True Family Vibes
True Family Vibes
Laugh, Learn, Love: My Top 10 Episodes of the Crazy Final Voyage of True Family Vibes
On behalf of Diversifying Podcast platforms... we wrap up the True Family Vibes podcast with a hilarious trip down memory lane where we examine the ups, downs, and unexpected poos of parenting. Remember that Disney movie you loved as a kid? It probably had a sorrowful theme and we're talking about how it sparked conversations with our children about life and loss. And who can forget the episode where I had to defend my bum from another child? These memorable moments have not only entertained us, but have also shaped our future as parents.
Brace yourself for an honest look at the messy yet endearing journey of motherhood. The tantrums, the stains on the carpet, the laughter, and those unforgettable moments when an unexpected poo makes your day, or rather ruins it. Remember when I shared the issues of raising a vegan climate change generation, convinced that there is no meat in their sausages? We're revisiting all of these precious memories and more.
As we bid farewell to our beloved podcast, we can't help but feel a sense of anticipation for what the future holds. We're wrapping up this chapter with a contemplative look at Our top 10 episodes that sum up this season and the many topics we've discussed over the last 2 years. Our concluding episode is a tribute to all the laughter, lessons, and love that our podcast community has shared. We're signing off, but the journey doesn't end here, it's just taking a different road.
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The final countdown, guys, it's the last one. True Family Vibes 2023. Oh yeah, all right, let's stop this. Stopped pause. Welcome to True Family Vibes the final countdown. I'm going to give you my top 10 episodes. I'm just going to play you a little snippet in case you're thinking what is this True Family Vibes podcast? It's coming to an end. I don't know where to begin. I'm just going to say well, if you just listen to these top 10, I think you will get a round up of the journey for the last kind of two years of, I guess, having three kids and the dynamic set that brings and coming out of lockdown and, yeah, trialling out, you know, podcast life.
Speaker 1:I'm excited that the podcast has come to an end because, like I said, I just wanted to have I've got a list of all these things I need to do in life and to do some of those things you need to stop doing other things. But I absolutely loved it and I thought you know what I want to end it. Well, and I want to end it while I still enjoy it. I don't want it to kind of like you know, I'm just there going um, so I'm ending it with also like this sadness of. Actually, I'm like going to be one of those people that go, I'm ending the podcast and then, a year later, I'm like hi guys, podcast back, because there's always content. Like, no matter what you do, there's always content. Like, even the other day, the kids were, um, you know, they're learning about recycling. And so I was like great, you guys are doing the recycling today. Um, what goes in the brown bin? They're like tins, cans, bottles, glass, boom, what goes in the blue bin paper card? Great, guys, go and do it, I'm not involved. And then you just come back with this whole bunch of stuff and I was like what's this? And they were like like somebody, uh, has put my picture. It's ended up in the recycling. I'm like, oh, and they're like look, I made this like at school out of Pringles bottle and toilet paper. It's ended up in the recycling. I don't know how it happened. So I'm always like must have been daddy, like I can't believe this has happened. I will deal with this. I'm like I'm gonna now have to have a secret stash of like recycling that I can do, because even that I was like come on man, come on man anyway. So to end the podcast, like I said, I'm just gonna do a top 10 of, I guess, my favorite episodes. Um, I'm just gonna find a snippet of each and put it out there and maybe give a little bit of context or thoughts behind each podcast. So so, number 10 is so, yeah, number 10 is raising the vegan climate change generation. This is from season one. Episode 16 is a little snippet that we're raising.
Speaker 1:I had to have an argument with my kids the other day because they're convinced they're vegans. They are totally convinced, um, and I thought, man, if there was a vegan protest somewhere, my kids will be at the door. They'd be there with their banners and posters that they've made on Microsoft Word. And that madness. I said to them you're not vegans. The confusion has come because, um, one of my children has food allergies, so she doesn't eat dairy and she doesn't eat egg. So, basically, when we buy certain things, it does say vegan a lot of the time. So I get that right.
Speaker 1:My younger daughter has never liked dairy, she just has always spat it out when I was weaning. When I was weaning her she used to like spit out dairy, spit out eggs, spit out meat. So I used to say to her oh, come on, my little vegan. Come on, my little vegan. And I feel like that information is stuck in her brain somewhere, because now I'm arguing with her and telling her you're not vegan because you eat me. She's telling me she doesn't eat me. And I said, but, do you eat sausage? And she said yeah. So I said sausage is me and she said no, sausage is sausage. So I said, well, sausage is me, and she said no, sausage is sausage. So I said to her do you eat chicken? She said yeah. I said chicken is me and she said no, chicken is chicken.
Speaker 1:So you can imagine how the argument continued when I realized that, unless I give them something like minced meat and I use the word meat, they don't think they eat meat. Um, and so that that's that's where we're out with that, like I'm still trying. So now I'm sure like giving them like, oh, this is, this, is whatever it is, people, whatever it's meat, just to kind of let them know that they're not vegans. Although then they said, well, what is a vegan? So I had to explain what vegans believe and they were down with all of it. You know, and I am too. They were 100%. Actually, mommy, yeah, I want to be a vegan. I want to be a vegan. I thought do you know, I can't handle this. I can't handle having young children being vegans right now in my life. So that is my number 10. Just the memories of continuously arguing with children about if what they were eating was meat.
Speaker 1:I think what I liked about that episode as being my number 10 is I think that was now. I kind of felt like I knew what I was doing in podcasting roughly how long to talk and how to flow a bit with a topic. Because if you listen to my episodes at first day I was so random I'm literally, um, you know, just talking while I think, whereas us going into episodes, I'm thinking, okay, I'm going to talk about this one topic, I might just make it up as I go along, but I'm not going to be like as random as I've been. So I think that's why that episode's got gone in at. Number 10 is it's probably where I felt I was getting becoming confident in my episodes. Um, so, yeah, shout out to all the vegans. So number nine. So number nine is season two, episode 14 gas lighting in maternal care.
Speaker 1:I think this is where I thought you know what, I've got a place that I can offlet some of my frustrations. I've got a podcast, y'all. So, um, here's a little bit from that episode. I don't know what she's, I don't know what you lot is is is linked to right now, so don't even get me started on that. I didn't even go down that road, I just thought, okay, um, so, anyway, when I pulled my top downs full of jellies, full of sticky. So she says right, I'm canceling your appointment and I'm going to say that you, um, that you're late. So I said go on, then do that, but I'm leaving the room. So you don't think I'm making this up. I swear to you, this is the kind of this is the kind of treatment I get.
Speaker 1:People make assumptions. I don't know if it's based on. Sometimes I think it's based on how I look, how I talk and my hair all those contributed factors maybe. Maybe I've got a swagger about me. But straight away in for the. I'm on time. In fact, we'd already waited 20 odd minutes. Then they were 10 minutes late because they were over time. So it's like nah, I'm trying to tell you we had to. We couldn't even park in the car park as well. We had parked a good 20 minute walk up a hill. Do you imagine? I've done all that, all that, plus my belly is full. You know how it is women, you have drunk I don't know how much water and you can't go toilet and then somebody wants to gaslight you on your baby's scan. Nah, so anyway that episode. If you want the contents of that story, you have to. You have to listen to that episode.
Speaker 1:Season two, episode 14, of me just mentioning all the times having the three kids that I have felt gaslighted by medical staff. That'll give you a bit more context to the background of the story and the experiences that I felt and that I know many other women feel and go through. Shout out to the NHS, you're not all bad, but some of you lot are overworked, you're tired and you have lost empathy and you're burnt out. Let's just be real. Some of y'all are burnt out and you're taking it out on pregnant people and then saying they're emotional. So anyway, some people need to go and leave their care work jobs and just go and do a job. That is like like, just like working a library, just volunteering a library for a bit, just do something where you ain't got care too much about people, although saying that I've got my local library. Some of their volunteers, I think, used to work in the police because I get emails saying like hi, like this book is overdue. Like I get a phone call I was thinking I didn't know it was that deep but anyway. So my thoughts are just that. My thoughts are that not everyone should still work in healthcare. Some people need to go and get new jobs. But yeah, that's all about gaslighting and smear tests and all stuff that women have to go through. But then they're getting provoked by these people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, number seven, I mean eight, eight, eight. I'm so bad at counting. Anyway, episode eight or not, episode eight, top 10, number eight is the truth about breastfeeding. This comes from season two, episode eight, and this, I guess for me this episode was like actually, let me do like an episode which is actually like a bit educational here, where I'm not just moaning and I'm not just sharing a story, but like I'm actually sharing some information. So you know, I've breastfed all three kids, learned a thing or two. I was breastfeeding piercable as well. So I just made an episode, just talking about completely free, completely different experiences of breastfeeding, and what I've loved is just the love that I've got from doing this episode. I've just had so many people I've just reached out and been like you know what I've loved listening to that. It took me down memory lane and it just reminded me of how much I guess you accomplish when you can breastfeed, but also some people just to go. Actually it was difficult and now I kind of maybe have thought about why.
Speaker 1:So yeah, the truth about breastfeeding and also to make enough milk, you need to alternate, because you need to make milk, you have to suck. So it's like a supply and demand. So if you stop, if you're not breastfeeding much on one side, that side will always have less milk. And also, when you're sort of working this out and your body's getting used to it, sometimes you leak milk because your body thinks you're gonna, like, you're gonna expect to be on that side, but then you just end up breastfeeding on the other side. So then your body's confused and then half three, three, four, three, two, like oh, let me swap you to the other side.
Speaker 1:So it's like you learn multiple things breastfeeding. You learn multiple things. You learn things like that you never expected to learn in life, especially about how the body works. Ain't that the truth? Ain't that the truth? You learn a lot about breastfeeding. You learn a lot by yourself. You learn a lot about your perseverance. You learn a lot about your emotions. You learn a lot about, I guess, just how the body works, and you can get so much you know for people that have bottlefed. You can get so many of the, I guess, the aspects of breastfeeding you can apply to bottlefeeding. You know, in terms of how you hold your baby, how you look at your baby, how close your baby is to you, and I've done a massive shout out on this episode to people who have bottlefed. So don't think this episode is not for you too, because it's exhausting waking up, going downstairs, measuring stuff, my life science that is another piece of science on top of being a parent too. So, yeah, that's episode eight for you, and that's just me bringing actually like hold on a minute. I could use this platform to be a bit more educational. So that was my episode. So I also did another episode about C-sections, which I think also is like similar. It's not just about the experience, but it's a little bit educational too. So check it out. Seven, seven, seven. So this is episode. Well, it's a special Mother's Day message. It's on season one.
Speaker 1:I actually did a video to go with this episode because after I recorded it I thought I could visualize it. So there is a video on YouTube. I did set up a true family vibes podcast YouTube channel, so maybe in the future what I'll do is make a few videos link to episodes. I've done If I got the energy, because I think there's only two videos on there or something. I'm really bad at social media, but I might get better. So I will keep all my social media on Instagram. I'm on Facebook, I'm on YouTube true family vibes podcast. I never check it, I never upload anything, but that might change in the future. But yeah, I did a special Mother's Day message and every Mother's Day I think, oh, I've already done that episode. It still applies. So, yeah, check this episode out.
Speaker 1:This is to all the mothers out there and Deodran the amount of sweat that happens from being a mom is unreal. You've got the pregnancy, where you're like an oven, so you just need to be smelling fresh as much as you can. Then you've got birth. Trust me, everyone needs to whatever they can get hold of to improve their smell during that period. Then you're feeding your baby. After your breastfeeding you're sweating 24 hours a day, everyone else. You're sitting there, you look lovely and calm and beautiful, but to you you are just dripping with sweat as your baby sucks you up. If you are bottle feeding, you're up at night all day, up and downstairs, in and out boiling kettles. You're carrying hot water everywhere you go all my life. If you're driving, you've got a car seat. You're carrying the car seat. That car seat's heavy. And then you've got the baby ever growing baby. The wheat is just pulling you down. If you're a sling mom, you've got the sling. You're all warm, cozy, the baby's on your chest. You're still sweating. If you push, you let the episode carries on and on and on like that. It's just talking about sweat. It's just talking about the reality of being a mother.
Speaker 1:Is you need some good deodorant spray? So why we don't get bought it? We get bought cheap cruddy things. Bar of soap, we get one pound deodorant given to us. So yeah, that was just a like. You know just a little. You know hashtag. Get it out there. Get me some better perfume. Peeps. Six, six, six. Oh gosh shouldn't have said that. Rewind number six, tantrums and tiaras.
Speaker 1:This comes from season one, episode 18. I think, yeah, like I said, I think on my journey of podcasting there's definitely been a development in terms of the sound quality, the randomness element and, I guess, the quality, let's be honest. So, yeah, I feel this episode. It was when I was coming towards the end of the season and I just remember this moment where I was having this standoff with my younger daughter at the time and I was just thinking I'm gonna do a podcast on this experience because right now I'm trying to hold it together while you do this tantrum industry, and I am just trying to hold it together right now. So here's a little bit from that.
Speaker 1:That season one, episodes 18, tantrums and tiaras. How dare you? Oh gosh, anyway, there must be the best way to handle a tantrum. There must be. There's probably a super nanny out there that will get at that naughty step. That's a good one. Like a naughty step. A little red mat with a timer, an egg timer that's enough. A good one. Just having a corner in the house, like if you have to go to that corner, buuuuuh, you're in trouble. Or if one of your parents has a ruler and they just stop banging the ruler on the table, boom, you know you're in trouble, so you know there's must be a way to just kill out the tantrum.
Speaker 1:I don't know if tantrums are healthy. I feel like if we don't tantrum when we're, if we don't tantrum at certain points in our life, will we just end up being adults that tantrum Like, do we need it to just start off, get it out and then realize you cannot make a scene and then get what you want, because there are some adults that still tantrum. Now they're sulking, walking around, sulky, sulky, sulky, making a big old scene. I know you're thinking it's me. It might be, it might not, but you know what I mean. You think did you tantrum enough as a kid? Because surely this should have been, this sort of behavior, should have been like nipped out by now. Nipped out so that you can realize sulking, making a whole scene, nagging about, haven't you? Haven't got your way? It should have been done and dealt with by now. Like you should move on, move on. Like Move on, move on. That is a quote. If I was to have for this podcast, if I was to get some like you know, t-shirts made of bags, that would be like move on would probably be. You know you need to. You need to move on. There definitely be something about like having a kid crap on you is humbling. There definitely be a lot of quotes about poo. Yeah, that's, that's a current theme. Going through my podcast I've noticed that actually that is a thing All right. So we're heading in the five, five, five, top five. So top five I have got with the theme of poo.
Speaker 1:I don't know if there's an episode while I was not talking about poo and is is. The episode called Covid came like an unexpected poo and that is from season one, episode seven. When I listen back to that, I think what on earth was I doing? Uploading that as a podcast? The sound is so bad, like literally, I was like at that stage of doing the podcast I was just breastfeeding, sitting there, having a cup of tea, chatting away. I've got my kid is feeding, pooing, you know, making noise, and I'm just, I still uploaded it. So I just think that is hilarious that there's like, yeah, there's a podcast like with that such bad sound out there in the world and it's mine.
Speaker 1:But no, I just thought I like this episode because there were some poos out there that you just never forget in life. It's like Covid. There's just moments you you can never forget them. They, they are marked on your memory forever. So what I like about this episode is I'm just talking about those unexpected poos. I'm just talking about how those poos are linked to my feelings of the pandemic. I have got a recent one about poo. I think it's with the toddler going in A&E, where you just poos on the floor in A&E. So that's like an updated version to add to this unexpected poo story. But yeah, so this is season one, episode seven.
Speaker 1:Covid came like an unexpected poo and it's a very um. It's one of those moments that humbles you as a, as a parent. You're tired to do everything you can for this kid, loving it, loving on the kid, and it don't care about that. If it needs to poo, it's gonna poo, and if you haven't changed the naping in time, it's gonna poo all over you, mate, this poo was one of those poos, like an unexpected poo, and and and it basically hit uh, it hit the wall. It was that. It was that powerful um changing his nappy, done a poo. But then in the midst of that, another poo needed to come. Uh, it hit the wall.
Speaker 1:I found blobs of yellow mustard poo on the carpet, like the next day. Um, my clothes, my shirt, full of yellow mustard poo, very humbling, uh, I just I just threw his vest in the bin. I thought I can't be dealing with trying to get this out of a white vest, as well as all the other things I'm now having to clear up and and there's been a few poos in my uh experience as a parent that I've just been unexpected, unplanned, I'm called for, and some have been worse than others. Um, I remember the first bad thing let me hold it there. Let me hold it right there, literally. When I listen to that back, I think the sound is awful. I don't even know how people are hearing me. The baby is so loud.
Speaker 1:Oh, my life, um, but to be honest, if I didn't start the podcast then I'd never have done it. I think it took doing it while I didn't know what I was doing, while I was feeding my baby, while I was going through the coming out of lockdown, had a baby cut. There's not really many places to go chatting phase in my life that you know what. If I hadn't done it then I never would have got to, got to where I am now, not that I'm at some high level of podcasting at all, but at least now, like I don't have a kid in my arms or near me when I'm recording an episode, so that's. You know, that's big. So I think that's the thing.
Speaker 1:Sometimes it's good to start. You might start something and you're like do you know what? It's not that good, let me wait till I'm good. Well, sometimes you only get good or better if you start when you're not that good, you know. So I'm listening back, I'm thinking how on earth did I upload that episode? But I still got so many memories because in my head I'm thinking well, that's what it's like when you're having a conversation with someone and they've got a kid. Like you have to cry and you know, focus on what they're saying, not get too distracted by the fact that their kid is like running up and down or feeding or doing something. So it is a true reflection of a conversation with you know a mum with a newborn. But yeah, thanks to anyone who listened even know the sound was bad in them early days when I was waffling on um, you stuck, you stuck with me, peeps, you stuck with me. Appreciate that right number four, four, four, four, four four. Four is season two, episode 21, as I'm getting towards the end of my podcast season.
Speaker 1:Um, I wanted to just end the podcast. Well, like I said, I just fortunate myself. Let me just do some things that, like you know, are fresh, a bit fresh. So I just had one of them days, you know how it be, I just had one of those days and I thought you know what, I'm just going to turn this into some sort of poem, like unscripted poem, and hope that some of the words rhyme and try and do it. You know those, the way people with who do spoken voice, spoken word, they talk, they took this talk, this kind of poetry, and then kind of like they take pauses. I thought, you know what, let me just bring that in. But, yeah, remember just doing it. You might hear my son a little bit in the background, my husband trying to get him to bed, and I just thought I've just had one of them days where I can. Now I can't be bothered like I'm just sitting on the bed and I am exhausted of everything and everyone and I am zonked and I'm just gonna, like you know, do a poem. So yeah, here's a little bit of of uh, season two, episode 21 and it's tiring, but it's blessed spoken word.
Speaker 1:Get home after the school run, eat something, pack up a lunch for the little one. Then what washing on? Put the washing up away. Clear up the house a bit, because just the mornings, getting ready for the school, runners trash the complete house from head to toe and I don't really know how. But there's pajamas on the floor and there's beds that aren't made and there's there's the towels, a drop down and there's toilets not flushed and there's breakfast bowls everywhere and I'm thinking how did we leave the house in this state? I didn't know it's this at that time. So do a once around the kid. The little ones is annoyed. Why are we in the house? We should be out, game out. Get into that baby group, get into that library group, get into that club, get into that park, get into that farm. Get the kid out so that he can sleep at the exact time that I need him.
Speaker 1:To make sure you got your bags packed with your nappies and your wipes and all those extra things just in case, like a change of clothes or a hat, or a ball or a car or a bib, some snacks, some water, or that bag's heavy, but you never know what you do. You know what? I've got a whole episode on Stuff that you carry around. Oh my life, you know how it is. You just carry and stuff man. You carry and stuff around in your bag that you do not need and you are not giving time To that bag to clear it out and be like hold on my kid does outgrown this clothes. Like hold on this nappy can't fit my kid. Like why am I carrying it around every day everywhere I go? Why have I got every random little thing in this bag? But that's another episode. I can't remember that episodes cool.
Speaker 1:It's called something like Something about carrying things in the bag that carry in just in case, because it is always just in case. Right. Number three through through. Number three is Cinderella's messed up. This is my top three of like podcast episodes that I think Sometimes you know, I just think that's just quite funny, actually a lot like Like I'll play a bit of that to my kids and they'll just crack up have had sometimes where I found them. They found a podcast and they're like listening to it. Well, they have been breakfast like you're gonna. Well, I'm thinking you're not meant to know about what I'm talking about for you. But yeah, I think this is one of the episodes that I Just, I just have to smile because that story, cinderella, is so messed up. So this has come from season two, episode eight.
Speaker 1:Well, actually all I'm doing is reading the book of Cinderella, but I'm giving you examples of what it's like when I read Cinderella in my house because of what my kids have to say about all the juju in the story. So, yeah, here's a little. So she's gone and picked. Cinderella might be worse than beauty in the beast. I'll tell you why. I'm gonna read you a bit of it. As I read it, I'm gonna tell you what they say, what they were roughly saying.
Speaker 1:So it starts once upon a time in a far away land they lived a rich and widow gentleman and his beautiful daughter, younger child. What is widow gentleman? So I said we don't. Gentleman is the dad. If you're widowed, it means the person you were married to isn't here anymore and Some people marry other people when the person they married first is no longer here. Now this child. So basically she's dead, the mom's dead. That's why Me, yeah. So basically, widowed means the person you married to is no longer here because they've died. Yeah, so that's how deep we've gone in. Two lions, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:So he married for a second time, right, so that his daughter had a mother to take care for her eldest child. Well, that wasn't a good idea, was it? Why is he gonna just married a random person Just to look after his daughter? So I'm like, yeah, it's a good point. You shouldn't just marry anyone and you know, not everyone wants to get married, needs to get married. Some people don't like being married. Youngest child is that you, mommy, do you not like being married? No, I didn't say that. I said some people. Oh my gosh, I just like this because this is the reality of the not not case madness that I have to deal with. You know, when you have children that they compliment each other but they're so upset and One kid is loving on Disney and the other kid is just looking at Disney like it's a whole bunch of juju and I just I just read the story but yeah, no, it's just good.
Speaker 1:It gives me so many memories of just reading. Nearly every Disney story is a bit like that and in my house because like beauty and a beast you can imagine, similar to the Cinderella in terms of like what they're saying. But even Lion King, even Lion King, you know the fact that Mufasa dies straight away. She's just like who is again, why does every parent have to die? In Disney? I'm there thinking, I'm struggling to think of like who isn't either a single parent, like you know, like little mermaid, she's just got a dad, right, I don't know she ain't got a mom, you know, frozen. Yet their, their parents die. Maybe Moana, maybe Moana has I don't know if I can remember a mom, maybe there's a mom, I don't know. There's a whole lot of death right in, like the first episode, the first, like chapter. They love a widow, they love an orphan. So yeah, but yeah, no, that's just giving me loads of funny memories of whenever I have to read Disney, because the, the younger daughter loves Disney and just having the elder daughter just give her captions on every line and it does often end in an argument between them both and their art is. So I am trying to get these rid of these Disney books, man, because it's causing too much tension up in here.
Speaker 1:Number two, two, two. So number two comes from season one. Episode 20 is called smacked on the bum by some kid. This is my podcast journey, as you can tell. I think you know the switch from season one to season two is big in terms of how random I get. I can start to become a little bit less random.
Speaker 1:But yeah, this is when I was like hold on one. I just think of like one story instead of just like thinking on the spot and just going with the flow. Why don't I just think about one story and just go through it and what it was like? And I think maybe this is one of the first episodes that I did that. And I felt like I'm getting a little bit focused in my podcasting journey now where, although I'm not, you know, writing a script, I am like thinking before I just click record, like I'm actually thinking, like I'm getting a memory here and then I'm gonna record it. So I Think it whenever.
Speaker 1:Whenever I've like listened back to it, I think I can see the story and I'm like, yes, that's exactly how it was and it gives me. It just takes me to that moment. It takes me to that memory. You know I can picture everything around about it and I wonder where is that kid? Now? That's like to me on the bomb that day, like if, if. Now it's like eight years on, I think that kid was probably about nine, nine or ten. That kid isn't our teenager. I hope that kid is a gentle man, I swear I hope. I hope that I taught him. You know, in life you've got opportunities to teach Everyone around you something in any moment of time, and I was given the opportunity to teach this kid about how not To be a complete and utter what's the right word Okay, I can't think of the right word Inappropriate person, and therefore I used that moment to hopefully teach him a thing or two. So, yeah, here's just a little bit about what happened that day.
Speaker 1:Care in the world. Baps Blacks is what is the word? Is the noise that comes because some hand is whacked. Me on the backside, right and I know it's not anyone I'm with because they're all in front of me jumping around. So my instinct, just you know, threw my hand back and grabbed this hand, arm, slash arm, this tiny little, dangly, weak arm. I'm like what? So I twist my body around. See, some little boy I'm talking about maybe he was a nine little boy and he has been caught red-handed, right His cheeks, his fair skin, right His cheeks have gone so red that the side of his skin, his eyes, is now starting to go red and go into his forehead of redness right. And I'm like what the heck Then he looks over, does like a glance at his friend who clearly has dared him to do this, who is laughing his head off and then runs off.
Speaker 1:So this kid, basically lucky I had done in my time, I've done a little bit of judo slash self-defence I gave him this grip. That is like it only hurts if you try and get out of it. I'm not hurting you if you're still. If you try and just try and get out of this grip, right, your head's gonna be, your whole wrist is gonna be red and ouchy. So I just grabbed this kid. I'm like what the heck do you think I'll do it? Who are you touching? I just went.
Speaker 1:So I wouldn't even say it was ghetto, it was just, like you know, raw, like I don't care if you're a kid, I don't care who you are, you do not do this at this moment. So I just grabbed his hand. I'm like what, what do you think I'm doing in front of my kid, in front of you? Mean you wanna come touch me without even my permission in front of my kid Are you nuts? Are you nuts? Like? That's how I was, cos I was like no, in my head I'm thinking in the future, what is this kid gonna turn out to be if I don't deal with this Right? That's how I took it. That's how I took it Because it was. I wouldn't even call it a slap. It was a tap with you know, a tap that was intentional, an intentional tap. Do not let people give you intentional taps without your permission. Alright, but yeah, I wonder where that kid is now.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I like that episode. It's one of my favourites because it takes me to the memory and I think it will be funny one day to just share it with my daughters and be like I need for my son, but like, don't be that boy, you know, don't be that boy. Yeah, it just brings me. You know, there's memories that in the moment you're just mad, but when you look back you think to yourself that was quite funny, that was a funny moment. So, yeah, that's why that's number two. I think it's number two because I felt, like I said, I felt like now I kind of knew what I was doing a bit with podcasts. I was about three months in.
Speaker 1:What I did when I started the podcast is I recorded loads of random days and I just recorded them on my phone and I just left them. And then, when I had time to create a podcast and that's the bit that's the most work is when you've got to actually, you know, set up the podcast and choose which platform you're going to have it on and think of a name and, you know, get a RSS feed and type up some stuff and make it artwork. That bit took up, took time. When you've done that, it's just a case of uploading, and so I took my time to do all that bit in the beginning. And then I had episodes, you know, way in advance, like I just had had, like, let's say, I'd recorded maybe the first six, so I just scheduled them and then I would record, you know. So I'd record and then upload it and know it would be coming next month, sort of thing. So that's, I guess, how I started, because I was just, like you know, working out what is it, what is it doing a podcast?
Speaker 1:But I think, as I became a bit more confident, I just started to like, think about episodes, and this is probably why so many podcasts do well, because they actually some of them are scripted or they're like fought through. But I thought, yeah, let me just do one thing, one story, and explain that story, rather than, you know, being like totally, totally, totally random. So I feel like this episode sort of represents that. It represents me thinking actually I'd like to do each episode more on one topic and one memory and also just how much I enjoyed it reminds me like sometimes I think, oh, this sounded season one was awful, and just doing it with a newborn, and just some of the days, literally all I'm doing is going, I'm tired, I can't get my kid to sleep. I've tried to keep and get my kids to sleep, I'm walking around, I've put on Masterchef and that's pretty much the episode. But I think at this stage it was like actually I'm enjoying this and I like I can have themes and topics and and it's in season one, because I think a lot of, a lot of my favorite episodes are actually in season two and this one is actually my number two. So, yeah, smacked on the bomb by some kid, what will be the number one? Number one, number one on true family, vibes podcast. So my favorite episode that I've ever recorded was the previous episode like DJ Mama Radio mixtape and season two, episode 22.
Speaker 1:I did that episode and I thought why didn't I do my whole podcast with like music? Why didn't I do that? Because I absolutely loved it. I just thought that there are so many things that have happened in life where there's a theme tune to it. You know, like I've got episodes where I'm talking about how, when my kids are starting to have an argument, you know I sing. You want to be starting something. You got to be starting something. And we do have songs. We have songs for different moments and situations and there's a theme tune to be an apparent. There's a theme tune, man, there's a definite theme tune.
Speaker 1:And I just did this episode because as I was coming, you know, coming to the end of the podcast journey, I thought to myself I don't want to end it on just the same old me chatting, like, let me do things that I'm like what if I? What could I do on a podcast? You know, when I originally started it that's why I did some videos I thought, oh yeah, I can do like a little video thing. But yeah, I thought to myself actually, like I've always wanted a radio station. Even when I started the podcast, it was part of me was like this is like my way of having my own like pirate radio station. But yeah, I just loved recording this episode. I think it could have gone on because even after I recorded it I kept thinking of songs and I kept on thinking like I haven't even put that song in. That is the song. But yeah, so this is my number one favorite episode of True Family Vibe podcast. Like, if you, if you've listened to this, well done, you've got a snippet of the whole experience. But definitely check out DJ Mama Radio Mix Tape.
Speaker 1:True Family Vibe, season two, episode 22. Check it out. So I'm gonna play you the classic wheels on the bus. If you write wheels on the bus R&B. I love this. I'm getting so hyped. Oh my god, I've got to stop it. I'm gonna get hyped. Pal, that I love that. I just.
Speaker 1:I just listened to it about the other day and I was like, yeah, that's the tune for that, that's the tune for that. But yeah, that's that is the top ten of True family vibes podcast and I'm not gonna say it's like forever, ever, ever, over, forever, ever, but it's definitely at the end of an era and I've loved it. I've absolutely loved it, and I think what I'm gonna also enjoy is just sometimes listening back to memories, especially as the kids get older and the memories fade, and just being like hold on. Let's just listen to this episode and like remember when you guys were like Crazy about like vegan life, or when you guys were like driving me mad, or when I hadn't slept and I needed Lucas a to stay alive, or you know what I mean. So, yeah, absolutely loved it. I just want to thank every single person who's ever listened, even if you listen for a bit, whether you've listened to every episode or one episode or just listen to a tiny bit of me chatting. I Appreciate it because you've taken a bit of time out of your space to hear my head space, and I have loved the fact that we live in an era in life where we can get content out there and it be out there in the whole world, like.
Speaker 1:I think what surprises me a lot about this podcast is you know like I'll get them. You get statistics sent to you when you do podcasts about, like maybe how many people have downloaded it or what country it's played, and I'm really bad at promoting this podcast, like maybe now that I've come into an end I might start promoting it as like retrospective, because just not good on social media. But I have got YouTube, instagram and Facebook. So if you do ever want to like contact tree family vibes, I am on there. I don't know if I ever check it, but I might. But yeah, no, just to say like I've been amazed at like how many countries come to so many different countries, just my random thoughts that I've just recorded on my phone and they're out there in people's headphones and that. So it's amazing what's out there.
Speaker 1:So I think what I would just say to anyone who's maybe I have a thinking of starting a podcast or trying to work out what they can do while they're a parent. That is like a hobby that works for them. Whatever comes to your mind, I think just try it. And this whole thing started with just doing a lot of voice notes, just never having time to have a phone call with a friend and just sending voice notes backwards, forwards, back, and then sometimes I'd have to re-listen to my voice notes to be like what did I say? Oh, yeah, I said that okay, and it just became like, actually there's a whole lot of information here, there's a whole and like some of this Um thoughts, experiences other people could benefit from, like what it could I just do a podcast and and then I just just tried it out.
Speaker 1:Like you're never gonna have time like to do anything in life, unless you make time to do it, you know. So I think that's been been that. For me it's been like, actually you can have an idea, you can just think about it and you can make it happen. You use no excuse to say you don't have time. It's like you don't make time. But yeah, now, as I say goodbye, that's my final episode. I don't want it to end. This is like the longest episode I've ever made. So part of me is like I clearly don't want to stop talking, but I've definitely loved it.
Speaker 1:I hope you guys have enjoyed the seasons, the two seasons that are out there. Um, I hope there's some episodes in there that make you smile, make you laugh, that you could share with a friend or Bring a memory or two to you, and I guess for me, just enjoy being a parent. Just enjoy it your kids are not kids forever, they're not young forever and and find your way of capturing those memories, whether it be in a diary, whether it be in a. You know you write poetry, you take pictures, you upload it on social media, you print out pictures, you make a photo album, whatever it is. Find your way of capturing those memories, because it's those memories that make your children who they are as adults and you know they. They are the the building blocks to them being parents and they are the building blocks to their mental health, their physical health. You know their psychology and you know I did an episode on like mommy is pepper pig racist, for example, and like it's things like that that you just like. You can't write some of the stuff that you experience as a parent. Like it's. You have conversations all the time which are absolutely hilarious, but also, your children just always teach you so much. You know I've learned a lot by being put on after it's taught me how to be humble, you know. So, yeah, this is signing out. Thank you so much for going on this journey with me.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna leave the episodes out there in the world. I'm gonna leave them out there until, you know, something happens, maybe it's the end of the world, and then, yep, you can't listen. But now I definitely leave them up and, like I said, I am, I have set up accounts. I might become creative and think let me start, you know, putting stuff out there about my podcast on social media in a retrospect time. And, yeah, no plans to continue the season, but there's, like I said, there's always content. I might even come back when these kids are teenagers and think, need to talk about this, you know. So, yeah, you never know. But for now, peace, love, what's that thing I always say? I can't remember, but it's gonna come. It's gonna come in the outro. So, yeah, peace out, thanks, bye.