September 30, 2025 • 14 mins
Barra was left stunned by the price of showbags at this year’s Royal Show - $30 a pop? No thanks. He reckons the scariest thing isn’t the rides, but the ATM. His money-saving tip? Pray your kids come down with something during show week so you can skip the trip altogether. Barra also shared his thoughts on chore rosters and asked Russell if he’s gearing up to loan his kids money for their future mortgages.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Time for barriers bits.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
When you've got to get work, you've got to get
into work Clobber. Their eight trade stores are everywhere, so
when you need it, you can get it or check
out work clobber dot com dot are you the wise
man is in the studio to join us Morning.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Barrow Morning a Russ with what we're trying to put
our hat on now as dad? In terms of what
happens at school holidays and do you go to the
Royal Show? I reckon that's a tricky one. I knew
someone who didn't tell their kids about the Royal Show
for many years, didn't tell them, didn't tell them about it.
I thought, what a brilliant idea, because they didn't know
(00:37):
what they were missing out on. Their mates never said
anything or all these what are these show bags?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Kids never talk about that sort of stuff. So for
several years until I think even before just before they
got became pre teens, is when they finally.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Finally found out. They finally saw an ad in the
paper or on the TV, and gee, that looks like fun?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Where's that? That's a long? Mom? And dad? Where's clam bakers?
That smiles away? Claim?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
If you need any help this morning. By the way,
you can text through on zero four seven six six
ninety six ninety six. Yeah, it is Royal showtime at
school holiday time. Maybe it's one of those things that's
especially for parents. It's not an every year.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, I've got some tips for saving money, I reckon. Yeah,
maybe once every two years, or perhaps you can share
it with the grandparents and send them.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That's always good.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
And they never ask you for money in the grandparents.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's fifty bucks to get in for adults, but I
think the kids are free. But I've noticed that I
have been there. I noticed some of the show bags
up over thirty bucks.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Now there's one, isn't there one over one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, I'm not just.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The standard sort of AFL basketball whatever over thirty bucks,
which blew me away. I mean how many couljacksually buy.
And the rides, some of the rides are over twenty
bucks as well. Oh yeah, so Berdie the beetle comes
straight back into.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
The He's always got a whole all these plays with
his value for money. Give you a bel birdie Beetle.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's five bucks. Now, can you remember how much it
was when you were growing up?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Gee, was it two dollars or one dollar?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think it was.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I think it was it was a round about that
gold coin donation would have been like.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Early eighties, it would have been yeah, something like a
couple of bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I hope Susanna Card doesn't mind me saying this, but
she told me in the makeup room yesterday and this
is this is.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Nothing about nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I don't even know what date things changed, but she
said she used to get a pound to go to
the to the Royal Show and she gets six showbags
for that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yep, and probably still come home with throppence three piece?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Was there a so? So do you want my chips?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I mean, I guess when you get there fifty bucks
and then you've got thirty eight bucks on a unicorn bag.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You know that's you still, that's still burnt into your memory,
the day you had to buy the unicorn bag?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Is it exactly? I remember saying to my son once
he said, can I go on the roller coaster? Dad?
I said, yeah, but you can't go to UNI Later on.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
But we're renting out one of the rooms in the house.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
The scariest part of the Haunted House. I don't know
if you remember the Haunted House. There used to always
be an atm out the front. That was the scariest part.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
The atm have a ghost trade which was people just
jump up out front of employed.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Which works.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It scared the hell out of it.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Here's my chips for saving money. So pray for your
kids to be sick at this time of the year.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Wouldn't that be the last would that be the last
thing that you you know, you rely on to save money?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I don't know, once every two years and this you
know how you have kids have pres?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Now have you heard about pres?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
They all go somewhere beforehand to have a few drinks
because drinks are so expensive.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
This is not the Royal Show.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
This is a broader discussion, right, yeah, So teenagers now
they have pres, they go to someone's house to have
a few drinks before they go out.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh yeah, because I used to do that too.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, because it's so expensive the drinks. Now for the rules,
so at the Ryal Show. But at the Royal Show
you get a pre eat, so go to freeze eat.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
So in your own household, fill the kids up before
they leave, So don't ask for a lot of food
and take some snacks and drinks yourself. Now they don't
frisk you're allowed to bring them in, so that's good.
Hit the free stuff hard, real hard.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, visit so straight to the exhibition pavision so that
you get all the free sample.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
See the dogs, you know, see the you know, the
sheep shearing the animals, Visit the cows, you know all
that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
In fact, don't even go into Side Show Ali. Seriously,
I would. I wouldn't even go there because the kids
won't know where it is.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well I don't, but you and I can't walk down
Side Show Ali anymore. We just stand out too much.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Don't we. Well, the old folks, I would just not
go there.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And if you do go there, and you're going to
try to win one of those giant stuff banana toys
that are worth too but which I've never been able
to win, and forty seven months.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Being able, never been able to win, you wouldn't still
be up for a you know, for a ride on
the vomitron.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well that's the other thing. I mean, do you actually
what do you like about that stuff? The Dodge and
cars is as far as I went. Yeah, that's all right,
and the birdy beetle bags. That's the way to go.
Maybe you you'd say, look, kids, one birdy beetle bag
and one or two show bags and that'll do you.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I remember when I first went my dad. The only
thing he bought.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Me was a like a plane, like a foam sort
of glider. Remember those gliders where you put them together,
you put the wings between. Yeah, yeah, that was it.
That was all I got, and I was very upset.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, well, Bruce from Hillary is it's just texted through.
Showbags used to be free. They were called sample bags.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's how it started.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
And then somebody mills and wears biscuit bags and stuff
like that. You get it, you know, a couple of
samples of some free biscuits.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I felt so sorry for myself when I came home
with only a foam glider and the block boy across
the road had like four or five show bags. So
I had to coerce him in the.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Shep as well, you have to do that, and you
can't go.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I can't go home without it's my it's whenever I
go to the show, which is like my ones every
two or three years, I can't can't go without it.
Trying a dagwood dog, you've got it. Yea, even not
not the healthiest meal.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
We'll go for in that case, go for the corn,
you know, the corn with the butter. I reckon that's
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's just not as appealing to me. The dagwood dog.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Is just well, you're not gonna have a heart attack.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
A show, not at the rate that I eat them.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
But so families used to save all year for balley.
I think nowadays you have to save all year for
the royal show.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's the way to go. Put a bit of money aside.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's a good incentive for the kids to save, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Go, you know, just make sure you put a dollar
or two away a week and there's there's your showbag
pocket money, or in the case of a couple of them,
there's half a showbag.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
What's the going rate of pocket money nowadays?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh don't you?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I think it's based on age. I think it's based
on age. You get so many, so many dollars, you know,
for your age.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
At some stage, I've got to get my kids to
pay rent or board.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That's that's a topic for another maybe. How do you
do it well?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Because they stay at home.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
From what do you charge as well? And the boys
so much charge as much as you can.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
As much as you can get away with, whether they're working.
Take all that in mate, You've got it. You've got
to do those things.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Now. It's a different world, mate, it's a different world,
very different world.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And I wanted to leave though, but I want them
to pay board.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
It's usually one one parent wants them to stay and
the other wants them to leave. In our house, I'll
be I'll be quite happy when they when they're ready. Yeah, really,
I left home early, so you know it's independent.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Now I've got that European thing, the one more food.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
The only problem is it's so unattainable and so expensive
for them that I totally understand. It's it's not as
easy as it.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Was for you and I man buying house. Oh or
even we're gonna have to You're gonna have to lend it.
You're gonna have to get lend the money.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You're ready for that stuff, putting a dollar a week
loading up the supermar bar.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Show.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I got a text on zero four seven six ninety
six ninety six ninety six from David in Balcata fellows.
I remember when Kiss show bags were the thing at
the show, but when we brought them to school, the
school that David went to was very religious thought that
Kiss stood for knights in the service of Satan, so
(08:35):
the bags were banned. No, Kiss didn't stand for that.
As far as Jean and Paul were concerned, Kiss stood.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
For kitching, kit ching, kir ching.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
A question through from Max of Oakford. You guys mentioned
chores before. What are the best things to start them doing?
Picking up dog poo, doing the dishes? What chrs did
you have to do as a kid. Well, what do
you think I reckon? You know what I reckon? I
made this mistake. And my daughter's listening now, Maddie, and
she'll she'll be just you're already out of text. I
already said, don't try to charge me board Dad. They
(09:09):
got that text, but I didn't get them.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And I had this myself, a roster like you need
to write it down and put a roster and put
you know, M for Madison, T for Tom, you know Dad, Mom,
you know, include yourselves on it as well. Just have
a roster. It used to be washing up and drying up.
I must be the only person in Western Australia. Who
doesn't use a dishwasher.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I think it might be because I'm sure as well.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I use Mine's incredible and apparently you save more money
by having a dishwasher in terms of your water. Yeah,
you do. I've only just discovered that. So maybe this
week I buy a dishwasher. Yes, so we haven't got one.
But anyway, so instead of you can't have washing up
and drying, so filling the dishwasher, emptying the dishwasher, but
put mowing the lawn on there, I reckon as your
son becomes a teenager, so it can do manly stuff
(09:58):
and then you can teach him how to mo as well,
you know, like this is what you're doing. This, how
you do the edging and stuff. The bin's going out
so that gets you out of getting in trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So that's my son's job is to take the bins out.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And how good is when?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Because when he's not very good at it, when he misses.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
It, though, you don't have to race out there in
your pajamas exactly, that's right. You know, on Peppermint Grove
they'll come round, and to be yes, in Peppermint Grave,
they will come if you haven't put your bin out.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
They'll go down the side the binmen and bring it
down themselves.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That'll be. That'll be. That'll be built into your rates,
won't it?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Mate?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
How good is that the ballet service for your bin?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I don't think they're worried about their rates.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Probably not probably.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Cleaning your and MAXI cleaning the room too, mate.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
But cleaning their own room for a start, because if
they're doing that, then you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
What's this thing with leaving towels on the floor. I
used to do it? Seem comfortable, but why do we
do that? It's not even that, don't you? No way,
you must be very unusual man. No wonder you're still married.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I just wish, you know. I wish my kids wouldn't
do it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I know it.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
That is such a weird thing. So anyway, I've got
this other idea too. You haven't got any more text message?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You want to read it? No?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Well, just Jill says. When our kids were in UNI,
we said, if you're studying full time and not being
an idiot, you don't pay board. As soon as they
got full time work, we charged them seven and a
half percent of their income. There you go.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Seven and a half percent. Don't put a figure on it.
I have. And but if you're studying and doing well.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You're okay, you're off the hook. But as soon as
you become a clown.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That's a good incentive, is that if you get good
well over eighty or over seventy five, well over seventy.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I don't ask me academic questions, Bara, did.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
You see the kids operate with AI? This is not
my kids. Other kids I've heard about, right, Yeah, AI
when they study, Yeah, and then they humanize it. There's
a machine you can get to humanize the AI. So
there's no way that teachers or whatever they're called, lecture
tutors can find can know that you're using AI.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I don't know. They'll come up with a way to
suss it out. But look, I agree that they have to.
They have to learn how to use it because whether
we like it or not, changing the world, it's here
and it's never going away, so we might as well
find a way to embrace it.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Mate.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's why getting it's dumbing ourselves down too much.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You know, getting a trade is a great thing too,
because yes, AI will not take you'll still need plumbers
and electricians.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
It'll design the tool, but it'll still need someone to
hold the tool and do the job exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
So think about that kids. The other thing I wanted
to mention to you is I'm thinking about setting up
a YouTube show. Just let me just run this past.
See what you think. You know.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Not all families have father figures in them. And I'm
not saying you need a father figure and it's super
important or whatever, but if you don't, you may want
your kids to have information that a dad or a
granddad perhaps would give. So I'm thinking of doing like
a YouTube, Dad, how do I do it?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It's good?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
How do I do it? And so and on there.
I'll get on there and I'll show people how I'll
learn how to do it. How to change how to
change a washer, because you know how my washer was
I destroyed. It cost me six hundred bucks from the plumber.
But now I know how to do it. So how
to change a washer? How to have a shave life Like,
shaving is a big thing, isn't it if you don't
have anyone. My son said to me other day, Dad,
(13:26):
you never showed me how to shave, and I felt so,
you know, like i'd made a massive blue in my life.
Change a tire, get on there and how to tie it?
Tire is a big.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
One adult thing they call it. Remember we talked about
it last week, adulting with a light globe.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I could get Rick Harden on there to show everyone
how to do a winds or not.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
No one does it better, no one does it better,
and how to do their hair.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So there's no I don't know. Do you reckon?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Because it's more about kindness and patience and connection rather
than even the information.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I would learn something as well. Do you reckon? That
would fly? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Give it a go, Give it a go. You never
started up, just quickly before we go because we've got
to wrap it up a jill of or is that
gil of Matalie? Can you please remind dads to be
patient enough to wait in line with their kids to
pat the animals at the show? Volume Yeah, and dad's
saying the line is too long. The kids never say it.
(14:25):
Come on, Dad's do it for the kids. Be patient?
What about it's their day?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
What about the grumpy dog owners? Have you ever seen
the grumpy dong owners? They normally the normally.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
The pug people.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
The pug owners like you go to put the get away,
get away, good chat
Time for barriers bits.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
When you've got to get work, you've got to get
into work Clobber. Their eight trade stores are everywhere, so
when you need it, you can get it or check
out work clobber dot com dot are you the wise
man is in the studio to join us Morning.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Barrow Morning a Russ with what we're trying to put
our hat on now as dad? In terms of what
happens at school holidays and do you go to the
Royal Show? I reckon that's a tricky one. I knew
someone who didn't tell their kids about the Royal Show
for many years, didn't tell them, didn't tell them about it.
I thought, what a brilliant idea, because they didn't know
(00:37):
what they were missing out on. Their mates never said
anything or all these what are these show bags?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Kids never talk about that sort of stuff. So for
several years until I think even before just before they
got became pre teens, is when they finally.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Finally found out. They finally saw an ad in the
paper or on the TV, and gee, that looks like fun?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Where's that? That's a long? Mom? And dad? Where's clam bakers?
That smiles away? Claim?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
If you need any help this morning. By the way,
you can text through on zero four seven six six
ninety six ninety six. Yeah, it is Royal showtime at
school holiday time. Maybe it's one of those things that's
especially for parents. It's not an every year.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, I've got some tips for saving money, I reckon. Yeah,
maybe once every two years, or perhaps you can share
it with the grandparents and send them.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That's always good.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
And they never ask you for money in the grandparents.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's fifty bucks to get in for adults, but I
think the kids are free. But I've noticed that I
have been there. I noticed some of the show bags
up over thirty bucks.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Now there's one, isn't there one over one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, I'm not just.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The standard sort of AFL basketball whatever over thirty bucks,
which blew me away. I mean how many couljacksually buy.
And the rides, some of the rides are over twenty
bucks as well. Oh yeah, so Berdie the beetle comes
straight back into.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
The He's always got a whole all these plays with
his value for money. Give you a bel birdie Beetle.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's five bucks. Now, can you remember how much it
was when you were growing up?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Gee, was it two dollars or one dollar?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think it was.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I think it was it was a round about that
gold coin donation would have been like.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Early eighties, it would have been yeah, something like a
couple of bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I hope Susanna Card doesn't mind me saying this, but
she told me in the makeup room yesterday and this
is this is.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Nothing about nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I don't even know what date things changed, but she
said she used to get a pound to go to
the to the Royal Show and she gets six showbags
for that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yep, and probably still come home with throppence three piece?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Was there a so? So do you want my chips?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I mean, I guess when you get there fifty bucks
and then you've got thirty eight bucks on a unicorn bag.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You know that's you still, that's still burnt into your memory,
the day you had to buy the unicorn bag?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Is it exactly? I remember saying to my son once
he said, can I go on the roller coaster? Dad?
I said, yeah, but you can't go to UNI Later on.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
But we're renting out one of the rooms in the house.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
The scariest part of the Haunted House. I don't know
if you remember the Haunted House. There used to always
be an atm out the front. That was the scariest part.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
The atm have a ghost trade which was people just
jump up out front of employed.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Which works.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It scared the hell out of it.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Here's my chips for saving money. So pray for your
kids to be sick at this time of the year.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Wouldn't that be the last would that be the last
thing that you you know, you rely on to save money?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I don't know, once every two years and this you
know how you have kids have pres?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Now have you heard about pres?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
They all go somewhere beforehand to have a few drinks
because drinks are so expensive.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
This is not the Royal Show.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
This is a broader discussion, right, yeah, So teenagers now
they have pres, they go to someone's house to have
a few drinks before they go out.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh yeah, because I used to do that too.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, because it's so expensive the drinks. Now for the rules,
so at the Ryal Show. But at the Royal Show
you get a pre eat, so go to freeze eat.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
So in your own household, fill the kids up before
they leave, So don't ask for a lot of food
and take some snacks and drinks yourself. Now they don't
frisk you're allowed to bring them in, so that's good.
Hit the free stuff hard, real hard.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, visit so straight to the exhibition pavision so that
you get all the free sample.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
See the dogs, you know, see the you know, the
sheep shearing the animals, Visit the cows, you know all
that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
In fact, don't even go into Side Show Ali. Seriously,
I would. I wouldn't even go there because the kids
won't know where it is.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well I don't, but you and I can't walk down
Side Show Ali anymore. We just stand out too much.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Don't we. Well, the old folks, I would just not
go there.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And if you do go there, and you're going to
try to win one of those giant stuff banana toys
that are worth too but which I've never been able
to win, and forty seven months.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Being able, never been able to win, you wouldn't still
be up for a you know, for a ride on
the vomitron.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well that's the other thing. I mean, do you actually
what do you like about that stuff? The Dodge and
cars is as far as I went. Yeah, that's all right,
and the birdy beetle bags. That's the way to go.
Maybe you you'd say, look, kids, one birdy beetle bag
and one or two show bags and that'll do you.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I remember when I first went my dad. The only
thing he bought.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Me was a like a plane, like a foam sort
of glider. Remember those gliders where you put them together,
you put the wings between. Yeah, yeah, that was it.
That was all I got, and I was very upset.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, well, Bruce from Hillary is it's just texted through.
Showbags used to be free. They were called sample bags.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's how it started.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
And then somebody mills and wears biscuit bags and stuff
like that. You get it, you know, a couple of
samples of some free biscuits.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I felt so sorry for myself when I came home
with only a foam glider and the block boy across
the road had like four or five show bags. So
I had to coerce him in the.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Shep as well, you have to do that, and you
can't go.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I can't go home without it's my it's whenever I
go to the show, which is like my ones every
two or three years, I can't can't go without it.
Trying a dagwood dog, you've got it. Yea, even not
not the healthiest meal.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
We'll go for in that case, go for the corn,
you know, the corn with the butter. I reckon that's
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's just not as appealing to me. The dagwood dog.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Is just well, you're not gonna have a heart attack.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
A show, not at the rate that I eat them.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
But so families used to save all year for balley.
I think nowadays you have to save all year for
the royal show.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's the way to go. Put a bit of money aside.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's a good incentive for the kids to save, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Go, you know, just make sure you put a dollar
or two away a week and there's there's your showbag
pocket money, or in the case of a couple of them,
there's half a showbag.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
What's the going rate of pocket money nowadays?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh don't you?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I think it's based on age. I think it's based
on age. You get so many, so many dollars, you know,
for your age.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
At some stage, I've got to get my kids to
pay rent or board.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That's that's a topic for another maybe. How do you
do it well?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Because they stay at home.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
From what do you charge as well? And the boys
so much charge as much as you can.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
As much as you can get away with, whether they're working.
Take all that in mate, You've got it. You've got
to do those things.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Now. It's a different world, mate, it's a different world,
very different world.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And I wanted to leave though, but I want them
to pay board.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
It's usually one one parent wants them to stay and
the other wants them to leave. In our house, I'll
be I'll be quite happy when they when they're ready. Yeah, really,
I left home early, so you know it's independent.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Now I've got that European thing, the one more food.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
The only problem is it's so unattainable and so expensive
for them that I totally understand. It's it's not as
easy as it.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Was for you and I man buying house. Oh or
even we're gonna have to You're gonna have to lend it.
You're gonna have to get lend the money.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You're ready for that stuff, putting a dollar a week
loading up the supermar bar.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Show.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I got a text on zero four seven six ninety
six ninety six ninety six from David in Balcata fellows.
I remember when Kiss show bags were the thing at
the show, but when we brought them to school, the
school that David went to was very religious thought that
Kiss stood for knights in the service of Satan, so
(08:35):
the bags were banned. No, Kiss didn't stand for that.
As far as Jean and Paul were concerned, Kiss stood.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
For kitching, kit ching, kir ching.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
A question through from Max of Oakford. You guys mentioned
chores before. What are the best things to start them doing?
Picking up dog poo, doing the dishes? What chrs did
you have to do as a kid. Well, what do
you think I reckon? You know what I reckon? I
made this mistake. And my daughter's listening now, Maddie, and
she'll she'll be just you're already out of text. I
already said, don't try to charge me board Dad. They
(09:09):
got that text, but I didn't get them.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And I had this myself, a roster like you need
to write it down and put a roster and put
you know, M for Madison, T for Tom, you know Dad, Mom,
you know, include yourselves on it as well. Just have
a roster. It used to be washing up and drying up.
I must be the only person in Western Australia. Who
doesn't use a dishwasher.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I think it might be because I'm sure as well.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I use Mine's incredible and apparently you save more money
by having a dishwasher in terms of your water. Yeah,
you do. I've only just discovered that. So maybe this
week I buy a dishwasher. Yes, so we haven't got one.
But anyway, so instead of you can't have washing up
and drying, so filling the dishwasher, emptying the dishwasher, but
put mowing the lawn on there, I reckon as your
son becomes a teenager, so it can do manly stuff
(09:58):
and then you can teach him how to mo as well,
you know, like this is what you're doing. This, how
you do the edging and stuff. The bin's going out
so that gets you out of getting in trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So that's my son's job is to take the bins out.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And how good is when?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Because when he's not very good at it, when he misses.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
It, though, you don't have to race out there in
your pajamas exactly, that's right. You know, on Peppermint Grove
they'll come round, and to be yes, in Peppermint Grave,
they will come if you haven't put your bin out.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
They'll go down the side the binmen and bring it
down themselves.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That'll be. That'll be. That'll be built into your rates,
won't it?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Mate?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
How good is that the ballet service for your bin?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I don't think they're worried about their rates.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Probably not probably.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Cleaning your and MAXI cleaning the room too, mate.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
But cleaning their own room for a start, because if
they're doing that, then you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
What's this thing with leaving towels on the floor. I
used to do it? Seem comfortable, but why do we
do that? It's not even that, don't you? No way,
you must be very unusual man. No wonder you're still married.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I just wish, you know. I wish my kids wouldn't
do it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I know it.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
That is such a weird thing. So anyway, I've got
this other idea too. You haven't got any more text message?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You want to read it? No?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Well, just Jill says. When our kids were in UNI,
we said, if you're studying full time and not being
an idiot, you don't pay board. As soon as they
got full time work, we charged them seven and a
half percent of their income. There you go.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Seven and a half percent. Don't put a figure on it.
I have. And but if you're studying and doing well.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You're okay, you're off the hook. But as soon as
you become a clown.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That's a good incentive, is that if you get good
well over eighty or over seventy five, well over seventy.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I don't ask me academic questions, Bara, did.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
You see the kids operate with AI? This is not
my kids. Other kids I've heard about, right, Yeah, AI
when they study, Yeah, and then they humanize it. There's
a machine you can get to humanize the AI. So
there's no way that teachers or whatever they're called, lecture
tutors can find can know that you're using AI.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I don't know. They'll come up with a way to
suss it out. But look, I agree that they have to.
They have to learn how to use it because whether
we like it or not, changing the world, it's here
and it's never going away, so we might as well
find a way to embrace it.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Mate.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's why getting it's dumbing ourselves down too much.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You know, getting a trade is a great thing too,
because yes, AI will not take you'll still need plumbers
and electricians.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
It'll design the tool, but it'll still need someone to
hold the tool and do the job exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
So think about that kids. The other thing I wanted
to mention to you is I'm thinking about setting up
a YouTube show. Just let me just run this past.
See what you think. You know.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Not all families have father figures in them. And I'm
not saying you need a father figure and it's super
important or whatever, but if you don't, you may want
your kids to have information that a dad or a
granddad perhaps would give. So I'm thinking of doing like
a YouTube, Dad, how do I do it?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It's good?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
How do I do it? And so and on there.
I'll get on there and I'll show people how I'll
learn how to do it. How to change how to
change a washer, because you know how my washer was
I destroyed. It cost me six hundred bucks from the plumber.
But now I know how to do it. So how
to change a washer? How to have a shave life Like,
shaving is a big thing, isn't it if you don't
have anyone. My son said to me other day, Dad,
(13:26):
you never showed me how to shave, and I felt so,
you know, like i'd made a massive blue in my life.
Change a tire, get on there and how to tie it?
Tire is a big.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
One adult thing they call it. Remember we talked about
it last week, adulting with a light globe.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I could get Rick Harden on there to show everyone
how to do a winds or not.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
No one does it better, no one does it better,
and how to do their hair.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So there's no I don't know. Do you reckon?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Because it's more about kindness and patience and connection rather
than even the information.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I would learn something as well. Do you reckon? That
would fly? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Give it a go, Give it a go. You never
started up, just quickly before we go because we've got
to wrap it up a jill of or is that
gil of Matalie? Can you please remind dads to be
patient enough to wait in line with their kids to
pat the animals at the show? Volume Yeah, and dad's
saying the line is too long. The kids never say it.
(14:25):
Come on, Dad's do it for the kids. Be patient?
What about it's their day?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
What about the grumpy dog owners? Have you ever seen
the grumpy dong owners? They normally the normally.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
The pug people.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
The pug owners like you go to put the get away,
get away, good chat
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