September 2, 2025 • 49 mins
Ash has given Oscar, 6, a fresh new look as he prepares for Book Week (when does it end!)
Matt, on the other hand, has made a stupid parenting error after letting Lola, 4, enjoy a Sunday afternoon nap that went a little too long...the consequences showed up a few hours later.
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- How do you respond when your child asks whether the Easter Bunny is or isn't real?
- What do you think is the right age to have kids?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't let me forget. The chicken pie needs five more
minutes to remind me. Someone reminds me five minutes. The
chicken pie needs to come out of the oven. Also,
it's a really shit chicken pine. I'm so annoyed because
I set it up and I filmed it for stories.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's funny though. Everyone had a good time, did we?
Did we? It smells good, it smells delicious. I'll tell
you what. I'll remind you when it burns five minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Okay, okay, go back to.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Two gutting dads.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'm Mattie Jay and I'm an.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
This is a podcast all about parenting.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It is the good, it is the bad and the
chicken pie.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And if you come for chicken pie, welcome five minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Remind us. In five minutes, the chicken pie will be ready.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I'm going to forget. I know I'm going to get
to this episode. The chicken pie.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's not for me.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Chicken pie is for Laura because I was very dumb
and you and me we're going to the snow to
do You and I are driving to the snow this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Can't wait.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I told Laura very last minute that I was going
on a Tuesday. She thought I was going Wednesday, which
was the original plan. Was the plan? So and so
then I was last night. I was like, hey, here's
a chicken pie. She does love a chicken pie.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Ye, it was actually like from last week. It was
very lovely. So I do. And people really want the
recipe before we start housekeeping bam with the recipe.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I'm not giving it away. No, no, I'm holding onto that.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And started cooking book.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I think we are No, it's I will put in
the show notes. Do we want to give away the
chicken pie? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Will in the Facebook.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I'll put in the Facebook. They very good.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Give it to the community. Whatever, Just give it to
the whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
See if you got to tell Laura that we're going tonight.
So then man, just the logistics of it all Ash
try and she's like, well, who's getting the kids?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And I was like, fuck, I completely understand.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I've got a message.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
This is from Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Jimmy wrote into us and he has something that relates
to a segment we haven't run in a while called
Petty Couple. Love that Okay, so Jimmy says, and this
is from Instagram. You can contact us through Instagram. We
love it, we replied every message. Do we.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Jimmy says, I've just got your episode about being petty
with your partner after an argument. Once we got over
it talking about him and his partner, I'll boil the
kettle with not enough water in it for a full
coffee or tea for both me and my wife. I'll
start doing jobs around the house to make it look
(02:53):
like I'm an amazing person that I ask my wife
if she wants a brew, the answer will be yes.
Then tell her the kettle is just boiled. Then when
she makes it, she would give me the full one
because I've been such a good husband, and she gets
a three quarter full cup and I've contrived it all
either petty or an evil genius.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
That's borderline evil genius.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Still love the pod.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Thank you, that's great. That's great. And I am cooking
up something. I am cooking something about hetty couples and
just in maybe next week I'll have it ready gone.
I don't want to. There was a tease in case
April hears this, She's she's gonna be like, what the
fuck is it?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Just to wait? Chicken pie is not ready.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Just a reminder it's part of this housekeeping that we
now have at the front of the episode. We are
doing a live show, Matthew, I'm not sure if you
remember what.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yes, I actually did get the dates wrong, the days wrong.
What well, I just I knew it was in the fourth,
but I've booked in other things around the fourth as well.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Anyway, could be the fourth of then at any time.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It's next Thursday.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
No, sorry, this Thursday. This is tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
This, this is tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm confused.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
The reason why I'm confused because people don't know we
record this.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
They do, You've already told them.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I know this new listeners.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay, cool, So just say what Matt's referring to, is
we record this a week before it's released. Yes, that's
how we see.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Today's a Wednesday. Upon release tomorrow Thursday the fourth.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
So Thursday week from now we will be having well
it's fucking tomorrow. Tomorrow from now we will be having
a lot having We'll be doing a live show. Just
as rolling your eyes and checking your head at me.
We are doing a live show at the Apple Store.
What on George Street. Yeah, it's on the corner. It's
a lovely building. It's free.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It is free.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Link in the show notes register please, well how much
is it free?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It is free?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
It is free.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
What will we talk about? Well, you can help with that.
You can help with that out, you can last minute,
last minute editions. We want your pair rants, we want
your parenting lights. Submit them to us. However, you like
social media.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And it is a free show, so we won't be giving.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Up that much what we're trying to sell.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Joke, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's going to be great, but I do like how
to manage their expectations.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You got to just gaze.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Ash and I will be together in person, in the flesh.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
What are you gonna wear?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Sex?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You are not what I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Maybe this blue shirt that I'm wearing right now.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Very sky blue. You're going to be like the blue
sky at night. Put that on T shirt.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Moving on. Okay, you may have seen Ash. You may
have seen on my social media. I have been dealing
with some issues at home.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Before you get into that, because it's quite meaty, and
I just got something really quick to run by that
I should have put in housekeeping, because we're still in housekeeping.
So god, oh, it's come to my attention.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I'll let you know when we're out of housekeeping.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Okay, thank god, finally I can relax. You might already
know this, but I didn't know this, and I was
baffled by this. And this is the opening song to Bluie.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Mhm.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Do you understand what's happening in that opening song, in.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
The sequence of the picture or the song, the whole thing.
I can't really remember the intro, mum, because they're dancing
in the blue background.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, but what do you What game do you think
they're playing?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Are they playing a game?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
They're just dancing musical statues?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Did you not know that?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I thought you would know that for sure. So Mom,
frozen statue? Dad whatever, blah blah blah blah blah. What.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Do you know? Who told me that? A six year old?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Who are you hanging out with my son? Mally?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I didn't even know that. How does he had a ask?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You know that?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Though they talk at school? Apparently there's all the rage
on the playground. It's circulating the school. Everyone's baffled. It's true.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
How I have I thought I saw someone outside. It
was just the washing line. That is Wow, I love,
I love. There's so many little nuggets and Bluey.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
There's interesting facts.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, the guy who plays the voice of Dad has
like emerged and started to do like like behind the
scenes stuff really interesting. But has he gone rogue? I know,
he's just like there's so many questions about the show,
and it's obviously the most stream show in the world,
which is Astray, which is a fucking hats off to
ever created that.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Can I just can I tell you one fact as
well that will blow your mind about BLA.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I love this apparently and it's about dogs.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And don't quote me on this because I read it
somewhere a long time ago and I'm kind of just
trying to recall the facts. But apparently ABC, who commissioned
the show, well, do we want the worldwide rights? Nah,
we don't want that. We'll have the rights for Australia.
And then BBC got the rights for merch and for
like global streaming, so now they worth billions of dollars.
(08:13):
It's crazy, ABC, What were you doing?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Ah? They're they're like a government funded or whatever. They
have no idea what they're doing over there. But it
is like like at the moment that blue Converse are out,
it's bluey lego, the blue the be is lit they
I'm all about it.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Anything bluey on it. It could be like Bluie broccoln
and they'd be.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Like, yeah, I know, I love it crazy. Anyway, that
was my little factot. I thought you. I thought you
would know because you know much more than me. Thank you. Well, yeah, anyway,
back to the wall.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Sorry, do I check the pie now?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Check the pile? Later, check the pie?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Do you want the pie out now?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
With later?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You're call You're call up to you.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Oh, I would just I would definitely get it out.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I only give it to more minutes after housekeeping.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
All right, after housekeeping, keating, there will be pie.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Okay, we are still in housekeeping. You may have seen
on social media that I had an incident at my house.
Oh yeah, the other week on Friday, it was very
windy after what I think the meteorologists are calling the
most amount of rain in like the history of Australia.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
In a certain period, just ever, ever, just ever.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
They're like, that's so much rain.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So they gathered one of every animal and.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
It was nearly that time. Marley and Laula were going,
when is it going to stop raining? And I was like,
I don't know, but I'm over it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I heard that we got a month in two day,
a month's worth. But they always say that, and I
feel like they just throw that fact out there to
be like to keep small talk going.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
No one's calling that shit out, yeah, because.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Everyone's around the water cooler and they're go, did you
hear that we just had a month's worth of rain
in two days?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Do you know what people are gonna be saying? Now?
They were like, did you know that bluey? At the
intro they're actually playing?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, I was rattled when I foun out blue It
was a girl dog me too anyway. Much so I'm
a home. I'm relaxing and I was working hard.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
You relaxing, and I hear this almighty crash and the
brick wall that divides our backyard and the neighbor's backyard.
Ronda of the General. The General spoken about her a
few times. Sometimes she loves me, sometimes she hates me.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
She's like a lighthouse. Yeah, always there, She's always at
the front, swiveling.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, And I love Roonda.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I love Rnda.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
She does love a swivel bad hip.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Get hear a squeaking.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
No family, never married, she's by herself.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
But you gave me an interesting fact that she was
a I think.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
She won Miss Bondai in nineteen seventy. Rhonda love her.
She's very elderly, she must be pushing eighty odd and
no family, no friends. Really. She never leaves the house
once a fortnight to go get grocery. She has a
government assisted carer that comes over, takes her, does a groceries,
comes back. Apart from that, she's locked indoors watching TV.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Also, the people that do those jobs, I don't know.
Like the patient's on.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It pretty easy, bro, Oh is it draft at the shops? Sorry,
I'm joke.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I was a joke. Can you leave that in the
sort of person he really is?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Sorry? Go on anyway, So the wall comes down and
it makes a bloody big noise. It's a big brick wall.
We're talking like a ton of bricks.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
The social worker tipped it over into your house, didn't there?
They found out what you really think about them?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, to go to Ronda's backyard, I can just step
over the bread. I noticed that, and I go, Ronda,
you've did you hear that? And she's like what And
she's just watching Wheel of Fortune?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I really loud, obviously, and she's like.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
What do you mean, And I'm like, the brick walls
come down, and she's like, did it?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Come have a look and she's gone oh, And I'm going, oh,
like this is going to cause money, don't worry. I'll
sort this out. And you're a good guy for doing that,
because I wouldn't have done that, or I would have
said you better fucking fix your fence. But you know
how you called the counsel on me about my front port.
(12:17):
I'm going to call the counsel you.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I was fixing a leak in the roof, and whilst
that leak was being fixed, she called. I'm pretty sure
she called the counsel on me and they thought I
was doing unapproved work, so they came and didn't inspect
on the house, which is just a whole other.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Ordeals, very much like never let them know your next move.
Oh yeah, she's like she knew that brick wall fellow,
She's like, oh did it yes, And then she's like, oh, Matthew,
thank you so much. Let me just call the counsel.
She didn't call me a sweetheart, and then she called
the counselor yeah, so you never let it.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I think, just for reference, I think we're out of housekeeping.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Sorry, okay, keep going, just roll it. People were like,
is this still a housekeeper? I don't want to confuse them.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
You're right, it was very meaty. You were on the
money there, You're me.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I wanted to see it in a while because it's
quite a substantial wall. Yes, so we're not talking a
little wall.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
So anyway, I'm talking through how we're going to fix
this wall. At the same time, ash, I hear another crash, fuck,
a huge crash, a big bang, and there's this like
broken fiberglass in my backyard now, and I'm like, what
the hell is this? Her skylight cover her house is
so old, it is like the bolts are so rusted.
(13:29):
It's it's flown up off her roof because it's very windy,
which is remind people that it's blown over a big
brick wall. The sun roof cover is smashed into my backyard.
And I go into her house and into her living room.
She has a one meter by one meter gap in
the ceiling. Now straight through I can.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Look through there where a skylight's.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Raining into her living room, and oh my god, I'm like, Rondie,
you've just this skylight cover's gone.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And she goes, is it She's got you wrapped around
of her finger.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Bro I'm like, can you call anyone? And she's like,
who would I call?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I'm an elderly woman. How we're going to call? No family?
Never been married? Who she got Maddie Day.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So I, luckily, because Rufe was being fixed, I said
to the boys, can you fix this room? Just temporary,
and I'll speak to a couple of supplies who can
fix the skylight because we're talking straight through.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And it's been one of the rainiest fucking years ever
and it's set to continue.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Months rain and Holena, there we go, apparently anyway, So
we sort out a couple of supplies, we get it
booked in fixed on Tuesday. Don't worry, Ronda, You're good.
I've spent the afternoon helping her out. Also got a
temporary cover on the skylight as well. No problem at all.
Just what I do?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You're really you are really forming into a dad.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
So then on Monday I go, hey, Ronda, just letting
you know the boys are going to fix your skylight
are coming tomorrow and she goes, what do you mean,
Oh my god, And I'm like, the skylight, what are
you talking about? The skylight.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's that flew off, you know, that fucking hole in
the middle of your house.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And she goes, oh, no, I called the insurance and
they're going to come and fix it.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I said, well, you've.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Already said yes to this other guy that I called
for you, and she's like, nah, I don't want it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So then I'm calling Tim and going, Tim, don't worry
about it, and he goes, I've already ordered the skylight.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh ah, god painful. She's definitely like, don't let Matt
know my next move. Like, I just got to string
this guy along. And again, you're good guy for hanging around.
I would have been like, good luck with that.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Left.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Ah, that's a different between you and me.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Anyway. So this morning, this morning, I was letting the
boys in to fix the skylight and far out, man,
I'm laughing about it, but.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I did see them up there, so they fixed it.
They fixed it. Yeah, okay, because the insurance was going
to take that'll take fucking forever, thank you, thank you.
That's the thing. I feel like a lot of older
people get scammed by insurance.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's just such an easy, easy target. Yeah, because you like,
you know, we're an insurance company. You can rely on us.
We're here to help you. Who mentioned it it was
like insurance is essentially gambling. Yes, that's what it is,
for sure, which is fucking crazy. Especially if an eighty
year old woman woman rings up and goes, hey, there's
a fucking hole in my house. Can you fix it?
(16:29):
They're like yeah, we'll get there like six to eight months, right, Yeah,
So I think you did the right thing by forcing
her on her.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Otherwise I didn't force anything upon her.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
What are you talking about? It came out wrong, I saw.
And my suggestion was that because she doesn't remember much,
you should fence off her. You should fence off the
back of her house and just common deer that her
backyard is now your.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Back doesn't use it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
She's got a bad hip. Yeah, And then she could
be like was that like that, and you're like, I
don't know, yeah, because it was absolutely and then you
got your You're essentially just turning it back on her.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Very incriminating that we're speaking about this on the podcast.
I can't actually doesn't listen, but everyone else does. She's
pretty dead. So anyway, So that was man.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And the fence you're going to replace the fence with
what you're.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Gonna like this treated hardwood pine hardwood.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
What treated treated pine more economic through hardwoods. It just
felt right it did.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Technically, all woods pretty hard, but that hardwood is pretty expensive.
If it's rough, rough sword, your kids are going to
get splinters. But with the treated pine anyway we go
into it.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
So it has been a stressful weekend. We've been dealing
with all of that as well. With all that rain,
our roof also started leaking a game whereabouts this time
through to the bathroom again through the light.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah, dude, And so water is a tricky one.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
About they say once it finds a way in, You're.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well said the T shirt. You know what they say
about water.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Once it's in, it's wet. On the weekend, dude, Laura
and I were just stressed out of our eyeballs.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah. Well, you called me on Sunday and you definitely,
I don't know, you just had like a little a
bit more speed in your voice because it's like a
lot obviously I've seen what's happened on social media, but
you were just even just the little things I could
tell that you're a bit like, there's way more on
your mind than just this conversation.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And Laura and I just, you know, as stressed as
we are, we're very tense with each other. We ended
up having a bit of an argument. She also is
like eight months pregnant, and she's also eight months, which
I sometimes forget. But we were at Yochi and I
don't remember saying this, but she said, let's go. I'm
feeling pretty like off now, and I said yep, And
(18:59):
I didn't get up and go immediately, and she said,
my back's were really hurting, and I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but I was on my phone doing something working okay,
And I still remained seated. Was she seated, she was standing,
and so she was getting annoyed that I wasn't listening
to her, and so then I was like, why is
Laura so annoyed to me? So that I was kind
of like a bit stoppy with her.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Just classic miscommunication, a classic like the other things are
the reason why you're both stroppy.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
But then we had a bit of a bit of
a stoush about what just about like we'll just we're
both just stressed, just like what said it off? No,
she said, can you get a bag out of the car,
and I didn't reply to that, and then it just
kicked off.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I love these small things that just kick off into
like something massive that's nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
And so we didn't end up resolving the fight until
the next morning, and I had to resolve the fight,
which I would normally do anyway, but we had a
surprise lunch booked, which was actually not a lunch for
me and her, like Laura, it was a surprise baby shower.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Oh is that what that was?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, unless you was right. So then we had to
make up that morning. And you know, when you make
up and you both apologize, you both accept apologies. It's
not real, but it hasn't you like, you are kind
of fine, but you still you can't just snap and
go we love each other.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
The time hasn't passed for you to go forget that
you love this person more than you're fighting this person. Yeah,
I get it.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
So whenever you have a fight you both apologize, you
still need like a couple of residual hours to just
like get it out of your system.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, you look happy on your stories.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So then I was like, well, we've got to get
dressed now and go to this lunch and they were
like driving in the car, like not really saying much
to each other. Meanwhile, there's like twenty of their friends
at the restaurant hiding that Layd doesn't know about.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh that's great. That's all of eight month pregnant woman.
Once a fight with a husband, and then a surprise party.
I'm surprised the baby didn't pop out on the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
So then we were like surprise, and then Laura was like,
I actually really wanted to have it just with you
because we've had this fire.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Anyway. Then I was like, Sue, so did you make
up or not?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, you know we already we already mar we seed
to be the residual two hours, Like you need mandated
time to get over an argument, I know.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
To wear the point where either you or your partner
are like, it's gotten so far past the point that
I need to say something now, because I've tried to
be staunch and let and and just have the ships
with April and then continue to have the ships. But
then eventually I'm like, funk, I need something. I need
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something that only she can help me.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Where's my jacket?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
She's like, I don't know, find it yourself. Look, I'm
sorry that I said that. Now, where's my jacket? I'm
not over it yet. So you know, like it's fucking awkward,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It's like when you're hungry and you're like, or do
you want to get lunch?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It's just like I don't know. Yes, I'm starving.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah, we starting for hours smoking.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Oh, very good. I hate it when you guys fight, though,
so don't fight. Thank you. Okay, so we're all good.
Now everyone's good. Yeah, we're good. I mean I'm still
you're barely stupid stresses.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I'm all right, I'm going to be I'm going to
be okay.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And I told you that if there's anything you need,
don't ask me. No, you can ask me. I'll try
and help you out as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
But we said last week that if you say that
you're an asshole, you have to you can't just you can't.
You have to come in person.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Excuse me, a wedding person keeping your man. When are
you going to rock up? And I can help you out?
What else? What do you need? What do you want?
What can I help you with? Do you know what
I'll do? I'll build the fence for you. That'd be funny,
can you Well, I'm on a lifestyle TV show, now
I could do anything.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Was that a little clue to the TV show you
stole from me?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah? Sorry, s a little job.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Last week we did talk about and we did have
a winge about which everyone does this time of the year,
which is book week, book Day. Who fucking knows? But
I did mention last week that Oscars is a week later?
Did you say Marley's was a week later?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Marles is tomorrow? Tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Missing because I'm going to snow with you. I'm gonna
be honest, You're not missing much because I had to
go to Oscar's one yesterday. So Oscar last year when
there's who me? Yes, because we had we released a
book two days in the question three times available now
b W dot com? Do you on Amazon dot com?
I don't think it's still available whatever, No it is?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Is it still?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Can you buy it? Are you sure? I don't know?
Buy it right now? Yeah, go and buy it. If
it turns up then it's still available. Anyway, So Oscar
wanted again to go as me, which I'll honored, absolutely honored.
And you see, someone of the Facebook group wanted to
go as Oscar. Did you see that? Yes, I'm passing
the bat and down. But last year we I sort
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of drew some on him, just like here and there
just so. But this year we went a little bit,
a little bit all out, which Abe was a little
bit pissy about because we went to the shops to
buy a couple of tatoos and I ended up spending
thirty dollars on fake ttatoes, which really sticky. Great investment
is ridiculous. They rub off immediately and it doesn't last
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long with a kid because they're like, oh wonder.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It's almost that's almost fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's technically you're out it right up this economy. You've
just dropped fifty bucks on it cost of living.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
People are just like, what are you spending fifty bucks
on temporary tattoos for him? Like much business? Anyway. I
Abe was a bit pissy about that, but I was like,
I'm We're going to do it. I like to do things.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Do you think she's annoyed that it just wasn't She
didn't get like a look.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
In from Macy. I'm sure Macy will want to go
as Bump, will she? Hope? Probably not because I had
that she wanted tattoos too, pepper pick ones actually, but
I just did a little bit more of an effort
this time with Oscar because I thought it's primary school.
Why didn't I do it so that parents would think
it's a not inappropriate? Parents to think it's like, oh,
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that's kind of a little bit inappropriate. So I took
a photo please of Oscar dressed as me.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Oh my god, that is epic? So is that real?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Like, are these are these? Like?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Oh my god, I stick to that boy?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Right? Oh my god, these are unbel Did you draw
a mustache?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, yeah, Oh it actually looks so sick.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And I was like, I was around you. I'm so proud,
and I was like, oh, maybe some parents would be like, oh,
it's a bit inappropriate. Do you know what I said? Yeah,
do you want to say to those parents? Get yourself?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
The placement's great. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I was like, let me put mom on his chest
and he had dad on his knuckles or daddy on
his knuckles. Oh my god, so good. It's like the sleeve.
So for those who it's I have all those tempory tatooes.
The fifty dollars worth of tempory tatooes. I put them
all over my child's body pretty much in similar in
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similar places to where I have them. It took ages.
Have you noticed on the hands he's got little webs
as well. Yeah, it's very good.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Well done to you. Thank you. Lots of tigers and
lots of dragons. I am a good dad.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Someone someone did an article, I think it was a
kid spot where they were like, let's be honest, book
week is just unpaid labor for mums and our dads,
and I was like, I don't know. It was just
the fact that I'm like oblivious to how we pairent
in our household, but I'm getting involved in book week. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I did all of that, and then I had this
tattoo massy up as well. Can I play Yeah, that's
just the parade, and can I just say sorry, okay,
oh my god, the two racks, that's his buddy, that's
his buddy. But anyway, he took our book to school,
he did the parade, and I just want to say
(27:01):
the parade is fucking boring. Alright, let's be honest, Like they.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Just walk around.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Good for the kids is their thing. But there's I reckon.
Seventy percent of the kids don't want to do it either.
I never did that. Did you do that when you have.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
No recollection either book parade at all? Nah?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
No, Because there was a couple of kids there that
were just in regular uniform, which is fine if.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
They still walk in the parade. Yeah, in regular uniform.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I don't shame them.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Sorry, No, I was just inquisitive.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I was just making sure we were talking about it,
and I said.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I said, look, were their parents there?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I don't know, I don't know all the kids be
weird to.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Go watch your child in the book parade and like
acknowledge that you did nothing exactly hurry.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So obviously their parents weren't there. We're not here to
judge matthare you? And that here comes Timmy, he's got
no parents. Fuck anyway, some say his dad went out
for milk. No. I felt a bit sorry for that kid,
and whenever the other some of the other parents, bitch.
I separated myself from that, felt like I acknowledged those
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kids like that. It was it was completely within the group,
because I was like, how else you meant to well,
some you know, you see some parents, Yeah, you see
some parents that are kind of like.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Like they would like the cheer would stop when Timmy
goes by. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, poor Timmy.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, but I was like, I got a t Rex
and Timmy walks by.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
They're like, some people were talking ship.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Okay, well there we go. That's what we want.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I was trying to dance around it, but I was like,
and I was.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Like, I would hate why is Ash crying?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I would hate it if someone was talking ship about me?
So I, for once in my life didn't get involved
with the talking shit about people because I think it's
very fun. Because I was more on the I was
more on the kids level.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Wow, I'm this level of personal growth is really amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I know when when we got to the car and
Averyone was like, oh, you know, so it's sad like
Timmy seen Timmy like that? But again we don't, and
I said to it, we don't know the circumstance, okay,
And how would you like it if Timmy's bum and
dad were in their car talking shit about you?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
It's an interesting shout with the teacher like do you
let do you let the kids who aren't dressed up
go in the parade because you don't want to like
not ostracize them.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah, it's of like you want to. It's all about inclusivity.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah. I think there's a very mature way that you've
handled the situation, and you should be.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I didn't get involved.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, yeah, because you love laughing at other people.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's one of my favorite things.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That's what you're good at.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Finally, also on book Week, someone message and said the
reason why daycare doesn't have a designated book day within
book week is because all the kids go on different days, right,
so they have to try and allow every day of
that week to be a potential book day, dress up
day so kids don't miss out.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
So it's all weak.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
So they say, like, you can pick one day. But
whether the parents just get so carried away with it
all that they end up doing.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
It's always that parent that they send their kid in
something different every day because it's like guilty, but we
Macey's day care. No bookweight day, no bookweek, nothing, full stop,
which I think is a great initiative, just fucking flagg
the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
It's great that you're you're now having that response because
you didn't get to dress up. Wow, and you missed out. Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Okay, well my therapist is going to love this.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Book whek, he's over, thank goodness. But the paraders boring.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Okay, so I won't miss out on anything, I don't think.
So I've done something so stupid, you think at this stage,
you know, I've been a parent now for six years.
I would have learned a thing or two about how
to parent.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And you have a dad podcast to Powell, don't pal me, okay, Bud.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
And you know, sometimes Ash, when there's an opportunity to
take a little shortcut, you will take that shortcut, even
though you realize that before you get to the finish line,
it's going to make the journey harder.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Oh, there's ripercussions to every shortcut. Put that on a
T shirt. I am on with those things you just had.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You just had your medication delivery.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
One my secret.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I decided to allow Lola to have a nap on Sunday.
You goose and after forty five minutes forty five minutes,
I allowed the nap to continue.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh my god, for how long?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
An and a half? Shit, fucking hell.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Take an hour and a half nap for like a
nearly five year old is pretty much.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
A night sleep so full times.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah, you literally she's got two days ahead of an hour.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
We had dinner and I was going, well, it's time
that we have a bath, and she was like, what
for we get ready for bed and she was like.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Don't need that. You were like, wear this kid out, Hey, Lola,
have you heard of peloton?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
No, so what in the right of the middle of
the day or was it like yeah, it was it
was smack banging.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Why was she so tired because she had soccer, I
had socker and I think she just she's been getting
up really early at the moment for some.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Reason, probablycause she keeps snapping them.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So then we got time to read the stories, put
them down to bed. Marley out like a light.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, there's always one of them because at back your
chair room too. One goes and the other's just talking
to themselves.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Kaula is just there like white eye, going wow, I'm
not tired.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Who's got the bag?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
And I said, you's gonna lay down, close your eyes,
try and fall asleep. Eight o'clock. She goes, I just
I'm not tired, and I said keep on trying.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
She lay down with me.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I said, nope. Nine o'clock. She's like there playing with
their dolls, reading books, coloring in.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I was like, all.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Out ten o'clock, shut up. She's still there, like nothing
yet feel nothing.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I feel nothing.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I was like, oh my god, please the love of God.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Go to sleep, and she's like, wish I could. Oh God,
what time ten thirty? She went to bed a tenth thirty,
so she fell asleep, or she tried to start sleeping
at ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I think she was trying for a long time, but
finally ten thirty I pot my head in and she
she was gone. And I was like, and then when
I had to wake up at seven in the morning
to get ready for daycare, she was wrecked.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Ah, poor thing, it's all your fault. But that and
and a half, that's great. It was so good to
miss it. I felt freaking remember how much I used
to nap? Not anymore, but we've all forgotten. I was
thinking about that last night. I was like, trying to
sleep changed and because Macy's not napping it was like
my favorite. And we bonded so much because we would
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nap together and we'd big.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Cuddle and shit together.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
We nap ship. We're in cycle. But now there's no naps,
and I'm sad.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
You're Macy drifting apart, drifting apart.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Also, my caffeine intake's going through the roof because I can't. Like,
I never used to be able to nap until I
had kids, and I taught myself how to nap. God,
that makes me feel proud. And then now there's no
more naps and I'm upset about it, but I do
Macy does fall sleep in the car? Well, oh shit, anyway,
(34:34):
that's time. We'll see next time. Macy does fall sleep
in the car, but only for like five minutes, and
that ruins us.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Thanks, that ruins us. She's up to like eight quarter
past eight. Oh god, he's going on again. Shut this
guy up. All right, let's go into a segment.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Let's let's let's let's go into questions. Oh, let's go question.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Okay, curveball, I like it. I like what you're doing
with it.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Let's give pair rants a little rest. Okay, we's gonna
rest it.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
We're going to give it a nap.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Love it. Thank you, Aaron half, Thank you, Aaron half week.
Let's go into listening questions if we may.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yes, I'll get the first question. And just a warning
to the parents out there, if you're driving the car
and the kids here listening, or if you're home, we're
on YouTube, because we're on YouTube now. Um, we are
going to be talking about the Easter Bunny right now specifically,
So just is that a warning.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
We will be talking about the Easter Bunny and how
much we love the Easter Bunny.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yes, and where he came from. So like wink wink,
I let's gaslight the kids from Gillian. How do you
respond when your child asks whether the Easter Bunny is
or isn't real?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Hi, I did it in a way which I now
know is the wrong way according to Laura.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Okay, well that's one person, just the mother of your children.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
So Marthy goes to ask Emily pregnant and I never disagree.
Go on, when your wife is eight months pregnant, they
can say the sky is purple and you go.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yep, yep. I did have to remind you of that
a few times.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
So Marley goes to and after school care. Yep, they
go with old kids. She came home and she goes
someone said the Easter Bunny is not a thing. And
I said, well, that is not true at all.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
What's his name?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
I'll find him who gives all the chocolate? And she goes, apparently,
you do the parents get the chocolate? And she's I
was sweating at this point, and she goes, well, who
does all the instructions? We have those little arrows sometimes
like it's over here, and I go, I, you know
I have to help the Easter Bunny.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah I met him. You know he's so busy. You can't.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
You can't deliver the chocolate and do the directions as well.
So why do the directions? We like help each other out.
We've got a system going.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
To be fair. He got sick of breaking and entering,
so now he's just knocking. Yeah, he just leaves on
the front. I'll help hide them. And she goes, so,
hang on, you what you are telling me that the
Easter Bunny is one hundred percent real? I said, yeah,
absolutely it is. So who else keives the chocolate?
Speaker 1 (37:10):
If it's it's not me, it has to be someone
it's the Easter Bunny. And she goes, you pinky, promise me.
And for anyone who doesn't know Marley, who's.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
My eldest daughter. She is six.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Now we have a system in place that if we
pinky promise each other like this, like.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
This, do you suck on your thumbs or that?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
What?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
That's the game me and my friends play.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
So for example, if she's watching TV and I say,
you got one minute left once your alarm goes off,
you have to brush your teeth, you promise me, and
she goes, yeah, we got pinky promise and she can't
break it.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I love that because it's also like a bit of bonding.
It's like a little it's your little little thing.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Yeah, so you can never break your pinky promise.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
She's got your bent over a barrel and so.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Easter bunny question. She goes, do you pinky promise that
you're not lying to me? You pinky promise that it's true?
And I go yep, and Laura. I look over at
Laura and be like, no, babe, I got this. And
she's like, what are you doing? You idiot?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Oh this is gonna Oh so what do you do?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Do you? What do you do in that situation?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
You've got to stand by it now so much longer,
because there's a time when it's just it's it's time
for that not to be real. You know what, I mean,
oh for sure, hundred percent. And but she also knew
what she was doing. She just bent you over a
barrel here, clever and look at the moment, I think
you're in the clear for now. But when it comes
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to breaking the pinky promise, I think what will happen
is you'll remember the pinky promise and you'll feel bad
about it. She won't and she won't make you feel
bad about Laura said, I'll remind you.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Laura said, Look, you can believe whatever you want to believe,
and if you believe the bund your abbit to be true,
it is true, which I find confusing. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
That's rubbish?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yeah? What's that about?
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Made me say it? It's so Yeah, I haven't well.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Because now you know, we start with the Easter Bunny,
who is no disrespect to the characters in like the
calendar calendar of events, but like two two very Easter
Bunny bottom of the Ladda. They're like non critical, okay,
Santa Claus, top of the food chain.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Yeah, the guy that breaks into your house once a year.
It's so confusing.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Yeah, but once you you know, once you start not
believing in the Easter Bunny, they're all unravels magic.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
They don't, they don't know. What's what else do you
fucking line about?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Yeah, he's healthy, Harold real, of course he is fucking
bottom of the rung. I heard he smokes, so don't
listen to anything. He said, it's a.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Hand to Hannah, and she said she'd love a shout
out to shout out to Hannah.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
But we're confused whether it's hand or Hannah Han Hi hand,
no hand hand them hand that I am silent.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
My fiancee and I were both twenty five and childless,
have listened to the pod since it's been nice since
day one. Yes, weird childless, but you're both hilarious.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
And that's it. My job is done here. That's all
that she says. Okay, that's all you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Anyways, we're getting married next year gradually, and both very
keen for children. However, my partner is keen to be
a young dad and wanting to reproduce asap, whereas I
am keen to drag it out for as long as possible.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Say reproduce. Come on, what this is a real formal
way to put that, isn't it? For me? For reference?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
I have no issues with your your mature I am
not very mature.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
For twenty five.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
I take it you will not using the word reproduce
a twenty five ash.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I can't even spell it, still can't spell.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
It, whereas I'm keen to drag it out for as
long as possible, wanting to enjoy my twenties and early
thirties in brackets aka drinking.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Now I'm listening.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Yeah, my question, my que is my cue. My queue
is the language on this person.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
You are way more, you're ready.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Would you have changed when you had children? Or how
did you decide when you wanted them? Did Abril and
Laura think more about it than you? As it can
be more of a sacrifice as women, fertility is obviously
the elephant in the room. A big question mark as
we haven't gone down that path yet, but I would
love your opinion, especially when both of us are very
clucky but unsure.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Very good question, Han, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
What just sorry, I'm adapting to the situation. A good question,
A good question.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
I appreciate that. When I was a young twenty five
year old Chap ten years ago, Oh gosh, thanks for
reminding me.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Thirteenth for me, A big guy, Yeah, split it out,
middle aged, How you were, how old we had kids?
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Twenty nine? I was And I was never that person
who was like so sure they wanted kids, or so
unsure they wanted kids. I was always through this cycle
where it was like I would love to have a kid.
Then it would be like, oh no, I like my
life as it is, or like I'm not ready. There
was always these mixed feelings. April was definitely much more
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sure of herself and when to do it. She's a planner, right,
I'm not. I'm like very sporadic, what's what makes us work?
So she was very much this way. She wanted kids.
I was unsure. So we compromised and had kids. That
is beautiful, thank you. That is I'm not unhappy about it.
(42:40):
But I was also like I don't want to have
I don't want to have kids, and it become my
whole personality. And now I have a parenting.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Podcast all of your person God damn.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Anyway. Okay, well, okay, the question question question, The question
is with that? My quick answer to that was, yeah,
April had the plan and I went with the plan.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Okay, but but would you in hindsight, would you have
changed earlier.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Later, No, it stuck to the No. I think mid
to late twenties, great to thirty like these days, I
mean with science. Sorry, I don't want to upset anyone.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Yeah, go on to that one.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Somewhere between twenty five and thirty.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
I think, where are you going about science? What's that about?
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Just modern technology?
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Man?
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Oh my god. I think twenty nine for us was
the right time, and I think it's going to be
for them. When it feels right, then that's the right time.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Well said, how old was I? I'm thirty eight now
I was Jesus, Yeah, I we didn't really talk about
having kids. It was a very welcome surprise, was it?
Speaker 2 (43:57):
I didn't know that was it?
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Now? From Lon? Then? Okay? Was that a surprise?
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Yeah? Because Laura had taken some medication. I'm pretty sure
this is what happened. That the medication hadn't it meant
that the pill wasn't working and so then, but she
wasn't informed that.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
She tricked you, bro. She tricked you into it, and
so it was a surprise.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
We weren't trying. But at the same time, we both
knew that we really wanted to have kids, and I
was like humped for kids. But I do think when
I look at people who were in their twenties having kids,
for me, I'm like, man, the twenties for me was
about making you know, having no responsibility, doing whatever the
hell I wanted, being able to travel, you know, and
just having the freedom, oh, the freedom to do whatever
(44:45):
the hell I wanted. Like some of the holidays at
Laura and I took together without kids amazing, epic, Like,
so glad we did that because it becomes a lot
more difficult with kids. But at the same time, I
think I did underestimate just how fun life can still
be with kids in the mix.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
I was just gonna say that it's a different type
of fun, like I would say during the twenty in
twenties and April and I traveled and do all these
things together, But it was at the time that was
the fun. Yes, that makes sense. And then, to be
completely honest with you, since having kids and being in
my thirties, I've had the most fun I've ever had.
(45:23):
And it's not just it's not just you know, like
I have adult money now and can do things, and
I have a career and what we do is fun
and I get to travel and do all that sort
of stuff. But also then I get to come home
and yes, you know, every now and then you gotta
yell at you fucking kids because they're painful sometimes, but
you have a different type of fun because you sort
of get on their level a little bit, right, and
(45:45):
you do that shit, or you get to take like,
for example, the first time I took Oscar to a
manly game, and you're like, I used to go to
manly games with my mates and get pierced and have fun.
It's different. Now I get to see the look on
Oscar's face when Oli Kawachi walks over and signs his football,
and it's like, holy shit, dude, I'm having so much fun.
It's different.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
You're doing the same things that you used to do,
but you're seeing them in a whole new perspective. Now
that you're a parent does make life harder, goes without sure,
but let's not like we're not going to sugarcoat and
parenting is hand. I'm just warning you managing your expectations
being a parent. You will be more exhausted, more stressed,
more anxious than ever before. But at the same time
(46:26):
you will get more fulfillment, more love than you ever
knew possible.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Yeah, he's a really good example.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Right.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
I just gave your example. I'll give you one more
real quick?
Speaker 1 (46:34):
How many?
Speaker 2 (46:35):
Just what real quick? Is?
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Better? Be quick? Okay?
Speaker 2 (46:37):
So it's bedtime for the kids, right, and then we're
going to let the dog out. And the dog goes
out to we on the bush and on the grass,
and I'm standing there with Oscar, who's out of the
I should laugh, out of the shower, ready for bed.
And we're both standing there and I look down at
him and he goes, I wear on the grass too,
And I was like at a boy and just that
(46:57):
moments like in the Little Mate, and he's just like, yeah, okay,
over there to it. I'm like, fucking, it's a different joy,
right that you're not you. You wouldn't have got in
like your twenties, so never had that moment. So I
would say to this person, you do you and when
it feels right, and when it when it feels right,
it'll be the right. He's already said that. Fuck ray God,
(47:19):
how dare I care about the listener?
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Man?
Speaker 2 (47:22):
I hope that answers your question. Probably like what the drivel?
It's like, there's no way.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Hannah is still listening at this point, but she has.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Gone long ago in Billy Matters and The Guards Life.
We are all dumber from listening to that.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
I'm sure if anyone made it pass that you compied
chat within the first five minutes, it'd be a miracle.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Just put that enlightening piano music behind it to be fine.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
But we should get the opinions of Laura and April.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
We should, we will do.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
We'll put that in next week's episode, so don't worry.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
So Hannah is going to get the double shout out
is like, fuck, make it out wing will put me
out of my misery. Just have a couple of kids
and shut up.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
If you've enjoyed this episode, God, she's now twenty eight,
please give us a review. We had some beautiful ones.
Ogi Listener did a recent review, first time giving a review.
What's taken you so long?
Speaker 2 (48:16):
I know fully what the hell was out about?
Speaker 1 (48:17):
But thank you for that very nice. I'm going to
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Speaker 1 (48:35):
Just see us find it. Oh the cats out there. Sorry, sorry, sorry,
I'm trying to get people out, like hello.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
At the end of this everything, I'm fucking definitely not
gone that. It'll just be a bunch of shitty, shitty
dribble and then Ashcar put that on a T shirt
every fifteen minutes, so we'll see you there.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
Later.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
Oh my god, Yes, what was that you?
Speaker 1 (49:07):
I thought she would sit there and listen to us.
She's there watching fucking movies?
Speaker 2 (49:11):
Are you for real? What?
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Oh god, I don't believe that bull said?
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Is is it a YouTube video show?
Speaker 1 (49:22):
Your screamed?
Speaker 2 (49:22):
She's watching pawn Two.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
Doting Dads podcast acknowledges the traditional custodians of country throughout
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Speaker 2 (49:33):
We pay our respects to their elders past and present,
and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torrestraight Island
the people's today.
Don't let me forget. The chicken pie needs five more
minutes to remind me. Someone reminds me five minutes. The
chicken pie needs to come out of the oven. Also,
it's a really shit chicken pine. I'm so annoyed because
I set it up and I filmed it for stories.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's funny though. Everyone had a good time, did we?
Did we? It smells good, it smells delicious. I'll tell
you what. I'll remind you when it burns five minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Okay, okay, go back to.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Two gutting dads.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'm Mattie Jay and I'm an.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
This is a podcast all about parenting.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It is the good, it is the bad and the
chicken pie.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And if you come for chicken pie, welcome five minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Remind us. In five minutes, the chicken pie will be ready.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I'm going to forget. I know I'm going to get
to this episode. The chicken pie.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's not for me.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Chicken pie is for Laura because I was very dumb
and you and me we're going to the snow to
do You and I are driving to the snow this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Can't wait.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I told Laura very last minute that I was going
on a Tuesday. She thought I was going Wednesday, which
was the original plan. Was the plan? So and so
then I was last night. I was like, hey, here's
a chicken pie. She does love a chicken pie.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Ye, it was actually like from last week. It was
very lovely. So I do. And people really want the
recipe before we start housekeeping bam with the recipe.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I'm not giving it away. No, no, I'm holding onto that.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And started cooking book.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I think we are No, it's I will put in
the show notes. Do we want to give away the
chicken pie? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Will in the Facebook.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I'll put in the Facebook. They very good.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Give it to the community. Whatever, Just give it to
the whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
See if you got to tell Laura that we're going tonight.
So then man, just the logistics of it all Ash
try and she's like, well, who's getting the kids?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And I was like, fuck, I completely understand.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I've got a message.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
This is from Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Jimmy wrote into us and he has something that relates
to a segment we haven't run in a while called
Petty Couple. Love that Okay, so Jimmy says, and this
is from Instagram. You can contact us through Instagram. We
love it, we replied every message. Do we.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Jimmy says, I've just got your episode about being petty
with your partner after an argument. Once we got over
it talking about him and his partner, I'll boil the
kettle with not enough water in it for a full
coffee or tea for both me and my wife. I'll
start doing jobs around the house to make it look
(02:53):
like I'm an amazing person that I ask my wife
if she wants a brew, the answer will be yes.
Then tell her the kettle is just boiled. Then when
she makes it, she would give me the full one
because I've been such a good husband, and she gets
a three quarter full cup and I've contrived it all
either petty or an evil genius.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
That's borderline evil genius.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Still love the pod.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Thank you, that's great. That's great. And I am cooking
up something. I am cooking something about hetty couples and
just in maybe next week I'll have it ready gone.
I don't want to. There was a tease in case
April hears this, She's she's gonna be like, what the
fuck is it?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Just to wait? Chicken pie is not ready.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Just a reminder it's part of this housekeeping that we
now have at the front of the episode. We are
doing a live show, Matthew, I'm not sure if you
remember what.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yes, I actually did get the dates wrong, the days wrong.
What well, I just I knew it was in the fourth,
but I've booked in other things around the fourth as well.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Anyway, could be the fourth of then at any time.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It's next Thursday.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
No, sorry, this Thursday. This is tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
This, this is tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm confused.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
The reason why I'm confused because people don't know we
record this.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
They do, You've already told them.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I know this new listeners.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay, cool, So just say what Matt's referring to, is
we record this a week before it's released. Yes, that's
how we see.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Today's a Wednesday. Upon release tomorrow Thursday the fourth.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
So Thursday week from now we will be having well
it's fucking tomorrow. Tomorrow from now we will be having
a lot having We'll be doing a live show. Just
as rolling your eyes and checking your head at me.
We are doing a live show at the Apple Store.
What on George Street. Yeah, it's on the corner. It's
a lovely building. It's free.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It is free.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Link in the show notes register please, well how much
is it free?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It is free?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
It is free.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
What will we talk about? Well, you can help with that.
You can help with that out, you can last minute,
last minute editions. We want your pair rants, we want
your parenting lights. Submit them to us. However, you like
social media.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And it is a free show, so we won't be giving.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Up that much what we're trying to sell.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Joke, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's going to be great, but I do like how
to manage their expectations.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You got to just gaze.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Ash and I will be together in person, in the flesh.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
What are you gonna wear?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Sex?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You are not what I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Maybe this blue shirt that I'm wearing right now.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Very sky blue. You're going to be like the blue
sky at night. Put that on T shirt.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Moving on. Okay, you may have seen Ash. You may
have seen on my social media. I have been dealing
with some issues at home.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Before you get into that, because it's quite meaty, and
I just got something really quick to run by that
I should have put in housekeeping, because we're still in housekeeping.
So god, oh, it's come to my attention.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I'll let you know when we're out of housekeeping.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Okay, thank god, finally I can relax. You might already
know this, but I didn't know this, and I was
baffled by this. And this is the opening song to Bluie.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Mhm.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Do you understand what's happening in that opening song, in.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
The sequence of the picture or the song, the whole thing.
I can't really remember the intro, mum, because they're dancing
in the blue background.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, but what do you What game do you think
they're playing?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Are they playing a game?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
They're just dancing musical statues?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Did you not know that?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I thought you would know that for sure. So Mom,
frozen statue? Dad whatever, blah blah blah blah blah. What.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Do you know? Who told me that? A six year old?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Who are you hanging out with my son? Mally?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I didn't even know that. How does he had a ask?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You know that?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Though they talk at school? Apparently there's all the rage
on the playground. It's circulating the school. Everyone's baffled. It's true.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
How I have I thought I saw someone outside. It
was just the washing line. That is Wow, I love,
I love. There's so many little nuggets and Bluey.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
There's interesting facts.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, the guy who plays the voice of Dad has
like emerged and started to do like like behind the
scenes stuff really interesting. But has he gone rogue? I know,
he's just like there's so many questions about the show,
and it's obviously the most stream show in the world,
which is Astray, which is a fucking hats off to
ever created that.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Can I just can I tell you one fact as
well that will blow your mind about BLA.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I love this apparently and it's about dogs.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And don't quote me on this because I read it
somewhere a long time ago and I'm kind of just
trying to recall the facts. But apparently ABC, who commissioned
the show, well, do we want the worldwide rights? Nah,
we don't want that. We'll have the rights for Australia.
And then BBC got the rights for merch and for
like global streaming, so now they worth billions of dollars.
(08:13):
It's crazy, ABC, What were you doing?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Ah? They're they're like a government funded or whatever. They
have no idea what they're doing over there. But it
is like like at the moment that blue Converse are out,
it's bluey lego, the blue the be is lit they
I'm all about it.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Anything bluey on it. It could be like Bluie broccoln
and they'd be.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Like, yeah, I know, I love it crazy. Anyway, that
was my little factot. I thought you. I thought you
would know because you know much more than me. Thank you. Well, yeah, anyway,
back to the wall.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Sorry, do I check the pie now?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Check the pile? Later, check the pie?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Do you want the pie out now?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
With later?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You're call You're call up to you.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Oh, I would just I would definitely get it out.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I only give it to more minutes after housekeeping.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
All right, after housekeeping, keating, there will be pie.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Okay, we are still in housekeeping. You may have seen
on social media that I had an incident at my house.
Oh yeah, the other week on Friday, it was very
windy after what I think the meteorologists are calling the
most amount of rain in like the history of Australia.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
In a certain period, just ever, ever, just ever.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
They're like, that's so much rain.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So they gathered one of every animal and.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
It was nearly that time. Marley and Laula were going,
when is it going to stop raining? And I was like,
I don't know, but I'm over it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I heard that we got a month in two day,
a month's worth. But they always say that, and I
feel like they just throw that fact out there to
be like to keep small talk going.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
No one's calling that shit out, yeah, because.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Everyone's around the water cooler and they're go, did you
hear that we just had a month's worth of rain
in two days?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Do you know what people are gonna be saying? Now?
They were like, did you know that bluey? At the
intro they're actually playing?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, I was rattled when I foun out blue It
was a girl dog me too anyway. Much so I'm
a home. I'm relaxing and I was working hard.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
You relaxing, and I hear this almighty crash and the
brick wall that divides our backyard and the neighbor's backyard.
Ronda of the General. The General spoken about her a
few times. Sometimes she loves me, sometimes she hates me.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
She's like a lighthouse. Yeah, always there, She's always at
the front, swiveling.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, And I love Roonda.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I love Rnda.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
She does love a swivel bad hip.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Get hear a squeaking.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
No family, never married, she's by herself.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
But you gave me an interesting fact that she was
a I think.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
She won Miss Bondai in nineteen seventy. Rhonda love her.
She's very elderly, she must be pushing eighty odd and
no family, no friends. Really. She never leaves the house
once a fortnight to go get grocery. She has a
government assisted carer that comes over, takes her, does a groceries,
comes back. Apart from that, she's locked indoors watching TV.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Also, the people that do those jobs, I don't know.
Like the patient's on.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It pretty easy, bro, Oh is it draft at the shops? Sorry,
I'm joke.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I was a joke. Can you leave that in the
sort of person he really is?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Sorry? Go on anyway, So the wall comes down and
it makes a bloody big noise. It's a big brick wall.
We're talking like a ton of bricks.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
The social worker tipped it over into your house, didn't there?
They found out what you really think about them?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, to go to Ronda's backyard, I can just step
over the bread. I noticed that, and I go, Ronda,
you've did you hear that? And she's like what And
she's just watching Wheel of Fortune?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I really loud, obviously, and she's like.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
What do you mean, And I'm like, the brick walls
come down, and she's like, did it?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Come have a look and she's gone oh, And I'm going, oh,
like this is going to cause money, don't worry. I'll
sort this out. And you're a good guy for doing that,
because I wouldn't have done that, or I would have
said you better fucking fix your fence. But you know
how you called the counsel on me about my front port.
(12:17):
I'm going to call the counsel you.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I was fixing a leak in the roof, and whilst
that leak was being fixed, she called. I'm pretty sure
she called the counsel on me and they thought I
was doing unapproved work, so they came and didn't inspect
on the house, which is just a whole other.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Ordeals, very much like never let them know your next move.
Oh yeah, she's like she knew that brick wall fellow,
She's like, oh did it yes, And then she's like, oh, Matthew,
thank you so much. Let me just call the counsel.
She didn't call me a sweetheart, and then she called
the counselor yeah, so you never let it.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I think, just for reference, I think we're out of housekeeping.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Sorry, okay, keep going, just roll it. People were like,
is this still a housekeeper? I don't want to confuse them.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
You're right, it was very meaty. You were on the
money there, You're me.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I wanted to see it in a while because it's
quite a substantial wall. Yes, so we're not talking a
little wall.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
So anyway, I'm talking through how we're going to fix
this wall. At the same time, ash, I hear another crash, fuck,
a huge crash, a big bang, and there's this like
broken fiberglass in my backyard now, and I'm like, what
the hell is this? Her skylight cover her house is
so old, it is like the bolts are so rusted.
(13:29):
It's it's flown up off her roof because it's very windy,
which is remind people that it's blown over a big
brick wall. The sun roof cover is smashed into my backyard.
And I go into her house and into her living room.
She has a one meter by one meter gap in
the ceiling. Now straight through I can.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Look through there where a skylight's.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Raining into her living room, and oh my god, I'm like, Rondie,
you've just this skylight cover's gone.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And she goes, is it She's got you wrapped around
of her finger.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Bro I'm like, can you call anyone? And she's like,
who would I call?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I'm an elderly woman. How we're going to call? No family?
Never been married? Who she got Maddie Day.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So I, luckily, because Rufe was being fixed, I said
to the boys, can you fix this room? Just temporary,
and I'll speak to a couple of supplies who can
fix the skylight because we're talking straight through.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And it's been one of the rainiest fucking years ever
and it's set to continue.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Months rain and Holena, there we go, apparently anyway, So
we sort out a couple of supplies, we get it
booked in fixed on Tuesday. Don't worry, Ronda, You're good.
I've spent the afternoon helping her out. Also got a
temporary cover on the skylight as well. No problem at all.
Just what I do?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You're really you are really forming into a dad.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
So then on Monday I go, hey, Ronda, just letting
you know the boys are going to fix your skylight
are coming tomorrow and she goes, what do you mean,
Oh my god, And I'm like, the skylight, what are
you talking about? The skylight.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's that flew off, you know, that fucking hole in
the middle of your house.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And she goes, oh, no, I called the insurance and
they're going to come and fix it.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I said, well, you've.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Already said yes to this other guy that I called
for you, and she's like, nah, I don't want it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So then I'm calling Tim and going, Tim, don't worry
about it, and he goes, I've already ordered the skylight.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh ah, god painful. She's definitely like, don't let Matt
know my next move. Like, I just got to string
this guy along. And again, you're good guy for hanging around.
I would have been like, good luck with that.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Left.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Ah, that's a different between you and me.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Anyway. So this morning, this morning, I was letting the
boys in to fix the skylight and far out, man,
I'm laughing about it, but.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I did see them up there, so they fixed it.
They fixed it. Yeah, okay, because the insurance was going
to take that'll take fucking forever, thank you, thank you.
That's the thing. I feel like a lot of older
people get scammed by insurance.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's just such an easy, easy target. Yeah, because you like,
you know, we're an insurance company. You can rely on us.
We're here to help you. Who mentioned it it was
like insurance is essentially gambling. Yes, that's what it is,
for sure, which is fucking crazy. Especially if an eighty
year old woman woman rings up and goes, hey, there's
a fucking hole in my house. Can you fix it?
(16:29):
They're like yeah, we'll get there like six to eight months, right, Yeah,
So I think you did the right thing by forcing
her on her.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Otherwise I didn't force anything upon her.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
What are you talking about? It came out wrong, I saw.
And my suggestion was that because she doesn't remember much,
you should fence off her. You should fence off the
back of her house and just common deer that her
backyard is now your.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Back doesn't use it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
She's got a bad hip. Yeah, And then she could
be like was that like that, and you're like, I
don't know, yeah, because it was absolutely and then you
got your You're essentially just turning it back on her.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Very incriminating that we're speaking about this on the podcast.
I can't actually doesn't listen, but everyone else does. She's
pretty dead. So anyway, So that was man.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And the fence you're going to replace the fence with
what you're.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Gonna like this treated hardwood pine hardwood.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
What treated treated pine more economic through hardwoods. It just
felt right it did.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Technically, all woods pretty hard, but that hardwood is pretty expensive.
If it's rough, rough sword, your kids are going to
get splinters. But with the treated pine anyway we go
into it.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
So it has been a stressful weekend. We've been dealing
with all of that as well. With all that rain,
our roof also started leaking a game whereabouts this time
through to the bathroom again through the light.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah, dude, And so water is a tricky one.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
About they say once it finds a way in, You're.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well said the T shirt. You know what they say
about water.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Once it's in, it's wet. On the weekend, dude, Laura
and I were just stressed out of our eyeballs.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah. Well, you called me on Sunday and you definitely,
I don't know, you just had like a little a
bit more speed in your voice because it's like a
lot obviously I've seen what's happened on social media, but
you were just even just the little things I could
tell that you're a bit like, there's way more on
your mind than just this conversation.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And Laura and I just, you know, as stressed as
we are, we're very tense with each other. We ended
up having a bit of an argument. She also is
like eight months pregnant, and she's also eight months, which
I sometimes forget. But we were at Yochi and I
don't remember saying this, but she said, let's go. I'm
feeling pretty like off now, and I said yep, And
(18:59):
I didn't get up and go immediately, and she said,
my back's were really hurting, and I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but I was on my phone doing something working okay,
And I still remained seated. Was she seated, she was standing,
and so she was getting annoyed that I wasn't listening
to her, and so then I was like, why is
Laura so annoyed to me? So that I was kind
of like a bit stoppy with her.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Just classic miscommunication, a classic like the other things are
the reason why you're both stroppy.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
But then we had a bit of a bit of
a stoush about what just about like we'll just we're
both just stressed, just like what said it off? No,
she said, can you get a bag out of the car,
and I didn't reply to that, and then it just
kicked off.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I love these small things that just kick off into
like something massive that's nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
And so we didn't end up resolving the fight until
the next morning, and I had to resolve the fight,
which I would normally do anyway, but we had a
surprise lunch booked, which was actually not a lunch for
me and her, like Laura, it was a surprise baby shower.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Oh is that what that was?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, unless you was right. So then we had to
make up that morning. And you know, when you make
up and you both apologize, you both accept apologies. It's
not real, but it hasn't you like, you are kind
of fine, but you still you can't just snap and
go we love each other.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
The time hasn't passed for you to go forget that
you love this person more than you're fighting this person. Yeah,
I get it.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
So whenever you have a fight you both apologize, you
still need like a couple of residual hours to just
like get it out of your system.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, you look happy on your stories.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So then I was like, well, we've got to get
dressed now and go to this lunch and they were
like driving in the car, like not really saying much
to each other. Meanwhile, there's like twenty of their friends
at the restaurant hiding that Layd doesn't know about.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh that's great. That's all of eight month pregnant woman.
Once a fight with a husband, and then a surprise party.
I'm surprised the baby didn't pop out on the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
So then we were like surprise, and then Laura was like,
I actually really wanted to have it just with you
because we've had this fire.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Anyway. Then I was like, Sue, so did you make
up or not?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, you know we already we already mar we seed
to be the residual two hours, Like you need mandated
time to get over an argument, I know.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
To wear the point where either you or your partner
are like, it's gotten so far past the point that
I need to say something now, because I've tried to
be staunch and let and and just have the ships
with April and then continue to have the ships. But
then eventually I'm like, funk, I need something. I need
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something that only she can help me.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Where's my jacket?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
She's like, I don't know, find it yourself. Look, I'm
sorry that I said that. Now, where's my jacket? I'm
not over it yet. So you know, like it's fucking awkward,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It's like when you're hungry and you're like, or do
you want to get lunch?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It's just like I don't know. Yes, I'm starving.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah, we starting for hours smoking.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Oh, very good. I hate it when you guys fight, though,
so don't fight. Thank you. Okay, so we're all good.
Now everyone's good. Yeah, we're good. I mean I'm still
you're barely stupid stresses.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I'm all right, I'm going to be I'm going to
be okay.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And I told you that if there's anything you need,
don't ask me. No, you can ask me. I'll try
and help you out as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
But we said last week that if you say that
you're an asshole, you have to you can't just you can't.
You have to come in person.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Excuse me, a wedding person keeping your man. When are
you going to rock up? And I can help you out?
What else? What do you need? What do you want?
What can I help you with? Do you know what
I'll do? I'll build the fence for you. That'd be funny,
can you Well, I'm on a lifestyle TV show, now
I could do anything.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Was that a little clue to the TV show you
stole from me?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah? Sorry, s a little job.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Last week we did talk about and we did have
a winge about which everyone does this time of the year,
which is book week, book Day. Who fucking knows? But
I did mention last week that Oscars is a week later?
Did you say Marley's was a week later?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Marles is tomorrow? Tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Missing because I'm going to snow with you. I'm gonna
be honest, You're not missing much because I had to
go to Oscar's one yesterday. So Oscar last year when
there's who me? Yes, because we had we released a
book two days in the question three times available now
b W dot com? Do you on Amazon dot com?
I don't think it's still available whatever, No it is?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Is it still?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Can you buy it? Are you sure? I don't know?
Buy it right now? Yeah, go and buy it. If
it turns up then it's still available. Anyway, So Oscar
wanted again to go as me, which I'll honored, absolutely honored.
And you see, someone of the Facebook group wanted to
go as Oscar. Did you see that? Yes, I'm passing
the bat and down. But last year we I sort
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of drew some on him, just like here and there
just so. But this year we went a little bit,
a little bit all out, which Abe was a little
bit pissy about because we went to the shops to
buy a couple of tatoos and I ended up spending
thirty dollars on fake ttatoes, which really sticky. Great investment
is ridiculous. They rub off immediately and it doesn't last
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long with a kid because they're like, oh wonder.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It's almost that's almost fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's technically you're out it right up this economy. You've
just dropped fifty bucks on it cost of living.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
People are just like, what are you spending fifty bucks
on temporary tattoos for him? Like much business? Anyway. I
Abe was a bit pissy about that, but I was like,
I'm We're going to do it. I like to do things.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Do you think she's annoyed that it just wasn't She
didn't get like a look.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
In from Macy. I'm sure Macy will want to go
as Bump, will she? Hope? Probably not because I had
that she wanted tattoos too, pepper pick ones actually, but
I just did a little bit more of an effort
this time with Oscar because I thought it's primary school.
Why didn't I do it so that parents would think
it's a not inappropriate? Parents to think it's like, oh,
(25:08):
that's kind of a little bit inappropriate. So I took
a photo please of Oscar dressed as me.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Oh my god, that is epic? So is that real?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Like, are these are these? Like?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Oh my god, I stick to that boy?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Right? Oh my god, these are unbel Did you draw
a mustache?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, yeah, Oh it actually looks so sick.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And I was like, I was around you. I'm so proud,
and I was like, oh, maybe some parents would be like, oh,
it's a bit inappropriate. Do you know what I said? Yeah,
do you want to say to those parents? Get yourself?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
The placement's great. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I was like, let me put mom on his chest
and he had dad on his knuckles or daddy on
his knuckles. Oh my god, so good. It's like the sleeve.
So for those who it's I have all those tempory tatooes.
The fifty dollars worth of tempory tatooes. I put them
all over my child's body pretty much in similar in
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similar places to where I have them. It took ages.
Have you noticed on the hands he's got little webs
as well. Yeah, it's very good.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Well done to you. Thank you. Lots of tigers and
lots of dragons. I am a good dad.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Someone someone did an article, I think it was a
kid spot where they were like, let's be honest, book
week is just unpaid labor for mums and our dads,
and I was like, I don't know. It was just
the fact that I'm like oblivious to how we pairent
in our household, but I'm getting involved in book week. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I did all of that, and then I had this
tattoo massy up as well. Can I play Yeah, that's
just the parade, and can I just say sorry, okay,
oh my god, the two racks, that's his buddy, that's
his buddy. But anyway, he took our book to school,
he did the parade, and I just want to say
(27:01):
the parade is fucking boring. Alright, let's be honest, Like they.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Just walk around.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Good for the kids is their thing. But there's I reckon.
Seventy percent of the kids don't want to do it either.
I never did that. Did you do that when you have.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
No recollection either book parade at all? Nah?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
No, Because there was a couple of kids there that
were just in regular uniform, which is fine if.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
They still walk in the parade. Yeah, in regular uniform.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I don't shame them.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Sorry, No, I was just inquisitive.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I was just making sure we were talking about it,
and I said.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I said, look, were their parents there?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I don't know, I don't know all the kids be
weird to.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Go watch your child in the book parade and like
acknowledge that you did nothing exactly hurry.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So obviously their parents weren't there. We're not here to
judge matthare you? And that here comes Timmy, he's got
no parents. Fuck anyway, some say his dad went out
for milk. No. I felt a bit sorry for that kid,
and whenever the other some of the other parents, bitch.
I separated myself from that, felt like I acknowledged those
(28:04):
kids like that. It was it was completely within the group,
because I was like, how else you meant to well,
some you know, you see some parents, Yeah, you see
some parents that are kind of like.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Like they would like the cheer would stop when Timmy
goes by. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, poor Timmy.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, but I was like, I got a t Rex
and Timmy walks by.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
They're like, some people were talking ship.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Okay, well there we go. That's what we want.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I was trying to dance around it, but I was like,
and I was.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Like, I would hate why is Ash crying?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I would hate it if someone was talking ship about me?
So I, for once in my life didn't get involved
with the talking shit about people because I think it's
very fun. Because I was more on the I was
more on the kids level.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Wow, I'm this level of personal growth is really amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I know when when we got to the car and
Averyone was like, oh, you know, so it's sad like
Timmy seen Timmy like that? But again we don't, and
I said to it, we don't know the circumstance, okay,
And how would you like it if Timmy's bum and
dad were in their car talking shit about you?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
It's an interesting shout with the teacher like do you
let do you let the kids who aren't dressed up
go in the parade because you don't want to like
not ostracize them.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah, it's of like you want to. It's all about inclusivity.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah. I think there's a very mature way that you've
handled the situation, and you should be.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I didn't get involved.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, yeah, because you love laughing at other people.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's one of my favorite things.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That's what you're good at.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Finally, also on book Week, someone message and said the
reason why daycare doesn't have a designated book day within
book week is because all the kids go on different days, right,
so they have to try and allow every day of
that week to be a potential book day, dress up
day so kids don't miss out.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
So it's all weak.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
So they say, like, you can pick one day. But
whether the parents just get so carried away with it
all that they end up doing.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
It's always that parent that they send their kid in
something different every day because it's like guilty, but we
Macey's day care. No bookweight day, no bookweek, nothing, full stop,
which I think is a great initiative, just fucking flagg
the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
It's great that you're you're now having that response because
you didn't get to dress up. Wow, and you missed out. Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Okay, well my therapist is going to love this.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Book whek, he's over, thank goodness. But the paraders boring.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Okay, so I won't miss out on anything, I don't think.
So I've done something so stupid, you think at this stage,
you know, I've been a parent now for six years.
I would have learned a thing or two about how
to parent.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And you have a dad podcast to Powell, don't pal me, okay, Bud.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
And you know, sometimes Ash, when there's an opportunity to
take a little shortcut, you will take that shortcut, even
though you realize that before you get to the finish line,
it's going to make the journey harder.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Oh, there's ripercussions to every shortcut. Put that on a
T shirt. I am on with those things you just had.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You just had your medication delivery.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
One my secret.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I decided to allow Lola to have a nap on Sunday.
You goose and after forty five minutes forty five minutes,
I allowed the nap to continue.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh my god, for how long?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
An and a half? Shit, fucking hell.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Take an hour and a half nap for like a
nearly five year old is pretty much.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
A night sleep so full times.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah, you literally she's got two days ahead of an hour.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
We had dinner and I was going, well, it's time
that we have a bath, and she was like, what
for we get ready for bed and she was like.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Don't need that. You were like, wear this kid out, Hey, Lola,
have you heard of peloton?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
No, so what in the right of the middle of
the day or was it like yeah, it was it
was smack banging.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Why was she so tired because she had soccer, I
had socker and I think she just she's been getting
up really early at the moment for some.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Reason, probablycause she keeps snapping them.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So then we got time to read the stories, put
them down to bed. Marley out like a light.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, there's always one of them because at back your
chair room too. One goes and the other's just talking
to themselves.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Kaula is just there like white eye, going wow, I'm
not tired.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Who's got the bag?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
And I said, you's gonna lay down, close your eyes,
try and fall asleep. Eight o'clock. She goes, I just
I'm not tired, and I said keep on trying.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
She lay down with me.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I said, nope. Nine o'clock. She's like there playing with
their dolls, reading books, coloring in.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I was like, all.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Out ten o'clock, shut up. She's still there, like nothing
yet feel nothing.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I feel nothing.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I was like, oh my god, please the love of God.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Go to sleep, and she's like, wish I could. Oh God,
what time ten thirty? She went to bed a tenth thirty,
so she fell asleep, or she tried to start sleeping
at ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I think she was trying for a long time, but
finally ten thirty I pot my head in and she
she was gone. And I was like, and then when
I had to wake up at seven in the morning
to get ready for daycare, she was wrecked.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Ah, poor thing, it's all your fault. But that and
and a half, that's great. It was so good to
miss it. I felt freaking remember how much I used
to nap? Not anymore, but we've all forgotten. I was
thinking about that last night. I was like, trying to
sleep changed and because Macy's not napping it was like
my favorite. And we bonded so much because we would
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nap together and we'd big.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Cuddle and shit together.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
We nap ship. We're in cycle. But now there's no naps,
and I'm sad.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
You're Macy drifting apart, drifting apart.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Also, my caffeine intake's going through the roof because I can't. Like,
I never used to be able to nap until I
had kids, and I taught myself how to nap. God,
that makes me feel proud. And then now there's no
more naps and I'm upset about it, but I do
Macy does fall sleep in the car? Well, oh shit, anyway,
(34:34):
that's time. We'll see next time. Macy does fall sleep
in the car, but only for like five minutes, and
that ruins us.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Thanks, that ruins us. She's up to like eight quarter
past eight. Oh god, he's going on again. Shut this
guy up. All right, let's go into a segment.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Let's let's let's let's go into questions. Oh, let's go question.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Okay, curveball, I like it. I like what you're doing
with it.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Let's give pair rants a little rest. Okay, we's gonna
rest it.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
We're going to give it a nap.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Love it. Thank you, Aaron half, Thank you, Aaron half week.
Let's go into listening questions if we may.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yes, I'll get the first question. And just a warning
to the parents out there, if you're driving the car
and the kids here listening, or if you're home, we're
on YouTube, because we're on YouTube now. Um, we are
going to be talking about the Easter Bunny right now specifically,
So just is that a warning.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
We will be talking about the Easter Bunny and how
much we love the Easter Bunny.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yes, and where he came from. So like wink wink,
I let's gaslight the kids from Gillian. How do you
respond when your child asks whether the Easter Bunny is
or isn't real?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Hi, I did it in a way which I now
know is the wrong way according to Laura.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Okay, well that's one person, just the mother of your children.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
So Marthy goes to ask Emily pregnant and I never disagree.
Go on, when your wife is eight months pregnant, they
can say the sky is purple and you go.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yep, yep. I did have to remind you of that
a few times.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
So Marley goes to and after school care. Yep, they
go with old kids. She came home and she goes
someone said the Easter Bunny is not a thing. And
I said, well, that is not true at all.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
What's his name?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
I'll find him who gives all the chocolate? And she goes, apparently,
you do the parents get the chocolate? And she's I
was sweating at this point, and she goes, well, who
does all the instructions? We have those little arrows sometimes
like it's over here, and I go, I, you know
I have to help the Easter Bunny.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah I met him. You know he's so busy. You can't.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
You can't deliver the chocolate and do the directions as well.
So why do the directions? We like help each other out.
We've got a system going.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
To be fair. He got sick of breaking and entering,
so now he's just knocking. Yeah, he just leaves on
the front. I'll help hide them. And she goes, so,
hang on, you what you are telling me that the
Easter Bunny is one hundred percent real? I said, yeah,
absolutely it is. So who else keives the chocolate?
Speaker 1 (37:10):
If it's it's not me, it has to be someone
it's the Easter Bunny. And she goes, you pinky, promise me.
And for anyone who doesn't know Marley, who's.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
My eldest daughter. She is six.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Now we have a system in place that if we
pinky promise each other like this, like.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
This, do you suck on your thumbs or that?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
What?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
That's the game me and my friends play.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
So for example, if she's watching TV and I say,
you got one minute left once your alarm goes off,
you have to brush your teeth, you promise me, and
she goes, yeah, we got pinky promise and she can't
break it.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I love that because it's also like a bit of bonding.
It's like a little it's your little little thing.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Yeah, so you can never break your pinky promise.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
She's got your bent over a barrel and so.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Easter bunny question. She goes, do you pinky promise that
you're not lying to me? You pinky promise that it's true?
And I go yep, and Laura. I look over at
Laura and be like, no, babe, I got this. And
she's like, what are you doing? You idiot?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Oh this is gonna Oh so what do you do?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Do you? What do you do in that situation?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
You've got to stand by it now so much longer,
because there's a time when it's just it's it's time
for that not to be real. You know what, I mean,
oh for sure, hundred percent. And but she also knew
what she was doing. She just bent you over a
barrel here, clever and look at the moment, I think
you're in the clear for now. But when it comes
(38:39):
to breaking the pinky promise, I think what will happen
is you'll remember the pinky promise and you'll feel bad
about it. She won't and she won't make you feel
bad about Laura said, I'll remind you.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Laura said, Look, you can believe whatever you want to believe,
and if you believe the bund your abbit to be true,
it is true, which I find confusing. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
That's rubbish?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yeah? What's that about?
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Made me say it? It's so Yeah, I haven't well.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Because now you know, we start with the Easter Bunny,
who is no disrespect to the characters in like the
calendar calendar of events, but like two two very Easter
Bunny bottom of the Ladda. They're like non critical, okay,
Santa Claus, top of the food chain.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Yeah, the guy that breaks into your house once a year.
It's so confusing.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Yeah, but once you you know, once you start not
believing in the Easter Bunny, they're all unravels magic.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
They don't, they don't know. What's what else do you
fucking line about?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Yeah, he's healthy, Harold real, of course he is fucking
bottom of the rung. I heard he smokes, so don't
listen to anything. He said, it's a.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Hand to Hannah, and she said she'd love a shout
out to shout out to Hannah.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
But we're confused whether it's hand or Hannah Han Hi hand,
no hand hand them hand that I am silent.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
My fiancee and I were both twenty five and childless,
have listened to the pod since it's been nice since
day one. Yes, weird childless, but you're both hilarious.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
And that's it. My job is done here. That's all
that she says. Okay, that's all you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Anyways, we're getting married next year gradually, and both very
keen for children. However, my partner is keen to be
a young dad and wanting to reproduce asap, whereas I
am keen to drag it out for as long as possible.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Say reproduce. Come on, what this is a real formal
way to put that, isn't it? For me? For reference?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
I have no issues with your your mature I am
not very mature.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
For twenty five.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
I take it you will not using the word reproduce
a twenty five ash.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I can't even spell it, still can't spell.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
It, whereas I'm keen to drag it out for as
long as possible, wanting to enjoy my twenties and early
thirties in brackets aka drinking.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Now I'm listening.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Yeah, my question, my que is my cue. My queue
is the language on this person.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
You are way more, you're ready.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Would you have changed when you had children? Or how
did you decide when you wanted them? Did Abril and
Laura think more about it than you? As it can
be more of a sacrifice as women, fertility is obviously
the elephant in the room. A big question mark as
we haven't gone down that path yet, but I would
love your opinion, especially when both of us are very
clucky but unsure.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Very good question, Han, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
What just sorry, I'm adapting to the situation. A good question,
A good question.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
I appreciate that. When I was a young twenty five
year old Chap ten years ago, Oh gosh, thanks for
reminding me.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Thirteenth for me, A big guy, Yeah, split it out,
middle aged, How you were, how old we had kids?
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Twenty nine? I was And I was never that person
who was like so sure they wanted kids, or so
unsure they wanted kids. I was always through this cycle
where it was like I would love to have a kid.
Then it would be like, oh no, I like my
life as it is, or like I'm not ready. There
was always these mixed feelings. April was definitely much more
(42:18):
sure of herself and when to do it. She's a planner, right,
I'm not. I'm like very sporadic, what's what makes us work?
So she was very much this way. She wanted kids.
I was unsure. So we compromised and had kids. That
is beautiful, thank you. That is I'm not unhappy about it.
(42:40):
But I was also like I don't want to have
I don't want to have kids, and it become my
whole personality. And now I have a parenting.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Podcast all of your person God damn.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Anyway. Okay, well, okay, the question question question, The question
is with that? My quick answer to that was, yeah,
April had the plan and I went with the plan.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Okay, but but would you in hindsight, would you have
changed earlier.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Later, No, it stuck to the No. I think mid
to late twenties, great to thirty like these days, I
mean with science. Sorry, I don't want to upset anyone.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Yeah, go on to that one.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Somewhere between twenty five and thirty.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
I think, where are you going about science? What's that about?
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Just modern technology?
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Man?
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Oh my god. I think twenty nine for us was
the right time, and I think it's going to be
for them. When it feels right, then that's the right time.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Well said, how old was I? I'm thirty eight now
I was Jesus, Yeah, I we didn't really talk about
having kids. It was a very welcome surprise, was it?
Speaker 2 (43:57):
I didn't know that was it?
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Now? From Lon? Then? Okay? Was that a surprise?
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Yeah? Because Laura had taken some medication. I'm pretty sure
this is what happened. That the medication hadn't it meant
that the pill wasn't working and so then, but she
wasn't informed that.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
She tricked you, bro. She tricked you into it, and
so it was a surprise.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
We weren't trying. But at the same time, we both
knew that we really wanted to have kids, and I
was like humped for kids. But I do think when
I look at people who were in their twenties having kids,
for me, I'm like, man, the twenties for me was
about making you know, having no responsibility, doing whatever the
hell I wanted, being able to travel, you know, and
just having the freedom, oh, the freedom to do whatever
(44:45):
the hell I wanted. Like some of the holidays at
Laura and I took together without kids amazing, epic, Like,
so glad we did that because it becomes a lot
more difficult with kids. But at the same time, I
think I did underestimate just how fun life can still
be with kids in the mix.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
I was just gonna say that it's a different type
of fun, like I would say during the twenty in
twenties and April and I traveled and do all these
things together, But it was at the time that was
the fun. Yes, that makes sense. And then, to be
completely honest with you, since having kids and being in
my thirties, I've had the most fun I've ever had.
(45:23):
And it's not just it's not just you know, like
I have adult money now and can do things, and
I have a career and what we do is fun
and I get to travel and do all that sort
of stuff. But also then I get to come home
and yes, you know, every now and then you gotta
yell at you fucking kids because they're painful sometimes, but
you have a different type of fun because you sort
of get on their level a little bit, right, and
(45:45):
you do that shit, or you get to take like,
for example, the first time I took Oscar to a
manly game, and you're like, I used to go to
manly games with my mates and get pierced and have fun.
It's different. Now I get to see the look on
Oscar's face when Oli Kawachi walks over and signs his football,
and it's like, holy shit, dude, I'm having so much fun.
It's different.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
You're doing the same things that you used to do,
but you're seeing them in a whole new perspective. Now
that you're a parent does make life harder, goes without sure,
but let's not like we're not going to sugarcoat and
parenting is hand. I'm just warning you managing your expectations
being a parent. You will be more exhausted, more stressed,
more anxious than ever before. But at the same time
(46:26):
you will get more fulfillment, more love than you ever
knew possible.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Yeah, he's a really good example.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Right.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
I just gave your example. I'll give you one more
real quick?
Speaker 1 (46:34):
How many?
Speaker 2 (46:35):
Just what real quick? Is?
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Better? Be quick? Okay?
Speaker 2 (46:37):
So it's bedtime for the kids, right, and then we're
going to let the dog out. And the dog goes
out to we on the bush and on the grass,
and I'm standing there with Oscar, who's out of the
I should laugh, out of the shower, ready for bed.
And we're both standing there and I look down at
him and he goes, I wear on the grass too,
And I was like at a boy and just that
(46:57):
moments like in the Little Mate, and he's just like, yeah, okay,
over there to it. I'm like, fucking, it's a different joy,
right that you're not you. You wouldn't have got in
like your twenties, so never had that moment. So I
would say to this person, you do you and when
it feels right, and when it when it feels right,
it'll be the right. He's already said that. Fuck ray God,
(47:19):
how dare I care about the listener?
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Man?
Speaker 2 (47:22):
I hope that answers your question. Probably like what the drivel?
It's like, there's no way.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Hannah is still listening at this point, but she has.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Gone long ago in Billy Matters and The Guards Life.
We are all dumber from listening to that.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
I'm sure if anyone made it pass that you compied
chat within the first five minutes, it'd be a miracle.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Just put that enlightening piano music behind it to be fine.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
But we should get the opinions of Laura and April.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
We should, we will do.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
We'll put that in next week's episode, so don't worry.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
So Hannah is going to get the double shout out
is like, fuck, make it out wing will put me
out of my misery. Just have a couple of kids
and shut up.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
If you've enjoyed this episode, God, she's now twenty eight,
please give us a review. We had some beautiful ones.
Ogi Listener did a recent review, first time giving a review.
What's taken you so long?
Speaker 2 (48:16):
I know fully what the hell was out about?
Speaker 1 (48:17):
But thank you for that very nice. I'm going to
review your review, beautiful words, as we would love a review.
Subscribe if you can not already, and also send this
episode to any episode to any friends out there in.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
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link in the show notes.
Speaker 1 (48:35):
Just see us find it. Oh the cats out there. Sorry, sorry, sorry,
I'm trying to get people out, like hello.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
At the end of this everything, I'm fucking definitely not
gone that. It'll just be a bunch of shitty, shitty
dribble and then Ashcar put that on a T shirt
every fifteen minutes, so we'll see you there.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
Later.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
Oh my god, Yes, what was that you?
Speaker 1 (49:07):
I thought she would sit there and listen to us.
She's there watching fucking movies?
Speaker 2 (49:11):
Are you for real? What?
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Oh god, I don't believe that bull said?
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Is is it a YouTube video show?
Speaker 1 (49:22):
Your screamed?
Speaker 2 (49:22):
She's watching pawn Two.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
Doting Dads podcast acknowledges the traditional custodians of country throughout
Australia and the connections to land, see and community.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
We pay our respects to their elders past and present,
and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torrestraight Island
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