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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mea podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hey I'm Alaria Brophy and this is Mum and MEA's

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Speaker 2: twice daily news podcast, The Quickie. As Schoolies enters its

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Speaker 2: second week around the country, another crowd is ramping up

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Speaker 2: the coastal celebrations. They're older, wiser and definitely richer. Welcome

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Speaker 2: to the moolies. Yep, the moms of school leavers who

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Speaker 2: take idealic trips at the same time as schoolies, rejoicing

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Speaker 2: in their own festival of freedom and mega milestone that

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Speaker 2: whispers hank it's over. But before we get there, here's

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Speaker 2: Claire Murphy with the latest from the Quickie newsroom for Monday,

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Speaker 2: December one.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Hilaria. As Australia's airports ramp up for the expected

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Speaker 3: busy Christmas period, several issues have caused major delays across

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Speaker 3: the country. Nearly one hundred Jetstar flights were canceled on Saturday,

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Speaker 3: with several more added to the list yesterday morning after

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Speaker 3: engineers rushed to install a software patch on some of

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Speaker 3: its Airbus A three twenty fleet. The issue was discovered

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Speaker 3: after an inflight incident in the US earlier this year.

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Speaker 3: Jetstyle services have now resumed, but flow on delays from

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Speaker 3: the weekend continue to cause some disruption. In A separate

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Speaker 3: technological hitch and nationwide passport system outage caused major delays

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Speaker 3: for international travelers arriving at Australian airports yesterday. Long queues

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Speaker 3: and extended waytimes were reported for passengers to have their

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Speaker 3: passports processed at both Melbourne and Sydney airports. Australian Border

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Speaker 3: Force has since reported that the system issue has been

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Speaker 3: resolved at both airports. The final five percent of the

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Speaker 3: federal government's fifteen percent pay rise package will hit early

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Speaker 3: childhood educator's bank accounts from today, a year after the

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Speaker 3: initial ten percent began rolling out. The three point six

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Speaker 3: billion dollar measure was intended to attract more workers to

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Speaker 3: the sector and help reduce rates of casualization, burnout and turnover,

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Speaker 3: hindering primaries Anthony Albernizi's ambition of universal affordable childcare. One

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Speaker 3: year on results indicate the wage bump is working as intended.

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Speaker 3: Niezsha Hutchinson, vice president of long day care provider Peak

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Speaker 3: Body the Australian Childcare Alliance, says in the twelve months

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Speaker 3: to August, the number of educators rose by fifteen than

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Speaker 3: one hundred, an increase of six percent. Even more significant

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Speaker 3: was the reduction in turnover, with a fourteen percent drop

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Speaker 3: in vacancy rates from October twenty twenty four to October

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Speaker 3: this year. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ettnia, who has asked

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Speaker 3: Israel's president to grant him a pardon during his long

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Speaker 3: running corruption trial. In a statement on Sunday, the Prime

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Speaker 3: Minister's office said Netna who had submitted a request for

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Speaker 3: the President. The office called it an extraordinary request carrying

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Speaker 3: with its significant implications. Netna, who is the only sitting

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Speaker 3: charged with fraud, breach of trust, and accepting bribes in

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Speaker 3: political supporters. He's not yet been convicted of anything. More

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Speaker 3: than one thousand people have turned out to pay tribute

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Speaker 3: to the victims of Hong Kong's deadliest fire in more

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Speaker 3: killed one hundred and twenty eight people and left one

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Speaker 3: complex remains under investigation amid public anger and dismay over

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Speaker 3: The smell of smoke still hung in the air four

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Speaker 3: full days after the fast moving blaze fanned across the

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Speaker 3: exterior of seven residential towers under renovation. Mourners waited in

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Speaker 3: Court housing complex to lay white flowers for those who died.

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Speaker 3: Nicole Kidman has spent her first Thanksgiving without Keith Urban

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Speaker 3: doing a charity run. The Practical Magic Star, who's divorcing

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Speaker 3: the Country Star after nineteen years of marriage, was joined

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Speaker 3: order for the Prime Minister Anthony Alberanizi, who made history

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Speaker 3: Alberizi married his partner Jody Hayden at an intimate ceremony

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Speaker 3: the aisle hand in hand to Stevie Wonder's signs sealed delivered.

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Speaker 2: I'm yours, thanks Claire. Next, schooly shmoolies. It's all about

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Speaker 2: the moolies. Okay, so we've heard of schooling. Yes, freshly

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Speaker 2: The mums of schoolies is a growing movement of mum's

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Speaker 2: booking getaways at the same time as their teens Schoolies Week.

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Speaker 2: There's of course also poolies, parents of schoolies and Doolies dads,

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Speaker 2: but these trends have definitely been put on ice for now,

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Speaker 2: and while mums of schoolies isn't exactly new, it is

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Speaker 2: as mums embrace a new era and hotels and tourism

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Speaker 2: groups realize there's another crew ready to party and they're

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Speaker 2: way better funded. According to travel services like Girls get Away,

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Speaker 2: these Mooley vacates have absolutely boomed since twenty eighteen, with

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Speaker 2: Peninsula throughout late November and December. They even reckon. Mooley's

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Speaker 2: inquiries have jumped a staggering forty percent over the past

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Speaker 2: twelve to eighteen months. Sydney Mama four Sasha Dirdovic, enjoyed

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Speaker 2: her very first Moolies in NUSA last year with four

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Speaker 2: other mothers of school leavers and she's even considering round

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Speaker 4: So we went away to NUSA for about four nights

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Speaker 4: We enjoyed cheese platters and drinks on the water. We

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Speaker 4: Then we went to all the beautiful restaurants in NUSA,

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Speaker 4: And a massage. Just a really nice relaxing getaway for mums.

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Speaker 2: And if you're picturing bad moms or mum's gone wild,

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Speaker 2: They definitely let their hair out, let me tell you.

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Speaker 2: But it was more about nice wines and restaurants, over

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Speaker 4: Definitely not sleepy tea tame. It was wild in terms

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Speaker 2: And no, this isn't about holiday and within earshot of

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Speaker 2: In fact, the entire point is to have a break

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Speaker 4: The dads certainly aren't welcome on this one. It was

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Speaker 1: It's like a little payoff for us.

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Speaker 2: And look, there has been some mentions of alcohol consumption

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Speaker 2: in this app. Please remember to always drink responsibly. So

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Speaker 2: Real Housewives of Sydney and of course she's about to

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Speaker 2: launch a brand new podcast as well.

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Speaker 5: I have which is very very exciting called wildly Appropriate

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Speaker 5: because I am so appropriate, which I'm going to be

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be wildly appropriate though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well let's get straight into that. So you are

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Speaker 2: a celebrity Molly and a very proud Mollie.

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Speaker 1: Yes I am. This is my third Mollie's Week.

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Speaker 2: So take us through how you're doing Moollies this week,

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Speaker 2: because obviously Morley's means that you're a mum that has

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Speaker 1: Yes, what's incredible about this?

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Speaker 1: So by the time you've finished, you've really gone through.

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Speaker 5: And look, I had the two boys first, which I

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Speaker 5: all that. You get to the end and you need

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Speaker 1: Nursad Nura protruded.

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Speaker 5: Yes, well, everyone will be around, you know, everyone's been

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Speaker 5: I have the after party at my house and there

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Speaker 5: last one. I've done this three times before. And look,

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Speaker 5: there are a lot of wholesome activities on Moolli's, but

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Speaker 5: I must say my table from the last Mollies is

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Speaker 5: still cracked.

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Speaker 1: A very well known lawyer, very very.

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Speaker 5: High profile, ran a law firm and I'm not going

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Speaker 5: to be mentioning names, but she ran a law firm

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Speaker 5: for a very very long time came up and just

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Speaker 5: let her hair down. Had literally never really had a

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Speaker 5: and was just having the time of her life at

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Speaker 5: the after party, and before you know, she'd fallen through it.

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Speaker 2: Oh stop, what material was?

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Speaker 1: Well, it was actually stone. So it's not a great story.

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Speaker 2: That's some force exactly. Okay, So give me a day

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Speaker 2: in the life of a Mally.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Well, it's actually quite well planned. Different schools plan

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Speaker 5: different events. Okay, because you're hotelling to Maulis after this,

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Speaker 5: I am literally packed and raring to go. We do

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Speaker 5: a lot of walking, so you always get up into

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Speaker 5: a wholesome activity to start with, and that could be

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Speaker 5: you know, a walk to the National Park.

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Speaker 5: I mean already just in our sort of close circle,

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Speaker 5: Like we're not talking hens parties, no, but doing things

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Speaker 5: I have heard there's a few Duley's lunches going around, but.

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Speaker 2: Like it's been such a big deal to get your

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Speaker 2: all about your child. Milana. Can you take us through

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Speaker 5: It's I think it's been a really emotional year. One

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 2: That problems our next question because I wonder what your

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Speaker 1: In fact, I think we.

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Speaker 2: Might bring her in right now. Hi guys, this is

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Speaker 2: Chris's daughter Milana. Milana, this is a bit of a

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Speaker 2: going on Moolli's.

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Speaker 6: I think if it doesn't get as crazy as us,

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Speaker 6: good time as long as there's no stories of skinny

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Speaker 6: dipping in NUSA or anything crazy that I've had.

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Speaker 1: That one.

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Speaker 5: Nothing like mid fifties getting their gear off in the pool,

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Speaker 5: like they'll have every trade running in NUSA.

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Speaker 1: Oh, they could be so lucky.

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Speaker 2: Well, it was so great to have you here, Milana,

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Speaker 2: and I bet to keep moving because of course we

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Speaker 2: know and love you from the Real Housewives of Sydney.

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Speaker 2: You were just spectacular on that. Can you give us

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Speaker 1: Look?

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Speaker 5: I think with me, you never say never, but it

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Speaker 5: when you film Housewives for such a long period of time,

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Speaker 5: I don't know. You know what I've just done The Traitors, Yes,

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Speaker 5: which is coming out in Channel ten. That is really condensed.

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Speaker 5: That is, if you make it through to the end,

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Speaker 5: it's potential of thirteen days away, whereas Housewives.

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Speaker 1: Is drawn over months and months and months, and it goes.

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Speaker 5: Into your real life, like you know, the Traders I'm

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Speaker 5: and they're not in my real life, whereas these housewives

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Speaker 5: So it really does impede on your life, and it

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Speaker 5: really does take in an emotional time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't escape it.

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Speaker 5: No, and I just I just don't want to, especially now,

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Speaker 5: you know Milana. I mean Milana was six when we

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Speaker 5: and I don't want to be that example for my daughter.

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Speaker 5: And look, I do not regret one single episode.

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Speaker 1: I love all of it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm thinking we should probably end with like a

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Speaker 2: trademark Real Housewives intro line but for Mollies.

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Speaker 1: Oh, for Molies.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so what would your beind what would be my

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Speaker 1: I maybe going to Nusha, but I'm not just going

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Speaker 1: to be a boozer. Do you like that?

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Speaker 6: What?

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Speaker 4: That is?

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