me
in the face. So we had some big chats about that.
She hasn't hit me since, but oh god, and oh
is it a butt?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So she what she hits?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
So now she goes to hit me and I'm like,
you're not allowed to hit me, Lola like with stern voice,
and she gets so enraged by the fact that she
can't hit me and wants to that she goes and
then she'll turn around, grab her butt cheeks and just
moon me, just full cheek moon just and screaming whilst
whilst I have an angry little buttthole staring at me,
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and she'll full moon me with the most aggressive moon
you have ever seen a toddler do.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
How is that now? Her like coping Megan is and
I don't know. I don't know how we've got here
in public.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
She only does it at home, and it's because she's
often naked, so like she never wears clothes this kid,
and I notice that she's always naked. But even when
she is not naked, she'll like, ah.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
They try to rip her shirt off, RiPP her pants
down quick quick. I got to get my butt out.
I'm so angry.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
What the coping.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Mechanisms to moon me?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's like a way of it's definitely her way of,
like I'm going to act out even more.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
What do I need to do? Skin? Skin?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
But I can't react to it, so like I can't.
It's actually really hard because I want to laugh, but
I can't do anything because I think if I get
annoyed at her or I react in anyway, she will
just in her head be like, oh cool, that's working.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I'll keep doing that.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well it's funny. So that's it.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
That's where we're at now.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Now we've gone from her hitting me to her full
blown mooning me.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I think every improvement, do you think? Yeah, I don't
know what I prefer.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I'm not going back to hitting me.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Can you stop that? Can you just hit me with
everything you've got? Please? If you could put more clothes
on and then hit me, that'd be great, preferently in
the eyes, so I'd never have to see that again.
That's good, that's good anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
My look, I think the naked thing is a second
child thing, and it like Macy.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
They just don't give a fuck.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, they don't care, they.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Don't feel embarrassment, they don't feel anything.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, Macy has tried to be more helpful around the house.
I would say she doesn't really get angry. She's she's
very much at the moment where she talks back a
lot because I just don't think she gets it. It's infuriating.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
What is she saying?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Just no?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
She drives furiates me. I'm like, Macy, can you move now?
Fucking hell? Fuck me. But she started to try and
be more helpful around the house, which is great. So
she'll take things to the bin, she'll put things back
like where she thinks that they go.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
That's kind of handy. She can get her to do stuff. Yeah,
take your nappy to the bin and then they do it.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Do you find the nappy like in your bed?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Oh fucking well, Like I'll get out of the bed,
I'll roll over and I'll roll into a fucking nappy
from the night before.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I'm like, oh Jesus.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
But she blamed Macie because you left a nappy in
the bed.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
And I'm blaming her, blaming the three year old. But
she she's gotten so helpful. The other day, I went
and got into the shower.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It's not a rare occurrence. I shower every day, so
you know, thank you.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
And she's learned how to open the door because April
she always walks in on April in the shower.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
But she walked in on me to be helpful.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
She rang, I left my phone in the lounge room,
and she thought that I might need it in the shower.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Because you're always on your phone.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
No, she just thought that's it just belonged. I suppose
it belongs in my hand.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Anyway, she actually walked in, she was like, dade it.
I was like like, move the shower curtain and I
was like yeah, Like what's up.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
She's like, here you go.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
She's like, you left your phone and I'm like, oh,
Like how do I get angry with her?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
She's trying to be helpful. I'm like, not not in
the shower. She's like no, no, no, here go, and she
won't take no for an answer. So I'm standing there
in the shower holding my phone. The shower's on, and I.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Was like to Able, I'm like April, it's like what
Maces like okay, bye, and just like left me with
the phone in the shower and Abril just pokes it
everyd of the corn and she goes, I'll give it here,
take my phone.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
My phone's drench.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I think it's I like this age.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I like the age because you can use it to
your advantage, Like it is helpful when you can call
out to your kid and they bring you things you're
like toilet reap. Yes, yes, that's the only reason I
had kids. There, I said it.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
That wow.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Yeah, and also now you never have to be without
your phone, thanks Mabee.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
She's actually waterlogged and water Cameron doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
But I you know, when she was doing and I
was like, oh, you do that thing where you go, oh,
thank you, like you want to encourage them being helpful
even though they're not. They're actually costing me thousands.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Of dollars for pretty much.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
The toilet paper one is really good because yeah, I
used to be like April out a toilet paper and
she'd be like, oh half and puff and grunt and
carry on to make me feel bad about shitting.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Everyone shits. But then I'll be like, may see or
Oscar He's like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
The problem with asking a kid though, is then they
come into the bathroom then they never leave.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
In the middle of doing a pol folds his arm,
leans on the world. Yes, what did you doing? That
was me this morning.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I was trying to do a bo when Molly came
in and wanted to tell me about her dream, and
I was like, let's have a chat.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
She just sat on the floor in front of me,
and we had let's spill some tea. There's nowhere else
to go kill some tea where you drop off some pook.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Totally, that's exactly how it happened.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
April.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Also, the kids like always go like, they don't walk
in on me and the toilet because I think, but
they always.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I always I walk past.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
The toilet and doors open, and April's there doing a
week and I'm like, what are you doing? She's like,
I just thought it'd be easy if I just left
the door open. I'm like, why she's given up.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
They're going to come in, and she's given up because
she knows exactly how this goes down.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
That's what that is.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
You can't see my toilet unless you're literally walking down
the hallway.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
And then you're like, you.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Have your own toilets?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
No? No, no, like, no, fuck off? How many bathrooms
you got we.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Live in a palace. Yeah, that's right. The castle has
like twelve bathrooms. Once for mummy, which is Ellie, once
for Matthew, it's my husband, shut up, I'm the kids,
and then there's the sweet that's mine.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
So mine.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Do we have any questions?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
No, hang on, I'm finished. Get to the barb fucking
fish boy, don't rush me anyway.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
What was I saying?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I don't know something about doing a ship and your
kids watching?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Oh no, I always come around the corner. Well, I
come around the corner and April's on the toll and I'm.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Like you as then it scares you that she's on
the loop.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Yeah, because I was like, shut the door. None were, but.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Then we're a door open family. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
So okay, if April is taking a ship with the
door open, that's that's a no for me.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
But doing away fine. The other day.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
The other day she was doing away the door open,
and I made a laugh and she fared into a bowle.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Don't don't want this to be anyway.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Let's get into some listener question.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Should we were moving on that quick? Whose podcast isn't there?
We're going to sit here all day and talk about ship.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
We started with ship and we're ending the ship.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Okay, this is from Harley.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Harley, don't try all right, let me it is.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Harley says, we just found out we are having twins.
Damn can right?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
No double the fun.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
No, We're already have a nearly two year old, so
we'll have three under three.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Ah, any tips with twins?
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Do you know who had a similar situation to this?
A woman named Tigan Natoli. She had basically had one
child and then had no twins, and then one or
one and then twins.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
It must have been one of the twins, because like,
if you had twins and like I got two, then
like why would you have your third? No?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
I think she like accidentally got pregnant, like literally was
in postpartum and accidentally got pregnant, like very very shortly afterwards. No,
but there's what I mean is is and the reason
why I'm bringing her up is because it might be
nice now for you to seek out people who are
on social media who have been in similar situations.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
And she's talked about it a lot.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
She works for Mama Mia, who's a competing podcast, but
she works for them and has done a lot of
write ups around what it was to parent like three
children under the age of two, Like what an insanity,
insane thing that they had to do. But they survived it,
and you know, they have this beautiful family and the
kids are now all a little bit older, and they
had this amazing relationship. And you know, I think the
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first few years you don't need anyone to tell you
how hard that's going to be.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
It's going to be super hard.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
But then you're going to get to the phase of
when your youngest are two and they're all friends and
they can all bring you to all the paper at
the one time and genuinely like.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Just sit at the same time. You'll all be there
with a full audience to watch.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
But the thing is is like the really really hard
intensity of that early parenting part, like which I don't
think anyone unless they've lived the experience of having twins
can give you advice on that is not forever. And
sometimes it feels like it's forever when you're in it,
and then you wake up one day and your kids
are going to school.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
You know, it just it does. It doesn't last.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
It's not not going to be hard like that, like
regardless whether it's one. It's like it's hard with one,
just like what you're doing with that one. It's just
going to be double.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Like surely there has to be like community groups on Facebook,
and and I think like seeking out people who are
in the same situation is going to be like the
most the most comforting thing that you can do, because
it's going to remind you that, Okay, you're going to
be all right and you're going to get through this bit.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
It's important to not feel to not feel that you're
alone in it.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
You're the only one experiencing that.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
And that's usually when we talk about vulnerable situations and
stuff like that, it's people saying I thought I was
the only one. So my advice, I don't have twins,
My advice is, yes, seek out other people just so
that you can feel normal, right, but also like give
yourselves a break as intense as it's going to be
just checking with each other all the time. Yeah, because
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it's going to be intense.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Also, I mean, I guess like the other thing now
is is like you know, you're pregnant, you're having babies,
they're coming in nine months. It is also nine months
to prepare for what additional support you might have around you,
whether that's how other people in your life can show
up to help you know, whether it's grandparents or figuring
out daycare or does those what do those other support
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systems look like? Because I think everyone needs to have those.
Usually it's not until you're in the depths of parenting
that you realize, Fuck, I'm doing this all on my
own and I need some help. But I think if
you've got twins, it's probably going to be harder for
you to implement them after the fact. So like having
those really honest conversations with the people around you who
you might be able to lead on to see what
they like, how you can navigate this period if you
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need the help, would probably be the biggest that got
the biggest conversations to have now that you could, I
think as well, but far out. Honestly, twins. I struggle
with having two kids really really close in age for
the first eighteen months, but then it came. It got
really good after that, But that first eighteen months was part.
And you know, it comes down to whether you've got
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good sleepers or good eaters or good like you can
get unicorn babies akamally, and then you can get like
devil spawn sleepers like Lola who will only sleep if
they're sitting up right.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
You know, like there's total on you.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
There's totally different experiences of what a kid is and
ninety nine point nine percent of it comes down to sleeping.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah, for sure, And like I said.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
My advice is give yourselves a break and don't go
so hard on yourself if you feel like you've if
you feel you're in the thick of it and you're
doing something wrong, like just go easy on yourself a little,
because it's nothing worse than a baby telling you you're
doing the wrong thing, and then you get in your
own head and you're like, am I do I not
know how to do that?
Speaker 2 (41:25):
It just makes it worse.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
So just give yourself an opportunity to find people in
like minded situations so that you don't feel alone.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
Oh my god, I can't even imagine that moment of
sitting in the ultrasundroom and being like, holy shit, it's
twins and we have a baby at home.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Wild I don't Yeah, thankfully I've had a sex with me.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Well, I mean, like, I know you love talking about it, Ash,
but like about and I talking about whether you're wanting.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
To get another running a third.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Imagine if we ended up with twins and we ended
up with four kids, you name.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
One of them after me?
Speaker 1 (41:59):
No, Laura, as always, thank you for filling in the
void that is your husband.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Nobody can fill those shoes.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
I think you did a pretty good job.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Thank you, and also guys like thanks.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
I've had some nice messages from people who have listened,
so I really thank you to nobody.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
For sending me meet one. So I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Yeah, I need it for this self.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
A lot of people have been like, oh, it's great,
so see later, Matus be me, must be me.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Matt Harrison, you can run away again. I have your
own podcast.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
No, guys, it's been a real treat. Thank you so
much for having me. And maybe next week I'll be
in the South African jungle.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Meant to Matt, maybe you join me.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
But that it would be very funny. Make sure you
do vote. You can vote up to ten times a day,
although a friend of mine voted twenty two times yesterday.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
Absolutely so if you haven't seen, you can go on
to ten play and you can vote to save.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Matt for I'm a celebrity. Like the votes really count now.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
But the thing is is you can keep voting and
then you can refresh the page and vote again. It
says you can only vote ten times, but I voted
upward of twenty times some days. You just keep voting
until you get a message that says you have exhausted
all votes because you might get an error message. Just refrash, regain,
go again, go again until you see that you have
exhausted all votes message and that's it.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Wow, dis guys.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Yeah, if you miss you.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
As well, we haven't finished yet. Sorry, you never know.
Next week we.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Have Nick Cody on the on the pod who's filling
in for Matt and Laura that you potentially won't be here.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
We'll find out.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Anyways, what a suspenseful hook that was.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
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Speaker 4 (43:46):
I think you guys still have some calendars. We're getting
a bit deep in the year now. Maybe we'll discount
them soon, but us off and get your calendars for
the Rauntry Ranch.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Yes, all the money goes to Rise Up, a charity
that helps victims and families that are by domestic violence.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
So you don't even have to use the calendar. You
can just cut out the pictures of Ash and Matt
and put them up on your wall.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Cute. Yeah, very cute.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
Anyway, guys, that's it from us. Thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah you do.
Speaker 4 (44:19):
I actually do podcasting, so well you're back to you,
you really are.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Thank you. Can we snip that up please, I'd love
to keep that bit you do podcasting.
Speaker 4 (44:25):
You're a fantastic podcast so that any time like you
shit me, I'm like remember this.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
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people's today
I thought I shipped myself at the park. This is recently,
this is over the Christmas break, so obviously it's festive
festive season. Yes, I spent a lot of time on
the booze on the boozer, and we were down to.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The park and I was sitting there and I.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Slipped out a farts and I thought I shipped myself.
And I said to it, oh, I think I shipped myself.
Instead of like laugh, thought it was funny. She thought
it was disgusting.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
There is only that reaction to that.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
She was like so disappointed, and she was like, do
you know what that's divorcible?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh wow?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And I said that all it would take and she
was like, it's not very funny. Anyway, I wipe myself and.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I was clean.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
So you didn't chet yourself.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I didn't. It just felt like I did. How good
it feel like you did? Just the velocity of the fart.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Your fart.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Happy.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm happy that you guys are still happily married.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, but I know how to get at a quick divorce.
Just ship myself in public. Welcome back to two doting dads, well,
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one doting dad and another doting mom.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Laura, I'm back again.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I'm back, You're back. This is a podcast all about parenting.
It's the good, the bad, and the.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Relatable, reasonable reasonable, the reasonably relatable.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I didn't I wasn't going to tell you that shitting
myself story. I forgot till you just reminded me.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
What was it that I said that actually reminded you
because I can't.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Did you shoot yourself again? And I was like, I
was like, how do you know? No, it wasn't. It
wasn't a ship myself. I did shit myself the other day.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Though. No, we can't talk about me sitting myself. I
haven't said a single thing. I'm just sitting here with
my mouth closed.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
And the more silent I am, the craziest stuff comes
out of your mouth.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I want to tell you a little story actually before
we kick off.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Trap on in everyone.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
No, no, this happened yesterday last night. Actually. So I
live in close proximity to like.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
A group of shops that there's a couple of like restaurants, takeaway,
so convenient, convenient. It's just like it's just the hill.
So I ride my electric bike. It's great, nice, it
is nice. Had a couple of beers yes afternoon, and
I drove down to pick up. They do five dollars
tacos at this place, which is great. Not that that's
specifical any anything to do with the story, but all.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Of these flags all yeah, and the picture is that
you might have shuit yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
This is not a shit myself.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
It sounds like, sorry, Jess, she's just looking at us.
She's used to it, rolling her eyes like that, are
we here already?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
She gets paid?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Okay, I beg to do anyway. Anyway, So I rode
the electric bike down and what I do is I
don't ring this place to order. I go down order
because they do beers on tap, and I have a
beer away for the food.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's kind of like my little escape. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Nice, that's a little bit of metime. Fill my cup up,
as one would say. But anyway, I pulled up yesterday
my electric bike. I went, I ordered, got a beer,
sat near the door near my electric bike. I'm sitting
there mine my own business, and the lady come up
behind me and said, your food's ready and handed me
the food was in an Uber Eats bag.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I picked it up.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I walked over to my bike, sat on my bike,
and this guy leans over and he goes, have you
run out of content ideas? Have you? And I was
like what he was like, are you drive an Uber now?
Because I'm holding it over eats back.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I thought what you were going to say is that
because you had an e bike, the woman thought you
were an Uber driver.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, she does know that. She handed someone delivery.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No, no, no, no, no no, she handed me the bag.
But a fellow patron of the restaurant leaned over to
me and said, have you run out of content ideas?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And he was a delightful two doting dads listen.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, so if you are listening, thank you for that.
It was very funny and very comedically timed.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Do you remember his name?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
No, i'd even ask.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I just was like, fuck you, Just so you know,
I am not out of content ideas, and I don't
ride Uber to make ends meet.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And if you do, there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
There isn't no, there isn't anything wrong with that. Just
so the general public. No, I don't drive for Uber.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah. Unfortunately, if you were looking forward to receiving your
delicious tacos with hat show myself. I'm delivered by Ash,
it won't be happening. Hey, I have something that I
wanted to ask you, because when we're recording this, it's
a Wednesday. We're doing this in advance everyone, But in
terms of timing and what's happening in the world, tomorrow
is a very big day in both of our households,
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and that is because Oscar is starting school and Marley
is starting school.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
How are you feeling about it?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I should ask how Oscar's feeling about it, because I
know it's big for him, but I also think it's
it's like such a huge day in the life of
a for the first time that your kid's going to school.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, look, just really excited he's got I mean, I
think he'll be really exciting, really excited tomorrow morning when
he's in the uniform. He's got his school backpack on,
cry school hat on, and do you know what also
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is he's going to the same school I went to.
So it's a bit surreal in that way. I haven't
I think tomorrow I'll be a bit more emotional about it.
I haven't really put a lot of pressure on it
because I'm like, because that would just put pressure on him.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I thought you were about to say you hadn't put
much thought into it, and I was like, well, that
doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Thanks, No, I put a lot of thought into it.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, it's just I haven't openly shown a lot of
pressure about the whole situation because I don't want him
to feel any more pressure on him because he's only
a little boy, and I think it'd be really good
for him. He needs it, he needs the learning he needs.
Like Marley, like they're quite they're quite sponges. I mean,
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Lola and Macy a bit different. Always, Yeah, the first kid.
It's like I'm feeling tomorrow after he's off, and maybe
after we pick him up tomorrow, then I'll be like,
you know, I'll probably be able to decompress a bit
about it.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
We I mean, firstly, it's a big thing because Matt's
not here right so like and for Marley, she is
like such a little clone of Matt, Like there's such
their buddies. They do everything together. And I definitely think
that she's feeling it that Matt's not here in different ways.
She doesn't have how to communicate it, but she she
it makes her sad, you know, And he'd be.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So gutted, he would be so gut it completely.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
But when it comes to Marley's starting school tomorrow, so
many things, like Matt's usually the organizer in our household. Yeah,
he's the one that would organize the school uniforms. He's
the one that would like book in for the after
school activities, like stuff that normally gets done by him.
I find myself doing and I'm not very good with
the life admin side of things. So even yesterday I
bought their school unif her school uniform ages ago. But
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the uniform shop is closed and the only time it's
open is during the same duration that I'm at work,
so it's impossible.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Eight till eleven or something else.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Only open for one hour on a Wednesday, and I'm
in radio.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, They're like we could, Hey, you could buy you
could buy your kids uniform. However you need to come
at midnight between twelve and twelve oh one, and you
have to bring cash but not Australian currency. They make
it so hard, so hard. Yesterday I was like, April
was like, we need to just go by the school
and quickly grab something else. And I was like, okay,
no worries, and she was like, ah, they're closed.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I was like, oh okay. She was like yeah, they're
only open tween eleven and eleven oh five.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I'm like, fuck hell, they let certain people in.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Also, can we just say, like to all the parents
out there, who are the actual P and C committees
who run these things? Because no one's getting paid for
doing this stuff. So that's why that the opening hours
are so terrible. Lunch break, you're good people, better than
us anyway. Yeah, So Marley up until today, the day
before school, did not have a backpack.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
It did not have her school hat.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
She's got shoes, and she's got a hand me down
school uniform for her cousins.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
But nothing else wrong with that, Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
But there was something that felt really and miss sending
my kid to school without her dad and without like
two very important pieces of the uniform and my message.
Because there is this insane WhatsApp group now that's happening
with all of the parents.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Oh my god, kill me. I don't hate that.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
There is a hundred, one hundred people in a group chat.
Parents said in her group chat, it's the whole year.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I've never been in a more robust group chat in
my life. And every day.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's like who's kids doing soccer? Whose kids doing ballet?
Whose kids doing it? And I'm like, I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I do.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I genuinely can't wait to meet them all. I hope
maybe some of your listeners. But I'm a I'm a
group chat mute.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Usually yeah, I'm like five people in a group chat.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I'm like, this is a good number if I if
someone invites me to a group chat, there's got more
than five people in it. The next thing that comes
up on that group chat is ashes removed has left
the group. I've left the group and I don't care, no,
do you know.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
What we're taking the piece? But I will say this,
it was the first time that actually it really came
in handy because there was I was like, oh, I
have a question about school.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I don't have any uniform.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I was, I can ask the brains trust.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
So I messaged the massive WhatsApp group and I was like, hey, guys,
I'm in a bit of a pickle. I don't actually
have any of the stuff that I need. And so
many other parents were like, oh my god, asks either
like and then other parents were like, don't worry about
You could send your kid in a sequin gown and
they wouldn't care.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
At that school. They don't worry about it.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
So it made me feel heaps better and I was like, Okay,
maybe this, maybe this group chat thing was less.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Everyone's as useless as me. It's it is a lot,
it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I didn't do any of it, So you're one has
step ahead of me because April is our admin person. Yeah,
I'm doing everything without April.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The castle falls down.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It's like, I know that there was all this stuff
that you had to buy for your kids, but also
for the classroom as well. In certain instances.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Ash has not read a single form. I know that
there's stuff that you need for school. I remember going
once and I think I had a ruler.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, one of those flopping ones.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
It doesn't break, so I well, I don't know. Apparently
at the school that Marla's going to, you don't need
to take any stuff except for uniforms and you send
them school, like.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I use these gold pens.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
She's going to stay, Like, what's what's for lunch? Cavia, lobsters,
the usual.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
She's got a private chef.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, they've got a chef.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Shut Up's gone to public school too, and we had
like it was like a like a I had to
buy tissues.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
For the classroom and do you know what?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And that's fine because they're public schools and I'm happy
to do that, but I know some parents can't afford that,
sort of like can't afford the cost of living.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Look at me pretending like I care about everyone else.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Ash ash every week you do your dandas to get
yourself cancer and still here.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
It's to me.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
People expect it out of my man, They really do,
they do.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Look, I think one big thing I want to say
though about this, because like I would have loved to
have been able to do this record after we'd taken
them to school, like I know exactly like how they
reacted and everything else. But there's part of me that
feels way more emotional thinking about it than I thought
I would. And I and I think that part of
that is because I think back on when I was
in primary school and imagining how big everything felt, like
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that school becomes the center of your world. The friends
that you have at that school become the center of
your world, Like the little crush you have on that
boy that actually doesn't matter in the loring run. You
think that that's like the most important thing. And and
I guess like for me knowing that like Mally's gonna
have those experience is in school and she's going to
have to like figure out what it is to socialize
with real friends and to have friendship breakups and all
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that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
This is the start of that And that's a lot
to think.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
About it like that, and it just reminds me of
like I have.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I have thought about it like this a little bit
as well, Like I've thought about like the experiences and
the emotions that I had.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yeah, like think about the first girl you had a
crush on in primary school April.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
No, it made me think about because it's the start
of term and I was a one of those kids
that used to cry every term at the start.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
So plus, yeah, that wasn't me. I was like, get
me out of my house and go back to school.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
But it made me think about how I felt because
I used to walk to the same school, the same
primary school. My mum used to walk me. She used
to get the bus from out the front of the
school and go into the city. And you know, two
working parents. I barely saw them really, but like it may,
I remember going back to school every term right up
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until I went to high school and I would.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Cry, Oh, that breaks my heart, thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And it makes me think, like Oscar's got gonna have
those feelings of what I felt going to and I
can't really remember what those feelings were, but I think
I just wanted to be home with my mom. I
think I just wanted to be home with my parents.
But I look at him now and I'm like, you're
going to have those feelings, and it does scare me
(13:33):
a little bit, because you're right, everything about what's going
to happen from tomorrow is going to shape the person,
the person they're going to become.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
The friend.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Like, yes, he's going with his friends, which is great,
but there's so much of the unknown that he doesn't
know yet that's coming tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
And there's also no way of explaining to a kid that, like,
none of this stuff is going to matter when you're
twenty or you're thirty. Absolutely, but it is the biggest
thing that happens to them. And you know, and I
just think about like girls that were mean to me,
all things that happened, and at the time, it was
absolutely soul destroyingly devastating.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, And it's.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Because it's everything, it's a whole world, And I think
the thing that makes me emotional is like I fear
for Maley having those feelings and not being able to
fix it, and also knowing that I can't fix it,
and I shouldn't fix it because that's like the essence
of resilience building exactly right.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But I want to fix it. I don't want it
to feel that way.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I don't want You don't want to put your kids
in a position where they're going to have to feel
those big those feelings that when you were a kid
now and as an adult when you look back and
you're like, the embarrassing things you did, the little bits
and pieces that you did that you look back that
sort of sit in your mind subconsciously, that a little
bit traumatic in a way. You don't want them to
(14:46):
feel that. You're like, I want everything to be happy
for you, want everything to be but it's you're right,
it's so good for them to like experience the sadness
of having to go back to school, because then you're like,
I appreciate the other things outside of.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
It, maybe, and they also all need to embarrass themselves,
like a talent show or something like that's just the
first day.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It's a Bride of Passage. We've all been there.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I once stood on stage and sung Tears on My
Pillow by Celindon.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
And did big arm actions, and then.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I got bullied for an entire year for it because
I fucking deserved it, to be honest, that is good
gear years on my pillow, that's great pain.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
And I was in year three in my heart God
like you Sorr.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You just lost a whole lot of subscribers.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Then I remember, and I've told this story on the
pot I think before where one of the teachers created
it because there was always like dance class and stuff
like promise you. So they decided that they wanted to
have an all boys dance class, and me and all
my friends joined, and then we got bullied for.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It and we all quit. We quit the boy band.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
The teacher cried, oh so, And now I look back
back then, I was like, but now I'm like, oh no,
because she was like, this is something back then would
have been like, this is an all boys dance class.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
This is cool, man done something think of like Backstreet boys.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You were that actually screams that you were living out
her dream.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Not yours.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
That's what that's and then we all went we all
got bullied for it, and we're like.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh, that sounds like a teacher that has attachment issues.
This issue is just like it's like mister g oh
summer high TI.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, it was like she was like that.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
She was like, you've got like a professional quality at
a teacher's price.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
And then she's like I've got an all boys dance crew.
Oh wait.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
They all just quit and she cried and I felt
horrible about it, but like we all got bullied for that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Still when I bring it up, the other bullied for it.
I'm still forty. We're talking about forty.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Old?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Are you me? It's a secret thirty five? I'm thirty
five this year?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Are you you are a baby?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Fuck? This one shits me. People are like thirty six
and they're like.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Oh, you're just a little boby, little boby, we should
be talking about you as a child.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Look a little baby baby. I'm starting to sweat.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I'm thirty nine.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
In a couple of weeks, I know. April asked me
and she was like, how was Laura. I was like.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Old, she's fast dust, She's that old.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Literally, Yeah, everything's got a pension guard. Everything creaks now
my back hurts, but for no reason.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I like hurt my ribs.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
It's just because I've sneezed.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, but you sleep wrong?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yeah well that no, that's actually happens. My shoulders heard
every night from sleeping. But that's a whole other story. Okay,
look something else. Getting away from the kids and stop.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
What did you get the backpack? And do you get
the hat?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I think so. I think I think that Annie Kate
went and picked him up.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Matts sister. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
She Everyone was like Molly can't go to school without
these things.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, because people rallied.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah, you know what, It's like I've experienced with Oscar
before where in terms of inclusivity. So I think we
went to like rugby training once and it was it
was like the first rugby training when no one had
any kid, blah blah blah. I think maybe we were
a week It might have been a week late because
we were away and we went to the first training
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with Oscar and he was just in normal clothes and
everyone was in their kids start and their kid and
it broke him and I felt horrible not to put
any pressure on you.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
But it's good, like I said, resilience building if she
goes there with her Gabby Dollhouse backpack, she's going to
either be like I stand out on I'm a star,
or she's going to be like, Okay, this is a hurdle.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
This is going to be one of those things that
he hid in the bathroom for fuck.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And look, it doesn't kill you, make too strong.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Exactly, and like he's never been the same, but he's fine.
He recovered, all right.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I did want to talk to you about something that
I know has been really upsetting for you lately. We've
been talking about it in group chats. Oh yeah, the
Australian media has been talking about it. And if anything,
I'm worried about the future of this podcast to be honest.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, Look, I don't know if you should be worried
for me. Are worried for Matt? Because I've reached worried
for me, I've reached out. No, I don't worry about you.
I've reached out to all the.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Other lifeguards on Bondai Rescue and now we're all chummy.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Have you really?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I'm just getting some backup.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
After that reeks of desperation.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Don't know, I'm just out of BONDI going.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
So if you don't know what we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Obviously Matt being on I'm a Celebrity, he has striped
up quite a romance with Harrison, who is one of
the lifeguards from Bondai Rescue.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
They've called themselves Marison. I think that just sucks.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I got the instant dick for my own husband, Marathon.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Surely we go out with something other.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Than that, So we had to do these.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Sandra Sully comes on. So if you haven't watched IM
a celeb or a whole season before, about three quarters
of the way through, so I would say any day now,
Sandra Sully comes on with this like news from Home segment.
Oh yeah, yeah, so like she'll read out letters from
loved ones or she'll show photos from loved ones. No
one called me for all the big things that they're
miss You picked her on the emails.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You didn't get that email. I'm not on an email.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I would have made something, okay, So like news from Home, right,
and my my news from Home was like some things
were funny, some things that were obviously nice and sentimental,
like Lola had her fourth birthday, and then at the
end of it, I was like Harrison stopp cutting my grass.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I was like, I really hope they include that. Stop
cutting my grass more like it.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
My mother in law yesterday said to me, she was like,
how do you feel about it?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And I'm like what she was like, She's like.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Oh, we love a bromance and it's it's a it's
a good move.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It is a good it is a good move.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Australia does love a bro mat I love it.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And look, I'm on it seems like a nice guy.
It's got no kids, so it's got no life experience.
I'm not bitter at all.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
That's not two things that, to be fair, I think
I would normally find them really funny.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I found one of them quite funny. But one of them,
I was.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Like, that made me kind of annoyed at you what.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Because I know, I know, are you watching math?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It's it's not it's my husband.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
No.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
So there's been two things that he's done.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
The first thing, and let me put this in perspective,
I am very sensitive because I'm on my own at
the moment, like I'm doing everything with the kids and
managing multiple like I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Managing a renovation, like, but I'm doing a lot.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I'm doing a lot of plus I'm also managing his
social media, Like I can't be doing any.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
More recording podcast? What else am I doing? You might
as well just be him too. So I'm doing a.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Lot of stuff for him to support him.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Can I just say one thing?
Speaker 1 (21:59):
You do a great job?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Thanks, Ash, That's what I needed all.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Listen's going to love that.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
See everyone, Ash's got a heart. So there was this
joke around and it was kind of like a like
a trivia how well do you know your camp mates?
And so it was a question this or that and
there and the rest of the camp mates had to
guess what they thought the person who had been asked
the question would guess. So, for example, Matt went into
(22:23):
a room and he his question was, if you won
a holiday to Bali, who would you take your wife?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Or Harrison hilarious.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Hilarious, I can take a joke.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Would have found that very funny had I not had
a really hard day with the kids. So he came
out and was like, all very funny, ha ha. The
stupid thing though, is like the camp mates were objectively like, Okay,
how would he really answer this? Like what's the honest answer?
What would any normal husband write down? And they wrote
down Laura.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Oh you take your mates, and then stands there and.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
He's like, I know that this is going to piss
off Laura. He also said some zings. He's like, I
know that this upset her.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
He's like, but I'm taking And the grand reveal was
Harrison and everyone who was because I was watching with
Falcon and a couple of Matt's really good friends and
everyone was like so funny, and.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I just could feel the lack of laughter on my face.
I was watching the.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
TV like stoneface.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I can't fucking wait to go on a Bali girls
trip and you're not coming.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And that's the first thing I'm going to do when
you get home.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
And then the second thing he said recently was that
he'd rather eat a mango than have sex with me
live on National TV.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
So that's okay.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
This is what I wanted to ask you because I
have been in and out watching.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I've got a laugh too.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
You're not a dedicated viewer.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
No, it's the ads, man, it kills you.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
And also that's a ADHD sit through an Adverbs.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Also went to have an ADHD appointment today stood me up,
which is.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
So annoying because I mean, you being organized is part
of the thing, Like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I was.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
It was a telehealth and it was like, you're in
the lobby and I was like, it's been thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You need to check that you actually got the time right. No,
I did. I figured that that but your mistake A
there's mine?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
No, no, no, that was a true question.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It was theirs.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
You shouldn't even have to go for the diagnoses, like
you should just be like I missed the appointment because
I was disorganized.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
It was in it and I was like to Apral'm like,
I've been in this virtual lobby for like fifteen twenty minutes.
She's like, maybe this is the test. It is and
forty minutes. Anyway, I got a call from them. I
fixed it anyway, just skewed us off track there, Sorry,
what was I saying?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, I can't I can't.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, I can't sit through that long of anything, like
I cannot do it.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
We know, Oh, okay, just just check it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I can't stop fidgiting with things anyway. And I missed
the mango thing and I forgot to ask our producer, yes,
what it meant?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
So the mango for anyone who did miss it, and
may have seen that. I'd post it on Matt Stories.
I was on his grid. Was that basically they've split
the team now, so it's women verse men. The men
won the challenge that the men got the food that night,
and the food was steak and vegetables, and then for dessert,
the dessert is like the elite dessert.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
They got a mango or multiple mangoes.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Right, that's pretty good. And the women's team were obviously
super upset by it because they were starving having rice.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And horrible beans.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
She's got some The beans are so flavorless because there's
no salt, there's no nothing. And the boys had like
the best meal ever. And so Matt's sitting there and
he's like eating the mango and he goes, I know,
I shouldn't say this out loud, and he's like, then
then says it a completely normal volume. He's like, I
shouldn't say this out loud, but I'm going to say
it so that everybody hears.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
He's like, if I had the choice between having sex
with my.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Wife and eating this mango, I would choose this mango.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
That's fair.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I think that's fair saying to be honest.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Fair.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, I think if April was like, either you can
have sex with me or you can eat this delicious mango.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Oh can you color up for me?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But can you do it with the little lines?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah? Look, I mean I saw that was just in
the moment.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yeah, And do you know what's funny is that the
producers so like I get emails most days from like
different producers to tell me and update me on things
because I can't speak to him, but I do get
bits of updates, and every day it's almost like they're
just reassuring me that he does actually miss me, because
every day they're like, I know it didn't make it
onto the show, but he talks about you and the
girls all the time. Just just want you to know
how much he loves you and adores you. And I
(26:29):
was like, thanks for that, because what you're showing doesn't
really reply.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I'm a bit but hurt the mango just maybe one
sentimental moment we can have anything at all.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I'm just jealous of a fucking mango and Harrison at
this point and yeah, exactly me too. Actually, did I
tell you?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Did I tell you?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
My sister was like, hey, are you holding up to me?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
It's because everybody is worried that the absolute wheels fall
off this wagon without mad here.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
They're like fuckingh on his arm.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
No, she was like, you pretty much were inseparable for
two years and then now you can't have in con him,
And that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
That's what it's like. It must be for you for
years and then now you carr contact him. Yes, except
ash I have children with him, so doesn't matter. Speaking
of my children, There's one other thing I wanted to
tell you. So Lola, Lola has.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I don't know how to describe her.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I know that you guys have.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Talked about Lola a lot on the show, obviously, like
she is a unique little character.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
She is full of personality.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
How did you describe her on your podcost I called.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Her the personality higher of our family.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
But I think that that actually might be quite offensive
and maybe, no, it's not the way I meant it
to be.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
She's just so annoying. No, she's so funny. She is
very funny.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
She's just like so different to any other kid I've
ever met.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
You never know, and I noticed this with Lola from
the outside looking in. And look, I think I have
a pretty good relationship with Lola. I'm like, Matt, you
don't know what face she's going to pull at you
when she looks at you.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
You have no idea what you're going to get, what
you're going to get.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
To me, she is quite consistent normally because she has
Matt to hate. But I just get like the most.
I don't even know how to describe it. Like, so,
for example, when I leave for work in the morning,
she'll be like, mmy, kiss me, and I get like
this routine of kisses, right, this is how she says
goodbye to me every day. And she's very specific about
little things. But she'll kiss me on the lips. Then
she'll kiss me on this cheek, kiss me on this cheek,
(28:20):
kiss me here on the nose, kiss me here on
the head, kiss each ear.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Then she'll go back and do that whole rotation again.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Then she'll say I have to hug you twice, and
so then she hugs me twice, and then I'll be out.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The door and she'll be like one.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
More time, one more time.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
And she just is a genuinely a very sweet and
funny kid, and she has very big feelings. And I
think it's because she can't and doesn't know how to
control them more, communicate them properly, yet that sometimes they overflow,
and that's what Matt often cops. The problem is is
that there's no one else for her to direct that
at at the moment, So it is one hundred percent
(28:53):
all love for me and all hate for me, Like
I'm getting everything at the moment. Yeah, happy, she's four now,
Everyone who lit Lola? So she knows she can't hit me, right.
We've had many conversations about it because often when she
gets so like you know, upper level in terms of
like her anger or energy, the only way that she
(29:15):
kind of like explodes is that she starts hitting. She
either hits her sister or she hits me, and she
really really hits now, like she's quite a big little.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Mate. It really big wind up from across the room.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Yeah, so she she hit me so hard in the face.
There was when I was talking about do you remember
the other week I was mentioning how she hit me
in the face. So we had some big chats about that.
She hasn't hit me since, but oh god, and oh
is it a butt?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So she what she hits?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
So now she goes to hit me and I'm like,
you're not allowed to hit me, Lola like with stern voice,
and she gets so enraged by the fact that she
can't hit me and wants to that she goes and
then she'll turn around, grab her butt cheeks and just
moon me, just full cheek moon just and screaming whilst
whilst I have an angry little buttthole staring at me,
(30:06):
and she'll full moon me with the most aggressive moon
you have ever seen a toddler do.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
How is that now? Her like coping Megan is and
I don't know. I don't know how we've got here
in public.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
She only does it at home, and it's because she's
often naked, so like she never wears clothes this kid,
and I notice that she's always naked. But even when
she is not naked, she'll like, ah.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
They try to rip her shirt off, RiPP her pants
down quick quick. I got to get my butt out.
I'm so angry.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
What the coping.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Mechanisms to moon me?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's like a way of it's definitely her way of,
like I'm going to act out even more.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
What do I need to do? Skin? Skin?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
But I can't react to it, so like I can't.
It's actually really hard because I want to laugh, but
I can't do anything because I think if I get
annoyed at her or I react in anyway, she will
just in her head be like, oh cool, that's working.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I'll keep doing that.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well it's funny. So that's it.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
That's where we're at now.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Now we've gone from her hitting me to her full
blown mooning me.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I think every improvement, do you think? Yeah, I don't
know what I prefer.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I'm not going back to hitting me.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Can you stop that? Can you just hit me with
everything you've got? Please? If you could put more clothes
on and then hit me, that'd be great, preferently in
the eyes, so I'd never have to see that again.
That's good, that's good anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
My look, I think the naked thing is a second
child thing, and it like Macy.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
They just don't give a fuck.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, they don't care, they.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Don't feel embarrassment, they don't feel anything.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, Macy has tried to be more helpful around the house.
I would say she doesn't really get angry. She's she's
very much at the moment where she talks back a
lot because I just don't think she gets it. It's infuriating.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
What is she saying?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Just no?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
She drives furiates me. I'm like, Macy, can you move now?
Fucking hell? Fuck me. But she started to try and
be more helpful around the house, which is great. So
she'll take things to the bin, she'll put things back
like where she thinks that they go.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
That's kind of handy. She can get her to do stuff. Yeah,
take your nappy to the bin and then they do it.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Do you find the nappy like in your bed?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Oh fucking well, Like I'll get out of the bed,
I'll roll over and I'll roll into a fucking nappy
from the night before.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I'm like, oh Jesus.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
But she blamed Macie because you left a nappy in
the bed.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
And I'm blaming her, blaming the three year old. But
she she's gotten so helpful. The other day, I went
and got into the shower.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It's not a rare occurrence. I shower every day, so
you know, thank you.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
And she's learned how to open the door because April
she always walks in on April in the shower.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
But she walked in on me to be helpful.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
She rang, I left my phone in the lounge room,
and she thought that I might need it in the shower.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Because you're always on your phone.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
No, she just thought that's it just belonged. I suppose
it belongs in my hand.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Anyway, she actually walked in, she was like, dade it.
I was like like, move the shower curtain and I
was like yeah, Like what's up.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
She's like, here you go.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
She's like, you left your phone and I'm like, oh,
Like how do I get angry with her?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
She's trying to be helpful. I'm like, not not in
the shower. She's like no, no, no, here go, and she
won't take no for an answer. So I'm standing there
in the shower holding my phone. The shower's on, and I.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Was like to Able, I'm like April, it's like what
Maces like okay, bye, and just like left me with
the phone in the shower and Abril just pokes it
everyd of the corn and she goes, I'll give it here,
take my phone.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
My phone's drench.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I think it's I like this age.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I like the age because you can use it to
your advantage, Like it is helpful when you can call
out to your kid and they bring you things you're
like toilet reap. Yes, yes, that's the only reason I
had kids. There, I said it.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
That wow.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Yeah, and also now you never have to be without
your phone, thanks Mabee.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
She's actually waterlogged and water Cameron doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
But I you know, when she was doing and I
was like, oh, you do that thing where you go, oh,
thank you, like you want to encourage them being helpful
even though they're not. They're actually costing me thousands.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Of dollars for pretty much.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
The toilet paper one is really good because yeah, I
used to be like April out a toilet paper and
she'd be like, oh half and puff and grunt and
carry on to make me feel bad about shitting.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Everyone shits. But then I'll be like, may see or
Oscar He's like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
The problem with asking a kid though, is then they
come into the bathroom then they never leave.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
In the middle of doing a pol folds his arm,
leans on the world. Yes, what did you doing? That
was me this morning.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I was trying to do a bo when Molly came
in and wanted to tell me about her dream, and
I was like, let's have a chat.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
She just sat on the floor in front of me,
and we had let's spill some tea. There's nowhere else
to go kill some tea where you drop off some pook.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Totally, that's exactly how it happened.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
April.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Also, the kids like always go like, they don't walk
in on me and the toilet because I think, but
they always.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I always I walk past.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
The toilet and doors open, and April's there doing a
week and I'm like, what are you doing? She's like,
I just thought it'd be easy if I just left
the door open. I'm like, why she's given up.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
They're going to come in, and she's given up because
she knows exactly how this goes down.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
That's what that is.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
You can't see my toilet unless you're literally walking down
the hallway.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
And then you're like, you.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Have your own toilets?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
No? No, no, like, no, fuck off? How many bathrooms
you got we.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Live in a palace. Yeah, that's right. The castle has
like twelve bathrooms. Once for mummy, which is Ellie, once
for Matthew, it's my husband, shut up, I'm the kids,
and then there's the sweet that's mine.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
So mine.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Do we have any questions?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
No, hang on, I'm finished. Get to the barb fucking
fish boy, don't rush me anyway.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
What was I saying?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I don't know something about doing a ship and your
kids watching?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Oh no, I always come around the corner. Well, I
come around the corner and April's on the toll and I'm.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Like you as then it scares you that she's on
the loop.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Yeah, because I was like, shut the door. None were, but.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Then we're a door open family. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
So okay, if April is taking a ship with the
door open, that's that's a no for me.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
But doing away fine. The other day.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
The other day she was doing away the door open,
and I made a laugh and she fared into a bowle.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Don't don't want this to be anyway.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Let's get into some listener question.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Should we were moving on that quick? Whose podcast isn't there?
We're going to sit here all day and talk about ship.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
We started with ship and we're ending the ship.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Okay, this is from Harley.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Harley, don't try all right, let me it is.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Harley says, we just found out we are having twins.
Damn can right?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
No double the fun.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
No, We're already have a nearly two year old, so
we'll have three under three.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Ah, any tips with twins?
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Do you know who had a similar situation to this?
A woman named Tigan Natoli. She had basically had one
child and then had no twins, and then one or
one and then twins.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
It must have been one of the twins, because like,
if you had twins and like I got two, then
like why would you have your third? No?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
I think she like accidentally got pregnant, like literally was
in postpartum and accidentally got pregnant, like very very shortly afterwards. No,
but there's what I mean is is and the reason
why I'm bringing her up is because it might be
nice now for you to seek out people who are
on social media who have been in similar situations.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
And she's talked about it a lot.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
She works for Mama Mia, who's a competing podcast, but
she works for them and has done a lot of
write ups around what it was to parent like three
children under the age of two, Like what an insanity,
insane thing that they had to do. But they survived it,
and you know, they have this beautiful family and the
kids are now all a little bit older, and they
had this amazing relationship. And you know, I think the
(38:12):
first few years you don't need anyone to tell you
how hard that's going to be.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
It's going to be super hard.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
But then you're going to get to the phase of
when your youngest are two and they're all friends and
they can all bring you to all the paper at
the one time and genuinely like.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Just sit at the same time. You'll all be there
with a full audience to watch.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
But the thing is is like the really really hard
intensity of that early parenting part, like which I don't
think anyone unless they've lived the experience of having twins
can give you advice on that is not forever. And
sometimes it feels like it's forever when you're in it,
and then you wake up one day and your kids
are going to school.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
You know, it just it does. It doesn't last.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
It's not not going to be hard like that, like
regardless whether it's one. It's like it's hard with one,
just like what you're doing with that one. It's just
going to be double.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Like surely there has to be like community groups on Facebook,
and and I think like seeking out people who are
in the same situation is going to be like the
most the most comforting thing that you can do, because
it's going to remind you that, Okay, you're going to
be all right and you're going to get through this bit.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
It's important to not feel to not feel that you're
alone in it.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
You're the only one experiencing that.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
And that's usually when we talk about vulnerable situations and
stuff like that, it's people saying I thought I was
the only one. So my advice, I don't have twins,
My advice is, yes, seek out other people just so
that you can feel normal, right, but also like give
yourselves a break as intense as it's going to be
just checking with each other all the time. Yeah, because
(39:43):
it's going to be intense.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Also, I mean, I guess like the other thing now
is is like you know, you're pregnant, you're having babies,
they're coming in nine months. It is also nine months
to prepare for what additional support you might have around you,
whether that's how other people in your life can show
up to help you know, whether it's grandparents or figuring
out daycare or does those what do those other support
(40:04):
systems look like? Because I think everyone needs to have those.
Usually it's not until you're in the depths of parenting
that you realize, Fuck, I'm doing this all on my
own and I need some help. But I think if
you've got twins, it's probably going to be harder for
you to implement them after the fact. So like having
those really honest conversations with the people around you who
you might be able to lead on to see what
they like, how you can navigate this period if you
(40:27):
need the help, would probably be the biggest that got
the biggest conversations to have now that you could, I
think as well, but far out. Honestly, twins. I struggle
with having two kids really really close in age for
the first eighteen months, but then it came. It got
really good after that, But that first eighteen months was part.
And you know, it comes down to whether you've got
(40:48):
good sleepers or good eaters or good like you can
get unicorn babies akamally, and then you can get like
devil spawn sleepers like Lola who will only sleep if
they're sitting up right.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
You know, like there's total on you.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
There's totally different experiences of what a kid is and
ninety nine point nine percent of it comes down to sleeping.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah, for sure, And like I said.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
My advice is give yourselves a break and don't go
so hard on yourself if you feel like you've if
you feel you're in the thick of it and you're
doing something wrong, like just go easy on yourself a little,
because it's nothing worse than a baby telling you you're
doing the wrong thing, and then you get in your
own head and you're like, am I do I not
know how to do that?
Speaker 2 (41:25):
It just makes it worse.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
So just give yourself an opportunity to find people in
like minded situations so that you don't feel alone.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
Oh my god, I can't even imagine that moment of
sitting in the ultrasundroom and being like, holy shit, it's
twins and we have a baby at home.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Wild I don't Yeah, thankfully I've had a sex with me.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Well, I mean, like, I know you love talking about it, Ash,
but like about and I talking about whether you're wanting.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
To get another running a third.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Imagine if we ended up with twins and we ended
up with four kids, you name.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
One of them after me?
Speaker 1 (41:59):
No, Laura, as always, thank you for filling in the
void that is your husband.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Nobody can fill those shoes.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
I think you did a pretty good job.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Thank you, and also guys like thanks.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
I've had some nice messages from people who have listened,
so I really thank you to nobody.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
For sending me meet one. So I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Yeah, I need it for this self.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
A lot of people have been like, oh, it's great,
so see later, Matus be me, must be me.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Matt Harrison, you can run away again. I have your
own podcast.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
No, guys, it's been a real treat. Thank you so
much for having me. And maybe next week I'll be
in the South African jungle.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Meant to Matt, maybe you join me.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
But that it would be very funny. Make sure you
do vote. You can vote up to ten times a day,
although a friend of mine voted twenty two times yesterday.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
Absolutely so if you haven't seen, you can go on
to ten play and you can vote to save.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Matt for I'm a celebrity. Like the votes really count now.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
But the thing is is you can keep voting and
then you can refresh the page and vote again. It
says you can only vote ten times, but I voted
upward of twenty times some days. You just keep voting
until you get a message that says you have exhausted
all votes because you might get an error message. Just refrash, regain,
go again, go again until you see that you have
exhausted all votes message and that's it.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Wow, dis guys.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Yeah, if you miss you.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
As well, we haven't finished yet. Sorry, you never know.
Next week we.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Have Nick Cody on the on the pod who's filling
in for Matt and Laura that you potentially won't be here.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
We'll find out.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Anyways, what a suspenseful hook that was.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
If you enjoy this episode, please leave us a review
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Speaker 2 (43:37):
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Speaker 4 (43:46):
I think you guys still have some calendars. We're getting
a bit deep in the year now. Maybe we'll discount
them soon, but us off and get your calendars for
the Rauntry Ranch.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Yes, all the money goes to Rise Up, a charity
that helps victims and families that are by domestic violence.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
So you don't even have to use the calendar. You
can just cut out the pictures of Ash and Matt
and put them up on your wall.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Cute. Yeah, very cute.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
Anyway, guys, that's it from us. Thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah you do.
Speaker 4 (44:19):
I actually do podcasting, so well you're back to you,
you really are.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Thank you. Can we snip that up please, I'd love
to keep that bit you do podcasting.
Speaker 4 (44:25):
You're a fantastic podcast so that any time like you
shit me, I'm like remember this.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Sorry. Two Doting dads.
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