Ah, Matt, before we do get started. So I just wanted to thank you some travel advice. What did I tell you? It was last year on the way to Vegas. I had a conundrum, I had a thought, and then you put my mind at ease and I forgot about it until I got back on the plane this year. What did I do? Well? Why don't you start the episode?
Okay, welcome back to Two Doing Dads. I am Maddie Jays and this is a podcast all about parenting.
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No, actually stay advice as if you come for advice, not us. Anyway, what was the advice advice we do have? Yeah? Last year we went to Vegas together and I quite I don't like flying because I'm uncomfortable in a particular way, so back or just anxiety?
What's thorting my farts in wit if you're on a plane far away?
Thank you? I took that advice this time traveled so comfortably where they smelly? Oh yeah, I was like, I think one of them woke me up. I got on the plane next to these two lovely Americans, and I was like, get ready, and I just let I was honestly like forty our flight, A breeze, A breeze out of my buttole.
Apparently, apparently, I don't know if there's any science behind this, but you know when you have a bottle of water and you put the lid on when you're on the tarmac and you're in the air, Yeah, and the bottles are like compressed.
Yeah, yeah, you got to do that.
Apparently that's what because I wee a lot when I'm in the air.
On a plane. Opposit, I don't barely we like, I did.
One Wii on a fourteen hour flight, and you're not doing my scientific fact here any favors.
Well, it could be different from you do you fart more on a plane? Oh yeah, there you go. I think the human body knows when when you're not places you're not meant to farts. It's the cabin pressure. But like if I'm just a home and I'm in bed and I'm like, okay, I got a Wii, and I was like, it's probably you know, I could do a fart here and keep people happy. I don't need a fart. But then I get back into bed. It's like I got a fart.
That is the number one complaint that I get from Laura.
I hop in a bed and she goes, why do you have to fight when you get into bed? I go, I can't help it. This is where I needed to fart. I can't. I can't help you know, when I need to fight, I need to fart. If that happens and I'm just in bed and I pulled the blankets up, I apologize, it was like you were just in the bathroom anyway. I just just very Yeah. I wanted to just thank you for that. You're well. You made the
trip much more enjoyable. I was at one point I was like laying down because I had two best seats and there was people around me, and I just went It is awkward when it really does smell. The best time to do it is during meal time because the meal is usually quite pungent. Yeah, thank you.
I have a bad poker face, and it is hard when you have to try and hide when you farted and people are like, you can see someone else going is that smells a bit, and you have to try and pretend like you know, yeah, you're confused as well.
Going is that. I think everyone's like probably sitting there being like say anything anything. It is such a relief. It is such a relief.
Hey, did you notice anything at the front of my house yesterday? By the way, when you were you're visiting, did you notice anything?
I know you got a haircut, small, small haircut. I did something stupid. You didn't cut the dick plan off. No dick plans still there. I actually have that video still it's grown. Yeah, I have a grower.
I have a yucker and it's grown a root that comes out the size of a penis.
It looks like an uncircumcised peanist. Like it is uncanny.
Remind me after this episode, I did a video where I'm edging. I think Laura goes edge the gardens and I'm like, sure, very good, and then I'm there jerking off.
The oh that's good. Why have you not posted that? I don't know. I forgot. I forgot to say, remind me.
I don't know if it's the same over in the Northern Beaches for anyone outside of New South Wales, we or in Bondo, we get too allocated. Cancel cleanup pickups per calendar year.
You've got to book them in. Though you got to book them in, you get too free. I love that when there's one person actually books one in and then everyone in the same streets just like must be a counsel cleaner and throw stuff out the front of their house and it gets picked up. That's a loophole. That's a council loophole. It didn't happen, unfortunately.
But you know, anyone who's never had a council cleanup pick up collection, whether the fuck it's called, the way it works, the way it works, it is very complicated. How have they not had one of people just don't have junks like us.
I feel like I was.
I was very late to the council cleanup bandwagon.
I love walking past the pile of council cleanup and pretending not to look, and then fighting the urge.
Looks it was raining when I put out the stuff, so people didn't. I love watching people come and.
Scale that, yeah we should do that, and just be like, get.
But you got to put it out the night before, gets picked up in the morning. I forgot that it was out there. So when I got the kids in the car for daycare and school drop off, they were.
Like what's this? And I was like, fuck, all this stuff in the front, all this stuff.
I had this blackboard with magnets that that was out there. Their little camer little sofas that have a fold out. They get moldy as fuck, those things so moldy.
They were out there. Lola's potty was out there as well, and she was like what do you throw this out for? There were a bunch of hoarders, my kids. I was like, it was a nightmare. Ash. I had to had to peel them off. You know we talk about people scavenging, Yeah, it was like my kids. Yeah, they were like going through and throwing cushions everywhere, being like why are you throwing this bachelor out for? We can keep that? And
I was like, far out. They don't understand the concept of like throwing things out unless it's like, you know, food scraps or whatever. Because I remember when we did we sort of piled a bunch of old toys up not to throw them out. We're going to give them to Goodwill because that was still fine, and we stupidly put them in a container and then one day we came home and the clear container was like sitting there ready to be taken and Oscar was like, what's that.
He's like, that's my my Americ control cars in there like you hasn't used in like two years. And it was like I turned my back one second and he's in there and he's got it all out, and it's like for Fox, it's a nightmare. Council cleaner, but picked up, picked up in the afternoon, beautiful, Yeah, lovely. I feel I feel like the weight has been just lifted off my shoulders. I had a rug that bust to shot on like the worst diarrhea Nane. I gave him some brown rice no good for dogs.
So that rug that used to be there under the coffee table that's been down the side of the house just covered in dog shit for like four months.
Imatching the stench on that thing.
Carrying that down the side of the house, moldy from the rain, remnants of dog diarrhea. Oh yeah, I'm just I'm a new man since having that council cleanup.
It's better than therapy, is April loves and my going in treat yourself. My father in law does this thing where he drives around the streets looking for piles to throw stuff out him. So that stuff. People have already ordered one and he's got ship in the back of his car. He's like, that's good behaviors back at night. But I couldn't do that the amount of anxiety I have and I put in a garbage bin into someone else's like that that.
Feels like you're breaking the law, feels like but he's drubbing around. Yeah, the car full of that's bold.
That's a friend of mine owns a company called my Bins, which is like they move the bin from this sponsor. Shout out to my Bins. They're good guys. They move the bins from your house to the street and back. That's that's part of the service, the service, the offering, whatever you want to call it. And he was like, dude, people are so territorial on their bins. Like he's like, we have some people that will be like make sure when you do put the bins out that no one
puts any stuff in there. And they're like it's half full.
And then I'm not security, bro, I'm here to take the bens out.
And it's like but also to get like, have you ever tried to get a replacement bin or an extra bin? No, your rates go through the roof. You're trying to get another bin. Oh yeah, yeah. They charge you per bin obviously. And if you get a bigger bin, get a bigger bin. That's more money. Yeah, because people have a little miniature bin. Have you seen the size of my bin? And I've got two kids, one still in nappies overnight. It's a nightmare. Yeah,
you guys are the neighbors. I'm feeling the neighbor's bin. As soon as the sun goes down, I'm out there pooty on balaclava. What you and April's dad we both got gloves on so no fingerprints can be left behind. And I'm up the street the other day. Actually I got caught. That reminded me. I got caught. I was the guy across the street. There's there're two old couples at a huge house. Yeah, two old couples, one old couple, two old people, and that it's always half full, like
and I'm like, it's like next up. She's listening to have to talk. She's she's pretty old, bro. I think she's gonna hear it. She's like, and I was like, all right, coach is clear. Yeah, across the road, you know, pink panther music, opened it up, went to put it in and they drove in the driveway. Oh this is not my bin right, thankfully they're old. I had like I was just like, you know, I'm not young, but like they were just like too afraid. I was like, yeah,
good thing you got tats on. Yeahs on, good thing you have tats. I got my tats on Today weekend, matt weekend with kids, you know, it's like you're trying to find ship to do, trying to keep me entertained, and sometimes you I find and I don't know if you're the same. You just end up going to different parks and it's fucking like parks are boring. There's some parks its like, got some things going on. But April was very much like, it's the Flying Fox Park. No, obviously one of them.
If anyone doesn't know what I'm talking about, listen to last week's episode where Ash had to go about Flying Fox parks.
Yes, continued not a fan. Over the weekend Saturday, April said, look tomorrow Sunday Family Day or do something different. I was like, sweet, no worries, and she was like, why are you doing the like the finger I felt like it was necessary family day, because every day's family. I have a family. Every day I have a family. So what you're saying to me is the first six days of the week I have no family. Is how this works?
Obviously not? Did you say that? No, I want to sleep indoors and I and she was like, she said that to me just before I was leaving to go to the football which first game of the year. I'm gonna I'm going to sink some tins. Football was on Saturday, Saturday.
Night, right, So she was just like, Hey, don't forget about us.
Family Day tomorrow. I just come back from Vegas. I get it. She was like, do whatever you like tonight, just get up in the morning. And I'm like, I know what that means. Noted, that means get up in the morning. And you're very very I'm very observant taking information. And I woke up the next day bit Dusty and April said it's family Day. I said, what are we
doing today then? And she said, We're going to take a bus to the Big Shops, which is you know, like a decent bus trip to a bigger shopping center, which just at ring them all. So we've got like a small one in worriing, like worry would square where did you take me that time? That's just where I would square. I think that's a small shop, small shops, great shops, great shops. Perfect for me, but not big
enough for April, not big enough for family day. But she was like, it's an adventure and it's like Macy had never been on a bus. Oscar has but as you know, on the Northern Beaches, we've got the double decker bus. Yeah you guys, you guys must be thank you trade my chamis needy and I was like, oh okay, it was a bit dusty. I was like, well, let's go down. We drove down to the bus stop. We went sat waiting for the bus to come and it's a big, two story bus and the kids are super
excited to get on. Oscar's already been on before, sitting up the top. We didn't get to sit at the front at the top, but Macy seems has taken Yeah, there's a few spots like that's annoying way through, which is still good, but it's Macey was petrified like she was on a roller coaster. She was like grabbing hold of April, like away from the window and she was trying to get she was trying to get out. The stairs are really steep. The bus took off and she was like, and then they must be so used to
being like locked down in a baby seat. Yeah, now all of a sudden they're on the road unhinged. So she was petrified all the way there, and Oscar the whole time was like, I'm board, on board, and then we get off the bus and I was like, that was amazing. And I was like, I don't know, I don't know. I don't think they just say that to fill the gap when there's nothing to say. They're just like, I'm bored. And she was like me, he has to fill the air with words at all times, Like he's
just like continuous. I wonder where he gets from. Anyway, we did the shopping. Yep, what are you buying? On family Day? April needed some tights before and the kids wanted to look at toys at a different shop. Okay, what are the times for just exercise? Exercise? Yeah? Nice? Anyone wants to give my wafe some tights she needs? Did April get the tights? No? Ah? What classic get all the way to the big shops. No tights. I was like, not a single tight. No. She tried on
some and I just found seats to sit in. That's pretty much all. She wasn't happy with the tights. Wasn't happy with it. Okay, okay, a bit painful, but look, honestly, I don't really have a leg to stand on. I've sort of just got to go along and carry everything for the trip. Is April listened to these episodes, Yeah, I'd love to know what was wrong with the tights. Camel tooe. That's not even a joke, very particular my wife. Sorry, everybody, let's get back on track. We're getting back on the bus.
Macey's brave again. She wants to walk on her own onto the bars, get up up the stairs, up the stairs. She got on. She's quickly scared again and she's like, oh, you know, because it's quite rocky. But then shable. She was distracted by the fact that upstairs there's no bus driver, because the bus driver's downstairs, but she didn't because she's so small, she didn't see the bus driver on the
way in. So now she's obsessed thinking that the bus drives herself, and it started to freak her out, like, where's the driver? She kept pointing, like where's the driver? Did you explain to her or you like, I don't know where it is. I was like, it's on the roof. She was just like, oh, so we stopped. We'll let the kids press the button. They love pressing buttons. They're like,
press the button for every stop. And we stopped it Narrabeene to get off, and Macey they were they pressing for not their stop, like because thankfully it's sort of bus that stops at that main only the main stops anyway.
Because the best way to piss off a bus driver is to press the stop button and no one gets off.
Anyway. We get to Narrabeene and it's Macy's brave again and wants to walk off the bus and they're quite steep steps. Can I just say it's I get I get stressed out when the bus stops. You don't have a lot of time to get off the bus. This is what happened. Macy wanted to get off on herself, took forever fucking grab her stop. Oh god, she latched onto the railing, missed the stop. I'm en route to Mona Vail. Did anyone get off the bus. It was April. No,
no one, We're all stuck behind Macy. Would you yell out say hey, it was too late, we will move. We're on the go. And we had to go to the next bus stop. Where did you guys end up? The next bus stop, which is the next suburb. Get off, walk across, Walk across the busy main road back to the other side. Wait another ten minutes for a bus to come back to take us back the other way. Is she having naps still? Yeah? Oh god? So where how are you at nap time? We are way past now.
Did you have any food on you? We had some? Yeah, they did have like little lunchboxes thing. Thank god? What about me, Matthew? Sorry? Yeah, I hung over as fu and I'm like, I'm on a bars the whole time, Like I had a porto at the shops. Did you have chips? Oh? Yeah, for God's sake, what do you do it to yourself? Okay, let me tell you's not the thing. A meal is not complete without chips. Yeah, but chips for you are like valiant. I I ate a large chips for I go to sleep. It's like
sleeping tablet. I've never seen someone getting knocked horizontal quicker than hash wigs having a couple of chippies. Bro, I'm like comatized.
Whatever you when we have lunch here and we have some chippies, I'm worried about you driving home.
Comatosed. Just the potato, the starchy potato does it for me. Do you know what really gets me? When you're dipping chips in potato and gravy. Think of that one type of fried chip dipped in mush chip. The calves are through the roofs. I'm just like, First of all, I'm like, you've got You've got to stop doing it to yourself. I love it. But I was on the bus very much like, oh man, I can't wait to get off this bus next minute, I'm fucking missing the stop doing
a complete uti. Did you get home? We got home and I fell straight asleep like three hours. It's a big day for me. Family day is a big day for ad. And then we yeah, spent the rest of the day at the park. That sounds awful. But the bus when we got to the shops after the first bus trip April stupidly leant over to me to go I wish we drove and I was like, you fucking idiot, Like, don't you dare tell me that, because I would have drove us to get home be on the bus. Buses.
Bus is fun, but you know it is more fun electric bikes. Yes, feel me? And I did see that. Yeah, I got my electric bike on the weekend. What are your thoughts on the cool factor of that bike? It's it's low. I don't want that look for me. I love it. I love that bike. I want one, honestly. I like the idea of the kids on the back, like Osco, I've got him on the front of mine? Is yours? A fat boy? What's your bonds? A fucking juicy boy? Is it cool? Fat boy? Is that the brand?
A brand called fat boy? I got a Drodi and you one on the way, you have a cool one.
I've got two kids, and I didn't like the idea of trying to put one in the front.
One of the backs I've got. I've got the one that I've got like a flat bed. It's a long tray, but it's got small wheels, way more practice. It's aqua.
It's aqua color aqua, and I wish it was more time aqua.
I wish it was black. I wish it was, you know that's but I guess aqua is quite bright. We could we can paint it. I'm not going to paint it, which gets to scrap up a subscription. I'm not gonna what's a subscription? Yeah, just run me through that, Okay. So you pay an amount of money per week like a rental. Yeah, subscription. They're pretty much just does it rent to own? Subscribe to own? Ah? No, So if we fuck it o, it's you've got to pay for
the whole thing a little bit. Yeah, But the kids love it.
Kids absolutely enjoy it, and it's a little bit hairy at some points on the road. At daycare this morning, sun was out, beautiful day and my niece goes to the same daycare as Lola, and so I was like, hey, let's not go in the car, let's go on the bike. But little Chassy mcghazzy, my niece, she was a bit like what fuck is this thing?
She's like, never been on a bike. Where's zebelt? She's never been on a bike before. Well, she's been a training wheels. Yeah, So she was a bit like Macie where she was like how does this thing work? Lola's there strapped in.
She's got a baby seat, and then there's just two little handle bars. Yeah, I saw that, and so I put Chazy there. And then there's certain points we go downhill, we get like forty k's an hour.
They do zip and I'm like, you guys have fun back there. I was like slow. She even goes what happens if I fall out? And I said, just hold on, You're not going to fall if you hold it on. Yeah, that's what I said. She was freaking the hell. Lola was like, she's loving it. She's sitting in the back there having a cigarette. She's just like faster driver. April like same thing she gets on every now and then
with me, and she's just like, is this safe? Hold on she's got Yeah, she's really on the love handles too. Can I ask you a question? No? Yeah, go, You're can't ask me anything, like.
I just want to know if I've done the wrong thing. Here, wait on me, go Okay, have I done the wrong thing?
Or is Laura in the wrong At the moment, I'm doing all of the daycare drop offs with Lola on the bike from now from this point on bikes other than rain weather permitting Lola. I don't know if I mentioned this.
She's at a new daycare, really struggling with the drop offs, really struggling. We're now six seven, eight weeks in tears most mornings. It's hard. And then this morning, Lola's like, I'm going to bring this toy. And she had this big bunny that's giant. It's like, you know, big guy. You push a button on its belly and it sings a song and it dances.
Right, you're not allowed that to take care. You're not allowed to take I want I get you kids kid you know kids, right, yeah? Kids, kids, two kids. I'm just so.
Lola's like, I'm bringing this thing and I'm like, you're not bringing that thing, and she's like, but I'm allowed to. And I said, well, who said you're allowed to? You gues Mom told me? And I was like, there's no way that mom has said yes to this, and so I'm like, I'm going to fucking get you here, Lola.
I was like, did mom really say that? Let's give her a call.
So I call Laura on speaker next to Lola who's holding the bunny.
And I was like, fucking you're going to learn. You're going to get called out here, Lola lie to me and say, tell me that your mother has allowed this. Please try they try and play you against each other.
She was trying to play me, and I was like, no, on my watch, pow. I love where this is going so cool Laura, And I said, did you say to Lola?
Look at Laura. Did you say to Lola? You did she could bring the bunny rabbit, the one that it sings and it dances. And then Laura goes, yeah, okay, okay, they're in cahoots those two. You're never gonna Lola in particular, You're never gonna They've already had this chat.
Oh yeah last night. Yeah, I don't know where I was. They've they've they've gone.
We'll loop him in when the time comes, because if we loop him in now, it'll be a problem from now until we leave. But if I loop him in when we leave, it's only a problem for that long. So I said to Laura, what do you mean you said yes to the toy? And she goes, well, we had a conversation that if there was anything that would help Lola with a drop off process, make it a bit easier for her, we would allow it and I say, yeah, but you know the rules at daycare, no toys that
make any noise. You're allowed like a.
Little soft toy that they can have as a comforter. And she goes, I didn't know that. I may have said something, may have said something which was fighting words.
I'm going to just quickly say it's it's on for Laura. That's a great I think she's what she's doing there is she's trying to make your life easier for drop off. So I'm going to just quickly jump on her side and say because you did mention anything that makes it easier for her, I'm then.
Going to feel the wrath from daycare when I come in there.
Stand up to the man. I can't do rules as rules. You know that break a few rules, can't. I'm the new guy. I'm playing by the rules. No be a rogue, go rogue.
Why I said to Laura when she was like, well, I didn't know that, And I said, yeah you would if you went to any of the orientation days.
Where did you sleep last night? Well that was this morning? Where you sleeping at night? How did that go down? Yeah? Really?
Well?
Yeah good? I thought I thought that might be the case, she would have taken that on the chin. Laura, of all people, would have really taken that on the chin.
And so then so then I've got a situation where I've now got a very angry wife.
I've also got Lola who's in tears. And I'm not stepping down for no one. I'm going to say that you so you needed to put your pride aside at that moment. So I hung up, and then, oh, oh my god, help yourself. I'm on Laura's side. I think, Laura, my arm's trying to make it easier for Lola and you and you fighting it is causing more of a problem.
But surely every parent, everyone who's had any kind of experience with daycare knows that you're not allowed a toy other than like a little soft toy, jump on board and sneak it in.
But then, but then I'm setting Lola up to fail.
She's going to get it taken away from her. She's going to hate daycare even more. You're making about a point, but I'm more what's easier for me, you know what I mean? Like, my kids do the same thing. I think all kids do the same thing. Where they go I want to take this because they want to show their friends. I now just say, if we're in the car, I say take it, but you're to leave it in the car. You tried that one? No, No, it works if they strap it into their own seat. It's fun
little game. Move on. But I'm with Laura to say, whatever is it? Because she's struggling. She wasn't struggling. I'm on a different side. But because she's struggling, and we had this conversation when you're in the jungle that Lola was really upset. And now we're doubt how many more weeks down the track and it's still happening. It's months. Break some rules for your kids, bro. Consider in silence, did Laura message you before we recorded? No? Why? I
just don't know. It just seems like you're very much on her team. I would it would I would suffer more if I was to jump onto your team. But I think you got to bend some rules every now and then. I get that they might take it off her, but I don't think they're going to hastily take it off her, are they? And if they did, then you know this is the wrong day, the wrong daycare game. I'll digest this conversation. I know you're not happy with me. I can see it that or you're hungry. I can't
work out which one of it is. But I can't sit here and take your side all the time. Let's move this along. Okay, So where do we end up? You haven't spoken to what synth of you? Now? I got to call it after this and what what's going to happen? What's gonna happen on the phone. Are you're going to I know you you're not apologize. I'm going to back down. I don't apologize. You are not. Have I gotten through? I don't know. I've got a big quick question for you. Do your kids have any I've
got a real big question for you. You're ready for this, big boy? Go on? What do you got? It's better be good. I wanted to ask if your kids have any allergies, because you don't what going to school now and there's like they're not allergy that everyone fucking talks about. What have you got for me? I only have one allergy and it's two penicillin, A specific type of penicillin. But why I asked you? Because obviously sometimes it gets passed down to kids and kids have. Macy's allergic to
something which is devastating. Chocolate band aids what she's allergic to the other day, that's not devastating. That's a great result. No, it's not. Because now anytime she hurts herself and she wants a band aid, I can't give a one because she breaks out in a rash. You ever a kiss, bro No, And she doesn't understand why Oscar gets band aids and she doesn't get banned, So now she feels like she's missing out, So then she's even more upset. I do band aids.
I'm going to say that's one of the biggest expenses in this household is buying band aids. But we've got a band we churned through the band aids. Dude, but I still have.
To buy them. But I have to buy them and then not give them to her. It's even worse. Stop the band aids. No band aids in the house anymore. Oscar's bleeding out. I'm sorry to blame. Your sister wears them like an accessory.
I brush her hair, get her teeth done, and then she's like, where's band aid I'm like, fuck, I know, I just put one on her we like, we're going through a pack a week.
At the moment, Macy has got like four blisters from these sandals that she wore. Can't put a band aid on it? Well, hang on a secon. If you're gone to the big shops, get her a new pair of shoes. Were We had to because that's how we found out that she just all of a sudden one day grown out of these shoes they were she one day fine, next day Crocs no, bro get her and cross no, because she wears crocs and she's a classic foot track.
She trips over everywhere. She's like a bumbling mess. You put crocs on my daughter and you literally at my back of you saw from picking her up off the ground. When's her birthday? Just put this way I can startle Macy and she falls over. Think about that and then add crocs into that. Put crocs in there and she's got something.
Hey, you gave me advice and I took it. I'm giving you advice. All I'm saying, hear me out. Don't interrupt me, don't interrupt me. Don't put your finger down. Okay, I'm saying two things. Okay, band aids oscar is now allergic as well. They're out of the house. Okay, you're gonna lie to him.
It's terrible, okay. And then secondly, crocs for Macy. Okay, let me just flip that on here for a second. Please. Oscar falls over, bleeding everywhere, got no band aids? One two, I put crocs on Macy. She falls over, she bleeds everywhere. Then pick up of band aids on her anyway. Well, I'm gonna have to otherwise it cuts, will stoup, blistering. So she's take it. We're going around in circles. If Oscar is bleeding out, take him to the hospital. Moving on.
I can't afford it. It's moving on, moving along here quickly, she's a list of band aids. Be it heasy. If I think and she breaks out in a rash, it's a nightmare. And moving right along, ash, we're going into parenting lies. Dare you move me along? Tell me loud, tell me what have you got for me? Big? Go my mom. I don't know where she is, by the way, lost her in the house again. She was she can't get that fast.
She was here before I was had a recording because I was going to get her to tell her lie, But then she fucking disappeared. I don't know where she is La Jinx. Someone's think we should fuck Sorry. So she told me this lie from when we were younger. Okay, it was a very clever lie. And I said, firstly I was offended. I was upset, and then I said, actually, no, that's I should commend you for this great lie.
So it took you how long to figure this out? Well?
I only realized when she told me went like today it was a few days ago, because she she heard we're talking about parenting lies and she was like, I got a life for here, your little piece of ship.
I said, what do you mean? When we were younger, we had a PlayStation one Vintage respect. We loved it. What was it? Grand Tarismo? Ah? Why do I have an direction for those of you who don't know. It's a car racing game. We more than just that Domades. Sorry, you're right, you're right.
And what she used to do because we were kind of obsessed with the PlayStation when we first got it, this is genius. She told us that it was a rental. She said that the PlayStation it is not it is not our PlayStation. She's rented it from video easy.
Ah, that is good. That is top shelf parenting from Elie.
And so we used to get the PlayStation in school holidays only sometimes sometimes Mum would be like on the weekend she'd be like, I'm going to do the shop.
It's going to I'm going to rent out of PlayStations in the back of the car. So we would get it, and.
Then on the Sunday on the end of the holiday, she'd be like, I've got to return the PlayStation back to the shop because on the rental and we were like, oh, I have one more week, and she'd be like, no, I can't, that's got to go back.
It's booked out. I underestimated your mother. That is good stuff, very good.
And so I only now realized that we in fact owned outright that place, very owned PlayStation.
And you thought it was So I can picture you at school being like, oh, I'm wait for school holidays, Mum's going to rent the PlayStation and all your friends that own the PlayStation, like I didn't want to say it. I have one here from Molina which Melina, Congratulations, you're a winner of a stuffed Maddie j or ashsh The choice is yours. Don't rush into it. That's not whatever you say. We're going to send you a bit of an ash. You will get a message from producer Jess. Yes, congratulations. Yes,
I'm going to read it. You line. Now, that's what we're here for. Melina says. I tell my kids that the ice cream truck is the ambulance, so they freak out every time. I thought she was going to say that, like with the sound on, there are our ice cream. That was just a classic.
That's where I thought it was going, the old classic when the sirens are on for the ice cream truck.
No, no ice cream left, Just when you think you're going down a path and she throws a right turn in. Do you know what I feel sorry for? Quite often the people who are the victims here, the innocent victims of these lies, the driver, emergency services. Oh sorry, I think about the ice cream truck. Drive miss I've got bap all the parenting lines. You know, it's like police and ambulance and I guess fire men. They're the ones
you never get a bad wrap in these painting lines. Yeah, it's like we're not allowed to give a bad rap because they're here to protect and serve Matthew. Same with the ice cream driver. He's here to maybe not protect, try and make a living, but to serve and make a living.
Hey, we got we've got a question here. We are running out of time, Ash.
Okay, great, but I'm going to squeeze in it one quick question, if I may, I put it out there.
I've asked the Facebook group. Haven't had any answers back, Jesse yet. We will continue on if people come back with answers, we'll talk about it next week. But I want to know from you. Have you or any parents you know, regretted the name of their child. Yeah, my parents.
Ash is an Aordy name. No, no, no, okay, let me let me take you down there on a journey please. It was thankfully it was before I was born. But they had settled on the name. Okay, they said it on the name, believe it or not, Matthew. For me, my name was set to be Matthew. That was they had already told family friends, boy, we're gonna name me Matthew.
And one one day they were down the beach and there was heaps of kids, heaps of families and mum reckons that she spotted like four or five different parents calling out to their child Matthew, and she decided she regretted the telling everyone that that was going to be my name, that she had decided she had changed it to now Ashton. Dang, that's a true story. Call her up right now. I believe it, Jane. I have time for that next week. But yeah, so they regretted. There's
nothing wrong with your name. First of all, thank you. Just everyone has it. And but my middle name is now Matthew what Ashton William Matthew Wicks. I didn't know you had had two middle names. Do you know anything about me? I'most double agent. I feel like I'm sitting across next to a stranger now, you know now, But yeah, it was going to be Yeah, but I don't know of anyone that's after the birth. I'm sure. I'm sure
it's happened. If you do have a story about it, if someone out there has a story where it's like, I name my kid Bob, and then I realized what a big mistake like. Imagine accidentally naming your kid after like a serial killer you didn't know, Like, there's an episode of Seinfeld with a kid name was Joel Rifkin and he was like one of the greatest murderers in serial murders in the city's history. Have there been many Ivans? Oh, Ivan Cleary, it's him. I did some digging online ash
and I've got it. Got some information here which is interesting, Okay, very very random. Here is a list of declined baby names from New Zealand twenty eighteen. Why that year and in New Zealand? I do know it was published? And did it just come up the first Google.
And it just come up that's the first one. Okay, okay, laid on it must be good. I've also got like a count number here. But how many times it was rejected?
Duke, emperor but then empress spelt normally, then Empress spelled E M P R A H, Emperor and pro. I thought you were going to say, they changed the E to A three Roman numerals, just like the dash dash rejected twice, like just the dashed like the second. What are you confused with the tally or the name dash? I guess what was rejected six times? King? It's oh yeah, it's common wealth, Commonwealth. I think I think you name me a kid. King It's it's arrogant. That's the highest
order Messiah. Messiah rejected twice, Prince rejected four times. I used to work with a guy named Jesus. Jesus but it's Jesus. Yeah. I love it when there's there's been like multiple attempts.
So there's there's Prince, this Prince writer, there's Prince with his zed and then Prince p r y n Ce.
They really wanted the name, trying not to get a shadow band. But everyone wants the royal names. There's Royal, Royal, Royalty, Chicken Royal, have you mean my chicken Royale Wicks? Why would Saint Saint was rejected a lot. You can't call the kids saint because it'll it'll backflip on you. There'll be a.
Turn they will be they will be his name here Justice j A h Justice, Hey Justice. But if you know anyone, yes, who's had a name that has been regretted after it was given, maybe does anyone had to change?
Surely it's out there.
My mum knew someone called Richard Orcock. Richard is now they would abbreviate it to dick, cock or cock. They didn't change it, they kept it.
I used to work with a guy. No, I didn't work with him. He was one of the contractors on the team, and I thought it did work with it. I guess you can continue, okay. And I thought it was a type that type, Paul. I thought it was a type. Come on, I thought it was a typo. There he is because his name was Michael Michaels, and I thought that's wrong. And then I saw a copy of his license and his name was Michael Michaels. What is wrong with people? Not? What is wrong with Michael Michaels.
Have some fucking creativity? How did that? How do you get there, Michael Michaels. But he was a fully grown man, still rocking it, Michael Michaels. I mean credit to him. Yeah, if you've got anything, please hit us up because I think it's very interesting. I think what's very interesting is that the rejected names and the Commonwealth because Duke, my landlord's named kids. Landlord's kids name is Duke. If that's legal or it's just rejected, well there is New Zealand.
Duke was rejected in New Zealand, sure the government or by just people being like by the government, wow, official official, Okay, Well, I don't know how he must be one of the only dukes in Australia. Let's put a pin in their because we're out of time, and let's bring it. Let's bring it to lie. We'll talk about this next week. Don't you worry? Great, don't you worry?
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