Look Australia is that big and why Kmart rocks with Redrose

Ever felt like parenting is akin to herding cats while attempting to build a spacecraft? That's the vibe we're channeling as we transition to Dad Mode in our latest podcast. Our fantastic guest, Red Rose, joins us alongside Torna and her husband, all of whom add a sprinkle of gamer magic to our parenting tales. Prepare to nod in agreement and chuckle as we sift through the rubble of unexpected vet bills and car woes, all while our little ones sprint circles around our weary parental feet. And for the stay-at-home moms out there, we've got your back, sharing insights from the trenches of everyday chaos.

Ah, school lunches – those nostalgic trays of sugary delights now replaced by quinoa salads and apple slices. But let's be real, sometimes you just need to toss a fast-food burger into that lunchbox. We cover the tightrope walk of mixing healthy meals with those much-needed indulgences, and how our kids are surprisingly adept at making wise choices from the buffet of life. Listen as we trade stories of our children's food escapades, from the belief that purple cabbage has the kick of a chili pepper to the age-old battle of getting them to eat what's cooked. It's a culinary journey that every parent will relate to, filled with laughter and the occasional desperate plea to the dinner gods.

To wrap things up, we stroll down the aisles of retail nostalgia, reminiscing about Kmart's unexpected triumphs down under and Target's retail rollercoaster. We'll share the quirks of our shopping habits influenced by these retail giants, and how our buying decisions are as varied as the Australian landscape. So come for the parenting banter, the lunchbox revelations, and the retail therapy – stay for the sense of camaraderie that only fellow parents and life jugglers can provide. Grab a snack (purple cabbage optional) and tune in for the hilarity and heartwarming stories that only life's daily grind can churn out.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Stand by, stand by Switching from Human Mode to Dad Mode, initializing Sequence in 3, 2, 1. This is Dad Mode, the podcast where we navigate the chaotic realms of parenting, gaming, content creation, work and hell, just life in general. We're diving into the challenges of raising kids in the digital age, from social media madness to navigating the gaming landscape. We're talking about it all, especially from a dad's perspective. Whether it's conquering the littest game, creating content that's more than just a hobby, or just trying to keep up with the ever-changing tech landscape, we're right there with you. We want to help you navigate this wild journey of parenthood and modern life, from balancing family time to managing your career and still squeezing in some gaming and content creation. It's all about fun, some dad wisdom and a whole lot of dad mode. Now your hosts Bearded Nova and more.

Speaker 2: 1:23

We are talking with Red Rose and in the background is Torna and her husband, another gamer. It's like two guests and one bearded it is.

Speaker 3: 1:34

I did tell him to be quiet, so he's going to try not to yell.

Speaker 2: 1:37

It's okay.

Speaker 3: 1:40

How about I tell you about my week? I took my cat to the vet and he was walking by, called the vet like hey, gotta get him in. All the tests pretty much came back mostly normal, slightly. So I had to deal with the fact that they're like, look, you might want to be prepared, we need to do x-rays. You might want to be prepared, but no, he's great. He now is doing great. He's on steroids and hyperthyroid medicine and he's doing great. But I had to come to the vet that my cat was going to die on Tuesday and Tuesday night my husband's car died.

Speaker 2: 2:14

Oh geez.

Speaker 3: 2:16

I've had blood weeks.

Speaker 4: 2:17

Both expensive yeah.

Speaker 3: 2:21

And he had to buy a new car because his car he had to step out. Of course he's there. What wouldn't Transmission was out. His car is $500. Okay, so it's a good rock $6,000 transmission in it, when the engine's bad, there's no heat, there's no cruise control. Do you have a door handle that's missing on the inside. It's just. Yeah, that's a big car.

Speaker 2: 2:48

Yeah, yeah, I've been putting that off forever. When I started at my current job, my car was almost three years old and I had about 50 miles on it. Oh wow, Because I was driving like 55 miles each way to my job before the one I'm at now. And since I've been at this job, it's in the city and I take the bus and because parking in the city is crazy and the commuting, all that stuff. So I've been there a little over eight years and in that eight years I've put on less than I did in the first three years I did at the other job. So I have like 120,000 on it now and I'm like now I'm determined, I'm determined to make it last like 200,000, because I don't want a car payment anymore. I don't want to do that Because if I get a car payment, my older son is 12, he's going to the eighth grade next year, so he'll be in college in four years. Right, I don't want a car payment in college. Don't All at the same time, oh my.

Speaker 4: 3:56

God, one year I managed to do 75,000 miles on a car. What's that In one year? That's my average. Yeah, my best is. Let me work it out. Nearly 100,000 in one year Wow, I was doing close to 10,000 a month at one station, wow.

Speaker 3: 4:28

Yeah, yeah. He only puts about 21,000 on his car every year. Yeah, 40 going, 40 coming.

Speaker 2: 4:37

Yep, yep, yeah, I've always lived in a middle of nowhere, so I'm used to putting a lot of miles on. So, like the last several years at this current job, it's weird I'm taking the bus. If I wasn't, I'd still be 30 miles each way. But yeah, I'm used to driving a lot, like it doesn't phase me much Because I've always lived nowhere.

Speaker 4: 5:01

I looked at coming over to New York, remember, and when I was talking to the person before the baby, we thought about coming to New York and I saw this. I went and she's like oh, if you want, you can get a bus from New York to the Niagara Falls. And I'm like, how much of a drive is that? She goes? Oh, you don't want to do that. It's four hours each way or something. I'm like I'll do that in a day, but that's not a problem.

Speaker 3: 5:25

It's not that bad, it's not bad.

Speaker 4: 5:27

I'll draw 10 hours in a day, yeah.

Speaker 2: 5:30

Yeah, that's a lot so, but it's funny. So, like you know, when I work all day and then you know whether I'm commuting or whether I'm driving, you know you come home and as soon as I walk in the door kids are like what's the matter? I'm like I need, I need a moment, I need a moment to breathe and you know, put my, take my coat off and put my bag down for a second. It is. Children can be on relenting at times and I I don't seem to grasp the concept of. You know their parent is ever tired. So since you are, you were a stay at home mom and you get to be with your children quite a bit during the day. Much, I can see the happy dance you're doing. Um, it's like, do they, do they grasp that mom is there all the time and mom gets really, really tired?

Speaker 3: 6:34

They grasp. I'm here but I'm not allowed to get tired. I'm not allowed to sit down. I sit down and somebody's on top of me my oldest wiggles. She is wiggling moving. She likes putting her feet in my face and I'm like I don't want to see your feet, I really don't want to see your feet. Get them out of my face. My youngest is pretty good. She is good about like curling up beside me. I give her her tablet, I turn on TV. All right, she is right here in the chair with me. I'm gonna take a nap really quick, so that's really nice.

Speaker 4: 7:09

Gorded up tablets. I love them. They're like there's your five minutes of relaxation, 10 minutes. You don't matter how much lunch I'm eating, they're just like it's a tablet and they're happy pages.

Speaker 2: 7:22

They're portable babysitters, yeah.

Speaker 3: 7:25

We can hope, but-.

Speaker 4: 7:26

When they get older.

Speaker 3: 7:27

Because my kids have access to them like so much it doesn't really affect them. It's like lots of people, They'll drop them and just they don't actually not, they don't care.

Speaker 4: 7:38

Oh yeah, why not?

Speaker 3: 7:39

They'll run away from them and go play with all the toys, so it's not like they have to be on the tablets 24 seven. It's just like it's there when you're ready for it. Garage, If you don't want it, it's okay.

Speaker 2: 7:52

My one thing with the tablet, though, is like I need you guys to have headphones on because they like doing a lot of audio books. No, no, no, and I'm like I can't hear two stories at the same time. Guys Like and we bought them over the ear headphones. You bought them like earbuds, yeah, and they're just like no, no, no, I don't want them. My oldest said ask for earbuds for Christmas, like wireless ones. So here you go, here we got you some, and we got the little one. Guys some too, Cause they'll argue if we don't, they'll get the same thing, and within a day they're like I don't want to use them, but I don't want to listen to your tablet.

Speaker 3: 8:32

Yes.

Speaker 4: 8:33

I'm exactly. I'm a stickler for driving, especially with all the kids in the car, Like when they all got their devices and we're driving along. I can pick it up Like I'm trying to listen to the radio or something. It's like they just want to turn their tablet or phone just to be a little bit louder than radio. And I'm not blasting the radio, I'm just keeping it at a respectable level for me and the wife in the front. But then the tablet starts creeping up and I'm like who's tablet? And they all go quiet. It's just like this silence. I, like I've got to like use my awareness to pinpoint the location in the car. Which child, that is to say, is your tablet turned to down plays, what's from there?

Speaker 2: 9:12

Yeah, I don't love I mean, on that note, within the car I don't love driving long distances with them, like road trips, like vacation road trips are. I tell my wife, oh so we're going to just drive someplace else so we can yell the kids in different state Like maybe I'm very cynical, but like I think that's how it feels with her constant like bickering, cause the boys, the, both boys, and they're less than two years apart and so they have a lot of the same interests and like this competition constantly and it's just chaos. A lot.

Speaker 4: 9:53

I mean going back, thinking about my mom and I, even seeing her change, cause I'm the oldest of five as well so big age difference between me and my youngest sister and seeing the different things from when I was younger to when my siblings were younger, and also what I do as a parent, like I'm completely different to how my mother was to me. But my mom had no problem showing up at school at lunchtime cause she was a stay at home mom, so she'd show up at school. You know, okay, I know lunchtime is going to be 11 o'clock or something. She'd show up there with McDonald's. It's like, hey, meet me at the fence and I'd give her. You know, I knew in the morning that I had to meet her at the fence at lunchtime because she's going to be at the fence having McDonald's for me.

Speaker 4: 10:36

One day I actually went to school with a lunchbox full of lollies and chocolates. There was nothing else, it was just a full to the brim. You can't do that here nowadays. I know you guys go to cafeteria. It's here they. It's all about smart food. You got to give them like brain food and so many fruits and so much shit that you can't have at school nowadays Like all the funds gone.

Speaker 4: 11:00

And I rubbed that into my daughter the other day, cause we were talking about high school and the cafeteria. You know the tux shop and what they can buy there. I'm like your tux shop sucks. I used to be able to show up and buy cans of Coke. You can't even buy sugar anymore. Like ha ha, that's what I see with my mom. Like you know, I'm completely different. I'm not showing up there at lunchtime Like with junk food and encouraging things like that, cause that's what my parents done. I'm not, I'm horrible after school. Like my wife hates it. I'm after school. I'm like okay, get in the car. We're going down the road. Oh look, we're at the shops. You know it'd be a crime if we didn't buy chocolate to have on the way home. That's me now as a parent, but I'm not doing that to school as such.

Speaker 3: 11:43

The other day go ahead bro Sorry.

Speaker 3: 11:47

The other day my oldest daughter got so mad at me I forgot to pack her lunch. And she was expecting me to pack her lunch, cause, even though the entire school gets free lunch and everything, she wants me to pack it every day. Forgot, really forgot. So I'm like go, I'll pack your lunch, whatever. I had errands to run. So of course I, um, I'm like, all right, so what I'm going to do, I'm going to grab her lunchbox. I'm going to bring it with me. I stopped at Chick-fil-A, filled her lunchbox with chicken nuggets, french fries and the dressings.

Speaker 3: 12:21

I poured sweet tea in her little thermos and took it to school and it's like yeah, I forgot to pack her lunch. Here you go. It's a nice, healthy lunch, like it's in a lunchbox and everything.

Speaker 4: 12:32

The teachers will actually write back to the parents, yeah.

Speaker 4: 12:36

No way yeah Cause it's such a health conscious thing and they don't. You know, basically, curb sounds bad. Curbing the the Cutting the strain on obesity and eating healthy with kids so that's that's where it's all come into is like really hard on that. But if, yeah, if you're not giving your children the right type of food, you know whether it be like they didn't have you know, I didn't see enough fruit in their lunch or they were this, this, that they will write your letter to say, hey, you're not doing you're not doing this correctly.

Speaker 4: 13:08

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 13:09

Yeah, so my wife has a she uh, oh, my God, I wonder what they're called the kind of lunchbox she has. But it has different compartments, like one protein One, if you like, and my wife, she, she is somebody that a habit is hard for her to break. So, like she makes, she puts the meat in there and she puts the vegetable in there, she puts the food over here and the grains over there, and this is what they have. And, like my, my son will be like no one else has lunches Like I do. Dad, can you make your stop? And I'm like, this is what your mom does. I'm not picking that battle, dude.

Speaker 2: 13:43

And so, like I think, that should be well, but, like when I like, when I have to do, I shouldn't say this cause she listens to this podcast. I always give them healthy meals. I'm going to stop there.

Speaker 3: 13:55

But the most of Santa boxes. I have two for my oldest daughter and I switch back and forth every day.

Speaker 2: 14:03

Yeah, they're great for them. So, like other weekends, if I, you know, like, oh, I'm hungry for lunch, I'm like you're 10 and 12. You have arms and legs, go get yourself some food. They will put those things on their plate. Like they already know, cause we've been doing it forever, that they need to have a balanced meal, which is great, because then they see mom and dad having like a Hershey bar for dinner.

Speaker 4: 14:30

So my kids have learned when I'm around they'll just eat whatever they want because I'm not going to be too over it. But my wife would be total opposite. But like, yeah, I think about lunches and for lunch, like the I'm not saying the kids eat horrible, they might have bag of chips like a small little snack packet chip. So that's, you know, we're talking like tiny, hearty size bag is probably as most unhealthy it gets. And then maybe like a muesli bar, or we had calling LCM bars, which is like um Coca, like rice bubbles yeah Right, chewy rice bubbles. Like rice bubbles in a, in a muesli shape with like marshmallow in between or something like that it's. Yeah, you know, that's probably as wild as it gets at school. And then there's me who might drive past the shop on the way to school and like hey, chuck this back of little mini M&Ms in there, Don't tell anyone.

Speaker 2: 15:28

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 15:29

My daughter's lunch always has a package of fruits next in it, every single time.

Speaker 4: 15:34

Oh, no, no, let's see, I have to have banana and have to have apples, like there's like three different fruits in all the lunches and any yogurt and yeah, yeah. Except for hot.

Speaker 2: 15:45

They get one, one treat a day, like after dinner, like you know, you can have some ice cream or candy or whatever, but like, as long as you eat it. But it's. It's funny too, like I realized that we have these weird habits or traditions at my house that like I'm thinking if they ever went to a friend's house it would look strange, like when they're done eating, like they look at my plate Did I eat enough to be able to have a treat, you know? And I feel like that would be a weird thing at a friend's house because they would probably that's all they ever have known they probably would ask the other mom or dad have I eaten enough to have some? Have a treat, sir, you know, um.

Speaker 3: 16:28

It makes you feel better. My kids have I eaten enough? Like, did I eat good enough? Is there a question? Did I eat good enough to do this or do that or have that?

Speaker 4: 16:39

I've got to use to how much they eat and I actually put the sides that I know they will eat on their plate and it's me. It's going to be empty for my kids. And then I get the occasional. Now I don't eat this. We've cut down our diets into a condensed form of foods that we know you guys will like. So don't tell me you don't like this anymore. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 16:58

Yeah, um, my youngest one, the really thin one, he, um, he just doesn't want to eat a lot, so I'll make, I'll give him a bigger portion than I know he can eat, because he'll always eats half, and so I figure how much I want him to eat and then give him double that, because I know he's only going to eat half. Yes, I waste food almost every single day, but I got to make sure that he's eating enough.

Speaker 4: 17:29

I show him usually because the plates are all. I guess it's a little bit different. We all serve into the plates. There's no, there's no real like anything on the table to grab in Australia. Like everything's on your plates are pre done before it goes there and they see the size of my portion in their mom's portion compared to their portions when they come and get their food and take it. So now I don't have no problem sitting there, like we might have spaghetti, which we'll probably have tonight, and yeah, my daughter, youngest, the youngest eating at the table, she'll probably have like this small handful and I will have like a salad bowl of it. So I have no problem sitting there going hey, I've just eaten 10 times the amount you have. I think you can finish before me. Like I'm not even a stickler for time at the table If it's taken too long. I'm like I know where this is going. We're dragging out the time because you don't want to finish that bowl.

Speaker 2: 18:23

Do you both have the one kid that takes 14 years to finish every meal?

Speaker 4: 18:31

It changes the child changes. Over the years. It's changed. Which trial does it?

Speaker 3: 18:35

but yes, my kids are actually really bad. It's going to sound horrible saying this, but my kids don't eat Like they just yeah, they'll sit down tonight. They wanted chicken nuggets. I made them for chicken nuggets each and a handful of chips. All together, six chicken nuggets went into the trash.

Speaker 2: 18:58

So you made four each and six went in the trash. Yeah, yeah, my oldest, the one who's now five, five, I found out they have a 20 piece at McDonald's because that's what he eats. Yeah, a 20 piece. Yeah, it's $10. Seven feet tall.

Speaker 3: 19:16

My kids, um, they are looking for candy, and when I don't give it to them, it doesn't matter. They're still not going to eat whatever I put on their plate. So spaghetti noodles, they never finish their meal, like ever. And I'm just like there's food, there's food. Like there's food, there's food. If you are hungry, eat. And yeah, it's not a matter at all. What's something else to get?

Speaker 2: 19:42

My wife would say things like well, we'll make them something else. I'm like, no, they're going to learn to eat the thing that is made for us.

Speaker 4: 19:48

Oh, you're getting me yeah no Growing up in my gears here. That's exactly it, Fuck it.

Speaker 3: 19:54

I don't make anything else for them, that's it.

Speaker 4: 19:56

Chief, we've kind of stopped eating fish in the house. Like I like fish, and we've had to stop eating fish because our oldest says she hates fish but she'll eat tuna.

Speaker 2: 20:07

And she doesn't quite. She's on an island. She has to learn to eat fish. She doesn't get. The tuna is fish. It is a fish Like I don't know what you're doing.

Speaker 4: 20:16

And then the son he used to gag at salad, like he'd put a bit of lettuce in his mouth and you'd be at the tail Got every time you put lettuce in his mouth I'm like it's not killing you. One of my children used to think that red cabbage was spicy. Actually, both the two younger girls got it. Like it's like they teamed up to conspiracize that purple cabbage was spicy. So when they're eating like a mixed salad and get across the purple cabbage, like oh, I can't eat that, it's spicy, I'm like it's mainly water. Like how is that thing spicy?

Speaker 2: 20:48

My youngest son is probably. The broccoli is spicy, my brock my daughter my youngest baby, yeah.

Speaker 4: 20:58

Our baby actually loves broccoli. My wife went out the other day in the shops and there was broccoli like in a Chinese bowl and she knew her daughter gave it, so gave it to her and she just went around the shop holding this piece of broccoli the whole time like it was her precious, Like I'm not letting that go.

Speaker 2: 21:14

She's just like were your kids like? Were they less picky younger? Because, like when they were young, young we would get sushi and they would eat some sushi and now like that, they'll complain about green beans and broccoli. Oh like, or whatever. One of our children only ate avocado. I have a video of him like this is you like five years ago eating?

Speaker 4: 21:34

sushi. No, no One of our younger middle daughter. When we went to sushi she didn't like rice or seaweed or anything else, so she'd just eat avocado. So at one stage I was just ordering the avocado sushi rolls and then she would deconstruct it just to eat the little bit of avocado that's inside. And I got used to the point of just going in there and going, hey, can you just give us a bowl of avocado? Now, now she eats a lot more, but like that was it. We'd go to sushi and she'd just eat avocado. I'm like why, why, and they randomly choose Apparently, every seven years your taste buds change and you know there's something else you like and something else you don't like. But yeah, I hate it that I'm getting this. You know this period of okay, they love this and I'm cooking, I'm cooking the same thing. And then next thing, you know, one child's like I hate that. I've always hated that. Where did this come from?

Speaker 3: 22:27

It's bananas right now, like we are on a banana kick, but I know in like two weeks I'm going to buy a big bunch and they're all going to go bad Then you make banana bread. Yep, that's exactly the plan.

Speaker 2: 22:41

My oldest. He inhales cheese, that's right. Everything else you know, like ice cream. You know everything, most everything dairy. But what does he not like? Milk? Milk's disgusting. I'm like. What do you think makes cheese and ice cream? Nah, I'm raising my voice. What do you think makes cheese and ice cream dude?

Speaker 3: 23:06

He's like. I agree with him. I agree with him. I don't like regular milk, but I would drink chocolate milk. I will eat ice cream cheese, all of that, but I can't drink regular milk.

Speaker 2: 23:16

Oh, so there's another one. Chocolate milk is an affront to milk. Rewind milk. Like my wife and I, we go through two or three gallon jugs in a week. Just her and I, like I inhale milk. When I come in, I'm all hot and sweaty. I'm drinking milk. I don't know why my bones are like steel. At this point, I think I only drink milk with my coffee.

Speaker 4: 23:44

But I drink a lot of coffee, that guy's cause I'm always having latte, so that's always gone for it, and I used to buy like three liters of milk and that would last me like a week and a bit. It'd be fine. All of a sudden kids are now making iced coffees. That gallon of milk's lucky if it makes a day. Yeah, like we had to come back in and go hey, limit yourself, you can only have one now. Like you either have in a Milo, which you don't have, but Milo's great, it's kind of like a flavor of milk and or an iced coffee. Pick your choice. Like it's one of the two because they're pouring like a big milk. Like, ah, disappointing.

Speaker 3: 24:30

I went through two to three gallons of milk a week still, and I've gotten to the point where, like, all right, you get like two cups of milk in the morning but then you drink water for the rest of the day up until dinner, like you're not allowed to have any more milk that day.

Speaker 2: 24:43

Right, and by the way, it looks like eight dollars a gallon or whatever it's like. Insanely expensive.

Speaker 3: 24:48

I think in my area it's like 350 now.

Speaker 2: 24:52

Is it?

Speaker 4: 24:53

Yeah, that's like three dollars Australian, which would be, yeah, about three bucks Australian for a gallon. But they had, like the whole mafia milk saga where, like, the supermarkets were bringing out their own model milk and they cut the price down really low and then the you know it was putting a strain on dairy farmers and a lot of conspiracy there, Like for the you know probably several years, there you could buy a gallon of milk for two dollars and stayed like that for like 10, 12 years and obviously prices went up but they never increased it.

Speaker 2: 25:27

Why is organic milk? Maybe that's why I don't even know, like I don't look organic yeah. She's like things just cost this much. I've been um, I got to check into this. I got to do an audit of the grocery bill. Now.

Speaker 3: 25:42

I've been shopping at Aldi for like no produce and meat just because it's cheaper and it's better quality than what I've been getting before.

Speaker 4: 25:52

So that's where my wife is shopping now, so it's moved to Aldi. That's, did they do it? We have a store coming. Yeah Well, you know, they come from Germany.

Speaker 2: 26:03

Oh, yeah, my wife she's wherever it was. It's kind of like um, now she goes to like two or three different stores.

Speaker 4: 26:11

We got Costco now. Oh yeah yeah, we had that for a few few years, it's like. So it's slowly rolling out across Australia.

Speaker 2: 26:22

It goes Aldi for a bunch of things like the, the regular big name grocery store for other things, and then BJs, which is the same thing as Costco uh, you know every couple of weeks for like bulk stuff.

Speaker 4: 26:33

I only go to Costco for food like pizzas now.

Speaker 3: 26:38

Our is is Sam's club and the closest one is 30 minutes away. So we go maybe two, three months before we go to Sam's club, but I will get Aldi every week and then I'll go to Walmart to pick up those things that I just can't get it already.

Speaker 2: 26:54

Right.

Speaker 3: 26:54

Like I needed a big jar of the little pickles to make something and have them.

Speaker 2: 27:01

So of course I'm going to go to Walmart to pick it up.

Speaker 3: 27:04

Yep, yep, okay, you're welcome.

Speaker 2: 27:05

Okay, we'll see you in a minute. Okay, bye, bye.

Speaker 4: 27:08

I'm going to bring one shop that I know you guys don't got. That we do have. Well, you guys had and it's went away. Hey, mark, well, they still exist. Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's massive. Yeah, it came out, was going downhill right there a long time ago and someone came in and re Refaced it, put in lots of stuff. That is the shop where everyone goes. You can go in there and there's. You could spend a couple hundred dollars pretty quickly and came out like no problem. Mark, yep, yep.

Speaker 4: 27:44

So I was actually talking to the other day to that light there yeah, came up. That light there came up, yeah, a lot of stuff around came up. This light here there's a light there there's came up, came out. It's everywhere. But it's, it's cheap. You can go in there and buy it at my com and a mic if you want, and cameras.

Speaker 3: 28:10

We all remember Christmas. It's been years and years and years, but they were doing a Joe Boxer's commercial at Christmas with the jingle bells, and every Christmas I wish to see that commercial again. It's like that was my favorite commercial growing up and it's just so. Every Christmas I think about Kmart.

Speaker 4: 28:34

Really, that came up, came up, yep, you came out in Australia is this massive like homewares, like there's no food besides like a little bit of like chocolate, that's about it. Like when you're going through the register area, that's the only place you get a little snack chocolate. But clothes, toys, not really electronics. You can't buy TVs or computers but you can buy stuff for that. Like you can get switch cases and phone cases and it's it's. It's an all over shop. Like half a house is decorated by Camman, probably three quarters of Australia is decorated by Camart. Now.

Speaker 2: 29:11

Like it's massive. You, I can't speak. All the US stuff is different, but like target, while out of the two big target targets a shithole yeah, that's the best way to put it Like targets target.

Speaker 4: 29:21

Target used to be online with Camart and then target tried to go up a class and came out. Tried to go on real budget friendly and came out exploded and targets struggling.

Speaker 2: 29:33

The target does, does well.

Speaker 3: 29:35

No, no, everything like upper middle class everything you can get at target.

Speaker 4: 29:41

You can get a Kmart for like half the price and the came out, went in and brought their own brand. So they started making their own stuff out of fraction of the cost. So it's like it's a smart, even though they're owned by the same company. Do your comment?

Speaker 2: 29:55

Rose, like I've lived in some of the towns around where I am, Like I've lived in some like wealthier towns which I hate and if you're like, I got to go to Tarjay later and she I hate people that say that. I used to say Tarjay, tarjay. It's a crime to say that, because it sounds ridiculous, exactly.

Speaker 3: 30:16

But, no, if you're going to target you get a Starbucks and you walk around and even if it's for one item, you walk out with an arm load of stuff you don't need. So and it just feels very, a lot better than Walmart.

Speaker 2: 30:34

Yep, I hear you. It's like I do go to Target more because there's not as many Walmart's are riding around where I live.

Speaker 4: 30:43

But yeah, we don't really have that type of Walmart and it's some really a thing here at all.

Speaker 2: 30:49

Apparently, this is the big budget retail part of segment of our show. We're going for it.

Speaker 4: 30:54

We had, to, you know, 20 episodes was around to happen at some point.

Speaker 3: 31:00

Target like Sam's Club is 30 minutes away. So in my town there's like Ingalls, there's already, there's Walmart, couple of places, but like if I really need something I need to drive 30 minutes, and most of the time I'm not willing to do that.

Speaker 2: 31:18

Yeah, the beautiful thing, I guess the one good thing about Connecticut, where I live, is in two hours you can be like five different states.

Speaker 4: 31:28

So, like there's everything, everything, everything around, like it's I don't even know why it's still in state, to be honest, if you go south for two hours you'll get to another state, but if you go any direction from where I am other than south one, you'll be in the ocean. So you definitely, you know it's not going to take a long to get in the ocean, but take you probably I want to say 12, maybe a day or straight driving To get to the next state if you went west.

Speaker 2: 32:10

Really. Yeah, I'm sure it is that big. Yeah, it's that big, it's a big, it's a big place.

Speaker 4: 32:14

I'm impressed. It's a big place. It's a big place. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, it's a big place.

Speaker 2: 32:18

I feel sorry, I feel I want you to apologize for understabbing the size of Australia.

Speaker 4: 32:23

I think that's why we just say when it's just, you know, it's not that far to us, it's really not that far. When we mean like it's not that far, it could mean anywhere up to like a two and a half hour drive, it's not that far. If a Australian ever says that to you, just be weary.

Speaker 2: 32:39

All right, all right, so I think we'll wind this one down. Great conversation, it's been kind of fun. Rose, thank you so much for coming on with us again.

Speaker 3: 32:53

Thank you, and if you ever need help, you know how to get in touch with me.

Speaker 2: 32:58

I do I love this. I'd like to thank you to our ghost guest Tornan.

Speaker 3: 33:04

He's actually not even here anymore.

Speaker 2: 33:05

I don't know where he went.

Speaker 3: 33:07

I actually saw his hand. That was it.

Speaker 2: 33:09

We could buy at one point he rage quit.

Speaker 3: 33:13

His game is still up. Like a computer and his game is still up.

Speaker 2: 33:19

Oh, but, rose, thank you so much for coming on.

Speaker 3: 33:23

Everybody.

Speaker 2: 33:23

Rose on on Twitch TikTok YouTube Red Rose Sword. I don't think she appreciated me saying that. Hashtag Twitch mom on TikTok and you will find her.

Speaker 3: 33:35

It's not that I didn't appreciate it. I thought it was funny because, yes, it's in every single video.

Speaker 4: 33:40

Yes, yes, I remember someone mentioned certain name. That's exactly what I think of Twitch mom.

Speaker 3: 33:46

Thank you, I was hoping that would work that way.

Speaker 1: 33:50

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