Paul Murray Live | 13 January

and that's what it used to look like. That's what I used to look like, the best part of fifteen years ago. But since then we've grown from the cleaner. Remember when the cleaner used to be in the back of the shod all the time. We've gone from there all the way through to the pub tests, which mean we've been able to actually they yeah, that was me in two thousand and four. That's really the first time

I ever appeared here on Sky News. So I've been around for a little while here, and I've been so lucky to do what we do and to be here each and every night. And we're done the pub tests for state elections and federal elections. We'll do more of those this year. We've been overseas, of course, to say fairwell to the Queen the United States a couple of times. We even went to the borders, of course, where we fought for common sense. We met a president, we saw

a president come back to life. We've met plenty of cool people along the way, like Tom Jones. Sharing a stage with Tom Jones was a pretty massive highlight for me. The Great Marks Escafe of course in Supercars World as a lifelong holding fan. Awesome to be able to meet him. Daryll Braithwaye was on the show. Part of the Ourtowns it used to have. Remember that the music is part of them, Jehan Cord van dam just because you know

why not eighties nineties action here. I'm not going to list everyone who's been on the show, but you can see lots of people have been over the show, and they're not just politics. It's music, it's fun, it's wrestling, it's all sorts of stuff. Without doubt, the highlight is our town where over the past fifteen years and for now a good chunk like at more than a third of our time on are we have gone from city to city to city to city to state to state

to state, the region to region to region. Those shows are huge to put together and a real honor to be part of. They are also an opportunity for me to have some fun like letting off fireworks in Darwin, or trying to ride a bike in Bendigo for some reason, spraying Champagne on a private island in cans and so many other things. We've done some incredible and very cool things. At fifteen years of this show and we're just getting started.

We're going to be around for a long time. Sky News is going to be around for a long time. And this is a computer image of what I will look like fifteen years from now. Before we celebrate thirty years together. I want to thank everyone who has been on the show, guests. I want to thank everyone who's helped make the show here at sky News. I want to thank everyone in management who's supported us all the way through from the very early days to where I

said today. Most importantly, I want to thank you for bringing me into your joint eachin, every night, and above all, I of course want to thank my beautiful wife Sean and daughters Asher and Zadia. A wonderful summer with them. But now time to get back to work. And one thing twenty twenty five absolutely is, and that is an election year, another fork in the road for us to make a decision about which way we are going to

go with our country. The two leaders, well, they think that they've got some sort of secret source to be able to push the Australian people to either give them more power for three more, in my view, ineffective years, or an attempt to put the country back on track. So I thought, before we get involved, too difficult in too much of what happened over summer, and who said what, I want to have a look at the game. I want you to see the state of play right now

when it comes to politics in Australia. Now, to give you an idea of where the primary vote is for both of the political parties, that's important to note here. The Labor Party is now at twenty seven and a bit percent according to the Resolve poll. That's down some five and a half percent from the number that they just scraped into power with in twenty twenty two. For the coalition, they've been able to move things back to fifty to fifty and two party preferred because of a

five point increase in their vote since the last election. Now, because that vote does not have a four in front of it, you can't start to know what's going to happen with this election. We start this year as we ended last year, with all of the caveats that while a minority government seems inevitable, who forms That is where the debate will be in the next sort of while if it's starting, it's a herculean effort and a massive

rejection of the current Prime minister. If it's the Prime Minister, of course, he will have one hand time behind his back, and it will be his right arm because it will be nothing but left wing policies that, among others like the Greens, the Teels and others, will force him to put in place over the next three years. So your vote matters, it always matters, But your preference also matters.

And while Somemer may be over for me, I know it's not for most people watching right now, and I know the vibe is not exactly peak Australia at the moment. We've still got our holiday brains and we're still probably watching wearing shorts and a T shirt. Great awesome, keep that vibe going for as long as possible. But as we start to have the conversations about who, so who are going to vote for? What do you think of this?

What do you think of that? It's not just what you do with preference number one, it's also what you do with preference number two. You see in twenty nineteen what people did with their preference number two help defeat Bill Shorten by making a choice for a government in twenty nineteen to reject Bill Shorten. That's how the Libs won last time. When it's bugg of them all, put them all last. Well, guess what happens when your preferences

go for a long road trip. They don't go back to a party that will end up forming government, and we end up with the one that we currently have for another three years and a Prime minister who wants to yet again change the constitution, this time to make sure that he could remain in power for a fixed four I don't like the idea of it in any way, shape or form. Politicians love it because it's guaranteed power and pay for them, but for everyone else not quite so.

The issue, of course, is not just about the parties, but it's about the people that are in our living rooms each and every night and are all over the news all day every day. Both of them have already heard too much of it. It's just what the first couple of weeks of January. But it is essentially a choice between who you want the prime Minister of the country to be, be it Anthony Abernesi or of course

Peter Dutton. Now Anthony Abernezi has fallen and fallen hard since his election three years ago and it is all in my view as a result of his own doing. Australians don't turn on first term prime ministers, but they certainly have on this blog to give you an idea again the resolve of political monitor This is in the Channel nine newspapers. Anthony Aarberesi's first poll after the election was fifty five percent of people who said he was

the preferred prime minister. Twenty of those points have now disappeared. Most of them's gone straight across the road to Peter Dutton. Some have gone into the don't know category. But still with the scenario of thirty five versus thirty five, there is about thirty percent of people who are still up for grabs. Those thirty percent of people will determine the election. Those thirty percent of people will decide which way the

country is going to go. More of the same which has made you poorer, our country weaker, or someone who shares your values. Now, this is the show which, just in case you haven't been watching over the past fifteen years, and if it is your first night, welcome aboard the bandwagon. Treats everyone with respect of you here on day one

or tonight's your first night. This is an opinion show, a strong opinion show, but an opinion show that tries to show you data and facts from neutral sources and then yes, to interpret and add a lot of opinion on top of it. But to give you an idea about my opinion about Anthony Abernezi. This bloke is headed for trouble at the upcoming election. Now there's either historic trouble of losing the prime ministership seemingly unlikely, or being

pushed into that minority government. And put simply, if Anthony aberze can make the election about Peter Dunton, he might survive. If Peter Dutton can make the election about Anthony Aberneese, Anthony Abernezi will be cooked. Why because again I'm using the Channel nine newspapers of the City Morning Herald, the Age,

Camper Times, Not Camper Times, the Brisbane Times. When it comes to the effectiveness of the Prime Minister, there are now some what fifty seven percent of people who believe that the Prime Minister is either doing a poor or a very poor job. At the start of an election year, then let's be honest, isn't an election year. Longest case scenario for the government is May. Generally speaking, January gets put in the bin. In February people start to get

back to work. Then we'd have an election campaign in March or April, and not much is going to change in people's circumstances. The primes the things he'll be able to change the subject. Most of the media, who do not want a d government will try to do everything they can to amplify that change in subject. But I think Australians that take a pick are one of the three million people that are this close to homelessness. The three and a bit million people who don't know where

the next meal is going to come from. The people who have had to cut back and cut back and cut back and cut back because the one thing they'll

ever own of any consequence in their life. Their home has seen twelve interest rate rises, let alone, the cost of insurance let alone, the skyrocket of petrol let alone, the amount of tax that the government takes out of a schooner, a beer or a glass of wine, let alone, the rules that they put in place to always make their life better with pay rises for politicians and public servants. But of course your dollar is worth less than it

was ten years ago. Australians, as you know, have been living not just a cost of living crisis, but essentially we have been living in a recession for now seven quarters in a row. That's almost the best part of two years where you have been going backwards and you know it. I believe the Prime Minister well and truly

know it. Between now the next pole, the next pole, the next pole, and then that eventual pole which will come our way towards well the starting parts of this year, I promise you in the same way that unlike most other things on television, we go out and about, we don't go out and about and do a vox pop where we go and quickly talk to three people and

pretend that that means we've been amongst normal people. We do the pub tests where remember we've got about one hundred seats, and when there's a political leader there, it's the first one hundred people who write to us who get the seats. There's no ideological check about whether you get to come in or not. So it's the best we can do in an unscientific way of trying to get normal people into a room to ask questions of people in power. That will happen again in twenty twenty five.

Will also go around the country doing all sorts of special shows like Our Town, which again thanks to the great people of Harvey Norman, has become a staple of the show and one of the most beloved things that we do here at Sky News. I love going to real Australia, but the suburbs that I grew up in or the place where you live will do all of

that again in twenty twenty five. But I wanted to turn my attention to the two ways that this government is going to try to hold onto itself, or that there is about to be a change of government, about Peter Dutton here and about whether how Peter Dutton plans to beat Anthony Aberneze. So today he made a major speech. That major speech yesterday was interesting to watch. It was of course one to the party faithful, and that means it's not really about convincing anyone outside of that room.

But let's have a look at the key ways that Peter Dutton thinks that he's going to be able to win this election. As the headline's right that Peter Dutton made a pitch for values based election and Dutton pictures suburban battler roots and calls for an education not indoctrination. Here's some of the stuff that he said in the speech that you probably didn't see in the news last night.

Why because most people in the media, whether they will ever admit it or not, will do everything they can to stop Dutton denying Albo his spot in the history books.

Star Wars. Of course, these are not the droids you're looking for, and the weak minded stormtroopers fall for it or we're not. We're not weak minded. And citizens that have come here in the last couple of years or have been lucky enough to win life's lotto and be born here for generations know that many of what that bloke just said is what makes us great, what makes us different at a time when there's war, fires, famine and all the rest of it that happened across the world.

We've got a pretty good in Australia, but we can always have it better. And you have to look back over the past three years about whether this joint is better because of its leadership or the core values that have just been explained are the ones that voters will move towards between now and the election. And a free piece of advice to Peter Dutton or anyone in and around him, can we all just agree that no one

cares about the daily announcement. Now, the Prime Minister and I'll get to him in a second, loves this where each and every day we're going to spend X million dollars or billion dollars as it was today to improve this, that or the other. Now, that doesn't mean that there aren't millions and billions of dollars that need to be spent improving things. But does anyone remember what the key thing was on day seven of the election campaign in

twenty twenty two. No, Instead, I guarantee though both sides of politics stood up, made a speech, promised to spend more money, but didn't talk about the core values. Now Australia does have to be about detail. We do require things to be costed and ideas, but we don't need every single day of our politics between now when the election comes to be someone telling us how they're going to spend more money. Because of course you know and

I know that it's not their money, it's ours. The number one source of revenue in the Australian federal government is not the GST, it is not petrol taxes, it is not even company tax. It's the average man, woman and teenager who is paying as they go income tax number one source. More income tax being collected than ever before by this government. Oh but they gave it everyone

a too little, too late tax cut. Yeah, because they knew that because of the fiddle of the system, most people will slightly as life rolls on, roll into the next bracket, which means they have to pay more and

more and more and more. Peter Dutton has an opportunity to not just get into the fight, but to take this thing right up to the Prime minister by speaking about those values, by not being distracted by the media expectations of an announcement each and every day, focusing on the core values, and dare I say, showing examples of how those core values would be available to people if

he was made prime minister. For example, if Parliament does come back between now and the election, and depending on timings, February is when Parliament may well come back for a couple of weeks. And I know how some people on the Internet are going to respond to this suggestion, but I reckon what Peter Dutton should do is move emotion. One sentence piece of legislation Australia's National Days January twenty sixth and all celebrations will and must be held on

that day. Watch how the government votes for or against that, which way do the teals run around? Will the green set them hair on fire? And then on the second day, another one line piece of legislations, Australians have a right within the bounds of the law to free speech. Let's watch the teals tie themselves in knots, the Green set themself on fire, or the Prime Minister there, I say, falling into his old habit of each way. But of course these are culture wars because whenever you stand up

for what you believe in, it's a cultural war. Whenever they change what you believe and know to be the truth, it's progress. Yeah, no things. As for the Prime minister, how does he think he's going to be able to get another three years in power, potentially change a constitution. Wouldn't that be a fun referendum Australians would run towards more power and pay for politicians. I don't think so,

and potentially end up with four years in power. Is that he thinks he's going to be able to follow the old method of spend his way to your heart despite the fact that your pockets have never been shallower, your wallet has never been lighter, and your to do list has never been longer because it's too expensive to do many of those things on the to do list, not the bucket list, the to do list, or the Prime Minister thinks promises about never never times and never

never money somehow will win him the day and if he wins a day here, and he wins a week there, and he wins a month there. Then suddenly fifty seven percent of people saying poor or very poor, miraculously will become fifty to fifty. And at fifty to fifty, well, he backs himself always. The Prime Minister today, of course, announcing that he is going to promise that the Federal

government you will spend billions of more dollars on the NBN. Now, the NBN, once built or half built or three quarters built or whatever the heck, it is now doing a pretty good job. The idea that there's billions of dollars more that need to be spent on it, I'm not entirely sure, but don't forget this is a prime minister who just last week was also spending seven billion dollars

on the Bruce Highway. And how dare the Prime Minister come out like he did last week while promising this money and invoke that in the past twelve months x number of people had died on the road. Will you've been prime minister for the past twelve months and the

twelve before that and the twelve before that. If you really wanted to save lives, you would have made not an announcement, you would have made a decision because we know if you want to pull three billion dollars out of your backside, you'll do it to help try and remove some student debt, to get lefties to stop voting for the Greens. We know that if he wants to, he'll spend four hundred and fifty million dollars on a referendum because it's an issue that he believes needs to

be dealt with. So while I won't look a gift horse in the mouth and billions of dollars for a road that desperately needs to be fixed, it is a disgrace to the country. It is a dog track. The idea that the Prime Minister last week a billion here, this week a billion there, thinks he's going to turn

the world around. And there's more of these announcements they've been having all summer long about more matters to spend when it comes to housing and infrastructure in Queensland again in Western Australia two hundred million dollars for regional housing pitch. But the truth is that the real way that Anthony Aberaneze thinks he's going to be able to turn fifty to fifty into albow winds again is to go very hard on Peter Dutton. Well, remember this is the bloke

who after the Voice was defeated. And the only reason I keep bringing it up is because it is instructive of the thinking of these people, not because I want to keep re litigating two years ago. As I said at the start of the show, we're always looking forward, always looking forward. The past will tell us some things, but you always got to look forward. You got to look to that future always, because in the same way that the right does not own strength, the left does

not own compassion. The future is not something that is exclusively for the progressives. It's for the common sense normal people to want to embrace because they want the better future for their kids and for their grandkids, and yes even for themselves, because they've worked hard enough and they deserve to have the best possible future in the back

nine of their lives. But the Prime Minister thinks that there is something secretly still inside Australians that the same group of people who reduced the last government to an opposition have no plans on returning the Liberal Party back anywhere near power. The Prime Minister, as I said, he started up a dirt unit specifically to dig up garbage on Dutton. He did so straight after the Voice had

been defeated. He has spin doctors who are paid an awful lot of money by you and me to talk to their mates and the rest of the media to try to carry that message. We've shown you who some of these people are in many many media organizations around the country, the ones who will always give the benefit of the doubt of the Prime Minister. But it's all

about get Dutton. Here's some examples about how Anthony Alberinezi thinks that if he can somehow turn Peter Dutton into Ossie Orange Man, the result will be different than the Orange Man. Yeah, that's right, he won again, didn't he.

will be able to put on Peter Dutton. But the reality is that the Peter Dutton insults about him being weak is provable. It's provable by how many stories last year, how many articles. We literally did hundreds of shows last year. And while I don't suggest that you go and buy the DVD collection, is there one you'd be able to pretty much know. But we didn't make things up about them. We called them out about their many and endless failure

which lead to the perception of weakness. But there's one other thing about the Prime Minister I need to focus on. When he was at his press conference today announcing yet again billions of dollars but you have to vote for me first for the NBN to become the true technology

that it should be. There was a little twist here about how the Prime Minister views spending your money because he knows that a government that spends too much money is one normally Australian stone like get ready for a new word to replace spending.

all off budget it's an accounting trick. Another thing about this Prime Minister. Listen to a question where he is asked very clearly about Australia Day, and about put simply, is our national day January twenty sixth, and should all celebrate commemorations and citizenship ceremonies happen on that day. This is the question.

the Prime Minister respond? Well, see, he has this really annoying verbal tick that somehow he thinks that a little bit like Remberlhen you used to write an essay in high school and you just sort of pad it out with extra words and loin news keep going, and then eventually you change the point and you start answering a completely different question, because somehow you think that is going to make you look good, because even if you don't really answer the question, they're going to admire the way

you answer the question. This is the Prime Minister giving what I call a beauty queen's answer. I'll explain why in a second.

the Australian of the Year. It's fantastic that that occurs the first year.

What a giant surprise that is. We're aware of upgrade elbow and don't worry, we will not forget to get in twenty twenty five. But that nothing answer kind of reminded me of this famous moment from the internet. I think from two thousand and seven.

it's just been heartbreaking to see, hasn't it. So many homes just gone. It's like literally you know, and all the people say, wars, Yeah, that looks like a bomb went off, unbelievable. Well, we're starting to learn now about what may well be have been the start of the fire that caused all of that trouble in and around New Years. Washington Post has been doing some deep diving, which, among other things, has been able to work out that there was a fire on New Year's Eve. It went

off because people were setting fireworks off. Now, the fire had apparently been put out, but the winds may well have breathed life back into the fire. The Washington Post again continues to go on here to say that residents told the Post that investigators on the scene that firefighters were also slow to respond Tuesday of last week, slower than they were when there was something burning in that

area on New Year's Eve. They've also been able to confirm that by listening to all the different radio calls. Pretty amazing, right. Despite this and the warnings of intense and dangerous wind events last week, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson has told The Post has been the Washington Post that it was not the department's practice to maintain patrols

over past fire sites. Meeting, nobody went back and double checked that it was definitely one hundred percent out, And of course is that an unrealistic expectation, I don't know. But if the suggestion is that this was the ember that fired things back up, we're in a world of trouble. Here we know that fires rekindle and a transition from smoldering to flaming. This is a professor of mechanical engineering

at the University of California in Berkeley. It's certainly possible that something from a previous fire within a week had rekindled and caused the ignition. Now a couple of other quick observations from the other side of the wall, But a person who absolutely loves the United States, Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, clearly a blow coups. Presidential ambitions look like they may have been over before they even began.

Take the sunglasses off. I know it's a California thing, but please, no one thinks you're we're looking at the fire. When the failure of people like yourself to be prepared for these things, you won't call no more power. As for Donald Trump, look if he wants to ever turn California red, help out right. I get all the problems with the lefties and some of them, you know, but they don't deserve to lose the houses because they didn't

vote for you. I think there'll be a massive upside for Trump if he can actually get involved and try to rebuild part of this area as soon as possible, rather than just saying, yeah, it's California thing, don't worry about it. As for the Mayor of Los Angeles, you should resign. You aren't up to it. You cut the budget of the firefighters, which brings me to, of course, the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Bureau, who seems to have placed more attention on DEI than actually preparing

yourself for an emergency, She too should resign. I don't know who their deputies are, but I'll take them, or even the person who answers the TRIPLEO calls over the mayor or the person in charge of those fires meantime after the flames and they're still going on, of course, but after the flames have passed in some areas, there are tens of thousands of people that have tried to find somewhere to sleep. Thankfully, hotel rooms and mates and all the rest of it, and even free abmbs are

currently available. But there's an awful lot of people who need things like food, and there's all sorts of shelters which are popping up, and it's a really cool thing that normal people do in response to natural disasters, we do our bit to help somebody else. And then there are flogs like Harry and Meghan who decide to go to one of these places to show off that they were at one of these places, no doubt, tipping off

the cameras. Oh there just happens to be one there right next to me, and I've got my la hat on and all the rest of it. Now. Justine Bateman, yes, the sister of Jason, well known actor but also an activist in and around the Writers Guild and producers guiled. She's a very plugged in person in the United States. She's basically told them to bug her off. Why she wrote, what are a pulsive photo op that they achieved that they are touring the damage. They're not politicians, they don't

live here. They're tourists, disaster tourists. But of course, why would there be a reason why Meghan wanted to somehow get maximum publicity. Was there a chance that, Oh that's right. On the fifteenth of January, we were supposed to see her latest effort from Netflix. Here's the trailer. Hold down your dinner if you can.

seem on Outsiders and lots of other places. The US report back of course this week, great man, how are you great to be here? Paul Oh, Matt Canavan, let's get him in here too, all right? House Queensland in summer, mate, it's great.

position has become the absolute uncool establishment position. You know, like, if this is the political position of the Woolworths, you know, executive floor, if this is the you know, official position of university administrators, it's not cool. And it's interesting because I think there's this broader vibe shift that's happening right now. And people always say it takes a little while for Australia to catch up with these things. I think it's

happening right now. I think this is putting the wind very much in Peter Dunton's sales right now. But people are genuinely over all of this nonsense.

day to look forward, all right. But those eighteen percent of people who say it's all about looking back are now a smaller number actually, sorry, fourteen percent. That's my issue here, Matt, where we know that there are all these people who are Invasion Day all the rest of it, right, But Jesus, isn't it interesting to see how small the

number is? But it's a number that is a lot louder online, and in a time when online spaces were to be feared, the pesta power of fourteen was drowning out sixty nine.

young people, they rebel against that. They rebel against what they're uncool teachers and maybe sometimes even their parents are telling them. And you're seeing that right across the world, and I think you'll increasingly see that as that generation graduate from school and start voting. So it's great to see. I wish I think what we should do because I'm sick of this debate like everyone else. So what we should do is that the next federal election is put this to a vote. We don't put it just a

piece of paper. Do you think the Australia should remain on the twenty sixth of Genuary.

Parliament and see everyone votes. A National Day's January twenty six Citizenship ceremonies and everything that should happen on that one day. Watch the teals heads explode and watch Albo try to work out how to each way that.

But number one, remember that Anthony Albanezy when he was elected, This was after his whole long I'm a centrist, I'm not work campaign, and then he comes in and he confirms it's a tell that his all of his instincts are with the radical left canvasaritator.

future kind of idea, Matt. I want to also talk about a couple of other things over summer, including not quite the death of DEI, but also some movements away from from things like major financial institutions and an obsession with the net zero a couple of big changes. We'll get to the DEI stuff, but you're particularly focused on JP Morgan and their net zero view.

Chris Balen wants to go towards Germany and exactly where they're ending up.

absolute thrashing. And so the world's moving against this, and the banking sector is, like always, is just following that. They followed it on the way up up the net zero Mountain and they're following it the way down. Now every major bank in the US has left the Net zero Banking Alliance. JP Morgan was the last one to do that, and that's going to make a huge difference

to what is funded around the world. And our country, Australia, bet to wake up to this before we get our pants pulled down by other countries out competing.

the way. And that was a business model for all of these banks. And now suddenly that's over. They'll realize that interest rates aren't going back to zero. There's you know, things have to be productive and it's going to be a hard road the next couple of years, you know, economically, but you know we're going to be productive again. And I think that's what Trump understands. And when I go to the United States, you know there's this idea of you know, there's this sense it's gonna be this new

American resister. I don't know if there is going to be that government shage in Germany, because of course in Germany, the EU will figure out a way to undermine the elections, Say no, you didn't mean to vote for those guys.

that they don't even have a name for. What do you do? Well, as a bloke who is trying to do something for his beautiful boy Will, his name is Steue Place and he joins us now because I want you to know a bit about him, what he's doing, and of course his little man will love you to see you. Steve, thank you so much for coming on. Mate. So Will is four and tell us what's happening with him right now.

suffers from a severe form of epilepsy. It's life threatening if it's not under control. At the age of fourteen months, he was having up to one hundred and fifty miclonic atonic sieges a day. And you know he also suffers from intellectual disability autism. He's completely nonverbal with a bunch of other disorders. So it's a monster of a disease.

He needs twenty four our care and my wife, who's basically giving up her job to care for him full time, is really the hero out of all of our family at the moment.

is fifteen and a half thousand kilometers. There you are, and if people sponsor you along the way, we can raise a huge chunk of change to help out that little man as he's watching you do the ride. So you're currently at two hundred and eighty thousand dollars, which is an incredible achievement, but clearly, and for obvious reasons, you need an awful lot more because this is forever and it is very difficult. Again, as you say, what the times are ahead? So how far are we into

fifteen thousand kilometers? Mate?

in Texas. I was sorry back in Texas is on Sunday, So day forty four today, I'm averaging around two hundred and thirty to three hundred kilometers a day and I've been doing that every day except for Christmas Day. I had a little bit of a break. But yeah, it's

an important mission. We need to do this. We need to support not only of the community, but you know, we think corporate Australia can certainly get behind this and help us achieve what we need to for this rare disease, not just for Will, but for all other children suffering from SLC six A one, which is the name of the disease, unfortunately the name of its genetic ocation.

to that. He's, Yeah, he loves being around me when I'm when I'm peddling, either at home or when I'm in the event side in the CBD at Flinder's Lane. He's in there most days with my oldest son and my wife too well.