August 10, 2025 • 25 mins
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The family just got back from Thailand - where Tiana and I weren't allowed to take our ADHD Meds with us... And yet we still managed to pull together a podcast episode from a chaotic week in Phuket!
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(00:14):
Rabbit. Hello there.
Hello there. This is a very special edition
of the podcast which we are recording from.
This is actually the third attempt.
Yeah, starting this. Here's the first two.
We're getting ready to go quad biking.
Or are we on that face? Maybe not all of us.
(00:34):
Hi, this is a special edition ofthe podcast.
It's Tiana and I are going to behosting and taking you through a
lot of stuff from our Thailand trip.
We are here. This is our room.
We're staying in a pool. Tiana's refusing to join me on
this part, so I'll just come across awesome.
(00:55):
Good job. This is how Tay's going to do
that. And now she's running off back
into the room. All right, well, she'll be
joining me shortly, but look at this.
Look at this. So yeah, this is literally like
straight off our room. Let me take you over this way.
That's our room. We were there.
So we've been here for a week. It's at the Marriott at Nyang
(01:19):
Beach in Phuket. And yeah, it's it's not bad.
This is just how we roll. It's actually not how we roll.
We just figured out how much we're spending a night on this
hotel and this will never happenagain.
And this one is also going to bea failed start.
It's too brave. It is.
It's too hot. It's all of the, it's all of the
two things. It's too hot, it's too fright,
(01:41):
I'm too sweaty. And let's continue this from an
air conditioning room. OK, we have found air con and
now all we have to contend with is random old guy in the
background. But with these microphones, we
can speak a bit quiet. So you can't hear us saying that
he's from an action movie. Well, Russian mob.
We did sort of like, I'm not going to say that it's fun
(02:05):
making up stories about people. People watching.
Yeah. Come up with stories for people
or places you see. I don't know what mum does a
lot. Mum does it a lot, so when we're
at the airport shopping centre. Anywhere.
With people, yeah. Sav likes to just sit and watch
(02:25):
people. It's her favorite thing to know
people watching. That's been so bad.
Like she just likes to watch people.
Yeah, well, she does. This morning at breakfast she
went and she went and got Billy and we knew exactly what she was
gonna be doing. Name actually Billy.
His name's actually Billy. I thought so.
Billy is the head chef at the hotel that we're staying at.
(02:48):
She'd probably say as well, actually, because we haven't
said this yet. This is Tiana.
This is my daughter. I'm 15 years old and still wants
to do nonsense like this with me, which is pretty cool.
I don't. Know about what wants to being
forced. To you want a plane ticket home.
Podcast. So yeah, we fly out at 10:30
tonight, and I feel that we should put a warning on this as
(03:08):
well because we've both clocked this on the holiday and we both
have ADHD. I was yours out there just now.
Yeah. Yeah.
Both being diagnosed and are medicated for it.
But The thing is the meds that I'm on yours you could have.
No, she couldn't bring hers in either.
(03:30):
But mine era. Oh, you mean the Dexys?
Yeah. No, but there's still all the
other. Yeah, I think with yours you
could with a doctor's certificate, with a doctor, a
letter from a doctor. You can bring those.
Drew has dexamphetamine in it. Oh, well, no then.
So we looked into it like what we could bring over, and I
wouldn't have, except there was a guy who recently ended up in a
(03:55):
someone just fired up some musicin the background that probably
won't come as very similar. So crazy I.
Wouldn't have even looked for itat all except there was a guy
from Australia who recently ended up in a Bali jail because
he had the exact same medicationthat we have turned up without
his doctor Steve. So in Bali you can take them in
(04:17):
with a letter from your doctor. He did get a letter from his
doctor. He went to jail while they
sorted the letter out. You'd think that would happen
pretty quickly. You'd hope it would couldn't
happen quick enough for him. I don't think it was through
that story that I went Oh my God, do we need to look into
ours and yeah found out that Nope, not even with a doctor's
note. Can you bring these and they are
Class 1 drug in Thailand and no to which people online are
(04:39):
going. Ah, you'll be fine.
Like, and we actually would havebeen coming into the airport
like it was. Chill you did you just walk in
and walk out like. There was enough layer.
Yeah, we went through. We did get fingerprinted that.
I've never had that happen before at at airport.
You did? Oh.
That was I. Don't know.
(05:01):
And that. So you were tired I.
Was just like you just put your fingers on.
I don't know you're. Just checking your nails.
Yeah, that's true. Maybe it was like one of those
thing nail drying machines. So yeah, tells the story about
and believe it, fluent Phuket and they, they dry your nails
Yeah, before you were up. So we did that and then we go
through the like, what customs? Yeah, I guess customs area and
(05:26):
the do you have something to declare was closed and the
people were just walking past the X-ray machine.
Yeah. You didn't have to do it.
We didn't run. Yeah, no police, no sniffer
dogs, no nothing. You cop more coming into
Australia and New Zealand and that.
So we would have been fine, but I just didn't feel like that was
(05:47):
worth the risk. You're yawning if I'm talking
story bro. Whatever.
So this week the two of us have been off meds and bye poor.
Mum. Poor mum, fully natural walk
through the hotel. Oh gosh, neither of us can make
(06:12):
a decision about anything. Every day I've said let's record
some stuff for the podcast, and here we are the.
The day we're leaving. We fly out in a few hours and
even then it's taken us multiplelocations.
Yeah, we're. Looking for like, just have to
check out SO. Dying in the heat and yeah, and
then we get back to the room andour cards aren't working because
(06:33):
yeah, we. Tried to tap him to get in the
room and it like wasn't working so I thought my card was working
then dad tapped his. Age girls like the two of us
together, so we actually came upwith an idea on this holiday as
well of it's like ADHD travel packages.
For your ADHD husbands mainly or.
Wives. It can go either way, yeah.
(06:54):
Yeah, yeah. You're a mixture that like you
want to just go and lie by the pool.
Yeah, you wanna do stuff all thetime, but then you also don't.
All the time, but then I also don't.
We both get back from breakfast every morning and just like face
more onto the bed and mum, everyone goes, you too.
Yeah, I've heard that so many times, goes.
Into and to read that book and. Waits until every change.
(07:17):
We're just lying there face downon the bed, just like waiting
for minutes and then we get up. But.
Then when we're up, it's on possibly going to a wakeboard
park or something this afternoon.
Although I am. Yeah.
So nothing I want to do. And we are flying out soon.
We got late checkout. Let me tell you about the hotel
(07:39):
whore. I have never stayed in anything
like this. It's five star.
It's the Marriott Nyang beach inPhuket.
It's only about 10 minutes from the airport and it's at the
northern end. So if you know where the airport
is, it's just around by there. So nowhere near Patong or like
(08:00):
Phuket Old Town. It's like an hour in a cab to
get down there. Although only $20, less than 20
bucks in a cab. And we use Bolt over here.
They have a version of Uber overhere.
Sure. Why I said like there Uber, you
know Uber, you know Uber, Uber and I've only just started
saying I saw a de garb probably like So what the.
(08:22):
Car. So the car.
So what the car, but the car on the end it's actually crap with
a rolled R but the locals don't do it.
So I'm like they're not doing it.
I'm doing it will be gap. But if you're a female, you say
car and it's just the politenessthat you put on saying something
anyway. We've obviously immersed
ourselves in the culture. You hear it so much, you walk
(08:45):
down the street and there's likea million massage places and
they were gonna put solid car massage and you hear it like 10
times every single person. This is solid car.
Yeah, massage. They're.
Lovely, so lovely. Don't speak some of them won't
speak any English, but they're still lovely.
I don't know what they're saying, but they seem that.
So we went to a what about? All right, this is what I was
(09:08):
going to say at the start. Okay, I was going to say I warn
you now. If you think when I do a
podcast, it jumps around all over the place.
Oh yeah, two ADHD. That's.
We went to a water park yesterday and demand and demand.
It was all sorts of things. It was awesome.
And there's just funny things about it.
(09:29):
Yeah, I was gonna say crazy expensive, but no, it was about.
$85 per person. 85 bucks each year to to get in.
You can't take your own food or drink in, so if you turn up with
a water bottle it has to be empty.
Actually not even allowed to take it in unless you take like
a proper water bottle. If you take a place one but they
say no, you bring along a refillable water bottle.
(09:51):
That's fine. And you can fill it up in the in
the park, found that out afterwards.
But if you take like a, you know, your standard plastic
bottle that you've bought from the shops or something and you
want to refill them in the parking lot, you can't take
those in. Yeah.
Can't take any food. So and you can't take any food,
but the cool side of the food thing is they actually hold onto
it for you. Yeah, 'cause what we like to do
(10:11):
is pinch a bunch of extra food from the buffet breakfast in the
morning. That's a good buffet.
And then it's, it's not like an all day thing.
Like there's not a lunch buffet or a dinner buffet.
Oh. It becomes an all day buffet.
150 Yeah. What's we fill up Stab's bag as
we're leaving breakfast. Take a couple of muffins,
pastries, apple, apples, couple smoothies.
(10:37):
Espresso. Espresso.
OK, I tried my first coffee on this trip as well.
Wait, we're not done with the water park so you can collect
your food when you leave at the end of the day.
So those muffins and pastries and that were quite, I had a
little energy drink thing in there as well, and that was nice
(10:58):
and warm, like warm cough syrup essentially at the end of the
day. Yeah.
So it's good that they they won't just check out your food
when you come back out. You just go all that.
Good, we paid so much money for those fishes.
Yeah, we stole that fair and spare.
If you want water, once you're in the park, you can buy one of
their cups and then, you know, refill it.
I never saw a refilling station but you get one of their ones
(11:19):
$25 for one of their empty bottles that you can refill so
you probably. Refill it with like.
Just the pool water. Yeah, well, I drank enough of
that as well as. It was.
I didn't never bring in. Any water We had the most
expensive ice cream ever in the theme park. 3 ice creams, $50.
(11:41):
Oh, that hurt, man. It was good there.
It was good ice cream. I mean, it was it.
Was it Haagen Dazs? Yeah, but anyway, that's what
you get when you're inside theseplaces.
And the queues, the queues weren't that long.
The dudes were slow. So if.
You go to the top of the of the queue, you're standing at the
top of this massive platform, and then you jump into your raft
(12:05):
thing, go down and do the slide.The slide takes 10 seconds.
Yeah, about 10 seconds. And you're down the bottom and
you're out 4 minutes in between the rafts going from the top.
They are. So they're just on a whole other
time. Yeah.
So you can turn up and there's only like 20 people you know, at
the top of the stairs in front of you.
And like sweet, we'll be on in amatter of seconds.
(12:28):
Nope. Like over 40 minutes waiting for
the first one and then the same for the for the next one as
well. It's just very slow.
No, the next one, you were waiting for ages.
I was down and gone. I was waiting at the bottom for
so long, forever. And I was just, I was just
standing there by myself. Like, yeah, I.
Wasn't going to go on the thing you went in.
You know that one where you hop in and you cross your arms over
(12:49):
your chest? You're standing and then it,
just like the platform beneath you, just drops.
Yeah, it's essentially a a vertical coffin.
Yeah. And then the floor drops away
and you'll pull down through that.
I was mildly considering doing that one.
I've done it before. I like to tick things off as
done. And then if I don't enjoy it, I
never doing it again. The one next to where I was
standing, they had technical difficulties.
Yeah, one of them was like they took off the paddle of the back
(13:13):
and just well, fixing around thewires and I was like, I'm not
getting in that. One I'm not getting in any of
them. I've seen how it works now.
There's just an actuator on the back and when the button goes
it, it just does that and then it just drops, the person said.
I went in the other line, which turns out was at a very slow,
and then we floated around the lazy river.
That was pretty awesome. We enjoyed that.
(13:36):
Oh, that's right. Dad didn't have one of those
like, cool floaty things that Mum and I were in, and so he
decided he was just gonna swim it and drag us along, you know,
when there's, oh, what do you call it?
Like when there's the water shooting water.
Spouts coming across and there was heavy in the water.
He would just drag it so it wentover our heads and make sure we
like endured it for extra long and.
(13:59):
It's good times. And then he made the lifeguards
laugh at us. Yeah, lifeguards thought I was.
Like. I will say, and Amanda, this not
security, the lifeguards, the safety, yeah, the lifeguards
stuff, It's a very safe place. Yeah, it's expensive.
It's it is what it is. You know, we had a good day up
(14:23):
that filled in today quite nicely.
Think up a mighty Chan have beenbig supporters of the pod Dan
podcast right from the start, and you get all the stuff from
them that you'd expect to. You get plants, you get all the
Weber stuff, you get all the steel here, the amazing
principal kitchens, but it's thestuff that you don't expect.
Like this lady comes in and she's hired a goat, but to clear
(14:43):
some lands and she wanted to work out a way.
How to? Tether this goat.
I come up with an idea of a bit of stainless steel wire between
2:00 2 trees, like a zip line between the two trees.
To the goat. She took my advice.
I don't know how it turned out, but she was very happy with the
service that she got. That's what she got.
And the mighty helpful King Cumber Minor Gen. have you been
(15:04):
to Guandalin Bowling Club? They're right there on the
shores of Lake Macquarie. They do delicious meals upstairs
in the Foreshore Bistro and Cafe, which is run by the Dish
Catering Group. So you know it's good stuff and
you can dine out on the balcony looking out over the lake.
It is We went quad biking the other
(15:46):
day. We went to ATVs.
Yeah, ripping around on those. Tiana was on the back of mine.
Four. I was so excited and then I
started driving it for like halfa second and went no, no.
Yeah, T had her own one. I wasn't going to say that, he
said. T got her own one.
It was just a matter of meters. Because then, right, OK, the
start of the track was like it looked like a straight up drop
(16:09):
off. Like it obviously wasn't that
steep, but it looked like it was.
Just like, it's pretty steep. Yes, that's how you start.
That's how you start on these. And I was like, no.
No, no, and I was like jump on the back of this one, we'll just
take Sav hit her own 1T and I were on one.
I didn't realise till the next day that T wasn't actually on
the Yeah I. Didn't have a seat.
I was sitting on like the bars at the back 'cause I woke up the
(16:31):
next morning I'm like, oh I'm so, so sore 'cause I didn't have
a seat. And that's like.
What, You didn't have a seat? He's.
Throwing the thing around, he's pulling all these manoeuvres and
like spinning around. It was muddy and so in some
parts you could really just gun it through and just slide it
side to side. You weren't muddy.
I had the oh, he was absolutely cut.
(16:51):
I was, I was one with the mud. It was not OK.
Yeah, I got the muddy out of everyone.
Wonders for your skin of your ankles.
Mum had nothing on her, dad had barely anything on him.
And then my shoes. I had to ruin a bin.
Yeah, when we were there becausethey were just.
You couldn't. I'm chugging my thongs out
(17:11):
today. I've got some thongs that I've
been wearing and man, they don't.
Think. They've gotten so wet through
this. Yeah, at the top of the ATV
thing at the top of the mountain, there's this big swing
that goes off to. Me, that was the best.
Thought I didn't. I did not enjoy.
Mom and I love hearts. We do Bunny dumping and all
sorts of stuff and so it was like swing and it just went
(17:35):
slightly off so you could get a nice view of like the double and
all the city and everything. Dad does not like heights.
Look, I don't know. Well, there's certain things.
No, no, I don't. Well, I'm tripping on that.
(17:56):
And even like with that swing, right, The dude pulls you back
and then it pushes you out and I'm like, whoa.
And then after I've done that, once I'm done, I don't need to
keep going and going and going. It's a sonis far out man.
My knuckles were wiped from how old?
How time wasn't holding on. Yeah, you weren't holding on,
which freaked me out even more. Yeah, and anyway, and the guide.
(18:17):
The guide didn't speak. English.
So Dad was like laughing, 'causehe's terrified.
And he was like, yeah, that I'm done, I'm done, that's no more
for me, I'm done that now. And he just kept pushing.
Yeah. Anyway, he was like, oh, where's
them going? But I do that thing where I
laugh when I'm terrified. Yeah.
You do as well. I love.
When I'm in pain, yeah, that physio now knows.
(18:38):
Yeah, he knows. Yes, I'm laughing.
He thinks he he got the message when I when I tried to grab hold
of the pole next to me to stop. Yeah, he was like, no, no, no.
I get it. You're done.
Yeah, Yeah, I'm done and you will be too.
You push me again, mate. He just kept pushing me along.
So that was fun with getting down to Phuket to go to these
places. We've been getting these bolts,
these Hussein bolt ubers. The traffic has just been eye
(19:05):
opening, man. Yeah.
So the scooters, there's just scooters everywhere.
And quite often you will say just to know.
Many people. Yeah, mum's riding it.
There's a little. Like a like a 2 or a three-year
old and then a five year old andthen maybe the teenager is
sandwiching them at yeah, and they're all just on a little
scooter and they are ripping along down the road.
(19:26):
No helmets, no indicating, yeah,lane change whenever you want.
And it'll just, and I love it. I love every bit of it.
I would love to be on one of those scooters within a helmet.
It's chaos, man. And it just works.
And the tailgating, all the stuff that I was looking at and
going, if you did any of that back home, any of that is
(19:49):
considered bad driving. Yeah, while they're having.
On the phone, they'll be on the phone, on the scooter with a kid
wedged between them or whatever,Just on the phone.
Ripping along and there's all the utes with all the.
So I saw one yesterday that had at least 12 to 15 people in the
back of it. They were just in lines of
three. Yeah, yeah.
So across the edges of the tray,just planks of wood.
(20:13):
And then they were just sitting in rows like on bleachers.
They're just sitting. There, they're all just coming
home from work at the end of theday.
Everyone's, I guess, carpooling in the back of this Ute and
there's no seatbelts, It's just one guy was just sitting on a
ladder, just sitting on the ladder in the back of the Ute.
There was like material in the back of one of the utes why tie
it down when you can sit on it, you know?
(20:34):
Yeah. That is it tied down if anything
would have been irresponsible not have a man sitting on the
back of it. Fastest speed we got up to with
one of these local Ubers, the Bolt, it was 90 and A50 that we
were doing. Oh yeah, I was keeping an eye
on. That so 70 and a 50 I think.
Essentially the way it works here is just everything is a
suggestion helmets. No phones.
Lane. Speed limits.
(20:55):
Yeah, lane changing indicating Rd.
Rules. All of these things, and then at
one point a police officer on a scooter pulled into the middle
of it all, came around the corner and we were like, oh,
here we go. Right next to him, a dude goes
ribbon past, no helmet on, goes past.
Another one went past with a bunch of people sitting in the
back of the Ute nothing. So like, exactly what are you
policing? Nothing on the roads.
(21:18):
And I like it. The weather's been horrible hot
the whole time. You wanted this.
The whole point of this trip is because Tiana came and
presented, actually did up a presentation to her parentals.
What was it? Esteemed Parental figures
Esteemed. Parental figures like that it
was. It was so funny.
Life creators. You played us well.
(21:40):
It was written so funny that we're like OK, well let's have a
look at going somewhere warm andsunny there.
Our houses. I know you may think that your
house is cold and it's been wet and stuff, but you No, no, our
is the coldest, wettest, mouldiest, dampest damp.
It's just yeah. And I don't mind it.
I like the cold. I'm not built for the heat, but
(22:02):
these two were just all about I just want to lie by a pool in
the sun. I'm also not built for the.
Heat, but like, I know, I know. I'm constantly reminding you of
that. You come here and you're like,
oh, it's so hot, so hot in summer.
You're just like, oh, I just wish I could go to New Zealand.
I want to go to the snow. You can always just put on extra
layers and rug up. Next minute, let's go to
(22:24):
Thailand. Through Thailand.
It's 31° like all day long overnight low like 2729 our
hotel room. That's the pool, like right
straight off the balcony behind us there.
So we just walk straight out anddrop in and we do, the forecast
said. Thunderstorms for pretty much
the entire week it it's rained once, yeah, I think on the trip.
(22:45):
So it's just been pretty awesomereally.
I got attacked by sea lice on the first day.
And the sun. Oh, hello.
That worked out OK. Housekeeping.
Someone's knocking at the door. Housekeeping.
How be your mother? Oh yeah, her king.
Like please don't be a housekeeping.
Hi, how are you? No.
(23:10):
Have rest, just get out of it. OK, it's Sam knocking at the
door. No, Seth been doing this thing.
We started off by talking events.
You know, she went and spoke to Billy and loves people watching
and all of that. Well, I think she was doing at
the water park yesterday. That's where the hello came
from. So she's going around floating
(23:31):
in the lazy river. And it was.
She made it her mission. To say hello.
Well, we said there were so manylifeguards, there would have
been at least 20 going around onthis A.
Lot more than 20 more. They were like every five
metres. On the She made it her mission
to get everyone of them to wave and say hello to her.
So she's floating and T thought she sounded like a starfish.
(23:54):
A star from Lego Movie, too. So we've since been referring to
her since yesterday as the starfish because she just goes
starfish just wants to talk to everybody.
Hello. And then we found out it's
actually actually. Hot but hot doesn't matter.
It's still starfish. She'll always be the starfish to
us. So she went in starfish Billy
(24:15):
this morning because Billy working up there, the head chef
just like, you know, this dude, we thought he was English, like
from England north. I mean, he's definitely not
Thai. Definitely not Thai, is what
we're saying. And like, you know, no, when I
say we're like, we didn't care about Billy's back story, but.
Eating our breakfast buffet. Gosh, where we what?
(24:36):
And then, you know, stealing more of it.
Not stealing, just, you know, saving it for later, like a
couple of squirrels. Just we go out with our cheeks
like that and Billy's going. You guys want to talk about
something? Horrible.
(24:59):
So Savon is now Billy's story. What's he doing here as hey,
Yep. As we're leaving the restaurant,
we're walking along and Tea and I notice he's not with us.
We look back inside and we go, oh.
She's starfish in Billy. Billy's getting starfish.
What's your story? She's in there for ages.
Get this whole life story and everybody came.
Back like 10 minutes later into the hotel room and went so
really. He's from Australia, he's been
(25:20):
travelling around, he's been working for the Marriott Group
for anyway. Oh, she said it was 5 minutes.
Stop giving us that time. I see what you're doing there. 6
minutes to 1. 6 minutes to one. We have to we got a late check
out at 1:00, so go so podcast with Robin.
Rabbit. Hello there.
Hello there. This is a very special edition
of the podcast which we are recording from.
This is actually the third attempt.
Yeah, starting this. Here's the first two.
We're getting ready to go quad biking.
Or are we on that face? Maybe not all of us.
(00:34):
Hi, this is a special edition ofthe podcast.
It's Tiana and I are going to behosting and taking you through a
lot of stuff from our Thailand trip.
We are here. This is our room.
We're staying in a pool. Tiana's refusing to join me on
this part, so I'll just come across awesome.
(00:55):
Good job. This is how Tay's going to do
that. And now she's running off back
into the room. All right, well, she'll be
joining me shortly, but look at this.
Look at this. So yeah, this is literally like
straight off our room. Let me take you over this way.
That's our room. We were there.
So we've been here for a week. It's at the Marriott at Nyang
(01:19):
Beach in Phuket. And yeah, it's it's not bad.
This is just how we roll. It's actually not how we roll.
We just figured out how much we're spending a night on this
hotel and this will never happenagain.
And this one is also going to bea failed start.
It's too brave. It is.
It's too hot. It's all of the, it's all of the
two things. It's too hot, it's too fright,
(01:41):
I'm too sweaty. And let's continue this from an
air conditioning room. OK, we have found air con and
now all we have to contend with is random old guy in the
background. But with these microphones, we
can speak a bit quiet. So you can't hear us saying that
he's from an action movie. Well, Russian mob.
We did sort of like, I'm not going to say that it's fun
(02:05):
making up stories about people. People watching.
Yeah. Come up with stories for people
or places you see. I don't know what mum does a
lot. Mum does it a lot, so when we're
at the airport shopping centre. Anywhere.
With people, yeah. Sav likes to just sit and watch
(02:25):
people. It's her favorite thing to know
people watching. That's been so bad.
Like she just likes to watch people.
Yeah, well, she does. This morning at breakfast she
went and she went and got Billy and we knew exactly what she was
gonna be doing. Name actually Billy.
His name's actually Billy. I thought so.
Billy is the head chef at the hotel that we're staying at.
(02:48):
She'd probably say as well, actually, because we haven't
said this yet. This is Tiana.
This is my daughter. I'm 15 years old and still wants
to do nonsense like this with me, which is pretty cool.
I don't. Know about what wants to being
forced. To you want a plane ticket home.
Podcast. So yeah, we fly out at 10:30
tonight, and I feel that we should put a warning on this as
(03:08):
well because we've both clocked this on the holiday and we both
have ADHD. I was yours out there just now.
Yeah. Yeah.
Both being diagnosed and are medicated for it.
But The thing is the meds that I'm on yours you could have.
No, she couldn't bring hers in either.
(03:30):
But mine era. Oh, you mean the Dexys?
Yeah. No, but there's still all the
other. Yeah, I think with yours you
could with a doctor's certificate, with a doctor, a
letter from a doctor. You can bring those.
Drew has dexamphetamine in it. Oh, well, no then.
So we looked into it like what we could bring over, and I
wouldn't have, except there was a guy who recently ended up in a
(03:55):
someone just fired up some musicin the background that probably
won't come as very similar. So crazy I.
Wouldn't have even looked for itat all except there was a guy
from Australia who recently ended up in a Bali jail because
he had the exact same medicationthat we have turned up without
his doctor Steve. So in Bali you can take them in
(04:17):
with a letter from your doctor. He did get a letter from his
doctor. He went to jail while they
sorted the letter out. You'd think that would happen
pretty quickly. You'd hope it would couldn't
happen quick enough for him. I don't think it was through
that story that I went Oh my God, do we need to look into
ours and yeah found out that Nope, not even with a doctor's
note. Can you bring these and they are
Class 1 drug in Thailand and no to which people online are
(04:39):
going. Ah, you'll be fine.
Like, and we actually would havebeen coming into the airport
like it was. Chill you did you just walk in
and walk out like. There was enough layer.
Yeah, we went through. We did get fingerprinted that.
I've never had that happen before at at airport.
You did? Oh.
That was I. Don't know.
(05:01):
And that. So you were tired I.
Was just like you just put your fingers on.
I don't know you're. Just checking your nails.
Yeah, that's true. Maybe it was like one of those
thing nail drying machines. So yeah, tells the story about
and believe it, fluent Phuket and they, they dry your nails
Yeah, before you were up. So we did that and then we go
through the like, what customs? Yeah, I guess customs area and
(05:26):
the do you have something to declare was closed and the
people were just walking past the X-ray machine.
Yeah. You didn't have to do it.
We didn't run. Yeah, no police, no sniffer
dogs, no nothing. You cop more coming into
Australia and New Zealand and that.
So we would have been fine, but I just didn't feel like that was
(05:47):
worth the risk. You're yawning if I'm talking
story bro. Whatever.
So this week the two of us have been off meds and bye poor.
Mum. Poor mum, fully natural walk
through the hotel. Oh gosh, neither of us can make
(06:12):
a decision about anything. Every day I've said let's record
some stuff for the podcast, and here we are the.
The day we're leaving. We fly out in a few hours and
even then it's taken us multiplelocations.
Yeah, we're. Looking for like, just have to
check out SO. Dying in the heat and yeah, and
then we get back to the room andour cards aren't working because
(06:33):
yeah, we. Tried to tap him to get in the
room and it like wasn't working so I thought my card was working
then dad tapped his. Age girls like the two of us
together, so we actually came upwith an idea on this holiday as
well of it's like ADHD travel packages.
For your ADHD husbands mainly or.
Wives. It can go either way, yeah.
(06:54):
Yeah, yeah. You're a mixture that like you
want to just go and lie by the pool.
Yeah, you wanna do stuff all thetime, but then you also don't.
All the time, but then I also don't.
We both get back from breakfast every morning and just like face
more onto the bed and mum, everyone goes, you too.
Yeah, I've heard that so many times, goes.
Into and to read that book and. Waits until every change.
(07:17):
We're just lying there face downon the bed, just like waiting
for minutes and then we get up. But.
Then when we're up, it's on possibly going to a wakeboard
park or something this afternoon.
Although I am. Yeah.
So nothing I want to do. And we are flying out soon.
We got late checkout. Let me tell you about the hotel
(07:39):
whore. I have never stayed in anything
like this. It's five star.
It's the Marriott Nyang beach inPhuket.
It's only about 10 minutes from the airport and it's at the
northern end. So if you know where the airport
is, it's just around by there. So nowhere near Patong or like
(08:00):
Phuket Old Town. It's like an hour in a cab to
get down there. Although only $20, less than 20
bucks in a cab. And we use Bolt over here.
They have a version of Uber overhere.
Sure. Why I said like there Uber, you
know Uber, you know Uber, Uber and I've only just started
saying I saw a de garb probably like So what the.
(08:22):
Car. So the car.
So what the car, but the car on the end it's actually crap with
a rolled R but the locals don't do it.
So I'm like they're not doing it.
I'm doing it will be gap. But if you're a female, you say
car and it's just the politenessthat you put on saying something
anyway. We've obviously immersed
ourselves in the culture. You hear it so much, you walk
(08:45):
down the street and there's likea million massage places and
they were gonna put solid car massage and you hear it like 10
times every single person. This is solid car.
Yeah, massage. They're.
Lovely, so lovely. Don't speak some of them won't
speak any English, but they're still lovely.
I don't know what they're saying, but they seem that.
So we went to a what about? All right, this is what I was
(09:08):
going to say at the start. Okay, I was going to say I warn
you now. If you think when I do a
podcast, it jumps around all over the place.
Oh yeah, two ADHD. That's.
We went to a water park yesterday and demand and demand.
It was all sorts of things. It was awesome.
And there's just funny things about it.
(09:29):
Yeah, I was gonna say crazy expensive, but no, it was about.
$85 per person. 85 bucks each year to to get in.
You can't take your own food or drink in, so if you turn up with
a water bottle it has to be empty.
Actually not even allowed to take it in unless you take like
a proper water bottle. If you take a place one but they
say no, you bring along a refillable water bottle.
(09:51):
That's fine. And you can fill it up in the in
the park, found that out afterwards.
But if you take like a, you know, your standard plastic
bottle that you've bought from the shops or something and you
want to refill them in the parking lot, you can't take
those in. Yeah.
Can't take any food. So and you can't take any food,
but the cool side of the food thing is they actually hold onto
it for you. Yeah, 'cause what we like to do
(10:11):
is pinch a bunch of extra food from the buffet breakfast in the
morning. That's a good buffet.
And then it's, it's not like an all day thing.
Like there's not a lunch buffet or a dinner buffet.
Oh. It becomes an all day buffet.
150 Yeah. What's we fill up Stab's bag as
we're leaving breakfast. Take a couple of muffins,
pastries, apple, apples, couple smoothies.
(10:37):
Espresso. Espresso.
OK, I tried my first coffee on this trip as well.
Wait, we're not done with the water park so you can collect
your food when you leave at the end of the day.
So those muffins and pastries and that were quite, I had a
little energy drink thing in there as well, and that was nice
(10:58):
and warm, like warm cough syrup essentially at the end of the
day. Yeah.
So it's good that they they won't just check out your food
when you come back out. You just go all that.
Good, we paid so much money for those fishes.
Yeah, we stole that fair and spare.
If you want water, once you're in the park, you can buy one of
their cups and then, you know, refill it.
I never saw a refilling station but you get one of their ones
(11:19):
$25 for one of their empty bottles that you can refill so
you probably. Refill it with like.
Just the pool water. Yeah, well, I drank enough of
that as well as. It was.
I didn't never bring in. Any water We had the most
expensive ice cream ever in the theme park. 3 ice creams, $50.
(11:41):
Oh, that hurt, man. It was good there.
It was good ice cream. I mean, it was it.
Was it Haagen Dazs? Yeah, but anyway, that's what
you get when you're inside theseplaces.
And the queues, the queues weren't that long.
The dudes were slow. So if.
You go to the top of the of the queue, you're standing at the
top of this massive platform, and then you jump into your raft
(12:05):
thing, go down and do the slide.The slide takes 10 seconds.
Yeah, about 10 seconds. And you're down the bottom and
you're out 4 minutes in between the rafts going from the top.
They are. So they're just on a whole other
time. Yeah.
So you can turn up and there's only like 20 people you know, at
the top of the stairs in front of you.
And like sweet, we'll be on in amatter of seconds.
(12:28):
Nope. Like over 40 minutes waiting for
the first one and then the same for the for the next one as
well. It's just very slow.
No, the next one, you were waiting for ages.
I was down and gone. I was waiting at the bottom for
so long, forever. And I was just, I was just
standing there by myself. Like, yeah, I.
Wasn't going to go on the thing you went in.
You know that one where you hop in and you cross your arms over
(12:49):
your chest? You're standing and then it,
just like the platform beneath you, just drops.
Yeah, it's essentially a a vertical coffin.
Yeah. And then the floor drops away
and you'll pull down through that.
I was mildly considering doing that one.
I've done it before. I like to tick things off as
done. And then if I don't enjoy it, I
never doing it again. The one next to where I was
standing, they had technical difficulties.
Yeah, one of them was like they took off the paddle of the back
(13:13):
and just well, fixing around thewires and I was like, I'm not
getting in that. One I'm not getting in any of
them. I've seen how it works now.
There's just an actuator on the back and when the button goes
it, it just does that and then it just drops, the person said.
I went in the other line, which turns out was at a very slow,
and then we floated around the lazy river.
That was pretty awesome. We enjoyed that.
(13:36):
Oh, that's right. Dad didn't have one of those
like, cool floaty things that Mum and I were in, and so he
decided he was just gonna swim it and drag us along, you know,
when there's, oh, what do you call it?
Like when there's the water shooting water.
Spouts coming across and there was heavy in the water.
He would just drag it so it wentover our heads and make sure we
like endured it for extra long and.
(13:59):
It's good times. And then he made the lifeguards
laugh at us. Yeah, lifeguards thought I was.
Like. I will say, and Amanda, this not
security, the lifeguards, the safety, yeah, the lifeguards
stuff, It's a very safe place. Yeah, it's expensive.
It's it is what it is. You know, we had a good day up
(14:23):
that filled in today quite nicely.
Think up a mighty Chan have beenbig supporters of the pod Dan
podcast right from the start, and you get all the stuff from
them that you'd expect to. You get plants, you get all the
Weber stuff, you get all the steel here, the amazing
principal kitchens, but it's thestuff that you don't expect.
Like this lady comes in and she's hired a goat, but to clear
(14:43):
some lands and she wanted to work out a way.
How to? Tether this goat.
I come up with an idea of a bit of stainless steel wire between
2:00 2 trees, like a zip line between the two trees.
To the goat. She took my advice.
I don't know how it turned out, but she was very happy with the
service that she got. That's what she got.
And the mighty helpful King Cumber Minor Gen. have you been
(15:04):
to Guandalin Bowling Club? They're right there on the
shores of Lake Macquarie. They do delicious meals upstairs
in the Foreshore Bistro and Cafe, which is run by the Dish
Catering Group. So you know it's good stuff and
you can dine out on the balcony looking out over the lake.
It is We went quad biking the other
(15:46):
day. We went to ATVs.
Yeah, ripping around on those. Tiana was on the back of mine.
Four. I was so excited and then I
started driving it for like halfa second and went no, no.
Yeah, T had her own one. I wasn't going to say that, he
said. T got her own one.
It was just a matter of meters. Because then, right, OK, the
start of the track was like it looked like a straight up drop
(16:09):
off. Like it obviously wasn't that
steep, but it looked like it was.
Just like, it's pretty steep. Yes, that's how you start.
That's how you start on these. And I was like, no.
No, no, and I was like jump on the back of this one, we'll just
take Sav hit her own 1T and I were on one.
I didn't realise till the next day that T wasn't actually on
the Yeah I. Didn't have a seat.
I was sitting on like the bars at the back 'cause I woke up the
(16:31):
next morning I'm like, oh I'm so, so sore 'cause I didn't have
a seat. And that's like.
What, You didn't have a seat? He's.
Throwing the thing around, he's pulling all these manoeuvres and
like spinning around. It was muddy and so in some
parts you could really just gun it through and just slide it
side to side. You weren't muddy.
I had the oh, he was absolutely cut.
(16:51):
I was, I was one with the mud. It was not OK.
Yeah, I got the muddy out of everyone.
Wonders for your skin of your ankles.
Mum had nothing on her, dad had barely anything on him.
And then my shoes. I had to ruin a bin.
Yeah, when we were there becausethey were just.
You couldn't. I'm chugging my thongs out
(17:11):
today. I've got some thongs that I've
been wearing and man, they don't.
Think. They've gotten so wet through
this. Yeah, at the top of the ATV
thing at the top of the mountain, there's this big swing
that goes off to. Me, that was the best.
Thought I didn't. I did not enjoy.
Mom and I love hearts. We do Bunny dumping and all
sorts of stuff and so it was like swing and it just went
(17:35):
slightly off so you could get a nice view of like the double and
all the city and everything. Dad does not like heights.
Look, I don't know. Well, there's certain things.
No, no, I don't. Well, I'm tripping on that.
(17:56):
And even like with that swing, right, The dude pulls you back
and then it pushes you out and I'm like, whoa.
And then after I've done that, once I'm done, I don't need to
keep going and going and going. It's a sonis far out man.
My knuckles were wiped from how old?
How time wasn't holding on. Yeah, you weren't holding on,
which freaked me out even more. Yeah, and anyway, and the guide.
(18:17):
The guide didn't speak. English.
So Dad was like laughing, 'causehe's terrified.
And he was like, yeah, that I'm done, I'm done, that's no more
for me, I'm done that now. And he just kept pushing.
Yeah. Anyway, he was like, oh, where's
them going? But I do that thing where I
laugh when I'm terrified. Yeah.
You do as well. I love.
When I'm in pain, yeah, that physio now knows.
(18:38):
Yeah, he knows. Yes, I'm laughing.
He thinks he he got the message when I when I tried to grab hold
of the pole next to me to stop. Yeah, he was like, no, no, no.
I get it. You're done.
Yeah, Yeah, I'm done and you will be too.
You push me again, mate. He just kept pushing me along.
So that was fun with getting down to Phuket to go to these
places. We've been getting these bolts,
these Hussein bolt ubers. The traffic has just been eye
(19:05):
opening, man. Yeah.
So the scooters, there's just scooters everywhere.
And quite often you will say just to know.
Many people. Yeah, mum's riding it.
There's a little. Like a like a 2 or a three-year
old and then a five year old andthen maybe the teenager is
sandwiching them at yeah, and they're all just on a little
scooter and they are ripping along down the road.
(19:26):
No helmets, no indicating, yeah,lane change whenever you want.
And it'll just, and I love it. I love every bit of it.
I would love to be on one of those scooters within a helmet.
It's chaos, man. And it just works.
And the tailgating, all the stuff that I was looking at and
going, if you did any of that back home, any of that is
(19:49):
considered bad driving. Yeah, while they're having.
On the phone, they'll be on the phone, on the scooter with a kid
wedged between them or whatever,Just on the phone.
Ripping along and there's all the utes with all the.
So I saw one yesterday that had at least 12 to 15 people in the
back of it. They were just in lines of
three. Yeah, yeah.
So across the edges of the tray,just planks of wood.
(20:13):
And then they were just sitting in rows like on bleachers.
They're just sitting. There, they're all just coming
home from work at the end of theday.
Everyone's, I guess, carpooling in the back of this Ute and
there's no seatbelts, It's just one guy was just sitting on a
ladder, just sitting on the ladder in the back of the Ute.
There was like material in the back of one of the utes why tie
it down when you can sit on it, you know?
(20:34):
Yeah. That is it tied down if anything
would have been irresponsible not have a man sitting on the
back of it. Fastest speed we got up to with
one of these local Ubers, the Bolt, it was 90 and A50 that we
were doing. Oh yeah, I was keeping an eye
on. That so 70 and a 50 I think.
Essentially the way it works here is just everything is a
suggestion helmets. No phones.
Lane. Speed limits.
(20:55):
Yeah, lane changing indicating Rd.
Rules. All of these things, and then at
one point a police officer on a scooter pulled into the middle
of it all, came around the corner and we were like, oh,
here we go. Right next to him, a dude goes
ribbon past, no helmet on, goes past.
Another one went past with a bunch of people sitting in the
back of the Ute nothing. So like, exactly what are you
policing? Nothing on the roads.
(21:18):
And I like it. The weather's been horrible hot
the whole time. You wanted this.
The whole point of this trip is because Tiana came and
presented, actually did up a presentation to her parentals.
What was it? Esteemed Parental figures
Esteemed. Parental figures like that it
was. It was so funny.
Life creators. You played us well.
(21:40):
It was written so funny that we're like OK, well let's have a
look at going somewhere warm andsunny there.
Our houses. I know you may think that your
house is cold and it's been wet and stuff, but you No, no, our
is the coldest, wettest, mouldiest, dampest damp.
It's just yeah. And I don't mind it.
I like the cold. I'm not built for the heat, but
(22:02):
these two were just all about I just want to lie by a pool in
the sun. I'm also not built for the.
Heat, but like, I know, I know. I'm constantly reminding you of
that. You come here and you're like,
oh, it's so hot, so hot in summer.
You're just like, oh, I just wish I could go to New Zealand.
I want to go to the snow. You can always just put on extra
layers and rug up. Next minute, let's go to
(22:24):
Thailand. Through Thailand.
It's 31° like all day long overnight low like 2729 our
hotel room. That's the pool, like right
straight off the balcony behind us there.
So we just walk straight out anddrop in and we do, the forecast
said. Thunderstorms for pretty much
the entire week it it's rained once, yeah, I think on the trip.
(22:45):
So it's just been pretty awesomereally.
I got attacked by sea lice on the first day.
And the sun. Oh, hello.
That worked out OK. Housekeeping.
Someone's knocking at the door. Housekeeping.
How be your mother? Oh yeah, her king.
Like please don't be a housekeeping.
Hi, how are you? No.
(23:10):
Have rest, just get out of it. OK, it's Sam knocking at the
door. No, Seth been doing this thing.
We started off by talking events.
You know, she went and spoke to Billy and loves people watching
and all of that. Well, I think she was doing at
the water park yesterday. That's where the hello came
from. So she's going around floating
(23:31):
in the lazy river. And it was.
She made it her mission. To say hello.
Well, we said there were so manylifeguards, there would have
been at least 20 going around onthis A.
Lot more than 20 more. They were like every five
metres. On the She made it her mission
to get everyone of them to wave and say hello to her.
So she's floating and T thought she sounded like a starfish.
(23:54):
A star from Lego Movie, too. So we've since been referring to
her since yesterday as the starfish because she just goes
starfish just wants to talk to everybody.
Hello. And then we found out it's
actually actually. Hot but hot doesn't matter.
It's still starfish. She'll always be the starfish to
us. So she went in starfish Billy
(24:15):
this morning because Billy working up there, the head chef
just like, you know, this dude, we thought he was English, like
from England north. I mean, he's definitely not
Thai. Definitely not Thai, is what
we're saying. And like, you know, no, when I
say we're like, we didn't care about Billy's back story, but.
Eating our breakfast buffet. Gosh, where we what?
(24:36):
And then, you know, stealing more of it.
Not stealing, just, you know, saving it for later, like a
couple of squirrels. Just we go out with our cheeks
like that and Billy's going. You guys want to talk about
something? Horrible.
(24:59):
So Savon is now Billy's story. What's he doing here as hey,
Yep. As we're leaving the restaurant,
we're walking along and Tea and I notice he's not with us.
We look back inside and we go, oh.
She's starfish in Billy. Billy's getting starfish.
What's your story? She's in there for ages.
Get this whole life story and everybody came.
Back like 10 minutes later into the hotel room and went so
really. He's from Australia, he's been
(25:20):
travelling around, he's been working for the Marriott Group
for anyway. Oh, she said it was 5 minutes.
Stop giving us that time. I see what you're doing there. 6
minutes to 1. 6 minutes to one. We have to we got a late check
out at 1:00, so go so podcast with Robin.
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