June 7, 2025 • 29 mins
No Wedding Ring - Amy reveals WHY?!
Weird Celeb Crushes & calls
Kids Extra Curricular Activities
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, sir, let's good morning. That remains to be seen.
Chris Page and Amy, Good morning everyone, Happy Sunday. Hi Amy,
How are you going?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I'm good? Actually, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I'm good? Bit chilly in the morning. Now winter's here.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I feel like winter is very much here and it's
set in real quickly.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Like fire going though I do like it.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Hey, can I ask you? I've got like a parent
hack And I don't know if I'm late to the
party here, but have you put Flannelet sheets on your
kid's bed?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Flannelet sheets, Flannelet sheet, put normal cotton sheets on? And
actually no, I don't have sheets. They have doners.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You don't have sheets.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
No, sorry, there's like a bottom sheet.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And then sheet. Okay, So here's my parenting hack for
anyone listening. If you've got a kid who's an early riser.
My middle child, Bobby, he loves to rise, usually before
the sun if he wants to sleep in and treat
us to a little lieon. It's usually about six thirty.
But on Friday, Friday morning rolls around and all my
kids are up. I'm downstairs making lunches and I've gone,
(01:29):
hang on a second pulse, check where's my middle child?
It was eight o'clock in the morning and I've gone
upstairs and there he is fast asleep still and I've
gone what it's a Christmas miracle?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Like, is he sick?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
He's not sick all. The only thing that I had
done the night before is I had switched over to
Flannelette sheets their beds. So they get a fitted sheet
which is Flannelette. Then they get a sheet which is
also Flannelet, so they're like a little Flannelette sandwich, and
then he gets a Doner cover up. But I went
one step further because our house is very cold, it's
like a morgue. I put him in flannel at pajamas
(02:04):
as well.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I had to wake him up at eight point fifteen
and he was so warm and toasty, and he's like
where am I? And I was like, you've slept in buddy.
This is what it feels like to not wake up
before the sun.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
This is because look, if you don't have kids and
you're listening right now, you're thinking, God, this is boring radio.
If you've got kids, this is huge. Oscar my youngest.
He has started rising pre five. Oh I'm quarter of five.
He doesn't have a sheet and he wakes up his brother.
We have tried everything, putting them to bed later, electric blankets.
(02:42):
Everything you're saying Flanlanlet sheets, Flanny.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Flanelette sheets, and flannel at pajamas.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
This could be a game change.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, turn off the heater in the room because that
you may that may be a bit of overkill. Flannelet
sheets not just fitted top sheet to flannel at pajamas.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
All right, thank you, good port back. All right, you're
welcome parents if you want to sleep in flannelt pjs.
If you don't have kids, sorry about that. We've got
one for you though. Right this is for everyone that
wed celebrity crushes. Wait until you hear who Amy thinks
is hot. I'm going to dober in on this because
it's weird.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I reckon people are going to agree with it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
He's not not a good looking guy. That's coming up,
Chris Gerard. I know your dress nicely today. You are
not wearing your wedding ring.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Oh my god, is that what this is all about?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And I know that it's been not Gonn unnotice by
your army of Karen follow you.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So I did a little rant about how disappointed I
was on Mother's Day, and to be honest, that was it.
The problem with Instagram is that there are people who
watch your moves so closely, and I don't give anything
really a second thought. Hen's why I just posted that
and I just got on with my day.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
He showed you Vagina a few months Well, that was.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
An accident, okay, very much an accident. I've done this
post about Mother's Day, and then because I am a
professional netball player, I have to take off I have
to take off all my jewelry when I play, and
every now and again I don't put my wedding ring
back on straight away.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So show you Vagina, but not your ring.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
My god. I have had people like checking in with me, going,
you know, is everything all right?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Where's the ring?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
We've noticed that you're not wearing your wedding ring, So.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Where does it? So it's sitting by the bathroom beyond
sweet sink or something.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, So when I take off all my jewelry, I'll
take off all my ear rings, my necklace and all
my rings and I just put it in a little
like Ramikin.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And that's a Ramican. Jesus Christ, there's a jewelry Ramakin.
That's a bowl. Sorry, everyone, a bowl a ramic. So
for netball you have to take off jewelry because obviously, yeah,
you don't want going to scratch someone with your massive diamond.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You just don't want to hurt anyone. Yes, scratching and whatnot.
But what I'm saying is like people don't miss a beat,
and it's funny because they in their head, if I'm
not wearing my ring, that must be what it's like.
Celebrities like these poor celebrities, god forbid, they take their
jewelry off to play a netball game. Boom, they're on
the rocks with their husband. Every it's a marriage in crisis.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Suddenly, like one day Nicole Kidman forgets to put on
her ring and everyone, oh my god, Tom Cruise must
be gay. Sorry, she's with Keith Urban, must be gay.
So people think everyone Nicole Kidman marries is gay. I mean,
(05:41):
that's what people think, is what I'm saying. Sorry, Nicole,
that's what people say. There's no truth to it.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But I do think it's funny that people assume that,
like so if you're wearing a wedding ring, then everything
must be peachy and there's no trouble in paradise. And
then you don't, and oh you're on the rock.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Like that's the sole indicator of how your.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Life goes exactly. That's my point, which I just thought
was very funny because I often take my wedding ring
off all the time and then don't put back on.
I went through a stage when I was having babies
where I didn't wear it for like three years. I
look like a whole having babies out of wedlock.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Whw there's another word you don't hear on the radio
that often these days. So we've got ramakan and whr.
So we're bringing back some old school I think you
can say.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
That's what my grandma would have thought she saw me
on social media.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So you've got your pushing along a stroller with no
wedding rings. Well, your grandmother goes, look at that whore.
That's right, Well she sounds like a charming woman. She's
still filed out.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Of wedlock, yes she is, and she's over in England,
so she'll never hear this.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It sucks though, when someone hones in on that and
goes that's the sole indicator of how you're going. Can
I tell you the male version of that, it's shaving.
When I I will actually go, oh god, I need
to look like I've got my stuff together. Soul shave,
because when I rock up anywhere with a sort of
week's growth, people go oh, like, it looks like I.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Haven't showering mental break it looks.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Like I've Domino's for breakfast, and you probably have. But like,
even though everything's going great in my head, if I've
got a week's worth of growth going on, people just
go totally.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I disagree. A beard is hot. So I have just
finished wrapping up a show. Have you watched Landman yet?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
No? But I've heard it. I think I've seen a
clip of it online.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah. It's all to do with the oil mining industry.
And first episode in I was like, Billy Bob Thorten,
he's there, he's the main character. He's a good actor,
he is a fantastic actor. And then the second episode,
this really hot wife ex wife turns up on the
show and you're just like, what on earth is going on?
As if he's pulling her. But then over time, his character,
(08:05):
the character that he plays is so I can't even
really work out what it is.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
He's so charismatic.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
He's charismatic and.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Suave, confident I'm guessing is there.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
He's confident, but he's soft and gentle, and then he's
got a really great sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh my god, I love him.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I have a crush on Billy. Bob thought it. And
when I tell you that man is so old and wrinkly.
He looks like the head of an uncircumcised penis, like
straight off the bat first impressions, not attractive at all,
very skinny, like greyhound like. You can tell he's punch
like at least one million darts and the shrinkly lips
(08:46):
and no.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And he's got that southern accent, doesn't He's like a
he's a bit rednecky.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, but I'm the character that he plays, and I'm
going to put a bet on he must be kind
of like that in his real life persna as well,
because he landed Angelina Jolly.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I was going to say, do you know his dating
history he was with a married I think I think
him and Angeline and Jolly were married.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
They did the They were weird.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
They were like Gothic and they wore vials of each
other's blood around their necks.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And she was scary looking back then, but she was
still flawlessly beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
She was beautiful, but she was like a god.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, but I think he's had a few hot wives,
and I get it. It just comes back. It just
reiterates what I've always said. Beauty is only skin deep,
and you have to have a sixth sense of humor.
You've got to be a good person and have a
great sense of humor and just be cool and it
makes you sexy.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
So your leave passes up until now Tom hard Tom
Hardy and Jason Statham. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I love Jason. I like a man who's going to
rescue me from like a burning building.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, but Billy Bob Thornton, I don't know that he is.
I don't know that he's going to rescue you.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
He's not, but I'm probably gonna have the most fun
with him, and he's probably the one who I I mean,
Tom Hardy is definitely still my number one. Sure, but
surely you've got like a weird celebrity crush.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Can I ask you first about Billy Bob Thornton. Has
he entered your mind.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Jane, sweet sweet love to him, No in your head? No,
I haven't you reckon?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Maybe not. There's I don't think there's a sexual chemistry
there between us.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's what a crush is. Come on, No, I just I.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Want to date him. I want to date him. I
want to go out and hold his hand.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Maybe just see if it works Tonight, hit home, run,
run yourself a bath, and just think about Billy Bob And.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I don't know, lock the door. Sure, I'll give anything
a try, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I don't know that it's weird because I think she
is a beautiful woman, but she's way too old for me, Okay,
Meryl Streep. I saw an old movie with her. I
think it was an old Woody Allen movie and it
was her in the seventies and you're, oh my god,
she's a babe, incredibly hot. And then you see her.
There was a movie called It's Complicated. Alec Baldwin is
(11:02):
her ex husband and she falls in love with Steve
Martin in it.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Holy shit, is that her? Now?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That's her? Now? So you've just looked up her photo
of it. That's not a great food.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Oh no, that's not a great photo. Was there, quite beauty, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
She looks like Jackie. Oh she actually when she's like
Jackie O. So she's she was, I mean beautiful, she was,
and I think she I think she still is beautiful,
just so.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You take her as the old as the old bird.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I'd prefer as the young one. But you know, I
don't have a time machine. Yes, okay, but she's InCred
like she's one oscars. She's she's amazingly talented, and you
I think that like you with Billy Bob. I watch
her and that brilliance of her is attractive.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes. I loved her in The Devil Wears Prada. You know,
she was like, it's really firm and harsh woman. But
then at her core, I think she was a bit
of a softy. But yeah, I do. I think these
characters that they play in these series or these movies,
they have an effect on that.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
If she was, if she was a terrible actress, I
just think she was an old bag.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah that's so true.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But the talent and the charisma, yes, it's there, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I reckon there's some weird celebrity crushes out there.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
We want to hear from your thirteen one oh six
y five. Who's your weird celebrity crush? Montana's here? Montana,
have you got a weird one for us?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I well, doesn't feel weird to me anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
But after I was watching the promo for Kong Fu
Panda and Jack Black did this sexy cover of Britney
Spears and I just feel like he's got sexy eyebrows.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Just quite a lot of there's quite a lot of
like power in those eyebrows. And he's singing. He just
cctibates you with those eyes.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I reckon. Jack Black is another one because of his personality,
he would eventually over time become quite attractiveas animated.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
It's not hopelessly the voice sexy voice. If you haven't
seen the cover he did a Britney Steers hit Me
one more time, I highly recommend, because yeah, it's captivating.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But like, is here your celebrity crush, like you just
think he's kind of cute and stuff, or is he
your celebrity crush like that who you're thinking about when
you're alone in bed at night time?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Ah, he's just like I'm obsessed with him.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, he's sticking both bodies.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
He's a big unit. Do you like a bigger man traditionally, Montana,
do you like a big guy, Yes, yeah, like.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I like a manly bruggers.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, like a big Burley with the above correct.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Like Jack Black has a soft fide.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
The only thing that puts me off with Jack Black
is I don't know if you've got kids, Montana, but
the Minecraft movie and kids everywhere, all my kids are
singing is La La La Love a chicken, Love a chicken?
Steve's love a Chicken? Is hella good?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Or what?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Don't trust me? If your kids love Minecraft, you'll know
that stupid song from that movie.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You're ruining it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Even his voice, Like, don't you think that his voice
is so captivating?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
It's a good voice. I'm sure all right, Thank you
mont Taylor, thanks for calling Mel's here as well.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Mel.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Have you got a weird celebrity crush?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I do, but I don't think it's weird at all,
but I get hold of t weird. I have a
crush on Steve Tyler. Is he the Current Day?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Wait? Wait, he's a go from aeros lead singer of
Vero Smith.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
And he's a.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Singer of Aerosmith on the Long Haired Love with Him? Yes,
the long hair, the big lips.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
He's had a.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Bunch of work done as well.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Over he's seventy seven.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Now, but I think he's still as gorgeous as he
was when he was in his fifty.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I remember his lips. He's got lips and they're quite big,
and now as he's aging, they're kind of upside It's
like an upside down smile on his face.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
I feel he must have had them done again or
topped up. Yeah, because they just look amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
For me, I'm literally looking at Okay, Amy's just told them, Hey,
all right, if you like Steven Tyler, mel I'm going
to give you a hot tip.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
There's a website if you google men who look like
old lesbians. Okay, no, don't google Steven Tyler. I guarantee
you he'll be on there. There's there's Robert Redford.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Robert Redford doesn't look like a sexy pirate.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Look, you're right, Pirates rock star he does.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
And you know what else, he's super alpha, you can tell.
But I imagine he'd be very gentle and romantic.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, so you think Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Barrow, he actually looks like Jack Sparrow. I reckon he'd
he'd just be so charismatic and sexy.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
But so sexy.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
He does also look like an old You.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Know, I've heard some stuff about Stephen Tyler, and I've
got to be careful with how I word this. Milk.
Can I ask you how old you are?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I'm thirty eight, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
From what I've heard, you are way too old for
Stephen Tyler. Oh, maybe a couple of decades.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
What was he like? What nineteen year old?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I'm not gonna say.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Really disappointing.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Don't burst my bubble my.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Friends anyway, like some young ignore Chris.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, thank you so much. I love you. Have a
great day, Chris.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
You know where I am predominantly every single afternoon after
school during the week.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Chris, I'm going to guess lessons, sport, music, kids, crack.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Can we talk about kids extra curricular activities? Say that quickly,
extracurricular You got extracurricular activities.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Instead of RBTs. Instead of going blow into this, they
should just say have you had any alcohol today?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
All right, say kids extra curricular activities? And if you
can say that, go on, go find to go.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
So here's my bugbear. I feel like as a society,
parents are just being pulled pillar to pillar to pillar
to pillar with all of these extracurricular activities that all
of these kids want to play. Just to map it
out for you. Monday night I have my daughter dancing, Tuesday,
I have my youngest soccer training, Wednesday I have the
(17:13):
other one soccer training. Thursday I have another round of dancing,
and then Friday I have soccer training, additional soccer training,
and then obviously Saturday is a juggle because Ryan has
all the soccer games and stuff. Now that's my whole
week gone in amongst all that I still have to
wash and make dinner and all that that kind of hooh.
But Charlie came up to me the other day and said, oh,
(17:35):
I want to play netball, And I said, over my
dead body.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
On what day? Points to the calendar and show me
what day we're going to play netball.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
But here's my thing. I was talking to some of
my other mom friends in a WhatsApp group, and some
of them are they're now doing training in the morning,
so they get up at six am to do ostag training.
Some of them are getting up at five am to
do swimming, like squad swimming, it is too much.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I've heard that the one sport don't let them do
is rowing. Apparently for rowing and you're up at four am, yuck,
driving out to the middle of nowhere for five am. Start. Now,
don't row.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Don't row, and don't do swimming either. Swimming is all
a lot of early mornings. And then here's what you
don't also want them to be really talented sports places.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah, you're right. I want my kids to be mediocre idiots.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I want my kids to be mediocre.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He's an xbox enjoy No.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Because I've got a girlfriend whose kid is very talented
in all sports that she plays, and when I tell you,
she drives hours every weekend everywhere for all these games
that go for an hour.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I told you, Henry made the next level zone for athletics,
and the top twenty from that got to go to
the next state or region or whatever it is. And
I felt bad because I was hoping he wasn't going
to make it in the top twenty because I didn't
want to drive ninety minutes for the state.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Champ Actually he didn't make it, right, he.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Was twenty seventh, so perfect, Well, my.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Son just did his zone cross country as well, and
they think they take the top twenty and Bobby, Oh no,
they take the top ten or top fifteen, and Bobby
came nineteen. Yeah, and I was like, ooh, so close.
So that would have ended badly for me. I don't
even know where it was.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But also, let's go get a soft serve.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Good work, Bob, But it's just too much. Your kids
haven't even started, have they.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
No, I've got a five and a seven year old,
so yes, soccer's started. So we've got yeah, soccer training
during the week, then soccer on the weekends. Obviously I'm
here at work, so oh sorry, I have to miss
soccer weekends. Wish I could be there. But there's more
coming though. There's taekwondo about to get started, I believe.
Then there's music. School's going to push them into music
(19:53):
and that other stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
So you want to hope that they're not going to
get a recorder. Yeah, they will send you straight into
a dark corner rocking.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I might don't just get them started early. Near us.
The high school kids, the main extracurricular thing seems to
be bongs in the cemetery.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I'm down to the tobacconist for their first boond.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Just find some hose lying around in your neighbour's garden.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Some what some hose? Oh sorry, hose? Like OK, yeah,
you're making your own bomb.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Wow, this this segment got real bad, real quick.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Chris Amy, you moonlight a couple of other gigs. You've
got a big Instagram account and a podcast. You cheat
on me as well during the week with a podcast
with another woman with a bird called Jen with a Bird.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Sorry Jen, Jena. She's a parenting educator and she is
honestly saving parents, families and just she's a breath of
fresh air.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well, she's saving me some work as well, because during
the week you filled the break for us. You've caught
up with Jen and talk to her about the importance
of silly play with your kids. So let's check it out.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So obviously you are spreading the word about how important
it is to lean into that silliness that we probably
don't do as much with our kids as we grow
up and take on more responsibilities and all that kind
of stuff. But you were, you know, talking about how
important it is and how helpful it actually is.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Totally new research that just came out that showed that
while parents understand about the power of silly play and
how important play is for kids, they're aware of it,
and yet they feel like the pressures of commitments, of time,
of the cooking, of the cleaning, of getting every understanding lessons.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
All of that stuff just takes priority.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Parents are feeling more overwhelmed than ever and feeling like
they've sort of forgotten how to be silly. So I'm
going to be a missioned because I know the power
of it in my house. I know what a difference
it makes for my kids, and I know that the
evidence shows that when we can be playful or silly
even for just a second, it actually I was cortisol
in our kids' brains.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And therefore you go from.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Having a kid that is stuck, that's pushing back, that's
not listening, to actually often cooperating, which is huge.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
It's so funny because I can absolutely vouch that, and
my kids must be like, where is our fun, Mum gone?
Because before I took on forty five different jobs, I
would just kind of let the household chawes fall to
the wayside, and I would turn on music and we
would always have like a dance party at abound three pm,
kind of when everyone's caught asole levels are going up. Yep.
(22:41):
What I find now is that fun mum that I
know lives very deep inside me. It's almost like they
don't get to see her anymore because I get home
from work and then we're straight into like soccer training
or dancing or bringing in the washing, and then I've
got to start cooking dinner and I can't be that
fun mum that I used to be for them anymore,
which is really sad.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
And you know, I wouldn't be too hard on yourself
because this is what all parents are finding, and that's
the reality. You can't just dance around the kitchen all
the time. They've got to get to school, you've got
to get to work. There is so much to do.
We are busier than ever, with more financial pressure than ever.
So that's kind of the context of which parents are
parenting in. But I think when parents realize that we
can do these moments of silliness amongst the grind. So
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my youngest son and I joke he's the one that
has been sent to Earth to just test everything that.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He got one of them.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
He's the kid that if you ask him to do
a chore. For example, it's his job to feed the dog, yep.
But if you just walk up and say, Harry, feed
the dog, he'll just be like, why me lying on
the floor unable to move, ask someone else? Whereas if
I go up, I kind of come next to the dog,
I pretend like I am the dog, and I.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Go hurry, I'm so hungry.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
And he will look at the dog as if the
dog literally said it, and he'll be.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Like, okay, responds in dogs, and.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
He runs he runs to feed the dog like It
is amazing the difference it makes with just one tweak,
rather than you know, it's your job blah blah blah,
which is just going to wind up in a fight.
The other thing is when kids laugh, because it is
that quartersole. If you want them to like sit and
try a new meal, they are so much more likely
to eat if they are calm. So if we can
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get our kids laughing or moving dancing in the kitchen
just before they eat, you're gonna have such better time
as they sit and try to eat that food.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I promise you.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
No matter what you do, you might just talk in
your kids toys boys or you know, have a crack
at crazy dancing. They will think it is so hysterical.
Even if they think you're a bit cring, will right
in the mood and when the mood's lighter, everything goes better.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
All right, Well, thank you so much for joining us.
I'm going to go home tonight and turn into a
trojan horse and give everyone horsey rides. Let's see how
that goes. They will love it. They will. My daughter
will be like, please stop, please stop. Thank you for
joining us, Thank you for having a bit.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Thank you guys. If you'd like to hear more parenting
advice from jen Uei, you can check out her podcast
with Amy. It's called Beyond the Chaos. We've been off
for a few weeks, Amy, So I've really I feel
out of the loop here because I haven't got my
little fix of what you gals have been gathering about.
Oh yeah, in that secret society of the Facebook mums group.
(25:22):
What's the big issue in the Facebook mums groups?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Now, I mean, this sounds absolutely ridiculous. I feel like
we may be getting punked, but I'm going to read
it anyway. So this mum's ridden in and said, just
tried to register our bubb's name and got rejected twice.
Apparently Princess but spelled pry n cebsa princess and Fanny
(25:50):
didn't quite path the vibe check.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Hang on, see this is the same kid.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
She's obviously first wanted to call her kid princess, and
then they've gone about mau, and then they've gone, oh,
I know, let's call it Fanny instead her, and they've
gone baum. And she's written in saying who knew baby
names needed a g rating and a royal permission slip
just to heads up to any other mum thinking outside
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the box, best to double check before printing the birth
certificates too. I'm sorry, but I believe I have every
right to call my child whatever I want. Isn't that
wrong that they stopped us?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Big issue? I bet by the sounds of this woman,
she's already got a tattoo with princess with a y
as well, so their certificate.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I mean, I'm okay with princess. You know what, if
you want to call your daughter princess, she will probably
grow up and be okay with it.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
She'll know her way around a greasy pole and men
throwing money at here.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Fanny, that is so mean.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Fanny said, Nate, didn't you read what is it? Is
it famous? Five Enid Blyton books? There's a there's a
Fanny in that.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, and that's exactly where they belong in Edith Blyton
books back in the seventeenth century.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
No, I'm with this one. Look, okay, don't get me wrong.
Princess with a y. Okay, you're trash, But where is
it illegal to be trash? The government needs to stay
out of our lives, Amy Gerard. This goes back to
the seat belt cameras as well. Sure you shouldn't have
to wear a seatbelt if you don't want it.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Okay, Well, then that's to say, who's to stop some
drunk dearrow mum who has had a baby carelessly and
then her and her partner go.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Let's call it f hole f hole?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, right, So you want the government to stay out
of that too. This poor kid on the birthtificate's.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Got that's an extreme example. I don't think you should
be able to call a child f whole, But Princess
and Fanny, I mean, why why can't you do Princess
with a y?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I'm okay with Princess. I think it's cornyas but I'm
okay with it. But calling a kid Fanny.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
There's other names that you know could be. What about Dick?
Can you Richard? You can call kids dick.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Richard is okay? One puts Dick on the birth certificate.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
What about Johnson? That's fine, Johnson.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Johnson is fine. Let's just agree to disagree. I don't
think Fanny is a nice name to call your child.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I don't think it's a nice name either. I hate
the name princess as well. But I'm sick of this
illusion that we live in a free society because we don't.
How can the government tell you what you can call
your kid unless it's obscene, like you know. Of course,
if it's not something obscene and disgusting, you should be
able to call your kid whatever you want, and then
when they grow up, if they don't like it, they
(28:46):
can go change it. Now, if we're in a free country,
that would be the thing.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Listen, we don't have Kim jong un here, but like we.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Are close enough, Kim jong elbow. Let her call her
kid princess.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, come on enough.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
If there were no bogans, no one would vote for you,
Albo Princess. I hope she voted for the Libertarian Party.
Don't stay out of our lives government, we hate you.
There's the Facebook Mama's group this week. Sorry, sorry to
get political on you. Well it's a bugbear of mine. Yeah,
seatbelt cameras really stupid.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
You need to get anything else of your chest.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
No, in fact, we're getting the wind up, so we're
going to get out of here and we will catch
you next week.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, see you guys, Chris Page and your ard
My Heart podcasts, hear more Kiss podcasts, playlists, and listen
live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, sir, let's good morning. That remains to be seen.
Chris Page and Amy, Good morning everyone, Happy Sunday. Hi Amy,
How are you going?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I'm good? Actually, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I'm good? Bit chilly in the morning. Now winter's here.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I feel like winter is very much here and it's
set in real quickly.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Like fire going though I do like it.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Hey, can I ask you? I've got like a parent
hack And I don't know if I'm late to the
party here, but have you put Flannelet sheets on your
kid's bed?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Flannelet sheets, Flannelet sheet, put normal cotton sheets on? And
actually no, I don't have sheets. They have doners.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You don't have sheets.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
No, sorry, there's like a bottom sheet.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And then sheet. Okay, So here's my parenting hack for
anyone listening. If you've got a kid who's an early riser.
My middle child, Bobby, he loves to rise, usually before
the sun if he wants to sleep in and treat
us to a little lieon. It's usually about six thirty.
But on Friday, Friday morning rolls around and all my
kids are up. I'm downstairs making lunches and I've gone,
(01:29):
hang on a second pulse, check where's my middle child?
It was eight o'clock in the morning and I've gone
upstairs and there he is fast asleep still and I've
gone what it's a Christmas miracle?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Like, is he sick?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
He's not sick all. The only thing that I had
done the night before is I had switched over to
Flannelette sheets their beds. So they get a fitted sheet
which is Flannelette. Then they get a sheet which is
also Flannelet, so they're like a little Flannelette sandwich, and
then he gets a Doner cover up. But I went
one step further because our house is very cold, it's
like a morgue. I put him in flannel at pajamas
(02:04):
as well.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I had to wake him up at eight point fifteen
and he was so warm and toasty, and he's like
where am I? And I was like, you've slept in buddy.
This is what it feels like to not wake up
before the sun.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
This is because look, if you don't have kids and
you're listening right now, you're thinking, God, this is boring radio.
If you've got kids, this is huge. Oscar my youngest.
He has started rising pre five. Oh I'm quarter of five.
He doesn't have a sheet and he wakes up his brother.
We have tried everything, putting them to bed later, electric blankets.
(02:42):
Everything you're saying Flanlanlet sheets, Flanny.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Flanelette sheets, and flannel at pajamas.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
This could be a game change.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, turn off the heater in the room because that
you may that may be a bit of overkill. Flannelet
sheets not just fitted top sheet to flannel at pajamas.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
All right, thank you, good port back. All right, you're
welcome parents if you want to sleep in flannelt pjs.
If you don't have kids, sorry about that. We've got
one for you though. Right this is for everyone that
wed celebrity crushes. Wait until you hear who Amy thinks
is hot. I'm going to dober in on this because
it's weird.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I reckon people are going to agree with it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
He's not not a good looking guy. That's coming up,
Chris Gerard. I know your dress nicely today. You are
not wearing your wedding ring.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Oh my god, is that what this is all about?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And I know that it's been not Gonn unnotice by
your army of Karen follow you.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So I did a little rant about how disappointed I
was on Mother's Day, and to be honest, that was it.
The problem with Instagram is that there are people who
watch your moves so closely, and I don't give anything
really a second thought. Hen's why I just posted that
and I just got on with my day.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
He showed you Vagina a few months Well, that was.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
An accident, okay, very much an accident. I've done this
post about Mother's Day, and then because I am a
professional netball player, I have to take off I have
to take off all my jewelry when I play, and
every now and again I don't put my wedding ring
back on straight away.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So show you Vagina, but not your ring.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
My god. I have had people like checking in with me, going,
you know, is everything all right?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Where's the ring?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
We've noticed that you're not wearing your wedding ring, So.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Where does it? So it's sitting by the bathroom beyond
sweet sink or something.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, So when I take off all my jewelry, I'll
take off all my ear rings, my necklace and all
my rings and I just put it in a little
like Ramikin.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And that's a Ramican. Jesus Christ, there's a jewelry Ramakin.
That's a bowl. Sorry, everyone, a bowl a ramic. So
for netball you have to take off jewelry because obviously, yeah,
you don't want going to scratch someone with your massive diamond.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You just don't want to hurt anyone. Yes, scratching and whatnot.
But what I'm saying is like people don't miss a beat,
and it's funny because they in their head, if I'm
not wearing my ring, that must be what it's like.
Celebrities like these poor celebrities, god forbid, they take their
jewelry off to play a netball game. Boom, they're on
the rocks with their husband. Every it's a marriage in crisis.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Suddenly, like one day Nicole Kidman forgets to put on
her ring and everyone, oh my god, Tom Cruise must
be gay. Sorry, she's with Keith Urban, must be gay.
So people think everyone Nicole Kidman marries is gay. I mean,
(05:41):
that's what people think, is what I'm saying. Sorry, Nicole,
that's what people say. There's no truth to it.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But I do think it's funny that people assume that,
like so if you're wearing a wedding ring, then everything
must be peachy and there's no trouble in paradise. And
then you don't, and oh you're on the rock.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Like that's the sole indicator of how your.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Life goes exactly. That's my point, which I just thought
was very funny because I often take my wedding ring
off all the time and then don't put back on.
I went through a stage when I was having babies
where I didn't wear it for like three years. I
look like a whole having babies out of wedlock.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Whw there's another word you don't hear on the radio
that often these days. So we've got ramakan and whr.
So we're bringing back some old school I think you
can say.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
That's what my grandma would have thought she saw me
on social media.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So you've got your pushing along a stroller with no
wedding rings. Well, your grandmother goes, look at that whore.
That's right, Well she sounds like a charming woman. She's
still filed out.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Of wedlock, yes she is, and she's over in England,
so she'll never hear this.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It sucks though, when someone hones in on that and
goes that's the sole indicator of how you're going. Can
I tell you the male version of that, it's shaving.
When I I will actually go, oh god, I need
to look like I've got my stuff together. Soul shave,
because when I rock up anywhere with a sort of
week's growth, people go oh, like, it looks like I.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Haven't showering mental break it looks.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Like I've Domino's for breakfast, and you probably have. But like,
even though everything's going great in my head, if I've
got a week's worth of growth going on, people just
go totally.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I disagree. A beard is hot. So I have just
finished wrapping up a show. Have you watched Landman yet?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
No? But I've heard it. I think I've seen a
clip of it online.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah. It's all to do with the oil mining industry.
And first episode in I was like, Billy Bob Thorten,
he's there, he's the main character. He's a good actor,
he is a fantastic actor. And then the second episode,
this really hot wife ex wife turns up on the
show and you're just like, what on earth is going on?
As if he's pulling her. But then over time, his character,
(08:05):
the character that he plays is so I can't even
really work out what it is.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
He's so charismatic.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
He's charismatic and.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Suave, confident I'm guessing is there.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
He's confident, but he's soft and gentle, and then he's
got a really great sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh my god, I love him.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I have a crush on Billy. Bob thought it. And
when I tell you that man is so old and wrinkly.
He looks like the head of an uncircumcised penis, like
straight off the bat first impressions, not attractive at all,
very skinny, like greyhound like. You can tell he's punch
like at least one million darts and the shrinkly lips
(08:46):
and no.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And he's got that southern accent, doesn't He's like a
he's a bit rednecky.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, but I'm the character that he plays, and I'm
going to put a bet on he must be kind
of like that in his real life persna as well,
because he landed Angelina Jolly.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I was going to say, do you know his dating
history he was with a married I think I think
him and Angeline and Jolly were married.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
They did the They were weird.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
They were like Gothic and they wore vials of each
other's blood around their necks.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And she was scary looking back then, but she was
still flawlessly beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
She was beautiful, but she was like a god.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, but I think he's had a few hot wives,
and I get it. It just comes back. It just
reiterates what I've always said. Beauty is only skin deep,
and you have to have a sixth sense of humor.
You've got to be a good person and have a
great sense of humor and just be cool and it
makes you sexy.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
So your leave passes up until now Tom hard Tom
Hardy and Jason Statham. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I love Jason. I like a man who's going to
rescue me from like a burning building.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, but Billy Bob Thornton, I don't know that he is.
I don't know that he's going to rescue you.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
He's not, but I'm probably gonna have the most fun
with him, and he's probably the one who I I mean,
Tom Hardy is definitely still my number one. Sure, but
surely you've got like a weird celebrity crush.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Can I ask you first about Billy Bob Thornton. Has
he entered your mind.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Jane, sweet sweet love to him, No in your head? No,
I haven't you reckon?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Maybe not. There's I don't think there's a sexual chemistry
there between us.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's what a crush is. Come on, No, I just I.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Want to date him. I want to date him. I
want to go out and hold his hand.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Maybe just see if it works Tonight, hit home, run,
run yourself a bath, and just think about Billy Bob And.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I don't know, lock the door. Sure, I'll give anything
a try, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I don't know that it's weird because I think she
is a beautiful woman, but she's way too old for me, Okay,
Meryl Streep. I saw an old movie with her. I
think it was an old Woody Allen movie and it
was her in the seventies and you're, oh my god,
she's a babe, incredibly hot. And then you see her.
There was a movie called It's Complicated. Alec Baldwin is
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her ex husband and she falls in love with Steve
Martin in it.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Holy shit, is that her? Now?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That's her? Now? So you've just looked up her photo
of it. That's not a great food.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Oh no, that's not a great photo. Was there, quite beauty, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
She looks like Jackie. Oh she actually when she's like
Jackie O. So she's she was, I mean beautiful, she was,
and I think she I think she still is beautiful,
just so.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You take her as the old as the old bird.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I'd prefer as the young one. But you know, I
don't have a time machine. Yes, okay, but she's InCred
like she's one oscars. She's she's amazingly talented, and you
I think that like you with Billy Bob. I watch
her and that brilliance of her is attractive.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes. I loved her in The Devil Wears Prada. You know,
she was like, it's really firm and harsh woman. But
then at her core, I think she was a bit
of a softy. But yeah, I do. I think these
characters that they play in these series or these movies,
they have an effect on that.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
If she was, if she was a terrible actress, I
just think she was an old bag.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah that's so true.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But the talent and the charisma, yes, it's there, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I reckon there's some weird celebrity crushes out there.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
We want to hear from your thirteen one oh six
y five. Who's your weird celebrity crush? Montana's here? Montana,
have you got a weird one for us?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I well, doesn't feel weird to me anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
But after I was watching the promo for Kong Fu
Panda and Jack Black did this sexy cover of Britney
Spears and I just feel like he's got sexy eyebrows.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Just quite a lot of there's quite a lot of
like power in those eyebrows. And he's singing. He just
cctibates you with those eyes.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I reckon. Jack Black is another one because of his personality,
he would eventually over time become quite attractiveas animated.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
It's not hopelessly the voice sexy voice. If you haven't
seen the cover he did a Britney Steers hit Me
one more time, I highly recommend, because yeah, it's captivating.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But like, is here your celebrity crush, like you just
think he's kind of cute and stuff, or is he
your celebrity crush like that who you're thinking about when
you're alone in bed at night time?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Ah, he's just like I'm obsessed with him.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, he's sticking both bodies.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
He's a big unit. Do you like a bigger man traditionally, Montana,
do you like a big guy, Yes, yeah, like.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I like a manly bruggers.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, like a big Burley with the above correct.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Like Jack Black has a soft fide.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
The only thing that puts me off with Jack Black
is I don't know if you've got kids, Montana, but
the Minecraft movie and kids everywhere, all my kids are
singing is La La La Love a chicken, Love a chicken?
Steve's love a Chicken? Is hella good?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Or what?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Don't trust me? If your kids love Minecraft, you'll know
that stupid song from that movie.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You're ruining it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Even his voice, Like, don't you think that his voice
is so captivating?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
It's a good voice. I'm sure all right, Thank you
mont Taylor, thanks for calling Mel's here as well.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Mel.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Have you got a weird celebrity crush?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I do, but I don't think it's weird at all,
but I get hold of t weird. I have a
crush on Steve Tyler. Is he the Current Day?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Wait? Wait, he's a go from aeros lead singer of
Vero Smith.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
And he's a.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Singer of Aerosmith on the Long Haired Love with Him? Yes,
the long hair, the big lips.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
He's had a.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Bunch of work done as well.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Over he's seventy seven.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Now, but I think he's still as gorgeous as he
was when he was in his fifty.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I remember his lips. He's got lips and they're quite big,
and now as he's aging, they're kind of upside It's
like an upside down smile on his face.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
I feel he must have had them done again or
topped up. Yeah, because they just look amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
For me, I'm literally looking at Okay, Amy's just told them, Hey,
all right, if you like Steven Tyler, mel I'm going
to give you a hot tip.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
There's a website if you google men who look like
old lesbians. Okay, no, don't google Steven Tyler. I guarantee
you he'll be on there. There's there's Robert Redford.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Robert Redford doesn't look like a sexy pirate.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Look, you're right, Pirates rock star he does.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
And you know what else, he's super alpha, you can tell.
But I imagine he'd be very gentle and romantic.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, so you think Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Barrow, he actually looks like Jack Sparrow. I reckon he'd
he'd just be so charismatic and sexy.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
But so sexy.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
He does also look like an old You.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Know, I've heard some stuff about Stephen Tyler, and I've
got to be careful with how I word this. Milk.
Can I ask you how old you are?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I'm thirty eight, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
From what I've heard, you are way too old for
Stephen Tyler. Oh, maybe a couple of decades.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
What was he like? What nineteen year old?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I'm not gonna say.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Really disappointing.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Don't burst my bubble my.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Friends anyway, like some young ignore Chris.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, thank you so much. I love you. Have a
great day, Chris.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
You know where I am predominantly every single afternoon after
school during the week.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Chris, I'm going to guess lessons, sport, music, kids, crack.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Can we talk about kids extra curricular activities? Say that quickly,
extracurricular You got extracurricular activities.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Instead of RBTs. Instead of going blow into this, they
should just say have you had any alcohol today?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
All right, say kids extra curricular activities? And if you
can say that, go on, go find to go.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
So here's my bugbear. I feel like as a society,
parents are just being pulled pillar to pillar to pillar
to pillar with all of these extracurricular activities that all
of these kids want to play. Just to map it
out for you. Monday night I have my daughter dancing, Tuesday,
I have my youngest soccer training, Wednesday I have the
(17:13):
other one soccer training. Thursday I have another round of dancing,
and then Friday I have soccer training, additional soccer training,
and then obviously Saturday is a juggle because Ryan has
all the soccer games and stuff. Now that's my whole
week gone in amongst all that I still have to
wash and make dinner and all that that kind of hooh.
But Charlie came up to me the other day and said, oh,
(17:35):
I want to play netball, And I said, over my
dead body.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
On what day? Points to the calendar and show me
what day we're going to play netball.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
But here's my thing. I was talking to some of
my other mom friends in a WhatsApp group, and some
of them are they're now doing training in the morning,
so they get up at six am to do ostag training.
Some of them are getting up at five am to
do swimming, like squad swimming, it is too much.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I've heard that the one sport don't let them do
is rowing. Apparently for rowing and you're up at four am, yuck,
driving out to the middle of nowhere for five am. Start. Now,
don't row.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Don't row, and don't do swimming either. Swimming is all
a lot of early mornings. And then here's what you
don't also want them to be really talented sports places.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah, you're right. I want my kids to be mediocre idiots.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I want my kids to be mediocre.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He's an xbox enjoy No.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Because I've got a girlfriend whose kid is very talented
in all sports that she plays, and when I tell you,
she drives hours every weekend everywhere for all these games
that go for an hour.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I told you, Henry made the next level zone for athletics,
and the top twenty from that got to go to
the next state or region or whatever it is. And
I felt bad because I was hoping he wasn't going
to make it in the top twenty because I didn't
want to drive ninety minutes for the state.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Champ Actually he didn't make it, right, he.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Was twenty seventh, so perfect, Well, my.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Son just did his zone cross country as well, and
they think they take the top twenty and Bobby, Oh no,
they take the top ten or top fifteen, and Bobby
came nineteen. Yeah, and I was like, ooh, so close.
So that would have ended badly for me. I don't
even know where it was.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But also, let's go get a soft serve.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Good work, Bob, But it's just too much. Your kids
haven't even started, have they.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
No, I've got a five and a seven year old,
so yes, soccer's started. So we've got yeah, soccer training
during the week, then soccer on the weekends. Obviously I'm
here at work, so oh sorry, I have to miss
soccer weekends. Wish I could be there. But there's more
coming though. There's taekwondo about to get started, I believe.
Then there's music. School's going to push them into music
(19:53):
and that other stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
So you want to hope that they're not going to
get a recorder. Yeah, they will send you straight into
a dark corner rocking.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I might don't just get them started early. Near us.
The high school kids, the main extracurricular thing seems to
be bongs in the cemetery.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I'm down to the tobacconist for their first boond.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Just find some hose lying around in your neighbour's garden.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Some what some hose? Oh sorry, hose? Like OK, yeah,
you're making your own bomb.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Wow, this this segment got real bad, real quick.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Chris Amy, you moonlight a couple of other gigs. You've
got a big Instagram account and a podcast. You cheat
on me as well during the week with a podcast
with another woman with a bird called Jen with a Bird.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Sorry Jen, Jena. She's a parenting educator and she is
honestly saving parents, families and just she's a breath of
fresh air.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well, she's saving me some work as well, because during
the week you filled the break for us. You've caught
up with Jen and talk to her about the importance
of silly play with your kids. So let's check it out.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So obviously you are spreading the word about how important
it is to lean into that silliness that we probably
don't do as much with our kids as we grow
up and take on more responsibilities and all that kind
of stuff. But you were, you know, talking about how
important it is and how helpful it actually is.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Totally new research that just came out that showed that
while parents understand about the power of silly play and
how important play is for kids, they're aware of it,
and yet they feel like the pressures of commitments, of time,
of the cooking, of the cleaning, of getting every understanding lessons.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
All of that stuff just takes priority.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Parents are feeling more overwhelmed than ever and feeling like
they've sort of forgotten how to be silly. So I'm
going to be a missioned because I know the power
of it in my house. I know what a difference
it makes for my kids, and I know that the
evidence shows that when we can be playful or silly
even for just a second, it actually I was cortisol
in our kids' brains.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And therefore you go from.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Having a kid that is stuck, that's pushing back, that's
not listening, to actually often cooperating, which is huge.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
It's so funny because I can absolutely vouch that, and
my kids must be like, where is our fun, Mum gone?
Because before I took on forty five different jobs, I
would just kind of let the household chawes fall to
the wayside, and I would turn on music and we
would always have like a dance party at abound three pm,
kind of when everyone's caught asole levels are going up. Yep.
(22:41):
What I find now is that fun mum that I
know lives very deep inside me. It's almost like they
don't get to see her anymore because I get home
from work and then we're straight into like soccer training
or dancing or bringing in the washing, and then I've
got to start cooking dinner and I can't be that
fun mum that I used to be for them anymore,
which is really sad.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
And you know, I wouldn't be too hard on yourself
because this is what all parents are finding, and that's
the reality. You can't just dance around the kitchen all
the time. They've got to get to school, you've got
to get to work. There is so much to do.
We are busier than ever, with more financial pressure than ever.
So that's kind of the context of which parents are
parenting in. But I think when parents realize that we
can do these moments of silliness amongst the grind. So
(23:24):
my youngest son and I joke he's the one that
has been sent to Earth to just test everything that.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He got one of them.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
He's the kid that if you ask him to do
a chore. For example, it's his job to feed the dog, yep.
But if you just walk up and say, Harry, feed
the dog, he'll just be like, why me lying on
the floor unable to move, ask someone else? Whereas if
I go up, I kind of come next to the dog,
I pretend like I am the dog, and I.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Go hurry, I'm so hungry.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
And he will look at the dog as if the
dog literally said it, and he'll be.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Like, okay, responds in dogs, and.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
He runs he runs to feed the dog like It
is amazing the difference it makes with just one tweak,
rather than you know, it's your job blah blah blah,
which is just going to wind up in a fight.
The other thing is when kids laugh, because it is
that quartersole. If you want them to like sit and
try a new meal, they are so much more likely
to eat if they are calm. So if we can
(24:16):
get our kids laughing or moving dancing in the kitchen
just before they eat, you're gonna have such better time
as they sit and try to eat that food.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I promise you.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
No matter what you do, you might just talk in
your kids toys boys or you know, have a crack
at crazy dancing. They will think it is so hysterical.
Even if they think you're a bit cring, will right
in the mood and when the mood's lighter, everything goes better.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
All right, Well, thank you so much for joining us.
I'm going to go home tonight and turn into a
trojan horse and give everyone horsey rides. Let's see how
that goes. They will love it. They will. My daughter
will be like, please stop, please stop. Thank you for
joining us, Thank you for having a bit.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Thank you guys. If you'd like to hear more parenting
advice from jen Uei, you can check out her podcast
with Amy. It's called Beyond the Chaos. We've been off
for a few weeks, Amy, So I've really I feel
out of the loop here because I haven't got my
little fix of what you gals have been gathering about.
Oh yeah, in that secret society of the Facebook mums group.
(25:22):
What's the big issue in the Facebook mums groups?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Now, I mean, this sounds absolutely ridiculous. I feel like
we may be getting punked, but I'm going to read
it anyway. So this mum's ridden in and said, just
tried to register our bubb's name and got rejected twice.
Apparently Princess but spelled pry n cebsa princess and Fanny
(25:50):
didn't quite path the vibe check.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Hang on, see this is the same kid.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
She's obviously first wanted to call her kid princess, and
then they've gone about mau, and then they've gone, oh,
I know, let's call it Fanny instead her, and they've
gone baum. And she's written in saying who knew baby
names needed a g rating and a royal permission slip
just to heads up to any other mum thinking outside
(26:18):
the box, best to double check before printing the birth
certificates too. I'm sorry, but I believe I have every
right to call my child whatever I want. Isn't that
wrong that they stopped us?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Big issue? I bet by the sounds of this woman,
she's already got a tattoo with princess with a y
as well, so their certificate.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I mean, I'm okay with princess. You know what, if
you want to call your daughter princess, she will probably
grow up and be okay with it.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
She'll know her way around a greasy pole and men
throwing money at here.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Fanny, that is so mean.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Fanny said, Nate, didn't you read what is it? Is
it famous? Five Enid Blyton books? There's a there's a
Fanny in that.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, and that's exactly where they belong in Edith Blyton
books back in the seventeenth century.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
No, I'm with this one. Look, okay, don't get me wrong.
Princess with a y. Okay, you're trash, But where is
it illegal to be trash? The government needs to stay
out of our lives, Amy Gerard. This goes back to
the seat belt cameras as well. Sure you shouldn't have
to wear a seatbelt if you don't want it.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Okay, Well, then that's to say, who's to stop some
drunk dearrow mum who has had a baby carelessly and
then her and her partner go.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Let's call it f hole f hole?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, right, So you want the government to stay out
of that too. This poor kid on the birthtificate's.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Got that's an extreme example. I don't think you should
be able to call a child f whole, But Princess
and Fanny, I mean, why why can't you do Princess
with a y?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I'm okay with Princess. I think it's cornyas but I'm
okay with it. But calling a kid Fanny.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
There's other names that you know could be. What about Dick?
Can you Richard? You can call kids dick.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Richard is okay? One puts Dick on the birth certificate.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
What about Johnson? That's fine, Johnson.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Johnson is fine. Let's just agree to disagree. I don't
think Fanny is a nice name to call your child.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I don't think it's a nice name either. I hate
the name princess as well. But I'm sick of this
illusion that we live in a free society because we don't.
How can the government tell you what you can call
your kid unless it's obscene, like you know. Of course,
if it's not something obscene and disgusting, you should be
able to call your kid whatever you want, and then
when they grow up, if they don't like it, they
(28:46):
can go change it. Now, if we're in a free country,
that would be the thing.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Listen, we don't have Kim jong un here, but like we.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Are close enough, Kim jong elbow. Let her call her
kid princess.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, come on enough.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
If there were no bogans, no one would vote for you,
Albo Princess. I hope she voted for the Libertarian Party.
Don't stay out of our lives government, we hate you.
There's the Facebook Mama's group this week. Sorry, sorry to
get political on you. Well it's a bugbear of mine. Yeah,
seatbelt cameras really stupid.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
You need to get anything else of your chest.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
No, in fact, we're getting the wind up, so we're
going to get out of here and we will catch
you next week.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, see you guys, Chris Page and your ard
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