June 28, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, sir, let's go. Good morning that remains to be seen.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Chris Paige and Amy Gerard say.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Good morning everybody. Hello Amy Gerard. How's your week been, My.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Dear, It's actually been really good, very productive. I will
say I had a life at mid day on Tuesday.
Do you ever have one of them.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Every now and then? Yeah, when you just clear a
day and all the stuff that's been playing on your
mind and just stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That I need. I knew that I needed to do.
I just constantly put it off. So Tuesday was that
day for me. I did my car registration, got my
green slip, I paid for a speeding ticket only six
k's over. Guys don't come for me, but just things
that you need to do. I booked my car in
for a service. A lot of these were done over
(01:12):
the phone as well.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
But it takes time. You know, it sounds like nothing.
I've got to make a phone call and book this in.
But even we're having these conversations like, damn it, yesterday
I needed to call a doctor about something and I
didn't do it. I've got to call Foxtel and yell
at them again.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Exactly right. I went and got like all the vitamins
that I needed from my skin check. Your follow up
picked up all this medication and it was very boring.
But at the end of the day, I felt like
giving myself a little pat on the back a load off.
Was it a load off? I felt accomplished.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
This is why at school. Remember all the useless crap
you learned at high school, like trigonometry and algebra and
biology legal study. Yes, if you're going to be a scientist,
science is great, but if you're not, high school should
have a course two unit life ADM life skills.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I reckon, like, yeah, how to do your taxes, how
to change a tire, car battery?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
What are you doing again a flat battery?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
How to do your registration like I always miss a step.
I'm like pink slip, green slip, red joke insurance Like
my dad, Big b used to do it all for me.
And then when I became an adult at thirty, he
kind of was like Ryan, my husband. He was like,
here you go, it's your turn to look after And now.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
That might be a chat for another time, but should
a campaign to have the age that you're officially an adult.
It's not eighteen. It's not maybe in the olden days
when eighteen year olds were punching out kids, but now
eighteen thirty.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Is thirty when you're an adult.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, drinking smoke when you're eighty fine, but you're not
a grown up. Okay, it's so true.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I definitely wasn't a grown up.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
To official Chris Yards apologies in advance to Amy's long
suffering husband Ryan. This segment wasn't meant to happen every week,
but it was regular enough that it did get its
own open. What's Ryan done this week? And it's just
(03:16):
every week?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's actually quite funny. We spoke about this last week.
Ryan is on the pursuit of happiness and also buying
a Harley Davidson. You've got music?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
This is this is his new things?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, wish right?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Come on? Leather jacket, Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
God, I don't know if there's leather jackets that would
fit him?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No helmet, hair flowing in the breeze, come on, that's hot.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
He does have like a bit of a queaf no,
not kleef cliffs.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Sorry, Ryan, music's off.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You know at the moment, what he's actually doing is
because he's really he's really fighting hard for it, and
I've said it's not off the cards, but there are
a few things that we still need to do around
the house. He also needs a new car. They are
a priority, and that's a need.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Like his old car is actually dying.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
His old car is I'm pretty sure the last time
he took it for a service, the guy was like, hey,
you should probably start to look at getting a new car.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You can still get two hundred and fifty bucks for scraps, right.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, it's that old. So he needs to get a
new car. We need some landscaping done around the house,
and then I might entertain a Harley. But in the meantime,
he started a tally of all the things that I
spend my money on, and it's still nowhere near a
Harley Davidson. But they are quite funny.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We mentioned it last week because you were whining about.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The whining Davidson, and I.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Mentioned that the prior week you'd shown me the diamond
ear rings you just bought yourself as a little treat because.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Space I went to a warehouse sale and there were
eighty percent off. Yes, I treated myself and they were
a bargain, that's what they were.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What if he did the landscaping you need. That's what
I often try to do. When Georgie goes, oh, you know,
we can't afford this, I'll say, well, why don't we
cancel the cleaners and old clean the house. Let She
knows that.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
One Ryan is a big burly man, but he also
has luck arms and he's not that handy.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
So what have you seen his list? What's on his
list of your expenses?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It started with the Loco Love chocolates. They're like my
guilty pleasure at nighttime. They are quite expensive because when
I tell you it's like a fifty cent size chocolate
and you pay about I don't know, five dollars fifty
for one. But they're a special little treat. I have
them with a hot chocolate at nighttime. So he's added
that to the list. We were away on the weekend
(05:37):
with girlfriends and we were talking about how we need
to get botox, and so he was like, all right,
that's going on the list. He's added in nails, which
he's going to have to remove because I no longer
have them put in waxing. And I said, baby, if
you want me to quit my waxing appointment and you
want a data yetti by all means, I can I
can stop that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Would he want the Amazon down there in Roturn for
a Harley Davidson?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I mean probably he'd be happy to part the Bearded
Dragon if it meant that he could get a Harley Davidson.
He added tampons to.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
The list, Yeah, because remember when the GST came in,
that was one of the big controversies of essential items
that I didn't attract a GST. And yeah it was.
John Howard got a lot of stuff for putting ten
percent on tampons. That's an optional item.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
What an absolute dickhead cotton woolves I do think? I said,
you know what, even all those things added up, you're
probably looking at about five hundred dollars bud. So where
are you going to buy a Harley for five hundred?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
How much is a hut? Do you know?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well, look the guy across the road from us, the
Harley that he has just bought, which Ryan would like
to buy, was thirty thirty grand. Okay, thirty grand.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah it's a bit, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, sure is. When you've got a car that's about
to fall apart as well.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I want to see Ryan's list, can you? I want
to can you? He's writing it down in like he's
got a little black book or.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Something, does he he's writing, He's writing in his notes
in his phone.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Okay, I'm going to help him as well. Because you
buy a lot, you know, and by lunch, and you
know you pay for parking somewhere, and your parking tickets,
I'm going to write them down. I'm gonna I'm going
to be watching you as well and all of your
expen it. Good luck, Ryan Gerard. Last week on the show,
I've had a lot of people mentioned to me our
(07:27):
chat with your Jen, the parenting expert about screens and kids.
One thing that we didn't get right into with Jen
was the under sixteen social media ban which is coming up.
The Albanese government have brought in an e Safety Commissioner
or e Karen as some people are calling her, to
(07:48):
sort of regulate.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You're not You're not for it, are you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I'm not for the no I think parents should be
doing stuff. I'm not. I'm against the government taking any
unnecessary intervention for it. Okay, But E Karen has come
out this week and said that YouTube should be included
in this ban for under sixteen. So so far they've
got the main social things but not YouTube. I said, no,
(08:15):
if you're going to do it, you've got to ban YouTube.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I am with E. Karen on YouTube is the devil
I reckon out of all of them. I mean, look,
my kids obviously don't have social media accounts. In fact,
the only platform that they do use is YouTube, and
I've tried to ban YouTube off. Everything isn't the YouTube kids.
There is YouTube kids, but I don't like and I
(08:38):
have said everything into place, like all my kids have
their own YouTube kids little profile so that they're I
can set up their ages differently because obviously my daughter
is almost ten and then I've got a five year
old son. Sure they can still get round it. Even
our TV remote. I've put a pin lock on the
YouTube on the TV because you can't even just remove
(09:00):
it because they've blasted TV remotes have a YouTube button.
Now I've got pin locks on the TV.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And they watch like a hawk when you're putting in
the pin. Don't they know the pin that's right?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And then even on their iPads, I've blocked it, but
they just they go around it, they go on to Safari.
But YouTube freaks me out because there's some weird crap
on there and the music that that gets embedded under
some of the kids' videos. It sounds weird and it
makes me think that there's some like I don't like,
(09:32):
hidden Illuminati messaging, or there's some weird brainwashing going on.
I don't know what it is, but my kids are
like Heroin addicts when they come off it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Well, it could be you know, Russia or China, you know,
indoctrinating our kids. I heard like a Chinese woman speaking
in our living room the other day and I thought
I had a second so I went in and it
was Oscar watching pepper Pig in Mandarin. Yeah, and it
was dubbed, and I go, where'd you find that? He goes,
I don't know, it just came up after the other thing. Now,
(10:01):
there's nothing harmful in him watching pepper Pig in Mandarin.
It's fine, right, But then I've looked at some of
the other things and there's there's ripoffs of kids show
like Blue Looey. People have gone on and done like
spoofs of Bluey and they've look like Bluey but with
swearing yes and stuff, and they've re dubbed bluey with
grubby stuff in it, and that is that's the worst.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Still. I was watching Charlie. I was over her shoulder
one day, just doing her hair, and there's this they
do this thing now on YouTube where they split a screen,
so one half of the screen you're seeing somebody make
a cake, and then another half of the screen.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Is an nice suspecting video.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Is a girl like talking out doing like weird mimes.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Like that are you talking about the Osland Translator?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And there was this one girl and it was like,
I'll come over to you. I'll come over to your house.
And she's like okay, and she was like, but your
dad really creeps me out sometimes. And I was like,
what are you watching, Charlie. It freaks me out because
I have no control over it either, So bear YouTube looking.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I am with you on YouTube being just as bad.
I put it on the same level as the social
but we disagree on whether or not the government should
be the one doing it. Parents should be absolutely banning.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Their kids from I think it's a parent ad, but
I think the government helps enforce it, and I think
that is very helpful for some parents.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well, don't worry Radio Karen e Karen's onto it. She's
going to throw YouTube in the band as well.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Chris, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Well, I took two tests, cognitive tests.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
We are very very close to World War three, and
Donald Trump and I endorsed this segment. God bless Chris
Page and Amy Gerard.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
You know, it's funny that audio of Donnie saying we're
very very close to World War three is how ironic.
We got it a long time ago, but here we are.
He is a man child, but he's got his finger
on the button and he pressed it during the week
and bonded Iran. He has tried to broke her a
peace deal.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
He's real trigger happy on his bloody texts.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
On the truth. Socially, yes, socially.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Just it's like he's just like instantly the twelve days
the war is over.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
He's very transparent. It's like whatever he's thinking, it's out there,
just now filter. So it was looking good for a
ceasefire and a peace steel but then I think someone
fired off a pesky missile and Daddy, Daddy was he's
the world's daddy. He yeh got he's built out and
he was laying down some discipline, but Daddy wasn't happy
(12:31):
when the ceasefire was broken and the cameras were there.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came
out and they dropped a load of bombs the likes
of which I've never seen before. I'm not happy with Israel.
I'm not happy with the run either, But I'm really
unhappy if Israel's going out this morning because the one
rocket that didn't land, that was shut perhaps by mistake,
that didn't land. I'm not happy about that. We basically
(12:54):
have two countries that have been fighting so long and
so hard that they don't know what the they're doing.
Do you understand that?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
On my TV in America, I was watching that being like,
is he the boss of the world, because that's the
vibe he's giving.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
They say the US president is the leader of the
free world.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well, yes, and Ryan did tell me that. But the
way he speaks in the most condescending manner like he
has he's got his wooden spooned out. I'm surprised he
didn't drop that. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Disappointed in you both because you're.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Both about to get spanked and sent to their room.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Well, he's the world's daddy and the head of NATO,
because they had that big NATO meeting with all the
world leaders. Actually said that. He said, when the kids
are naughty talking about Iran and Israel and they're misbehaving,
Daddy needs to use some harsh words, referring to him
saying he doesn't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I don't know how I feel about everything being so public.
I'd almost sometimes rather.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Not know world leaders swearing.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I like it's refreshing.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
He's a human being.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
But over there in America, like saying the F word
on live TV, that's actually quite a big deal, like that,
broadcast laws are a lot stricter than ours.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Whereas in Australia, if we if we tucked.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
One, it wouldn't be the end of the world. With
our boss would be like, don't do that, But it
wouldn't be we wouldn't be ripped off air and find
would you like to see elbow getting blue?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
You know, it wouldn't be as cool.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
He'd need to go to the next level though, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Because the the sea bombs.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Were Australia, the Sea would be the equivalent the f
andmong your elbow coming out, you know, Dandrafoni suit Israel
and a roun. You're a packing You mentioned memes and
people that like to have fun with it. What do
you reckon? The internet's done with.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
The probably turned him into a wrap.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah yeah, yeah, come all right on. We're a music station,
so let's check it out.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Basically, have two countries have been fighting so long and
so hard. You understand that.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I'm looking at our music director. We had our music director.
Yes he's not even're going to add it high high rotation, Chris.
One of the things that some people are loving from
Albanzi that he's brought into the new worker's right to
disconnect laws. Have you heard about that? Well? Your jobs,
(15:35):
you're not a nine to five. But he's brought in
these new things whereas employee ers can't contact employees outside
of certain hours anymore because basically, you know, it's work
life balance. So he's gone when you leave the office
at five o'clock, that's when you should be able to
clock off. Okay, so some people loving it. Again, I
just think it's more government interference in our lives. But
(15:58):
there's a guy on Instagram TikTok who's been called Ben Askins,
and he does a segment on there called boss Texts
and he talks about the worst bosses in Britain. He's
an English guy. We've heard from before a while ago
on the show with just an unbelievably bad boss. But
we've got a new one here. Now. Have a listen
to this and see if you would like elbows right
(16:19):
to disconnect. So the boss is emailed on a weekend
and then he'll you'll hear the back and forth between
the boss and the worker. Here. It starts with the
employee replying to the boss's original email.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Hi, I know steam on notification, but it's the weekend.
I'll get to it first thing Monday morning. I wouldn't
send an email at the weekend. That wasn't important.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I'll get over yourself.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I do expect a quick response to things like this,
regardless of the day. Well, look straight away, the obvious
thing is why are you paying them for seven days work?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Okay, sorry, it's been a long week and I could
really do with keeping my weekend separate. If that's okay,
I'm out at the moment. Is there anywhere I can
look at it on Monday. Okay, this way you come both. Honestly,
I'm so bored of hearing lines like this from your generation. Seriously,
what happened to people just putting in a bit of
effort and taking their career seriously, it's just take take,
take with you lot.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I am fed up.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Men used to work every day of the hour, seven
days a week. I need a response today on that email.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I mean, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I mean, look, firstly, you just know who said this, right,
you can already picture in your head exactly who this
boss is, so you know, we're just throwing a bit
of sexism there, just just for good measures and afterthought,
it's not about taking I'm just exhausted from the week.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I'm out at the moment. But I'll try and look
at it on this evening if I have a chance.
This is beyond disappointing. Oh I'm sorry. We are talking
about one small email response. It isn't like I'm asking
for the world. We'll talk on Monday. Oh, I mean, look,
do you know.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
What I really hate about this?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
And he's ruined his employees weekend, right, that'll just be
niggling at the back of their mind thinking oh my god,
I've got this chat on Monday. Oh maybe I should
try and look at so he's just ruined their weekends.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I oh, yeah, be.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Able to talk Monday. You're like, oh god, this is
assume it's a woman, because he was being sexist about
a man used to do this, right, So it's probably
a female.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And you know what females are really good at. They're
good at setting boundaries and holding them firmly. So she
has every right to be like, hey, I've clocked off
on Friday, I've done five days of work, which for
which you've paid me for, and the weekend is my
time with my family.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I'd love to know what the job was and what
her pay is, because I think there are certain jobs
there's a certain pay grade if you're if you're a
if you're on a million bucks, then you've got to
answer the phone.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
It's funny. I actually have a girlfriend. We had this
conversation literally during the week. She wanted to get in
touch with one of her employees and the girl basically
just ignored her. Now, she said to me, do you
know do you think that's okay? And I said, well,
do you pay her to work on a Saturday, and
she said no, but this girl does their social media.
And the thing is, social media is a relentless beast.
(18:52):
There's no on and off hours with social media.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Then pay a weekend person as well. Well, if you
want a twenty four to seven social media thing for
your business, then have Yeah. I was sitting off.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I was sitting on the fence about it because I
was kind of like, no, everyone has the right to
be able to switch off and have that work life balance.
So that was an interesting one. But that guy's throwing
his toys out of the cot.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
He probably wants to actually push that person until they quit.
Sounds like, because it's called managing someone else because you
don't have to fay the redundancy school report time? Well,
what was it my kid's school?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
If you had to wait, why do you get school?
Do you get halfway through June?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Do you have to do parent teacher interviews as well?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I've just done those as well with kids. That's weird,
but the's weird. Well I didn't go assumings, so we
got the school reports. Have you found this with your kids?
A Henry my seven year old, and Oscar, my five
year old. Very different reports very different, like Henry is
a genius, like a really smart kid, very very smart.
I'm not saying Oscar's dumb, but he's not. His academics
(19:58):
are not going to be his strength in life. He's
going to have other strengths and that's totally fine. But
do you ever read your kid's report? For example, I'll
say Henry's. I knew he'd do well maths and English,
but it said he was courteous, attentive, listens to feedback,
and is happy to let others take their turn. Now
(20:20):
have you ever wanted to ring the school? And are
you sure, Henry Page did you get the right?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I can one off you here, Ryan and I when
Bobby started schooling kindergarten. Bobby is my middle child and
he is an absolute he's rambus, but he is what
we like to call quite spirited. Yes, he's very loud,
he's very lazy, he's very boisterous. And we've gone up
to a parent teacher interview for his first year in
(20:50):
kindergarten and the teacher said, can I just say your son,
Bobby is an absolute joy to teach. He listens, he
is so caring, he packs up all his stuff. He
checks on the other students. He helps me pack up
my desk. He offers tissues to me. I have never
(21:10):
met a and Ryan and I looked at each other
and I said, wait.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Bobby, about Bobby Gerard here?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And she was like, yeah, why. And it's this reoccurring
theme where he is just so beautiful for everyone else.
I mean, I know that's what they say. He'd save all.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Their They take all that energy being behaved. It was
the same when they go to stay with Nana and Granddad.
Thank God, well behaved, yes, but then they come back
and all of that misbehavior they've bottled up. So I
guess that school does that a little bit as well.
Which is I mean, if they're going to misbehave, I
guess I'd rather they did it with me.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I always say the same thing, but you know what,
I actually babysat my girlfriend's son the other day and
it was for the first time ever I was on
the receiving end of a spirited child being an absolute angel.
She said, oh, you know, he won't let you do this.
He won't let you feed him, he won't let you
change him, he won't hold you. He'll do this this,
And he did none of that he held my hand.
(22:09):
I was able to bath him, get him dressed.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well, he is fourteen years old. He should be no
he able to regulate his emotions.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
But it was nice. I was like, now, I understand
when people say that you know your kids are so
well behaved, and you think that they're lying, they're actually not.
They are they are being well behaved and.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well good, I guess, But you reckon, Henry. You could yeah,
fifty to fifty, give the teacher a bed of shit
and then.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Save some good stuff some good time.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
But the split personality, they call it white line fever,
maybe on the on the footy field, when a sportsman
crosses the white line on the field, when they just
become a different person, gladiator like MG. Mark Geyer I
used to work with and he's the biggest, softest, sweetest man.
But I mean, go on YouTube Mark Geyer Origin or
(23:00):
whatever on highlights he's a psychopath. But just you know
what I mean, just just flicks the switch. In a
different scenario.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Maybe that's our kids leaving school at the end of
the day exactly across that psychopath mode.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
As long as they stay away from white lines in
high school.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That's that's all good, Gerard.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I need your woman's opinion. Hit me on something, please.
I saw a headline during the week. It was an
opinion piece written by a woman saying chivalry is officially dead.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I didn't click on it, I haven't read it, but
I can imergine what it said.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I do tend to agree with her to some extent,
Like I just look at my parents as a comparative
to the relationship that I had with my husband Ryan,
and it is a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
But isn't that what you wanted?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Listen, yes, but also.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yes, we want you see what I mean though, you
see where men do get a little bit confused sometimes.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Maybe, but equal rights is in regards to equal pay
and equal opportunity. You can still be a genentman and
you know, open a door for your wife or your
partner or something, or give up your seat on a train.
If you see an elderly lady.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Walking on an elderly sure, elderly, that's different. That's an
age thing. I mean, if there was a really frail
old man on the train, I'd stand up for him
as well. And like a heavily pregnant woman who's clearly,
you know, very pregnant would of course off my seat
for but a able body, a young woman, absolutely not.
But back in the day, you would, like in the
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fifties and sixties, on a bus, any gentleman would stand
up for any lady.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, my dad would stand up for a lady, any lady.
I mean, not a teenager probably, but like a forty
year old woman got on, my dad would stand up.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
A one legged man who was in World War II
and stepped on a landmine fighting for his country would
come back and give up his seat, and he'd hop
along the aisle so that an able bodied woman could
sit down. That's all what happened in the forties.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I love. I don't know what what does chivalry entail.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I guess chivalry is that old school suff it's opening
a door for a lady. It's if you and I
are standing at the lift and the lift doors open me,
I will always allow you to walk in first, and
I'm not Is that me being condescending or going, oh,
here you go, a little lady.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
No, Well, if that's the case, then I might change
my mind because I feel like, based on obviously my
lived in experiences with my husband, Ryan is not opening
car doors for me, though I will say that.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Oh no, I'm not walking around the other side of
the car.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I'm perfectly capable of opening the front door to our
house and walking in first, like I'm not. I don't know.
I don't think it's to an extent of my dad's era.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
But that's old school. That's like, you know, when you
go to the butcher's and they go get a Darlin,
how are you? I mean, you're not meant to do
it anymore, but it's charming. My wife loves going to
the butcher not the supermarket, just because she goes get
a Darla now because it's that older. But then he
of course would open the door, give up his seat,
pay for dinner every day of the week because he's old.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
You know what I think is really cute, though I
don't think Ryan's ever taught this, but my boys will
always open doors for me, or if I'm sitting down,
my middle child Bobby will literally say, hi, Mum, you
can have my seat.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That's just love, surely not a gender thing. They just
adore you.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Well, yes, but they're not saying, hey, Dad, hes have
my seat.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
But he's not as nice to them in general, and
gender so true. They just love you more.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
They do love me more. But I don't know. I
don't know where they've picked that up from. Maybe it's
my dad that they've picked that up from.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
See, that's that's what it's. Those little things when you
say what is chivalry? Of course, it's not the big ones.
Let you know, equal pay and respect women of course
in this day and age. But yeah, those little ones
like opening the door and giving up your seat. You go,
can it be taken? If you did that to a
real hardcore feminist, would you turn around and go, oh what,
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I'm not capable of standing up on the bus.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I can tell you a funny story about this. During
the week, I was driving out of a shopping center,
but there was a car that was broken down right
on the roundabout. Everyone's just honging their horn, honging their horn.
Then the car door opened and it was an old man,
gray hair, and he was kind of leaning over, and
I was like, oh God, and nobody stopped. So I
thought to myself, I'll get to the other side of
the roundabout, park my car and go and check on him.
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As I was doing that, another woman was running over.
She checked on him and then all of a sudden,
out of nowhere, she starts pushing the car. She's pushing
the car across multiple rows of traffic, and I parked
my car and I run up and I help her.
So the two of us, I'm in my ug boots,
are pushing this elderly man's car across all these rows
of traffic. Not a single man stopped and got out
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of his car and helped us.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It was just you and Rosy o'donnald Lin pushing the car.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Actually a girlfriend of mine who's a disability worker. But
it was wild because, I mean, we got it done
as two women, But if there had been a man
with some muscle strength behind it, it would have got
done a lot quick.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
But no one stopped.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
No one stopped.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
But there you go. Could there be a better picture
of the gender stereotype reversal than two women pushing along
a blokes car?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It's broken down anyway. I will just say this for
gender equality and chivalry. If we're on the Titanic and
I'm in first class, so I'm Billy Zane, right, I'm
the rich guy, and I get there, go, hey, how
about a spot on that life boat? And they say
women and children first. Get out of my way. That's
what you're saying. Life is a life, women and children first.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Back to the bottom of the line.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'll stand up on the bus, but I'm not drowning
in the Atlantic for you, Gerard
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, sir, let's go. Good morning that remains to be seen.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Chris Paige and Amy Gerard say.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Good morning everybody. Hello Amy Gerard. How's your week been, My.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Dear, It's actually been really good, very productive. I will
say I had a life at mid day on Tuesday.
Do you ever have one of them.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Every now and then? Yeah, when you just clear a
day and all the stuff that's been playing on your
mind and just stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That I need. I knew that I needed to do.
I just constantly put it off. So Tuesday was that
day for me. I did my car registration, got my
green slip, I paid for a speeding ticket only six
k's over. Guys don't come for me, but just things
that you need to do. I booked my car in
for a service. A lot of these were done over
(01:12):
the phone as well.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
But it takes time. You know, it sounds like nothing.
I've got to make a phone call and book this in.
But even we're having these conversations like, damn it, yesterday
I needed to call a doctor about something and I
didn't do it. I've got to call Foxtel and yell
at them again.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Exactly right. I went and got like all the vitamins
that I needed from my skin check. Your follow up
picked up all this medication and it was very boring.
But at the end of the day, I felt like
giving myself a little pat on the back a load off.
Was it a load off? I felt accomplished.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
This is why at school. Remember all the useless crap
you learned at high school, like trigonometry and algebra and
biology legal study. Yes, if you're going to be a scientist,
science is great, but if you're not, high school should
have a course two unit life ADM life skills.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I reckon, like, yeah, how to do your taxes, how
to change a tire, car battery?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
What are you doing again a flat battery?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
How to do your registration like I always miss a step.
I'm like pink slip, green slip, red joke insurance Like
my dad, Big b used to do it all for me.
And then when I became an adult at thirty, he
kind of was like Ryan, my husband. He was like,
here you go, it's your turn to look after And now.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
That might be a chat for another time, but should
a campaign to have the age that you're officially an adult.
It's not eighteen. It's not maybe in the olden days
when eighteen year olds were punching out kids, but now
eighteen thirty.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Is thirty when you're an adult.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, drinking smoke when you're eighty fine, but you're not
a grown up. Okay, it's so true.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I definitely wasn't a grown up.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
To official Chris Yards apologies in advance to Amy's long
suffering husband Ryan. This segment wasn't meant to happen every week,
but it was regular enough that it did get its
own open. What's Ryan done this week? And it's just
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every week?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's actually quite funny. We spoke about this last week.
Ryan is on the pursuit of happiness and also buying
a Harley Davidson. You've got music?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
This is this is his new things?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, wish right?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Come on? Leather jacket, Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
God, I don't know if there's leather jackets that would
fit him?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No helmet, hair flowing in the breeze, come on, that's hot.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
He does have like a bit of a queaf no,
not kleef cliffs.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Sorry, Ryan, music's off.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You know at the moment, what he's actually doing is
because he's really he's really fighting hard for it, and
I've said it's not off the cards, but there are
a few things that we still need to do around
the house. He also needs a new car. They are
a priority, and that's a need.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Like his old car is actually dying.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
His old car is I'm pretty sure the last time
he took it for a service, the guy was like, hey,
you should probably start to look at getting a new car.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You can still get two hundred and fifty bucks for scraps, right.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, it's that old. So he needs to get a
new car. We need some landscaping done around the house,
and then I might entertain a Harley. But in the meantime,
he started a tally of all the things that I
spend my money on, and it's still nowhere near a
Harley Davidson. But they are quite funny.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We mentioned it last week because you were whining about.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The whining Davidson, and I.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Mentioned that the prior week you'd shown me the diamond
ear rings you just bought yourself as a little treat because.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Space I went to a warehouse sale and there were
eighty percent off. Yes, I treated myself and they were
a bargain, that's what they were.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What if he did the landscaping you need. That's what
I often try to do. When Georgie goes, oh, you know,
we can't afford this, I'll say, well, why don't we
cancel the cleaners and old clean the house. Let She
knows that.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
One Ryan is a big burly man, but he also
has luck arms and he's not that handy.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
So what have you seen his list? What's on his
list of your expenses?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It started with the Loco Love chocolates. They're like my
guilty pleasure at nighttime. They are quite expensive because when
I tell you it's like a fifty cent size chocolate
and you pay about I don't know, five dollars fifty
for one. But they're a special little treat. I have
them with a hot chocolate at nighttime. So he's added
that to the list. We were away on the weekend
(05:37):
with girlfriends and we were talking about how we need
to get botox, and so he was like, all right,
that's going on the list. He's added in nails, which
he's going to have to remove because I no longer
have them put in waxing. And I said, baby, if
you want me to quit my waxing appointment and you
want a data yetti by all means, I can I
can stop that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Would he want the Amazon down there in Roturn for
a Harley Davidson?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I mean probably he'd be happy to part the Bearded
Dragon if it meant that he could get a Harley Davidson.
He added tampons to.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
The list, Yeah, because remember when the GST came in,
that was one of the big controversies of essential items
that I didn't attract a GST. And yeah it was.
John Howard got a lot of stuff for putting ten
percent on tampons. That's an optional item.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
What an absolute dickhead cotton woolves I do think? I said,
you know what, even all those things added up, you're
probably looking at about five hundred dollars bud. So where
are you going to buy a Harley for five hundred?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
How much is a hut? Do you know?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well, look the guy across the road from us, the
Harley that he has just bought, which Ryan would like
to buy, was thirty thirty grand. Okay, thirty grand.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah it's a bit, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, sure is. When you've got a car that's about
to fall apart as well.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I want to see Ryan's list, can you? I want
to can you? He's writing it down in like he's
got a little black book or.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Something, does he he's writing, He's writing in his notes
in his phone.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Okay, I'm going to help him as well. Because you
buy a lot, you know, and by lunch, and you
know you pay for parking somewhere, and your parking tickets,
I'm going to write them down. I'm gonna I'm going
to be watching you as well and all of your
expen it. Good luck, Ryan Gerard. Last week on the show,
I've had a lot of people mentioned to me our
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chat with your Jen, the parenting expert about screens and kids.
One thing that we didn't get right into with Jen
was the under sixteen social media ban which is coming up.
The Albanese government have brought in an e Safety Commissioner
or e Karen as some people are calling her, to
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sort of regulate.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You're not You're not for it, are you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I'm not for the no I think parents should be
doing stuff. I'm not. I'm against the government taking any
unnecessary intervention for it. Okay, But E Karen has come
out this week and said that YouTube should be included
in this ban for under sixteen. So so far they've
got the main social things but not YouTube. I said, no,
(08:15):
if you're going to do it, you've got to ban YouTube.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I am with E. Karen on YouTube is the devil
I reckon out of all of them. I mean, look,
my kids obviously don't have social media accounts. In fact,
the only platform that they do use is YouTube, and
I've tried to ban YouTube off. Everything isn't the YouTube kids.
There is YouTube kids, but I don't like and I
(08:38):
have said everything into place, like all my kids have
their own YouTube kids little profile so that they're I
can set up their ages differently because obviously my daughter
is almost ten and then I've got a five year
old son. Sure they can still get round it. Even
our TV remote. I've put a pin lock on the
YouTube on the TV because you can't even just remove
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it because they've blasted TV remotes have a YouTube button.
Now I've got pin locks on the TV.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And they watch like a hawk when you're putting in
the pin. Don't they know the pin that's right?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And then even on their iPads, I've blocked it, but
they just they go around it, they go on to Safari.
But YouTube freaks me out because there's some weird crap
on there and the music that that gets embedded under
some of the kids' videos. It sounds weird and it
makes me think that there's some like I don't like,
(09:32):
hidden Illuminati messaging, or there's some weird brainwashing going on.
I don't know what it is, but my kids are
like Heroin addicts when they come off it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Well, it could be you know, Russia or China, you know,
indoctrinating our kids. I heard like a Chinese woman speaking
in our living room the other day and I thought
I had a second so I went in and it
was Oscar watching pepper Pig in Mandarin. Yeah, and it
was dubbed, and I go, where'd you find that? He goes,
I don't know, it just came up after the other thing. Now,
(10:01):
there's nothing harmful in him watching pepper Pig in Mandarin.
It's fine, right, But then I've looked at some of
the other things and there's there's ripoffs of kids show
like Blue Looey. People have gone on and done like
spoofs of Bluey and they've look like Bluey but with
swearing yes and stuff, and they've re dubbed bluey with
grubby stuff in it, and that is that's the worst.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Still. I was watching Charlie. I was over her shoulder
one day, just doing her hair, and there's this they
do this thing now on YouTube where they split a screen,
so one half of the screen you're seeing somebody make
a cake, and then another half of the screen.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Is an nice suspecting video.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Is a girl like talking out doing like weird mimes.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Like that are you talking about the Osland Translator?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And there was this one girl and it was like,
I'll come over to you. I'll come over to your house.
And she's like okay, and she was like, but your
dad really creeps me out sometimes. And I was like,
what are you watching, Charlie. It freaks me out because
I have no control over it either, So bear YouTube looking.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I am with you on YouTube being just as bad.
I put it on the same level as the social
but we disagree on whether or not the government should
be the one doing it. Parents should be absolutely banning.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Their kids from I think it's a parent ad, but
I think the government helps enforce it, and I think
that is very helpful for some parents.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well, don't worry Radio Karen e Karen's onto it. She's
going to throw YouTube in the band as well.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Chris, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Well, I took two tests, cognitive tests.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
We are very very close to World War three, and
Donald Trump and I endorsed this segment. God bless Chris
Page and Amy Gerard.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
You know, it's funny that audio of Donnie saying we're
very very close to World War three is how ironic.
We got it a long time ago, but here we are.
He is a man child, but he's got his finger
on the button and he pressed it during the week
and bonded Iran. He has tried to broke her a
peace deal.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
He's real trigger happy on his bloody texts.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
On the truth. Socially, yes, socially.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Just it's like he's just like instantly the twelve days
the war is over.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
He's very transparent. It's like whatever he's thinking, it's out there,
just now filter. So it was looking good for a
ceasefire and a peace steel but then I think someone
fired off a pesky missile and Daddy, Daddy was he's
the world's daddy. He yeh got he's built out and
he was laying down some discipline, but Daddy wasn't happy
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when the ceasefire was broken and the cameras were there.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came
out and they dropped a load of bombs the likes
of which I've never seen before. I'm not happy with Israel.
I'm not happy with the run either, But I'm really
unhappy if Israel's going out this morning because the one
rocket that didn't land, that was shut perhaps by mistake,
that didn't land. I'm not happy about that. We basically
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have two countries that have been fighting so long and
so hard that they don't know what the they're doing.
Do you understand that?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
On my TV in America, I was watching that being like,
is he the boss of the world, because that's the
vibe he's giving.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
They say the US president is the leader of the
free world.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well, yes, and Ryan did tell me that. But the
way he speaks in the most condescending manner like he
has he's got his wooden spooned out. I'm surprised he
didn't drop that. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Disappointed in you both because you're.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Both about to get spanked and sent to their room.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Well, he's the world's daddy and the head of NATO,
because they had that big NATO meeting with all the
world leaders. Actually said that. He said, when the kids
are naughty talking about Iran and Israel and they're misbehaving,
Daddy needs to use some harsh words, referring to him
saying he doesn't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I don't know how I feel about everything being so public.
I'd almost sometimes rather.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Not know world leaders swearing.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I like it's refreshing.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
He's a human being.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
But over there in America, like saying the F word
on live TV, that's actually quite a big deal, like that,
broadcast laws are a lot stricter than ours.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Whereas in Australia, if we if we tucked.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
One, it wouldn't be the end of the world. With
our boss would be like, don't do that, But it
wouldn't be we wouldn't be ripped off air and find
would you like to see elbow getting blue?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
You know, it wouldn't be as cool.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
He'd need to go to the next level though, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Because the the sea bombs.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Were Australia, the Sea would be the equivalent the f
andmong your elbow coming out, you know, Dandrafoni suit Israel
and a roun. You're a packing You mentioned memes and
people that like to have fun with it. What do
you reckon? The internet's done with.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
The probably turned him into a wrap.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah yeah, yeah, come all right on. We're a music station,
so let's check it out.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Basically, have two countries have been fighting so long and
so hard. You understand that.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I'm looking at our music director. We had our music director.
Yes he's not even're going to add it high high rotation, Chris.
One of the things that some people are loving from
Albanzi that he's brought into the new worker's right to
disconnect laws. Have you heard about that? Well? Your jobs,
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you're not a nine to five. But he's brought in
these new things whereas employee ers can't contact employees outside
of certain hours anymore because basically, you know, it's work
life balance. So he's gone when you leave the office
at five o'clock, that's when you should be able to
clock off. Okay, so some people loving it. Again, I
just think it's more government interference in our lives. But
(15:58):
there's a guy on Instagram TikTok who's been called Ben Askins,
and he does a segment on there called boss Texts
and he talks about the worst bosses in Britain. He's
an English guy. We've heard from before a while ago
on the show with just an unbelievably bad boss. But
we've got a new one here. Now. Have a listen
to this and see if you would like elbows right
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to disconnect. So the boss is emailed on a weekend
and then he'll you'll hear the back and forth between
the boss and the worker. Here. It starts with the
employee replying to the boss's original email.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Hi, I know steam on notification, but it's the weekend.
I'll get to it first thing Monday morning. I wouldn't
send an email at the weekend. That wasn't important.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I'll get over yourself.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I do expect a quick response to things like this,
regardless of the day. Well, look straight away, the obvious
thing is why are you paying them for seven days work?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Okay, sorry, it's been a long week and I could
really do with keeping my weekend separate. If that's okay,
I'm out at the moment. Is there anywhere I can
look at it on Monday. Okay, this way you come both. Honestly,
I'm so bored of hearing lines like this from your generation. Seriously,
what happened to people just putting in a bit of
effort and taking their career seriously, it's just take take,
take with you lot.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I am fed up.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Men used to work every day of the hour, seven
days a week. I need a response today on that email.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I mean, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I mean, look, firstly, you just know who said this, right,
you can already picture in your head exactly who this
boss is, so you know, we're just throwing a bit
of sexism there, just just for good measures and afterthought,
it's not about taking I'm just exhausted from the week.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I'm out at the moment. But I'll try and look
at it on this evening if I have a chance.
This is beyond disappointing. Oh I'm sorry. We are talking
about one small email response. It isn't like I'm asking
for the world. We'll talk on Monday. Oh, I mean, look,
do you know.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
What I really hate about this?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
And he's ruined his employees weekend, right, that'll just be
niggling at the back of their mind thinking oh my god,
I've got this chat on Monday. Oh maybe I should
try and look at so he's just ruined their weekends.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I oh, yeah, be.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Able to talk Monday. You're like, oh god, this is
assume it's a woman, because he was being sexist about
a man used to do this, right, So it's probably
a female.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And you know what females are really good at. They're
good at setting boundaries and holding them firmly. So she
has every right to be like, hey, I've clocked off
on Friday, I've done five days of work, which for
which you've paid me for, and the weekend is my
time with my family.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I'd love to know what the job was and what
her pay is, because I think there are certain jobs
there's a certain pay grade if you're if you're a
if you're on a million bucks, then you've got to
answer the phone.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
It's funny. I actually have a girlfriend. We had this
conversation literally during the week. She wanted to get in
touch with one of her employees and the girl basically
just ignored her. Now, she said to me, do you
know do you think that's okay? And I said, well,
do you pay her to work on a Saturday, and
she said no, but this girl does their social media.
And the thing is, social media is a relentless beast.
(18:52):
There's no on and off hours with social media.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Then pay a weekend person as well. Well, if you
want a twenty four to seven social media thing for
your business, then have Yeah. I was sitting off.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I was sitting on the fence about it because I
was kind of like, no, everyone has the right to
be able to switch off and have that work life balance.
So that was an interesting one. But that guy's throwing
his toys out of the cot.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
He probably wants to actually push that person until they quit.
Sounds like, because it's called managing someone else because you
don't have to fay the redundancy school report time? Well,
what was it my kid's school?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
If you had to wait, why do you get school?
Do you get halfway through June?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Do you have to do parent teacher interviews as well?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I've just done those as well with kids. That's weird,
but the's weird. Well I didn't go assumings, so we
got the school reports. Have you found this with your kids?
A Henry my seven year old, and Oscar, my five
year old. Very different reports very different, like Henry is
a genius, like a really smart kid, very very smart.
I'm not saying Oscar's dumb, but he's not. His academics
(19:58):
are not going to be his strength in life. He's
going to have other strengths and that's totally fine. But
do you ever read your kid's report? For example, I'll
say Henry's. I knew he'd do well maths and English,
but it said he was courteous, attentive, listens to feedback,
and is happy to let others take their turn. Now
(20:20):
have you ever wanted to ring the school? And are
you sure, Henry Page did you get the right?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I can one off you here, Ryan and I when
Bobby started schooling kindergarten. Bobby is my middle child and
he is an absolute he's rambus, but he is what
we like to call quite spirited. Yes, he's very loud,
he's very lazy, he's very boisterous. And we've gone up
to a parent teacher interview for his first year in
(20:50):
kindergarten and the teacher said, can I just say your son,
Bobby is an absolute joy to teach. He listens, he
is so caring, he packs up all his stuff. He
checks on the other students. He helps me pack up
my desk. He offers tissues to me. I have never
(21:10):
met a and Ryan and I looked at each other
and I said, wait.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Bobby, about Bobby Gerard here?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And she was like, yeah, why. And it's this reoccurring
theme where he is just so beautiful for everyone else.
I mean, I know that's what they say. He'd save all.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Their They take all that energy being behaved. It was
the same when they go to stay with Nana and Granddad.
Thank God, well behaved, yes, but then they come back
and all of that misbehavior they've bottled up. So I
guess that school does that a little bit as well.
Which is I mean, if they're going to misbehave, I
guess I'd rather they did it with me.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I always say the same thing, but you know what,
I actually babysat my girlfriend's son the other day and
it was for the first time ever I was on
the receiving end of a spirited child being an absolute angel.
She said, oh, you know, he won't let you do this.
He won't let you feed him, he won't let you
change him, he won't hold you. He'll do this this,
And he did none of that he held my hand.
(22:09):
I was able to bath him, get him dressed.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well, he is fourteen years old. He should be no
he able to regulate his emotions.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
But it was nice. I was like, now, I understand
when people say that you know your kids are so
well behaved, and you think that they're lying, they're actually not.
They are they are being well behaved and.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well good, I guess, But you reckon, Henry. You could yeah,
fifty to fifty, give the teacher a bed of shit
and then.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Save some good stuff some good time.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
But the split personality, they call it white line fever,
maybe on the on the footy field, when a sportsman
crosses the white line on the field, when they just
become a different person, gladiator like MG. Mark Geyer I
used to work with and he's the biggest, softest, sweetest man.
But I mean, go on YouTube Mark Geyer Origin or
(23:00):
whatever on highlights he's a psychopath. But just you know
what I mean, just just flicks the switch. In a
different scenario.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Maybe that's our kids leaving school at the end of
the day exactly across that psychopath mode.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
As long as they stay away from white lines in
high school.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That's that's all good, Gerard.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I need your woman's opinion. Hit me on something, please.
I saw a headline during the week. It was an
opinion piece written by a woman saying chivalry is officially dead.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I didn't click on it, I haven't read it, but
I can imergine what it said.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I do tend to agree with her to some extent,
Like I just look at my parents as a comparative
to the relationship that I had with my husband Ryan,
and it is a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
But isn't that what you wanted?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Listen, yes, but also.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yes, we want you see what I mean though, you
see where men do get a little bit confused sometimes.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Maybe, but equal rights is in regards to equal pay
and equal opportunity. You can still be a genentman and
you know, open a door for your wife or your
partner or something, or give up your seat on a train.
If you see an elderly lady.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Walking on an elderly sure, elderly, that's different. That's an
age thing. I mean, if there was a really frail
old man on the train, I'd stand up for him
as well. And like a heavily pregnant woman who's clearly,
you know, very pregnant would of course off my seat
for but a able body, a young woman, absolutely not.
But back in the day, you would, like in the
(24:41):
fifties and sixties, on a bus, any gentleman would stand
up for any lady.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, my dad would stand up for a lady, any lady.
I mean, not a teenager probably, but like a forty
year old woman got on, my dad would stand up.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
A one legged man who was in World War II
and stepped on a landmine fighting for his country would
come back and give up his seat, and he'd hop
along the aisle so that an able bodied woman could
sit down. That's all what happened in the forties.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I love. I don't know what what does chivalry entail.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I guess chivalry is that old school suff it's opening
a door for a lady. It's if you and I
are standing at the lift and the lift doors open me,
I will always allow you to walk in first, and
I'm not Is that me being condescending or going, oh,
here you go, a little lady.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
No, Well, if that's the case, then I might change
my mind because I feel like, based on obviously my
lived in experiences with my husband, Ryan is not opening
car doors for me, though I will say that.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Oh no, I'm not walking around the other side of
the car.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I'm perfectly capable of opening the front door to our
house and walking in first, like I'm not. I don't know.
I don't think it's to an extent of my dad's era.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
But that's old school. That's like, you know, when you
go to the butcher's and they go get a Darlin,
how are you? I mean, you're not meant to do
it anymore, but it's charming. My wife loves going to
the butcher not the supermarket, just because she goes get
a Darla now because it's that older. But then he
of course would open the door, give up his seat,
pay for dinner every day of the week because he's old.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
You know what I think is really cute, though I
don't think Ryan's ever taught this, but my boys will
always open doors for me, or if I'm sitting down,
my middle child Bobby will literally say, hi, Mum, you
can have my seat.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That's just love, surely not a gender thing. They just
adore you.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Well, yes, but they're not saying, hey, Dad, hes have
my seat.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
But he's not as nice to them in general, and
gender so true. They just love you more.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
They do love me more. But I don't know. I
don't know where they've picked that up from. Maybe it's
my dad that they've picked that up from.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
See, that's that's what it's. Those little things when you
say what is chivalry? Of course, it's not the big ones.
Let you know, equal pay and respect women of course
in this day and age. But yeah, those little ones
like opening the door and giving up your seat. You go,
can it be taken? If you did that to a
real hardcore feminist, would you turn around and go, oh what,
(27:00):
I'm not capable of standing up on the bus.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I can tell you a funny story about this. During
the week, I was driving out of a shopping center,
but there was a car that was broken down right
on the roundabout. Everyone's just honging their horn, honging their horn.
Then the car door opened and it was an old man,
gray hair, and he was kind of leaning over, and
I was like, oh God, and nobody stopped. So I
thought to myself, I'll get to the other side of
the roundabout, park my car and go and check on him.
(27:23):
As I was doing that, another woman was running over.
She checked on him and then all of a sudden,
out of nowhere, she starts pushing the car. She's pushing
the car across multiple rows of traffic, and I parked
my car and I run up and I help her.
So the two of us, I'm in my ug boots,
are pushing this elderly man's car across all these rows
of traffic. Not a single man stopped and got out
(27:44):
of his car and helped us.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It was just you and Rosy o'donnald Lin pushing the car.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Actually a girlfriend of mine who's a disability worker. But
it was wild because, I mean, we got it done
as two women, But if there had been a man
with some muscle strength behind it, it would have got
done a lot quick.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
But no one stopped.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
No one stopped.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
But there you go. Could there be a better picture
of the gender stereotype reversal than two women pushing along
a blokes car?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It's broken down anyway. I will just say this for
gender equality and chivalry. If we're on the Titanic and
I'm in first class, so I'm Billy Zane, right, I'm
the rich guy, and I get there, go, hey, how
about a spot on that life boat? And they say
women and children first. Get out of my way. That's
what you're saying. Life is a life, women and children first.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Back to the bottom of the line.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'll stand up on the bus, but I'm not drowning
in the Atlantic for you, Gerard
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