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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 Paige and Amy Well good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, good day.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Long weekend everybody? So hello, Yeah, Monday off as well?
What is it labor day? Or what is his birthday?
King's birthday?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Imagine if every weekend was a long weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
The four day working week is a thing. They're talking
about it. A lot of the Scandinavian countries. They already
do it, like Norway or Sweden. They're way ahead of
time there.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
And I actually think that they're the happiest people in
the world.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
They are.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I definitely made that up, but let's run with that.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You are correct, a good guess. Their quality of life
and their happiness and their longevity is all leading the
world up there and scan and.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm pretty sure they don't do homework either, Yeah, at
least until high school maybe.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But don't you reckon the four day If you said
to all Australians, hey, four day work week, but you
got to really knuckle down for the four days, like
productivity has to go off. I reckon people had left.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I reckon, every single person would lift.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, no coffee breaks, no CIGGI breaks break, yep, skip lunch.
Just four days, smash it out, three day weekend every week.
I'm telling you you know how they they're saying because
elbows smashed the election, and they're saying, oh, the Liberal
Party are stuffed. I reckon, that's their key back, the
four day working week. Who's not voting for that?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I will vote.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, yeah, you'll vote for whoever your dad tells
you that. I know you're that girl.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I'm that daughter.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Who do I vote for Liberals? Okay, sure whatever, thanks dad. Anyway,
So it's the King's birthday. I'm guessing it's not really
his birthday because if it was like the Queen's birthday,
they have the weekend separate from her actual birthday.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I actually I don't keep tabs on when king real
birthday is.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It sounds weird the King's birthday. We've had a queen
for what seventy years, and now suddenly we have a king.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Well, it's because the queen's died, right.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
No flies on you Amy, That is correct. It's because
the queen died.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, I knew it.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That's why But they've got to change everything, so it's
now King's Counsel or the QC's are now case's so
they have to change their business cards.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Oh sorry, I'm I'm actually now you checked out? Yawn.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'm just seeing for the long weekend and the fact
that I don't have to make lunchboxes on Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You just have kids all day to deal with.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's okay, all I can shun them onto their iPads
for the day.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
All right.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I have a girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
She's in a bit of a pickle and a dilemma,
and I weirdly gave her some advice which you might
not agree with. She's been married for like seventeen years, right,
and her husband on paper is a great guy, and
they've got a really great friendship and they're a great team.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I want to say, they've got two kids.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Don't worry about the on paper stuff, because the on
paper is a big caveat. There's what's wrong with him?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Okay, he is basically not a very sexual person. He's
not very There's not a lot of intimacy in their relationship.
There hasn't been from the start. It was very sparsely
chucked around throughout the years, and now she was telling
me that for the last three years, there's been nothing,
absolutely nothing, not even a literally nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Right, is your friend's name Georgie Paper? And is this
like an intimacy?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
No, this is not about you and your wife.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
But here's the I never ever condoned cheating. But I
know that my girlfriend used to have a healthy appetite
for intimacy.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Were they very active when they first got together.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
When they were dating, they were hot, Like, there was
a lot of breakups, splitting up, being back together. So
when they were together, there's I don't think he's ever
really been an overly sexual person.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So when they were on and off, she was off
getting some yeah, and then they're back on.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But I know that she's tried to talk to him
about it, and I know that she said how important
it is for her, and he just doesn't do anything
about it. He doesn't It's like it's not a priority
to him. I would say he's probably asexual. And on
the odd occasion that they used to do it, he
was obviously doing it for her.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Whatnot?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Now I feel like in this case scenario, don't shoot me.
But like if she was to go away on a
girl's trip and accidentally like slip and fall onto I wouldn't.
I don't condone cheating at all, but I would I
would understand.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Sounds like you do condone cheating a little bit.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Would I even enable it? Potentially?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's like, I'm not a racist.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
But.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Imagine what that would do to your self esteem?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Not feeling wanted, not feeling lusted after, like not having
a man who wanted to be intimate with you. Like
what that would do to your self esteem, especially if
you have urges as well? Like we all know that
if a woman wasn't putting out for two years, guess
what the man would be getting it elsewhere?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Is she sure he's not getting it elsewhere? Like would he?
Is he that guy? Like would he have something on
the side? Not at all, but on paper everything else.
He's a good dad, he's a good guy.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
He's fun, he's just not interested.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Like, do you think it would be okay if you
didn't put out and Georgie went and had a fun
time on a girl's trip till and a half years later?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Could you blame her? Would you blame her?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah? If we hadn't talked about it, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
She'd spoken about it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And said, Hey, it's something that's important to me and
I need you to kind of work on this, or like,
let's do some intervention and let's I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I think if we'd sat down and had a really
serious talk about it, yeah, and I had done nothing
to rectify the situation, then it would be difficult to
blame her or be too surprised.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
There you go, Georgie green Light girl strip.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So it is Georgie. So what are you thinking? Are
you going to facilitate it? Are you going to go
as far.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
As I'm not going to facilitate it, but I am.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I was saying to her, like, I don't think you
could be blamed for doing that and acting out on
something because we've all got needs.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Would you think she would go out and like hook
up on a girl's night or are you thinking like
a male like a giglo?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Am I going to order a jigglow for her? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Now there's a word. You don't hear that word. You
haven't heard that since Juice Bigelow and when that whole
movie was about Juice Bigelow, malebout him looking after women
who didn't get the attention and the love that they needed.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's it right.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We had a jigglow on the show a while back,
did yeah. Well, he said he was a strip of it.
Then remember he told her off air he was pretty
much a jigglow. Can we hook them up?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
We'll get the jigalobaating that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Chrisd Now, it's been a few weeks since we've caught
up with this your favorite person, fun Goy. Well, to
tell you the truth, I've got some fatigue. But there
is big news in Trump world this week.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats. Well, I
took two tests, cognitive tests. 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 (07:43):
God bless us Amy, and thank god you and I
are great friends for life, inseparable. We'll never have a
huge public falling out. Well, everyone I think saw this coming.
When the richest man on the planet becomes Besti's with
a guy with a serious ego and.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Think emotionally unstable, lunatic, a.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Very unstable man in Donald Trump. So Elon Musk and
Donald Trump have split.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
They've had a bitch fight.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
They it was about a week ago. Trump, Well, Elon
left and apparently that was scheduled. He was only meant
to be there for a certain amount of time, served
his term and he's left.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Wait, what was Elon doing there?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It was like DOAG the Department of Government Efficiency. So
he was slashing costs and using all his business acumen
to save the government money. So he did that, but
it's looking like he didn't leave on good terms. Now
there's some things that like a bill that Donald Trump's
trying to put through, Elon Musk doesn't approve of it,
has said so on Twitter. There's been a bit of
(08:47):
back and forth and it started getting a bit nasty.
So Donald Trump has tweeted or put on his social
media thing. Elon was wearing thin. I asked him to leave.
I took away his ev mandate. That's the electric car
thing that forced everyone to buy electric cars that no
one else wanted that he knew for months I was
(09:08):
going to do. And he just went crazy. So Donald
Trump's had to go at Elon. So you reckon? Elon
just thought, oh well, I'll just let that slide.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
He's definitely fire.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Donald Trump's made Elong sound like he's an annoying like colleague.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
This was twenty four hours ago, so you've heard this
by now. But Elon Musk Twitter, time to drop the
really big bomb at real Donald Trump is in the
Epstein files. That's the real reason they've not been made public.
Have a nice day, DJT, Donald J.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Trump shots fired.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
So there's the whole you know, Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein Island,
the jets, and the underage nasty stuff happening on Ireland,
and a lot of apparently very famous, very powerful people
traveled there.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
There's a lot of names, but you know, a lot
of them are just rumors, and both sides of politics
over there don't seem too keen for the Epstein list
to come out.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah. See the other thing that the girl from the
Epstein Files.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
She died Virginia.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
She just was she got hit by a car or something.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I don't know. There was a lot going on. I think, yeah,
she was in an accident and then she had some
health issues. But she passed away recently.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, and she looked like she said something like I've
got six hours to live, and all these people were like.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Oh? Hillary killed her right well allegedly, But then then
Epstein as if he actually killed himself in jail. I
mean that was yeah, listen, keeping them there's too many
powerful people because okay, so you've got the Trumps don't
want anything to do with it, the Clintons don't want
it to come out, and then the Royal family as
well because of Prince Andrew. So he's literally in jail
(10:51):
with dirt on Trump, Clinton, and the Royal Family. It
could have been any of them that bumped him off.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
But I don't know how this thing's going to play
out with Trump and Elon, Like what are they going
to just go tip for tat?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Because that's a pretty.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Big like claim to throw out there from me, Yeah,
saying it's true, but it's a pretty bold statement to me.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It's believable that Trump was at least on the Epstein
plane at some point.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well, did he say plane or island?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
He said he's in the he said he's in the
Epstein files. Look, this is going to be some great popcorn.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I was going to say, grab your popcorn down.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I'm getting back on Socials. I've had radio siance on
the socials.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
This is worth getting Twitter or X or whatever it is. Anyway,
Trump versus Elon. Yeah, watch this space.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yeah, and Donald Trump and I endorsed this segment. God
bless Chris Page and Amy Gerard.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, if it does come out that he was on
Epstein Island, we probably want to remove that thing of
him endorsing our show. Yeah, because yeah, that's crooked. Chris.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I've got three children, all of which who have screamed
out in my face that I am the worst mum.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Ever this week the worst. I mean, you're a very
bad mum, not the worst ever.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I don't think I'm that bad. I put up with
a hell of a lot from them.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
But I do think it's funny, like they will they
pick the most absurd times to throw down and over
the most.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Like you're on your third bottle of wine for the night,
and that's when they decide they want to have no Chris.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I want to set the scene.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I'm in the kitchen, I'm making everyone breakfast, and my
five year old son Kobe has asked for porridge. I've
made him a nice bowl of porridge, and he does
this really annoying thing where when he's watching TV, he
feels like he is the master and the only one
who can hold the remote control.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Right, because someone else will put on a different show.
He puts the remote Why I know this?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, So what he does is he carries the remote
control everywhere with you.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And I've made his porridge, put some blueberries in there, mate,
I've been blowing on it like a you know, a
kitchen slave like that I am, and sprinkling honey and whatnot.
Perfect temperature, perfect temperature so he won't burn his little mouth.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And then I've gone, Kobe, can you come in?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And He's walked in holding the remote control, and I said,
put the remote control down.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
You've got fifteen minutes to eat your breakfast and Charlie
can watch some TV. And wasn't I the worst mum
on earth?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What happened after that was it's like his legs gave
out from underneath him. He dropped to the ground. He
could not comprehend that I was asking him to let
go of his bluffd remote control and free up.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
The TV for fifteen minutes. I was the worst. You're
the worst mum ever. I hate you so much. This
is the worst day of my life. And I was like, wow,
it's so tough being a five year old kid. Isn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, there's a boy who needs I usually don't think
children should be gummies, well or maybe for mum. Usually
I wouldn't expose children to horrible news stories. But there's
a kid that could possibly use just a few minutes
of maybe Gaza news or something about that being the
worst day of his life.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Oh no, I believe me. I have tried. I have tried.
Remember how our parents always used to be like, there are.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Starving kids in Africa, and I'm like, well, I'll send
them the food there. I don't want it.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
That's literally I use the same lines.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
And look, I don't blame them for that, because they
only know what they know, right, So it's not that
that's not gonna sink in with them. But even even
yesterday morning, I do this stupid thing where I've started
laying out my kid's clothes for school the next day. Sure,
for a couple of days there, every time I was
going into bed to tuck them in after they were asleep,
I pull out, you know, their shirt and their pants
(14:51):
and their socks for the next morning. And obviously I've
dropped the ball one day and yesterday morning, Bobby, my
seven year old son, woke up and he was like,
you didn't lay out my clothes and I said, yeah, sorry, Bud,
like I just forgot you know, you just have to
open your cupboard, you know how to get dressed, because
you were doing it seven and yeah and you're seven.
And he was like, I hate you, I hate you,
(15:16):
and just kept screaming it over and over until he
woke up the entire house. And I was like, I
will cop a lot of stuff on the chin, but
this feels really unreasonable.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I can top that. Yesterday morning, Oscar, my five year old,
I did lay out their clothes because on the you know,
stay at home cuck. Yes, So I laid out the clothes,
had them all there. Oscar said, I can't find my undies.
I said, they're there. He gus, I can't find them,
don't know where my undies are. I went out. I said,
look here, they're underneath your pants. Yes, good pants, they're
right there. And he looked at me and he goes,
(15:50):
shouldn't they be on top? You did it in the
wrong order, because yeah, because the Undi's gone first, shouldn't
they be on top? He's not wrong, though, really, don't
you stuff?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
He's not wrong but also he's entitled the Little Bastard.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I we had to bring it back. Where those World
Vision ads gone. We need because you don't see them anymore,
do you. Well, no one watches Free to Wear TV anymore.
They're still on Bring them back. There are starving kids
in there nowth Africa. Remind them please to know your
parents play a big part in your life and your kids' lives.
(16:31):
Ryan's parents as well. They're on the scene. They're still alive.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Everyone, all of them are still alive.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
None of them live that close to us, though, right
they did. My mom and dad used to live like
ten minutes from us, and then I obviously had kids,
my brother had kids, and the minute they had six grandkids,
they were like, right.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Set ting us.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Did they move because you they became babysitters?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Well, I mean they won't admit to that, but I'm
thinking yes. I think they put enough distance so that
they can come up when they want to, and they're
happy to babysit when there's like weddings that Ryan and
I need to go to all my brothers and stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
But then they're far enough away that we can't just
drop them there all the time. Every afternoon yeah, this
article I saw speaks to that.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It's that more and more grandparents are not really being
grandparents in the traditional role. They've basically become co parents.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Because wow, my parents are nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
A lot of people are. If your grandparents are live nearby,
more and more people because people are struggling out there.
Both parents are working, people are busy, and the grandparents
are now just being used as babysitters more and more,
to the point where grandparents are now saying they're being overworked.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, I agree and disagree. Like I've got some Greek
neighbors who live in our street and they're lovely, and
her parents who live a good half an hour away,
they help out every single day.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
That's what europe Greeks, the Italians.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
There's very much a cultural thing. And I look at
it and I go, oh my god, she's got so
much help. That must be so nice. And she looks
at it like, oh, so annoying.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
But what she says is it actually gives her parents perpose.
So they're both retired and they want to look after
the kids. My parents have made a point of not
doing that for me. I think my mom was.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
English and so her parents were overseason. Her line to
me is, well, I did it on my own and.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Stiff upper lips stay stoic.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
But I don't know. Do you lean on your parents? Quite?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Hell, we beat my mom. I had a full blown
go at my mom last time she booked an overseas
trip during school holidays, said, how dare you know you did?
How dare you go to Italy during school holidays?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
She can go to Italy.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
She doesn't work, she can go to Italy anytime.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
She can go to Italy at any time.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
That is correct, exactly, So you've got to Italy during
school term.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You had children, not her.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
She's done her, She's paid her dues, she has raised
her own children.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You have chosen to have kids, You need to raise them.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
No, I think there's a They can help out where
they can, but they are not subservient to you.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Georgie's parents are fantastic as well. Miriam and Dave shout out.
They're about ten minutes away, so, which is perfect. They're
not so close that they're just popping in unexpectedly all
the time, but close enough to you know, drop offs,
play dates, sleepovers. It's really nice, it is Yeah, what
does that feel like? Really I'm just so hard done by.
(19:38):
I think the Greeks and Italians have I wish I
had an Italian nonna.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I wish I had agreed.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Why you not eat? You're so skinny? Eat and they
just cook all day? Too much food. Yeah, they're feeders.
That's what I want. We're missing out rather than being
told like white parents are, like you've put on weight again.
I see, thanks Chris.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
So I'm doing this thing with my kids where on
Fridays we have movie nights and bring up yeah, we
bring up well, I bring up all these like old
school nostalgic movies. So we've watched like like The Flintstones.
We've watched Mary Popper's was it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
The Flintstones Original? The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
No, No, the Flintstones Original? Yeah, who's the big guy?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Oh John Goodman?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, yeah, so it's the old school one.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Anyway, It's made me realize that there's all these old
school movies that I love, and I don't know if
you will know them, but there's certain movies that are
ingrained in my brain because I watched them over and
over as a kid and so much so little parts
of it I've brought them through into my life.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
For example, My Girl. Do you remember My Girl? That
movie with McCaulay cochin.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Colcin, McCaulay culkin. He became McCauley cochin later in life,
but yeah, of course I remember that, right.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So that was one of my favorite movies and I'll
never forget it because I feel like it was the
first movie.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
That I feel like I watched where a young kid
dies in it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So McCaulay coulchan was little Thomas, wasn't it. Little Thomas
was allergic at bees.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yes, And he had a best friend, Vader, and she
was very like eccentric.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
And Quirky's dad was dan Aykroyd and he worked as
a funeral director on something and then Dead Bodies.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
In the and Jamie Lee Curtis was there and she
would paint their faces, that's right, And they had his
beautiful little friendship. Anyway, I remember that movie's like so profoundly.
And then also that song you know My Girl, because
it's when he's talking about her, they play that song
and I feel like it's the first time I ever
heard that song.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
That's my best friend Verda so Vada and.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Most of the girls don't appreciate her.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I always surround myself with people who I find intellectually stimulated.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Hello, guys, you're a little afraid of her, but she's
more fun to.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Be around than anyone I know. That is the song
that I danced to with my dad at my wedding.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Just hearing his voice then has just triggered that memory
of the funeral where Vader runs up together he can't.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
See without he's glasses on his little shoe, who has
an open casket for a kid who got stung to
death by bees. But on a lighter note, another really
great movie that I loved watching and have probably watched
over one hundred times is Father of the Bride.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Oh how good Steve Martin.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Steve Martin.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But also you know, when Annie's getting married his little daughter,
and you know, there's this one scene in the movie
and I still to this day, as an almost forty
year old woman, cannot watch.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It without crying.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
It's where they've sang their vows and then kind of
you flip over to Steve Martin and he's having this
internal dialogue with himself in his head about letting her go.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I'm getting emotional lip talking about it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I realized at that moment that I was never going
to come home again and see Annie at the top
of the stairs, never going to see her again at
our breakfast table and her nightgown and socks. I suddenly
realized what was happening. Annie was all grown up and
leaving us, and something inside began to hurt.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
You.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Look at you.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Look at your eyes, just a loser, I know, moist eyes.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I I think because it reminds me of my dad.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Like my dad is a big softy and I was
the firstborn and I'm his only daughter, and.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
That's why you had my girl as your dance. But
also that.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Song that goes on to play is a classical music
piece called canon in d and I had.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
That is the song that I walked down the aisle
with my dad to. Really, why not call me an
old school romantic. I don't know what it is that
I am.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
But there are two movies that really had an impact
on me, and I've somehow brought both of those music
tracks into my wedding day.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But I love getting our kids to watch the movies
that we used to love, but it is hard because
some of them age better than others, and some of
them now because they watched now, they watched like Minecraft,
and I wrote Toyster, they've got all the really hot
special effects now, and we watch those old crap that
we used to watch. It's like if our parents were
like have and watch Gone with the Wind. It's a
(24:19):
wonderful film and the kids are going, oh god, not.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
My girl, or yeah, like I feel like a cool
movie for us. Have you watched Have you made your
kids watch Home Alone?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Of course Home Alone one and actually Home Alone two
I think is even better, yeah than New York One.
But I tell you I didn't go so far as
to have the theme song from Home Alone played at
my wedding.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
As well done.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Georgie would have loved that. It's like the opposite of
My Girl. Where My Girl they actually showed someone dying,
whereas Home Alone two showed people getting hit in the
head with bricks from a four storytownhouse and being fine.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, you actually couldn't die in those movies.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Harry and Marv would have died like thirty times in
those films.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
But it's a little far fetched, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah, thanks for that walk down memory lane.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, I'm going to go home and Watch of the Bride, Chris.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Okay, I told you we were going to talk diamonds
and how you can pick up an amazing rocket a
fraction of the price. Yes, it's called lab grown diamonds.
I don't know anything about it, so we're going to
talk to someone who does. And it's Talitha Cummings, who
has been a journalist for many years with Channel seven.
It now works with lab grown Diamonds. Hi, Talitha, Hi,
(25:35):
thanks for having me tell us what? How does this work?
So you've started a business where someone grows diamonds, diamonds?
How do you grow a diamond?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
So essentially, so, I was a journalist for a long
time and then my uncle Craig, who has been a
jeweler for fifty odd years, kept sort of hammering me
to join the family business. And yeah, I discovered these
lab grown diamonds. We were asked to identify a mind
diamond and compare it with the lab grown diamond under
a microscope, and we couldn't tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Do you find that there are people that for some
reason still prefer like the traditional dug up diamonds?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
And do you know why? Definitely?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I mean it's a really divisive issue. Yes, you would
see any posts on Instagram will the opinions are divided,
but the market has spoken. However, there is a stigma
attached to lab diamonds for some people, and I guess
it's just because we've been marketed at the years and
(26:38):
years and years about these diamonds that come from the earth,
and there's some mystical attachment to.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
It's so I was actually explaining to a girlfriend it's
kind of you know, obviously a makeup brand like Charlotte
Tilbury and then you have MC beauty, which is your
lux for less brand, and having used both products, they
are equally just as good, except MC Beauty means that
it's affordable for majority of people, whereas only a certain
(27:06):
amount of people can afford Charlotte Tilbury, which I feel
like is quite similar to lab grown diamonds versus dug
uplines right.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
In part, I think lab grown diamonds are chemically, physically
and visually the same.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Like the size of the rock that you can get
as a lab grown diamond versus one that's dug up.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Well, what am I paying for a lab grow? So
say my say, I want to spend five grands yes,
will that get me a lab grown diamond that looks
like a what real diamond?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Well, that would be like a one and a half
carrot diamond, round cut diamond, and you're looking at probably
twelve plus for a natural diamond, right, So it's a
significant saving and in a time where and most of
the you know, the younger people who are coming to
us are saying they look exactly the same. We have
(27:58):
to pay for a wedding, we're going on a honeymoon,
we're buying a house, we're doing all of these things.
Why would we, you know, then spend an extra seven
thousand dollars to buy the same product.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
It's difficult to justify something that's been dug out of
the ground, particularly when I mean, I'm sure you've seen
blood diamond with Leonardo DiCaprio doing a great South African accent,
but I mean African kids having limbs lopped off with
machetes by warlords digging up these real diamonds. This is
an ad for fake diamonds. Thank you for the yeah,
(28:31):
But I mean it's the things, the human suffering that
actually goes into a lot of these blood diamonds, and.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They honestly to the naked eye, like you would have
absolutely no idea what's lab grown versus what is dug up?
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Yes, gemologists can't tell the difference, so so.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
You're almost like, why would anyone buy what dug up?
Speaker 5 (28:53):
So the arguments against it, people will say, well, natural
diamonds will retain value, they're an investment in, an investment
in your love. But that's actually not true, because go
and try to sell your old engagement ring natural diamond.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
You'll get pennies and dollar for it.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Cash converters with you with your DVD player for heroin.
But this is the only diamond. This is the first
example I've heard of an instance where you can spend
less money for the more humane option as well, because
you've got to go in and buy you know, if
you've got to spend more for free range eggs or
you know, clothes that are ethically made, whereas I mean,
(29:34):
you'd never know my jumper, you know, twenty bucks from
Big w it's probably people probably suffered immensely to make
this job, and I got it. There's a bargain whereas
you can actually, yeah, it's humane and it's cheaper. This
is a this is a win win.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
It is a huge win and I think it's yeah,
the writing's on the wall in terms of where the
market's heading, so.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Men and women as well, because I know women propose
these days as well. Sometimes if you're a cuck. Guys,
if you want to propose, what do people do to Letha?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Do they?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I'm sure you have a website people should go to
and check out what you've.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Got Cutsjewelry dot com. Today you come and have a
chat with us and we can give you all options.
We sell natural diamonds and lab diamonds as well, so
if you do want natural diamonds, that's an option. To
diamond is a diamond in my eyes.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Check it out, guys and girls for a lab grown
diamond at a fraction of the price. Talitha Cummings, great
to see you again, Lovely to seek Chris Page and
amens your ard.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, sir, let's good morning that remains to be seen.
Chris Paige and Amy Well good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, good day.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Long weekend everybody? So hello, Yeah, Monday off as well?
What is it labor day? Or what is his birthday?
King's birthday?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Imagine if every weekend was a long weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
The four day working week is a thing. They're talking
about it. A lot of the Scandinavian countries. They already
do it, like Norway or Sweden. They're way ahead of
time there.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
And I actually think that they're the happiest people in
the world.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
They are.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I definitely made that up, but let's run with that.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You are correct, a good guess. Their quality of life
and their happiness and their longevity is all leading the
world up there and scan and.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm pretty sure they don't do homework either, Yeah, at
least until high school maybe.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But don't you reckon the four day If you said
to all Australians, hey, four day work week, but you
got to really knuckle down for the four days, like
productivity has to go off. I reckon people had left.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I reckon, every single person would lift.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, no coffee breaks, no CIGGI breaks break, yep, skip lunch.
Just four days, smash it out, three day weekend every week.
I'm telling you you know how they they're saying because
elbows smashed the election, and they're saying, oh, the Liberal
Party are stuffed. I reckon, that's their key back, the
four day working week. Who's not voting for that?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I will vote.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, yeah, you'll vote for whoever your dad tells
you that. I know you're that girl.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I'm that daughter.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Who do I vote for Liberals? Okay, sure whatever, thanks dad. Anyway,
So it's the King's birthday. I'm guessing it's not really
his birthday because if it was like the Queen's birthday,
they have the weekend separate from her actual birthday.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I actually I don't keep tabs on when king real
birthday is.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It sounds weird the King's birthday. We've had a queen
for what seventy years, and now suddenly we have a king.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Well, it's because the queen's died, right.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
No flies on you Amy, That is correct. It's because
the queen died.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, I knew it.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That's why But they've got to change everything, so it's
now King's Counsel or the QC's are now case's so
they have to change their business cards.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Oh sorry, I'm I'm actually now you checked out? Yawn.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'm just seeing for the long weekend and the fact
that I don't have to make lunchboxes on Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You just have kids all day to deal with.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's okay, all I can shun them onto their iPads
for the day.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
All right.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I have a girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
She's in a bit of a pickle and a dilemma,
and I weirdly gave her some advice which you might
not agree with. She's been married for like seventeen years, right,
and her husband on paper is a great guy, and
they've got a really great friendship and they're a great team.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I want to say, they've got two kids.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Don't worry about the on paper stuff, because the on
paper is a big caveat. There's what's wrong with him?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Okay, he is basically not a very sexual person. He's
not very There's not a lot of intimacy in their relationship.
There hasn't been from the start. It was very sparsely
chucked around throughout the years, and now she was telling
me that for the last three years, there's been nothing,
absolutely nothing, not even a literally nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Right, is your friend's name Georgie Paper? And is this
like an intimacy?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
No, this is not about you and your wife.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
But here's the I never ever condoned cheating. But I
know that my girlfriend used to have a healthy appetite
for intimacy.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Were they very active when they first got together.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
When they were dating, they were hot, Like, there was
a lot of breakups, splitting up, being back together. So
when they were together, there's I don't think he's ever
really been an overly sexual person.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So when they were on and off, she was off
getting some yeah, and then they're back on.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But I know that she's tried to talk to him
about it, and I know that she said how important
it is for her, and he just doesn't do anything
about it. He doesn't It's like it's not a priority
to him. I would say he's probably asexual. And on
the odd occasion that they used to do it, he
was obviously doing it for her.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Whatnot?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Now I feel like in this case scenario, don't shoot me.
But like if she was to go away on a
girl's trip and accidentally like slip and fall onto I wouldn't.
I don't condone cheating at all, but I would I
would understand.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Sounds like you do condone cheating a little bit.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Would I even enable it? Potentially?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's like, I'm not a racist.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
But.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Imagine what that would do to your self esteem?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Not feeling wanted, not feeling lusted after, like not having
a man who wanted to be intimate with you. Like
what that would do to your self esteem, especially if
you have urges as well? Like we all know that
if a woman wasn't putting out for two years, guess
what the man would be getting it elsewhere?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Is she sure he's not getting it elsewhere? Like would he?
Is he that guy? Like would he have something on
the side? Not at all, but on paper everything else.
He's a good dad, he's a good guy.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
He's fun, he's just not interested.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Like, do you think it would be okay if you
didn't put out and Georgie went and had a fun
time on a girl's trip till and a half years later?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Could you blame her? Would you blame her?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah? If we hadn't talked about it, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
She'd spoken about it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And said, Hey, it's something that's important to me and
I need you to kind of work on this, or like,
let's do some intervention and let's I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I think if we'd sat down and had a really
serious talk about it, yeah, and I had done nothing
to rectify the situation, then it would be difficult to
blame her or be too surprised.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
There you go, Georgie green Light girl strip.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So it is Georgie. So what are you thinking? Are
you going to facilitate it? Are you going to go
as far.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
As I'm not going to facilitate it, but I am.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I was saying to her, like, I don't think you
could be blamed for doing that and acting out on
something because we've all got needs.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Would you think she would go out and like hook
up on a girl's night or are you thinking like
a male like a giglo?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Am I going to order a jigglow for her? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Now there's a word. You don't hear that word. You
haven't heard that since Juice Bigelow and when that whole
movie was about Juice Bigelow, malebout him looking after women
who didn't get the attention and the love that they needed.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's it right.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We had a jigglow on the show a while back,
did yeah. Well, he said he was a strip of it.
Then remember he told her off air he was pretty
much a jigglow. Can we hook them up?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
We'll get the jigalobaating that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Chrisd Now, it's been a few weeks since we've caught
up with this your favorite person, fun Goy. Well, to
tell you the truth, I've got some fatigue. But there
is big news in Trump world this week.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats. Well, I
took two tests, cognitive tests. 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 (07:43):
God bless us Amy, and thank god you and I
are great friends for life, inseparable. We'll never have a
huge public falling out. Well, everyone I think saw this coming.
When the richest man on the planet becomes Besti's with
a guy with a serious ego and.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Think emotionally unstable, lunatic, a.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Very unstable man in Donald Trump. So Elon Musk and
Donald Trump have split.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
They've had a bitch fight.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
They it was about a week ago. Trump, Well, Elon
left and apparently that was scheduled. He was only meant
to be there for a certain amount of time, served
his term and he's left.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Wait, what was Elon doing there?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It was like DOAG the Department of Government Efficiency. So
he was slashing costs and using all his business acumen
to save the government money. So he did that, but
it's looking like he didn't leave on good terms. Now
there's some things that like a bill that Donald Trump's
trying to put through, Elon Musk doesn't approve of it,
has said so on Twitter. There's been a bit of
(08:47):
back and forth and it started getting a bit nasty.
So Donald Trump has tweeted or put on his social
media thing. Elon was wearing thin. I asked him to leave.
I took away his ev mandate. That's the electric car
thing that forced everyone to buy electric cars that no
one else wanted that he knew for months I was
(09:08):
going to do. And he just went crazy. So Donald
Trump's had to go at Elon. So you reckon? Elon
just thought, oh well, I'll just let that slide.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
He's definitely fire.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Donald Trump's made Elong sound like he's an annoying like colleague.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
This was twenty four hours ago, so you've heard this
by now. But Elon Musk Twitter, time to drop the
really big bomb at real Donald Trump is in the
Epstein files. That's the real reason they've not been made public.
Have a nice day, DJT, Donald J.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Trump shots fired.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
So there's the whole you know, Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein Island,
the jets, and the underage nasty stuff happening on Ireland,
and a lot of apparently very famous, very powerful people
traveled there.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
There's a lot of names, but you know, a lot
of them are just rumors, and both sides of politics
over there don't seem too keen for the Epstein list
to come out.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah. See the other thing that the girl from the
Epstein Files.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
She died Virginia.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
She just was she got hit by a car or something.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I don't know. There was a lot going on. I think, yeah,
she was in an accident and then she had some
health issues. But she passed away recently.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, and she looked like she said something like I've
got six hours to live, and all these people were like.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Oh? Hillary killed her right well allegedly, But then then
Epstein as if he actually killed himself in jail. I
mean that was yeah, listen, keeping them there's too many
powerful people because okay, so you've got the Trumps don't
want anything to do with it, the Clintons don't want
it to come out, and then the Royal family as
well because of Prince Andrew. So he's literally in jail
(10:51):
with dirt on Trump, Clinton, and the Royal Family. It
could have been any of them that bumped him off.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
But I don't know how this thing's going to play
out with Trump and Elon, Like what are they going
to just go tip for tat?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Because that's a pretty.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Big like claim to throw out there from me, Yeah,
saying it's true, but it's a pretty bold statement to me.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It's believable that Trump was at least on the Epstein
plane at some point.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well, did he say plane or island?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
He said he's in the he said he's in the
Epstein files. Look, this is going to be some great popcorn.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I was going to say, grab your popcorn down.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I'm getting back on Socials. I've had radio siance on
the socials.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
This is worth getting Twitter or X or whatever it is. Anyway,
Trump versus Elon. Yeah, watch this space.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yeah, and Donald Trump and I endorsed this segment. God
bless Chris Page and Amy Gerard.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, if it does come out that he was on
Epstein Island, we probably want to remove that thing of
him endorsing our show. Yeah, because yeah, that's crooked. Chris.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I've got three children, all of which who have screamed
out in my face that I am the worst mum.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Ever this week the worst. I mean, you're a very
bad mum, not the worst ever.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I don't think I'm that bad. I put up with
a hell of a lot from them.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
But I do think it's funny, like they will they
pick the most absurd times to throw down and over
the most.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Like you're on your third bottle of wine for the night,
and that's when they decide they want to have no Chris.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I want to set the scene.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I'm in the kitchen, I'm making everyone breakfast, and my
five year old son Kobe has asked for porridge. I've
made him a nice bowl of porridge, and he does
this really annoying thing where when he's watching TV, he
feels like he is the master and the only one
who can hold the remote control.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Right, because someone else will put on a different show.
He puts the remote Why I know this?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, So what he does is he carries the remote
control everywhere with you.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And I've made his porridge, put some blueberries in there, mate,
I've been blowing on it like a you know, a
kitchen slave like that I am, and sprinkling honey and whatnot.
Perfect temperature, perfect temperature so he won't burn his little mouth.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And then I've gone, Kobe, can you come in?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And He's walked in holding the remote control, and I said,
put the remote control down.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
You've got fifteen minutes to eat your breakfast and Charlie
can watch some TV. And wasn't I the worst mum
on earth?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What happened after that was it's like his legs gave
out from underneath him. He dropped to the ground. He
could not comprehend that I was asking him to let
go of his bluffd remote control and free up.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
The TV for fifteen minutes. I was the worst. You're
the worst mum ever. I hate you so much. This
is the worst day of my life. And I was like, wow,
it's so tough being a five year old kid. Isn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, there's a boy who needs I usually don't think
children should be gummies, well or maybe for mum. Usually
I wouldn't expose children to horrible news stories. But there's
a kid that could possibly use just a few minutes
of maybe Gaza news or something about that being the
worst day of his life.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Oh no, I believe me. I have tried. I have tried.
Remember how our parents always used to be like, there are.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Starving kids in Africa, and I'm like, well, I'll send
them the food there. I don't want it.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
That's literally I use the same lines.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
And look, I don't blame them for that, because they
only know what they know, right, So it's not that
that's not gonna sink in with them. But even even
yesterday morning, I do this stupid thing where I've started
laying out my kid's clothes for school the next day. Sure,
for a couple of days there, every time I was
going into bed to tuck them in after they were asleep,
I pull out, you know, their shirt and their pants
(14:51):
and their socks for the next morning. And obviously I've
dropped the ball one day and yesterday morning, Bobby, my
seven year old son, woke up and he was like,
you didn't lay out my clothes and I said, yeah, sorry, Bud,
like I just forgot you know, you just have to
open your cupboard, you know how to get dressed, because
you were doing it seven and yeah and you're seven.
And he was like, I hate you, I hate you,
(15:16):
and just kept screaming it over and over until he
woke up the entire house. And I was like, I
will cop a lot of stuff on the chin, but
this feels really unreasonable.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I can top that. Yesterday morning, Oscar, my five year old,
I did lay out their clothes because on the you know,
stay at home cuck. Yes, So I laid out the clothes,
had them all there. Oscar said, I can't find my undies.
I said, they're there. He gus, I can't find them,
don't know where my undies are. I went out. I said,
look here, they're underneath your pants. Yes, good pants, they're
right there. And he looked at me and he goes,
(15:50):
shouldn't they be on top? You did it in the
wrong order, because yeah, because the Undi's gone first, shouldn't
they be on top? He's not wrong, though, really, don't
you stuff?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
He's not wrong but also he's entitled the Little Bastard.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I we had to bring it back. Where those World
Vision ads gone. We need because you don't see them anymore,
do you. Well, no one watches Free to Wear TV anymore.
They're still on Bring them back. There are starving kids
in there nowth Africa. Remind them please to know your
parents play a big part in your life and your kids' lives.
(16:31):
Ryan's parents as well. They're on the scene. They're still alive.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Everyone, all of them are still alive.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
None of them live that close to us, though, right
they did. My mom and dad used to live like
ten minutes from us, and then I obviously had kids,
my brother had kids, and the minute they had six grandkids,
they were like, right.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Set ting us.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Did they move because you they became babysitters?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Well, I mean they won't admit to that, but I'm
thinking yes. I think they put enough distance so that
they can come up when they want to, and they're
happy to babysit when there's like weddings that Ryan and
I need to go to all my brothers and stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
But then they're far enough away that we can't just
drop them there all the time. Every afternoon yeah, this
article I saw speaks to that.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It's that more and more grandparents are not really being
grandparents in the traditional role. They've basically become co parents.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Because wow, my parents are nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
A lot of people are. If your grandparents are live nearby,
more and more people because people are struggling out there.
Both parents are working, people are busy, and the grandparents
are now just being used as babysitters more and more,
to the point where grandparents are now saying they're being overworked.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, I agree and disagree. Like I've got some Greek
neighbors who live in our street and they're lovely, and
her parents who live a good half an hour away,
they help out every single day.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
That's what europe Greeks, the Italians.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
There's very much a cultural thing. And I look at
it and I go, oh my god, she's got so
much help. That must be so nice. And she looks
at it like, oh, so annoying.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
But what she says is it actually gives her parents perpose.
So they're both retired and they want to look after
the kids. My parents have made a point of not
doing that for me. I think my mom was.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
English and so her parents were overseason. Her line to
me is, well, I did it on my own and.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Stiff upper lips stay stoic.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
But I don't know. Do you lean on your parents? Quite?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Hell, we beat my mom. I had a full blown
go at my mom last time she booked an overseas
trip during school holidays, said, how dare you know you did?
How dare you go to Italy during school holidays?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
She can go to Italy.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
She doesn't work, she can go to Italy anytime.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
She can go to Italy at any time.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
That is correct, exactly, So you've got to Italy during
school term.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You had children, not her.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
She's done her, She's paid her dues, she has raised
her own children.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You have chosen to have kids, You need to raise them.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
No, I think there's a They can help out where
they can, but they are not subservient to you.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Georgie's parents are fantastic as well. Miriam and Dave shout out.
They're about ten minutes away, so, which is perfect. They're
not so close that they're just popping in unexpectedly all
the time, but close enough to you know, drop offs,
play dates, sleepovers. It's really nice, it is Yeah, what
does that feel like? Really I'm just so hard done by.
(19:38):
I think the Greeks and Italians have I wish I
had an Italian nonna.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I wish I had agreed.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Why you not eat? You're so skinny? Eat and they
just cook all day? Too much food. Yeah, they're feeders.
That's what I want. We're missing out rather than being
told like white parents are, like you've put on weight again.
I see, thanks Chris.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
So I'm doing this thing with my kids where on
Fridays we have movie nights and bring up yeah, we
bring up well, I bring up all these like old
school nostalgic movies. So we've watched like like The Flintstones.
We've watched Mary Popper's was it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
The Flintstones Original? The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
No, No, the Flintstones Original? Yeah, who's the big guy?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Oh John Goodman?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, yeah, so it's the old school one.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Anyway, It's made me realize that there's all these old
school movies that I love, and I don't know if
you will know them, but there's certain movies that are
ingrained in my brain because I watched them over and
over as a kid and so much so little parts
of it I've brought them through into my life.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
For example, My Girl. Do you remember My Girl? That
movie with McCaulay cochin.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Colcin, McCaulay culkin. He became McCauley cochin later in life,
but yeah, of course I remember that, right.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So that was one of my favorite movies and I'll
never forget it because I feel like it was the
first movie.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
That I feel like I watched where a young kid
dies in it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So McCaulay coulchan was little Thomas, wasn't it. Little Thomas
was allergic at bees.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yes, And he had a best friend, Vader, and she
was very like eccentric.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
And Quirky's dad was dan Aykroyd and he worked as
a funeral director on something and then Dead Bodies.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
In the and Jamie Lee Curtis was there and she
would paint their faces, that's right, And they had his
beautiful little friendship. Anyway, I remember that movie's like so profoundly.
And then also that song you know My Girl, because
it's when he's talking about her, they play that song
and I feel like it's the first time I ever
heard that song.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
That's my best friend Verda so Vada and.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Most of the girls don't appreciate her.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I always surround myself with people who I find intellectually stimulated.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Hello, guys, you're a little afraid of her, but she's
more fun to.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Be around than anyone I know. That is the song
that I danced to with my dad at my wedding.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Just hearing his voice then has just triggered that memory
of the funeral where Vader runs up together he can't.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
See without he's glasses on his little shoe, who has
an open casket for a kid who got stung to
death by bees. But on a lighter note, another really
great movie that I loved watching and have probably watched
over one hundred times is Father of the Bride.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Oh how good Steve Martin.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Steve Martin.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But also you know, when Annie's getting married his little daughter,
and you know, there's this one scene in the movie
and I still to this day, as an almost forty
year old woman, cannot watch.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It without crying.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
It's where they've sang their vows and then kind of
you flip over to Steve Martin and he's having this
internal dialogue with himself in his head about letting her go.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I'm getting emotional lip talking about it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I realized at that moment that I was never going
to come home again and see Annie at the top
of the stairs, never going to see her again at
our breakfast table and her nightgown and socks. I suddenly
realized what was happening. Annie was all grown up and
leaving us, and something inside began to hurt.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
You.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Look at you.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Look at your eyes, just a loser, I know, moist eyes.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I I think because it reminds me of my dad.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Like my dad is a big softy and I was
the firstborn and I'm his only daughter, and.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
That's why you had my girl as your dance. But
also that.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Song that goes on to play is a classical music
piece called canon in d and I had.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
That is the song that I walked down the aisle
with my dad to. Really, why not call me an
old school romantic. I don't know what it is that
I am.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
But there are two movies that really had an impact
on me, and I've somehow brought both of those music
tracks into my wedding day.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But I love getting our kids to watch the movies
that we used to love, but it is hard because
some of them age better than others, and some of
them now because they watched now, they watched like Minecraft,
and I wrote Toyster, they've got all the really hot
special effects now, and we watch those old crap that
we used to watch. It's like if our parents were
like have and watch Gone with the Wind. It's a
(24:19):
wonderful film and the kids are going, oh god, not.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
My girl, or yeah, like I feel like a cool
movie for us. Have you watched Have you made your
kids watch Home Alone?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Of course Home Alone one and actually Home Alone two
I think is even better, yeah than New York One.
But I tell you I didn't go so far as
to have the theme song from Home Alone played at
my wedding.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
As well done.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Georgie would have loved that. It's like the opposite of
My Girl. Where My Girl they actually showed someone dying,
whereas Home Alone two showed people getting hit in the
head with bricks from a four storytownhouse and being fine.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, you actually couldn't die in those movies.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Harry and Marv would have died like thirty times in
those films.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
But it's a little far fetched, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah, thanks for that walk down memory lane.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, I'm going to go home and Watch of the Bride, Chris.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Okay, I told you we were going to talk diamonds
and how you can pick up an amazing rocket a
fraction of the price. Yes, it's called lab grown diamonds.
I don't know anything about it, so we're going to
talk to someone who does. And it's Talitha Cummings, who
has been a journalist for many years with Channel seven.
It now works with lab grown Diamonds. Hi, Talitha, Hi,
(25:35):
thanks for having me tell us what? How does this work?
So you've started a business where someone grows diamonds, diamonds?
How do you grow a diamond?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
So essentially, so, I was a journalist for a long
time and then my uncle Craig, who has been a
jeweler for fifty odd years, kept sort of hammering me
to join the family business. And yeah, I discovered these
lab grown diamonds. We were asked to identify a mind
diamond and compare it with the lab grown diamond under
a microscope, and we couldn't tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Do you find that there are people that for some
reason still prefer like the traditional dug up diamonds?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
And do you know why? Definitely?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I mean it's a really divisive issue. Yes, you would
see any posts on Instagram will the opinions are divided,
but the market has spoken. However, there is a stigma
attached to lab diamonds for some people, and I guess
it's just because we've been marketed at the years and
(26:38):
years and years about these diamonds that come from the earth,
and there's some mystical attachment to.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
It's so I was actually explaining to a girlfriend it's
kind of you know, obviously a makeup brand like Charlotte
Tilbury and then you have MC beauty, which is your
lux for less brand, and having used both products, they
are equally just as good, except MC Beauty means that
it's affordable for majority of people, whereas only a certain
(27:06):
amount of people can afford Charlotte Tilbury, which I feel
like is quite similar to lab grown diamonds versus dug
uplines right.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
In part, I think lab grown diamonds are chemically, physically
and visually the same.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Like the size of the rock that you can get
as a lab grown diamond versus one that's dug up.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Well, what am I paying for a lab grow? So
say my say, I want to spend five grands yes,
will that get me a lab grown diamond that looks
like a what real diamond?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Well, that would be like a one and a half
carrot diamond, round cut diamond, and you're looking at probably
twelve plus for a natural diamond, right, So it's a
significant saving and in a time where and most of
the you know, the younger people who are coming to
us are saying they look exactly the same. We have
(27:58):
to pay for a wedding, we're going on a honeymoon,
we're buying a house, we're doing all of these things.
Why would we, you know, then spend an extra seven
thousand dollars to buy the same product.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
It's difficult to justify something that's been dug out of
the ground, particularly when I mean, I'm sure you've seen
blood diamond with Leonardo DiCaprio doing a great South African accent,
but I mean African kids having limbs lopped off with
machetes by warlords digging up these real diamonds. This is
an ad for fake diamonds. Thank you for the yeah,
(28:31):
But I mean it's the things, the human suffering that
actually goes into a lot of these blood diamonds, and.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They honestly to the naked eye, like you would have
absolutely no idea what's lab grown versus what is dug up?
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Yes, gemologists can't tell the difference, so so.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
You're almost like, why would anyone buy what dug up?
Speaker 5 (28:53):
So the arguments against it, people will say, well, natural
diamonds will retain value, they're an investment in, an investment
in your love. But that's actually not true, because go
and try to sell your old engagement ring natural diamond.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
You'll get pennies and dollar for it.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Cash converters with you with your DVD player for heroin.
But this is the only diamond. This is the first
example I've heard of an instance where you can spend
less money for the more humane option as well, because
you've got to go in and buy you know, if
you've got to spend more for free range eggs or
you know, clothes that are ethically made, whereas I mean,
(29:34):
you'd never know my jumper, you know, twenty bucks from
Big w it's probably people probably suffered immensely to make
this job, and I got it. There's a bargain whereas
you can actually, yeah, it's humane and it's cheaper. This
is a this is a win win.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
It is a huge win and I think it's yeah,
the writing's on the wall in terms of where the
market's heading, so.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Men and women as well, because I know women propose
these days as well. Sometimes if you're a cuck. Guys,
if you want to propose, what do people do to Letha?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Do they?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I'm sure you have a website people should go to
and check out what you've.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Got Cutsjewelry dot com. Today you come and have a
chat with us and we can give you all options.
We sell natural diamonds and lab diamonds as well, so
if you do want natural diamonds, that's an option. To
diamond is a diamond in my eyes.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Check it out, guys and girls for a lab grown
diamond at a fraction of the price. Talitha Cummings, great
to see you again, Lovely to seek Chris Page and
amens your ard.
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