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Speaker 1: Apote Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am I

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Speaker 1: A Bad Mom? Podcast? We're on Instagram too at am

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Speaker 1: I A Bad Mum?

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Speaker 2: I can't say I've been overly active on there this

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Speaker 2: past week. I go really hard on it and.

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Speaker 3: Then find all these funny things and then I just

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Speaker 3: like slide off the wayside again.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of like real life takes over. I guess.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's good because that means that you're being present,

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Speaker 1: you're enjoying life.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I do not feel good when I've just scrolled through,

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Speaker 1: and so I get.

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Speaker 3: So angry at myself when I'm like, if I look

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Speaker 3: down and I've seen the time, and then all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden, I've chewed up twenty five minutes or whatever,

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Speaker 3: even five minutes yeh of my own time. I get

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Speaker 3: so ever stated at myself about wasting my life away

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Speaker 3: on an algorithm.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it is.

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Speaker 2: It was wild.

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Speaker 3: But speaking of algorithm, I was sitting having breakfast with

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Speaker 3: friends the other morning after fist up, and their daughter

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Speaker 3: is your girl's age, and she was sitting that she

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Speaker 3: had her dad next to her and she was like, dad,

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Speaker 3: did you see this reel? And she's trying to like

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Speaker 3: show him all these reels, and for her the reels

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Speaker 3: were hilarious and for a dad, he had a little giggle,

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Speaker 3: but he just like turned around, he goes.

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Speaker 1: Mate, I'm all reeled out.

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Speaker 2: Stop.

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Speaker 3: I lost it laughing watching the dynamic of this father

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Speaker 3: and daughter just going like.

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Speaker 2: I'm all reeled out. I was like, what is that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know what teenagers do. They are constantly

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Speaker 1: showing their parents' stuff that only they are interested in.

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Speaker 1: So it's all about them, and so conversations that you

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Speaker 1: have with your teenagers are about what they're interested in.

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Speaker 1: They might occasionally throw in the how you, but they

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Speaker 1: don't really care.

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Speaker 3: I am trying to think about what the real was

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Speaker 3: that tipped him over the edge, because she was trying

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Speaker 3: to show him and then she was trying to show us.

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Speaker 2: I think it was a cat reel.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe, and it was just for a dad like

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Speaker 3: it was just automatic and then just throwing the comment

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Speaker 3: out there, I'm all reeled out. I was like, I'm

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Speaker 3: all reeled out.

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Speaker 1: That was a good one, because I get nothing but

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Speaker 1: Billy videos. Billy.

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Speaker 2: Oh look at what.

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Speaker 1: Billy's Oh my goodness, and I've got to the point

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Speaker 1: now where I don't even pretend to be interested. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I just look and go. I got zero interested in that.

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Speaker 3: They're like, we're trying to connect with you over Billy,

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Speaker 3: and you're ignoring us.

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Speaker 1: Am I bad mom for encouraging her to lie. Now,

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Speaker 1: Harlly had a job interview. In fact, both girls have

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Speaker 1: had job interviews the last couple of weeks, which is great.

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Speaker 1: Like they were working at Meccas, they still are working

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Speaker 1: at Maccers, but they want to earn more money now

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Speaker 1: rage it's been so good. They even said last night,

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Speaker 1: they were like, oh, I can't believe, like you didn't

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Speaker 3: It's like they've got a taste of money, yeah, because

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Speaker 3: mc donald's. Let's be honest, they're not paying big bucks,

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Speaker 3: but they've got a taste of what it is to

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Speaker 3: have an income and now they're like, oh, how do

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Speaker 1: And to be able to spend it? Yeah, and also

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Speaker 1: the feeling of not having to ask us for everything

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Speaker 1: and us say no. And so both girls, off their

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Speaker 1: They're still going to do the one a week they get,

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Speaker 1: but they were like, we need a second job, and

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Speaker 1: so Amelia went for her interview. That was all good,

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Speaker 1: she got the job. Holly them went for her interview.

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Speaker 1: We sat in the car outside and we're a little

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Speaker 1: bit early, so I said, let's do some practice. She's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: why do you want to work here? Like, you know,

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Speaker 1: about teamwork and all the rest of it. And then

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Speaker 1: I said why would you be good at this job?

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Speaker 1: So she starts telling me the answers right, I'm hard working,

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Speaker 1: looked at me like are they good answers. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean you're not any of those things. But but lie,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, definitely lie. She's going through all the things.

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Speaker 1: Love a challenge, work well under pressure. Yeah, Nope, nope.

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Speaker 1: And then she said to me, Mum, you're a business owner.

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Speaker 1: Would you employ me? And I went, oh, well, well,

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Speaker 1: but I have you at home, so I know what

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Speaker 2: You're getting for her stand experience.

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Speaker 1: So no, I wouldn't employ you. However, I think you're

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Speaker 1: you do around the house, which is nothing, if I

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Speaker 1: look at all of you know what's happening and you

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Speaker 1: know the hard work that happens around the house, which

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Speaker 2: Think you're like knowing it not knowing it.

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Speaker 1: Would I employ you to work in this house? The

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Speaker 1: answer is no. However, this is lie, lie, lie about it.

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Speaker 3: Also, this from the lie gives you a great platform

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Speaker 3: to start with. You'll know already the categories that you

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Speaker 3: need to work on. The team player loves challenges. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: really like a hard worker.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Tell me about yourself. What are you doing your

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Speaker 1: spare time? You know? Oh, I'm very active in my

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Speaker 1: The list goes on, like, I really enjoy helping out

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Speaker 1: with charity work. Never charity starts at home. Oh No,

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Speaker 1: I did accompany mum on charity walk once because she

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Speaker 2: To content anything. I love your honesty. Honesty really does

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Speaker 3: And I think you really set her up for a

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Speaker 3: strong interview and it obviously went well because she got

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Speaker 1: Got the job, robsmacked. No, I wasn't. I knew she

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Speaker 1: to get the job at home. No, I've still got that.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're still looking.

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Speaker 3: We're still hiring, because you're rehiring if anyone's interested. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so obviously went well. The lies came off strong. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Great, they bit the whole line and sinker, which is great.

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Speaker 2: And she got the job. Now both of them have

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Speaker 2: been successful in a job. Yeah, that's wonderful. That's a

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Speaker 2: great that's a great few weeks in your household.

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Speaker 1: How come I'm excited, Rachel?

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Speaker 3: And they're on the home stretch to like, I guess

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Speaker 3: technically we worked out that they already started grade twelve

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Speaker 3: so technically they're almost wrapped up for another year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so the girls are doing a taf at

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Speaker 1: schools program this year, So technically, I mean, there are

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Speaker 1: exams to do next year, but next year isn't as

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Speaker 1: important as if they were doing ATAR. I don't really

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Speaker 1: but I don't. I'm not fully at least you're at

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Speaker 1: the end of it. Well, yeah, and so this is

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Speaker 1: the thing I was looking into the other day. How

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Speaker 1: much money I have to pay left of school fees? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: I mean everything would be excited.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, raat, I got to pay another thirty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: That is a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: I did say, John, just finishing year eleven. I mean.

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Speaker 2: You're not really.

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Speaker 1: How about it? Said no other parent ever than this one.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to go down where my brain is at.

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Speaker 3: We're not going there, all right, Okay, So the answer was, no,

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Speaker 3: they're not finishing in grade eleven.

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Speaker 2: They've got this closer doing that.

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Speaker 3: They're also going for their license, one of them is

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Speaker 3: Holly is yeah, you're technically like okay, Yeah, thirty thousand

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Speaker 2: Got left pay.

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Speaker 1: But like your Uber bills going down really soon. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, I know the return favor of you driving

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Speaker 1: them around everywhere is going to be returned soon. Mum's

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Speaker 1: taxi holy is retiring yea one, and it's a whole

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Speaker 3: I know you'll be able to go everywhere, do everything,

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Speaker 3: and then you'll just be able to get picked up

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Speaker 3: at any stage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's what happens in my head. But again, with.

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Speaker 3: Their charitable expertise that they've shown this far, do you

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Speaker 3: think how many trips do you reckon?

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Speaker 1: You'll get I reckon. They will definitely be trying to

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Speaker 1: charge me for sure, and then I'll ladd up how

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Speaker 1: many lifts I gave them over the years and actually

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Speaker 2: It's not ever going to be tipped out.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be going back to the days where

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Speaker 1: I go, okay, I'll put in for petrol money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll give you five dollars a week. That'll be

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Speaker 2: about it. But yeah, crazy times in your household.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, considering the fact that we started this podcast and

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Speaker 3: the girls were what, like.

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Speaker 2: Where are we at? Elsie is ten and she was

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Speaker 2: about two and a half. They were seven eight borried?

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Speaker 2: Think any of their license got a job? You know

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Speaker 2: they're wrapping up school license?

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Speaker 1: Get your license. You can finish school in year eleven.

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Speaker 1: You could be an uber driver.

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Speaker 2: You could be making money.

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Speaker 3: Lebrun ze U, you're from Wooli's jobs your macas Uber

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Speaker 3: in between rolling in it.

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Speaker 1: The amount of people, the amount of other people rached

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Speaker 1: that go, oh, the girl's going to unie.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I'm encouraging them to finish in year eleven.

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Speaker 1: Quit school. Now, come on quit.

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Speaker 2: Now you've done your tape degree.

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Speaker 1: I think you've done enough. I think you're all good.

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Speaker 2: This is wonderful. This has been fun. They can drive,

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Speaker 2: and if they don't get their license the first time,

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Speaker 2: tell them, don't worry, don't get disheartened. Just try again.

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Speaker 2: Get back on horse.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, rach I took them out yesterday to do some

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Speaker 1: of their maneuvers. They looked at me, and when our

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Speaker 1: driving instructor told us to do it nothing like that,

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Speaker 1: I was like, okay, listen to him. There's things that

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Speaker 1: I do on the road. They go, mum, that was

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Speaker 1: highly illegal. I'm like, is it?

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Speaker 2: Are they newly illegal? No?

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Speaker 1: No, it's been like that for twenty years.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: But that's what I mean.

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Speaker 3: If you're doing something that's illegal, we would have been

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Speaker 3: pulled up for it, right.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, not necessarily. Why Like, how many times do

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Speaker 1: you go to turn left and cut across the bus lane?

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Speaker 3: And shit, wait, that's more about your driving skills. What

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Speaker 3: do you mean cut across.

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Speaker 1: The bus lane, cut across the bike lane?

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Speaker 2: Oh, the bike lane where the fuck are you meant

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Speaker 2: to go?

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Speaker 1: Then no, but you know that there's sometimes there's the

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Speaker 1: dotted lines. That's when you're supposed to go.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, No, they're only there for show. It's just

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Speaker 2: a guy. That's a that's not real.

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Speaker 1: That's a guy.

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Speaker 2: What's wrong with you?

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Speaker 1: They're looking sixty ish? Mate. You are more of a.

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Speaker 3: Hazard on this road if you're going under the speed limit,

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Speaker 3: and if you're going

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Speaker 1: Over a speed limit, okay, well tell that to the police.