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Speaker 1: Apogae Production, welcome back to you another episode of Am

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Speaker 1: I a Bad Mom?

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Speaker 2: Podcast? Honest, Okatie, This week could not have come soon

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Speaker 2: enough because you have time to think when they're on holidays,

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Speaker 2: for those hot moments where they like each other for

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Speaker 2: about like ten to fifteen minutes of a day and yeah,

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Speaker 2: and I sit there and I have those moments of

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Speaker 2: going like, if you weren't here doing this right now,

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Speaker 2: what would you be doing? I'd be on a bus

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Speaker 2: and the bus would be going to the center of Australia. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and then the podcast, I'm getting better because the school's

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Speaker 2: gone back. Am I a bad mum for nearly having

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Speaker 2: a high schooler? We've done holidays, We've done Christmas, we've

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Speaker 2: done New Year's We've done everything you can think about

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Speaker 2: between December and here when I probably spoke about it last,

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Speaker 2: which is Gracie is off to high school.

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Speaker 1: It's exciting for her.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is very exciting. I have found though, that

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Speaker 2: there's a lot more organizing this particular group of holidays

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Speaker 2: than I've probably ever done in the whole schooling. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, but if you think about it, you haven't had

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Speaker 1: a child start a new school for a long time. No,

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Speaker 1: in primary school, which is a lot more cruisy, probably

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Speaker 1: not a strict on uniform and bags and things like that.

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Speaker 1: High school's a whole new book game.

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Speaker 2: I've never actually had to take in consideration driving a

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Speaker 2: car to drop off a kid, because.

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Speaker 1: You've always had the primary school at the back of

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Speaker 1: your house.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just by see at the gate this particular last

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Speaker 2: you know, two years, I would say, neither of them

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Speaker 2: really have wanted me to be over there picking or dropping.

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Speaker 2: Like I sort of hang at the front gate, being

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Speaker 2: like that mom that's like bye, you sure you don't

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Speaker 2: want me to like walk you over And they're like, no, Mom,

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Speaker 2: go inside. So I'm like, okay, bye.

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Speaker 1: Which has been really handy for you. Yeah, because now

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to take into consideration school traffic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Driving. I am lucky enough, Katie to have a friend,

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Speaker 2: a good friend whose daughter is also going. She's so organized,

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Speaker 2: she's already sent me a spreadsheet the car roster of

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Speaker 2: like driving and pickups.

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Speaker 1: Oh good, So you're only gonna have to do half

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Speaker 1: of them.

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Speaker 2: No, Well no, because I think I'll probably end up

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Speaker 2: doing more because of Grace sees dance in the vos

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Speaker 2: so I'll probably end up doing more, especially in the afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Runs totally fine. But the other part for me is

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Speaker 2: she's also researched the buses. So there's one particular bus

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Speaker 2: that only has those kids on it that go it

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Speaker 2: sort of goes from A to B. Yeah, but there's

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Speaker 2: no backup. There's not another one. If you miss that

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Speaker 2: one and you have not looked at the time on

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Speaker 2: your watch properly. Yeah, which I can see my daughter doing,

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Speaker 2: there's no backup. You'll be stuck there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So the girls bus is the same, Like, that's

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Speaker 1: the same kind of situation. I will say that they

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Speaker 1: touch would so far have not missed the bus. Okay, However,

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Speaker 1: there's definitely been some tents hurry up, get your shoes on. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: moments like that, and then also the threat of if

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Speaker 1: you do not leave the house on time and we

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Speaker 1: have to hassle you, Dad's going to come running after

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Speaker 1: the bus. If he sees the bus and you've missed it,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna come running after hands waving, make a lot

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Speaker 1: of noise, be really embarrassing for your friends on the

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Speaker 1: school bus. That kind of helped get them out of

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Speaker 1: the house some time, But right. What I've also realized

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Speaker 1: and they've had to get themselves.

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Speaker 2: To out of the house one.

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Speaker 1: Time and to the bus stop, they always have interesting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's weird. I think we do too much given

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Speaker 2: where we live. Right now, there's gonna there has to

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Speaker 2: the way through. So this bus just gives her a

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Speaker 2: only with her peers, and it only goes to like

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Speaker 2: little bit easier, a little bit less of the time,

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Speaker 2: I guess, restraints a.

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Speaker 1: Bit safer and like as a first step.

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Speaker 2: It's a first step, right, That's what I thought of

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Speaker 2: as well. And it's like gives her that little piece

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Speaker 2: she decides that she won't want to do it. Like

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Speaker 1: There's definitely a couple of like maybe a year or

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Speaker 1: and then it gets to the point where they're like, it's.

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Speaker 2: Realize how quick you can get other places without having

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Speaker 2: to drop everyone else.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So going back to my spreadsheet friend, she's also

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Speaker 2: been amazing for me because she would send me like

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Speaker 2: an email and go have you done this yet? And

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Speaker 2: then from that is the next one of like, here

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Speaker 2: is the email I've sent you. You need to click

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Speaker 2: on this link to do this, So I e uniforms,

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Speaker 2: hadn't made the time to try on uniforms, went with

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Speaker 2: her to her appointment. And then the next one was bookless,

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Speaker 2: which is what we were talking about previously to getting on.

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Speaker 2: Here is bookless?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I still.

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Speaker 2: Haven't done You've only had a day or two to

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Speaker 2: get it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I haven't got the book list yet. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So what I do every year is I leave it

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Speaker 1: to the place where the school gets it from, which

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Speaker 1: happens to be quite close to our house, and I

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Speaker 1: just haven't what I can because they don't always have

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Speaker 1: it at that last minute. I have to order it

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Speaker 1: in and then it's late and then the girls end

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Speaker 1: up going Yeah, that's pretty much every year.

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Speaker 2: Well, because of my friend, I did the uniforms and

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Speaker 2: the books on that particular day and then we went

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Speaker 2: and we did a quick shop through Indro and I

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Speaker 2: got the kids shoes sorted. Took your opinion on that

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Speaker 2: shoe buying situation. And when I whole size up, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: like a clown.

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Speaker 1: Fluppy clown shoes and they'll be out of wear for

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Speaker 1: the next three years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, and at this rate of Elsie's growing,

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Speaker 2: she'll probably last six months. But yeah, got the shoes sorted,

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Speaker 2: and then I had to get the laptop sorted. So

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Speaker 2: then you've got a laptop, you've got a sort as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and don't forget to have it on your either

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Speaker 1: your home insurance or do you like Apple Care or

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Speaker 1: whatever you've gone with, because the first year of them

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Speaker 1: having a laptop, Holly spilled kom Butcher on the keyboard

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Speaker 1: and then they said it's going to cost more to

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Speaker 1: repair it than just to replace it. Yeah, we've lost

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Speaker 1: two laptops.

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Speaker 2: Over the last and keep telling me this.

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Speaker 1: Four years two laptops needed replacing.

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Speaker 2: Lucky for insurance on your home and contents, yeah, yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: Add that you need accidental damage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, then lockers. Luckily, I've got this friend again. She

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Speaker 2: sent me, goes, Rach, have you done her locker? The

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Speaker 2: answer was no, do you need to take pad lock

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I didn't read that part. It just

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Speaker 2: got I got the email saying she's been given a locker.

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Speaker 2: It says this is where it is. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I screenshot it. Had said it to her and said,

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Speaker 2: you'll need this for your first day. This is your

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Speaker 2: luck out good luck. And that's as good as it

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Speaker 2: gets because I'm not going to be there holding your

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Speaker 1: No, your spreadsheet friend, they're really handy to have. However,

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Speaker 1: I had somebody like that too, and she was amazing,

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Speaker 1: and she used to tell me what I'd missed. Oh,

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Speaker 1: don't forget where red day it's, you know, tell me

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Speaker 1: all the information. So I never used to have to

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Speaker 1: read the newsletter. Still haven't since she then moved school.

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Speaker 1: That kid moved school, and the mum text me and

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Speaker 1: she went, I'm so sorry, I won't be able to

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Speaker 1: give you all the information anymore. I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: know it. We're going to a different school. I went,

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Speaker 1: how selfish, how selfish? What about me?

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Speaker 2: What about me.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's a better school, suits your child's needs

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Speaker 1: better and all the rest of it, but what about me?

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Speaker 1: I needed you with this one.

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Speaker 2: I actually mentioned to my brother the other day, which

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Speaker 2: he totally doesn't get because we've had him on the

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Speaker 2: podcast before. He doesn't have kids, so he doesn't quite

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Speaker 2: get how much of this would be a game changer.

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Speaker 2: But I was saying, from the latest update to the

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Speaker 2: Apple software, it has like the AI component in it

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Speaker 2: now where it then summarizes your text messages and your

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Speaker 2: emails and things like this when you get it. In short,

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Speaker 2: it's already summarized, so to only have the key pieces

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Speaker 2: email or text message. Right, Yeah, I didn't even know that,

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Speaker 2: so I'd said to him, Oh, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: I really love the update when it comes up on

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Speaker 2: my watch because it looks like gibberish. It just has

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Speaker 2: had this moment, I was like, we need this on

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Speaker 2: the school newsletter. This is what I've been asking for

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Speaker 2: for like seven years on the school newsletter. I just

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Speaker 2: the dates in which I need to I reckon we

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Speaker 2: could find a way of doing.

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Speaker 3: It, and then it put it in your calendar before

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Speaker 3: you with how you even do anything about it to

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Speaker 3: where Orange Day is September second, I don't know when

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Speaker 3: it is, and it just goes in your calendar.

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Speaker 2: Dates from the newsletter. Yeah, insert dates from the school newsletter.

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Speaker 1: That I need to know into my calendar for my

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Speaker 1: year seven child.

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Speaker 2: This is how it's going to work.

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Speaker 1: Year seven camp goes in.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's bloody brilliant. This is See, that's such a

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Speaker 1: good idea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know I don't know how to make it work,

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Speaker 2: but I'm sure somebody listening is going to be good enough. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but please let us know when you've implemented it so

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Speaker 2: I can utilize that tool. Because I was like that,

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Speaker 2: there's what I've been asking for for like years now. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and now it's possible.

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Speaker 1: I think it's absolutely possible. Absolutely, someone needs to do

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Speaker 1: it with the school newsletter. Llry up, someone who's tech savvy.

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Speaker 2: Mate, you're going to be out of here before it's

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Speaker 2: even done. Your wrap up of school will be done.

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Speaker 2: It'll just be rolling out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, closer, Well, m