gwunspoken - Beyond the Plan
gwunspoken: Beyond the Plan
Hear the person beyond the plan.
This podcast is where NDIS participants, families, and supporters reclaim their narrative. We dive into life beyond the diagnosis, beyond the reports, and beyond the plans—exploring identity, strength, and voice.
Whether you're a parent seeking connection, a support worker craving understanding, or someone walking their own NDIS journey, this space is for you.
Because labels don’t define people—stories do.
gwunspoken - Beyond the Plan
Navigating School, Gaming, and Life with Arie
There's something magical about seeing the world through a child's eyes – where honesty flows freely, perspectives are refreshingly straightforward, and life's complexities are distilled into beautifully simple terms.
In this heartwarming return episode, young Arie joins us again to share his thoughts on everything from school life to family pets. With remarkable articulation for his age, he offers candid insights into the reality of bullying, explaining that people sometimes tease others "because when they get very angry." When asked what makes someone a good friend, his answer is touchingly practical: "Being nice to people... Like when they go to the ground, help them get up."
The conversation meanders through his entertainment preferences (Moana 2 is a favourite because "she has a special power that she can control water"), his gaming world (complete with a special microphone for connecting with friends while playing Roblox), and his impressive menagerie of pets – including two cats that hilariously "box each other" on their hind legs. Throughout it all, Arie displays an astonishing memory, recalling specific dates, song titles, and details about his pets with remarkable precision.
Perhaps most endearing is Arie's willingness to showcase his musical talents once again, bravely singing "All My Life" without hesitation or self-consciousness – a reminder of the natural confidence many children possess before the world teaches them doubt. As our conversation concludes with the promise of singing "Chasing Paradise" during his next visit, we're left reflecting on the wisdom, humour, and unique perspectives that children bring to our lives when we simply take the time to listen.
Join us for this delightful glimpse into childhood that will leave you smiling, nodding in recognition, and perhaps seeing your own world with slightly fresher eyes.
Welcome to another edition of GW Unspoken Beyond the Plan On behalf of EngageU, and I've got a very, very special guest. He's come back on the podcast, which I know lots of people love this. His name is Ari Ari. How are you Good? What's today? Do you know what today is?
Speaker 1:Saturday.
Speaker 2:Once again. I remember that last time we did this podcast, you were very quick at answering, and you're already quick again, aren't you?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What was the most significant thing? What was the most important? Thing, you did last time on the podcast. Do you remember Singing? You had to sing and you were our very first person singing. Yeah, now, I did send that recording to your mum and then your dad separately. What did they say about your podcast last time?
Speaker 1:Very cool.
Speaker 2:Very cool. What do you think of the podcast last time?
Speaker 1:Very cool as well.
Speaker 2:Well, I think you're very cool. Now are you ready for some more questions today?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you want them to be easy or challenging questions?
Speaker 1:Easy.
Speaker 2:All right, we'll start off easy, then we'll see how we go, you ready.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you have a preference of what we talk about first?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:All right, let's talk about the weather. It's raining outside.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you like it when it's rainy or sunny?
Speaker 1:Sunny.
Speaker 2:Do you like it when it's cold or hot?
Speaker 1:Hot.
Speaker 2:Why.
Speaker 1:Because when you get cold you can probably freeze to death.
Speaker 2:Now, when I picked you up, was it cold. Yeah, why was it cold?
Speaker 1:Because it was raining.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we had to run through the rain, didn't we? Yeah, and we got a nice warm car.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I felt like falling asleep. Yeah, lucky I didn't. When I was driving, hey, yeah, you'd have to drive. No, can you drive a car? No, well, that would be awkward, wouldn't it? How do we get home? Would you go outside and push?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:That'd be a bit unfair, wouldn't it? Yeah, okay, so you like summer months?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:All right, let's talk a bit about you. How old are you?
Speaker 1:Two.
Speaker 2:You're two years old. Oh wow, You're speaking very well for a two-year-old, aren't?
Speaker 1:you, hey David.
Speaker 2:Very good. Okay, so you're a very big two-year-old aren't you? Are you in grade two?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:You're in grade Three, three Okay.
Speaker 1:Which school.
Speaker 2:Are you at Anchor State College? Okay, anchor, and do you like school?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's very honest. I like that. So if I said out of five fiveives I love school, one is like I don't like school what number would you be out of five?
Speaker 1:The worst one is bullying.
Speaker 2:Also, I had a lot of bullying, bullying. So what number out of five would you feel like school is? Is it a one or two, or three, or four or five? If five's the best and one's the worst, what's school for you? School, okay, and so there's some bullying at school? Yeah, do you get bullied?
Speaker 1:Not that much, but sometimes. What do you get bullied about? I don't really know now, because that was when I was in year one.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was a long time ago. Yeah, how does it?
Speaker 1:feel when you get bullied, very sad. Yeah, it's sad, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and do you see people being bullied at school now in your grade?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but not you Not me no, and do you Not?
Speaker 2:me? No, and you know what. It's not just your school, it happens in all schools. You know that. Yeah, you know. I know there's parents out there who think there's schools that have snowballing, but there's always bullying in some kind of school. Yeah, why do you think people bully?
Speaker 1:Because they want to tease everyone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but why would they want to tease people?
Speaker 1:Because when they get very angry, they want to tease.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Have you ever done any bullying to people? Nope, that's good. That's good. Yeah, a lot of people who have things in their life going on that's not good. They often bully other people to make themselves feel better. Yeah, which isn't right, is it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you ever right, is it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you ever see girls bullied too? No, and you've seen boys bullied, mm-hmm, okay, so what are some fun things about school, though?
Speaker 1:Playing with my friends, mm-hmm, maths.
Speaker 2:You like maths?
Speaker 1:That's all.
Speaker 2:Do you like lunchtime?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So you talk about your friends. Let's have a shout out to some of your friends. Who are some of your friends that you hang out at school? No-transcript hey, I just heard myself on the podcast. Who are some of your friends?
Speaker 1:Lachlan.
Speaker 2:Lachlan, who else?
Speaker 1:Levi Yep Sienna.
Speaker 2:Sienna.
Speaker 1:That's all.
Speaker 2:Okay, are they your best friends? Yeah, have you known them since prep or grade one. I've known them since grade one have you, so you've been friends all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:All right, I'm going to ask you. It's now time for a challenging question. Are you up for it?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, here we go, and, by the way, I like how you're taking your time to think about your answers too. I love that.
Speaker 1:What makes someone a good friend by being nice.
Speaker 2:Being nice to people. How do you be nice to people? What does?
Speaker 1:that look like Like when they go to the ground. Help them get up.
Speaker 2:Oh, if they fall over, you can help them up.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's nice. And are your three friends? Are they nice?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nice. Another challenging question Can you remember a time that you can tell us on the podcast where you were kind to your friends? What did you do? That was what's one instance where you've been kind to your friends. What did you do? That was what's one instance where you've been kind to your friends.
Speaker 1:What did you do? I helped them up and I did very nice things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you speak nicely to them?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you listen to them when they talk?
Speaker 1:Yeah, All right, do you listen to them?
Speaker 2:when they talk? Yeah, all right. Do you listen to them when they talk in class?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Do you talk in class?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:You're well behaved. Are you mostly well behaved in class?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What makes you really cranky in class? What makes you wild, my friends getting yelled yeah. When they yell, when your friends yell, you mean yeah. And it makes it too loud. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't like lots of talking in class, it annoyed me.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, All right. So you talked about school. Oh, what do you do at lunchtime with your friends?
Speaker 1:What do you do? Get a soccer ball. Ooh and do all your friends like playing soccer, no, oh, who mainly likes soccer?
Speaker 2:you and who else?
Speaker 1:Lachlan Okay.
Speaker 2:Who's?
Speaker 1:the better soccer player you and Lachlan Lachlan Is he.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's very polite. What about do you find it hard to get ready for school in the morning?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Oh, you usually wake up early, don't you? Yeah, and do you just get yourself ready to go? Yeah, okay, what about you If it's a school day? What's breakfast for Ari? What do you have for breakfast before school?
Speaker 1:Yeah, what do you have? I would have a lemon cheese sandwich For breakfast?
Speaker 2:That sounds so good. What about lunch? Did you ever have?
Speaker 1:tuck shop. Yes, pardon, yes, I did.
Speaker 2:You do have tuck shop. Yeah, yeah nice, okay, all right, let's talk about something else.
Speaker 1:Ready yeah.
Speaker 2:Lunch today. You told me what you had today. I remember what you said what did Dad make you today for lunch?
Speaker 1:Hot dog. What was on it?
Speaker 2:Cheese tomato sauce. Nice Is the hot dog when you have to chase like a normal dog and you put him in the oven for a while and you start eating him. Is that a hot dog? Yeah, it is. That's a bad dad joke, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you know any good dad jokes?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Do you know any good jokes?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:No, okay, and what's for dinner tonight? Steak oh what I dinner tonight Steak. Oh what, I'm coming to your place. That sounds awesome. What are you going to have with your steak?
Speaker 1:Vegetables and rice Yum.
Speaker 2:What kind of vegetables will you have?
Speaker 1:I mean fried rice.
Speaker 2:Fried rice. Oh yeah, cool.
Speaker 1:I meant chips.
Speaker 2:Oh hot chips.
Speaker 1:Chips, vegetables and steak.
Speaker 2:That sounds like a perfect winter meal, doesn't it? When you're cold, you want hot food.
Speaker 1:Guess what.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:When I'm at mum's, I'm getting a soup.
Speaker 2:Oh, what will be in your soup? Yeah, what's going to be inside your soup, wonton.
Speaker 1:Who's Tom Wonton?
Speaker 2:Who's Wonton? It's a wonton soup.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, that sounds. Is that yummy?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Mmm, nice, do you like spicy food? No, don't like hot spicy food. Yeah, okay, righty-o. So steak chips, vegetables.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:What's your favourite vegetable Strawberries?
Speaker 1:Ooh, it's like a fruit, isn't it? Yep, what's your favourite vegetable? Strawberries.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's like a fruit, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's right. What's your worst vegetable?
Speaker 1:Broccoli I like broccoli, oh broccolis.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:And I hate broccolini.
Speaker 2:Oh, you hate the small ones.
Speaker 1:I hate the broccolini.
Speaker 2:Yeah, isn't like broccoli the big one, and broccoli is a little tiny, narrow one, thin one.
Speaker 1:Broccoli is the tiny one and the broccolini is the big one, is it? Those are?
Speaker 2:the other way around. But do you like one and don't like the other? Yeah, but they look fairly much the same.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, is there anything that mum or dad's ever put on your plate for dinner and you've gone? I'm not having that.
Speaker 1:Nuggets with chips.
Speaker 2:You don't like nuggets with chips. I thought you loved nuggets. Yeah, I don't, you don't. Okay, all right, let's change the subject a bit. Ready to spice it up a bit? Yeah, movies.
Speaker 1:Do you a bit?
Speaker 2:Yeah, movies, do you like movies?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you like going to the movies or staying home watching Netflix movies? What do you like? Both Go to the cinema. Cinema.
Speaker 1:Cinema.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like going to the cinema. Say that word again for me.
Speaker 1:Cinema.
Speaker 2:Well done. What do you have when you go to the cinema?
Speaker 1:Popcorn, yum and a bottle of water Do you, that's perfect.
Speaker 2:All right. Can you remember the last movie you went to the cinema and watched? Can you use your memory and try and think back?
Speaker 1:Mufasa.
Speaker 2:Did you cry?
Speaker 1:No, Do you cry?
Speaker 2:No, do you ever cry in movies?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:If I told you I cried in movies, would you laugh at me?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I cry in movies.
Speaker 1:No I actually do. Wait what.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sometimes in action movies I cry, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:You don't cry in movies cry.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you don't cry in movies. No, oh, never.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, was it by far so good.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Was it scary.
Speaker 1:Nope.
Speaker 2:Was there a good ending?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Would you watch it again?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Is it on Netflix yet?
Speaker 1:It's on Disney, is it?
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, I might have to try and check that one out. If I said to you next time we meet that I watched Mufasa and I cried, would you think that would be weird?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:You're very generous. That's very lovely. Okay, Now I know you've seen Mufasa, but before that movie, do you have a favourite movie of all time you've ever watched that you love?
Speaker 1:Moana 2.
Speaker 2:Oh, you like Moana 2.
Speaker 1:What was so good about?
Speaker 2:that movie.
Speaker 1:It was cool, because Maui is it called Maui. Yeah, maui is it called Maui.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Maui.
Speaker 1:Maui pulled up, the pulled up a entire land.
Speaker 2:Oh, because of his strength.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Nice, and he's got a magic sword, hasn't he?
Speaker 1:He has a magic hook.
Speaker 2:Hook, magic hook. That's right. And what about Heihei? Isn't Heihei the chicken? Yeah, that's so funny. That's so funny. Yeah, is Moana your favourite person in that movie? Or who's your favourite person, moana? Why?
Speaker 1:Because she has a special power.
Speaker 2:What's her special power?
Speaker 1:That she can control water.
Speaker 2:Oh, you've got a very good memory, haven't you? So Moana 2 is your favourite movie. Yeah, do you have a worst movie? Do.
Speaker 1:Christmas Holidays.
Speaker 2:Don't like that movie. Yeah, okay, fair enough, all right, we've talked about friends, we've talked about movies. We've talked about food. I know what we can talk about now. Let's talk about your brother.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you live with your brother all the time? Yeah, his name is Oscar. He is how old?
Speaker 1:12, 10, 13.
Speaker 2:Ooh.
Speaker 1:And he's in grade Seven.
Speaker 2:Oh, and I know brothers do sort of wrestle and squabble a bit, but do you mostly get along with him? Do you usually get along with him? No, you don't. You don't get along with him. We fight A bit, yeah.
Speaker 1:What do you fight about?
Speaker 2:On the PlayStation. Oh my gosh, do you play PlayStation? Yeah, what PlayStation number have you got?
Speaker 1:That was a while ago. Yeah, now we have two.
Speaker 2:Two PlayStations yeah, oh my gosh, how do you play two at the same time? I can't this one? Okay, not working, it's working on here.
Speaker 1:Mine is number one.
Speaker 2:How's that?
Speaker 1:Good.
Speaker 2:Okay, you've got two PlayStations.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:How do you play two PlayStations at the same time?
Speaker 1:Oscar plays on the other PlayStation and I play on the other PlayStation, even though I got my brand new mic, a gaming mic, have you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, does it happen like does a gaming mic hop, does it go on your earphones, like your headphones, or does it come separate, like the ones we're on now?
Speaker 1:It's like ones that can connect to the desk and then go towards and have that screen thing to make your voice go better, and a microphone.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:It goes like this, and then you can talk.
Speaker 2:And does it get very loud? Nope, is it very clear like these ones.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And who do you talk to?
Speaker 1:My friends.
Speaker 2:Okay, how does that work? So you're playing games but you're talking to your friends at the same time? Yeah, how do you do that? Do you mean like you're both playing? You're all playing the same game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I'm plugged in to the keyboard onto the PlayStation.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I don't have to use the PlayStation to talk, I can use the mic.
Speaker 2:Is it better? Yeah, how long have you had that for?
Speaker 1:Again.
Speaker 2:How long have you had that for?
Speaker 1:29th of January.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's very specific. What happened on the 29th of January? Was it your birthday? No, how come?
Speaker 1:you got it on the 29th of January, was it?
Speaker 2:your birthday? No, how come you got it on the 29th of January? Or you used to remember that date. Yeah, you used to remember it. Yeah, so who do you talk to when you're doing your PlayStation games?
Speaker 1:My friends Dom.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Xander. Xander, yeah, and my brother Oscar.
Speaker 2:Now, what kind of should I even ask this question? Yeah, what kind of games do we play?
Speaker 1:Roblox Yep, minecraft, yep no Fortnite.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Fortnite, because Oscar swears in it.
Speaker 2:Yes, probably not good for young people either. Is it so? Fortnite and Minecraft? No, minecraft and Roblox All right. What's your favourite out of those two?
Speaker 1:I would say Roblox.
Speaker 2:And so people are going to laugh at me because I've never played it before. What's the main thing with Roblox? What do you do? What's the whole idea of the game? What do you have to do?
Speaker 1:You have to. Some games you have to get stronger and fly. Some games you have to grow stuff. Okay, and some games are simulators.
Speaker 2:Ooh, that's a big word. Yeah, what do simulators mean?
Speaker 1:Like a game, like I don't really know. Okay.
Speaker 2:It's like a make-believe sort of game.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, cool, and do you often win? No, no.
Speaker 1:In Grow a Garden.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm the best player.
Speaker 2:When you Grow a garden. Okay, I'm the best player when you grow a garden. Yeah, ooh, very good, very good. Now, when are you allowed to play games?
Speaker 1:When was I able?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So when does mum and dad say you're allowed to play games? Only at this time, Like when are you allowed to play games at home?
Speaker 1:At 12 or 3. School days 3 and weekends 12.
Speaker 2:From 12 o'clock.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Did you play today before I picked you up?
Speaker 1:Yeah, how long do you reckon you were playing the games for, like when I got home, which was an hour ago? Okay so about an?
Speaker 2:hour, what so you played for about an hour.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And what game did you?
Speaker 1:play today, roblox. Okay, cool. And did you use your microphone?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and what game did you play today, roblox? Okay, cool. And did you use your microphone? Yeah, do you ever talk funny stuff on your microphone, or just be serious?
Speaker 1:with the game I just go like beep, beep beep.
Speaker 2:Do you ever sing on your microphone? No, not in your games. No, do you know if you sang on your microphone during games? Do you ever put on your microphone? No, not in your games. No, do you know if you sang on your microphone during games? Do you ever put the other person off?
Speaker 1:I'll put my mic off. Well, I can't, because it will only block the PlayStation one, except for the mic.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, can PlayStation still play DVDs? No one does DVDs anymore.
Speaker 1:You can still do DVDs.
Speaker 2:Do you have DVDs at home of movies and songs?
Speaker 1:I watch Paw Patrol.
Speaker 2:Oh, paw Patrol, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's all I watch.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I watch funny cat videos.
Speaker 2:Oh, I've heard about these funny cat videos. Is it when cats just do silly things? Yeah, what's the funniest one you reckon you've seen a cat do in those cat funny videos?
Speaker 1:The first one that I ever seen was a cat in a cat carrier, and the person was trying to get it, but it slipped out of its hand and then landed on the ground.
Speaker 2:Do you have a cat at your mum's or dad's place?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have a cat at my dad's.
Speaker 2:What's your cat Wait?
Speaker 1:no, my mum's. All right, I have two.
Speaker 2:Two cats at mum's house. Yeah, what are their names?
Speaker 1:Nala and Didi.
Speaker 2:Do they fight together?
Speaker 1:No, they box.
Speaker 2:They box. Each other Like real fighting.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Do they get up on their hind legs and fight yeah, no way. How does that look? Does that look funny?
Speaker 1:Yeah, they go like.
Speaker 2:Up and scroll each other. Are they old cats or young cats?
Speaker 1:Young cats. They're both young Didi's like three years old.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And Nala is five months old.
Speaker 2:Oh, really Looks just like a kitten now. Yeah, a bit older than a kitten. Do you have a favourite cat?
Speaker 1:Nala.
Speaker 2:You like the young one? Yeah, okay, and do they scratch you? No, you like the young one yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, and do they scratch you? No, do they bite you? No, they don't.
Speaker 2:Is that because you were teasing her?
Speaker 1:No, I was scratching her belly and she goes like. You know how they kick their legs on your hand.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's what she did and then went like oh, and a hiss. No bit me.
Speaker 2:Oh, did it hurt. No luckily yeah, and do you have any other animals?
Speaker 1:Dogs.
Speaker 2:You have dogs as well.
Speaker 1:Fish.
Speaker 2:Okay, is this mum's house?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And what are you say dogs, as in, you've got more than one dog.
Speaker 1:I've got three dogs.
Speaker 2:Three dogs.
Speaker 1:Actually no, I have two, because one died.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's not good. So you've got two hot dogs.
Speaker 1:No, oh sorry, two dogs. Yeah, Now here's a trick question?
Speaker 2:Well, not a, not good. So you've got two hot dogs? No, oh sorry two dogs, yeah. Now here's a trick question. Well, not a trick question. Here you go. What? How old are those dogs? Do you know how old those dogs are?
Speaker 1:One of them are called Chester, which is six years old.
Speaker 2:Very good, good memory, yep.
Speaker 1:Poppy, who's 12 years old.
Speaker 2:Whoa, that's old.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she got a little limp.
Speaker 2:Okay, now here's the next. I have to ask you hard questions because you're too good at the podcast. Here we go ready. Do you know what kind of breed they are? Do you know what? Nope, you don't know. You've got homework, then haven't you? You've got homework from Mr Woodford? You, no, you've got homework, then haven't you? You've got?
Speaker 1:homework from Mr Woodford. You have to find out what breed your dogs are. My cat is a tiger. A tiger so when he gets older, he's going to turn into a tiger.
Speaker 2:He has hairs like on the top of the ears. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 1:What about the other one?
Speaker 2:No, don't know what about your fish?
Speaker 1:What kind of fish is?
Speaker 2:it Gold fish.
Speaker 1:Gold fish.
Speaker 2:Sucker fish. Okay, so you've got more than one fish too, yeah.
Speaker 1:You've got two fish. I've got three sucker fish. Do they suck? They suck the glass.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, they stick on the side of the glass. You see the lips against the wall, is that right? Yeah, okay, and a goldfish.
Speaker 1:Yep Any more. I got one and like 10 black and orange fish.
Speaker 2:How big is the fish tank? Is it massive? Yeah, there's not a shark in there. Is there? No, there's not a dolphin in there. No, no whales, that's lucky. Do you have names for your fish?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Not even a gold one.
Speaker 1:Goldie.
Speaker 2:Goldie, that's a good one. I like that. So you've got a heap of fish.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:So you've got a heap of fish, you've got two dogs, you've got two cats and fish and fish Any other animals you've got on cats and fish and fish, any other animals you've got on your farm or in your place no birds, no budgies, no cockatoos, no cockatiels, no. Magpies, no. Pelicans, no, all right, that's a lot of animals, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Very good, all right. Well, we've nearly come to an end of this podcast, but there is a couple of questions. I've got Music.
Speaker 1:All my Life.
Speaker 2:All my Life. Yeah, that's the song you like to sing. Yeah, is it the one you sang last time?
Speaker 1:No, last time I did right foot first.
Speaker 2:That's right. You're right foot first, and does that mean you're going to sing All my Life today?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Are you going to be brave enough to sing again today?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I love it when you do that. That's so cool. All right, are you going to sing now? Yeah, okay, do you want me to say three, two, one, all?
Speaker 1:my life I've been waiting for tonight. I've been waiting for tonight all my life. All my life, I've been waiting for tonight.
Speaker 2:How good was that? Yes, I just don't know where you get your bravery from. How do you get so brave?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Do you feel nervous singing? No, it's amazing. It's amazing. That's so good and so can you remember, by the way, that was really good. Can you remember the songs you played on Spotify on the way over here from your place to the library here in the studio?
Speaker 1:All my Life Chasing Paradise. I Was Made For Loving you by Kiss.
Speaker 2:And was there one more? What about the one that Dad likes?
Speaker 1:Purple Rain.
Speaker 2:Purple Rain by Prince. How do you have this big? Where did this big memory come from? I don't understand how you got such a good memory. And this is a scary thing I actually got Ari to say because my phone was on the charging dock and playing music through the, I suppose through the radio. We plugged it in, but I asked Ari to unlock my phone using my passcode and he remembered it. Yeah, I asked Ari to unlock my phone using my passcode and he remembered it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Should I be worried that you can get into my phone now? No, should I be scared? No, you've done a good job remembering that. And so mum liked the Kiss song and dad liked Purple Rain by Prince.
Speaker 1:And your favourite band is Kiss.
Speaker 2:It is Kiss as well. Do you know what Oscar would?
Speaker 1:say, his favourite song is Juice WRLD. Who sings that Juice?
Speaker 2:WRLD. So what's the?
Speaker 1:name of the song Empty Out your Pockets.
Speaker 2:Oh, very good. So this one's talking about your memory. How did you get such a good memory? It's amazing. Yeah, they said goldfish is not supposed to have a very big memory. Yeah, have you heard that saying? Have you heard the saying?
Speaker 1:Actually I don't have a goldfish.
Speaker 2:Oh, you don't now. Yeah, did you used to have a goldfish? Oh you don't now. Yeah, did you used to have a goldfish? No, oh, you just don't have a goldfish.
Speaker 1:I forgot.
Speaker 2:That's okay. Do you have another fish instead?
Speaker 1:I got orange fish, full orange fish and orange and black fish and sucker fish.
Speaker 2:And sucker fish.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Which is your favorite type of fish?
Speaker 1:Orange.
Speaker 2:Are they the pretty ones? Yeah, yeah, nice. What do you feed them? Do you just feed them like flaky stuff? The flakes? Yeah, okay. Do you have to clean their tank?
Speaker 1:No, nan has to.
Speaker 2:Nan has to Poor Nan. Now, what are you laughing for, then, poor Nan? So Nan sometimes looks after you too. Yeah, what can you tell me about Nan?
Speaker 1:That she is really lovely and she gives me chocolate.
Speaker 2:Oh well, that's two great things. Well done, nan. That's two good things, isn't it? Yeah, okay, here's another question I'm going to ask you, because you're getting to go to this again. You said Nan's lovely and she gives you chocolate. Yeah, is that right? Right, okay? So what makes Nan lovely Besides giving you chocolate? What makes her lovely?
Speaker 1:That she gives me a lot of hugs.
Speaker 2:And you like that. Yeah, makes you feel safe. Yeah, that's a good man, isn't it? Yeah, nice, anything else, no, that's it.
Speaker 1:Does she ever?
Speaker 2:cook for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Does she make you snacks?
Speaker 1:Mum does Okay, pack my snacks.
Speaker 2:Okay, what about? Oh, here's a question for you. You just talked about chocolate, right? Yeah? What's your favourite chocolate ever?
Speaker 1:Dairy milk chocolate.
Speaker 2:Oh, the plain one. What's your thoughts about if we finish this podcast and you do such a good job, I should go and buy you one. No, yes, no, yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You like the plain one. Is there a chocolate you don't like?
Speaker 1:I would say dark chocolate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm like you, but I know some people who like dark chocolate. It tastes bitter, it doesn't look good yeah. What about favourite lolly?
Speaker 1:You know those white and then the red on top of the white.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're talking about strawberries and cream. Yeah, nice.
Speaker 1:That's my favourite.
Speaker 2:Do you ever try and get like hold it and try and just bite the strawberry bit off and leave it and see if you can just get a strawberry? Yeah, it's nearly impossible, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's so hard to do. It's so hard to do, so you like strawberries and cream too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yum, you're making me hungry now thinking about that Same. What about your favourite takeaway food?
Speaker 2:I would say this If I said Ari, you've got $20 to spend $20 at a fast food place, what food would you get? Mcdonald's? You'd get McDonald's. You'd get Macca's. And what would you get from Macca's? What would you get?
Speaker 1:Hot chocolate and fries.
Speaker 2:Oh, sounds pretty good actually, do you like GYG?
Speaker 1:GYG. What is that?
Speaker 2:Guzman and Gomez. It's like a Mexican shop. You tried that? No, all the kids at my school love that. Guzman and Gomez. It's like a Mexican shop. You tried that? No, all the kids at my school love that Guzman and Gomez. Never heard of it, never KFC.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Don't like it. No, I don't care, I love it yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't like it.
Speaker 2:Sushi.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Don't like sushi, yeah, I don't like it.
Speaker 1:Kebabs.
Speaker 2:No Red rooster.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Chinese? Yes, okay, what about Thai food?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:What about soup? Yes, what about donuts yes. That was a very quick answer. Yes, what about donuts? Yes, that was a very quick answer. Okay, what about thick shakes? Huh, milkshakes.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay. What flavour do you like the best? You look like a chocolate guy to me. Yeah, yeah, okay, chocolate guy. So milkshakes, donuts, you like? What about, surely, at your age you don't have tea or coffee, do you?
Speaker 1:I have tea Do you.
Speaker 2:Cup of tea.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you have it with milk in it?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Sugar.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:How many six?
Speaker 1:No one.
Speaker 2:Thank goodness for that. It'll rot your teeth out, won't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What about soft drink?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:You don't like soft drink? Yeah, okay. Cordial, yes, is red your favourite? Yeah. Do you like poppers? Yes. What's your favourite popper flavour?
Speaker 1:Do you have one Black chocolate?
Speaker 2:Chocolate popper? Oh, you're talking about the breakers. Yeah, what chocolate Chocolate popper? Oh, you're talking about the breakers. Yeah, what about fruit juice?
Speaker 1:poppers. I like apple blackcurrant.
Speaker 2:Oh, you do know what you like Very good, very good. So I'm getting to understand what you like now. And you like steak yeah, chicken.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, don't like steak. Yeah, chicken yeah.
Speaker 2:No, don't like chicken.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't like chicken Don't Lamb. Yeah, yeah, pork yes.
Speaker 2:Bacon yeah, eggs yes, bread yes.
Speaker 1:What colour bread? Probably plain, plain white bread?
Speaker 2:Yes, what colour bread? Probably plain, plain white bread yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, do you like the beach yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you like the river? Yeah. Do you like sunrise or sunset? The best. Someone needs a sleep over here. Sunrise, you like the morning because you wake up early, don't you? All right, is there anything else you'd like to talk about on the podcast before we finish? No, you're done. Yeah, when you come on again, are you going to sing another song? Yeah, what's going to be the next song?
Speaker 1:you're going to sing Chasing Paradise.
Speaker 2:We haven't played that one, have we. We haven't sung that one.
Speaker 1:Chasing Paradise. Well, I will, yeah, that's the one that we played in.
Speaker 2:The car Are you going to play? Are you going to sing that one now or wait until next?
Speaker 1:time time.
Speaker 2:I can't wait. So basically, every time we come to the podcast, you have to sing a new song. Is that a deal? Yeah, high five me, alright, nice. So that's it, no more questions.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You done a good job? Yeah, have you enjoyed it? Yeah, very good. You done another good job and thank you for coming on the podcast and I hope to see you here. Come on again.