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

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Speaker 1: A Bad Mum? Podcast? We are so close to Christmas?

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Speaker 2: Is it true? Like six weeks?

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Speaker 3: Ye?

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Speaker 2: Six weeks or five weeks out from Christmas?

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's only three weeks left of school,

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Speaker 1: three weeks three or four?

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Speaker 2: That means four for me. That means my child's four

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Speaker 2: weeks off of graduating. Yeah, primary school school.

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Speaker 1: That's a milestone.

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Speaker 2: Yay loiesus.

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Speaker 1: Do you do a lot for Halloween? I know we've

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Speaker 1: just had Halloween.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we do because the area that we live in

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Speaker 3: is quite inundated with people. Because it's sort of like

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Speaker 3: everyone's caught on that in the village. Everyone sort of

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Speaker 3: joins in, and so we do. We get right into it.

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Speaker 3: I bought Halloween things for the front, and then we

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Speaker 3: get right into it.

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Speaker 2: And I feel like I've just.

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Speaker 3: Pulled down the giant spider to be able to put

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Speaker 3: up a Christmas tree.

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Speaker 2: I haven't put the Christmas tree up yet.

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Speaker 1: No good. So we were home on Halloween. Actually the

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Speaker 1: girls are both working now, they're working girls, and I

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Speaker 1: was like working girls working. But I got home from

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Speaker 1: taking them to work, and Day was sat there and

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Speaker 1: he had a Halloween mask on. He'd got the lollies

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Speaker 1: out of the pantree and he'd put like this little

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Speaker 1: halloween thing out on the front porch, which like when

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Speaker 1: you walk close to it, it's like scared. It's like, ah, scaredgy.

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Speaker 1: And he looked really miserable, and I went, what's wrong?

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Speaker 1: And he went, we haven't had one single trick or tree.

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Speaker 2: Really, did you have anyone come to the door?

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Speaker 1: Not one single person? Do you know what he said

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Speaker 1: to me? Since your fault? So why, he said, Because

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Speaker 1: you dig out lollies from seven years ago that you

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Speaker 1: never let the kids have when they did trickle tree,

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Speaker 1: and that's why no one comes to our house anymore.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're the crazy lady down the street

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Speaker 1: that brings out old lollies.

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Speaker 2: Am I bad mom.

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Speaker 1: For comparing them to when we were teenagers?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, we talk about this a bit, don't we. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're not that old. We're not that far off being teenagers.

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Speaker 1: When I was talking to them the other day about driving,

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Speaker 1: I was like, I've been driving since I was seventeen,

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Speaker 1: And then I did the math.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't, I know.

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Speaker 3: It feels so much more fresher when you say no,

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Speaker 3: I've been driving since I was seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they weren't saying I've been driving for twenty four years.

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Speaker 2: You don't say that it's horrible. Don't count it. That's

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Speaker 2: a lot of years. Yeah, I know, just staying with

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Speaker 2: the fresh comment, like, you know.

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Speaker 1: Since I was seventeen, seventeen, Yeah, just a few years ago,

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Speaker 1: far away at all. I feel like we compare them

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Speaker 1: a lot to when we were teenagers, because I feel

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Speaker 1: like we were a lot more resilient than they are now.

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Speaker 1: We've allowed them to be children for longer, we had

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Speaker 1: all the whole. When I think about the time I

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Speaker 1: was allowed to walk home on my own in the

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Speaker 1: dark through the graveyard eleven pm, it's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Now now it's.

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Speaker 3: Like, no, they're out the front waiting for their uber

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Speaker 3: that well, we've created these monsters.

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Speaker 1: How we've allowed it to happen. But I had an

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Speaker 1: appointment booked to see a naturopath. I've wanted to do

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Speaker 1: this for years and I never have. And I was like,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm the sort of person that will

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Speaker 1: see an advert for some sort of greens powder or

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Speaker 1: cow's liver capsule or whatever it might be, and I

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Speaker 1: literally see it and go, I need that. That's what

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Speaker 1: I need, And then I have it, and then I

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Speaker 1: don't feel any different, and then I move on to

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Speaker 1: the next thing that someone's advertising me. Like, honestly, I'm

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Speaker 1: like a marketer's dream. I literally everything I see, I'm like, yep,

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Speaker 1: I need that.

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Speaker 2: I'll try it.

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Speaker 1: So I got to the point where I was like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what I need? Do I need that? Stuff? Like?

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Speaker 1: What am I deficient in? How do I know what

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Speaker 1: I'm deficient in? Why do I never feel any better

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Speaker 1: from taking these vitamins and stuff? Do I even need them?

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Speaker 1: So I went to see a naturopath bought some sort

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Speaker 1: of vitamin powder for ninety dollars. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: what it does.

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Speaker 3: I even know.

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Speaker 2: I was like, just because she said you needed it

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Speaker 2: or you were lacking in something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even know. I just was likely, So

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Speaker 1: if you're telling me that I need that, then I

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Speaker 2: At least you're taking a box.

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Speaker 3: By finally getting to see naturopath, that's too good to start.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm in there and she said to me,

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Speaker 1: what supplements do you take? And so I said, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I take vitamin D and sometimes I take

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Speaker 1: a probitic I forgot some left. Sometimes I might have

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Speaker 1: a Vitamin C if it's on special in coals, and

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Speaker 1: so it's just a little bit of Witch's back. And

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Speaker 1: we just got on too talking about the kids. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I said, I bought Lemmy gummies because the kids were

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Speaker 1: telling me that that's what we needed. Shed Lemmy gummies

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Speaker 1: are like, yeah, you know the Krny Kardashian her brand.

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Speaker 1: And I take the debloat ones, which are good for

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Speaker 1: gut health. And I said, and the sea moss. She went, wow,

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Speaker 1: isn't that crazy that your fifteen year old children talking

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Speaker 1: about needing sea moss? I said, yeah, we never did

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Speaker 1: that when we were teenagers. Could you imagine ever talking

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Speaker 1: about needing sea moss or any vitamins or any wellness

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Speaker 1: anything when we were teenagers. I'm like, my kids have

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Speaker 1: now turned sixteen. My kids are talking about Lemmy gummies,

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Speaker 1: They're talking about ancestral nutrition, liver capsules, they're talking about

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Speaker 1: sea moss. I was like their age. I was working

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Speaker 1: in the cloak room of a nightclub being paid in speed.

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Speaker 2: I was waiting for so.

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Speaker 3: Did the natural mouth literally just dropped like They're like

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Speaker 3: what the fuck am I dealing with you? Yet?

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm also on the other side of it.

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Speaker 3: I would never just take gummies or beef livered tablets

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Speaker 3: because the Kardashians told me so, Like, I just wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: It's just not the way I do think. So I

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Speaker 3: would be this, I'd be like, oh, that's cool.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm not.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's because also in this day and age, we

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Speaker 1: scroll through Instagram or whatever, you're just having a look

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Speaker 1: at and every influencer is advertising something something, but you

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Speaker 1: don't know what to believe because they're all being paid

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right, That's what I mean. So I just

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Speaker 2: don't believe any of them. It's it's clear.

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Speaker 3: Also, the other part of it is is like it's

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Speaker 3: so interesting and I find the whole Like your girls

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Speaker 3: are sixteen now, you know they must be really interested

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Speaker 3: in that side of things, like well being and like

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Speaker 3: what you're putting into your body. And I was talking

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Speaker 3: to a couple of other girls and they were like,

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Speaker 3: they're very opposed drinking alcohol. I remember being their age,

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Speaker 3: I was not a posed to drinking alcohol. I just

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Speaker 3: had to do it without getting caught.

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Speaker 2: Yea. Now it's a flip.

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Speaker 1: It's so interesting because it's also so yes the teenagers,

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Speaker 1: but also the early twenties. It's that, like gen Z,

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Speaker 1: there's an age group that, oh, so much healthier than us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: One of the mums in I'm gonna let you guess

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Speaker 3: which one it is, but one of the moms.

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Speaker 2: Out of the group of friends.

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Speaker 3: We were doing a workout the other day and she's

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Speaker 3: telling me about how, oh my god, Rachel I found

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Speaker 3: these amazing alcohol free ciders.

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Speaker 1: Oh Emma, did she add to this.

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Speaker 3: She's like, they're so good, like they genuinely taste like

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Speaker 3: cider and they're like alcohol.

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Speaker 2: Free and this. And I was like, babe, just drink

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Speaker 2: soda water. What do you need that for? She because, well,

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Speaker 2: I want to feel like I'm having to drink.

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Speaker 3: I was like, but she goes, but I'm not having

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Speaker 3: a drink, you know, like I'm really saving and they

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Speaker 3: only have a drink on the weekend. I said, number one,

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Speaker 3: I'm so proud of you for making that change. I said,

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Speaker 3: but number two, drink side of four that's alcohol.

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Speaker 2: Just drink water.

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Speaker 3: Just have a soda water. It will give you the

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Speaker 3: effect of the bubbles. And she was like, no, you

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Speaker 3: just need to try it. Oh, I couldn't think of

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Speaker 3: anything worse.

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Speaker 1: I am not a fan of that either. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: if I am going to drink a non alcoholic wine,

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Speaker 1: for example, and it hasn't got the alcohol and it

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Speaker 1: what's the point?

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Speaker 2: Nah, just waste calorie.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want a bottle of I don't want

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Speaker 3: to drink a bottle of something that's like loaded with

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Speaker 3: sugar and all of that stuff.

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Speaker 2: I'd just rather drink soda water.

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Speaker 3: But in saying that, this whole wave of alcohol free

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Speaker 3: drinks that are available now, that's insane. It's so good

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Speaker 3: to see, actually, and I really support it. I'm not

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Speaker 3: supporting the companies by financially backing them and buying the

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Speaker 3: product because you still like I drunk.

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Speaker 2: But I do love it for other people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, love it for other people. Good on you.

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Speaker 2: I don't drink every day. We know this, This is

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Speaker 2: a fact. I love to.

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Speaker 3: Still, though, have a gen and Tonic on the weekends.

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Speaker 3: Come on, you need a sometimes. We know there's nights

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Speaker 3: where you just one quiet gener Tonic might just.

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Speaker 2: Help you go to sleep.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well five, if I have five, I'm on the

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Speaker 3: other side, We're gone out.

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Speaker 2: The party side. Clearly I didn't come from the same

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Speaker 2: gen Z group.

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Speaker 1: No, Like, yes, we're more unhealthy. I'm aware of that.

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Speaker 1: Like we didn't grow up with you know, we were

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Speaker 1: so different thinking about Sea Moss. No, geez were fun.

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Speaker 2: I'm just here for the vibes, guys.

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Speaker 3: And then all of the kids turn around and they're

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Speaker 3: like sober as a judge, and there's us in the background.

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Speaker 2: We're just like one of those fun moms.

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Speaker 1: Guys,