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Speaker 1: Apod Shape production.

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Speaker 2: We'll come back to another episode of Am I A

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Speaker 2: Bad Mom?

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Speaker 1: Podcast?

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Speaker 2: It's the question we constantly asked three times a week,

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Speaker 2: am I a bad mum? Sometimes we are no all

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Speaker 2: the time, all the time.

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Speaker 3: We've been through some stuff this last week, and I

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Speaker 3: can tell you my parenting really got stretched. And I

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Speaker 3: think I say this once a week, maybe on a podcast,

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Speaker 3: saying my parentings really stretch. You know when they say,

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Speaker 3: like really hard situations they help you grow.

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Speaker 4: I don't think so.

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Speaker 3: I think it took my really tight situation and then

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Speaker 3: just constricted it even more.

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Speaker 4: I was like, supper, well, you love That's how I felt.

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Speaker 2: You lost power at your house because of the side.

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Speaker 3: So Brisbane was looking like it was going to get

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Speaker 3: its first cyclone in like fifty years or something, and

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Speaker 3: so then we all got told to go home and

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Speaker 3: don't go anywhere. And we know how I cope with

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Speaker 3: those situations clearly not well, I love it, you love it.

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Speaker 3: I checked in so many times with you. Thriving would

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Speaker 3: be the word.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Although I didn't see trackies, I was disappointed that nothing

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Speaker 2: more happened, Like I was making stupid videos about the

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Speaker 2: fact that there was no cyclone, like where is it?

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Speaker 2: I had battery lights all prepared, all on the side,

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Speaker 2: everything from outside was inside.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I did all that.

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Speaker 2: Everything was tied down, everything was charged, laptops, phones, everything,

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Speaker 2: ice in the eski, plenty of water, like I.

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Speaker 1: Did it, you did it all. I wanted at least

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Speaker 1: bottle hours.

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Speaker 2: I wanted at least a couple of hours in one room, scared.

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Speaker 4: I'm going through a tornado.

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Speaker 1: And that didn't really happen.

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Speaker 2: And then the next day I start getting water all

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Speaker 2: coming through the ceiling. I was like, this is Calma,

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Speaker 2: this is karma for me making ship of videos and

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Speaker 2: taking the piss out of cycle and Alfred.

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Speaker 3: I think there was a lot of people doing that,

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Speaker 3: and there was like I think it was like Thursdays,

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Speaker 3: go home and lock down, and so we did it all,

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Speaker 3: and we, you know, like everyone panic brought out the

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Speaker 3: whole entire Ida. I'm not sure why, but Thursday, then Friday,

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Speaker 3: and then Saturday morning, I think Friday night and Saturday

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Speaker 4: So everyone went, what a fizzer.

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Speaker 3: And by this stage, like I've been inside with my kids,

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Speaker 3: like Thursday and Friday and now Saturday, like I've gone

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Speaker 3: nuts by now. So on Saturday I went into my gym.

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Speaker 3: I was like, well, I can't do anything else. I'm

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Speaker 3: just going to move all the furniture back outside to

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Speaker 3: move the basketball ring up.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to do all of that.

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Speaker 3: And then Saturday night, eight pm it was like a

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Speaker 3: World War three zone. I know that every area of

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Speaker 3: Brisbane got hit so differently, but where we were we

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Speaker 3: got belted with the Saturday night storm slash leftover of cyclone.

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Speaker 3: We had trees down, we lost power, we lost phone service,

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Speaker 3: then luckily We've got gas on the barbecue, so I'm

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Speaker 3: cooking every meal on the barbecue. But it was like

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Speaker 3: my kids had worms all of a sudden because Mum's

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Speaker 3: really out of a comfort zone. We can see she's

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Speaker 3: so far out. I'm going to make a cook all

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Speaker 4: Honestly, Katie. And then I come in and I have like, Elsie,

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Speaker 4: can I just talk to your mom? I'm thinking, what

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Speaker 4: do you want to talk to me about?

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Speaker 3: And she was like, oh so I and then it

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Speaker 3: was like accidentally did what I accidentally. Didn't mean to

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Speaker 3: didn't mean too, mum, It was just accident put my

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Speaker 3: foot through the wall, through the wall.

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Speaker 4: I did a flip on the mattress and put my

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Speaker 4: foot through the launde room wall. I'm really sorry, like through.

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Speaker 1: The plaster board. It's this big in my laundroom.

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Speaker 3: Her foot, because she's not got a small foot, has

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Speaker 4: There's a hole in my wall.

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Speaker 1: And that is a big job, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Because I don't have to repair the hole, And then

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Speaker 4: Whole wall you have to Probably, yeah, I imagine. I

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Speaker 3: I've never done it, but I just loved the whole

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Speaker 4: I accidentally did it.

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Speaker 3: It really wasn't on purpose, and I just needed to

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Speaker 3: do the flip, but I just didn't think I was

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Speaker 3: going to hit the wall. So then therefore, as a parent,

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Speaker 3: I'm just meant to go, that's okay, darling.

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Speaker 2: My go to immediately is what the hell were you

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Speaker 2: doing a flip there? For be careful because kids don't

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Speaker 2: give a shit about our things or what we've paid

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Speaker 1: They can't care less.

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Speaker 3: Just on a note to that, though, I did get

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Speaker 3: a funny reply from one of our amazing podcast family

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Speaker 3: Online saying.

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Speaker 4: Well, I could top this one.

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Speaker 3: My son and his girlfriend in their bedroom antics put

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Speaker 3: someone's head through a wall whilst having sex. That one's

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Speaker 3: really awkward to come across as a parent. Oh okay,

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Speaker 3: all right, I'll wear that.

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Speaker 1: She wins, She wins.

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Speaker 4: Am I a bad mum for ticking all the boxes?

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Speaker 3: This will really like set the scene for you. When

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Speaker 3: your kid goes off to camp. You get a checklist

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Speaker 3: and it has the little tick. Yeah, so then we think,

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Speaker 3: as parents, were like nailing this, done it all.

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Speaker 1: If they go to camp and it never fits in

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Speaker 3: Don't even get me started on why you take them

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Speaker 3: on a camp when they have to take pretty much

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Speaker 4: Just leave them at home.

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Speaker 3: So I ticked all the boxes, did all that. Now

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Speaker 3: this was her last camp, so this would have been

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Speaker 3: the last year. And I did all the ticking, all

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Speaker 3: the boxes went off Kmart got all the things that

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Speaker 3: I thought that I didn't have, you know, like things

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Speaker 3: like rain jackets.

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Speaker 4: Like I feel really good. Ticked all the boxes.

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Speaker 3: My child's going well prepared, if not too prepared, for

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Speaker 3: every situation. She comes home from that camp, still gets sick,

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Speaker 4: Standard. Now we fast forward.

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Speaker 3: To a cyclone and I'm going fucking stir crazy.

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Speaker 4: So I'm like, what am I gonna do?

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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna put a rain jacket on because I

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Speaker 3: found her rain jacket that I ticked all the boxes with, sent.

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Speaker 4: Her off to camp with, thinking I'm a good mum.

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Speaker 3: And then I put this thing on because I find it,

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Speaker 4: A rain jacket. I'm so prepared.

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Speaker 3: I come back now, this is not a big I'm

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Speaker 3: literally down the hill, looked around. Oh yeah, this is

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Speaker 3: pretty hectic. It's getting pretty spicy down here. Come back up.

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Speaker 3: I would say a maximum of ten minutes in the

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Speaker 3: rain in a rain jacket. Yeah, dry, Dry as a bone, Katie. No,

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Speaker 3: I was fucking drenched. I was drenched. I sent you

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Speaker 3: my Socialist. I was soaked, my hair was soaked.

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Speaker 2: I'm drenched, and I'm going.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I sent my child off to camp

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Speaker 3: with a rain jacket that doesn't fucking work. What a

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Speaker 3: just in my head, I was beating myself up going here.

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Speaker 3: I am thinking, yep, look at me go nailing life.

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Speaker 3: Child comes home with cold, that's normal. No, it's because

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Speaker 3: that doesn't work.

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Speaker 4: They're selling false items.

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Speaker 1: But is it sold as a rain jacket?

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Speaker 4: Okay, so this was the day before. Okay, I did

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Speaker 3: I got one of Sam's out of the cupboard and

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Speaker 3: was like, oh, it just feels like feels like.

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Speaker 4: A rain jacket. And I went out and did a

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Speaker 3: I was like, these fucking jackets. He goes, that's a

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Speaker 3: spray jacket, you idiot.

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Speaker 1: What's a spray jacket?

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Speaker 3: Like, what does that mean? He goes, it's not waterproof,

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Speaker 3: it's not a rain jacket. It's a spray jacket.

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Speaker 1: What's it for?

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Speaker 4: Though?

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Speaker 2: I don't know what's the purpose of a spray jacket,

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Speaker 2: because I also I don't know I had a rain jacket.

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Speaker 2: After all the chaos had settled down a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But we've been in the house for a few days

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Speaker 2: and I said to the girls, were going for a walk.

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Speaker 1: They went, no, we're not. I said, you're coming.

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Speaker 2: Like the effort it took for me to get them

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Speaker 1: Emelia was still no.

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Speaker 2: I'm not coming. I won't put your rain jacket on.

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Speaker 2: You are coming. Start threatening. If you don't come for

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Speaker 2: a walk, you're not watching anything tonight. Band honestly rage.

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Speaker 2: You should have seen their faces as they're walking. I

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Speaker 2: look like faces have done. They're absolutely hating it.

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Speaker 1: Why are we walking in the rain? It's beautiful nature.

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Speaker 1: It makes you.

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Speaker 2: Feel good stepping over fallen trees. I too, was in

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Speaker 2: a rain jacket. I thought it was a rain jacket

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Speaker 2: has a hood.

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Speaker 4: But also it feels a bit rain jackety.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thin doesn't fucking work.

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Speaker 2: I was absolutely soaked in it, and then it really

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Speaker 2: baffled me because I was like, what is the purpose

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Speaker 2: of this jacket?

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Speaker 1: Why does it have a.

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Speaker 2: Hood if it doesn't keep you dry? It's so thin,

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Speaker 2: it's not a jacket you'd wear in winter. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: keep you warm. No, what's the purpose of it.

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Speaker 4: I think maybe like a light spray of something.

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe if someone could like a hair spray like

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Speaker 3: it and just spray, do you on it?

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Speaker 2: You'd still be That's what the jacket protects you. If

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Speaker 2: someone's hair spray, that's what the.

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Speaker 3: Hairdressers and you're sitting there and they're just like a

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Speaker 3: little trigger on their hairspray. You're like, Okay, it's all right.

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Speaker 3: I've got a spray jacket on. Don't worry about this guy.

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Speaker 3: It's got a spray jacket on, all covered.

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Speaker 2: They're like, you'd wear that in there, and you want

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Speaker 2: me to hang up your jacket. No, no, it's not

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Speaker 2: a rain jacket. It's a spray jacket. I can take

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Speaker 2: that fee your hair spray.

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Speaker 4: Prepared for every situation in this hairdressing.

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Speaker 3: SOE feedback on my socials, I had a lot of

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Speaker 3: responses from a lot of moms going, oh my god,

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Speaker 3: I sent.

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Speaker 4: My kid to camp with the same jacket. I was like, yeah, well,

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Speaker 4: guess what. Brown doesn't work. So we're all in the

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Speaker 4: same boat here.

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Speaker 2: There's a whole bunch of mums now that are not

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Speaker 2: using those as rain jackets, but they're all sending their

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Speaker 2: kids to the hairdressers just to get some use out

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Speaker 2: of it.