September 23, 2025 • 50 mins
Before you ask...baby three isn't born yet!
That's probably a good thing because there are builders onsite (again) at the Johnson/Byrne household, fixing, plastering, hammering last-minute things before the baby arrives.
Ash, on the other hand, couldn't be living a more opposite life to Matty J right now! He has returned from a sexy poolside cocktail-sipping week in Bali with his wife, April. The couple made sure to bring the essentials for the trip...unfortunately, everyone knew about it.
We also answer your parenting questions:
- How on earth do you juggle two completely different sleeping routines of a newborn and a toddler?
- How much TV is okay for 2-year-old?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ash, I need to apologize.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
No, don't apologize to me.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's a little bit chaotic right now in this household.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What's you, big guy?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We've got a huge construction site next door. There is
currently four concrete trucks. I exaggerated this one, but it
might as well before they're doing piling. Okay, we've got
we've got builders doing the jip rocking. It's just it's
all kicking off.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I've got piles.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
What are piles?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Just hemorrhoids?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Great, Welcome back to two doting dads.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm Maddie J And I'm Ash.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And this is a podcast all about parenting. It is
the good, it is the bad and the relatable. And
I need to apologize now to the listener. If you
hear drills a saw.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I think they're used to it.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I feel like today is particularly bad.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
That is bad, But you know what, let it be
a surprise.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Let me. I'm trying to I'm trying to give them
some love. Stop me from loving the listener, Let me
love them.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Love love away time I give advice on this podcast,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's nice for me to say a line every now
and then carry on. Do you know what what time
is it asking? There?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
We go?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We got there. My first question is to you, no
baby yet.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Look, Laura wants it to be out where. Moments away
she looked up.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Very uncomfortable at that stage where it's like the very
last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Every step is agony for her, and she wants it
to come out.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Indian food. I heard people.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Have a lot of different thoughts on how to make
the baby come out, Indian food being one of them.
I heard olive oil is another reason that the baby
will come out.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Okay, from what end?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Don't this is what.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I go.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It's not from me, it's the Italians.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Ah, but a rumor.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
That I heard. I don't know if you're familiar with
this rumor, but apparently sex will bring on.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Labor between us. If so, let's get it there.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I wasn't expecting to say that, but so sex with
Laura obviously very good? Very good. I thought, I've been
doing some scientific research.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
On TikTok on this.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, now do you more so Instagram than TikTok. I
put the call out there. I asked people if they
have had labor come on off the back of sex.
Mixed reports, there's only one way to get a true answer.
Here a medical expert.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh, absolutely, I'm not a medical ebsert. I appreciate the
kind word. What are you going to call one?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I have in my hand right now a mobile phone,
and on that phone is a number of an obstetrician,
doctor Bennett, Doctor Bennett, Doctor Bennett.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Doctor Bennett's strong name.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Strong name the expert. Let's speak to her any other
medical questions you want to ask at the same time.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
No, but in that name, there's two e's, two ends,
two T'SO Bennett.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
How your mind works is a mystery.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Maybe she can study my mind while it's on the phone.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's called doctor Bennett, Doctor Bennett. We would like to
put forward a question that has been asked by parents
to be for centuries. My wife is currently not in labor.
Would like to be in labor? Yeah, and I have
put forward the suggestion that sex will help bring on
(03:36):
labor to back up my claim. Is there any scientific
proof on the matter.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You'll be pleased to know that, yes, there has been
some small studies that have suggested it might help bring
on labor.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
When you say small, my ears pricked up.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It basically is worth a try. But no, guarantees. It
works in two ways. So first of all, in the semen,
there's prostaglandins, which soften the cervix and can bring on labor.
So prostagondins are what we sometimes used to induce labor medically,
so that's one way it can work. And then also
if it's good sex and there's orgasm involved, then it
(04:20):
can release oxytocin, which is your love hormone, which can
bring on labor.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Definitely, that one.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It might help, but it's got to be good sex.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Question for you really quick, any particular position.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Whatever position you can get yourself into, well said.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well said, yeah, that.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Technically can be challenging, but where there's a world as.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
A way, that's the spirit only.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
The only reason you wouldn't want to do it is
if your waters have broken, don't do it.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Then that would be.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Or if a doctor has said you shouldn't do it,
so few if there's.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
A doctor in the room while you're doing it, I'd
be concerned.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, I haven't heard of that happening yet, but you know,
you never know.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well, Laura will be thrilled with this news.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Good. I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Other ways you can bring on labor naturally though the
issues not in the mood.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
There's lots of walking.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You can do curb walking where you walk along the
side the road with one foot on the curb, so
you're hobbling along.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
What does that do?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
So it moves the baby's head down into the pelvis
and presses on your cervix so softens it and opens
it up.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
That can help.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'm sure she's already waddling right.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I'm sure she is chasing after two little ones already.
There's a lot of walking involved. Nipple stimulation you might
be interested in.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, then that's just sex for that, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Yeah, if that's.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Evolved in sex, it might help. That can really sucksytocin.
But you do need to be doing it quite often,
like for five minutes a few times a day for
it to actually be effective.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
So she might not like that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
She hates me touching nipples at the moment.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Well, that's not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Some massage relaxation gets your oxytocin going. Actual pressure or
acupulture can also work, so a few people around here
that do it. That's one that's known to be the
guru for if you want to go into labor now.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What about for Laura Victoria please ignore ash.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Well, so that's probably a good it's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's a good thing me.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Okay, massage, got massage.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, massage and just generally being relaxed, because if you're stressed,
you adrenaline goes up and then that stops your oxytocin
being So you've basically just gotta be really nice to Laura.
Lots of massages. For massages, you can make her a
nice curry, spicy food can help.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
There's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
What about a renovation.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I've noted all this.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
She hasn't paid me to say all these.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Off the floors. We'll bring on.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
What you're saying is chaw play brings on labor.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
For play. Did you say raw.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Play cleaning the house? We call it choror play.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, that works. Whatever makes Laura happy will increase, so amazing.
Go for it.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That is noted, doctor Bennett. We really appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
No problem, and.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Thank you again. We will be in touch with future
medical questions. We don't know what they are, but expecting
many of random phone calls from us.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Lovely thanks guys. Laura.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It's true. From the horse's mouth.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I hope, Laura, you better get out of here, big guy,
take those pants off.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
But when she comes home, she's still working.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That get down the office.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I have a huge shout out to doctor Bennett, specialist
obstetrician and onecologist on the Northern Beaches. And if you
want to find her on social media, she is at
doctor Victoria Bennett, double N, double T. That's it. You
know it. Ash actually still in housekeeping. If I may.
People may be wondering about Rhonda. Okay, I'm gonna whisper
because she's next door. She's probably standing outside my general,
(08:17):
the general. You know what she did?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Oh fuck, what did you do?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You know the skylight incident? If anyone who's new, we
had a big storm. Fence blew over, as did Ronda's
who lives next to me, by the way, it's my neighbor.
Her skylight blew off. Okay, I was nice enough to
help facillitate one of the builders to fix her roof
because it was straight through rain was coming in. Ok
(08:41):
we've done that. I then saw the builder and I say, hey,
how did you go with Rhonda and getting the money
because she was she said yes to it, but then
kind of forgot that she said yes to it, and
he goes, oh, mate, bloody hell.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It was hard.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And I was like, well, what happened? So he knocked
on her door to be like hey, Ronda, like you know,
doesn't have an email. He dropped off the invoice in person.
It's about fourteen hundred bucks, and she's like, yeah, right, eh,
I'll pay you nine hundred and he's like and he's
like it was already pretty heavily discounted. You know. It
(09:18):
was a big job, and there was a new skylight
cover that costs a lot of money. And she goes, yeah,
but your boys didn't clean the skylight and I had
to organize someone to clean it and seat nine hundred,
nine hundred take it. I'll leave it. He was like,
not really rooms to negotiate.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
This is not the appropriate time to negotiating, wonder.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And then he was like, fuck, what do I do?
Just it's not worth it. He's like, I'll take an
hundred bucks. So she swimdled the builder out of five
hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
She's got you all, she's got you all wrapped around.
Whatever she wants she has, she gets and I think
I look I'm starting to come around and rondo because
her way.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Of doing things, you would have run very similar.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I feel like, I'm like, okay, you don't not nine hundred,
how about eight hundred going the wrong way? Am I not?
For me?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I'm not. She complained about the fence by the way.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Because she complains with the wind.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
No, she said. I was like, right, it fences up,
looks great. It's a lap and cap fence, not cheap.
And she goes, oh, it's it's untreated pine. And I'm like, yeah,
keeping in mind she didn't pay a cent. She goes, oh,
you're going to paint it. I said no, she's oh,
that's a shame.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Does not the best she's got? You, man, Now you
think about that before you go to sleep. I'm starting
to come around. I'm starting like her. Does she want
to start a podcast? How about you do it and
just put my name on it?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Very good. I have just a quick little bit of
housekeeping now. I asked our listeners on the Facebook group,
which is thriving right now. I just, you know, Sunday,
I thought, I want to see what listeners did over
the weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
What did you do? How'd you find out?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I put it onto the Facebook group.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh the monthly post.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Okay, that's fun, and I thought.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Can we can we all just everyone right now? Can
we just all encourage Ash for that post?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I'm a busy gud.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Stop pretending like you've got things to do. I know
you're sitting there playing your bloody your car simulator? What
is that? Nintendo? What is it? Want? Gummies? What did
you ask?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I just asked, how was your weekend? To see what
people get up to, because I'm a man of the people.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I've always said that.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I said that, and look a lot of them really
short and sweet, which I love that. It's like we
went to the park, kids at a great time. That's
what I want to hear. I also want to hear
people who are doing the extra which I'm like, how
do you fit that in? And what? Okay? Here's one
from Brodieawn Physio session two dance classes on Saturday followed
(12:03):
by a ballet exam on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Ballet exam.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Let's keep this in mind. She started this with firstborn,
so that's just for the one child next one middle
child food shop with me while firstborn did her Saturday classes.
Then I dropped her at a birthday party. Okay, that's
not too bad.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's manageable.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's manageable. There's a thirdborn. This is what you're in for.
And this is the same lady, This is the same Brody.
Don't know, Brody, Elizabeth. I don't know if it's Brody.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You raising the bar too high?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Thirdborn birthday party, which my husband took him on Saturday.
It doesn't end. I also went to a live podcast
show Saturday night. So husband had to wrangle three kids
into bed, including one with a broken colber. So, hang
on a minute, you're doing all this on the weekend.
They've got broken bone.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Don't make them dance the ballet exam? Is it the same, lady? Yeah, yes,
it's still Brodie.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
It's still Brodie. And it's not over. We all went
to the movies on Sunday. AVO, What the fuck for?
She said, that's the basic gist of it, The basic gist,
the basic gist.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
What's the long winded version?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh my goodness, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
How do you?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
How do you have the energy?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I'm staring down the barrel right now of enrolling Lola
into a dance class. The only the option is a
Saturday morning at eight thirty, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Like, nah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Laura and I are like, do we really want to
do this?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Please?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I'll do anything to dance, and we're like, I just
don't want a commitment on a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I'm not like, I'm happy we didn't do into sport
this year, but next year with Oscar it's a no brainer.
But I think not doing it this year has helped
him develop into what's how he can be next year
because he's not gone, He's he's now. He's more decisive
of what he wants to do, not just I want
to do it because all be friends are doing it.
That's an impression that was great, And I'm like, oh fuck,
(14:05):
I'm not looking forward to those because you know what
I'm like on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Hang over.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Another quick one, really quick.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
This is from Housekeeping.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We are you sure?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Housekeeping is taking over the podcast.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
This is from beer Porter. That's her name A beer
beer b B Saturday, Three different parks. What the first
two parks in the first wake window that's just greedy
and bike ride to the third park in the last
wake window that Saturday Sunday Park again supermarket, dog walk
(14:44):
to another park. My son lives outside the moment his
eyes open for some reason, needs to be outside. Rain,
Hail a shine, It's the vein of my existence. From
a mum who dreams of sitting on the couch inside
drinking a coffee in a nice mug. Well, I'm sorry,
do you reckon?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
There's the record. It's got to be a world record
most parks visited with family and kids. But always said it,
I mean there's a lot around here.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Actually, that's a great can you write that down? Thanks
litt on T shirt write down. And last one is
not a long one. This is a really quick one
which I gave.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Me anuges was just like the invisible typewriter.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Should like that cat meme. Let me.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Speak of it again next week. Just well go hey guys.
The world record for most park visits.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Were like shut up in a monologue? Is like, can
you shut the fun up?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Just cross?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I'm not doing anything you asked me to anyway. I
had a quick, really quick idea off the back of
this one. Someone said, I went to a dancers Dedford
on Friday, Saturday, Saturday and Sunday and extra training on
Sunday after right, So dancers Dedford. Okay, do you remember
the dance and rockers stead for.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It used to be on TV.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah. So my idea was that we we should perform
at its Dedford as too doting dad not needed, Matt
and I should try and get a spot at a
rock of Stedford. And then she said there's an a
Stdford group section for open age.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
What's the k like? What what are we wanting from?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
This would be fine bonding.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Your kids are like, Daddy, can we go down the
park and kick the football?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Now?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I'm grancy for the Stedford So I'm real keen to
get involved into Stedford.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
If you are okay, not at all?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Well, I've read up.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Good Now when is it.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
To be disclosed?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
To be closed to B D T B D Okay,
I'll think about it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'll let it marinate, you marinate away on that big guy.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
We are still in housekeeping for anyone wondering the last
house I love it. Last bit of housekeeping. This is
from Ella. This was sent in on the Facebook group
and it's a dinner hack. We love a dinner hack
and it's Aldi inspired. She says, we buy the Aldi cauliflower,
bake and cook it on the stove for a quick
dinner tonight. I also put broccoli in it and mixed
(17:01):
it through delicious and healthy. My kids were watching me
do it and calling it noodles because it was made
in the same pop I make their noodles in, dished
up and called it noodles, and they've eaten every bit
of it, including a second serve.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
No way, win is a wind.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That's that's like, that's top of the food chain. That
is peak peak wind.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I would say it's should cook everything in that noodle dish.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, literally breakfast fat for them. But if you have
a dinner hack please, Oh yeah, we want to hear it.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So cauliflower bake with broccoli.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, but I mean the kids are very gullible because
I believe anything. But it's a cauliflower bake with broccoli,
but it's noodles.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Have you ever had a Califower bake blake went home stroke?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Colif brand Mom used to do a cauliflower Yes, it
reminds me, O, it reminds me mom used to do
a cauliflower cheesy bake.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Nice? All right, at least your mom didn't do apricot
chicken and be strong enough.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I love being struggle off. That is the end of housekeeping. Actually,
speaking of Ellie, Yes, speaking of Ellie, Ash is aware
of the situation. The listener is not. We had her
on a couple of weeks ago off the back of
her shoulder surgery.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Because people thought you were dead.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, and we also made fun of the fact that
we were like, ha ha, nothing's gonna stop Ellie except
the shoulder surgery and maybe the last time that she's
on the podcast, because she's gonna pass. Like I look
back at those directs and my mom was making them, Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Please stand the vandaid off. People think he's dead.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Now she is not. She is okay, but we fuck,
we're close.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Oh, I know.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I don't want to freak people out who know my mum,
but we were this is the weekend of Father's Day. Yep,
it's a couple of weeks back. We went down to
Alidalla must be nice, thank you, and Mum was still recovering,
you know, and the thursday before mum had been to
the doctor for a checkout post surgery, had stitches out.
(19:13):
He was like, everything looks great, You're doing fine. Mum
felt fine. So when we left, we're like Mum, are
you sure you're gonna be okay? And she's like, don't
worry about it. I like, everything's good here, no sign
of any type of illness. My sister is only five
minutes down the road. So my sister was like, don't worry,
I'll look after if there's any issues, you know, I'll
be checking it on Mum.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
She wouldn't want you to hang stay around just because
she's given the all clear, just yea mum.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Mum was kind of like, it'd be nice to have
the house to myself for a weekend and just be
able to relax and recover.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
So we're down at Alidalla. I get a phone call
on Saturday night, must have been about eight o'clock. My
sister is hysterical and she's like, Mum's in trouble and
I was coming well, like, you know, just wait a second,
what's happening? And she goes a called Mom. She can't talk.
(20:05):
Wear are the keys for the house? Because Mum was
obviously at home. My sister was currently en route to
the house. But what had happened is my sister was
at dinner she had a phone call from Mom. It
was in the middle of a speech at dinner. So
my sister thought, I'll just let that one go through
the keeper, and then she called again. My sister was like,
what the hell Mum. She answered the phone and said,
(20:27):
Mom can't talk right now, there is a speech at dinner.
I'll call you back. My Mum replied with help what
she managed to get out? So my sister then instantly
changed gears and was like, oh, what's wrong. My Mom
couldn't get the words out. She was just mumbling a
few words on the phone. So that's when my sister
called an uber. Her husband called Trippleo. They got to
(20:50):
the house and I was still on the phone trying
to explain where the hidden key was for the door
because the door was locked. And when they got to Mom,
she was breathing, she was non responsive, and at first
I wasn't the phone because I was trying to speak
to my brother in law about where the key was.
You know, my sister's got this blood curdling scream because
(21:13):
they've just the paramedics. They've just seen Mom. She's in bed,
and the way it was all kind of unfolding. I
was getting updates in real time. I was like, fuck,
Mum's had a stroke. Fuck, And so then I kind
of jumped off the phone to let them deal with
the situation. I'm there waiting now just for my phone
(21:33):
to ring, being like, what the hell is happening?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You're like three hours away.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I'm three hours away. And so then I'm kind of
just in shock. Like one second, Laura and I were
literally about to like we're about to have dinner. I'm
about to have like a glass of wine and be
like what are we gonna do for Father's Day tomorrow?
Next thing, I'm waiting to try and get any update
and what's happening with mum. They've then got her into
the ambulance. She's on her way to hospital. I'm thinking, fuck,
(21:59):
I'm gonna and again this point, everyone's kind of saying
stroke yeah, because she's not talking. She's still breathing, but
she's can barely get any words out. So then I
jump in the car, I drive back to Sydney. I
get to the emergency room at Saint Vincent at about
twelve thirty. Yeah, and you know, Mum's got all kind
(22:22):
of things hooked up to Her blood pressure was about seventy,
her body temp was almost like thirty three thirty four.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
If anyone who doesn't know, that's really bloody low.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, hypothemia, yes, even though it's like two degrees low
where it should be. It makes a massive difference totally.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
The doctors, that the nurses, they are all working trying
to find out what this problem is. She's at this point.
The good thing was they ruled out the stroke. She
had an MRI scan of oh god, I don't know
what the proper stroke scan. Yeah, they came back clear.
They have a specialist who works only with stroke patients.
And she then spoken to my sister and said, hey,
(23:01):
we've looked at the test results. It's not a stroke,
which is a great result, but we don't know what
it is. And then also, I don't know if anyone's
been to Saint Vincent's Hospital. It's near the city in
Sydney on a Saturday night. But the nurse was like, hey, mate,
you're coming for a good day. This is gonna be
a lot of fun. And I was like, oh, oh,
(23:21):
there's people on nights out. Someone's been glassed. Police are there,
like it's kicking off. My mom's there like hooked up
to machines. I was like, fucking how it's one in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Now, that's the same place Dad went when he had
the triple bypass last year. So he went because he
wasn't feeling well. He's like bad enough. My sister's like,
I'm taking you to the emergency room. And that's the hospital,
that's the local. And it was a Saturday night on
Friday night. And Dad was like, oh.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
My god, it's like carnage. Oh, carnage. It's yeah. The
nurse was like like thumbs up, good day for it.
And I was like, what the fuck you mean?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You just must get some entertainment.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Because it's for the nervouses with the medical stuff. It's
just another down in the office. Yeah, for sure, but
for you it's like fucking You're not used to all
that sort of not at all, especially someone being glassed.
But then also, I've got in the hospital. I'm looking
at Mom and I'm like holding at hand, and you know,
she can barely open her eyes, hasn't said a word,
but then she looks over, she looks at me, and
(24:26):
I'm like, it's okay, Mom, I love you, And she
opens her eyes and she clocks at it to me,
and then she opens her mouth and she goes, I
think the cat got out.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Oh shit, fuck, you really got me with that one.
Oh my god. Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And I'm like, don't worry about the cat, and she's like,
I don't. I don't know if the door was shut
behind me, And I'm like totally fine, Like raspberry not important.
Then she like closes her eyes and goes back to sleep,
and I'm like such a mom.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Oh yeah, caring about everything else other than the fact
that she's like really ill.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
The washing machine has a load that needs to go out.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Did you take the play out of the other?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah? And the good thing was as every kind of
minute passed, she became more stable. Blood pressure was good, high,
right was okay. But then they were just trying to
figure out what had caused this thing. So we left
at about three point thirty in the morning. We're back.
She was still in the r than the Sunday morning,
(25:34):
but then after heaps of tests, was then admitted to hospital.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
So you're no longer.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
An er, but you're still in the hospital, still doing
heaps of tests. My sister and I were kind of
tag teaming because they have a doctor in the morning,
a doctor at lunchtime, and then you know, trying to
explain to mom what tests they're doing, and there's like, yeah,
long list, and then if we would miss that, we'd
kind of ask Mom, who's still not with it one
hundred percent with what are they testing for? And she's like, oh,
(26:00):
I don't know this raspberry okame like fuck forget about her.
But in the end, it was some kind of viral
infection imagine I forget the name. It's like gashtro on steroids.
And they said sometimes when it's really severe cases, it
(26:21):
comes on very acutely, which means fast in medical term.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Wow are you a doctor?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I think I'm a doctor. That's a final test and yeah,
just it just hit really hard. So Mum was saying
that she had dinner ready. She was actually about to
pour herself a drink. She was like, oh, I've got
to saw a tummy and then she's like that's weird.
She's like, I'm just going to go to the loo quickly,
and she's like really, like it's signed to hurt. So
she had a lay down in bed for a split
(26:50):
second and next thing she was like, I can't even
get up, like wow. She had to muster the strength
to get her phone and managed to just call my sister.
And like, the really scary thing is if she hadn't
been able to call my sister when your blood pressure
is that low. Yeah, I this sounds really obvious, but
blood pressure is like a hose, you know, It's like
(27:12):
the amount of pressure that goes through So when it
drops really low, the amount of blood going through your
system is super low. Your body then goes into shock.
Your organs shut down. We want you to come back
until the next night. So it's yeah, really really really scary.
But we're like, don't I think about it. We're now
where we've purchased mum a watch that has a button
(27:35):
that you can press and it calls a number of people.
If those people don't pick up, it automatically calls triple zero.
That's clever, and then comes straight to the address that
you've designated.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Fuck, that's pretty I don't want to say cool.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
But that's the technology. They used to have, like big buttons,
and now it's just like a little watch that you wear.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I might get my nan one, mate, I know where'd
you get it?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I'll send you link? Yeah, I send to the link.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
So how's Ellie? As of right, she's still.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I mean, she's still recovering from the shoulder surgery. She's
still weak, but she's doing a lot better. Oh good,
a lot better. And the annoly thing was, dude, I
think I told you when I left for Aladulla on
that Friday morning, Laura was already down there. I was
heading down with the kids and I was racing out
the door and you know, trying to beat the traffic,
and my mom tried to tell me a story as
(28:23):
I was like at the door and I'm my mom,
not now, like fuck, you know, I'll call you later.
And then that whole time, I was thinking, obviously, you
can't live your life thing, that every conversation is going
to be a last with someone. But at the same
time as driving back, like, I hate that that last
moment I had with Mum was me being frustrated and
racing out the door and not giving her the time
(28:44):
that I would normally give her.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
And yeah, like, you just don't know what could have
been it. So if that was the last interaction you
had with you, as much as you don't want to
think about that, it's.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Like kills me, kills me, So it's a it was
a pretty big wake up call.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I'm so sorry I had to go through that. Every
time I leave something happening. Time you leave this, just
as the listeners call your mum, call you death. Right now,
give him a call and say I'm going to call
my mom on the way to the next thing, because yeah,
you're right. You just don't know what the last words
have ever told you? The last words my grandfather said
to me, for he told what did he say? Get
(29:21):
his a schooner? And then I never saw him again?
And you went to go no, because we were going
for lunch. He was in hospital and he was eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
He didn't even get you didn't get the schooner.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I can't take a schooner into the hospital. It was
the middle of COVID too. So we went down to
have lunch at the like the pub next door to
the hospital out of Westmead and I was like, oh,
I'm going to go down, and he was sort of
with it at that time. He come on and going
and he was like, come here, okay, get us the sconer,
would you. I was like absolutely, and I left and
then I never saw him again.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
It's crazy, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, he did drink thirty schooners a day.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I like that you just said, yes, you didn't argue.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I'm never gonna argue with him, no way, my favorite
person in the world. And uh yeah, but you just
don't know when the last what the last conversation. So
call your mom, call your parents, call your sister, call
your loved ones.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
And but as I said, your fault, you went away
and BALLEI.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yes, well I know, I know, And I was like
at first when you told me, I was like, oh shit.
And then I didn't realize how serious it was until
we had a conversation the next day, and I was like, fuck, anyway,
I'm sorry you had to go through that without me,
Thank you, and I'm glad.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Actually, can I say very kind of you to message
mom to see if she was okay. After the fact,
she she came to me and said, oh, she's been
messaging me, And I said, I.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Message her every day. I said to me, photos, she
wasn't meant to tell you that we are out of
housekeeping that man, are we?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Is this? As the cleaners would say, it's a clean sweep,
But I never said that. Anyway, I'm back, I'm back
in the country. I'm here. I'm with us in one piece.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Can I just for a second, just for a second,
tell people what you said in the group chat with
myself and Jess And yeah, let's just keep in mind,
you've had a week in Bali on an island, a
tropical island with no kids, enjoying cocktails every afternoon, and
then you come back and you're like, guys, I've had
the cold sweats, the shippers. I wouldn't wish this upon anybody. Yeah,
(31:31):
doing some sympathy. I never expected Jesse holding down.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
The reason I said it is because I was moving house,
which we'll get to next week. We're talking about a.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Moved house with a little rumble in your tummy.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
A little parasite in my eaten im witherd way, I'm
okay now kind of. I still can't eat.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I'm a medical expert, and there is no parasite inside.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
It's in a cute parasite. Very good. Anyway, before that happened,
we did go to Bali. Think everyone deserves a break.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Weren't you just in La that was for Work't you've
been how many time you've been to Bali this year?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
That's the first time. No, I haven't been away with
my wife all year. Okay, m backtrack there, buddy, back
track a little bit.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Would check the history.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
You can check with your annual leave history here. I
finished off the block of shooting for this TV show
mid April at the airport and we went and can
I talk?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Can we get an a Can we get one episode
of the podcast without you talking about the TV show?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Okay, take it out, just leave it in, please, I
need this. And April and I got to spend a
much deserved week in Bali without the kids. First trip
away for April without the kids.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
She find that well.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
And I posed the question to how how how soon
is too soon to start looking at photos on your phone?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I think like the flight out there, literally.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
We hadn't even taken and was like, lord, but before
we got to that point, something really interesting happened. And
we had mainly just checking baggage because it's hot weather.
You don't he jumpers over there, and I had a
board bag. Still bring one jumper just in case, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
just in case.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Said I don't want to ruin anyone's trip to Barley
by them not bringing a jumper.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
You're welcome you take one, just in case. The aircon
be cold. We're going through security and my bag's come
through fine, and then April's bag gets pulled up. And
I don't know if you no, no, this is in Sydney,
which is fine and not just fine on the other end.
And I don't know if you've been to the International
air lately. They've changed the config it's really thrown everybody out,
(33:48):
really throwing the smugglers out. So you used to go
in and it was security, I mean it was immigration
then security. Now it's security immigration, but it's all redone.
It's not it's actually much better. I will say, there's
nothing you know that line that I would know.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I haven't flown International for such a long went.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
To this year, bro, Remember you missed your for you canceled.
I don't know whatever. Anyway, this is my story anyway.
So we're in, we go through the security, my bag's
come through fine, and then April's bag gets pulled up
and it goes over to that big metal table. You know,
they've got to big it's like a sterile surgical table.
For some reason, they've got gloves on, like you've got
a dead body in your bag or something like that.
(34:26):
Too soon, bro, with who she's alive though for how
long we don't know anyway, So they're going through their rummish.
Let me get through it. There rummaging through April's bag.
It's going like this, and you guys have been April's
(34:47):
been a little nervous. I'm like, what have you done?
And she leans on and she's like, I think it's
my vibrain the pair, Thanks Amy Gerard.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Why did you carry on?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
We didn't have check in other than my surfboard. What
what I know? Anyway, put in this surfboard bag. She
didn't want to. I was like, you need to tell
her so that she can find it. We can go
on our merry way, and she's like no, so she
was reluctant to tell. So her whole bag sprawled out
over the thing, and the lady looks up and she
goes just trying to find something that keeps popping up.
(35:26):
It's like a circular thing like that, the pair, because
it's a particular sex toy. The kids in the car, sorry,
but they'll learn one day. It's a pair, looks like
a pair, and goes, oh yeah, And there's like an
old guy there as well, and it was like, looks
away from him a little bit. It's like it's a vibrator.
And the lady was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
No.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Problems anyway. This she pulls this bag out. It's like
a like a bag. It's stays in like a tie
up little bag thing that comes in lovely, so it's
not so virtually. Yeah, so she opens that. She opens
that up and plops the vibrator on the metal desk,
hacks up the bag, it goes back through security and
(36:10):
on the metal table. It's just aprils vibrate.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
At six am in the morning, standing there next to
a blank table, metal surgical table with a pink sex toy.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Like and they're like yeah, And I'm like, I just kept.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Gone, but did you get to keep the vibrate?
Speaker 2 (36:38):
And I worried that, like maybe she just said that cockpit.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Twice.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Anyway, so we got to keep the vibrator, which is great,
but it was a ver It is so funny.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
I feel like my pilot Drake needed more more laughter.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
I'm not going to get it to you. Try it
again soon. Hanging That was was good? Was it? What
did you say?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Fucking go again?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I'll give you on yeah, I give you this one.
Let me anyway, moving on, and then the sex capades continue.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
I can only imagine the laughter right now echoing through
the houses and cars of the listeners zill around the country.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Whatssaid?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (37:22):
The sexual escapades continued, Matthew, we did. We have had
conversations prior to be going on this trip about my
current well, like love my current thing?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
You like lingerie?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah, I'm loving it. I'm loving it. And I was like,
we're going on a trip, no kids.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yeah. Every time I spoke to you, like tracking the delivery,
like I still has to ripe yet, this is taking
so long.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
This is the thing. I ordered some for her. It
was like in a nice little gift box, the whole
fucking deal for this trip. Jess, stop laughing at me.
And I was like, this is great, this is going
to be.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Perfect and were glad to be talking about this, yes, And.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Then we got a notification. I got a notification. It
was like from the UK, It's not going to be
here until after I've gone. I'm like, that's not good.
So I jumped on to another website ordered some more stuff. Jesus,
I know, right, and I was like sweet express delivery
and you're picking it. Yeah, broh, yeah it's yeah, it's
(38:24):
for me, but she likes to No, I love that. Okay,
sorry checking just checking where your hands are. Then what happened?
And then a couple of days gone past and I
got a similar notification it's going to arrive after the fact.
Oh so this. At this point, I'm like five hundred
bucks up and my elbow and lingerie without a scarep
(38:45):
show for it.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Children, have an evening, You've got a creative.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
I'm like the body SIT's coming.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Then I was like, funk, what am I going to do?
And I had one day before I had to go
to Melbourne and then go go to Barley, and I
was like, fuck, So I've had I've click and collected
from another shop and I've actually gone.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Three separate orders.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah you've got a problem. I actually thank you. I
went and collected that one because I wanted for I
wanted it for the trip. I want us to have
a nice, fun week, no kids, an adult trip. There
was going to be sex, Matthew, Okay, thank you. I'm
just gonna admit it. There was gonna be sex. Sex
was to be had. Hopefully at that point it didn't help.
(39:32):
She's on a period anyway, No, never mind, just the
story for another time. But anyway, it gets worse, it
gets worse than the period or no, we get to BALI.
I've said to April, I've got this, and she was like,
taken aback. She's like, that's lovely and it's beautiful. That's
(39:52):
stuff they do anyway, So we're going through the week
of the whole they having a great time. It was
a bit rain. I don't know if he's on the
news like it flooded floody. Yeah, it was on the
main We were on a different island, and I kept
getting notifications the lingerie was being delivered as I was away,
(40:13):
all gift boxed and lovely to the house.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
And my parents, oh god, yep, my parents were at
my house watching my kids. Yeah. And as the days progressed,
the one of them was split up into two orders.
It must have come from a different warehouse. You And
sometimes so they've got like three or four orders of
lingerie turn up unannounced for no reason. They're like, ash
(40:39):
has a right anyway, I get home, it's all sat
there and Mum was just.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Like a discrete box.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
It's it's it, says lounge wear and the brand of
everything all over it. And my Mom's just like, oh,
you've got some packages and I was like, oh yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
I knew they were there.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
I was bracing myself because my mom's one of those
people who just tells it how it is, Like she
spent thirty minute. It's one time when I was a
kid telling me what an orgasm was.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
It's like, for fox sake, she's created this monster.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah essentially essentially yeah yeah. And I was like, hey, mama,
may it's good to see how the kids. Trying to
divert any conversations. She was like, so, what have you
been into?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Fuck?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
And she was like, seems like a bit much turning
into a bit of a kink. I was like, what's
just like, just be careful. It's a slippery so what
I'm doing slippery slope to what kimsuits apparently, and if
that's what you're into, that is that is not my thing?
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Be honest to be brought one.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yeah anyway, So it's coming from the UK. So that's
how the that's how the Barley trip went. I would
say one other thing. April is terrified of crossing the
road in Barley.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
It's scary. It's full on, so she would I.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Would have to hold her hand all the time. One time,
I I walked out in front of him. She wasn't watching,
and then she grabbed a Balinese guy's hand, thinking it
was me. I mean, the guy freaked out.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
He freaked out. He'd be like, well, hellu.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
It was a bit of both freak out. And I
was like, you're in the middle of the road.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
How did she mistake a Balinese man for you?
Speaker 2 (42:17):
She was looking at something and I've stepped out to walk,
and I went, let's go. And then the guy just
was the next man in line. That's how quickly I
could be replaced.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
That You sometimes when it's busy, like in a shopping
center and you you got to overtake someone and the
kid is in front of you, and the kid thinks
you're the parents. They turn around, they're like, say, ma,
I'm this.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
That happened to Abel. This little kid started following Avery no,
and then turned around and stopped to look at something,
and then this kid starts hugging the leg. She was like,
fucking kids this and I was like, it's not mine, obviously, no, no.
But anyway, we came back all in one piece. I
(42:59):
did come back and with a stomach parasite, which I
will tell you about next week during Because we are
moving house, okay.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Current you are, we're taking How about this? How about this?
This is exciting? Why don't next record? Why don't we
do it from the new house? Done in the Northern
beachesized we can do a.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Tour, a tour of the house.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Will it be ready in time by next day? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Okay someone of that is?
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Can I help it anyway? Oh?
Speaker 2 (43:28):
Now you ask?
Speaker 1 (43:30):
I love it. I can't wait to see the new pad.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Normally we would do a segment parents, but this is
a meaty episode. Housekeeping is sucked up so much time
that we're going to park that till next week and
we're just going to have a little look at some
of the questions Matt.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
This one is from Charlie. Thank you Charlie for writing this.
How on earth do you juggle two completely different sleeping
routines of a newborn and a toddler. You're about to
go through this, so what's the plan?
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Oh shit, Charlie, don't give me this type of anxiety.
Do you know what my biggest fear by having two
kids in the one room would be how hard it
would be to make them go to sleep at the
same time. Like I always thought it would be a
case one was keeping the other one up. But and
the kids are a bit older when they started sharing
a room, Like, I'm not going to put a newborn
(44:19):
in with Nyle and Lola. You know, she's going to
have her own little because that's because I think up
until one, fuh, that's like a little time bomb.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Like, yeah, I think like the the night I think
the nighttime routines are a little bit easier if you've got
a baby and a toddler, right, because you're all at home.
Maybe the baby can go to bed earlier. Yes, and
it's not a big deal, and like I get to
stay up and it can be a bit like that.
But you know what, like the sleep routine for a
newborn is all day, every day. And then you've got
(44:49):
i'd say, you've got both girls home with you and
Laura and then you guys go to the park and
it's like, okay, well this kid needs to nap.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah, we nap traps, so one of us will stay home.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
Yeah, And it's like if it doesn't, if the baby's
not good at napping in the pram while out, then
you're fucked because it's like you've got to come back.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Yeah, but I also kind of think, I mean, I can't.
My memory of the newborn phase is more like I
kind of think of Marley, who was really easy. I'm
trying to think of what it was like with Lola.
I think I've just blocked it out because it was
so awful. Yeah, lovey Lola. But I think you can
kind of if you create a certain environment for your
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newborn to go to sleep in, and it's like, you know,
a quiet, tranquill place, then I think you're gonna find
it really hard to have them fall asleep when they're
not in that little environment that you're set up. So
I kind of think make them sleep wherever.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
The best thing go on right when you're out with
a newborn baby is getting them to go to sleep
in a crowd. Yes, because the constant murmur of chatter,
it's like in the belly bro there it is. I
think we've answered that question. I think we Good luck, Charlie,
you're up.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
This one is from Lim and she wants to know
how much TV is? Okay, all of it? For it
wait for a two year old.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
There's not enough, all of it again to them all.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Well, she says, I feel guilty when I turn the
Wiggles on YouTube for my little one to watch. But
she absolutely loves it, don't we all? She does have
tantrum sometimes when we turn it off. The mum guild
sinks in when parenting feels easier with the TV on.
I only let her watch TV on the weekends and
hour each day of the weekend.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
That's pretty good. I think you're doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Lim Wow, that is that is a plus.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Go easy on yourself.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Also like an hour.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
My kids will watch it for like five hours straight.
There he is, I forget I've got them. I think. Look,
I think if you've got already too.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Busy there on your phone ordering lingerie, guilty, I'm now broke.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
I think she's got to I think you've got to die.
If you've already know, I wouldn't be able to tell
you how much TV my kids would watch it in
the week. You know how much time, and you restrict it.
You are fucking far and ahead of a majority of people.
And I don't think, I don't think. I don't think
they're each their own whatever works for you guys.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
But it's so hard because there is no question about it.
It's universal that kids absolutely go benign us for TV
for screen time. It does make it easier, there is
no question about it. And when you're exhausted, when you
need a little break, you put that TV on and
you just know that they're going to be locked in
just for a little bit, just for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
But also I would say the only thing that I
don't like is that just the individual screen, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Yeah, we've actually did we stop that. We had the
eyepa much better and like there's actually the iPads are
in the little side table thing here in the living
room and I was cleaning it out and I put
it on the table and Lowlas saw it when she
came home from day. I forgot to put it back
and she was like, and I was like, fucking hell,
had to like try and hide it from her and
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she just all night up until through dinner bath time. Think,
I just want the iPad.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
I get it off of it too. It's crazy and
like because they can't regulate it, they just ride the
emotion they're watching. But I like it. I don't mind
like the TV for example, Bluie and I've got the
kids table and chair in front, and Macy's playing playto
and watching that all for that she can sit there
for eight hours like it's a job.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
But do you know what Apparently apparently like the cocoa
melon people, I don't know what's going on, but people
are like, it's it's so high stimulating with the noises
and the flashing and everything else. You can get like
the old school ABC shows, they're like a lot more calming.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Yeah, yeah, April hits the ABC at night, the ABC
shows at night, because yeah, it is, it's way more
like it's mellow. It's way more Yeah, for sure, because
like they get they're so easy to get worked up,
aren't they.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
But the short answer was you're doing a lim carry on.
Absolutely fine. You're a great parent.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
That well said, And if you.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Have any questions you can hit us up.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
We're ash on social media Instagram, TikTok, the Facebook group
twotorating Dads for All three or YouTube now now.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
We have YouTube full episodes as well. And if you're
watching this on YouTube, hello, thank you. And if you've
enjoyed this episode, the reviews have stopped. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
That's because you keep asking for God.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
Seven hundred and fifty seven.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Someone leave a review for Mat So next week, when
I'm sitting in front of him, he goes, We've got
a review, thank you. Yeah, so you can do that
on Spotify. You can do that on Apple. A couple
of nice words would be good. If you hate it
one star and leave some hate for words, I don't care.
I do right until then.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
We'll see you guys next week from Ash's house.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
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Speaker 2 (50:09):
We pay our respects to their elders past and present
and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torrestrate Islander
peoples today
Ash, I need to apologize.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
No, don't apologize to me.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's a little bit chaotic right now in this household.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What's you, big guy?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We've got a huge construction site next door. There is
currently four concrete trucks. I exaggerated this one, but it
might as well before they're doing piling. Okay, we've got
we've got builders doing the jip rocking. It's just it's
all kicking off.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I've got piles.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
What are piles?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Just hemorrhoids?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Great, Welcome back to two doting dads.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm Maddie J And I'm Ash.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And this is a podcast all about parenting. It is
the good, it is the bad and the relatable. And
I need to apologize now to the listener. If you
hear drills a saw.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I think they're used to it.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I feel like today is particularly bad.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
That is bad, But you know what, let it be
a surprise.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Let me. I'm trying to I'm trying to give them
some love. Stop me from loving the listener, Let me
love them.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Love love away time I give advice on this podcast,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's nice for me to say a line every now
and then carry on. Do you know what what time
is it asking? There?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
We go?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We got there. My first question is to you, no
baby yet.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Look, Laura wants it to be out where. Moments away
she looked up.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Very uncomfortable at that stage where it's like the very
last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Every step is agony for her, and she wants it
to come out.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Indian food. I heard people.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Have a lot of different thoughts on how to make
the baby come out, Indian food being one of them.
I heard olive oil is another reason that the baby
will come out.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Okay, from what end?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Don't this is what.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I go.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It's not from me, it's the Italians.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Ah, but a rumor.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
That I heard. I don't know if you're familiar with
this rumor, but apparently sex will bring on.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Labor between us. If so, let's get it there.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I wasn't expecting to say that, but so sex with
Laura obviously very good? Very good. I thought, I've been
doing some scientific research.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
On TikTok on this.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, now do you more so Instagram than TikTok. I
put the call out there. I asked people if they
have had labor come on off the back of sex.
Mixed reports, there's only one way to get a true answer.
Here a medical expert.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh, absolutely, I'm not a medical ebsert. I appreciate the
kind word. What are you going to call one?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I have in my hand right now a mobile phone,
and on that phone is a number of an obstetrician,
doctor Bennett, Doctor Bennett, Doctor Bennett.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Doctor Bennett's strong name.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Strong name the expert. Let's speak to her any other
medical questions you want to ask at the same time.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
No, but in that name, there's two e's, two ends,
two T'SO Bennett.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
How your mind works is a mystery.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Maybe she can study my mind while it's on the phone.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's called doctor Bennett, Doctor Bennett. We would like to
put forward a question that has been asked by parents
to be for centuries. My wife is currently not in labor.
Would like to be in labor? Yeah, and I have
put forward the suggestion that sex will help bring on
(03:36):
labor to back up my claim. Is there any scientific
proof on the matter.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You'll be pleased to know that, yes, there has been
some small studies that have suggested it might help bring
on labor.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
When you say small, my ears pricked up.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It basically is worth a try. But no, guarantees. It
works in two ways. So first of all, in the semen,
there's prostaglandins, which soften the cervix and can bring on labor.
So prostagondins are what we sometimes used to induce labor medically,
so that's one way it can work. And then also
if it's good sex and there's orgasm involved, then it
(04:20):
can release oxytocin, which is your love hormone, which can
bring on labor.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Definitely, that one.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It might help, but it's got to be good sex.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Question for you really quick, any particular position.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Whatever position you can get yourself into, well said.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well said, yeah, that.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Technically can be challenging, but where there's a world as.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
A way, that's the spirit only.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
The only reason you wouldn't want to do it is
if your waters have broken, don't do it.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Then that would be.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Or if a doctor has said you shouldn't do it,
so few if there's.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
A doctor in the room while you're doing it, I'd
be concerned.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, I haven't heard of that happening yet, but you know,
you never know.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well, Laura will be thrilled with this news.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Good. I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Other ways you can bring on labor naturally though the
issues not in the mood.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
There's lots of walking.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You can do curb walking where you walk along the
side the road with one foot on the curb, so
you're hobbling along.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
What does that do?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
So it moves the baby's head down into the pelvis
and presses on your cervix so softens it and opens
it up.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
That can help.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'm sure she's already waddling right.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I'm sure she is chasing after two little ones already.
There's a lot of walking involved. Nipple stimulation you might
be interested in.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, then that's just sex for that, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Yeah, if that's.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Evolved in sex, it might help. That can really sucksytocin.
But you do need to be doing it quite often,
like for five minutes a few times a day for
it to actually be effective.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
So she might not like that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
She hates me touching nipples at the moment.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Well, that's not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Some massage relaxation gets your oxytocin going. Actual pressure or
acupulture can also work, so a few people around here
that do it. That's one that's known to be the
guru for if you want to go into labor now.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What about for Laura Victoria please ignore ash.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Well, so that's probably a good it's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's a good thing me.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Okay, massage, got massage.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, massage and just generally being relaxed, because if you're stressed,
you adrenaline goes up and then that stops your oxytocin
being So you've basically just gotta be really nice to Laura.
Lots of massages. For massages, you can make her a
nice curry, spicy food can help.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
There's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
What about a renovation.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I've noted all this.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
She hasn't paid me to say all these.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Off the floors. We'll bring on.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
What you're saying is chaw play brings on labor.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
For play. Did you say raw.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Play cleaning the house? We call it choror play.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, that works. Whatever makes Laura happy will increase, so amazing.
Go for it.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That is noted, doctor Bennett. We really appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
No problem, and.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Thank you again. We will be in touch with future
medical questions. We don't know what they are, but expecting
many of random phone calls from us.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Lovely thanks guys. Laura.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It's true. From the horse's mouth.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I hope, Laura, you better get out of here, big guy,
take those pants off.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
But when she comes home, she's still working.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That get down the office.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I have a huge shout out to doctor Bennett, specialist
obstetrician and onecologist on the Northern Beaches. And if you
want to find her on social media, she is at
doctor Victoria Bennett, double N, double T. That's it. You
know it. Ash actually still in housekeeping. If I may.
People may be wondering about Rhonda. Okay, I'm gonna whisper
because she's next door. She's probably standing outside my general,
(08:17):
the general. You know what she did?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Oh fuck, what did you do?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You know the skylight incident? If anyone who's new, we
had a big storm. Fence blew over, as did Ronda's
who lives next to me, by the way, it's my neighbor.
Her skylight blew off. Okay, I was nice enough to
help facillitate one of the builders to fix her roof
because it was straight through rain was coming in. Ok
(08:41):
we've done that. I then saw the builder and I say, hey,
how did you go with Rhonda and getting the money
because she was she said yes to it, but then
kind of forgot that she said yes to it, and
he goes, oh, mate, bloody hell.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It was hard.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And I was like, well, what happened? So he knocked
on her door to be like hey, Ronda, like you know,
doesn't have an email. He dropped off the invoice in person.
It's about fourteen hundred bucks, and she's like, yeah, right, eh,
I'll pay you nine hundred and he's like and he's
like it was already pretty heavily discounted. You know. It
(09:18):
was a big job, and there was a new skylight
cover that costs a lot of money. And she goes, yeah,
but your boys didn't clean the skylight and I had
to organize someone to clean it and seat nine hundred,
nine hundred take it. I'll leave it. He was like,
not really rooms to negotiate.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
This is not the appropriate time to negotiating, wonder.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And then he was like, fuck, what do I do?
Just it's not worth it. He's like, I'll take an
hundred bucks. So she swimdled the builder out of five
hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
She's got you all, she's got you all wrapped around.
Whatever she wants she has, she gets and I think
I look I'm starting to come around and rondo because
her way.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Of doing things, you would have run very similar.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I feel like, I'm like, okay, you don't not nine hundred,
how about eight hundred going the wrong way? Am I not?
For me?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I'm not. She complained about the fence by the way.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Because she complains with the wind.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
No, she said. I was like, right, it fences up,
looks great. It's a lap and cap fence, not cheap.
And she goes, oh, it's it's untreated pine. And I'm like, yeah,
keeping in mind she didn't pay a cent. She goes, oh,
you're going to paint it. I said no, she's oh,
that's a shame.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Does not the best she's got? You, man, Now you
think about that before you go to sleep. I'm starting
to come around. I'm starting like her. Does she want
to start a podcast? How about you do it and
just put my name on it?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Very good. I have just a quick little bit of
housekeeping now. I asked our listeners on the Facebook group,
which is thriving right now. I just, you know, Sunday,
I thought, I want to see what listeners did over
the weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
What did you do? How'd you find out?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I put it onto the Facebook group.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh the monthly post.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Okay, that's fun, and I thought.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Can we can we all just everyone right now? Can
we just all encourage Ash for that post?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I'm a busy gud.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Stop pretending like you've got things to do. I know
you're sitting there playing your bloody your car simulator? What
is that? Nintendo? What is it? Want? Gummies? What did
you ask?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I just asked, how was your weekend? To see what
people get up to, because I'm a man of the people.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I've always said that.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I said that, and look a lot of them really
short and sweet, which I love that. It's like we
went to the park, kids at a great time. That's
what I want to hear. I also want to hear
people who are doing the extra which I'm like, how
do you fit that in? And what? Okay? Here's one
from Brodieawn Physio session two dance classes on Saturday followed
(12:03):
by a ballet exam on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Ballet exam.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Let's keep this in mind. She started this with firstborn,
so that's just for the one child next one middle
child food shop with me while firstborn did her Saturday classes.
Then I dropped her at a birthday party. Okay, that's
not too bad.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's manageable.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's manageable. There's a thirdborn. This is what you're in for.
And this is the same lady, This is the same Brody.
Don't know, Brody, Elizabeth. I don't know if it's Brody.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You raising the bar too high?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Thirdborn birthday party, which my husband took him on Saturday.
It doesn't end. I also went to a live podcast
show Saturday night. So husband had to wrangle three kids
into bed, including one with a broken colber. So, hang
on a minute, you're doing all this on the weekend.
They've got broken bone.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Don't make them dance the ballet exam? Is it the same, lady? Yeah, yes,
it's still Brodie.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
It's still Brodie. And it's not over. We all went
to the movies on Sunday. AVO, What the fuck for?
She said, that's the basic gist of it, The basic gist,
the basic gist.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
What's the long winded version?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh my goodness, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
How do you?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
How do you have the energy?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I'm staring down the barrel right now of enrolling Lola
into a dance class. The only the option is a
Saturday morning at eight thirty, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Like, nah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Laura and I are like, do we really want to
do this?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Please?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I'll do anything to dance, and we're like, I just
don't want a commitment on a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I'm not like, I'm happy we didn't do into sport
this year, but next year with Oscar it's a no brainer.
But I think not doing it this year has helped
him develop into what's how he can be next year
because he's not gone, He's he's now. He's more decisive
of what he wants to do, not just I want
to do it because all be friends are doing it.
That's an impression that was great, And I'm like, oh fuck,
(14:05):
I'm not looking forward to those because you know what
I'm like on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Hang over.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Another quick one, really quick.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
This is from Housekeeping.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We are you sure?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Housekeeping is taking over the podcast.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
This is from beer Porter. That's her name A beer
beer b B Saturday, Three different parks. What the first
two parks in the first wake window that's just greedy
and bike ride to the third park in the last
wake window that Saturday Sunday Park again supermarket, dog walk
(14:44):
to another park. My son lives outside the moment his
eyes open for some reason, needs to be outside. Rain,
Hail a shine, It's the vein of my existence. From
a mum who dreams of sitting on the couch inside
drinking a coffee in a nice mug. Well, I'm sorry,
do you reckon?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
There's the record. It's got to be a world record
most parks visited with family and kids. But always said it,
I mean there's a lot around here.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Actually, that's a great can you write that down? Thanks
litt on T shirt write down. And last one is
not a long one. This is a really quick one
which I gave.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Me anuges was just like the invisible typewriter.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Should like that cat meme. Let me.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Speak of it again next week. Just well go hey guys.
The world record for most park visits.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Were like shut up in a monologue? Is like, can
you shut the fun up?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Just cross?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I'm not doing anything you asked me to anyway. I
had a quick, really quick idea off the back of
this one. Someone said, I went to a dancers Dedford
on Friday, Saturday, Saturday and Sunday and extra training on
Sunday after right, So dancers Dedford. Okay, do you remember
the dance and rockers stead for.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It used to be on TV.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah. So my idea was that we we should perform
at its Dedford as too doting dad not needed, Matt
and I should try and get a spot at a
rock of Stedford. And then she said there's an a
Stdford group section for open age.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
What's the k like? What what are we wanting from?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
This would be fine bonding.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Your kids are like, Daddy, can we go down the
park and kick the football?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Now?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I'm grancy for the Stedford So I'm real keen to
get involved into Stedford.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
If you are okay, not at all?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Well, I've read up.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Good Now when is it.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
To be disclosed?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
To be closed to B D T B D Okay,
I'll think about it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'll let it marinate, you marinate away on that big guy.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
We are still in housekeeping for anyone wondering the last
house I love it. Last bit of housekeeping. This is
from Ella. This was sent in on the Facebook group
and it's a dinner hack. We love a dinner hack
and it's Aldi inspired. She says, we buy the Aldi cauliflower,
bake and cook it on the stove for a quick
dinner tonight. I also put broccoli in it and mixed
(17:01):
it through delicious and healthy. My kids were watching me
do it and calling it noodles because it was made
in the same pop I make their noodles in, dished
up and called it noodles, and they've eaten every bit
of it, including a second serve.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
No way, win is a wind.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That's that's like, that's top of the food chain. That
is peak peak wind.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I would say it's should cook everything in that noodle dish.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, literally breakfast fat for them. But if you have
a dinner hack please, Oh yeah, we want to hear it.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So cauliflower bake with broccoli.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, but I mean the kids are very gullible because
I believe anything. But it's a cauliflower bake with broccoli,
but it's noodles.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Have you ever had a Califower bake blake went home stroke?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Colif brand Mom used to do a cauliflower Yes, it
reminds me, O, it reminds me mom used to do
a cauliflower cheesy bake.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Nice? All right, at least your mom didn't do apricot
chicken and be strong enough.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I love being struggle off. That is the end of housekeeping. Actually,
speaking of Ellie, Yes, speaking of Ellie, Ash is aware
of the situation. The listener is not. We had her
on a couple of weeks ago off the back of
her shoulder surgery.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Because people thought you were dead.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, and we also made fun of the fact that
we were like, ha ha, nothing's gonna stop Ellie except
the shoulder surgery and maybe the last time that she's
on the podcast, because she's gonna pass. Like I look
back at those directs and my mom was making them, Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Please stand the vandaid off. People think he's dead.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Now she is not. She is okay, but we fuck,
we're close.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Oh, I know.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I don't want to freak people out who know my mum,
but we were this is the weekend of Father's Day. Yep,
it's a couple of weeks back. We went down to
Alidalla must be nice, thank you, and Mum was still recovering,
you know, and the thursday before mum had been to
the doctor for a checkout post surgery, had stitches out.
(19:13):
He was like, everything looks great, You're doing fine. Mum
felt fine. So when we left, we're like Mum, are
you sure you're gonna be okay? And she's like, don't
worry about it. I like, everything's good here, no sign
of any type of illness. My sister is only five
minutes down the road. So my sister was like, don't worry,
I'll look after if there's any issues, you know, I'll
be checking it on Mum.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
She wouldn't want you to hang stay around just because
she's given the all clear, just yea mum.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Mum was kind of like, it'd be nice to have
the house to myself for a weekend and just be
able to relax and recover.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
So we're down at Alidalla. I get a phone call
on Saturday night, must have been about eight o'clock. My
sister is hysterical and she's like, Mum's in trouble and
I was coming well, like, you know, just wait a second,
what's happening? And she goes a called Mom. She can't talk.
(20:05):
Wear are the keys for the house? Because Mum was
obviously at home. My sister was currently en route to
the house. But what had happened is my sister was
at dinner she had a phone call from Mom. It
was in the middle of a speech at dinner. So
my sister thought, I'll just let that one go through
the keeper, and then she called again. My sister was like,
what the hell Mum. She answered the phone and said,
(20:27):
Mom can't talk right now, there is a speech at dinner.
I'll call you back. My Mum replied with help what
she managed to get out? So my sister then instantly
changed gears and was like, oh, what's wrong. My Mom
couldn't get the words out. She was just mumbling a
few words on the phone. So that's when my sister
called an uber. Her husband called Trippleo. They got to
(20:50):
the house and I was still on the phone trying
to explain where the hidden key was for the door
because the door was locked. And when they got to Mom,
she was breathing, she was non responsive, and at first
I wasn't the phone because I was trying to speak
to my brother in law about where the key was.
You know, my sister's got this blood curdling scream because
(21:13):
they've just the paramedics. They've just seen Mom. She's in bed,
and the way it was all kind of unfolding. I
was getting updates in real time. I was like, fuck,
Mum's had a stroke. Fuck, And so then I kind
of jumped off the phone to let them deal with
the situation. I'm there waiting now just for my phone
(21:33):
to ring, being like, what the hell is happening?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You're like three hours away.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I'm three hours away. And so then I'm kind of
just in shock. Like one second, Laura and I were
literally about to like we're about to have dinner. I'm
about to have like a glass of wine and be
like what are we gonna do for Father's Day tomorrow?
Next thing, I'm waiting to try and get any update
and what's happening with mum. They've then got her into
the ambulance. She's on her way to hospital. I'm thinking, fuck,
(21:59):
I'm gonna and again this point, everyone's kind of saying
stroke yeah, because she's not talking. She's still breathing, but
she's can barely get any words out. So then I
jump in the car, I drive back to Sydney. I
get to the emergency room at Saint Vincent at about
twelve thirty. Yeah, and you know, Mum's got all kind
(22:22):
of things hooked up to Her blood pressure was about seventy,
her body temp was almost like thirty three thirty four.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
If anyone who doesn't know, that's really bloody low.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, hypothemia, yes, even though it's like two degrees low
where it should be. It makes a massive difference totally.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
The doctors, that the nurses, they are all working trying
to find out what this problem is. She's at this point.
The good thing was they ruled out the stroke. She
had an MRI scan of oh god, I don't know
what the proper stroke scan. Yeah, they came back clear.
They have a specialist who works only with stroke patients.
And she then spoken to my sister and said, hey,
(23:01):
we've looked at the test results. It's not a stroke,
which is a great result, but we don't know what
it is. And then also, I don't know if anyone's
been to Saint Vincent's Hospital. It's near the city in
Sydney on a Saturday night. But the nurse was like, hey, mate,
you're coming for a good day. This is gonna be
a lot of fun. And I was like, oh, oh,
(23:21):
there's people on nights out. Someone's been glassed. Police are there,
like it's kicking off. My mom's there like hooked up
to machines. I was like, fucking how it's one in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Now, that's the same place Dad went when he had
the triple bypass last year. So he went because he
wasn't feeling well. He's like bad enough. My sister's like,
I'm taking you to the emergency room. And that's the hospital,
that's the local. And it was a Saturday night on
Friday night. And Dad was like, oh.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
My god, it's like carnage. Oh, carnage. It's yeah. The
nurse was like like thumbs up, good day for it.
And I was like, what the fuck you mean?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You just must get some entertainment.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Because it's for the nervouses with the medical stuff. It's
just another down in the office. Yeah, for sure, but
for you it's like fucking You're not used to all
that sort of not at all, especially someone being glassed.
But then also, I've got in the hospital. I'm looking
at Mom and I'm like holding at hand, and you know,
she can barely open her eyes, hasn't said a word,
but then she looks over, she looks at me, and
(24:26):
I'm like, it's okay, Mom, I love you, And she
opens her eyes and she clocks at it to me,
and then she opens her mouth and she goes, I
think the cat got out.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Oh shit, fuck, you really got me with that one.
Oh my god. Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And I'm like, don't worry about the cat, and she's like,
I don't. I don't know if the door was shut
behind me, And I'm like totally fine, Like raspberry not important.
Then she like closes her eyes and goes back to sleep,
and I'm like such a mom.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Oh yeah, caring about everything else other than the fact
that she's like really ill.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
The washing machine has a load that needs to go out.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Did you take the play out of the other?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah? And the good thing was as every kind of
minute passed, she became more stable. Blood pressure was good, high,
right was okay. But then they were just trying to
figure out what had caused this thing. So we left
at about three point thirty in the morning. We're back.
She was still in the r than the Sunday morning,
(25:34):
but then after heaps of tests, was then admitted to hospital.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
So you're no longer.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
An er, but you're still in the hospital, still doing
heaps of tests. My sister and I were kind of
tag teaming because they have a doctor in the morning,
a doctor at lunchtime, and then you know, trying to
explain to mom what tests they're doing, and there's like, yeah,
long list, and then if we would miss that, we'd
kind of ask Mom, who's still not with it one
hundred percent with what are they testing for? And she's like, oh,
(26:00):
I don't know this raspberry okame like fuck forget about her.
But in the end, it was some kind of viral
infection imagine I forget the name. It's like gashtro on steroids.
And they said sometimes when it's really severe cases, it
(26:21):
comes on very acutely, which means fast in medical term.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Wow are you a doctor?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I think I'm a doctor. That's a final test and yeah,
just it just hit really hard. So Mum was saying
that she had dinner ready. She was actually about to
pour herself a drink. She was like, oh, I've got
to saw a tummy and then she's like that's weird.
She's like, I'm just going to go to the loo quickly,
and she's like really, like it's signed to hurt. So
she had a lay down in bed for a split
(26:50):
second and next thing she was like, I can't even
get up, like wow. She had to muster the strength
to get her phone and managed to just call my sister.
And like, the really scary thing is if she hadn't
been able to call my sister when your blood pressure
is that low. Yeah, I this sounds really obvious, but
blood pressure is like a hose, you know, It's like
(27:12):
the amount of pressure that goes through So when it
drops really low, the amount of blood going through your
system is super low. Your body then goes into shock.
Your organs shut down. We want you to come back
until the next night. So it's yeah, really really really scary.
But we're like, don't I think about it. We're now
where we've purchased mum a watch that has a button
(27:35):
that you can press and it calls a number of people.
If those people don't pick up, it automatically calls triple zero.
That's clever, and then comes straight to the address that
you've designated.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Fuck, that's pretty I don't want to say cool.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
But that's the technology. They used to have, like big buttons,
and now it's just like a little watch that you wear.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I might get my nan one, mate, I know where'd
you get it?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I'll send you link? Yeah, I send to the link.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
So how's Ellie? As of right, she's still.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I mean, she's still recovering from the shoulder surgery. She's
still weak, but she's doing a lot better. Oh good,
a lot better. And the annoly thing was, dude, I
think I told you when I left for Aladulla on
that Friday morning, Laura was already down there. I was
heading down with the kids and I was racing out
the door and you know, trying to beat the traffic,
and my mom tried to tell me a story as
(28:23):
I was like at the door and I'm my mom,
not now, like fuck, you know, I'll call you later.
And then that whole time, I was thinking, obviously, you
can't live your life thing, that every conversation is going
to be a last with someone. But at the same
time as driving back, like, I hate that that last
moment I had with Mum was me being frustrated and
racing out the door and not giving her the time
(28:44):
that I would normally give her.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
And yeah, like, you just don't know what could have
been it. So if that was the last interaction you
had with you, as much as you don't want to
think about that, it's.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Like kills me, kills me, So it's a it was
a pretty big wake up call.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I'm so sorry I had to go through that. Every
time I leave something happening. Time you leave this, just
as the listeners call your mum, call you death. Right now,
give him a call and say I'm going to call
my mom on the way to the next thing, because yeah,
you're right. You just don't know what the last words
have ever told you? The last words my grandfather said
to me, for he told what did he say? Get
(29:21):
his a schooner? And then I never saw him again?
And you went to go no, because we were going
for lunch. He was in hospital and he was eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
He didn't even get you didn't get the schooner.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I can't take a schooner into the hospital. It was
the middle of COVID too. So we went down to
have lunch at the like the pub next door to
the hospital out of Westmead and I was like, oh,
I'm going to go down, and he was sort of
with it at that time. He come on and going
and he was like, come here, okay, get us the sconer,
would you. I was like absolutely, and I left and
then I never saw him again.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
It's crazy, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, he did drink thirty schooners a day.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I like that you just said, yes, you didn't argue.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I'm never gonna argue with him, no way, my favorite
person in the world. And uh yeah, but you just
don't know when the last what the last conversation. So
call your mom, call your parents, call your sister, call
your loved ones.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
And but as I said, your fault, you went away
and BALLEI.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yes, well I know, I know, And I was like
at first when you told me, I was like, oh shit.
And then I didn't realize how serious it was until
we had a conversation the next day, and I was like, fuck, anyway,
I'm sorry you had to go through that without me,
Thank you, and I'm glad.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Actually, can I say very kind of you to message
mom to see if she was okay. After the fact,
she she came to me and said, oh, she's been
messaging me, And I said, I.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Message her every day. I said to me, photos, she
wasn't meant to tell you that we are out of
housekeeping that man, are we?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Is this? As the cleaners would say, it's a clean sweep,
But I never said that. Anyway, I'm back, I'm back
in the country. I'm here. I'm with us in one piece.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Can I just for a second, just for a second,
tell people what you said in the group chat with
myself and Jess And yeah, let's just keep in mind,
you've had a week in Bali on an island, a
tropical island with no kids, enjoying cocktails every afternoon, and
then you come back and you're like, guys, I've had
the cold sweats, the shippers. I wouldn't wish this upon anybody. Yeah,
(31:31):
doing some sympathy. I never expected Jesse holding down.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
The reason I said it is because I was moving house,
which we'll get to next week. We're talking about a.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Moved house with a little rumble in your tummy.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
A little parasite in my eaten im witherd way, I'm
okay now kind of. I still can't eat.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I'm a medical expert, and there is no parasite inside.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
It's in a cute parasite. Very good. Anyway, before that happened,
we did go to Bali. Think everyone deserves a break.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Weren't you just in La that was for Work't you've
been how many time you've been to Bali this year?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
That's the first time. No, I haven't been away with
my wife all year. Okay, m backtrack there, buddy, back
track a little bit.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Would check the history.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
You can check with your annual leave history here. I
finished off the block of shooting for this TV show
mid April at the airport and we went and can
I talk?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Can we get an a Can we get one episode
of the podcast without you talking about the TV show?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Okay, take it out, just leave it in, please, I
need this. And April and I got to spend a
much deserved week in Bali without the kids. First trip
away for April without the kids.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
She find that well.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
And I posed the question to how how how soon
is too soon to start looking at photos on your phone?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I think like the flight out there, literally.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
We hadn't even taken and was like, lord, but before
we got to that point, something really interesting happened. And
we had mainly just checking baggage because it's hot weather.
You don't he jumpers over there, and I had a
board bag. Still bring one jumper just in case, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
just in case.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Said I don't want to ruin anyone's trip to Barley
by them not bringing a jumper.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
You're welcome you take one, just in case. The aircon
be cold. We're going through security and my bag's come
through fine, and then April's bag gets pulled up. And
I don't know if you no, no, this is in Sydney,
which is fine and not just fine on the other end.
And I don't know if you've been to the International
air lately. They've changed the config it's really thrown everybody out,
(33:48):
really throwing the smugglers out. So you used to go
in and it was security, I mean it was immigration
then security. Now it's security immigration, but it's all redone.
It's not it's actually much better. I will say, there's
nothing you know that line that I would know.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I haven't flown International for such a long went.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
To this year, bro, Remember you missed your for you canceled.
I don't know whatever. Anyway, this is my story anyway.
So we're in, we go through the security, my bag's
come through fine, and then April's bag gets pulled up
and it goes over to that big metal table. You know,
they've got to big it's like a sterile surgical table.
For some reason, they've got gloves on, like you've got
a dead body in your bag or something like that.
(34:26):
Too soon, bro, with who she's alive though for how
long we don't know anyway, So they're going through their rummish.
Let me get through it. There rummaging through April's bag.
It's going like this, and you guys have been April's
(34:47):
been a little nervous. I'm like, what have you done?
And she leans on and she's like, I think it's
my vibrain the pair, Thanks Amy Gerard.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Why did you carry on?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
We didn't have check in other than my surfboard. What
what I know? Anyway, put in this surfboard bag. She
didn't want to. I was like, you need to tell
her so that she can find it. We can go
on our merry way, and she's like no, so she
was reluctant to tell. So her whole bag sprawled out
over the thing, and the lady looks up and she
goes just trying to find something that keeps popping up.
(35:26):
It's like a circular thing like that, the pair, because
it's a particular sex toy. The kids in the car, sorry,
but they'll learn one day. It's a pair, looks like
a pair, and goes, oh yeah, And there's like an
old guy there as well, and it was like, looks
away from him a little bit. It's like it's a vibrator.
And the lady was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
No.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Problems anyway. This she pulls this bag out. It's like
a like a bag. It's stays in like a tie
up little bag thing that comes in lovely, so it's
not so virtually. Yeah, so she opens that. She opens
that up and plops the vibrator on the metal desk,
hacks up the bag, it goes back through security and
(36:10):
on the metal table. It's just aprils vibrate.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
At six am in the morning, standing there next to
a blank table, metal surgical table with a pink sex toy.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Like and they're like yeah, And I'm like, I just kept.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Gone, but did you get to keep the vibrate?
Speaker 2 (36:38):
And I worried that, like maybe she just said that cockpit.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Twice.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Anyway, so we got to keep the vibrator, which is great,
but it was a ver It is so funny.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
I feel like my pilot Drake needed more more laughter.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
I'm not going to get it to you. Try it
again soon. Hanging That was was good? Was it? What
did you say?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Fucking go again?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I'll give you on yeah, I give you this one.
Let me anyway, moving on, and then the sex capades continue.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
I can only imagine the laughter right now echoing through
the houses and cars of the listeners zill around the country.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Whatssaid?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (37:22):
The sexual escapades continued, Matthew, we did. We have had
conversations prior to be going on this trip about my
current well, like love my current thing?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
You like lingerie?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah, I'm loving it. I'm loving it. And I was like,
we're going on a trip, no kids.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yeah. Every time I spoke to you, like tracking the delivery,
like I still has to ripe yet, this is taking
so long.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
This is the thing. I ordered some for her. It
was like in a nice little gift box, the whole
fucking deal for this trip. Jess, stop laughing at me.
And I was like, this is great, this is going
to be.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Perfect and were glad to be talking about this, yes, And.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Then we got a notification. I got a notification. It
was like from the UK, It's not going to be
here until after I've gone. I'm like, that's not good.
So I jumped on to another website ordered some more stuff. Jesus,
I know, right, and I was like sweet express delivery
and you're picking it. Yeah, broh, yeah it's yeah, it's
(38:24):
for me, but she likes to No, I love that. Okay,
sorry checking just checking where your hands are. Then what happened?
And then a couple of days gone past and I
got a similar notification it's going to arrive after the fact.
Oh so this. At this point, I'm like five hundred
bucks up and my elbow and lingerie without a scarep
(38:45):
show for it.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Children, have an evening, You've got a creative.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
I'm like the body SIT's coming.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Then I was like, funk, what am I going to do?
And I had one day before I had to go
to Melbourne and then go go to Barley, and I
was like, fuck, So I've had I've click and collected
from another shop and I've actually gone.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Three separate orders.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah you've got a problem. I actually thank you. I
went and collected that one because I wanted for I
wanted it for the trip. I want us to have
a nice, fun week, no kids, an adult trip. There
was going to be sex, Matthew, Okay, thank you. I'm
just gonna admit it. There was gonna be sex. Sex
was to be had. Hopefully at that point it didn't help.
(39:32):
She's on a period anyway, No, never mind, just the
story for another time. But anyway, it gets worse, it
gets worse than the period or no, we get to BALI.
I've said to April, I've got this, and she was like,
taken aback. She's like, that's lovely and it's beautiful. That's
(39:52):
stuff they do anyway, So we're going through the week
of the whole they having a great time. It was
a bit rain. I don't know if he's on the
news like it flooded floody. Yeah, it was on the
main We were on a different island, and I kept
getting notifications the lingerie was being delivered as I was away,
(40:13):
all gift boxed and lovely to the house.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
And my parents, oh god, yep, my parents were at
my house watching my kids. Yeah. And as the days progressed,
the one of them was split up into two orders.
It must have come from a different warehouse. You And
sometimes so they've got like three or four orders of
lingerie turn up unannounced for no reason. They're like, ash
(40:39):
has a right anyway, I get home, it's all sat
there and Mum was just.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Like a discrete box.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
It's it's it, says lounge wear and the brand of
everything all over it. And my Mom's just like, oh,
you've got some packages and I was like, oh yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
I knew they were there.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
I was bracing myself because my mom's one of those
people who just tells it how it is, Like she
spent thirty minute. It's one time when I was a
kid telling me what an orgasm was.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
It's like, for fox sake, she's created this monster.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah essentially essentially yeah yeah. And I was like, hey, mama,
may it's good to see how the kids. Trying to
divert any conversations. She was like, so, what have you
been into?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Fuck?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
And she was like, seems like a bit much turning
into a bit of a kink. I was like, what's
just like, just be careful. It's a slippery so what
I'm doing slippery slope to what kimsuits apparently, and if
that's what you're into, that is that is not my thing?
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Be honest to be brought one.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yeah anyway, So it's coming from the UK. So that's
how the that's how the Barley trip went. I would
say one other thing. April is terrified of crossing the
road in Barley.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
It's scary. It's full on, so she would I.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Would have to hold her hand all the time. One time,
I I walked out in front of him. She wasn't watching,
and then she grabbed a Balinese guy's hand, thinking it
was me. I mean, the guy freaked out.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
He freaked out. He'd be like, well, hellu.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
It was a bit of both freak out. And I
was like, you're in the middle of the road.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
How did she mistake a Balinese man for you?
Speaker 2 (42:17):
She was looking at something and I've stepped out to walk,
and I went, let's go. And then the guy just
was the next man in line. That's how quickly I
could be replaced.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
That You sometimes when it's busy, like in a shopping
center and you you got to overtake someone and the
kid is in front of you, and the kid thinks
you're the parents. They turn around, they're like, say, ma,
I'm this.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
That happened to Abel. This little kid started following Avery no,
and then turned around and stopped to look at something,
and then this kid starts hugging the leg. She was like,
fucking kids this and I was like, it's not mine, obviously, no, no.
But anyway, we came back all in one piece. I
(42:59):
did come back and with a stomach parasite, which I
will tell you about next week during Because we are
moving house, okay.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Current you are, we're taking How about this? How about this?
This is exciting? Why don't next record? Why don't we
do it from the new house? Done in the Northern
beachesized we can do a.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Tour, a tour of the house.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Will it be ready in time by next day? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Okay someone of that is?
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Can I help it anyway? Oh?
Speaker 2 (43:28):
Now you ask?
Speaker 1 (43:30):
I love it. I can't wait to see the new pad.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Normally we would do a segment parents, but this is
a meaty episode. Housekeeping is sucked up so much time
that we're going to park that till next week and
we're just going to have a little look at some
of the questions Matt.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
This one is from Charlie. Thank you Charlie for writing this.
How on earth do you juggle two completely different sleeping
routines of a newborn and a toddler. You're about to
go through this, so what's the plan?
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Oh shit, Charlie, don't give me this type of anxiety.
Do you know what my biggest fear by having two
kids in the one room would be how hard it
would be to make them go to sleep at the
same time. Like I always thought it would be a
case one was keeping the other one up. But and
the kids are a bit older when they started sharing
a room, Like, I'm not going to put a newborn
(44:19):
in with Nyle and Lola. You know, she's going to
have her own little because that's because I think up
until one, fuh, that's like a little time bomb.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Like, yeah, I think like the the night I think
the nighttime routines are a little bit easier if you've got
a baby and a toddler, right, because you're all at home.
Maybe the baby can go to bed earlier. Yes, and
it's not a big deal, and like I get to
stay up and it can be a bit like that.
But you know what, like the sleep routine for a
newborn is all day, every day. And then you've got
(44:49):
i'd say, you've got both girls home with you and
Laura and then you guys go to the park and
it's like, okay, well this kid needs to nap.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah, we nap traps, so one of us will stay home.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
Yeah, And it's like if it doesn't, if the baby's
not good at napping in the pram while out, then
you're fucked because it's like you've got to come back.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Yeah, but I also kind of think, I mean, I can't.
My memory of the newborn phase is more like I
kind of think of Marley, who was really easy. I'm
trying to think of what it was like with Lola.
I think I've just blocked it out because it was
so awful. Yeah, lovey Lola. But I think you can
kind of if you create a certain environment for your
(45:29):
newborn to go to sleep in, and it's like, you know,
a quiet, tranquill place, then I think you're gonna find
it really hard to have them fall asleep when they're
not in that little environment that you're set up. So
I kind of think make them sleep wherever.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
The best thing go on right when you're out with
a newborn baby is getting them to go to sleep
in a crowd. Yes, because the constant murmur of chatter,
it's like in the belly bro there it is. I
think we've answered that question. I think we Good luck, Charlie,
you're up.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
This one is from Lim and she wants to know
how much TV is? Okay, all of it? For it
wait for a two year old.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
There's not enough, all of it again to them all.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Well, she says, I feel guilty when I turn the
Wiggles on YouTube for my little one to watch. But
she absolutely loves it, don't we all? She does have
tantrum sometimes when we turn it off. The mum guild
sinks in when parenting feels easier with the TV on.
I only let her watch TV on the weekends and
hour each day of the weekend.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
That's pretty good. I think you're doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Lim Wow, that is that is a plus.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Go easy on yourself.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Also like an hour.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
My kids will watch it for like five hours straight.
There he is, I forget I've got them. I think. Look,
I think if you've got already too.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Busy there on your phone ordering lingerie, guilty, I'm now broke.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
I think she's got to I think you've got to die.
If you've already know, I wouldn't be able to tell
you how much TV my kids would watch it in
the week. You know how much time, and you restrict it.
You are fucking far and ahead of a majority of people.
And I don't think, I don't think. I don't think
they're each their own whatever works for you guys.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
But it's so hard because there is no question about it.
It's universal that kids absolutely go benign us for TV
for screen time. It does make it easier, there is
no question about it. And when you're exhausted, when you
need a little break, you put that TV on and
you just know that they're going to be locked in
just for a little bit, just for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
But also I would say the only thing that I
don't like is that just the individual screen, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Yeah, we've actually did we stop that. We had the
eyepa much better and like there's actually the iPads are
in the little side table thing here in the living
room and I was cleaning it out and I put
it on the table and Lowlas saw it when she
came home from day. I forgot to put it back
and she was like, and I was like, fucking hell,
had to like try and hide it from her and
(48:05):
she just all night up until through dinner bath time. Think,
I just want the iPad.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
I get it off of it too. It's crazy and
like because they can't regulate it, they just ride the
emotion they're watching. But I like it. I don't mind
like the TV for example, Bluie and I've got the
kids table and chair in front, and Macy's playing playto
and watching that all for that she can sit there
for eight hours like it's a job.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
But do you know what Apparently apparently like the cocoa
melon people, I don't know what's going on, but people
are like, it's it's so high stimulating with the noises
and the flashing and everything else. You can get like
the old school ABC shows, they're like a lot more calming.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Yeah, yeah, April hits the ABC at night, the ABC
shows at night, because yeah, it is, it's way more
like it's mellow. It's way more Yeah, for sure, because
like they get they're so easy to get worked up,
aren't they.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
But the short answer was you're doing a lim carry on.
Absolutely fine. You're a great parent.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
That well said, And if you.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Have any questions you can hit us up.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
We're ash on social media Instagram, TikTok, the Facebook group
twotorating Dads for All three or YouTube now now.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
We have YouTube full episodes as well. And if you're
watching this on YouTube, hello, thank you. And if you've
enjoyed this episode, the reviews have stopped. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
That's because you keep asking for God.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
Seven hundred and fifty seven.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Someone leave a review for Mat So next week, when
I'm sitting in front of him, he goes, We've got
a review, thank you. Yeah, so you can do that
on Spotify. You can do that on Apple. A couple
of nice words would be good. If you hate it
one star and leave some hate for words, I don't care.
I do right until then.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
We'll see you guys next week from Ash's house.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
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Speaker 2 (50:09):
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