Is It Just Me? - #197: Teething Issues

Episode Date: April 7, 2024

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Hello idiots, it's roving reporter Oscar with breaking news. Before this episode begins, I have an official warning. If you are a parent who happens to be listening with kids in the car, don't. Turn this podcast off now. This is grown up time. Because Mitch and Mitch were very naughty in this episode. And we'd hate to disrespect the magic of the Easter Bunny and Santa and the Tooth Fairy. So if that magic is alive and well in your home, don't fucking let your kids listen to this episode.

We wouldn't want to ruin any magic now, would we? But while I'm at it, Healthy Harold is a fucking puppet. Bye. This is Is It Just Me? Hosted by a couple of Mitches. Hello, you. Hello, you. Brace yourself for the rude shocks of young adulthood.

Did you know this? An apple has the same caffeine as a full one-shot coffee. Bullshit. Are you serious? Yeah, I'm going to Google it now. What is it? It says there is no caffeine in apples. Now, here's Mitch Turi and Mitchell Coombs.

Hello, you. Hello, you. Oh, my God, for the very first time, Mr. and Mrs. Turi. What? You know when they do a wedding, they go for the very first time. Oh, yes. Hello, you. Oh, my God, for the very first time, Mr and Mrs Cheery. What? You know when they do a wedding, they go for the very first time. Oh, yes. Yeah. I present to you.

Yeah, correct. Why would I take your name if we were getting married? Let's be real. Whoever takes the D takes the name. That is so not true. That's true. That's what they say in the gay world. I've never heard anyone say that.

Anyone who takes the D doesn't drop the knee. Huh? If you take the D, you don't get to propose. Oh, I hate all of these rules. Can I just say, I just made them up. Okay, good. Thank God. You know me, I love a name first, ID second.

They sounded very convincing, to be fair. What were you going to say? I actually forget everything. You said for the very first time. For the very first time, Mitch and I are live from the state of the art Ijum Tower, our new studios. We've moved into the new home. Yeah. That from the state of the art Ijum Tower, our new studios. We've moved into the new home that we've been talking about for, oh my God. Here we are.

Cherry just put disco lights on in here. Fuck, they are, like, look into that for a second and that will astral project you to another planet. It actually looks like the lamest party ever. This is the dance floor at a league's club. It is. Look, it's very fancy in here. It looks gorgeous. The view from the office window is stunning but i'm in a tears i'm very stressed you are very stressed because we don't know how

to fucking use it that's the only issue nothing works and uh and it's not only that we don't know how to use the studio it's that everyone we ask um how do we just hit record they're like um not sure so we're just we're just going to wing it. We're going to have some teething issues, I suspect. Well, yeah. So we're in the new iHeart studios. We used to record from the Kiss FM radio studios, which has like, we're all radio people. So we'd use the radio panel and what I use for my radio shows, we'd use for the podcast.

So it was seamless. But this is just a desk with like a bunch of mics and a hundred different cameras. And we're controlling our microphones, not with buttons and a desk, but with an iPad. And I'm just not confident that it's fucking charged of all the things that could go wrong. Hold on. I wonder if I can just press the home button. Don't press anything. Oh my God, the apps are up.

Mitchell, look, there's apps. Don't. What's in the photo roll? Don't. Mitchell! I'm going to take a selfie. No, don't. If you've taken us off, I'll be really furious with you.

Hello. I think we're on. Okay, yes, we're still on. Just don't touch the iPad, please. Okay, I won't touch the iPad. I'm not even joking. Like, my nerves are shot today. And you're standing up as well.

They don't even have enough chairs for all of us. There's only two. There's one for me and, of course, one for PKJ. Prizekeeper Jenna is back for 2024. I'm back. Back for 2024. It's only two. There's one for me and, of course, one for PKJ. Prizekeeper Jenna is back for 2024. I'm back. Back for 2024. It's fucking April. But welcome back, Jenna.

You dogged us in our last week before Easter. Yes, but I did make an appearance. You did. I feel a little bit sad, don't you? Because I didn't realise when we were in our old studio for the last time that it was the last time. Yeah, I'm with you on that. I didn't get the chance to say goodbye. Also, it wasn't our actual studio.

The last recording we did, which had Oscar, that wasn't even our main studio. That was the backup studio. So what? Has it been like three weeks, nearly a month since our OG studio? I miss my moths. Oh, the moths in there. Oh, your favourite moth. I forget the moth.

I actually killed one of those moths in my last radio show in that studio. You didn't. I just went and it fell to the ground. No, they're my pets. I became quite attached to the moths. I last radio show in that studio. You didn't. I just went and it fell to the ground. No, they're my pets. I became quite attached to the moths. I'm sure you did. Well, one's dead. I killed it.

Please tell me it wasn't hot moth bun. She's my favourite. I didn't get hot moth bun. There was another one I got. Oh, not moth-titude. No, it wasn't moth-titude. No, it was David Hasselmoth because it was a male moth. Oh, no.

His wife is going to be so upset. Miss Pedestrian Mothing. She's the mother of all my pet moths. Yeah. They all seem to lurk on my side of the desk in the old studio. Should I take that personally? Rather insulting, to be honest. They never came around my desk.

Anyway, speaking of coming around our desk, we're all here now and we're surrounded on this beautiful Ijum desk, which the next foreseeable seasons of this podcast will broadcast from. So please bear with us if there are teething issues or sound issues. We are genuinely learning how to use them. Yep. I'm not confident it's even recording but we'll fucking push on. If it's your first time listening, welcome to

Is It Just Me? Yeah. Every episode we start the same with Is It Just Me? Something we've noticed. Something we hate or appreciate. Mitch doesn't know mine. I don't know Mitch's. It's a surprise. We do not. We're going in blind. We don't know much today, to be honest with you, do we?

I really hope it's not anyone's first time listening. We're normally more slick than this. I doubt it. Actually, I don't know if we are. That's not even accurate. It's just really bright in here. That's true. I actually feel like I'm on stage right now because there's blinding lights.

I can only see the first row of people in front of me. And I am standing up like the stand-up comic I am. True. I actually feel like I'm doing a show right now. You are. How did you go with parking, Mitch? Because there's no parking spots here. Oh, so now you admit it.

What? When I was asking for a lift a couple of weeks ago, when I was asking to carpool with you, you were like, no, there's street parking. You'll be fine. You'll be fine. And now you say there's no parking. No, what I mean asking to carpool with you, you were like, no, there's street parking. You'll be fine. You'll be fine. And now you say there's no parking.

No, what I mean is there's no parking for podcast talent. In the old building, you could take the parking lot. I get one, of course, because I'm syndicated across the cities. But I, Jenna, you don't get one either. No. She doesn't have a car, so that's fine. I don't really need one. Well, I'll be totally honest with you. Here's how parking went.

I could only get a one-hour spot, and that was about three fucking hours ago because that's how long it's taken us to set this bullshit up. But hey, we're here now, I think. Put the fine on the kiddio. It's okay. Oh God. We have clearance. Shall we just start this thing? Yeah, let's fucking start. Do you want to go with your origin first or should I? Mine's Easter related. Oh, so is mine.

Is it? Yes. Oh. Well, we weren't here. We had a week off for Easter, so we've got to do all the Easter chat now. All right. Well, you go first because mine's exactly the same. Sure. All right. Count me in, we weren't here. We had a week off for Easter, so we've got to do all the Easter chat now. All right. Well, you go first because mine's exactly the same. Sure.

All right. Count me in, Bradley, please. That's a boy. Is it just me or? Whatever happened to giving up shit for Lent? Oh, yeah. What happened to Lent? Lent.

It's a thing, I'm assuming. No, it's definitely a thing. People do it. Did you go to a Catholic school, Jenna? Yeah. Because I'd never heard of it when I went to Bougainvillea Public. And then when I was like, how old are you in year four? Is that 10?

Yeah, 9, 10. Yeah, when I was 10, I moved to a Catholic school and they started teaching us about Lent. Oh, shit. And how you give up something that you derive pleasure from for 40 days in the lead up to Easter. 40 days? of pleasure from for 40 days in the lead up to Easter. 40 days? Yes. So that you can understand the sacrifice that Jesus Christ,

our Lord, made when he went around the desert for 40 days and then ended up going to hang on the cross. From kindergarten onwards, we had to write what we were giving up on a paper. Oh, it was mandatory giving up things for leave. Yes, and it was put up on the wall. You got to choose what you'd give up. Yeah.

But Jesus didn't. He didn't get to give up his iPad. He had to give up his fucking life. Well, they never made it mandatory for length. Yes, and it was put up on the wall. You got to choose what you'd give up. Yeah. But Jesus didn't. He didn't get to give up his iPad. He had to give up his fucking life. Well, they never made it mandatory for us. It was just strongly encouraged, and I thought it was going to be a thing as an adult. But I can honestly say I've not met anyone in my adult life that has told me, oh, sorry, I'm in the middle of Lent. Yeah, you know what Lent reminds me of?

The 40-hour famine. Did you ever do the 40-hour famine? 40 days, 40 hours, same thing. Yeah. No, no, the girls would come to school and they'd be like, this is all I'm eating in solidarity with insert charity here. And it had that little money box thing, the white cardboard thing. Really?

Yes. Did you ever do it, Mitch? Yeah, I did the 40-hour famine, but it was over the weekend. There was nothing at school happening. You would obviously do fundraising in the lead up, but it was like, let's say you'd have an early dinner at 6pm on Friday because then by 7, the 40 hours begins and then you can't eat again until 11am Sunday.

Wow. I think that's 40 hours. Yeah, sounds right. But what was it for? Was it for refugees? Because that's the meal portions. Yeah, it was for charity and they didn't want you to eat nothing. And so Fat Fuck Little Mitchell was just devouring barley sugars

because that's all you're allowed to eat. What's a barley sugar? Oh, yeah. Oh, it's a really dreadful lolly. It's like those ones that are wrapped in plastic like the, what are they called, the butterscotch. They slap. Oh, I love butterscotch.

Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I got butterscotch instead of barley sugar. So here's Little Fat Mitchell in high school and it's quite dreadful to think about it, I'm pretty sure I got butterscotch instead of barley sugar. So here's little fat Mitchell in high school. And it's quite dreadful to think about. But my thought process was, oh, the 40-hour famine might help me lose weight. I think a lot of people did. That's why everyone did it, yeah. But as if that was ever going to work, because the whole 40 hours I just binge ate butterscotch.

That's a lot of sugar. I remember I got like ulcers on my tongue from the amount of butterscotch. No nutritional value at all. It defeats the purpose, doesn't it? A lot of sugar. I remember I got ulcers on my tongue from the amount of butterscotch. No nutritional value at all. It defeats the purpose, doesn't it? A lot of sugar. I did the Cadbury fundraising box. Do you remember the Cadbury box? Yeah, I love that.

It was fairly chalky for the netball team. Yeah, no, I didn't do it for netball. I went to London to perform at the National Theatre at the age of 12, and I had to raise money. So all I did was actually Michelle Turi ate them all because she's a chocolate fan, so she made Dad just BSB an account number of me 500 bucks. That's what my family did.

We just ate it all. Totally. Those boxes are gone. They were the big, they looked like a toolbox, like a trade he would carry around. I used to love those because I don't reckon you can get the twin pack of strawberry Freddos anywhere else unless it's in one of those fundraising Cadbury boxes. Oh my God, the twin pack. What was it?

And the peppermint. Peppermint was good. But what was the twin pack? Just like two Throbby Freddo side by side, rather than one big frog. Don't look at me when you say that. How dare you? So, isn't that funny? So do we think it's

now, back to Len. Oh yes. Is it the fall of Christianity? And I hate to be the one to bring it up, but I feel like there's less the PR team behind Christianity have fallen slack. It used to be the real talk of the town. But now, I just don't hear about Lent. Yeah, no, neither. Because it's something that someone who's really into particularly Christianity would do Lent.

Like it's all about, like I said, understanding the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. So you do 40 days, except you get every Sunday off. So it ends up being like 45 days or something. Because every Sunday you don't have to practice Lent because you're off to church. Did Jesus take a break, did he? Yeah. But they expect you to give up things that you get a lot of pleasure from. So like gossiping, online shopping, social media, binge watching TV.

So you can give up whatever you want? I guess. But the idea is it's meant to be something you fucking love. That's for Lent, that is. That's 40 days. 40-hour famine is much more practical, just 40 hours. Yeah. But you don't even have to give up food for 40-hour famine.

What do you give up? You can do, like, furniture. Furniture? Technology. In support of what charity? I think it's the same charity. I don't know. There might be someone with diabetes or some sort of reason that they can't go without food.

Oh, God. So they give up something else in solidarity. Oh, okay. I get it. One of them is actually giving up talking. Oh. I reckon we could do that easily. I couldn't do that.

I'd lose my job. My career is to talk. But not if it starts on a Friday night and ends on a Sunday morning, the 40 hours. True. Then we do it over a weekend. I reckon I could do that easily. But then how are we going to reflect that on the show? We can't go, we're back after our 40-hour silence.

Take a listen to how it went for Mitch Cherry. We just live-streamed the whole thing and we communicate via whiteboards. Oh, my God. Like Love Actually. Please, like the Lindt Cafe siege. We'd just be out there writing. Things on a window. I love how my mind went to Love Actually.

Yours went to the Lindt Cafe siege. Are you all right, darling? I'm fine. Your head's in a dark place. It really doesn't surprise me at this point. I'm deeply stressed. Let's try it. Giving up technology.

It's not till August, so we've got time to prepare for the 40-hour famine. No, no, no. Not technology. We can't record this podcast without technology. Yeah, you're right. I reckon technology and furniture would be the hardest things to give up. I'm not giving up my fucking ottoman. I'm not putting down my poof for no charity.

Does it mean you sleep on the floor? Well, floorboards are furniture, I guess. No. You sleep in a hammock? That's furniture. You're right. What about if the bed frame is furniture? Well, the mattress isn't.

So could you put the mattress on the floor and sleep there? I guess that's a loophole, but that doesn't feel like you're sacrificing much. No. I feel like my back would be really fucking sore after 40 hours of no furniture. Oh, yeah. But at least it's not 40 days like Lent. Imagine giving up furniture for 40 days during Lent. And also, I hate to be rude, but that cross Jesus was nailed to was furniture.

Not the same thing. Oh. Have you ever been to church? Do you know any of this stuff we're talking about? You know, I've never in my life been to church. Wait. Ever. No, I went to a public school.

I went to public high school, public primary school. Not even like the obligatory Catholic guilt mass on Christmas? No, I'm agnostic. Have you ever walked inside a church? Absolutely not. No, I think I'd burn alive if I ever went to church. Okay, that's what we're doing next for the hobby hunt. We're going to church.

Idjim turns to Christ. Oh my God. I'll be there, sure. Is it just me? You should follow these idiots online. Search couple of Mitches. Now, idiots, I really do fucking insist that you listen to episode 198, which is coming out on Wednesday,

because I'm bringing to life a stupid idea of ours. I'm pretty good at bringing stupid shit to life. You are? I love the top five bike bells. Oh, which was inspired of my top five doorbells, please. It was. Please, thank you. And I poo-pooed the doorbell idea.

You did. And then you poo-pooed the bike bell idea. It just made no sense. We just poo-poo each other. I think you'll support this one because we spoke about it recently. Remember how we were talking about a follow-up to Will It Block? Will It Block? Will It Blend?

I didn't think you'd actually want this, because this is such a me idea. It's so dumb, and I was worried it's something that you wouldn't enjoy. Well, what we're going to do is blend entire meals into like a smoothie form and see if you can still taste what it was originally, and you can recognise what the meal is now that it's been blended. Oh, my God. I love it. This is so dumb. This is so you. Do I have to do any preparation? No, meal is now that it's been blended. Oh my God, I love it.

This is so dumb. This is so you. Do I have to do any preparation? No, no, no. That's all right. Oh man, that was music to my ears. Well, remember how we were talking about it and we were going to bring the Nutribullet into the studio and all that?

Not in this studio. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I don't think we should bring it into the new studio. It'll fucking short circuit the whole building probably. This thing will fall apart. But also it's so clean in here. It is clean. So I reckon I'll do it in advance and bring him in. But also it's so clean in here. It is clean. So I reckon I'll do it in advance and bring him in for you.

Okay, so it's Wednesday. Yes, Wednesday. Oh, I'm so excited. Oh, this is going to be good. And I'm not going to fuck with you and put gross things in the smoothie. Don't worry. Please don't. It's going to be just proper meals.

No, no, I don't want you to. Okay. I've got to turn my headphone volume up because it's very low. I think it's over here. No, it's over there. The other side. No, it's here. No, your cord is coming from there.

Oh, stop. What? Ow! Ow! Oh, stop. What? Oh, fuck. Sorry. What are you doing? Sorry, as we said, teething issues today. I didn't know that this desk, what do you call it when it can go up and down? Sit stand.

Is it hydraulic? Yeah, it's hydraulic. Yeah, okay. What the fuck did you just press to make the desk go down? Where is it? I just crushed my inner thigh against the desk in a chair. Hang on. Your headphones are over this side.

It's the wrong button. I'm going to put the table back up first. Oh, right. Sorry. Tell me how high is too high. Okay. There we go. I like that.

Is that all right, Jenna? Well, it's fine for me because I'm standing up. Yeah, pull your mic down, Jenna. Don't be daft. You look simple. Like I said, we're figuring shit out as we go along. In a little bit, we're doing an Is It Just You caller. If we can get them.

That's what I was about to ask. Have we even thought about this? We're just going to be doing trial and error on the podcast. Totally. This is a joke. Appreciate your patience, idiot. We love you, idiots. All right, shall I do my agem?

Yes, we're ready for you. Like I said, Easter related. So yeah, count me in, Bradley. Is it just me, or? Do you think Easter chocolate should be available all year round? That would just rob Easter of its magic, wouldn't it? No, it's got nothing to do with the magic of Easter. It's got all to do with the flavour of Easter chocolate.

Do you two agree that Easter chocolate tastes different to normal chocolate? Depends on the chocolate. I do like that Easter chocolate is hollow. Oh, yes. See, we've got big issues here. Let's start with one. The taste. I think the taste is different.

I think the taste of chocolate is a little sweeter in Easter chocolate. Well, apparently the taste was different this year because weren't people saying that Cadbury fucked their recipe? Yeah, that's what I wanted to talk about. Cadbury were accused of changing their recipe or potentially selling stale eggs from last year. Oh, okay. Because do you know what? I actually noticed that because I went to the Thursday night Easter raffle at my local bolo. Oh, I saw that.

Didn't Sean win the meat raffle or something? Yeah, he won the fucking prawn platter again. But he also won a hamper of Easter eggs, which is what I had my eye on. So I was thrilled that he won that. But my friends that were there with us, we had a couple of the, you know, the medium-sized Cadbury eggs. Yeah. And one of my friends goes, this is not right.

This is different. And I put it down to the fact that perhaps the bowler were a bit scabby and they just got Easter eggs last year when they were on special post-Easter and that maybe they'd gone a bit yuck. But they did taste almost soapy. Yes. Almost soapy. And then I saw all the headlines about people saying Cadbury

have changed their recipe. And I thought, oh, I knew it. Because I didn't notice. I just stuck to my trusty red tulip. Yes. So I didn't notice. But that one egg I had at the bowl, I was like, yeah, nah, something's off about this.

I had a Kinder Surprise, the big one. Every year I asked for the big Kinder. Oh, yeah. With the big toy in it. Is that even Easter chocolate? Yeah. Yeah, they do it as an Easter egg. Oh. Yeah. So it doesn't come with a big toy inside. Yeah, big toy. What did you get? A little Aquaman.

I played with it in the pool. Oh my god. Yeah, it was very fun. I think it's still at the bottom of the pool. And that chocolate was rancid. I didn't enjoy it. Really? Yeah, I don't know. But that's Kinder Bueno. So I just think we need to have more fun with chocolate. Easter chocolate is different. It's more fun. We were talking about

it a couple weeks ago when we did Will It Block? Do the lint bunny in the block? The lint bunny is the best tasting lint. Having it in bunny form tastes different. It's placebo. It's mental. Well, I've always said on this very podcast I hate to bang on about it again but to me Cadbury Easter eggs taste the same as normal Cadbury chocolate, whereas Red Tulip has that distinct nostalgic Easter taste.

We simply mustn't have this conversation. We did a taste test one year and you made me guess and I got it wrong. Yeah, you were blindfolded and you were poo-pooing my precious Red Tulip and you said, no, it's shit. And then I blindfolded you and you tasted Cadbury and Red Tulip. And you said, that one's better. And it was Red Tulip. Do you think Easter's one of the better, like the better, do we get the better, like, merch for Easter? Yeah. Like Christmas merch.

Absolutely. Think about it. You don't get much chocolate. You get candy canes. You get, like, spiced cake. Well, I hate to bring religion into it again, but apparently Easter is considered the more significant holiday. Yeah. In the eyes of the church.

It's a sign of new life. Jesus passed in Easter. And then Christmas, I believe he was circumcised or something. What happened at Christmas? He was born. He was born. Apparently his death is more significant than his birth. Yes.

Well, the birth came. What came first, Christmas or Easter? Christmas, because he was born. What came first, the Jesus or the Easter egg? Well, they were fucking stale, weren't they? Do you know what? I also think, is it just me on the fly? Easter and Christmas, I like that they're so close together

because you've had a big break over Christmas. You're feeling a bit refreshed. And then it's kind of a rude shock diving back into everyday life, diving back into work. And so by March, April, you're like, fuck, I do need another break. But now we just have to soldier on for the rest of the year. Yeah. The next fucking little break isn't until the June long weekend

and that's fuck all. Now you've got your birthday. That's not a national holiday. Fuck them all should be, but it's not at this point. No, no, no, but a birthday is akin to Easter and Christmas. Like you get to celebrate. Yeah, I know, but I mean like a holiday, time off. A public holiday for everyone, just having time off.

True. There's none for the rest of the year, really. What about Anzac Day? No, that's the, I broke up. That was my breakup day, so that's ruined for me forever. Was it actually? Yeah, Anzac Day's my breakup day. I missed the dawn service.

Lest we faggot. Sorry about that. Yeah, that's right. It's coming up, isn't it? Mm. So is that your idgim, that Easter chocolate tastes better? We need it year round, yeah. Do you reckon Kinder Surprise is the closest thing to Easter chocolate all year round?

That's a fucking egg. Yeah, when I said it, I realised that it's just a bigger version of it. But that's a bad example. But you can only get it at Easter, the bigger version. Correct. But Jenna, Cadbury chocolate in an egg form versus a simple block, Mitchell, tastes different. You're the same product. Yeah, I get that.

It tastes different. It's just something about the hollowness. Yes. I was so upset because mum got me the red tulip bunny a fucking course. Oh, of course, yeah. Side note, she got Sean and I his and hers bunnies. I was like, Jane, read the room. What did you get?

I got the fucking hers, didn't I? That checks out. But she was at the pub, so I had to do Easter bunny duty. That was fun, scattering the eggs for all the kids. I hope they're not in the car listening right now. Oh, that's cute. You scattered the eggs for the Easter egg hunt? Yeah, and they're really shit at hunting.

Oh. I woke up the next morning early as fuck, thinking it'd be so cute to watch them do the Easter egg hunt, but it was just infuriating. I was like, they're shit at this. They've missed so many. Kids suck. I was trying to make it fun for them.

I was taping them on top of the air con and shit. And they left huge patches of eggs and I was like, Jesus, they weren't raised like the fat fuck I was because there was no Easter egg that went unnoticed. And even then I was convinced there must be more. Where are the others? Totally. You and I would have been like truffle pigs at a ripe old age

of six just sniffing in every nook and cranny. I really was. I always thought they'd be in really random places. Like I'd get my hand in my nan's crotch and be like, I bet you've hidden one here, nan. She's like, fuck off. Yeah, we'd find them in the lounge room and what have you. And then I'd be like, I bet there's some in the garden.

Totally. I bet there's some in the top paddock on the top of the windmill. Always. You know, I think I was one of those annoying kids that was, I thought about it too much. I'm like, yeah, let me go into granddad's shed. He's probably put it between the kitchen shears. No, it was on the fucking toaster. like hiding in plain sight, like right here.

My nan thought, she must have thought we were that simple. She's like, here it is. Just on a cup. In a cup. I'm like, thanks, nan. You got no credit for us. I made it piss easy for those kids and they just could not find half of them. Kids these days.

You know what my family does as an Easter tradition? Yeah. We play football with an Easter egg. What? What? Yeah, with an Easter egg. What? What? Yeah, with a hollow football. NRL do Easter eggs that are shaped like a ball.

I suppose that do entice you to be interested in football somehow. Totally. Through food. Yeah. Yeah. And then they get you on the field and you're trying to eat

the fucking ball. They're like, what are they doing? Totally. Dad wanted me to play baseball for you. Should have given me a kebab as a bat. Would have got a home run.

Anyway, we play football with it. We can't kick it, but we all stand around and we pass it to each other. But you, you should have given me a kebab as a bat. Would have got a home run. Anyway, we play football with it. We can't kick it, but we all stand around and we pass it to each other. But then, you know, Uncle Phil gets a bit rowdy and throws it in the air, then it shatters and the kids cry. And then the dogs eat it because it's on the grass. Then we have to squeeze the dog's gut and make them vomit so they don't go to hospital on Christmas Day. Yeah, right.

No, it's Easter. Beautiful tradition. What day is it? Yeah. Sorry. I think it's cute. Anyway, what I was going to say was I gave myself the Herbunny by accident because I was on Easter Bunny duty.

And then the next day I bit into it and it had gone soft. So I didn't get that beautiful echo throughout the hollow egg when you bite into the ears and it just goes. Yeah. Yeah. And I was feeling so whingy because I had to get up early for the Easter egg hunt. And I was like, Sean, it's too soft. Go put it in the fridge. And he's like, no.

What a ridiculous request. And also, his, the his bunny, you're the hers. You put it in the fridge, not the man. Oh, because a woman belongs in the kitchen. I understand. I'm playing into the trope. I don't believe that. Yeah, right. I'm team women. Anyway. In fact, you love women so much that you just refuse

to fuck them. You wouldn't want to put them through it. Totally. No. You respect them too much. I'm such a feminist. I'm choosing to be gay. Because they deserve better than men. Totally.

Anyway, are we done with Easter chat? Yeah, we're done with Easter chat. To be honest, it's a boring fucking holiday, so let's not talk about it again. I love it. I like it. No, I don't. I think it's boring. Sorry.

Well, aren't you full of joy? Well, there's just not much else in it. Also, the Easter bunny is quite horrific. It's a giant bunny. Shoot it. I like it. No, I don't. I think it's boring. Sorry. Well, aren't you full of joy? Well, there's just not much else in it. Also, the Easter bunny is quite horrific. It's a giant bunny. Shoot it. If that thing actually existed, put it down. We all love the Easter bunny. What do you mean if that thing actually existed?

Okay. It does exist. All right. If an adult with a rifle could get their eyes on it, put a bullet between that thing's head. No. Between its eyes. You can't kill the Easter bunny. Santa is jolly.

The tooth fairy's cute in a little bikini and wings like it's a bit sexy. Between its eyes. You can't kill the Easter bunny. Santa is jolly. The tooth fairy's cute in a little bikini and wings like it's a bit sexy. I had to do that too. You fucked the tooth fairy? No, no, no. Not only was I the Easter bunny last weekend,

I was the fucking tooth fairy. Noah lost two teeth and I was the only one carrying coins. Look, the amount of chocolate in that fucking tooth fairy. God, again, I hope they're not listening.

Why did you carry it? It's the tooth fairy. Yeah, totally. Not me. Not the tooth faggot. It was the fairy, I swear. Is it just me? That's enough of these two.

Now let's hear, and is it just you? All right. We've had ours. Shall we hand it over to a listener? If we fucking can. As we've said, we've had teething issues today. We haven't actually tested the phone line. Is this going to work? Oh, yeah. Who are we even calling? I we fucking can. As we've said, we've had teething issues today. We haven't actually tested the phone line. Is this going to work? Oh, yeah.

Who are we even calling? Um, I don't know. That's your job to find out beforehand. Yeah, we'll find out. Am I connected to this thing? I don't know. Are you? Is this upstairs speaker or Rachel's AirPods? What? Bluetooth dongle. I've got to... Oh! A dongle? I've got to connect to a dongle.

God, there's something about the word dongle. I've got to... Oh! A dongle? I've got to connect to a dongle. God, there's something about the word dongle that is just so ageing. Mitch's Apple Watch, connected. Jenna's WeVibe Pro 4, connected. No, we'll wait. Yeah. Is that it? It looks like it's searching. Have you held down the button?

Dante AVO. Yeah, that's it. Yep, Dante. Why don't you call me as a test? Sure. It's searching. Have you held down the button? Dante AVO. Yeah, that's it. Yep, Dante. Why don't you call me as a test? Sure. It's working. Okay. Hello?

Hello, can you hear us, Dante? Hello? Yes, I can. How are you? Can you hear me? I can. Okay, gorgeous. Pop me on hold.

Let's see if we can hear stuff through yours. What? Can you pop us on hold? I don't know if I can do that. Can I? That's a good point. I think I can only put you on hold if I don't know if I can do that, can I? That's a good point. I think I can only put you on hold if there's more than one person in the call. I'm hanging out.

Alright, it works. What's going on? Alright, let's call this call. I have to get their name. I didn't get their name. Alright, we're connected to Dante's AVO. Should we just confidently call them Dante until they're corrected? Yeah, sure.

Hello. Dante, it's Mitch, Mitch and Jenna. How are you? How are you? Good. How are you? How are you? Good. How are you still? We're so good. We're a bit fucking stressed, to be honest, darling, but we're pushing through.

We're learning how to use the new studio. Where are you joining us from, Dante? I'm in Newy. Oh, Newcastle. Dante from Newcastle. Love it. Dante, I believe you have an answer just me for us. Hello? Dante? I'm holding the an answer just me for us. Hello?

Dante? I'm holding the Dante. You didn't press the button, did you? No, I didn't, but I'm holding it. It's not connected to Bluetooth anymore. Dante? Oh, for fuck's sake, Chiri, you pressed the button. Why did you do that?

I didn't mean to. Idiot. Just put the fucking device down. Stop touching it. It's not flashing anymore. I'm connecting. All right, you're back, Dante. Dante?

Danny. We were pretty close. Hey, let's be honest. Considering what's going on in the studio. So the new software that we use to connect the phone line and make this phone call is called Dante and I said, let's just call her Dante and see how long it takes her to fucking direct it. But we were so close.

I thought I heard it a couple of times. I'm like, no, no, maybe it's just the phone playing. So it's Danny from Newcastle. Now someone's calling me. Who is it? Tammy. Tammy? Who was it? I might need to call them. I said it was Tammy. I don't know a Tammy. Tammy. Well, I don't have any other information.

Danny, would you like to give a theory that it's me before I actually flip my shit? No, you're Tammy. No, she's Danny. Oh, she's Tammy. Then who's Dante? Mitchell is about to explode. We're having fun.

Are we? You know Mercury's in retrograde again. Yeah, and it explains it all, doesn't it, Danny? Quite clearly, Danny. All right, Danny. Bradley will count you in, and then you hit with yours. It's just me, okay? No, I have two. Is that okay? Oh, for God's sake.

They're both in the retail world. Okay. We'll do one after the other, okay? All right. Well, Bradley will count you in. You ready? Okay. Is it just me or...

Is there at least one goth staff member at every Officeworks store? Goth. Funny. Did you say goth? Yeah, goth. Totally. Like an emo. They flock to Officeworks, Typos and JJ's, don't they?

I can't say I'd noticed. Oh, no. Yeah, no, and it wasn't the same person either. They were literally at two different shops I went to down here. It was crazy. So there's not one goth job hunting. It's just multiple goths, a gaggle of goths in your local area. Yeah, all at Officeworks, apparently.

Well, you know what's funny? Goths, they kind of gather at Officeworks, but also they love a JB Hi-Fi, don't they? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I never had a goth phase. Mitch, I feel like you would have. I had my version of a goth phase. I wasn't allowed to

wear makeup or dye my hair black, and so I just wore black clothes. So, basically everywhere I went, people thought I worked there. Yeah, that checks. Yeah. People would ask me at the supermarket where to find the fucking tuna. Nah, I'm just trying to be goth. And it was just black. Jenna, you would have not

had a goth stage, I feel like. No, but I had an emo side fringe. Oh, did you? Oh, wow. So did I, actually. Yeah, we all have one of them. I did too. Did you?

Yeah. I had a side fringe that went down, but the back I would tease up. That's very short, Zach. Totally. It looked like Jenna, the TikTok sensation. She doesn't do that. No, it's a version of that. All right, well, you've got another one, do you?

Another item? Yes, I do. Okay, sweet. Well, Bradley, come back. No, it's a version of that. All right, well, you've got another one, do you, another item? Yes, I do. Okay, sweet. Well, Bradley, come back. Yeah, we need you. You're not off the clock just yet. One more time. Hit it.

Is it just me or? Does every reject shop smell weird? Yeah, it smells like last year's Easter chocolate, I would suggest. Yeah, it's like musty kind of smell. It's musty. I was trying to think of how to describe it. Yes, you're right. I don't have a reject shop near me.

I can't tell you the last time. I bet you do. You've never laid eyes on it. No, I haven't. They're always next to an Audi though, aren't they? Yeah, I feel like reject shops, typically you find them right next to the car park entrance and exit. 100%, yes. Near the ramps.

Always near the ramps. What do you go there for, Dante? Well, you know what? There's a lot of like pretty homewares there. It's like Really? There actually is. Yeah. You wouldn't pick it, but I think I saw a TikTok with some

and I just thought, oh, wow, I need to check these clothes out. I must say reject shops are very underrated. Oh, yeah. Yes, they are. It's the smell that puts people off, I reckon. What's your theory to the smell, Mitch? I don't have a theory, but they all kind of smell like, it just kind of smells like, you know how you might have a linen

cupboard with old photo albums in it and you open the photo album. It's like dusty plastic. Yeah. It's that. Because no one would dust those shelves, would they? Well, they wouldn't need to because there's so many bargains, everything flies off the shelves. Oh my God.

I can see a collaboration with you in the reject shop. It fits your brand, Mitchell. Honestly, any day of the week I'd be there. Totally. Oh, my God. I can see a collaboration with you in the reject shop. It fits your brand, Mitchell. Honestly, any day of the week I'd be there. Totally. I'd sign up. I was a Golo girl back in the day. I don't know how reject shops are like, but Golo didn't. I had Bilo.

Was it the same? No, that was the supermarket. Golo was like Clint's. Like crazy Clint's. Yeah. I've never heard of crazy Clint's. Did you just not go to any povo shops? Are you rich?

Dollars and cents? Never heard of it. I bet you had fucking Foxtel, didn't you, Arthur? I did at the IQ3. Pause and Rewind, big brother back in the day. That was the dream. That was amazing, yeah. The idea of being able to pause and rewind TV was just so mind-blowing.

I thought it was huge. It was massive. We could record straight in the box. That's so good. But the problem is my parents are so obsessed with it, that's the only way they know now. So there are better ways, i.e. streaming or catch up. But no, mum has to pause the news if she can't watch it and then play.

So sometimes I'll get home from the night show at 10pm and mum's paused the 6pm news. She doesn't want to miss it. But she's missed all her other shows. Oh, bless. Well, Dante, thanks for those. Those were very astute observations. Yeah.

Thank you, guys. Now make sure you hit up Prize Keeper Jenna, won't you? Because she'll send you a prize for coming on the podcast with us today. Yes, I will. I've still yet to get one from last year. I keep forgetting. What? I brought in the Vale, is it just you, last year?

Oh, Vale and Vale, how to pronounce it. So you didn't get it because you forgot to hit Jenna up? Yeah. Do we now technically owe her three now that she's done three gyms in total? Why don't we just give her like a bigger price? A reject shop voucher. Oh, yeah. I wouldn't necessarily buy food there,

but like you can get cheaper cleaning products there and pet food, I've noticed. I've heard that's a hack also to go to the reject shop for like dishwashing tablets. Yeah. Yes. Yes, that's a big one there. All right, Dante. Well, thanks for listening, honey. We love you, Danny.

Dante, it's all the same. Love you, Danny. Bye-bye. Bye. Now, if you want to come on with an Is It Just Me of your own, you can hit us up at couple of Mitch's or send us a text. This is the number. Yeah, we want to hear from you.

Now, let's talk you through the process of thinking of an Is It Just Me. Just think of a really fucked up story that's happened to you and work backwards. And then just think of an Is It Just Me to introduce it. Correct. You just need to retroactively fit. Because I want to hear some juicy fucking stories, like a really fucked up story. Okay, for example. Say, for example, you accidentally, I don't know, ate poo.

You can't say, is it just me or did you accidentally eat poo? Or maybe you were a witness to some sort of crime. Yeah. Anything like that. Or, because you could just start both of those with, is it just me or is this the craziest story you've ever heard? And then you can go into your story. That's a bit lazy, but sure, if you want to do that, that's fine. What else are they going to say? Is it just me or have you witnessed a crime?

Yes. Well, we'll leave that with you, idiot just me, or have you witnessed a crime? Yes. Well, we'll leave that with you, idiot. Yeah, not to you. It's not up to us. All right, we really must go. Will it blend happening Wednesday? Correct. I can't wait.

I can. Oh, it's going to be great. I reckon, again, I'm not going to do you dirty. I'm not going to put fucked up combinations of things. It's going to be a meal as you would eat it. But in blender form. Correct. So, like, spaghetti bolognese blended.

Yes. Wow. Something like that. Yeah, that was an example. Alright, shall we go? Yes, we should head out of here. Alright guys, leave us a five star review please if you haven't yet on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Just five stars. And we will see you in a couple of days. Hope you all had a gorgeous Easter as well. Yeah. Catch you on Wednesday.

Blessings. Bye bye. See ya. Peace be with you. Bye. Yeah. Catch you on Wednesday. Blessings. Bye-bye. See you. Peace be with you. Amen. Is it just me? A podcast by a couple of mitches. Make sure you've hit follow on your podcast app. Welcome to A to Debrief, our secret segment on the end. Just a few people with ADHD having a debrief. Correct.

We just talk shit here. Nothing's planned or whatever. Nothing's planned in the slightest. Even though when you think about it, is it just me Monday? Nothing's planned. We don't know. Well, I don't know what the caller's going to say. No, you don't know what I'm going to say. And you don't know what the caller's gonna say no you don't know what i'm gonna say i don't know you don't know what i'm gonna say no sometimes i don't know what i'm doing it's just ai so jenna doesn't know why

did you guys hear that ai has now um will chat gpt have created a verbal ai but they're not releasing it because it's an election year and they fear it is so powerful that in the hands of the wrong people it could just spread misinformation like no other. Oh, like they'd run an ad on the radio saying, hi, I'm Donald Trump and I'm a fuckhead. Correct. See, he said it from his own mouth. No, but imagine how confused you'd be. Like, it genuinely would be confusing.

I mean, I fear we'll be out of a job when that goes because they could just say, they could honestly write, make a podcast between Mitch Turi, Mitch Coombs. There is enough content of us on the internet, Mitch, that an AI could listen to in a minute and then just generate what we'd say. It wouldn't be bang on, but it would work. I don't reckon you could use something like that to host a whole episode. But if, for example, I don't know, iHeartRadio said to us, guys, you need to record an ad for Mitsubishi motors or some shit, and you and I are both unavailable. We probably could just put that script in and have it read out in our voice.

I've not tried that, but I'm trying to explain that they couldn't just think like us. Totally. But if we told it what to say, it could do it. I think it would get it 99% right, but there'd be 1% that would be glaringly obviously not us. They'd nail the conversation. Like, Mitsubishi motors, Mitch, nothing better than a fresh new Mitsubishi. And then you'd say. Slay, hunty. Correct. correct and then they do my brotness laugh but it would be like the thing with ai is it can't do australian accents well so there would be like a tinge

of american in there and i'm so fucking aussie so yeah you'd get it way off yeah um recommendation if anyone's watching what what's a Netflix recommendation? Three Body Problem on Netflix. I've heard about that. It's really good. Is it? The acting is the worst I've ever seen in my life. That's one way to sell it to us. It's so bad.

But the storyline is incredible. Really? Yeah, it's like AI sci-fi end of the world, really cool. Oh, you lost me at that. I love Alien. You lost me. Alien. You lost me at bad acting. Imagine if that's how we just said genres. Yeah, it's me at that. I love Alien. You lost me. Alien. You lost me at bad acting.

Imagine if that's how we just said genres. Yeah, it's bad acting and it's Alien. I just don't know if that's for me. Oh, my favourite genre is Stabby. Oh! What? I forgot. We got a delivery. We got a package for the show. Okay. Sorry to interrupt. I brought it here with me. Hold on. Let me put it on the table.

Oh! What is it? It's a package from Mel Thomas in Penguin, Tasmania. Oh, yes. Thank you. Gorgeous, Mel. Mel says two Mitches, a couple of Mitches. There's a card.

Let me read the card. Oh, this is gorgeous, Mel. Thank you. This is so cute. Easter card. It says, Happy Easter to you, to Mitchell, Churi, and Jenna. Wishing you an Easter time full of special treats. Love from Tassie Mel.

Oh, and it has little bunnies on it. Guess what she gave us? Yeah. Because we couldn't find it anywhere. She sent us and found a cabriolet bunny chocolate. Oh, I see. This was the whole inspiration behind Will It Block. Also, not just that.

She sent us what I believe to be Tasmanian gingerbread treats. Oh, my God. Yeah. What? Show me. Hang on. Okay, the brand is Tasmanian Ginger. They're in North High.

But this is what looks like some sort of melting moment, this one. Jenna, you try this. Oh, my God. What's this one? Let me see. Oh, is there more? Yeah, there's little melting moments. Gingerbread kisses. Give them to me. Give them to me. Oh, my God. Look Yeah, there's little melting moments. Gingerbread kisses!

Give them to me. Give them to me. Oh my God. Look. Okay, hang on. These ones are gingerbread kisses, but they've got hundreds of thousands on top, like fucking fairy bread. Oh.

Oh! I'm going to try one. Hang on. I just need a moment, because that was my favourite Bicky as a kid. We'd make these ones where you'd roll the cookie dough into a ball, dip it in sprinkles or hundreds of thousands, whatever you want to call it. And so it had sprinkles on top and it was heavenly.

So now I've got sprinkles and icing on top of a ginger kiss. Oh, my God. My favourites combined. I'm going to try the other one. Oh, Mel, you've spoiled me. Let me try this. These are delicious. Oh, suck my ass.

That's gorgeous I smell a gingerbread You know what I'm going to try The lint bunny chocolate That's actually incredible What the fuck What are they called Tasmanian gingerbread

Shout out I'll be your poster girl Fucking hell That's gorgeous Oh my god Also to close this can of worms Lint bunny Chocolate block

Tastes like lint chocolate It's not a bunny Well there you go As we suspected all along Oh my god, this is incredible. By the way, you told me that you couldn't find the block of bunny anywhere. I couldn't.

Oh, they couldn't fucking give it away at my supermarket. There were so many, yeah. I couldn't find it either. I promise you I couldn't. Really? I saw all the bunnies, but not the block. Oh, interesting. That's actually delicious. I love lint chocolate. But it says nothing like the bunny. Nothing.

Yeah, right. It's just chocolate. As I was saying, it's the hollowness that you need. Oh, I can't get over this gingerbread. The one with the sprinkles on top? Is that what you're having? No, the other one.

I don't think I could finish the whole one. Can I have a bite of that? Yeah. I want the melting moment one. Sorry, this is not interesting to anyone else. It's so good. Oh, stop it. I know.

Incredible. Wow, that's really good. Okay, I have something else to say, but I'm still eating. Well, stop it. I know. Incredible. Wow, that's really good. Okay, I have something else to say, but I'm still eating. Well, I can fill the void. I can't finish it. No, what I was going to say. Cherry. Hello.

Is it just me on the fly, or is it a bit fucking weird when your grandparents get dementia? Oh, no. Well, as a Mitchell that has a grandma with dementia. In the least rude way possible. How far gone is she? Yeah, 99%. Really? That's not fair. 90%, but she's basically non-verbal these days.

Really? She remembers who I am. I saw her at Easter. Nan goes, Mitchell, you're the one with the show. I said, yes. And she went, you've put weight on in all the wrong places. I'm like, what are the right places to put it on? I kind of love that it makes them brutally honest.

Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty depressing. Yeah. Because my grandmother got officially diagnosed with dementia a bit earlier in the year, I think. But we all kind of suspected it, which is why we took her to the appointment. Yeah. How old is she? Grandson of the year.

I don't know. I think 89 because we just had Pop's 90th over the Easter weekend. And I think they're only a year apart maybe. Yeah. So basically getting up there. Yeah, of course. But Pop's not been diagnosed, but I swear to God he has it too. Oh, you think?

Yeah. They often go out in sympathy with each other. Yeah, interesting. The weird thing is that they just don't want any help. Yeah, that happens. Like we keep saying, oh, we can get someone to come out, like an aged care assessment and they can change your sheets and stuff and they're like, nah, we'll be right.

They're stubborn, aren't they? Which I can't, yeah, they're so stubborn. I can't make sense of that because, oh, I would say yes to help so quickly. How do I fake dementia so people can just come and do my chores for me? The thing is, it's mortifying because you, and like, I'm not going to connect to someone that has dementia, but I have a brain condition.

And sometimes, you know, my memory, when I have a battle and I have a flare up, my brain is shot. It is so scary to have like that power taken out of your hands. Like sometimes I genuinely can't think of words and I'm like, oh my God, like my brain, my body's failing me. So imagine being 80, knowing that that's kind of the period of your life where this starts to happen, feeling it happen. You wouldn't want to admit it.

And then you don't want to tell your loved ones because then they go, we'll put you in a home. You want to hold on to your identity as long as possible. But now that it's out there and we know they have dementia, why would you refuse help? Like you clearly can't do it. Well, it's pride. There's a lot of reasons. So does she know?

I don't understand it. I don't know if she knows. And the reason I said that we all sort of suspected it is because do you remember um i think it was last august or something um i went home to look after the farm yeah while mum and dad were overseas with arnie trish um i went home to look after the farm and i went to visit nan and she was just like oh hello darling nice to have you back in the country and i was like does she think i'm trish oh she thought you were trish i don't know but i was like i've not been overseas in years i don't

know what you mean um i thought maybe she meant the country's in like the outback or whatever but i think she would might have just been a bit confused i don't think she placed me and also it turns out that despite having met sean like four times, she has no fucking clue who he is, which I find quite funny because she just doesn't question it. Mum wrote her a birthday card recently and it had love from Ian and Jane, Nicole, William, Mitchell, Sean, Mark and Sasha. Like all the partner scenes are in there. And then it's like, who's Sean? Mum's like, you've met him, Nita. He fucking helped you with the finder word in your Christmas bonbon on Christmas Day.

Oh, no. And she just goes, a boy? Yeah. Again, this is not news, Nan. She knows I'm gay. Yeah. So I just love the thought that there on Christmas Day, Sean's helping her with a Finder word and she just doesn't know who the fuck he is or why he's there.

To be honest. I'm like, wouldn't you ask the question? How are you? You're too embarrassed. Why are you here? Oh my God. See, I kind of wish,

my nan is riddled with dementia but my Alma, who's like 87, brilliant. In fact, she told me that all gay men are pedophiles. I'm like,

I'd rather her be dementia and forget. Wait, it wasn't dementia making her say that? No, she's fully lucid. She's Dutch.

She's got that European blood. She knows you're gay? No, this time she didn't know I was gay. She's really shut up on the whole pedophilia thing. Oh, well, that's nice. Yeah, it's nice. She's got're gay? No, this time she didn't know I was gay. She's really shut up on the whole pedophilia thing. Oh, well, that's nice.

Yeah, it's nice. She's got some self-awareness. Fuck, I tell you what. I'm sorry, Mitchell, because it will get harder because slowly you'll lose it. It's going to get harder. This is actually, and you've got to have some levity in it. This is like the fun part of it because it's a little wacky, a little, oh, God, what's going to happen? But once it really starts hitting their physical body, it's awful.

Oh, they've not been the healthiest or fittest for fucking years. Was this the Nen that we played the message of when your cousin had a heart attack? Yes. They sent him a voice message? Hi, darling. How are you? No wonder it had no emotion because she didn't know who the fuck she was talking to. Probably.

What's he got again? He chipped his toe, did he? Oh, hi, darling. You'll be right. Up, up you get. Off you trot. Because she couldn't remember that it was talking to. Probably. What's he got again? He chipped his toe, did he? Oh, hi, darling. You'll be right. Up, up you get. Off you trot. Because she couldn't remember that it was a fucking heart attack. Yeah, this isn't the grandmother that we called on the podcast,

the one that lives in Sydney that I wanted to have lunch with. Of course. Not her. This is like Bogengate Nana Coombs. And it's interesting. She's always been quite a bitch, but the dementia has made her sweet. And so mum's always like, yeah, I know that she's having a good day when she's a bitch to me.

I'm like, oh, good. We've got the real Nita coming through. I find that they either get nicer or meaner. Yeah, mine ends mean. Yeah, so there's this lady who was in the nursing home with my great uncle who also died of dementia. And she had dementia and she was like the loveliest person but once she got diagnosed she turned horrible like she would fight the staff fuck like getting to physical brawls

sean's grandmother was a bit like that yeah um sweetest person on earth and 90 of the time she was sweet but sometimes she'd just turn on the staff that were there to help her totally oh my last conversation with sean's grandma. I'll never forget it. It was so precious. Yeah, she just passed, right? It'll be a year soon. Yeah, I can't remember exactly. Actually, it'll be a year in June, I think.

Anyway, so she'd met me multiple times. And even though by this point she was quite nonverbal, she would talk about me. And then whenever I came over, she'd like blush and be like, oh, it's him. And then the last time I saw her, bearing in mind this woman is nonverbal, she says clear as day, who's that? You made her regain the power of speech. I brought her words back.

So she can be like, who the fuck's that in my home How soon thereafter did she pass? Like a couple of weeks Oh wow Yeah She was holding out to be a bitch to you I want to hate crime and gay men one more time And she apparently

Before I came over for Christmas Day At Sean's place She told Sean That she was really excited To show me her chickens Oh Because she has a chicken coop out the back And I'm a farm boy

So she thought Oh he'll love to see my chickens. And then I arrived on Christmas Day and she must have been in one of those moods because Sean goes, Grandma, do you want to show Mitchell your chickens? Again, she's nonverbal, but says clearer than anything, why? So it's fine. I've seen a chicken, Val. It's all good.

Totally. Did you get to see him? Yeah, I did. Good. Oh, okay, good. You saw a little chicken? Yeah. Yeah, she's got a chicken, Val. It's all good. Totally. Did you get to see him? Yeah, I did. Good. Oh, okay, good. You saw a little chicken? Yeah. Yeah, she's got a few.

Yeah. It's amazing. Well, I had, yeah. It's very sad, isn't it, when that happens? How are the chickens now? I don't know. I assume they're still kicking. Who took on the chickens?

Sean's dad. Well, that's nice. I think. Listen, well, on that note, shall we go? On that depressing note. Well, on the note of death, I think it's nice to end this episode. And chickens. We are back on Wednesday and chickens.

Don't worry. I'm surprised. I hope people actually hear this because because would not surprise me if this didn't record well that's true um but the reason i brought it up was because nan doesn't seem to have forgotten everyone but i was first cab off the rank i reckon because i look different to how she remembers totally because yeah yeah i tried to talk to both of them at the 90th and one of two things happened. Either they forgot who I was and they were like, who's that? I don't trust them. Or they remembered who I was and they were like, nah, we don't fuck with him. Because you know how they don't hide their true emotions when they've got dementia.

They were just not playing ball at all. And they were looking at me like, we're not talking to you. Oh, that's sad. Yeah. But did you have a good relationship with them ever? I mean, Nan's always been a bit of a bitch, as I said. But yes, I had a good relationship in the sense that all children just blindly love their grandparents. Of course.

And Pop. I was closer with him growing up. He used to let us get away with naughty shit. He'd be like, don't tell your Nana. Totally. I'll let you ride the golf buggy, even though you're not allowed. Don't tell your grandmother. She's deaf as fuck.

She won't hear it anyway. Do you think maybe they had a bit of an issue with you, I don't know, riding the golf buggy if you catch my drift? Sean being the golf buggy? Nah, because when I came out as gay, she said to my uncle who was single at the time, if you want to bring a boy home, that's okay with me. And then he got a fucking girlfriend. Oh, shit. Despite me having paved the way. So that's what I mean when I'm like, it's no secret that I'm gay. She's known for literally years.

And so when she was so shocked that Sean's a boy. Yeah. What? I was like, oh, God. Oh. No. What a beautiful story of love and family. Yeah.

Yeah. Can bring us all together. Jenny, on your dementia journey, we will be here for you. Thank you. Who do you reckon she'll forget first? Oh, I don't know. Because you know how the short-term memory tends to go first, but they remember oddly specific things from their childhood.

I've known Jennifer, I've got about three years on you. Yeah, that's true. True. Yeah, but they were boring years. Probably only two, actually. No, I think about three. We met Jenna in... What's going on there?

What's happening? Someone's remotely... Oh, my God. The computers are moving themselves. Someone has... What are you doing? What are they doing? What are they doing?

What are they doing? They're controlling the mouse. They're getting up Red Tube. What are they doing? Maybe we should just? What are they doing? They're controlling the mouse. They're getting up RedTube. What are they doing? Maybe we should just end. Quick, get the mouse and hit stop on the recording. Because if they fuck this, I'll be so... Say it, Mitchell.

Say the... We hope this podcast made you feel at least 2% better today. That's all. So we do. Let's get out of here. Who the fuck is Thomas? Oh, it's Thomas the Tech. He's fucking signing in.

No. Oh, it's Thomas the Tech Engine. It's Thomas. Thomas! Can you run? Go run and do it. I need to hit stop on the recording. Bye, idiots. Tech Engine. It's Thomas. Thomas! Can you run? Go run and do it. I need to hit stop on the recording. Bye, idiots.

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