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Speaker 1: Sitsy and with her with Kate Ritchie podcast, I.

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Speaker 2: Tell You what the first season of Parental Guidance, it

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Speaker 2: was controversial TOI opening twelve distinct methods and approaches to parenting.

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Speaker 1: Well it.

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Speaker 2: Season two kicks off tonight seven thirty on Channel nine

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Speaker 2: and the host of the show joins us.

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Speaker 1: Now, Ali Langdon, Welcome, Awesome, Lane, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: I started questioning my parenting last night, Ali, when I

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Speaker 3: saw the promo for the show tonight and kicking off,

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Speaker 3: I was obviously waiting that many years.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I saw your question. It took this show.

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Speaker 3: Well. I was watching the finale of the Summit, which

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Speaker 3: I've been absolutely loving, and then the promo for your

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Speaker 3: show comes on and it says it starts at seven thirty,

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Speaker 3: and I thought, oh great, She's already asking me to

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Speaker 3: question my own parenting skills already, just via the promo,

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Speaker 3: because I'm thinking in my head seven thirty. I don't

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Speaker 3: think may be in bed by then. So that's my

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Speaker 3: first parenting kickup. Is she am I doing the wrong

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Speaker 3: thing by not having her in bed by seven thirty

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Speaker 3: to be able to watch it on my own? You know,

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Speaker 3: we've got one set of parents this year, there is

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Speaker 3: no bedtime. Our unstructured parents. They're musos and so their

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Speaker 3: kids go to bed whenever they like, what eleven o'clock,

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Speaker 3: twelve o'clock at night, and look at works for their lifestyle.

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Speaker 4: But then there was not a pylon.

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Speaker 3: But there was some you know, some strong questioning because obviously.

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Speaker 4: The kids go to school.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's this idea of okay, but how tired

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Speaker 3: are they going to be when they get up in

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Speaker 3: the morning, if they're staying up that late, yeah, yeah, and.

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Speaker 1: What have you.

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Speaker 3: So there's lots of benefits to having no rules around

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Speaker 3: bedtime if you're the kid.

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Speaker 2: But no rules parents were the parents that won in

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Speaker 2: the first season, weren't they you.

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Speaker 1: They still had rules, that's rule.

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Speaker 3: But their idea was like, okay, if a kid wants

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Speaker 3: to climb to the top of a tree, then just

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Speaker 3: trust the kid's going to be okay. Well.

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Speaker 2: The other big one is what I remember from last

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Speaker 2: year they had in their house, if you want to

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Speaker 2: play video games, you can play video games for as

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Speaker 2: long as you want. Now that has been a big

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Speaker 2: talking point in our house because you put limits on

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Speaker 2: and I don't know, but see, I don't know about limits,

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Speaker 2: because limits just make it worse.

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Speaker 3: No, I think you've got to have and look, we

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Speaker 3: talked about it all this season too, because that's the

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Speaker 3: big one for all the families, about devices and online stime,

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Speaker 3: screen time. You've also got it's in the first episode

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Speaker 3: and where we've used these strain federal police and the

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Speaker 3: kids are playing a really popular video game and then

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Speaker 3: we have a string federal police acting as someone who then.

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Speaker 1: You tell us what the game is.

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Speaker 3: No, No, I think for legal reasons we won't laugh

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Speaker 3: will probably sue us.

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Speaker 1: But it doesn't really matter what the game is. It

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Speaker 1: could be a myriad of games.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the different parenting style, so one of our

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Speaker 3: parenting styles. Their whole point of it is that, look,

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Speaker 3: we don't want to open that can of worms. We

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Speaker 3: don't really want to have that conversation with the kids.

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Speaker 3: And then you see what happens tonight, oh no, and

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Speaker 3: what information is shared. And there's a couple of the kids,

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Speaker 3: so the ones who have families who really are kind

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Speaker 1: I just I don't like to trust it.

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Speaker 3: I don't really know it, so I just kin'd of

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Speaker 3: ignore it, Well, that's really bad. We've got to get

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Speaker 4: We've got to you know, make sure we know what

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Speaker 3: And as you can put all those right, you know,

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Speaker 5: I think, you know, one of the breakdowns where we

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Speaker 5: beautiful three year old daughter who rules the roofs, but

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Speaker 5: she won't eat, and she won't go to bed when

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Speaker 5: she's meant to and all of the above, And we

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Speaker 5: very quickly go from helicopter parents don't climb the tree

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Speaker 5: So we don't have this consistency because it becomes such

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Speaker 4: Consistency is hard.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have it.

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Speaker 3: I don't have I'm actually I mean, I know, I'm

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Speaker 3: on the show. I'm the Consistency is the key, isn't

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Speaker 3: but also don't beat ourselves up when we have those fails.

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Speaker 2: Any other any different styles of parenting that you have

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Speaker 4: They're all different. They're all different.

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Speaker 3: Again, So we've got our outback parents who are fantastic,

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Speaker 3: Like the opening scene is just like kids shooting guns

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Speaker 3: and you know, driving around in Newts and doing everything

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Speaker 3: that they that they do out there. Like our Lighthouse parents,

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Speaker 3: you meet pretty early their idea, like they let their

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Speaker 3: kids go to the beach on their own, their old

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Speaker 3: the eldest is ten, and and that cops. They cop

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Speaker 3: keen to see the couple that I see on the

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Speaker 3: promo where the children have their own Instagram accounts and followers.

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Speaker 3: I think these kids have five hundred thousand followers.

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Speaker 4: The influence a pair.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and how I mean, I don't know exactly how

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Speaker 3: the story will unfold, what we will learn for them

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Speaker 3: mean I think she's normal in hoping that one day

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Speaker 3: know she's even she doesn't she mocks up these videos.

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Speaker 3: Oh I think, Oh goodness, imagine at least that goes

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Speaker 3: on just in the privacy of our home. It's not

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Speaker 3: being pushed out to five hundred thousand people. And I

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Speaker 3: do wonder what the results of that is going to be.

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Speaker 4: I think the influence of parents will really surprise you.

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Speaker 3: And I probably had a few preconceived ideas as well.

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Speaker 3: And there are some things about what they do that

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Speaker 3: doesn't sit overly comfortably for me. Their kids are beautiful,

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Speaker 3: and you know, they're different stars.

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Speaker 4: I can't wait for you to meet the teen parents.

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Speaker 4: They just raise them like a footy.

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Speaker 3: Team and it is okay in there, it's awesome. There's

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Speaker 2: A motivational speech before they go to school every day.

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Speaker 1: There's no I in team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's Arthur Beatson's son.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the game. What about the spiritual family? How

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Speaker 1: spiritual are they? They're fantastic.

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Speaker 4: You're going to love them.

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Speaker 3: And their whole idea is that you know, anyone could

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Speaker 4: So maybe it's in.

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Speaker 3: Their child and how you know how everyone around that

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Speaker 3: But then they have a couple of challenges where where

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Speaker 4: Dad, It's like, hang on, do you always practice what

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Speaker 1: Like all of us? The parents? Is there a bit

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Speaker 1: of friction between the parents and the different styles.

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Speaker 3: Look, they fire up at different times about certain parenting

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Speaker 4: But look, and what I love about the show though.

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Speaker 3: Is it's not they're not attacking the parents, and no

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Speaker 3: one's attacking the kids. We're all applauding the kids different

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Speaker 3: But I mean, the whole point of being on there

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Speaker 3: is coming on and going Okay, you're put you're putting

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Speaker 4: Style out there to be judged, to be challenged.

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Speaker 5: You know, because when you look at it, I mean,

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Speaker 5: we're all trying to win in a sense, but the

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Speaker 5: only way you win really is to bring up a

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Speaker 5: respectable member for the community.

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Speaker 1: Of course, that's all we're looking for, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: And everyone on the show all we want to do

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Speaker 3: is raise good kids kind kids who go out and

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Speaker 3: live their best life in the world.

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Speaker 1: Right, where do you find those kids? And can you

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Speaker 1: trace on my household? Can I drop mine off at your.

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Speaker 3: Seeing?

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Speaker 5: Because we're all going through the same thing no matter

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Speaker 5: what style of parenting that you have. But I think

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Speaker 5: you can also learn a lot from different styles.

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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, true? Is what you like about different?

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Speaker 3: And that's what I did, Like, you know, we changed

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Speaker 5: Because Mike doesn't do birthday cards or Mother's Day cards anymore.

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Speaker 2: Your truly your husband just went away on a three

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Speaker 2: week surfing trip.

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Speaker 1: Is that correct?

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Speaker 3: And did he pick up a good time for the

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Speaker 3: family to go away on? A family didn't go He

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Speaker 3: went on his own, He went surfing. I stayed home

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Speaker 4: And look, I just think he's just a wonderful husband.

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Speaker 3: Knows how much I love the kids, and I just

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Speaker 3: want to spend all this time alone with them.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the parents about you?

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Speaker 4: And Mother's Day morning, I wake up and I'm all excited.

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Speaker 1: And what was there the kids, didn't even know? What

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Speaker 4: Nothing for my birthday?

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Speaker 3: I wasn't a handwritten card, there wasn't a different techniques and.

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Speaker 4: I allowed him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, it might be the last holiday. That's a

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Speaker 1: very different sort of relationship technique.

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Speaker 5: That's I'll pretend not to care.

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Speaker 4: But show together what an idiot to you.

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Speaker 5: Has he done anything in return?

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Speaker 4: Or is he No?

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Speaker 3: I think he's just thinking of a really big idea

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Speaker 3: and when it happens, it's going to be definitely it's

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Speaker 3: going to.

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Speaker 1: Be parental guidance.

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Speaker 2: Well, Mike willisy he's a single parent after today. It

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Speaker 2: starts tonight seven thirty on Channel nine.

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Speaker 1: We Love you, Alie, thank you very much for coming in.

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