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Bonus: Are These Australia's Toughest Nans?

May 08, 202511 min
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Speaker 1

This is an over one hundred. You're on the al Jason Lauren Clint's here as well as we do.

Speaker 2

Thanks. She mate a shelready express.

Speaker 3

Guys, I want to talk about my nan Nana Margh.

Speaker 2

You know Nanamah absolute trouper.

Speaker 3

She she should be in. She's an Australian treasure. She's ninety three.

Speaker 4

You can get you can become Senior Australiana of the Year.

Speaker 5

You should put her forward, can you?

Speaker 6

Yeah?

Speaker 3

Just for being an all round legs question.

Speaker 2

You went to your dinner last night at four reckon.

Speaker 1

Nana mar fifty five, thank you, Mama Gate later than you and she's ninety three.

Speaker 7

Probably I went to well, I went to her place the other day and she made lunch and it was like two point thirty and I thought, God, this is close to my dinner time.

Speaker 1

This spins me out her place. She still lives independently.

Speaker 3

So Nan, my beautiful nan Nana Margh. All my friends know her.

Speaker 7

She's been like when we would holiday as a family, Nanamargat always can't. She's like she's part of the clan.

Speaker 2

She's the queen.

Speaker 3

She's a Queen of man patriarch. Yeap.

Speaker 7

Absolutely, she's ninety three. She lives in the family home still and just before East she had a fall. I got the dreaded call saying NaN's had a fall. She's she wears an Apple Watch, which she's really cool for someone who's ninety three. But the Apple Watch actually detects when you fall over in an alert PI. So I was in a state at the time. My brother got it, my mom, my, stepdad. But get a notification NaNs had a fall. Then it says on an Apple Watch, which

is great. For anyone that doesn't know this is a thing you can it's it's an amazing tool to have people who elderly live on their own, and it automatically calls an ambulance and then you can say whether you want it or not.

Speaker 3

She said, nah, not for me. I don't want an ambulance. She's well.

Speaker 7

She was outside ninety three and she decided that she thought the pool needed some more water.

Speaker 5

She's got a pool.

Speaker 7

She's got a pool mate, and she thought it needed small water because it had been warm. So she's got to put the hose in it.

Speaker 2

She's ninety three.

Speaker 5

I know, doesn't you have a pool guy.

Speaker 3

She has a pool guy.

Speaker 5

He heads it.

Speaker 3

No, No, I should drove it more often when the pool man's there.

Speaker 7

Anyway, Unfortunately she has tripped over the hose. My brother's got the alert. He's rushed over. My stepdad went over. I was in state.

Speaker 3

She got up and so she tripped near the pool on the hose.

Speaker 2

It could have ended so much worse.

Speaker 7

Yeah, well, it's bad enough when someone someone old, and when you get that call saying nuns had to fall us like, I was gutted, and Mum said, look, she's okay, she's she's she's walked out to the car. So they've got her up. They've got her out to the car because didn't know how bad the four was. And she was like, I don't need I don't need an ambulance. That's fine.

Speaker 3

She walks out to the car.

Speaker 7

They get her to the hospital. She's broken her hip and her shoulder, and she.

Speaker 2

Didn't get an ambulance. She's ninety three.

Speaker 3

So the car when they say we're not don't build them like they used to.

Speaker 2

We're not built like that.

Speaker 5

She's the hips go quick, don't.

Speaker 2

She's got a new here.

Speaker 7

I think at ninety three, it's scary enough having an operation like going under that absolutely, And anyway, I go and visit her in the rehab and she's like, silly me, I've got a new hip.

Speaker 3

I'll be fine, broken shoulder.

Speaker 7

Two and a half weeks later, she's at home, back at home, walking around, cooking me lunch.

Speaker 5

What a tough cookie cook?

Speaker 2

Sorry?

Speaker 3

What was the last cooking me lunch? I was like, can I bring anything? She goes and I've got I've got a cash for you. Of come on over, love, How a.

Speaker 2

Casha are you?

Speaker 5

I love a key?

Speaker 2

Exactly?

Speaker 3

Yeah, dinner, She's got a key.

Speaker 5

So she got she got back up.

Speaker 7

Again, she got knocked down, and she got up again. How tough are grandparents?

Speaker 8

I just.

Speaker 6

N how of is your nana really? Need?

Speaker 7

No?

Speaker 5

I was hoping you'd trouble.

Speaker 2

I know that we'd maybe our production.

Speaker 3

How tough is your nan? I'm thirteen, twenty fourteen. I want to know how tough your grandparents is?

Speaker 7

And it can be grandpa too, But there's something about NaN's and grandparents that they just keep going like I would have called an ambulance if I'd have fallen and broken my finger.

Speaker 2

And that's why we've got the ambulance.

Speaker 3

Crosses She's walked is your grandma out done the pinky.

Speaker 4

My grandma she has little little Barney's with some of the inmates at the retirement home. Like she has actual fisticuffs, like a punch, and she always wins.

Speaker 5

She's very strong.

Speaker 4

She got like a little ship's Mother's day.

Speaker 1

She shaved one of the cards from the deck of Cards down.

Speaker 7

My great grandmother was one hundred and one when she passed away, and she used to complain in the nursing home that they're all so old, and like, Nan, you're older than the thirty years. Yeah, she'd have a shandy at nighttime. Yeah, all right, I want to know how tough is your nan is?

Speaker 9

She is?

Speaker 7

She out there like my nan at ninety three, putting water in the pool and watering the garden herself.

Speaker 3

What she doing?

Speaker 7

What about your nan? Not your nan, the neighbor it was your name. Oh, it's very elderly and used to take your bins out for you.

Speaker 5

Yeah she did. Yeah, they were the days. I should never have moved from Hawthorne to bring the bins in.

Speaker 2

I mean there was. It was going to come to an end at some point.

Speaker 3

All right, Melbourne thirteen, How tough is your nun? Played?

Speaker 2

Again we're asking.

Speaker 6

Out of is your nana really need to know?

Speaker 7

We're talking about how they don't build them like they used to. My nan is tough as nails. She tripped over the other day when she was at ninety three going out to put the hose in the pools give it a bit more water because it had been warm. She broke her hip and broke her shoulder, and she got up, walked to the car to get to the hospital.

She's had a new hip and she got broken shoulder, and she's out of rehabn't I popped over the other day and she cooked me lunch till and a half weeks after having a new hip and broken.

Speaker 1

Growing up her mum's mum, My Nan lived with us and she'd she'd make my bed till I was like sixteen.

Speaker 3

Yeah, NaN's just get their hairming.

Speaker 5

Lazy, It's fine, it's not.

Speaker 3

How lazy is your son?

Speaker 6

That?

Speaker 3

How tough is your name?

Speaker 5

I broke my hip and my shoulder. I'd take six months off, six.

Speaker 3

Months genuine, that's how the footballers do.

Speaker 2

Sickly Waverley Jess is called up morning Mining. How tough is your name?

Speaker 9

She's so tough, so she was mowing the lawns. It's like the grand Old Age of eighty five.

Speaker 3

It's awesome, yep, and like it.

Speaker 9

Was an old school lawn mower and it flicked up a rock that like got embedded in her shin. And my grand didn't drive, and she didn't want to bother a taxi person because she'd get the taxi dirty with the blood. So she walked to the GP, which would have been like, I don't know a stairway is this in her leg? And just kind of wandered in and said, I've got something in my leg and they were like, what is going on?

Speaker 3

She walked there.

Speaker 7

Now, your NaN's in Mount Waverley. That's where my nan lives, and that's where Clinton nan lives in the Water Waverley. They're tough as nails, but grandparents just get their hands do they Just they don't want to bother any.

Speaker 5

You know what they've been through the Great Depression? Is that what I meant? Yeah, hard times back then.

Speaker 7

Thanks Clinton and away, let's go to Ruby and Baronia Morning Robes Morning.

Speaker 8

My husband's nine year old grandmother was a real daredevil. Last year she went skydiving ninety I love seeing.

Speaker 2

This on the news when they throw old people.

Speaker 10

Was she scared or she was just like, nah, this is living I think she was, but she yeah, you can see you can actually watch the news article on seven or channel nine.

Speaker 11

Yeah, but she.

Speaker 8

Actually wanted to go again by the end of it.

Speaker 3

The landing must be hard when you're bones.

Speaker 8

Finally enough, she actually was the only one out of the granddaughters that landed perfectly.

Speaker 2

Did she go a second time?

Speaker 8

No, sadly she did pass away in mit.

Speaker 3

What was name's name? Betty Lot, Betty good on your Betty Lot, tough as.

Speaker 5

Nails, wrinkled the ashes virus skydife.

Speaker 3

They might have done that. You never know.

Speaker 2

No, it's a lot of wind. You don't want to be.

Speaker 7

Freeze them all right, Darcy, good morning. How tough is your nan?

Speaker 12

She locked herself out one day, mind you, she was one hundred at this point and at the sound of little bit. She's got a set of bins next to her fence or near a front door, So yeah, she decided to climb them to get back over the fence. Did she get over well, thankfully admits that neighbor had called her son, who came and stopped her and got her down.

Speaker 2

I don't think I could get on top of a bit.

Speaker 7

You're in your forties one hundred and she's climbed on the top of the bin. But you know what, she would have been so annoyed when she was stopped as well. Should have I got this, guys, what are you all worried about? You young punks are thirty? I've lasted one hundred years on this earth.

Speaker 3

I know how to do it.

Speaker 2

I'd be sitting across the legged on the front and wait for the locksmith.

Speaker 7

Yeah.

Speaker 3

Like my nan, she was born in nineteen.

Speaker 2

Thirty one, that's all.

Speaker 7

Well wow, Like that's nearly the twenties and we're in the twenties.

Speaker 2

Now. That's crazy, isn't it.

Speaker 5

Well, she's in her nineties, so it's edging closer.

Speaker 2

That PlayStation one era.

Speaker 7

I don't know what they played up then, Marbles. Maybe that's marble.

Speaker 11

John John, Hello, how are you going?

Speaker 3

How tough is your nan?

Speaker 11

So she was a very independent woman. She would travel all around Melbourne train tram walking. She just got her self friend everywhere. One day she was walking along the road and a couple of guys, one driving the screwed up one on behind came past and tried to put her their arm through the strap on her bag. Yeah,

to steal her handbag. And she pulled that guy clean off the back of the scooters by and and proceeded to whack him with her bag until a couple of guys came over and apprehended him, and the cops got him.

Speaker 3

What's NaN's name? What was NaN's name?

Speaker 5

Maria?

Speaker 7

With Maria in her handbag, it would have been like one of those ones the Queen used to carry, like.

Speaker 2

A bowling there there'd be nothing in there.

Speaker 7

Oh yeah, No, she'd have cash because they don't like the first first Dame mine at our hospital with a broken hip and new shoulder.

Speaker 3

She said, take me straight to the hairdresser. I'm getting to blow over.

Speaker 11

Straight for a.

Speaker 3

Straight for a blazzer.

Speaker 2

They're looking at me, fun

Speaker 7

Lauren, Lauren, wake up feeling good following them on the Socials,

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