June 30, 2026 • 54 mins
This week, Ash takes Oscar on a trip to make some core memories which might just earn him Dad of the Year.
Meanwhile, Matt is trying to avoid kicking off another sibling rivalry while celebrating Marlie's birthday, but one very unimpressed child isn't exactly sold on the entertainment.
Plus the boys settle the debate on Australia's favourite biscuit, say goodbye to one of our OG listeners and finally retire one of the worst nappy bags we've ever seen (sorry, Vic).
And Ash has a new book! You can preorder it here
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've got something to show you, actually got something to
tell you and show you. But I'll get you to
start the show first because it's dog pits related.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And welcome back to two doting dads. I am Maddie
(00:27):
Jay and and this is a podcast all about parenting.
It is the good, it is the bad and the related.
And we will never, ever, ever, not even if our
life depended on it.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
If I had to, I probably would gun ahead. And
someone's like, give me a solid piece of advice, then
I would.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'd like reluctantly if I had to, you know, I'd
eat my own ship if it meant I was going
to stay, if I was going to stay alive. Someone
was like, you have to have a little taste.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
What if it was runny? Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's always running at the moment. What have you got
for me?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Okay. So we're talking the other day about Buster. How
you were saying he keeps shitting in the house.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
He hasn't. I don't want to jinx it. It's been
a while. Okay, he's doing better.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
In case Buster is like keep embarrassing me on the podcast.
He's doing very well.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
He's our number one listener. Yes, he's just at home,
just listening to the back Lole hasn't reviewed yet.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I can know.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That's a reference to Matt's three legg dog.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
He has three legs.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yes. The other night, over the weekend, we were showering
the kids. Okay, and that's quite as you know, it's
quite a routine, and especially on a weekend, it's a
bit silly. So it's a bit silly because I've had
the whole day off, They've had the parties and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Bit silly. What's going on? What's happening?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I just mean, like you bringing the lolls, bringing the lot.
It's not as structured as a week We get it
in and get it done, go to bed, leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Sometimes it's on the weekend, it's eight forty five and
I'm like, fack, you guys are still here.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I come into the other room. I mean to be asleep.
It's like you haven't showered us anyway. So I'm showering
both and during that time we have selected the dog's needs,
which is to go out. So Squiggy right, and no
one really knows, so in protest, she's done a big
old wee on the rug okay. At first, I was like,
we can't get angry because we you're at fault. We're
(02:12):
at fault. So we only yelled at her a little
bit and just make ourselves feel better. And then I
realized that the pea patch looks like Spot the dog.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
She's doing art.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Bro, get ready for this. Either this is amazing or
I was I was an edible deep ready, Spot.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's a self portrait. That is Squiggy.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
That's that's have a good look at that. I was like, April,
is this just me? And she was like, no, that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is that a shadow of your penis?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
No? Thank you? Get me working on that.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's a self portrait. The head shape, the legs, the tail,
whole bit. We'll have to put it on somewhere so someone.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Can see it.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I don't think it looks like Spot. I think it
looks like Squiggy.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah it's a self portrait.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, okay, we go.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
If I'm going to put my critique hat on, I'd
say too much of a rigid jaw here for Spot's
very curved.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I don't know. I reckon if we get Spot up,
maybe a cross between Spot and Brian from Family Guy.
But well, How does it feel that I see a
puddle of piece and I think about you?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Why do you think about it?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I wanted to show you so bad. I wanted to
text it to you immediately, and I was like, don't
show him in person, because it's amazing. It's pcasso.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's almost you don't want to clean it up. You
want to miss casso. You want to like cut that
out of the rug and then frame it was.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Already framed the feature wall at home. Anyway, We've got
a couple of new things in the studio, Matt, you
want to run us through.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
It look budget wise. It just the algorithm knows when
I'm at my weakest, and I was thinking, hey, Neon light,
that'd be cool. Started getting ads and I was like,
how do I pitch this into ash? You were actually
quite easy to convince.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I didn't need convincing.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
What I know, you're a big me On guy, which
I now I didn't know that going into it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Now we've got a Neon guy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I also was a bit wary being scammed because it
was like it was all just too good to be true,
and it was like your order will be ready in
one week, and then it took a little while to
get here. It's been made off shore, not that I
don't Zealand the neon manufacturers of this country shout out
to that in abundance. And it was taking a long time,
and I was like, I got fucking scammed here. I
(04:24):
was like, oh yeah, I hate that. Just about I
think it was about five six hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Take them back.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
That's all right, that's great quality is it's really I
could have made that. Oh fuck, you could have done
the wording and then you would have run out of steam.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
It would have likely kicked in, like oh butterfly.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Now we've got the neon sign. We've also got the corkboard,
the art in the show notes. You put in the
show notes, vig the address of our studios. People can
send in the kids art.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, kids aren't only please if you want to put
in any pictures like of yourself, no use one aware.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh jesus, well you never know. Have you received us underwever?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Someone asked me for some socks on so I tried
to sell them on eBay and then eBay took them down.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Fun police can't do anything these days.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I did it from my feet, remember a long time ago.
But let's story for another time slot.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yes, so the studio, Yeah, we're in the new studio.
A few people commented and said, wow, it sounds great,
And I don't know if they're being polite or if
they're being genuine. Does it sound any different?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It sounds sarcastic.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Worn't the money that Neon sign really helps to the audio?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They're like, we can hear this weird buzzing in the
background like an old convenience store. They're the new features.
So if you if you want to send in your
crap art from your kids, which is majority of we
will take it off your hands.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Great.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
If it's phallic, I'm all for it. Yes, that'd be great.
We can even do a compilation for the for socials
if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I do mind. We don't just.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
More phallous, like a little carousel.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Of penis looking drawings.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
By the time it comes out, we will have posted
a little cheeky to always had tour world shortest to us.
It's just we'll give you the run through of what's
on the shelves behind us. You may see the little shells,
the floating shells that were just put up beautifully by
Dan Vicky. Your beautiful husband, what a guy.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Beautiful partner, handsome. Sorry, Dan, fucking drop a knee. He's
dropped the knee, he's yet to. We're get they're getting
married on the pod podcast Marriage l We'll put Dan there,
you here, I'll finish most celebrance thing there. Matt can
be the witness, the host, the musician with.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
The like the neon sign buzzing in the background.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, I mean it is good, bad, unrelatable.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It is. It's got a stroke funds not very romantic.
We'll change it. We'll change it to the good, the bad,
and the romantic, just for the wedding.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
We're just on the studio. We get a few messages
that one person wrote in suey Sue, and she.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Said, loving, how do you spell that?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's actually s double O.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
No, it's it's not it is they're drawing me now, Sue,
that's so, that's.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So how dare you shut up?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
That is so disrespectful between Sue and Jericha. I'm losing
the plots being stitched up. I'm definitely being I'm just
waiting for like something real obscurely come through where it's
like it's tim how's it spelled? Tea the number one
and then am double an the d is.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Silent, but she said, loving the news studio. But did
we purposely not paint the wall behind.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So stay?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
She said, haha, just when we thought we'd had enough
of studio updates?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
What are we going to talk about?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Was finished parenting?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I guess would you like to answer the questions? I
don't have a problem with it, but it was on purpose.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It was on purpose because we didn't run out of paint.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
We didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Budget went to the Neon sign. I had no money
for paint left.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Sorry, Ash, that's the right answer. No, The right answer
is we had a heated debate and I decided on
my side. I don't want it to be green because
that side green is fine, and that's it. Sue, thanks
for bringing up old wounds.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Can I just ask quickly before we move on from
the studio, because I look at your white wall. I'm
fine with it, it's great. Can I just check how
you're going looking at the green wall behind me? Because
that's what you're you know, I forget that you have
to look at that?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That's fine?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, I don't feel in case to buy it or
see when that one goes Vix wall is going to
go green as well.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Oh yes, yeah, we're gonna Can I just say really quickly,
I'm gonna put this in housekeeping. Is this the hottest
winter we've ever fucking had? Holy dick, Well said, Holy
dick cheese.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Like it is. I mean, this morning was a bit nippy,
but it's like I.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Love it when it's like just that sunny and cold.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's heaven and you're standing it and you get top
up like a snake.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Now she's moving as on, moving on, exciting news, Matt
breaking breaking.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I I apologize, sorry, Vic, that was not.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Now Matt, you know how hard it is to get
your kids that your dinner.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's a bloody night.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, I've written a book about it. Okay. So the
book is about why you take your kids to daycare
or whatever it might be, and they have notification systems
or when you get there they tell you that they
ate all their food, sometimes more, and it's frustrating as
a parent because you spend majority of your time at
home trying to figure out what.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
To feed these beasts begging.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, you're like, but me and Macey are just like
she's just not eating for fun. Now.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I know parents are like, oh, my boy will eat everything.
I'm like, fuck, it's like I gotta put tomato sauce
on everything to get lolder to eat.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Makes it doesn't eat sauce.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That's like, that's fucking devastating. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Corn thins just dust.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
She eats dust with a bit of butter on it.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Just thraw a dog. They don't even have butter with
veggimie's wrong?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
What is wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I know?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Oh my god, I know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I'm thinking about leaving myself.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yea, everything you can.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Fine, it'll be fine now that this book is coming out,
So it is. It's a kid's picture book called The
secret Ingredient, Okay, and it's about those moments of when
you are is it?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I don't want to spoil it? Is it? Love?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Is what love?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
The secret Ingredient?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
No incorrect? Okay, close, you're not far off kind of
Oh you could love the people that you're eating me,
I guess. So it's based on my family. Sorry, and
we drop the kids at their relative daycares and getting
that notification that says they've eaten all their lunch. And
then you try and figure out why they would eat
at school and not at home. So in the book,
(10:56):
I try various different methods making the food fun and
attaining as you try to do as a parent, which
you go online and all the hacks of that sort
of stuff. And then it gets to the end of
the book and it's we can't figure we're at our
wits hand of why we can't figure out why the
kids will eat there but not at home. And it
turns out that they like to eat at school because
they all eat together. And there's your secret ingredient togetherness.
(11:20):
But makes you buy the book, but make sure you
buy the book that wasn't it's actually a little bit
more detailed than that. That's a good overview, So it'll
be available in July, or leave a link in the
show notes when we have it.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I guess, And can I just say, who's your illustrator?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
He's up and coming. The publisher actually found him through
social media and this is his first ever book. He
usually would just do art.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
He's unreally the drawings look fucking awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
It's got a lot of Bob's Burger about it, because
obviously I'm a character. Bob has a mustache. I have
a mustache, but they've he's done my tatof both my
kids are in it.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Japanese anime. If I may really didn't get that, Okay,
bobs Burgers Bob's Burgers.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Bobs Burgers is like similar similar style to TV show,
TV show, so yes, keep an eye out for it.
Next couple of weeks it'll be available.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Well done, congratulations or available all good bookstores and big
w I cannot wait to read it to my kids.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Thank you so July, and we'll have it in the
show notes.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Congratulations, thank you very Yeah, make sure you fucking buy it.
Sorry yeah, amen, brother, Amen, brother, that one slipped out.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
No I liked it any better fucking buy it or
there'll be no more podcast episode.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Hey, we finally reached a thousand reviews. Hey, do you
know what happened? I screenshot it on nine hundred and
ninety nine and I was like, well pretty close, and
I was like, I go a little quick look and
it was like nine hundred and ninety eight. N I say,
how are we losing reviews?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I saw this too, and I was like, what the
actual fuck?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Get a life, guy, everyone, I'm kidding, it's not you
guys are watching the numbers down.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It's one thousand reviews. We are actually on like multiple
thousands on Spotify.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So how does it go down?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yes, we don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
And did it go back up?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now we're at a thousand one thousand.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I was just like checking that they weren't duplicate. It
has been a rollercoaster of a couple of days, wonders.
Three in the morning, I was like, has it gone
down at your end?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Everyone who has left a review? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yes, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Oh Josh White and Ash friends of mine, had a
baby this morning.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Oh congratulations boy girl, little boy. Jermaine Jermaine Germaine Jermaine.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Spelt jay E r m a y any Yeah, that
checks out. That was that was Jake's an iron the
healthy looking baby.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Oh yeah yeah wow, well well formed child is well formed.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's a well formed child. To Ash to Josh, congratulations,
great news. Vick, You've got a note here about platter
mums or packet mums.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Just before you do that, it was your birthday the
other day, so have birthday?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Actually, can we just quickly how did you celebrate.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Girls' night in Manly? Very fun?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Many cocktails? How and do you know what everyone was like,
thank you so much for like getting us out of
the house, and like we really needed this. Like we've
got a lot of them have like two year olds,
so they're in the terrible twos, and they were like
this was so needed, Like in the middle of winter.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yes, what time your fishure one thirty?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Oh, don't let it affect your work.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Okay, But I was on the waters by like eleven thirty.
I reckon. We were just talking and yapping away.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Can I try and guess your cocktail of choice?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Okay, I reckon you express no?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
No? Yeah, actually yes, spicy Mark at the start of
the night. At the end of the night, I like
an Ameritus hour.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Support. My grandfather was a big port guy, as you
can imagine.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Rest in peace and recasting. Yeah good, I'm big. Before
we go into your story, actually, just at the back
of your birthday, we have a little something for you.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
We do we forgot my god.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Let me get let me get it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It's a it's gonna go above your bed.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's not a six way from Japan, is it?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You wait?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Happy birthday you guys, listen to me. That's good for you.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Matt the best present ever, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, it's a it's a little new prem toe bag.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
This morning, I'm like pulling Louise underwear out of my
head bag and I'm pulling socks and and put.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Him in that. I to just have a nice look
at that very profession look like an executive producer.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And we thought, like skift ever, No, it's nothing, pretty good.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Bushing, that's what it feels like.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That's that's what it feels like. I love giving things.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, and you got your trip coming up, so we
thought you might need a new bag on your trip.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I'm not taking it on that trip. But now I've
got a work bag and like you know, I've been
winging every week.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Look, we didn't want to be seen in public with
you with the other one again, so we got you
on your other freame bag. It's on fire outside.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That bag serves you very well.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It has.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Around your basta, it's got stains and as well live.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It's a beautiful bag.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I took a healthy other night because my friend had
like hand me down. She's like, bring a big bag,
and my friend's like, did you bring a nappy?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Back to the movies?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh my god, I'm so embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It comes in with it like a what do they
call it? A pants suit?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Happy birthday?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yes, that was really sweet.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yes, And back to sorry we've got sidetracked platter.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, So you spoke about something on the podcast in
our last housekeeping up, and when I listened back, I
was like, this is such an interesting topic because I
know as a mom I love to put a label
on things physical and metaphor.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Want to do it.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You guys talked about platter mums versus packet mums.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
We talked about it.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yes, we said something. I know.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Ash brought it. How when kids come over and they
want to eat the food that you've got, because April
is a platter mum and she always has this beautiful
platter when they go out of like cut fruit and vegetables.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Is a long shot, But when you're outside the house, Yeah,
if it's like if we're going like say we're set
to go, right, we're going down the park. It's going
to be a big morning at the park. That's the activity. Yeah,
the snack platter has to match the vibe of the activity,
which is we're going to be out and about the
food needs to be out about.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah. I love that.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
And then We've got people like Matt who are a
packet or that who you just literally chuck packets in there.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, she bes in the music bars and like a
yogurta it's a good one because then you feel like, oh,
that's healthy sugar.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It's a strawberry on it. So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
So I just loved the difference between like a packet
mum and a platter mum, and then I chucked it
on Instagram to get a vibe from the dotors fifty
platter mum.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I thought there'd be less than that.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And packet mums. It's pretty even split.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I'm actually was one hundred a bit of a hybrid.
I think, well, actually I would go as far as
to maybe cut up some grapies, grapes and some apple.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
As far as I'm concerned, there's two types of mums.
Platter mum's packet mums now platter mum. Okay, is if
you're leaving the house to go on a playdate or
whatever you might be doing with the kids, you would
cut up fruit, have it nicely segregated in I don't know,
a container or a platter if you want a smalkestboard,
(19:19):
a Schnorkes board if you will, and then a packet
Mum is someone and look either either there's no wrong,
is okay, Well I've got a packet of something, put
it in there, getting.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
The packet and chipp is my kids really into fucking
salami sticks at the moment.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Twiggy sticks.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Oh, I love a salami stick.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I'm a twigs stick dada.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I'm sure it's like, what's it called when things give
you cancer? Carcinogenic?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I recently just learned about this because I've seen a nutritionist.
If you swap a twiggy stick for a jerky stick,
it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
What's a twig stick?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Twig stick is the salami skinny salami stick you get
from the deliate woolies or coals or got you whatever
the prem The kale text has this beef.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
They are fucking delicious.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
We're really good for you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Do you reckon? They are? I'm always like, sorry, kids
getting cancer, but your kids love jerky. But I love
every time every time I get anything with the fridge.
The meat sticks are just like hello, And I'm like,
I gotta say that for lunch tomorrow because Laura is
always like, who's eating the fucking meat sticks and I'm like,
there was buster another.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
They are good, and like when we go to the shops,
we buy go to the deli and buy a couple
of them, and the kids sort of snack on them
as we're going through the shops. I don't know what's
in it, probably lips and arseholes, but whatever.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I wish my kids would eat the platts. They're just
they're just bloody useless.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
They're more packet packet.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
They're just like a packet of chips far out.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, amazing in the little packets of springles at the moment,
the little ones, yeah Pringles geez, and the mini choc
chip biscuits. I'm getting hungry.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Ohsh We spoke about the fact that we found out
we had a three year anniversary VIC. This is very exciting,
very romantic. How did we find out because our business
name had expired?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because I was like when
you were like, oh yeah, it's up for renewal, and
I was like.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Oh three years, that went fast, three years.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Do we renew it? Still?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I did renew it. He did one hundred bucks. That's
great value, yeah, I know, compared to the Neon sign.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Oh god, that's like it's like a third of a
neon sign.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Everything right now is just like that's one eighth of
the neon sign. That's good value.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
That's like five neon signs. And used j Ski.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
So we had the option for the one year or
the three year.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
And what do we do?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
What do you reckon?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You committed committed three years. We've got to do it now.
We were on the fence there on Friday, gotta make
good money's worth. Then Sat you called me Saturday. You
were at the RSL because Laura was back, and have
we a bit tipsy? When you call you never call me,
you never call me back. I was like, oh quick,
he's going, thank you. I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And when was the anniversary of when you guys met.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It was the back end of twenty twenty two. It
would be November, November November.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
So this year will be four years.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah ditsch and run.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Oh my god, I'm waiting to show you this again
for the audio people, sorry, shut up, shut up and
watch it on YouTube. I stumbled across a video on
social media. I don't know if you've heard of social
media before, but it's out there. Rings a bell rings
a bell. I just want to show you this video
and letting let me know what sort of level of
(22:37):
dadding do you think this is?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Help?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
No? What are you doing here? Primarily? Sorry? I've gone
to ding dong? Did you guys? Super?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Sorry?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So you do you know what you're out here doing this?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I would call him right now.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah, he does know.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I felt that what I don't hold on? It's your dad.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, he can sing.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Audition with him.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, he says it's a core childhood memory and he
want to be a part of it. That is not
fucking real. That's so good. If it is. Even if
it's not, it's good.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
That is. It sounds a bit scripted, but I love it.
If it's true.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
We used to what's the hold off? I love that
sort of parent I used to have. A friend of
mine's mom used to say we were bored and it
was nighttime. What she do is like near my place
at Warrywood, there's a really long park and at night
it's like pitch black, and she would be like, all right,
you get out of the car here and run to
the other end of the park and I'll meet you
there in the car. And like you'd see the car
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going and we would run and she give us twenty bucks,
like that was her form of entertainment. It was like
so good and we were like, oh my god, should
we do it? And we were like what ten or
that they were like that age, But that sort of parenting,
that's the sort of parent I want to be.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Imagine if you guys could abducted, that would be so fun.
They're like, how did they get taken in the parks?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Well, well, I didn't have to give up twenty bucks.
I I can love that sort of stuff, like where
it's like you're doing something wrong, but you're doing it together.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Fine, no one's really it's a victim of it's a
victim of crime. Victor come she looks so victim because
if you had he done it, well, yeah, we should
do it. And like if you're staying at a hotel,
you know, yeah you do because then when your sibling's
running back, you shut the door.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, yeah, that's I think that's just good bonding.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
If you're doing that at one in the morning, that's
fucking annoying. But if you're doing that it's still daylight,
that's good. Year.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
That's just reminded me of there was a really drunk
guy that came and like was knocking on our door,
and then eventually he climbed over the fence and climbed
up into our balcony and like passed out.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Sorry about that. I don't drink any more, Victims told me.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
And I was such a little kid at the time,
and I was like, what is going on. It wasn't intruder.
He was just drunk and he thought it was his home.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Oh that's fair, Yeah, that's happened to all.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Victim was crying once again.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
When we lived in a unit block. I remember my
dad and he wasn't pissed her anything, but all the
doors looked the same. He kept walking into the downstairs
house and he was like, walked in downstairs again, like
what are they doing. He's like they're cooking something real
good down there. And then he was just like all
of a sudden, he knew him by name.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
He just walked to embarrassed my sister because she does
listen to the pod and she goes a little shout
out being my tandem parents. She loved it, but we
used to live together in an apartment. One time she
got blanned and she came out into the living room
thinking it was the bathroom, and I was like, oh,
and I was like she came in and she go,
she's like stumbling, and I go, you were fucking drunk tonight,
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and she's like and like that's to take a pand
and I was like, holy shit, do you think this
is the toilet? And I was like, oh, I had
to grab her like spin around, I put on the toilet.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Usher into the bathroom. That was a victims crime. That
was like our parenting training. Did I know breaking news, Vick?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, I've got a bit of sad breaking news. Guys.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
You're not quitting?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Oh never, No, I love this job. My favorite day
of the week.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Actually after that present, do you have any work for free?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Because of the signed had a locker room for six months.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
But Oji Dotters might remember a dog called Alan Rickman
who we have talked about several times on the show.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Ate all the croissants he did.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
He ate the croissants at Christmas and then shout on
all the presents.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, this can never look is not good.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Yeah, Alan Rickman passed away.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
So no more croissants will be out.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
And if I may, I'd like to read a few
words from its owner about the dog that brought so.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Much Can we put some funeral music behind this?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
It was time for us to say goodbye to our big,
gorgeous hound, Alan Rickman, after he showed signs of being
very sick very quickly. It was a.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Sorry, sorry, sorry, very sensitive, but also very incense.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
They're going to mention Alan Rickman on the podcast Gosh.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
This dog brought so much joy. Most people have a
great Alan Rickman story. He came on holidays, road trips
and camping adventures. He loved utes. We never actually owned one,
but that didn't stop him chasing other people's and trying
to jump in. Watching him grow older and slower while
like kids got bigger and faster, has been very special.
He was endlessly gentle with them, sleeping with Izzy during
loud storms, or doing a lap of the house every
(27:35):
night before he went to bed to make sure everyone
was okay. He didn't like cats or loud noises, but
he did love chrossots. We never really worked out what
he was part horse, part cat, part Jack Russell, all
somehow crossed with a wolfhound ball arab. He was a
wonderful dog, deeply loved a big part of the family.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Who we sorely missed Alan, Alan rickmant at night for Alan.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, that's what he would have wanted there in some
light on you dog?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
What a gear change?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, well, you know at the news bulletin they start
with the tragedy and and with a sifting story.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Give me the sandwich.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Australia's favorite biscuit has been announced and the result might
just knock you off your chairs.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Well both these chairs are missing a screw responsible for that? Well,
anything I put together, one screw gets left out. It's
like it's like calling it's tradition.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
What Australia's number one biscuit is?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
What do we go?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
What do we got?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Arrow route the Scotch finger?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Oh yeah, okay, good old rounder, really good density. Yeah,
but I think add the chocolate underneath it?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I think, who that's do you know what that is?
The boomers have come out and for wait sorry sorry, no.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
No, I will not be silenced by the boomers. Not
a bad biscuit, So this is not an insult. But
we know who we know who had the time to
take this survey and it was no one's.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I don't remember being asked. Yeah, I wasn't consulted.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Here and that's the thing they would have had. The
option was like, oh tasty, you.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Got arrow Root, Scott Finger, Monty Carl, Ginger Snap, Ginger Snap,
the traditional Anzac biscuit.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I oh, what's a tough choice. And it was like
Tim TAM's like, oh too sweet.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Well, the Humble biscuit scored five stars for overall satisfaction
and four stars for taste, value, texture and packaging. Aren't
it's variety pack took out second place.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
That's good gear. We should get that a stack of them.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
But who's going to eat the orange cream me, followed
by the Kingston biscuit in.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Third place, king Monte Carlo Kingston is.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
The best, the Kings and blood the.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Chocolate with quite small.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
After this record were going straight Coles and my tummy
right now is fast and rumbling.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
But okay, so I knew question. Who was surveyed in this?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You knew?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I just the consumer group surveyed two thousand, three hundred
and ninety Australians on the sweet biscuit brands they've eaten
in the last six months.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Okay, was there an age bracket?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
They would have gone to a tirement home to who
wants answers and questions for a biscuit the whole.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You'll get a variety pack. I'll give you some Scotch frequents.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
You never disappointed with the scots Finger.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
They quite a hearty biscuit.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I just don't think it's top spot. I can't.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I can't know, Monte Carlo your favorite. They came in
fourth that.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
With a cup of tea going had a nice vovo.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
They won't even in the top ten because that kid,
that kid at camping that I told you about, rubb
around his genitals, right.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Okay, but yeah, Vogo, what is your favorite biscuit?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I would have said out of all of those the
Kingston a chucky bit of bus at all?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
What about a caramel crown?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Oh that's it's like biscuit based caramel and then covered
in chocolate. It is naughty.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
So that sounds naughty.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
We're going to get some after that was a good
actor normal.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
It was n so digestives fifth place, a sorted cream pack.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Sixth plate chocolate digestives.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Tim TAM's seventh place.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Tim Tam, that would be higher unbeaten biscuits.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
That's actually that's criminal.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
We know who got surveyed that you can tell by
that because it's like, oh it's too sweet.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
You know you're not You're not going out and like
shipping off the Scotch finger to international markets are like
the tim Tam is the Tim TAM's an international best seller?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Right yeah? Ginger nuts eighth place, bisc off ninth spot,
and mint Slice in.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Tenth reallylic itself.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
April loves min slice, but everyone makes fun of her.
That's a boomer biscuit, So maybe we're wrong here. It's
a matured taste. You'll get there.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Hey, advice, congratulations winning the quiz, the stead of Old
and quiz that you went to. Yes, you want the
tickets to Melbourne? I did?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
We did.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
How was that trip?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It was great? Oscar had an amazing time. So he
got first of all, he got two days off school.
It was absolutely stoked.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Did you have to do any forms for that?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So April did the forms. But she's found a little
loophole in the form thing, a loop because when with
our school and it might be the same, might be
different for other schools. I'm not sure. When you organize
one day off of them, yeah, no problems, okay, but
it's consecutive day back to back will get you. So
she just did single.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Days like single single, Yeah, genius.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
See she's smart, some very smart Vick.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
She's smart, isn't she?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
April is very smart.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
She's not going to believe that, but yeah, so she
said yes because I was like, oh, Matt's a bit
stressed because of the whole he had to go to
Melbourne for a separate occasion, but had to take girls
out of school. And obviously they're like, tell us, why
are you taking the kids out school? Shut up? I
pay you, all right, I'll take my kids out if
I want, I will. But she said, well, why don't
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you just book the days in not consecutively, do them
individually and then you don't have to do any of
the fucking And they haven't clued on, well, it's all
a portal online, so you've got the portal. So beat,
she's beat. She's out here beating.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
AI were gonna go, fuck, do you know what's going
to happen? She's going to be the reason they have
like an overhaul. What are all these kids? No one's here?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Then we'll have to delete this episode because it's like
she's just playing.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, they'll come for aram, like why is April in
prison because she's.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
In parenting prison. But which so two days off, Oscar
and I flew on the Wednesday because the game was
Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Can I just say we facetimed and you were staying
at the Crown. Oh, that's a lovely room.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
We'll get there, we'll get to that, we'll get to
that partner sec. But we we flew Fleet on Quantas
and I thought, it's just Oscar and I'm pulling out
all the stops here, upgraded the seat to wear just
a more leig room. He didn't notice the little legs,
but I noticed.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, it's for you.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
And then we both wore blues jerseys the whole day.
We went walk through Melbourne because anyone was like there
were so many people down there that were in blue
and maroon. With a couple of stops at some Jersey
shops where everyone was sort of congregated. Was great. The
vibe was really good actually on Flinders Street. So we
got to our hotel, the Crown Metropol, and get there
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and they're like, fantastic news, we've upgraded.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Oh shut the fuck.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
I was like, whoa to a loft and that's for
our FaceTime? You to rub it in and Oscar was like,
Oscar's been on a plane before, but it's not just
a trip specific for him, like this was for him.
I wanted to go with him to bond and he's
really into footy and I want to harness that. Yeah,
so we did everything together. We went to like arcades together,
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all dressed in our blue stuff, the whole bit. The
upgraded hotel and really set him off because we overlooked
all of Melbourne. I don't think he's ever been that
high other than an aeroplane. So he was like right
up against the window, like, shit, look how small people are.
So hotel room was great, massive. Then we went to
the stadium and walked around the outside of the MCG
like a seven year old at the MCG. He was like,
(35:08):
could not be. I'm like, it's a bit bigger than Brookie.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Is that the first time he's been to the MCG?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah? Mate, the first time he's been in Melbourne? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Wow, that little boy is gonna remember this.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
He was like me, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
He was like, I've never been to the MCGO.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Do you know how long it took me to go
to the MG? Yeah? Thirty five? I was last year
was my first time and these kids are how good
they've got it? Ninety one thousand people in the stadium.
It's a lot, and before the game kicked off too many. No,
it was great and like.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Because Melbourne's good for it, they can handle it.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah, So we got in there. We walked around the
stadium to observe. We bought a big cut out head
of his favorite player, Tolly Kohler from Many.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Plays on the wing.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
If anyone wondering plays on the wing, plays in the
center's actually sorry, but he can play.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
The week you do it all, ignore me myself.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
And then we get inside. I believe his goalkeeper he's
one of the ones that catches the balls. He I
bet you he loves the Scotch finger. He's more of
an arrow root guy.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
I'm going to protect it.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
We get in the stadium. We're one of the first
in this. We literally were one of the first. He
was like, I want to be first in first in.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
That's a how many hours earlier?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
It was like six o'clock, eight o'clock kickoff. Anyway, game starts,
He's like, I'm tired. Yeah, he was like, nah, he
was so palmed. He just wanted to get there, wanted
to see it. Never been in the stadium, in the atmosphere.
And when we get in there, I said, hey, I've
got one other thing that we need to do before
we can sit down in our seats, and that is
we're going to go on the field. And obviously all
of this is thanks to the NRL. I was able
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to take Oscar and I've never been on the field
of the MCG either. I'll tell you right now. It's
like I can imagine what it's like Russell Crowe walking
out in Gladiator. That's what it felt like. He walked.
He was blown away, the people, the atmosphere, the noise,
the sound. We're on the field. We got a photo
with the State of Origin shield.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
He must think, you're the coolest dad.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
I'm fucking home, so thank you, thank you, And then
watched the game. Unfortunately didn't get the result. He started
to cry. But everyone around, everyone around us, like we
just happened to be sitting in it. Quite get used
to it, son, Yeah, that's what I said, This is
just the beginning. He was like, I fucking hate Uncle Maddiel.
(37:28):
He made that.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
A lifelong of heartache.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah, he's got ahead of him. I'm just getting used
to it. So we're sitting in the section we have
there was obviously a lot of mpaths were really like, oh,
is it okay. I'm like, yeah, he's just got to
learn to lose, you know, he's only seven.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Resilience building.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, So we left the game. We got out of
there and like you said, Melbourne, just that's it better.
We were back at our hotel like ten thirty, which
is unbelievable considering we got a seven year old. Anyway,
one final treat is ten thirty pm room service.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I saw that food.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
He got chicken nuggets and chips and some ice cream. Oh,
and we were sat in bed and watched what do
we want? We just watched whatever movie was on, some
kids movie, and he was pumped and he fell asleep
in his chicken nuggets.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
This weekend coming is like, so.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I know you are setting him up for very high.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
We got into the Crown Laught again this week.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
This week we're actually going to a manly seagle's training
and he's going to get to meet that player that
he has the big head of. That was the final thing.
So that's happening tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
But for people wondering he's taking him out of school again.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Yeah, only for the morning, but he's Yeah, he's pumped.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
That's great, that's good. Gear.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
I always thought doing what I do now for a job,
I want my I want to be able to do
things like that for my kids, and hopefully it's the
first of many. And it felt. It feels really good
to be able to do that.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Yeah, I was gonna ask how it made you feel.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yeah, when we went to jiu jitsu a couple of
days after, and the head training owns of the jiu
jitsu gym, this Brazilian guy, he came up and he
must follow me and he was like, it's amazing that
you got to do that for your kid. He'll never
forget that, not forget it. See right now, I.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Know I remember my first game with mum and fucking
back because then they won. He couldn't afford good tickets,
but it was still great.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
She had five kids, Matt, I know she did her best.
That wasn't enough, like enough.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
He will he will remember that. And I'm sure at
some point, if he has children, he will give back
to his kids what you gave to him.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
I would hope. So, Yeah, yeah, fucking better. Yeah, because
I remember, like when I was a kid, dad with
work would get a couple of things, like I remember
he took us to circus, sleigh and stuff like that,
and I still remember that sort of stuff. So I thought, yeah,
you do imagine imagine like like him going to school
and doing his show and tell or whatever they do.
He got to talk about that, he got to go
on the.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Field with poor kid goes after ask. He comes and
he's like, I got an ice pluck on the weekend,
let's breaks get back up.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
What else you go? What else doing?
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Anyway, Hey, Laura's back. She's back, She's back home. The
band is back together, and you seem happier, you seem less.
It's been a much easier week. Last week, bloody hell,
Marley was up at the crack of dongs. It was
her birthday. Oh yeah, I was like before yeah, it
(40:31):
was so I was half asleep. I promise her if
we'd go to breakfast, and I was there just like
I was like just peeling myself out of the bed fatigue.
But then we went straight into into Marley's birthday party.
And I think, I think for parents out there who
are organizing a kid's birthday party. You're all going to
do it at some point if you have kids. I'm
assuming it's a level of stress that we just don't
(40:53):
need as parents.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
We put it on ourselves.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, I know, you mean, like unless you're an event organizer.
So if you're us, thank you, thank you. I remember
it's stressful, right, And there's you know, Laura and I
we had like we're back together. We're straight back into
business mode because they were I wish we were, you know,
organizing the party. And then you know, sometimes you have arguments.
(41:19):
I'm assuming nah, where there's no one really at fault.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
It's just for the sake of an argument.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Well just you know, no one's there's you know, something's
gone wrong, but it's like it's not you, it's not
your partner. And you know, sometimes you want to blame
me the person because you want to blame someone and
point the finger. But you know, Laura and I just
the stress of the birthday party. The cupcakes. The cupcakes
got us.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
I'm going to say it. Cupcakes not a good move.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Do you know what they didn't They didn't love the cupcakes.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
It's not always about the cup.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
So the issue was okay, packing the bag. Pack in
the bag, heading out for Mala's birthday party. Pack in
the bag. This is the big Hope bag the nappies
in it. And Laura goes, can you put the cup Actually,
I'm tweaking the story to make it.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Look like sometimes that was a fault, but it was Laura.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
She said, don't forget the cupcakes, and I was like, cool.
So then I put the cupcakes in the tote bag, okay,
loose in a box at the bottom of the tote bag.
So then I got back to them organizing the kids.
Laura's picked up the bag, not realizing the cupcakes are
in the bag. The cupcakes have gone on their side,
and then in the car Laura's got in the bag
(42:30):
and then being like, oh fuck, you put the cupcakes
in the bag, and so the cupcakes are now fucked
because they've all gone on the side.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Oh you said, there's no there's no one at fault,
but there is what Laura's a fault. I think I
think if she said packed the cupcakes and you've gone
and done that, she probably needs to check the bag
before just yoink it up.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
That's what I said.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
I think that's a it's not like it's a mistake,
and no, actually someone's made a mistake. It's not her fault,
it's a mistake.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
She was like, I just thought you would have brought
the box on its own, because.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Well, that's a blatant assumption. You're trying to do. You're
trying to pack everything together in one place where it's
easier for you to that and manage three kids and
help you know the moving pieces. Having the box on
its own arguably is more case sensitive than just putting
it into a bag. I think you need to go like, okay,
(43:25):
I'm picking up these bags. I can see the boxes
in there, but just blindly.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Because we're just racing out the door, racing at the door.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Time is I think fault is too aggressive. It's not
her fault, but it might be a mistake on her behalf.
But both, Laura, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
No one wants to be wrong. So she's kind of
like like to you, and I'm like her, I'm like,
this is on you, and then.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
We're like, it's so good to have your back.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
A little bit tense, whilst we've also got the kids
in the car and May's friends are with us, and
we're like let's just pretend that we love each other. Yeah,
how did the upcakes? I didn't even they got a
little bit. One one got eating. Their kids didn't. The
kids didn't love the cupcakes. I used to love cupcakes.
What's with kids looking cupcakes anymore?
Speaker 1 (44:10):
They want the big thing?
Speaker 3 (44:11):
They only eat the icing.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah, they're like, give me the.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Scutch finger, you must have a big tup of ice.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
They didn't like. The kids didn't like the icing.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Who made them?
Speaker 3 (44:20):
Did you make them?
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Please? Come on?
Speaker 1 (44:22):
What?
Speaker 2 (44:22):
No, they were bought.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
It's their fault.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Then I reckon bought cupcakes and as good as they
used to be.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
No, it depends on where you get them.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Sometimes the icing is revolting.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Yeah, I'm like a child. I only eat the icing.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
I don't know if your kids do this for birthdays?
Makes me not enjoy birthdays. But when you have two
kids who are similar age, Marley turned seven, Lola is five,
and it happens with both kids. But when it's not
someone's birthday and the other person gets all the presents
the other kids are, well, there's fucking sack.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
This is the first year that I really gave Macy
the pre worn and.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
I try't managed to expect.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
She said, hey, do you know what Tomorrow is Oscar's birthday,
but yours is next. So we might be showering Oscar
with giftsons and people might be saying happy birthday, and
it might be all about Oscar, but then when it
comes to your day, it'll be all about Macy. And
she sort of well, like there was a couple of
moments where she felt a little I could see it,
but she was trying to be really brave about it.
(45:21):
And then Oscar was like, hey, do you want to
help me open this? Do you want to help me
open this? Do you want to help me open it?
Speaker 2 (45:26):
So that's that's to go.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
It's more April. It's more April. That's more April. But like,
I know what you mean, because I could see her
fighting it back because she she was understanding what I said,
but wasn't under the feelings. Weren't understanding it, if that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yeah, I managed the expectations and days leading into it.
I was like, birthdays are not for you all the time,
sometimes for other people. And it's Marley's birthday, so she
will receive the presents. We actually had a present for her,
just so she got don't look.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
At me like that.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
We gave her something to get me, like a little toy.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
It's a new car.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
But even then, when Marley was on like a third present,
Lola was like, oh, I just got to fuck myself
because clearly no one loves me and the fucking.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
Family they got news on it.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
What am I just move out?
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Now?
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Is this it? I was like, no, it's just because
it's Marley's birthday. And then Mary's friends came along and
she was like, oh, well, what's the fucking point of
even being here? I was like, this is this is
I noticed your child.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
You know, you're on the phone the other day and
you're like lowls. You're like hey Lola, and You're like,
we're on a party. She was like, yeah, I just
going to a party with it one of her friends.
It was like so pumped.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
But we went to It's like the Greatest Showman Live
Show and was there no no you you but all
the songs from the from the movie were being sung
and it was great. It was really good. It was
actually I was like, this is fucking good fun.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
Because it's still showing.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
Yeah, I'd like to go.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Actually, I think it's fair there were some acts that
were great for the kids, like the trapeze, you know,
and there's like the big sea sawory thing where people
are flipping and the kids are like, wow, this is
like big energy. It's not a it's a very to
slay s a lot more singing. But then there were
(47:19):
some acts that for me watching on I was like,
that is so impressive, Like the balancing act. There was
this wire, this loose wire, and this guy was balancing
on the wire. And if this guy who was the
performer ever comes across this video slash podcast, I just
want to let you know that I loved it, but
not all children loved it. Let me play your video
(47:42):
so you were allowed to film a little bit of
the show. And this guy on the on the wire,
the balancing wire, he's on a unicycle and he's juggling.
What I do it was? I was watching him just
being like to be able to do that, it's just
like the hours, the weeks to months, the years of
training he must have on through to be able to
do this. Except my child didn't appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
They wouldn't Yeah, oh my god, he's is he juggling?
Speaker 3 (48:14):
Did everyone hear her say that? Did the mad on
the time right now because it was so silent.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
He's there on this like thin bit of wire which
is nice and slack, and he's on a unicycle juggling
whilst balancing with wire, and my kids like, oh yes,
I was like trying to drown out the boring from
my child. It's pretty impressive and it's amazing, and it was.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Just does impress her.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Then she wanted the fire. They said there's going to
be a tiger. There was like a like a a
theater type. It wasn't a live tiger.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
And she was like, the tiger you have to explained
to it. It's actually cruel to put animals and shows
she likes.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
She liked the flipping. There was someone who was breathing
fire and that was like.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
It's just fucking boring.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
I was, I don't know if it's because I'm a
parent now some of the acts where it was a
little bit dangerous.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Do the same thing sometimes that I watched, Like I
watched like a kid jump off like a higher platform
that's on a step. I'm like, I was just old.
Thank got his knees.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
I was enjoying the performance but also very happy to
see them finished.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
The performance without injury, and the show is over. No
one needs you like a thank Heavens, that's a relief.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
The fire breathing. I was like, someone's clearly going to
get burnt. No facial hair.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
I wonder why, I will.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
Say, I will say the highlight for me. Ash a
bit giddy giddy. Okay, signing happened, so I was. Then
Molly had a couple of friends. Laura said, I'm going
to get a taxi home and if you want to
take kids, drop them off, like they're all, you know,
around the neighborhood, so you know, dropping the kids off.
And then one of the dads who was really nice
(50:06):
and I was, I was like, hey, you know, he's
here's your daughter. And and then we had a quick chat.
And then that chat turned into are you two timing
me forty five minutes? And and it was I just
I was, you know, it was nice to chat, was
nice to what.
Speaker 3 (50:26):
No, just.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
On the same page and it's but and no, I
would you know it'said that I'm You're nothing compared to you.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Thank you. But that's what I was looking for.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
But he he takes his daughter surfing every weekend.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
Okay, you know, Ash surfs.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
And he was like, what's his name?
Speaker 2 (50:46):
You're making this and he was like, you should bring
because his daughter, he's been sending me videos of her
surfing and she's really good. And I was like, I'd
love to get money into surfing, but she's not really
into it and he's and I was like, Oh, it's
going to be awesome because my good friends with his
daughter order now and the fact that she can surf.
I was showing these videos to Marley, being like, do
you want to learn how to surf? And she was like, yeah,
I'd love to. So I was like, I think he
(51:08):
was telling me about your surf trips he does once
a year.
Speaker 3 (51:10):
Is he a bond?
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Is a bond? Dad?
Speaker 1 (51:12):
Conversation?
Speaker 2 (51:14):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 1 (51:16):
I want names? I want numbers.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
He was just a really nice dad.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Was like this is your wayst saying that I'm out
and I had one.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
More kid to drop home, and she was like, excuse me,
mister Johnson, I'm getting a little bit.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
I'm hungry, I'm talking here, I'm bonding, I'm making friends.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
I need this. Don't drop me. Do we have a
name for this?
Speaker 2 (51:37):
I was just kissing him in the.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
How dare you you're kissing him with the same mouth
you talk to me with.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
I messaged him just before we started recording.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
I was like, and now we're three doting dads. Come out.
What's his name?
Speaker 2 (51:50):
I don't want to get I want to you know,
he wants to keep.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Me kept private, made holding up.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
It's hard. It's hard to meet other parents that like
they're your people and you click with and you're both
in a position where you're open to something.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
Yeah, I wouldn't know many friends. I'm actually trying to
get rid of friends.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
So just so you know, Oh, is that a threat?
Speaker 3 (52:13):
Yes? It does help when your kids are the same age,
the same things you're going In.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
My head, I was like, oh, this would be enough
for you. Did you live down the road? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Could you imagine I wouldn't want to live in the
Mouldier suburb according to later studies though fair.
Speaker 3 (52:33):
I mean, we'd love you to move to the Norman Beaches.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
I like you to move back to the East.
Speaker 1 (52:38):
I like the distance.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
Yeah, actually it'd be too much. If we look down
the road.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
From each other, you would annoy me.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
But on that note, I hope you're not annoyed by us.
A review review a couple of comments.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
Let's get to two thousand, find a new friend and
send them this podcast. Yeah, even if they're made up.
Speaker 2 (52:59):
Actually makes me realize how many people are like, you
got a podcast? Is that your job? And I'm like,
I think so people, And I'm like, get listening. A
lot of people don't listen podcasts.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
If anything, it costs us money. So I don't know.
If it's job.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
Expensive, hobby.
Speaker 1 (53:16):
To lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (53:16):
Then we've got you got You've got social media.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
You've got to followers, Instagram, dads, TikTok, Facebook group, that's it,
and YouTube. These episodes are on YouTube, along with our
guest episodes as well.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
That's everything anything else.
Speaker 3 (53:30):
The Facebook group is almost at five thousand members.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
That's insane.
Speaker 3 (53:34):
It has become such a little haven for parenting advice
I have.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
I actually had a quiet week on the group and
I'm not sure if I posted people which one did
you post?
Speaker 1 (53:45):
I was looking for a fridge.
Speaker 3 (53:46):
Yeah, I was like, oh god, we really don't have
any money.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
You ask it for a fridge for donations. If you
have a fridge, what size do you want.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
I'll take anything for the studio when I feel the studio,
give it to us.
Speaker 2 (54:02):
Okay, we'll get out of.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
Here, Madie. He's scrolling on his phone and explain we're
(54:24):
the camera. We will get done soon.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
Enough and.
Speaker 1 (54:31):
Song and.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
Two. Doting Dad's Podcast acknowledges the traditional custodians of country
throughout Australia and the connections to land, sea and community.
Speaker 1 (54:46):
We pay our respects to their elders past and present
and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torrestraight Island
the people's Today. This episode was recorded on Gadigal Land
I've got something to show you, actually got something to
tell you and show you. But I'll get you to
start the show first because it's dog pits related.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And welcome back to two doting dads. I am Maddie
(00:27):
Jay and and this is a podcast all about parenting.
It is the good, it is the bad and the related.
And we will never, ever, ever, not even if our
life depended on it.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
If I had to, I probably would gun ahead. And
someone's like, give me a solid piece of advice, then
I would.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'd like reluctantly if I had to, you know, I'd
eat my own ship if it meant I was going
to stay, if I was going to stay alive. Someone
was like, you have to have a little taste.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
What if it was runny? Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's always running at the moment. What have you got
for me?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Okay. So we're talking the other day about Buster. How
you were saying he keeps shitting in the house.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
He hasn't. I don't want to jinx it. It's been
a while. Okay, he's doing better.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
In case Buster is like keep embarrassing me on the podcast.
He's doing very well.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
He's our number one listener. Yes, he's just at home,
just listening to the back Lole hasn't reviewed yet.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I can know.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That's a reference to Matt's three legg dog.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
He has three legs.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yes. The other night, over the weekend, we were showering
the kids. Okay, and that's quite as you know, it's
quite a routine, and especially on a weekend, it's a
bit silly. So it's a bit silly because I've had
the whole day off, They've had the parties and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Bit silly. What's going on? What's happening?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I just mean, like you bringing the lolls, bringing the lot.
It's not as structured as a week We get it
in and get it done, go to bed, leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Sometimes it's on the weekend, it's eight forty five and
I'm like, fack, you guys are still here.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I come into the other room. I mean to be asleep.
It's like you haven't showered us anyway. So I'm showering
both and during that time we have selected the dog's needs,
which is to go out. So Squiggy right, and no
one really knows, so in protest, she's done a big
old wee on the rug okay. At first, I was like,
we can't get angry because we you're at fault. We're
(02:12):
at fault. So we only yelled at her a little
bit and just make ourselves feel better. And then I
realized that the pea patch looks like Spot the dog.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
She's doing art.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Bro, get ready for this. Either this is amazing or
I was I was an edible deep ready, Spot.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's a self portrait. That is Squiggy.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
That's that's have a good look at that. I was like, April,
is this just me? And she was like, no, that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is that a shadow of your penis?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
No? Thank you? Get me working on that.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's a self portrait. The head shape, the legs, the tail,
whole bit. We'll have to put it on somewhere so someone.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Can see it.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I don't think it looks like Spot. I think it
looks like Squiggy.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah it's a self portrait.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, okay, we go.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
If I'm going to put my critique hat on, I'd
say too much of a rigid jaw here for Spot's
very curved.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I don't know. I reckon if we get Spot up,
maybe a cross between Spot and Brian from Family Guy.
But well, How does it feel that I see a
puddle of piece and I think about you?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Why do you think about it?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I wanted to show you so bad. I wanted to
text it to you immediately, and I was like, don't
show him in person, because it's amazing. It's pcasso.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's almost you don't want to clean it up. You
want to miss casso. You want to like cut that
out of the rug and then frame it was.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Already framed the feature wall at home. Anyway, We've got
a couple of new things in the studio, Matt, you
want to run us through.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
It look budget wise. It just the algorithm knows when
I'm at my weakest, and I was thinking, hey, Neon light,
that'd be cool. Started getting ads and I was like,
how do I pitch this into ash? You were actually
quite easy to convince.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I didn't need convincing.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
What I know, you're a big me On guy, which
I now I didn't know that going into it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Now we've got a Neon guy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I also was a bit wary being scammed because it
was like it was all just too good to be true,
and it was like your order will be ready in
one week, and then it took a little while to
get here. It's been made off shore, not that I
don't Zealand the neon manufacturers of this country shout out
to that in abundance. And it was taking a long time,
and I was like, I got fucking scammed here. I
(04:24):
was like, oh yeah, I hate that. Just about I
think it was about five six hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Take them back.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
That's all right, that's great quality is it's really I
could have made that. Oh fuck, you could have done
the wording and then you would have run out of steam.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
It would have likely kicked in, like oh butterfly.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Now we've got the neon sign. We've also got the corkboard,
the art in the show notes. You put in the
show notes, vig the address of our studios. People can
send in the kids art.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, kids aren't only please if you want to put
in any pictures like of yourself, no use one aware.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh jesus, well you never know. Have you received us underwever?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Someone asked me for some socks on so I tried
to sell them on eBay and then eBay took them down.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Fun police can't do anything these days.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I did it from my feet, remember a long time ago.
But let's story for another time slot.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yes, so the studio, Yeah, we're in the new studio.
A few people commented and said, wow, it sounds great,
And I don't know if they're being polite or if
they're being genuine. Does it sound any different?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It sounds sarcastic.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Worn't the money that Neon sign really helps to the audio?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They're like, we can hear this weird buzzing in the
background like an old convenience store. They're the new features.
So if you if you want to send in your
crap art from your kids, which is majority of we
will take it off your hands.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Great.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
If it's phallic, I'm all for it. Yes, that'd be great.
We can even do a compilation for the for socials
if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I do mind. We don't just.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
More phallous, like a little carousel.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Of penis looking drawings.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
By the time it comes out, we will have posted
a little cheeky to always had tour world shortest to us.
It's just we'll give you the run through of what's
on the shelves behind us. You may see the little shells,
the floating shells that were just put up beautifully by
Dan Vicky. Your beautiful husband, what a guy.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Beautiful partner, handsome. Sorry, Dan, fucking drop a knee. He's
dropped the knee, he's yet to. We're get they're getting
married on the pod podcast Marriage l We'll put Dan there,
you here, I'll finish most celebrance thing there. Matt can
be the witness, the host, the musician with.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
The like the neon sign buzzing in the background.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, I mean it is good, bad, unrelatable.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It is. It's got a stroke funds not very romantic.
We'll change it. We'll change it to the good, the bad,
and the romantic, just for the wedding.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
We're just on the studio. We get a few messages
that one person wrote in suey Sue, and she.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Said, loving, how do you spell that?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's actually s double O.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
No, it's it's not it is they're drawing me now, Sue,
that's so, that's.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So how dare you shut up?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
That is so disrespectful between Sue and Jericha. I'm losing
the plots being stitched up. I'm definitely being I'm just
waiting for like something real obscurely come through where it's
like it's tim how's it spelled? Tea the number one
and then am double an the d is.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Silent, but she said, loving the news studio. But did
we purposely not paint the wall behind.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So stay?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
She said, haha, just when we thought we'd had enough
of studio updates?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
What are we going to talk about?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Was finished parenting?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I guess would you like to answer the questions? I
don't have a problem with it, but it was on purpose.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It was on purpose because we didn't run out of paint.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
We didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Budget went to the Neon sign. I had no money
for paint left.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Sorry, Ash, that's the right answer. No, The right answer
is we had a heated debate and I decided on
my side. I don't want it to be green because
that side green is fine, and that's it. Sue, thanks
for bringing up old wounds.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Can I just ask quickly before we move on from
the studio, because I look at your white wall. I'm
fine with it, it's great. Can I just check how
you're going looking at the green wall behind me? Because
that's what you're you know, I forget that you have
to look at that?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That's fine?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, I don't feel in case to buy it or
see when that one goes Vix wall is going to
go green as well.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Oh yes, yeah, we're gonna Can I just say really quickly,
I'm gonna put this in housekeeping. Is this the hottest
winter we've ever fucking had? Holy dick, Well said, Holy
dick cheese.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Like it is. I mean, this morning was a bit nippy,
but it's like I.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Love it when it's like just that sunny and cold.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's heaven and you're standing it and you get top
up like a snake.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Now she's moving as on, moving on, exciting news, Matt
breaking breaking.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I I apologize, sorry, Vic, that was not.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Now Matt, you know how hard it is to get
your kids that your dinner.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's a bloody night.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, I've written a book about it. Okay. So the
book is about why you take your kids to daycare
or whatever it might be, and they have notification systems
or when you get there they tell you that they
ate all their food, sometimes more, and it's frustrating as
a parent because you spend majority of your time at
home trying to figure out what.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
To feed these beasts begging.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, you're like, but me and Macey are just like
she's just not eating for fun. Now.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I know parents are like, oh, my boy will eat everything.
I'm like, fuck, it's like I gotta put tomato sauce
on everything to get lolder to eat.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Makes it doesn't eat sauce.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That's like, that's fucking devastating. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Corn thins just dust.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
She eats dust with a bit of butter on it.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Just thraw a dog. They don't even have butter with
veggimie's wrong?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
What is wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I know?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Oh my god, I know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I'm thinking about leaving myself.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yea, everything you can.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Fine, it'll be fine now that this book is coming out,
So it is. It's a kid's picture book called The
secret Ingredient, Okay, and it's about those moments of when
you are is it?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I don't want to spoil it? Is it? Love?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Is what love?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
The secret Ingredient?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
No incorrect? Okay, close, you're not far off kind of
Oh you could love the people that you're eating me,
I guess. So it's based on my family. Sorry, and
we drop the kids at their relative daycares and getting
that notification that says they've eaten all their lunch. And
then you try and figure out why they would eat
at school and not at home. So in the book,
(10:56):
I try various different methods making the food fun and
attaining as you try to do as a parent, which
you go online and all the hacks of that sort
of stuff. And then it gets to the end of
the book and it's we can't figure we're at our
wits hand of why we can't figure out why the
kids will eat there but not at home. And it
turns out that they like to eat at school because
they all eat together. And there's your secret ingredient togetherness.
(11:20):
But makes you buy the book, but make sure you
buy the book that wasn't it's actually a little bit
more detailed than that. That's a good overview, So it'll
be available in July, or leave a link in the
show notes when we have it.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I guess, And can I just say, who's your illustrator?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
He's up and coming. The publisher actually found him through
social media and this is his first ever book. He
usually would just do art.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
He's unreally the drawings look fucking awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
It's got a lot of Bob's Burger about it, because
obviously I'm a character. Bob has a mustache. I have
a mustache, but they've he's done my tatof both my
kids are in it.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Japanese anime. If I may really didn't get that, Okay,
bobs Burgers Bob's Burgers.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Bobs Burgers is like similar similar style to TV show,
TV show, so yes, keep an eye out for it.
Next couple of weeks it'll be available.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Well done, congratulations or available all good bookstores and big
w I cannot wait to read it to my kids.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Thank you so July, and we'll have it in the
show notes.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Congratulations, thank you very Yeah, make sure you fucking buy it.
Sorry yeah, amen, brother, Amen, brother, that one slipped out.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
No I liked it any better fucking buy it or
there'll be no more podcast episode.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Hey, we finally reached a thousand reviews. Hey, do you
know what happened? I screenshot it on nine hundred and
ninety nine and I was like, well pretty close, and
I was like, I go a little quick look and
it was like nine hundred and ninety eight. N I say,
how are we losing reviews?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I saw this too, and I was like, what the
actual fuck?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Get a life, guy, everyone, I'm kidding, it's not you
guys are watching the numbers down.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It's one thousand reviews. We are actually on like multiple
thousands on Spotify.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So how does it go down?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yes, we don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
And did it go back up?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now we're at a thousand one thousand.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I was just like checking that they weren't duplicate. It
has been a rollercoaster of a couple of days, wonders.
Three in the morning, I was like, has it gone
down at your end?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Everyone who has left a review? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yes, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Oh Josh White and Ash friends of mine, had a
baby this morning.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Oh congratulations boy girl, little boy. Jermaine Jermaine Germaine Jermaine.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Spelt jay E r m a y any Yeah, that
checks out. That was that was Jake's an iron the
healthy looking baby.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Oh yeah yeah wow, well well formed child is well formed.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's a well formed child. To Ash to Josh, congratulations,
great news. Vick, You've got a note here about platter
mums or packet mums.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Just before you do that, it was your birthday the
other day, so have birthday?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Actually, can we just quickly how did you celebrate.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Girls' night in Manly? Very fun?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Many cocktails? How and do you know what everyone was like,
thank you so much for like getting us out of
the house, and like we really needed this. Like we've
got a lot of them have like two year olds,
so they're in the terrible twos, and they were like
this was so needed, Like in the middle of winter.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yes, what time your fishure one thirty?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Oh, don't let it affect your work.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Okay, But I was on the waters by like eleven thirty.
I reckon. We were just talking and yapping away.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Can I try and guess your cocktail of choice?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Okay, I reckon you express no?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
No? Yeah, actually yes, spicy Mark at the start of
the night. At the end of the night, I like
an Ameritus hour.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Support. My grandfather was a big port guy, as you
can imagine.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Rest in peace and recasting. Yeah good, I'm big. Before
we go into your story, actually, just at the back
of your birthday, we have a little something for you.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
We do we forgot my god.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Let me get let me get it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It's a it's gonna go above your bed.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's not a six way from Japan, is it?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You wait?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Happy birthday you guys, listen to me. That's good for you.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Matt the best present ever, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, it's a it's a little new prem toe bag.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
This morning, I'm like pulling Louise underwear out of my
head bag and I'm pulling socks and and put.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Him in that. I to just have a nice look
at that very profession look like an executive producer.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And we thought, like skift ever, No, it's nothing, pretty good.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Bushing, that's what it feels like.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That's that's what it feels like. I love giving things.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, and you got your trip coming up, so we
thought you might need a new bag on your trip.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I'm not taking it on that trip. But now I've
got a work bag and like you know, I've been
winging every week.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Look, we didn't want to be seen in public with
you with the other one again, so we got you
on your other freame bag. It's on fire outside.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That bag serves you very well.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It has.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Around your basta, it's got stains and as well live.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It's a beautiful bag.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I took a healthy other night because my friend had
like hand me down. She's like, bring a big bag,
and my friend's like, did you bring a nappy?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Back to the movies?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh my god, I'm so embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It comes in with it like a what do they
call it? A pants suit?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Happy birthday?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yes, that was really sweet.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yes, And back to sorry we've got sidetracked platter.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, So you spoke about something on the podcast in
our last housekeeping up, and when I listened back, I
was like, this is such an interesting topic because I
know as a mom I love to put a label
on things physical and metaphor.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Want to do it.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You guys talked about platter mums versus packet mums.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
We talked about it.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yes, we said something. I know.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Ash brought it. How when kids come over and they
want to eat the food that you've got, because April
is a platter mum and she always has this beautiful
platter when they go out of like cut fruit and vegetables.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Is a long shot, But when you're outside the house, Yeah,
if it's like if we're going like say we're set
to go, right, we're going down the park. It's going
to be a big morning at the park. That's the activity. Yeah,
the snack platter has to match the vibe of the activity,
which is we're going to be out and about the
food needs to be out about.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah. I love that.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
And then We've got people like Matt who are a
packet or that who you just literally chuck packets in there.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, she bes in the music bars and like a
yogurta it's a good one because then you feel like, oh,
that's healthy sugar.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It's a strawberry on it. So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
So I just loved the difference between like a packet
mum and a platter mum, and then I chucked it
on Instagram to get a vibe from the dotors fifty
platter mum.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I thought there'd be less than that.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And packet mums. It's pretty even split.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I'm actually was one hundred a bit of a hybrid.
I think, well, actually I would go as far as
to maybe cut up some grapies, grapes and some apple.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
As far as I'm concerned, there's two types of mums.
Platter mum's packet mums now platter mum. Okay, is if
you're leaving the house to go on a playdate or
whatever you might be doing with the kids, you would
cut up fruit, have it nicely segregated in I don't know,
a container or a platter if you want a smalkestboard,
(19:19):
a Schnorkes board if you will, and then a packet
Mum is someone and look either either there's no wrong,
is okay, Well I've got a packet of something, put
it in there, getting.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
The packet and chipp is my kids really into fucking
salami sticks at the moment.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Twiggy sticks.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Oh, I love a salami stick.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I'm a twigs stick dada.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I'm sure it's like, what's it called when things give
you cancer? Carcinogenic?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I recently just learned about this because I've seen a nutritionist.
If you swap a twiggy stick for a jerky stick,
it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
What's a twig stick?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Twig stick is the salami skinny salami stick you get
from the deliate woolies or coals or got you whatever
the prem The kale text has this beef.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
They are fucking delicious.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
We're really good for you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Do you reckon? They are? I'm always like, sorry, kids
getting cancer, but your kids love jerky. But I love
every time every time I get anything with the fridge.
The meat sticks are just like hello, And I'm like,
I gotta say that for lunch tomorrow because Laura is
always like, who's eating the fucking meat sticks and I'm like,
there was buster another.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
They are good, and like when we go to the shops,
we buy go to the deli and buy a couple
of them, and the kids sort of snack on them
as we're going through the shops. I don't know what's
in it, probably lips and arseholes, but whatever.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I wish my kids would eat the platts. They're just
they're just bloody useless.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
They're more packet packet.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
They're just like a packet of chips far out.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, amazing in the little packets of springles at the moment,
the little ones, yeah Pringles geez, and the mini choc
chip biscuits. I'm getting hungry.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Ohsh We spoke about the fact that we found out
we had a three year anniversary VIC. This is very exciting,
very romantic. How did we find out because our business
name had expired?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because I was like when
you were like, oh yeah, it's up for renewal, and
I was like.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Oh three years, that went fast, three years.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Do we renew it? Still?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I did renew it. He did one hundred bucks. That's
great value, yeah, I know, compared to the Neon sign.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Oh god, that's like it's like a third of a
neon sign.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Everything right now is just like that's one eighth of
the neon sign. That's good value.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
That's like five neon signs. And used j Ski.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
So we had the option for the one year or
the three year.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
And what do we do?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
What do you reckon?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You committed committed three years. We've got to do it now.
We were on the fence there on Friday, gotta make
good money's worth. Then Sat you called me Saturday. You
were at the RSL because Laura was back, and have
we a bit tipsy? When you call you never call me,
you never call me back. I was like, oh quick,
he's going, thank you. I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And when was the anniversary of when you guys met.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It was the back end of twenty twenty two. It
would be November, November November.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
So this year will be four years.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah ditsch and run.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Oh my god, I'm waiting to show you this again
for the audio people, sorry, shut up, shut up and
watch it on YouTube. I stumbled across a video on
social media. I don't know if you've heard of social
media before, but it's out there. Rings a bell rings
a bell. I just want to show you this video
and letting let me know what sort of level of
(22:37):
dadding do you think this is?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Help?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
No? What are you doing here? Primarily? Sorry? I've gone
to ding dong? Did you guys? Super?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Sorry?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So you do you know what you're out here doing this?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I would call him right now.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah, he does know.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I felt that what I don't hold on? It's your dad.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, he can sing.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Audition with him.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, he says it's a core childhood memory and he
want to be a part of it. That is not
fucking real. That's so good. If it is. Even if
it's not, it's good.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
That is. It sounds a bit scripted, but I love it.
If it's true.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
We used to what's the hold off? I love that
sort of parent I used to have. A friend of
mine's mom used to say we were bored and it
was nighttime. What she do is like near my place
at Warrywood, there's a really long park and at night
it's like pitch black, and she would be like, all right,
you get out of the car here and run to
the other end of the park and I'll meet you
there in the car. And like you'd see the car
(23:45):
going and we would run and she give us twenty bucks,
like that was her form of entertainment. It was like
so good and we were like, oh my god, should
we do it? And we were like what ten or
that they were like that age, But that sort of parenting,
that's the sort of parent I want to be.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Imagine if you guys could abducted, that would be so fun.
They're like, how did they get taken in the parks?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Well, well, I didn't have to give up twenty bucks.
I I can love that sort of stuff, like where
it's like you're doing something wrong, but you're doing it together.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Fine, no one's really it's a victim of it's a
victim of crime. Victor come she looks so victim because
if you had he done it, well, yeah, we should
do it. And like if you're staying at a hotel,
you know, yeah you do because then when your sibling's
running back, you shut the door.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, yeah, that's I think that's just good bonding.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
If you're doing that at one in the morning, that's
fucking annoying. But if you're doing that it's still daylight,
that's good. Year.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
That's just reminded me of there was a really drunk
guy that came and like was knocking on our door,
and then eventually he climbed over the fence and climbed
up into our balcony and like passed out.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Sorry about that. I don't drink any more, Victims told me.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
And I was such a little kid at the time,
and I was like, what is going on. It wasn't intruder.
He was just drunk and he thought it was his home.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Oh that's fair, Yeah, that's happened to all.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Victim was crying once again.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
When we lived in a unit block. I remember my
dad and he wasn't pissed her anything, but all the
doors looked the same. He kept walking into the downstairs
house and he was like, walked in downstairs again, like
what are they doing. He's like they're cooking something real
good down there. And then he was just like all
of a sudden, he knew him by name.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
He just walked to embarrassed my sister because she does
listen to the pod and she goes a little shout
out being my tandem parents. She loved it, but we
used to live together in an apartment. One time she
got blanned and she came out into the living room
thinking it was the bathroom, and I was like, oh,
and I was like she came in and she go,
she's like stumbling, and I go, you were fucking drunk tonight,
(25:48):
and she's like and like that's to take a pand
and I was like, holy shit, do you think this
is the toilet? And I was like, oh, I had
to grab her like spin around, I put on the toilet.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Usher into the bathroom. That was a victims crime. That
was like our parenting training. Did I know breaking news, Vick?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, I've got a bit of sad breaking news. Guys.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
You're not quitting?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Oh never, No, I love this job. My favorite day
of the week.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Actually after that present, do you have any work for free?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Because of the signed had a locker room for six months.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
But Oji Dotters might remember a dog called Alan Rickman
who we have talked about several times on the show.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Ate all the croissants he did.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
He ate the croissants at Christmas and then shout on
all the presents.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, this can never look is not good.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Yeah, Alan Rickman passed away.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
So no more croissants will be out.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
And if I may, I'd like to read a few
words from its owner about the dog that brought so.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Much Can we put some funeral music behind this?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
It was time for us to say goodbye to our big,
gorgeous hound, Alan Rickman, after he showed signs of being
very sick very quickly. It was a.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Sorry, sorry, sorry, very sensitive, but also very incense.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
They're going to mention Alan Rickman on the podcast Gosh.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
This dog brought so much joy. Most people have a
great Alan Rickman story. He came on holidays, road trips
and camping adventures. He loved utes. We never actually owned one,
but that didn't stop him chasing other people's and trying
to jump in. Watching him grow older and slower while
like kids got bigger and faster, has been very special.
He was endlessly gentle with them, sleeping with Izzy during
loud storms, or doing a lap of the house every
(27:35):
night before he went to bed to make sure everyone
was okay. He didn't like cats or loud noises, but
he did love chrossots. We never really worked out what
he was part horse, part cat, part Jack Russell, all
somehow crossed with a wolfhound ball arab. He was a
wonderful dog, deeply loved a big part of the family.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Who we sorely missed Alan, Alan rickmant at night for Alan.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, that's what he would have wanted there in some
light on you dog?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
What a gear change?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, well, you know at the news bulletin they start
with the tragedy and and with a sifting story.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Give me the sandwich.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Australia's favorite biscuit has been announced and the result might
just knock you off your chairs.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Well both these chairs are missing a screw responsible for that? Well,
anything I put together, one screw gets left out. It's
like it's like calling it's tradition.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
What Australia's number one biscuit is?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
What do we go?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
What do we got?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Arrow route the Scotch finger?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Oh yeah, okay, good old rounder, really good density. Yeah,
but I think add the chocolate underneath it?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I think, who that's do you know what that is?
The boomers have come out and for wait sorry sorry, no.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
No, I will not be silenced by the boomers. Not
a bad biscuit, So this is not an insult. But
we know who we know who had the time to
take this survey and it was no one's.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I don't remember being asked. Yeah, I wasn't consulted.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Here and that's the thing they would have had. The
option was like, oh tasty, you.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Got arrow Root, Scott Finger, Monty Carl, Ginger Snap, Ginger Snap,
the traditional Anzac biscuit.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I oh, what's a tough choice. And it was like
Tim TAM's like, oh too sweet.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Well, the Humble biscuit scored five stars for overall satisfaction
and four stars for taste, value, texture and packaging. Aren't
it's variety pack took out second place.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
That's good gear. We should get that a stack of them.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
But who's going to eat the orange cream me, followed
by the Kingston biscuit in.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Third place, king Monte Carlo Kingston is.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
The best, the Kings and blood the.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Chocolate with quite small.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
After this record were going straight Coles and my tummy
right now is fast and rumbling.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
But okay, so I knew question. Who was surveyed in this?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You knew?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I just the consumer group surveyed two thousand, three hundred
and ninety Australians on the sweet biscuit brands they've eaten
in the last six months.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Okay, was there an age bracket?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
They would have gone to a tirement home to who
wants answers and questions for a biscuit the whole.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You'll get a variety pack. I'll give you some Scotch frequents.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
You never disappointed with the scots Finger.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
They quite a hearty biscuit.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I just don't think it's top spot. I can't.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I can't know, Monte Carlo your favorite. They came in
fourth that.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
With a cup of tea going had a nice vovo.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
They won't even in the top ten because that kid,
that kid at camping that I told you about, rubb
around his genitals, right.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Okay, but yeah, Vogo, what is your favorite biscuit?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I would have said out of all of those the
Kingston a chucky bit of bus at all?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
What about a caramel crown?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Oh that's it's like biscuit based caramel and then covered
in chocolate. It is naughty.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
So that sounds naughty.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
We're going to get some after that was a good
actor normal.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
It was n so digestives fifth place, a sorted cream pack.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Sixth plate chocolate digestives.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Tim TAM's seventh place.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Tim Tam, that would be higher unbeaten biscuits.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
That's actually that's criminal.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
We know who got surveyed that you can tell by
that because it's like, oh it's too sweet.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
You know you're not You're not going out and like
shipping off the Scotch finger to international markets are like
the tim Tam is the Tim TAM's an international best seller?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Right yeah? Ginger nuts eighth place, bisc off ninth spot,
and mint Slice in.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Tenth reallylic itself.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
April loves min slice, but everyone makes fun of her.
That's a boomer biscuit, So maybe we're wrong here. It's
a matured taste. You'll get there.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Hey, advice, congratulations winning the quiz, the stead of Old
and quiz that you went to. Yes, you want the
tickets to Melbourne? I did?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
We did.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
How was that trip?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It was great? Oscar had an amazing time. So he
got first of all, he got two days off school.
It was absolutely stoked.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Did you have to do any forms for that?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So April did the forms. But she's found a little
loophole in the form thing, a loop because when with
our school and it might be the same, might be
different for other schools. I'm not sure. When you organize
one day off of them, yeah, no problems, okay, but
it's consecutive day back to back will get you. So
she just did single.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Days like single single, Yeah, genius.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
See she's smart, some very smart Vick.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
She's smart, isn't she?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
April is very smart.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
She's not going to believe that, but yeah, so she
said yes because I was like, oh, Matt's a bit
stressed because of the whole he had to go to
Melbourne for a separate occasion, but had to take girls
out of school. And obviously they're like, tell us, why
are you taking the kids out school? Shut up? I
pay you, all right, I'll take my kids out if
I want, I will. But she said, well, why don't
(33:04):
you just book the days in not consecutively, do them
individually and then you don't have to do any of
the fucking And they haven't clued on, well, it's all
a portal online, so you've got the portal. So beat,
she's beat. She's out here beating.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
AI were gonna go, fuck, do you know what's going
to happen? She's going to be the reason they have
like an overhaul. What are all these kids? No one's here?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Then we'll have to delete this episode because it's like
she's just playing.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, they'll come for aram, like why is April in
prison because she's.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
In parenting prison. But which so two days off, Oscar
and I flew on the Wednesday because the game was
Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Can I just say we facetimed and you were staying
at the Crown. Oh, that's a lovely room.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
We'll get there, we'll get to that, we'll get to
that partner sec. But we we flew Fleet on Quantas
and I thought, it's just Oscar and I'm pulling out
all the stops here, upgraded the seat to wear just
a more leig room. He didn't notice the little legs,
but I noticed.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, it's for you.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
And then we both wore blues jerseys the whole day.
We went walk through Melbourne because anyone was like there
were so many people down there that were in blue
and maroon. With a couple of stops at some Jersey
shops where everyone was sort of congregated. Was great. The
vibe was really good actually on Flinders Street. So we
got to our hotel, the Crown Metropol, and get there
(34:20):
and they're like, fantastic news, we've upgraded.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Oh shut the fuck.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
I was like, whoa to a loft and that's for
our FaceTime? You to rub it in and Oscar was like,
Oscar's been on a plane before, but it's not just
a trip specific for him, like this was for him.
I wanted to go with him to bond and he's
really into footy and I want to harness that. Yeah,
so we did everything together. We went to like arcades together,
(34:48):
all dressed in our blue stuff, the whole bit. The
upgraded hotel and really set him off because we overlooked
all of Melbourne. I don't think he's ever been that
high other than an aeroplane. So he was like right
up against the window, like, shit, look how small people are.
So hotel room was great, massive. Then we went to
the stadium and walked around the outside of the MCG
like a seven year old at the MCG. He was like,
(35:08):
could not be. I'm like, it's a bit bigger than Brookie.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Is that the first time he's been to the MCG?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah? Mate, the first time he's been in Melbourne? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Wow, that little boy is gonna remember this.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
He was like me, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
He was like, I've never been to the MCGO.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Do you know how long it took me to go
to the MG? Yeah? Thirty five? I was last year
was my first time and these kids are how good
they've got it? Ninety one thousand people in the stadium.
It's a lot, and before the game kicked off too many. No,
it was great and like.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Because Melbourne's good for it, they can handle it.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah, So we got in there. We walked around the
stadium to observe. We bought a big cut out head
of his favorite player, Tolly Kohler from Many.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Plays on the wing.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
If anyone wondering plays on the wing, plays in the
center's actually sorry, but he can play.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
The week you do it all, ignore me myself.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
And then we get inside. I believe his goalkeeper he's
one of the ones that catches the balls. He I
bet you he loves the Scotch finger. He's more of
an arrow root guy.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
I'm going to protect it.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
We get in the stadium. We're one of the first
in this. We literally were one of the first. He
was like, I want to be first in first in.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
That's a how many hours earlier?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
It was like six o'clock, eight o'clock kickoff. Anyway, game starts,
He's like, I'm tired. Yeah, he was like, nah, he
was so palmed. He just wanted to get there, wanted
to see it. Never been in the stadium, in the atmosphere.
And when we get in there, I said, hey, I've
got one other thing that we need to do before
we can sit down in our seats, and that is
we're going to go on the field. And obviously all
of this is thanks to the NRL. I was able
(36:45):
to take Oscar and I've never been on the field
of the MCG either. I'll tell you right now. It's
like I can imagine what it's like Russell Crowe walking
out in Gladiator. That's what it felt like. He walked.
He was blown away, the people, the atmosphere, the noise,
the sound. We're on the field. We got a photo
with the State of Origin shield.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
He must think, you're the coolest dad.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
I'm fucking home, so thank you, thank you, And then
watched the game. Unfortunately didn't get the result. He started
to cry. But everyone around, everyone around us, like we
just happened to be sitting in it. Quite get used
to it, son, Yeah, that's what I said, This is
just the beginning. He was like, I fucking hate Uncle Maddiel.
(37:28):
He made that.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
A lifelong of heartache.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah, he's got ahead of him. I'm just getting used
to it. So we're sitting in the section we have
there was obviously a lot of mpaths were really like, oh,
is it okay. I'm like, yeah, he's just got to
learn to lose, you know, he's only seven.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Resilience building.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, So we left the game. We got out of
there and like you said, Melbourne, just that's it better.
We were back at our hotel like ten thirty, which
is unbelievable considering we got a seven year old. Anyway,
one final treat is ten thirty pm room service.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I saw that food.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
He got chicken nuggets and chips and some ice cream. Oh,
and we were sat in bed and watched what do
we want? We just watched whatever movie was on, some
kids movie, and he was pumped and he fell asleep
in his chicken nuggets.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
This weekend coming is like, so.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I know you are setting him up for very high.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
We got into the Crown Laught again this week.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
This week we're actually going to a manly seagle's training
and he's going to get to meet that player that
he has the big head of. That was the final thing.
So that's happening tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
But for people wondering he's taking him out of school again.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Yeah, only for the morning, but he's Yeah, he's pumped.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
That's great, that's good. Gear.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
I always thought doing what I do now for a job,
I want my I want to be able to do
things like that for my kids, and hopefully it's the
first of many. And it felt. It feels really good
to be able to do that.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Yeah, I was gonna ask how it made you feel.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yeah, when we went to jiu jitsu a couple of
days after, and the head training owns of the jiu
jitsu gym, this Brazilian guy, he came up and he
must follow me and he was like, it's amazing that
you got to do that for your kid. He'll never
forget that, not forget it. See right now, I.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Know I remember my first game with mum and fucking
back because then they won. He couldn't afford good tickets,
but it was still great.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
She had five kids, Matt, I know she did her best.
That wasn't enough, like enough.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
He will he will remember that. And I'm sure at
some point, if he has children, he will give back
to his kids what you gave to him.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
I would hope. So, Yeah, yeah, fucking better. Yeah, because
I remember, like when I was a kid, dad with
work would get a couple of things, like I remember
he took us to circus, sleigh and stuff like that,
and I still remember that sort of stuff. So I thought, yeah,
you do imagine imagine like like him going to school
and doing his show and tell or whatever they do.
He got to talk about that, he got to go
on the.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Field with poor kid goes after ask. He comes and
he's like, I got an ice pluck on the weekend,
let's breaks get back up.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
What else you go? What else doing?
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Anyway, Hey, Laura's back. She's back, She's back home. The
band is back together, and you seem happier, you seem less.
It's been a much easier week. Last week, bloody hell,
Marley was up at the crack of dongs. It was
her birthday. Oh yeah, I was like before yeah, it
(40:31):
was so I was half asleep. I promise her if
we'd go to breakfast, and I was there just like
I was like just peeling myself out of the bed fatigue.
But then we went straight into into Marley's birthday party.
And I think, I think for parents out there who
are organizing a kid's birthday party. You're all going to
do it at some point if you have kids. I'm
assuming it's a level of stress that we just don't
(40:53):
need as parents.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
We put it on ourselves.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, I know, you mean, like unless you're an event organizer.
So if you're us, thank you, thank you. I remember
it's stressful, right, And there's you know, Laura and I
we had like we're back together. We're straight back into
business mode because they were I wish we were, you know,
organizing the party. And then you know, sometimes you have arguments.
(41:19):
I'm assuming nah, where there's no one really at fault.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
It's just for the sake of an argument.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Well just you know, no one's there's you know, something's
gone wrong, but it's like it's not you, it's not
your partner. And you know, sometimes you want to blame
me the person because you want to blame someone and
point the finger. But you know, Laura and I just
the stress of the birthday party. The cupcakes. The cupcakes
got us.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
I'm going to say it. Cupcakes not a good move.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Do you know what they didn't They didn't love the cupcakes.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
It's not always about the cup.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
So the issue was okay, packing the bag. Pack in
the bag, heading out for Mala's birthday party. Pack in
the bag. This is the big Hope bag the nappies
in it. And Laura goes, can you put the cup Actually,
I'm tweaking the story to make it.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Look like sometimes that was a fault, but it was Laura.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
She said, don't forget the cupcakes, and I was like, cool.
So then I put the cupcakes in the tote bag, okay,
loose in a box at the bottom of the tote bag.
So then I got back to them organizing the kids.
Laura's picked up the bag, not realizing the cupcakes are
in the bag. The cupcakes have gone on their side,
and then in the car Laura's got in the bag
(42:30):
and then being like, oh fuck, you put the cupcakes
in the bag, and so the cupcakes are now fucked
because they've all gone on the side.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Oh you said, there's no there's no one at fault,
but there is what Laura's a fault. I think I
think if she said packed the cupcakes and you've gone
and done that, she probably needs to check the bag
before just yoink it up.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
That's what I said.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
I think that's a it's not like it's a mistake,
and no, actually someone's made a mistake. It's not her fault,
it's a mistake.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
She was like, I just thought you would have brought
the box on its own, because.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Well, that's a blatant assumption. You're trying to do. You're
trying to pack everything together in one place where it's
easier for you to that and manage three kids and
help you know the moving pieces. Having the box on
its own arguably is more case sensitive than just putting
it into a bag. I think you need to go like, okay,
(43:25):
I'm picking up these bags. I can see the boxes
in there, but just blindly.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Because we're just racing out the door, racing at the door.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Time is I think fault is too aggressive. It's not
her fault, but it might be a mistake on her behalf.
But both, Laura, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
No one wants to be wrong. So she's kind of
like like to you, and I'm like her, I'm like,
this is on you, and then.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
We're like, it's so good to have your back.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
A little bit tense, whilst we've also got the kids
in the car and May's friends are with us, and
we're like let's just pretend that we love each other. Yeah,
how did the upcakes? I didn't even they got a
little bit. One one got eating. Their kids didn't. The
kids didn't love the cupcakes. I used to love cupcakes.
What's with kids looking cupcakes anymore?
Speaker 1 (44:10):
They want the big thing?
Speaker 3 (44:11):
They only eat the icing.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah, they're like, give me the.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Scutch finger, you must have a big tup of ice.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
They didn't like. The kids didn't like the icing.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Who made them?
Speaker 3 (44:20):
Did you make them?
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Please? Come on?
Speaker 1 (44:22):
What?
Speaker 2 (44:22):
No, they were bought.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
It's their fault.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Then I reckon bought cupcakes and as good as they
used to be.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
No, it depends on where you get them.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Sometimes the icing is revolting.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Yeah, I'm like a child. I only eat the icing.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
I don't know if your kids do this for birthdays?
Makes me not enjoy birthdays. But when you have two
kids who are similar age, Marley turned seven, Lola is five,
and it happens with both kids. But when it's not
someone's birthday and the other person gets all the presents
the other kids are, well, there's fucking sack.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
This is the first year that I really gave Macy
the pre worn and.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
I try't managed to expect.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
She said, hey, do you know what Tomorrow is Oscar's birthday,
but yours is next. So we might be showering Oscar
with giftsons and people might be saying happy birthday, and
it might be all about Oscar, but then when it
comes to your day, it'll be all about Macy. And
she sort of well, like there was a couple of
moments where she felt a little I could see it,
but she was trying to be really brave about it.
(45:21):
And then Oscar was like, hey, do you want to
help me open this? Do you want to help me
open this? Do you want to help me open it?
Speaker 2 (45:26):
So that's that's to go.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
It's more April. It's more April. That's more April. But like,
I know what you mean, because I could see her
fighting it back because she she was understanding what I said,
but wasn't under the feelings. Weren't understanding it, if that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yeah, I managed the expectations and days leading into it.
I was like, birthdays are not for you all the time,
sometimes for other people. And it's Marley's birthday, so she
will receive the presents. We actually had a present for her,
just so she got don't look.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
At me like that.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
We gave her something to get me, like a little toy.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
It's a new car.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
But even then, when Marley was on like a third present,
Lola was like, oh, I just got to fuck myself
because clearly no one loves me and the fucking.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
Family they got news on it.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
What am I just move out?
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Now?
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Is this it? I was like, no, it's just because
it's Marley's birthday. And then Mary's friends came along and
she was like, oh, well, what's the fucking point of
even being here? I was like, this is this is
I noticed your child.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
You know, you're on the phone the other day and
you're like lowls. You're like hey Lola, and You're like,
we're on a party. She was like, yeah, I just
going to a party with it one of her friends.
It was like so pumped.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
But we went to It's like the Greatest Showman Live
Show and was there no no you you but all
the songs from the from the movie were being sung
and it was great. It was really good. It was
actually I was like, this is fucking good fun.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
Because it's still showing.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
Yeah, I'd like to go.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Actually, I think it's fair there were some acts that
were great for the kids, like the trapeze, you know,
and there's like the big sea sawory thing where people
are flipping and the kids are like, wow, this is
like big energy. It's not a it's a very to
slay s a lot more singing. But then there were
(47:19):
some acts that for me watching on I was like,
that is so impressive, Like the balancing act. There was
this wire, this loose wire, and this guy was balancing
on the wire. And if this guy who was the
performer ever comes across this video slash podcast, I just
want to let you know that I loved it, but
not all children loved it. Let me play your video
(47:42):
so you were allowed to film a little bit of
the show. And this guy on the on the wire,
the balancing wire, he's on a unicycle and he's juggling.
What I do it was? I was watching him just
being like to be able to do that, it's just
like the hours, the weeks to months, the years of
training he must have on through to be able to
do this. Except my child didn't appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
They wouldn't Yeah, oh my god, he's is he juggling?
Speaker 3 (48:14):
Did everyone hear her say that? Did the mad on
the time right now because it was so silent.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
He's there on this like thin bit of wire which
is nice and slack, and he's on a unicycle juggling
whilst balancing with wire, and my kids like, oh yes,
I was like trying to drown out the boring from
my child. It's pretty impressive and it's amazing, and it was.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Just does impress her.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Then she wanted the fire. They said there's going to
be a tiger. There was like a like a a
theater type. It wasn't a live tiger.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
And she was like, the tiger you have to explained
to it. It's actually cruel to put animals and shows
she likes.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
She liked the flipping. There was someone who was breathing
fire and that was like.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
It's just fucking boring.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
I was, I don't know if it's because I'm a
parent now some of the acts where it was a
little bit dangerous.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Do the same thing sometimes that I watched, Like I
watched like a kid jump off like a higher platform
that's on a step. I'm like, I was just old.
Thank got his knees.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
I was enjoying the performance but also very happy to
see them finished.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
The performance without injury, and the show is over. No
one needs you like a thank Heavens, that's a relief.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
The fire breathing. I was like, someone's clearly going to
get burnt. No facial hair.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
I wonder why, I will.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
Say, I will say the highlight for me. Ash a
bit giddy giddy. Okay, signing happened, so I was. Then
Molly had a couple of friends. Laura said, I'm going
to get a taxi home and if you want to
take kids, drop them off, like they're all, you know,
around the neighborhood, so you know, dropping the kids off.
And then one of the dads who was really nice
(50:06):
and I was, I was like, hey, you know, he's
here's your daughter. And and then we had a quick chat.
And then that chat turned into are you two timing
me forty five minutes? And and it was I just
I was, you know, it was nice to chat, was
nice to what.
Speaker 3 (50:26):
No, just.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
On the same page and it's but and no, I
would you know it'said that I'm You're nothing compared to you.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Thank you. But that's what I was looking for.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
But he he takes his daughter surfing every weekend.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
Okay, you know, Ash surfs.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
And he was like, what's his name?
Speaker 2 (50:46):
You're making this and he was like, you should bring
because his daughter, he's been sending me videos of her
surfing and she's really good. And I was like, I'd
love to get money into surfing, but she's not really
into it and he's and I was like, Oh, it's
going to be awesome because my good friends with his
daughter order now and the fact that she can surf.
I was showing these videos to Marley, being like, do
you want to learn how to surf? And she was like, yeah,
I'd love to. So I was like, I think he
(51:08):
was telling me about your surf trips he does once
a year.
Speaker 3 (51:10):
Is he a bond?
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Is a bond? Dad?
Speaker 1 (51:12):
Conversation?
Speaker 2 (51:14):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 1 (51:16):
I want names? I want numbers.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
He was just a really nice dad.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Was like this is your wayst saying that I'm out
and I had one.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
More kid to drop home, and she was like, excuse me,
mister Johnson, I'm getting a little bit.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
I'm hungry, I'm talking here, I'm bonding, I'm making friends.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
I need this. Don't drop me. Do we have a
name for this?
Speaker 2 (51:37):
I was just kissing him in the.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
How dare you you're kissing him with the same mouth
you talk to me with.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
I messaged him just before we started recording.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
I was like, and now we're three doting dads. Come out.
What's his name?
Speaker 2 (51:50):
I don't want to get I want to you know,
he wants to keep.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Me kept private, made holding up.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
It's hard. It's hard to meet other parents that like
they're your people and you click with and you're both
in a position where you're open to something.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
Yeah, I wouldn't know many friends. I'm actually trying to
get rid of friends.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
So just so you know, Oh, is that a threat?
Speaker 3 (52:13):
Yes? It does help when your kids are the same age,
the same things you're going In.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
My head, I was like, oh, this would be enough
for you. Did you live down the road? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Could you imagine I wouldn't want to live in the
Mouldier suburb according to later studies though fair.
Speaker 3 (52:33):
I mean, we'd love you to move to the Norman Beaches.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
I like you to move back to the East.
Speaker 1 (52:38):
I like the distance.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
Yeah, actually it'd be too much. If we look down
the road.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
From each other, you would annoy me.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
But on that note, I hope you're not annoyed by us.
A review review a couple of comments.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
Let's get to two thousand, find a new friend and
send them this podcast. Yeah, even if they're made up.
Speaker 2 (52:59):
Actually makes me realize how many people are like, you
got a podcast? Is that your job? And I'm like,
I think so people, And I'm like, get listening. A
lot of people don't listen podcasts.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
If anything, it costs us money. So I don't know.
If it's job.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
Expensive, hobby.
Speaker 1 (53:16):
To lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (53:16):
Then we've got you got You've got social media.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
You've got to followers, Instagram, dads, TikTok, Facebook group, that's it,
and YouTube. These episodes are on YouTube, along with our
guest episodes as well.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
That's everything anything else.
Speaker 3 (53:30):
The Facebook group is almost at five thousand members.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
That's insane.
Speaker 3 (53:34):
It has become such a little haven for parenting advice
I have.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
I actually had a quiet week on the group and
I'm not sure if I posted people which one did
you post?
Speaker 1 (53:45):
I was looking for a fridge.
Speaker 3 (53:46):
Yeah, I was like, oh god, we really don't have
any money.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
You ask it for a fridge for donations. If you
have a fridge, what size do you want.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
I'll take anything for the studio when I feel the studio,
give it to us.
Speaker 2 (54:02):
Okay, we'll get out of.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
Here, Madie. He's scrolling on his phone and explain we're
(54:24):
the camera. We will get done soon.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
Enough and.
Speaker 1 (54:31):
Song and.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
Two. Doting Dad's Podcast acknowledges the traditional custodians of country
throughout Australia and the connections to land, sea and community.
Speaker 1 (54:46):
We pay our respects to their elders past and present
and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torrestraight Island
the people's Today. This episode was recorded on Gadigal Land
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