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Speaker 1: Apogee Production.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of Am I A Bad

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Speaker 2: Mum Podcast. We're on Instagram as well if you want

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Speaker 3: I do have a slight problem at the moment, which

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Speaker 3: is more due to timing of the year, but it

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Speaker 3: is coming out Halloween.

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Speaker 2: You participating, Yeah, well, I'm concentrating on Birthday in November

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Speaker 2: and then Christmas, which I've done nothing for.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Halloweens before that. Yeah, I know that, just like

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Speaker 3: only a couple of weeks away.

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Speaker 2: I just I sort of get away of not doing

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Speaker 2: much of Halloween anymore. There was definitely a time where

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Speaker 2: we would all dress up as a family and we'd

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Speaker 2: all go to or treating and they'd want the decorations

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Speaker 2: and stuff, which, by the way, I see people who

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Speaker 2: absolutely love Halloween and they go all out. I really

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Speaker 2: cannot justify spending money on Halloween stuff when it's one night.

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Speaker 1: It's one day, one day.

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Speaker 2: Christmas decorations you can have up for a couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks longer if you want.

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Speaker 1: If you have one of those people.

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Speaker 2: I feel like Halloween is literally one day you've got

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Speaker 2: the one day.

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Speaker 3: We are in a situation where same thing, we're still

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Speaker 3: like backtrack from you in that situation of the girls

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Speaker 3: enjoying it. Then also the fact that we're in an

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Speaker 3: estate where everyone not everyone, but we have a large

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Speaker 3: portion of it that have young kids that like Halloween

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Speaker 3: that then expect lollies.

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Speaker 1: From our house. Yep, I don't have the heart to

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Speaker 1: even just like close the gate and pretelose and pretend

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Speaker 1: that I'm not there. But this year've come.

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Speaker 3: Up with a little like sort of a sticky point

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Speaker 3: in the sense that Gracie wants to do her own

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Speaker 3: thing and not be a part of the family. And

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Speaker 3: I was sort of like, well, I don't think we

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Speaker 3: should do anything because it's also a dance night. And

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Speaker 3: I was like, but I paid for dance, like your

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Speaker 3: dance lissons. I paid for them.

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Speaker 1: That is like priority at the moment, and time does

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Speaker 1: dance finish? Six thirty too late?

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Speaker 3: I've already given all the candy out to every other

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Speaker 3: person's children that are walking the streets taking them. I'm

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Speaker 3: telling you, like, we have people at I would say

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Speaker 3: like maybe quarter past five five o'clock and then it's

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Speaker 3: peak out five to like six point thirty, maybe the

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Speaker 3: stragglers at six forty five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. I genuinely last year got a knock

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Speaker 2: on the door, opened it, saw the kids dressed up,

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Speaker 2: and went, oh shit, it's Halloween.

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Speaker 1: Did you throw them a loaf of bread or something?

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Speaker 1: Oh shit, it's Halloween. I've got no here take it.

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Speaker 2: No, Because I always keep the lollies that the kids

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Speaker 2: get heaps from the previous year. I was just putting

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Speaker 2: them all out again. I don't let them eat that

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Speaker 2: many lollies on the years because they have been trick

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Speaker 2: or treating, so I just keep them in a contentment.

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Speaker 2: They just come out again, Babe, they're off probably about

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Speaker 2: seven years old.

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Speaker 1: Am I a bad.

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Speaker 3: Mom for resenting giving up my Friday Night?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Friday night lights?

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Speaker 2: No, you're not a bad mum for resenting. I would

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Speaker 2: absolutely do the same.

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Speaker 3: So Friday Nights for us is now little athletics like

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Speaker 3: I started that last year. Put my name down for

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Speaker 3: the committee this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeap.

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Speaker 1: I haven't been to one meeting. Worst committee member ever?

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Speaker 2: What does that involve?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I said to them I definitely put my name down

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Speaker 3: for the committee and I'm happy to be a part

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Speaker 3: of it.

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Speaker 1: Just don't give me any jobs.

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Speaker 2: So you're just a name. You're just like a name

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Speaker 2: on the committee members board. You don't do anything. There's

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Speaker 2: committing to any.

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Speaker 3: I commit every Friday night when I turn up and

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Speaker 3: take my child to the under tens group, and then

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Speaker 3: I have to sort of do the recording or like

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Speaker 3: the measuring, and it's not just my child doing it,

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Speaker 3: it's everyone else's.

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Speaker 2: So what does the rest of the committee do.

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Speaker 3: They are really proactive, and really it's a really good committee. Actually,

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Speaker 3: they all are really lovely people that just get in

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Speaker 3: and like they run the Friday night so there's like

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Speaker 3: from the sausage sizzle to like the guy handing out numbers, and.

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Speaker 2: So they find it really beneficial having a part of it.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big part of their team.

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Speaker 3: And I think it's already been week five, maybe week four. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: I've been once to take my child to little athletics.

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Speaker 3: We've missed like three to four weeks of Friday nights

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Speaker 3: because Friday nights, you know how they just back up,

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Speaker 3: they're just busy. And then she was away and Cloncurry

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Speaker 3: and then so it's just a number of things. So

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Speaker 3: then when I finally did turn up on Friday night,

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Speaker 3: I got the old.

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Speaker 1: Ah, I didn't think you were coming back. Didn't think

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Speaker 1: you were coming back.

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Speaker 3: As I was driving there, I was like, oh, man,

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Speaker 3: I love I love.

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Speaker 1: What we do. I love what we give our kids,

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Speaker 1: the opportunities that all the rest.

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Speaker 3: But I'm like, Friday nights are tough. Friday nights are

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Speaker 3: so tough.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I would sign up for them to

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Speaker 2: do anything on a Friday night. I think I would

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Speaker 2: just tell them that it's not on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I tried that for so many years, and then

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Speaker 1: she really wanted to laugh.

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Speaker 2: Then they got older.

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Speaker 1: Now they're smart, they go, Mom's just telling us shit.

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Speaker 2: It's like when they get to that point where they

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Speaker 2: can actually tell the time, and so when you tell

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Speaker 2: them it's like eight o'clock, they're going to bed and

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Speaker 2: it's actually six.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, idea, it's a dead giveaway.

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Speaker 3: Mum.

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Speaker 1: The sun is still.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's summer.

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Speaker 3: I think the way that I look at it is

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Speaker 3: now when we go on a Friday night, the only

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Speaker 3: positive is that.

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Speaker 1: There is no I'm trying to think of it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: the sausage sizzle.

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Speaker 3: I don't have to cook dinner for the kids because

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Speaker 3: my kids love the sausage sizzle. So that's my positive

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Speaker 3: to Little Athletics is that they feed my children. I'm

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Speaker 3: still paying for it, of course, but they at least

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Speaker 3: I don't have to cook.

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Speaker 2: I've got a friend, in fact, we've got a friend

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Speaker 2: whose daughter does gymnastics on a Friday night and he

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Speaker 2: takes a flask with wine in it, like a water bottle,

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Speaker 2: Like it's disguised as a water bottle.

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Speaker 3: I think it's a dead giveaway though, when you rock

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Speaker 3: up every Friday night with the same water bottle, it's like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we're doing it too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you get happier and happier, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you get more friendlier and you want to chat

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Speaker 3: about random things.

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Speaker 2: And then you get by with your kids.

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Speaker 3: I would love to have one on the way to

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Speaker 3: like Little Athletics, or before going to the I've still

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Speaker 3: got to drive there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that's the thing that's only really helpful and

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Speaker 2: doable if you live in walking distance of the place that.

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Speaker 1: You're going to do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we definitely don't. So, yeah, that's the Friday nights

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Speaker 3: of I guess it's until the end of February for us.

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Speaker 3: I think it's February or March. It goes through till

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Speaker 3: so there goes the Fridays.

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Speaker 2: I held off, I think probably until the girls were

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Speaker 2: like maybe seven or eight. I held off from any

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Speaker 2: weekend sports.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was like, no, we're not doing things like Saturday

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Speaker 2: morning at six am, Like, that's not happening in this house.

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Speaker 2: We doing it, and we then did have yeah with

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Speaker 2: ice skating, Yeah, ice skating and dancing, we had Saturday mornings.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it did get.

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Speaker 2: To that stage and now and now, rach we're at

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Speaker 2: the stage where Amelia on Saturday has a shift from.

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Speaker 1: Eight till eleven, so.

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Speaker 2: She nationally needs to be dropped at work all different things.

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Speaker 2: And even she was like, ugh eight am. I went, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but you'd be done by eleven, that's what time you

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Speaker 2: normally get out of bed. She was like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'll have a whole day still and of her money

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Speaker 2: and yeah, see, how good because teenagers don't like to

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Speaker 2: get up in the morning. And Rache, I'm surprised that

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Speaker 2: Holly even got a job because when she went to

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Speaker 2: her interview, they asked her what days and time she

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Speaker 2: could work, and she was like, I can work anytime,

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Speaker 2: like outside of school hours, anytime. And she went, oh, really,

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Speaker 2: that's excellent, So like six am, and Holly went, no, jokes, right,

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Speaker 2: And I cannot believe she got off of the job

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Speaker 2: after this. Holly went, oh, no, maybe like twelve.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's it, start at twelve o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I said to her.

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Speaker 2: When she said to you, oh, watch her like six am.

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Speaker 2: You just say yes, yes, absolutely, anytime. I can do

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Speaker 2: anytime six am is absolutely fine. What you've said now

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Speaker 2: is nah, I don't want this job badly enough that

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Speaker 2: can't be asked. Definitely not getting up earlier, sending an

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Speaker 2: alarm for it. So pop me in in the.

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Speaker 1: Afternoon from twelve. I can't. My body actually doesn't work

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Speaker 1: until twelve.

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Speaker 2: And what time can you work till?

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Speaker 1: Like one?

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Speaker 3: Three hours