Lucky lucky quack quack lucky ducks. Welcome to our Parodcastedday.
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Hello everyone, it's Melamonte. Thanks for joining us. I know I say that every time, but I was tickled pink.
Aren't we?
We are?
We are? What's your favorite color? Red? Is it? Really? I never laugh about you? Wow?
I mean I don't green. I don't think about it that often. Like I enjoy lots of colors, you know, what always blows me away is flowers and just the color of flowers. I know that sounds so strange, but if I actually look at a flower, I'm like, that's so fucking epic that something can be that color naturally.
Yeah, because they're the most beautiful colors, right, the ones that are in nature.
Beautiful colors like the purple of hydrangers and the red red of roses. I don't know who I am right now, but I just seriously. Sometimes sometimes I'll say to Sam, how amazing is nature? And he's like, you always say that, but I'm like, look, if you actually look at it, it's phenomenal.
It is amazing. And speaking of hydrangers, they're my favorite flower.
Same.
My in laws have an entire It runs the whole line of their fence, just full of hydrangeamus. Sam's pink, which aren't my favorite. I like the white ones, the white green sort of. I like the purple. Yeah, well these are pink, but they're beautiful. My husband's not romantic in any way, but because he knows they're my favorite, he got his dad to do clippings and he's planted them at home.
Oh beautiful.
They fucking last two minutes and then some hits them dead.
They're very, very hard to keep alive of the hydranger plant. Sam's parents have beauty and just They tend to their garden NonStop. But on mum's birthday, Sam's mum pitched me hydrangers and gave them to me, and it was so beautiful. But she knows they're my favorite. But I would never grow them myself because they're just too hard.
You know.
Also to keep them alive longer, you dunk their heads into water.
Yes, I also saw a floris talking about how you smash the stem. Ah am the stem, and he reckons they can last a couple of weeks in a bush. Yeah, I don't know.
I've never had a hydranger that's lasted a couple of weeks.
I'll go pinch, I'll go pinch them from my in laws. Yeah, yeah, right, Well, I just thought, as a little lucky dip, I would bring you some unbelievable jobs that exist or have existed, good and very very bad. Okay.
Can I just ask first, why did you randomly ask me what my favorite color is? I was just completely out of the blue. Nothing, it was nothing.
Linked, wasn't there? No, No, there has to have been.
There wasn't. I remember thinking, where are you going with this? And you went nowhere.
No, So we must have been. There must have been.
When you listen back to this, when you actually yeah, that's the link.
Okay. There is a job as a professional mourner. They're called moiurologists, and they originated in the Mediterranean, Chinese, Eastern cultures, and they basically get paid to go to a funeral and mourn the loss of the person and provide comfort to the other mourners, even though they never knew the person. That's weird, like you would think that your fellow family members or whatever would be enough comfort. You don't sort of need a stranger.
Maybe if there's not many people there, and maybe in some places where people are superstitious or something, they need more people there to send the spirit off. There could be reasons like that.
Maybe also this is this I'm not going to get through many of these because I'm going to go on a tangent. Do you remember when that guy was doing the media round the coffin confessor. No, he's an aussy guy and his job is people contact him people who are dying. He goes to see them. They'll tell him something that they want him to get up and say at their funeral. Like, for example, let's say Uncle Barry did something terrible to somebody. He confesses this to this
coffin confessor. The coffin confessor gets up and says, I'd like to say something, and reads a letter or whatever. The person who's just died says about Uncle Barry that he wants everyone to know, but he never had the courage to say when he was live.
That is a draw dropping place to do that.
Can you imagine the fucking balls that would take to.
Oh ah, it just would be because this shit you would hear, it would have to be so heavy and for on and then just to hold the space for the audience or the mourners to just be completely gobsmacked.
Yeah. I don't think he's holding any space. I think he's going there saying what he's going to say, and then he's booting and he's done his job. Isn't that a fascinating thing. That's also this is going to end up being a death podcast. We can do this another day. Okay, have you heard of a death dueler? Ah?
I somebody said it the other day, but a friend of mine who's a celebrant who also is going to start doing funerals, said that it's called death walking. Like you're a death walker. Tara Moss is a death walker, which I have a feeling is getting is kind of getting to know the person before they die and walking them to the death.
This makes so much sense to me if tomorrow I got diagnosed with a terminal illness. Yeah, I would seriously consider this because you think of in birth, you've got a dueler to coach you through the fears around birth and help you with that transition. Death is the only other thing really that's comparable to birth on AIG and it would be fucking terrifying, it would be to but to some people, they're not like.
My mum was always like, I'm not afraid of dying. I don't want to miss out on stuff, but I'm not afraid of dying. And she genuinely wasn't afraid, which to me is so unbelievably bright.
Yeah, I know how strong.
I mean, are so strong. But you're so right, how birth and death are so like that, you know, it's so I remember when mum was passing, which I've said before, it reminded me so much of the baby bubble of my birth, like, because after you have the baby, you're the only one that's experiencing it the way you experience it. No one can penetrate that circle. No who's in it
is in it with you. And that was exactly the same as when Mum was passing, where it was like time didn't exist, only the people that were in it were in it experiencing it their way. It was so similar to me, it was wild and I'm like, that's birth and death like so similar but so opposite.
It's so true. I actually this gives me chills to think about. I keep talking about mel Robbins, but I have been listening from the book Let Them Be The left them theory, and she had a guest on who I think was a death duller, this lady and she walks people through the death or whatever. And Mel asked her what she wants, and she said, I want the people I love the most and who love me the most around me, and as I die, I want them to give me a round of applause. Oh mane gives
me chills. My yeah about it, like she said, And I want them to say, well done, Oh you had a beautiful life. You did amazing things. You impacted us. And I thought, it's hard because losing someone is so difficult and you're left with the trauma of not having
them around totally. But geez, if we could be a bit more open about it and talk about it and maybe on some level not make it so taboo and make it a process that is I don't know, like comforting on some level for everybody, if you can look at it as mus.
Be so great if we could change how it felt, because it's the only thing that is guaranteed in life. We're all going to experience people dying. We're going to experience it like yet to view it as though no matter when it happens because it's always awful when it happens, but it could be Yeah, like a true celebration, a round of applause, like that was your life and congratulations for how your life was. Whether it was a great
life or not, it's a life that you had. And so you finished that congratulations pretty amazing.
I mean, and you could hand out what was it you ought to be congratulated that Roses, Thank you very much.
Oh you ought to be congratulated Marjarine. I think Soto Lee. Yeah, you hand out meadow Lee. They're like Cardi favors at the end. Yeah, yeah, thank you for coming to minded.
Here's some meadow Lee. Here's some monou saturated.
Who's buying meadow Lee? Now? I remember my friend in primary school's dad used to work at meadow Lee and she would bring like all of empty tubs of meadow Lee for arts and crafts.
I always remember them in the art room.
Yeah, just hundreds of them. We'd always have.
We really did get. I think our generation would have gotten the most unhealthiest of any other because our parents' generation were probably more you know, maybe they're not as processed yep, and then this one our kids, maybe we're more mindful of what they eat, even though there's a lot of you know, like we would, well not there's anything wrong if you do. But like I wouldn't give my kids, Margarine say, like if they want it, they have butter or whatever.
See, I wouldn't.
We were the height.
We were just everything processed high sugar because we went down the low fat route. Do you know what I mean? But my son is the fussiest eater, and because he's got ADHD and he's on medication, suppresses his appetite. Yes, So I send him to school and his lunchbox will come home completely full, and this kid charges hard. I'm like, fuck, there is just no fuel going to this kid's brain. So now what I send him to school with is white bread with natala and a juice box a primer.
Sam is like, put a piece of fruit in that. I said, he won't eat the fruit, so it's just literally sending a piece of fruit to school to come home. And he said, dphs are gonna call us. I'm like, mate, I'm embarrassed with his lunchbox, but it comes home empty. So I'm like, at least a little bit of fuels going to his brain during the day.
You know, if anyone thinks bad of you, you know what you say, let them.
Let them. Nah, I'm really conscious of it. I can't let them. They are fair enough to judge me. Like it's white tiptop bread.
What's better? He's not eating That's what I think.
That's what my friend who's a dietitian, is like, better he's eating something than nothing at.
All, that's right. And you know what, white tiptop bread's fucking yum. Where you grew up bread in this house, I couldn't give a shit, sorry, like you choose your things.
And one of his friends was over and I said, you want some toast And I said you want the grainy bread or the white bread? He said, grainy bread. My dad says the whiter the bread, the closer to dead. I was like, fuck, you'd last two seconds in this house.
Oh my god. All right, Well we'll see when he turns eighteen and the way he's gonna eat as a rebellion for the.
Totally I know, a ten year old choosing like rye, grainy bread and you're nuts. All right, we're out here, everyone. We'll get to the worst jobs next time.
Yeah, we will.
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