Content note: there is mention of sexual assault (r*pe) as well as food and dieting talk *** I find out that in the 80s you really had to just sit by the phone waiting for a guy to ring... We start this episode off by unpacking how we felt recording Episode 8 last week. Mum explains how she felt so exposed and vulnerable and how she worries that reading her diary out to me will make me see her differently... that I'll see her as a loser. I reassure her that my concept of her has been formed by a...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 9
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May 17, 2023•18 min•Season 2Ep. 8
I find out that the Adam Ant obsession has only been going for one year... Seriously how this that possible?! But it's true, this episode marks the one-year anniversary of Mum discovering Adam in April of 1981 And it’s with a heavy heart that we learn the news that Adam and the Ants have officially split- Mum surprisingly doesn’t take it too badly as now Adam can ‘focus on his own thing’ - we hear about her picking up a couple of mohair cardigans, seeing Psycho ‘not bad,’ and reading Kafka for t...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 8
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May 10, 2023•15 min•Season 2Ep. 7
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May 10, 2023•7 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Content note: negative self-talk, weight, body talk *** I find out what ‘hair that moves’ is... We start this episode with a Very Important Announcement: I've cut all my hair off! All gone! It feels weird but I’m loving this new aerodynamic style. This sparks a convo about Bette Midler and Beaches and ‘hair that moves’ and we then chat about the upcoming Coronation and how we’re annoyed that we’re both away and can’t watch it together and about Mum going to Bendigo’s Writers Festival to host a B...
May 10, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 7
I find out that INXS played O-Week at Melbourne University... We start off discussing current world politics and my obsession with the Parisian riots and their storming of a Louis Vuitton shop -- the modern-day Bastille! We then have our usual AI check in and Mum declares she’s ‘tapping out!’ from the AI rat race . So much happens this episode as we read about Mum’s O-Week experiences where she gets stuck in a lift after joining a tour of the Baillieu Library only for the tour guide to heroicall...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 6
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Apr 26, 2023•17 min•Season 2Ep. 5
I find out that Pretenders tickets used to cost only $20… This episode we chat (again) about AI (our new fave topic of obsession) and discuss the merits of Bing vs ChatGPT—seriously this has turned into a tech podcast. So maybe skip the whole start and begin listening when it gets good as we read about Gran being out raging with Paddy until 2am and Mum detailing the ins and outs of Adam’s new song ‘Ant Rap’ which Mum says is ‘really good’ but also is concerned about the band's ‘direction’ so dec...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 5
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Apr 12, 2023•11 min•Season 2Ep. 4
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Apr 12, 2023•11 min•Season 2Ep. 4
I find out that Mum met Mel Gibson in a nightclub...!? We start this episode with a correction after my best friend Jackie reminded me that I had in fact met a sailor...HER (though I will say that I was thinking more along the lines of navy sailor not Mediterranean sail-yachts sailor) During recording, Mum brought out a prop - a bag of Jubes - which we immediately start chewing on (apologies for the sound quality) as we chat about Mum settling back into life in Melbourne, spunk spotting at the H...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 4
I find out what an acoustic couplers is (or was)... Mum is back in Melbourne and is still on the hunt for THE BOOTS, can’t find them and so naturally comforts herself by buying another leather belt from Ishka We chat about Ben Ean Moselle and how bad wine culture used to be in the ‘80s, Mum’s spaghetti marinara obsession and actually find the piece of paper Mum tallied them on! We discuss what Mum was reading the summer of 1982: Mayor of Casterbridge, Donald Duck comic and The Palladin (pick the...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 3
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Mar 29, 2023•4 min•Season 2Ep. 2
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Mar 29, 2023•9 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Content note: again this episode has some insensitive language around race. * I find out that Mum doesn’t know how to spell quiche... It’s 1982 and we’re still in Hong Kong as Mum waits for her Year 12 results to drop. She goes to Ocean Marine Park in Aberdeen and has a buffet lunch for HK$50 which is approx. AUD$7.50 so not bad at all, does LOTS of cheap shopping, haggles like a pro, buys a pink feather fan, goes dancing at Thingummy’s Disco and finally makes the journey over into the People’s ...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 2
*** Content note: there's a bit of language around race in the Hong Kong episodes. Times have changed (which is GOOD) but we think it's important to keep the entries true to history and then it's an opportunity to unpack and discuss. I find out what a Lowrey organ is… And more importantly I find out all about mum’s trip to Hong Kong! We set off at a cracking pace in the first episode of Season 2 as we dive into 1982- we’ve got rugby boys, sailors and a life sized cut out of John McEnroe, oh my! ...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 1
I find out what it’s like to record an episode with three generations of Ackland women! We’re back in fine form as we tackle the important questions surrounding Christmas, like the superiority of the cold Christmas lunch, when did the Myer Christmas windows first become a thing, and how to handle answering the question all parents dread: is Father Christmas real? Guest starring Granny, this is a unique look into our family dynamic as we reminisce on one of the most nostalgic and family focused t...
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 27
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Apr 17, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Content note: thrush-date (we know you missed it!), and medical stuff is discussed. As usual, we encourage you to talk to a doctor about anything that might be bothering you. * I find out what a travellers cheque really is… It’s Christmas time in 1981! And the last episode of Season One! We read about going to the canoe race at Albert Park Lake, legs ‘a la lobster’ which means very sunburned legs, mum goes to Leo’s Spaghetti Bar, gran’s worried about mum’s trip to China cause the ‘white slave tr...
Apr 17, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Content note: This was recorded before the horrific imagery from Ukraine came out shortly after. We often take a light-hearted tone to many of the things we discuss because we believe while we aren't making fun *of* things, often laughing *about* things can push back against power and trauma and can definitely be a coping mechanism. We laugh at ourselves and it helps us feel better. We laugh at the world and it helps us feel better. We know we aren't the only ones who do this. We realise, though...
Apr 10, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 25
I find out that mum knew ‘Bretty’ growing up! This episode really has it all! We’re coming to the end of 1981 and we read about how mum’s going to China, how she manages to eat a whole lobster, how she was at a party and it started pouring with rain and none of the boys had shown up, how on a drinks run Peter Rowsthorn picks up a bunch of hitch hikers (oh the 80s) in big straw hats with weird names like Frog! How these interlopers continue on with them to mum’s friend’s party, how mum became a h...
Apr 10, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 25
I find out that teenagers have always been angsty about what to do with their lives and that despite being 25 I’ve still got the angst… Mum is turning 18!! She’s an ADULT, ready to go out into the world and have adventures that fill volumes and volumes of journals which eventually become this podcast! We read all about the birthday celebrations, the various gifts mum got, an article in The Age that annoyed mum so much she wrote a letter to them and sent it in, speech night at school and how mum ...
Apr 03, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 24
In this side chat, we talk about how some things never change, ie teenagers and young adults not knowing what to do with their lives. In December 1981, Mum was thinking about it and here I am all these years later, doing the same! We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!
Mar 30, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 24
I find out about Buck’s Fizz… This episode mum’s doing her final exams and was given the riveting English expression question of ‘write about a body of water you know well’… English examiners getting creative since 1981! We read about mum feeling left behind by a friend, her plans to ring Adam Ant (how??), Buck’s Fizz on Countdown which was ‘absolutely embarrassing’ and how mum has started a novel… ‘there’s pirates.’ We chat about the new Beatles doco and their obsession with toast, how we now w...
Mar 27, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 23
As a special episode, we offer this SIDE CHAT ahead of the Episode 23 (coming Monday). We start by talking about Lily and her excessive sweating problem (the opposite of Prince Andrew apparently, but *maybe* he had hyperhidrosis and was treated and so now he *can't* sweat?? wtf knows...) and swing into a number of other topics. We laugh about it but it's a confounding issue. As always, we want to say we aren't medical professionals, just two gals crapping on about stuff. We talk: GPs electric wa...
Mar 23, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 23
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Mar 20, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 22
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Mar 20, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 22
I find out about the acid bath… God what do we not cover this episode?? We chat about everything from cows in the bell-tower, mum's last day of school which was ‘the best last day EVER,’ generational trauma in the western world, how Australian claret is ‘heavy as fuck’ and read about how mum felt that she could write 10,000 novels a day if she could just tape her thoughts, the fam going down to the Inverloch beach house, an ad in Eric Idle's The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book that mum found particul...
Mar 20, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 22
In this short side chat we talk about: Korean show Squid Game (Netflix) Stephen King's The Running Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(King_novel) Japanese TV game shows, a few egs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-QSlmrV2JA https://uproxx.com/viral/japanese-game-show-chinko-machine-ball-slapper/ We'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!...
Mar 13, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 21
