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Speaker 1: So you're listening to another miir podcast. Mamma Mia acknowledges

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 3: It's Annalise Todd here from this Glorious mess introducing Hot

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Speaker 3: Pod Summer, one hundred hours of curated listening across the

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Speaker 3: Mumamere network, just for you to escape the chaos and

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Speaker 3: enjoy with the kids at home and the weather warming up.

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Speaker 3: We've got episodes of little love Stories and Parents' Anonymous

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Speaker 3: to share. From the beginn to the yang. Parents Anonymous

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Speaker 3: is part game show, part church confessional. You share your

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Speaker 3: deepest parenting shame, and myself and Stacey Hicks rate you,

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Speaker 3: but the worst parenting wins the most points, so really

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Speaker 3: you can't lose. If you're looking for something else to

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Speaker 3: listen to, Mama Mia is officially presenting one hundred hours

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Speaker 3: of summer listens, from meaningful conversations to incredible stories, fashion,

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Speaker 3: beauty and more. There's a link in the show.

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Speaker 4: Notes Parents Anonymous welcome to this glorious mess. I'm Annalie's

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Speaker 4: single mum to two twain boys, and I mute my

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Speaker 4: kids sports WhatsApp groups. And I'm Stacy Hicks, the exhausted

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Speaker 4: mum of a very strong wheeled three year old girl.

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Speaker 4: And the bags under my eyes a country road I

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Speaker 4: got them on sale. Do you like them?

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Speaker 3: Well, I would say they're more giving Gucci. I feel

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Speaker 3: like more high end than that.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, I appreciate that. So today, Stace, we're launching a

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Speaker 4: fun new episode within your Glorious mess weekly feed called

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Speaker 4: Parents Anonymous. Yes, Parents Anonymous is part church confessional, heart

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Speaker 4: game show and a whole lot of laughs, if we

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Speaker 4: do say so ourselves. The concept is pretty simple. You

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Speaker 4: tell us a story and get the guilt off your chest,

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Speaker 4: and we judge you for it. But we will also

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Speaker 4: be putting you in competition with two other parents, just

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Speaker 4: in case you didn't find parenting enough of a competition already.

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Speaker 4: But in this case, you get the most points for

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Speaker 4: being the worst parents, so there's no losing.

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Speaker 3: I think that's the best kind of competition. I agree,

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Speaker 3: I would like to be crowned worst parent. So we

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Speaker 3: put a call out to our listeners through TGM and

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Speaker 3: Mama Mia for your confessions, and from there we invite

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Speaker 3: our favorite three to step into the confessional and spill

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Speaker 3: the guilty tea.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and we've never heard these before, So we're giving

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Speaker 4: you two minutes to tell your story, and then we

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Speaker 4: decide the best one based on hilariousness and creativity and

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Speaker 4: worse parentness and worse parentness.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely. On today's show, we have a dummy fairy, a

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Speaker 4: dating hotline. Oh that's on brand for me, and a

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Speaker 4: donating child.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm very intrigued, me too. Oh I can't wait.

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Speaker 4: Here we go. I tried to get my child to

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Speaker 4: stop using dummies by inventing something I like to call

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Speaker 4: the dummy fairy.

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Speaker 1: Picture this.

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Speaker 4: I dug a hole in the garden, the dummies were

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Speaker 4: placed inside. We sprinkled a little bit of glitter on

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Speaker 1: I feel so embarrassed in my child that they fell

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Speaker 1: for that, But oh well, it worked and now they don't.

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Speaker 5: Use a dummy.

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Speaker 3: The dummy fairy is not groundbreaking.

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Speaker 4: No, I was just about to say I wanted off

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Speaker 4: at this point. I invented the dummy fairy. I thought

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Speaker 3: Yes, but Stacy, did you go out into the garden

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Speaker 3: and bury it and give it a funeral? No?

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Speaker 4: I am giving her massive props for that because I didn't.

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Speaker 4: I just made up a story about the dummy fairy

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Speaker 3: And then not only did she give it a funeral,

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Speaker 4: I love it. I really should have thought of that. Actually,

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Speaker 4: religious symbolism of it being raised from Yes, love it.

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Speaker 4: I think it's great. Okay, well, there's nothing to go

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Speaker 4: first out of ten tactical parenting. Well, because she beat me,

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Speaker 4: she committed to the lie more than I ever would have.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to give her nine trucks out of ten.

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Speaker 3: like the glitter. That's good. I'm going to give her

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Speaker 4: Of ten trucks, or your hard market.

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Speaker 3: I like it. I am all right. So what have

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Speaker 5: I was out shopping and the shop assistant wanted to

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's nothing to be embarrassed about. She's busy, she's shopping,

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Speaker 4: Exactly. I have lost count of the amount of times

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Speaker 4: suddenly she'll make a noise and I go, oh, I'm

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Speaker 4: it's not great ideal to count your children before you

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Speaker 3: And it's good that she lives in a regional town.

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Speaker 3: That's safe in that instance as well. Exactly exactly in

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Speaker 3: small community, that's good. Yeah, so no harm was done,

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Speaker 3: the child got returned. I have threatened my kids before that.

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Speaker 3: I was going to put them on eBay and I

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Speaker 3: it to them. I think that's worse. What are you

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Speaker 4: We've got her deduct points for forgetting your child, but

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Speaker 4: we also totally understand why you've done it.

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Speaker 3: That's your marking system, not mine.

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Speaker 4: Do I sound too judging? I probably do, But look,

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Speaker 4: I think it's a great parenting confession. I think a

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Speaker 4: lot of people probably keep things like this to themselves,

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Speaker 4: So I think it's good that we just get these

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Speaker 3: So on eBay.

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Speaker 4: Yeah exactly, I'll give her seven point five.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay for oversharing, because you know, like that's that

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Speaker 3: the fact that she could like people like you would think,

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Speaker 3: it's really bad. I'm going to give her a nine

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Speaker 4: I feel like we've kept your perfect one And for last,

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Speaker 3: What she has to say.

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Speaker 2: I am a single parent and was out for coffee

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Speaker 2: with my friends, telling her all about my plan to

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Speaker 2: go out and have mindless sex with no strings attached

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Speaker 2: for the next twelve months, very intricate details. I got

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Speaker 2: to my car to leave, and my car said, do

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Speaker 2: you want to transfer the call to the car? I thought,

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Speaker 2: that's strange, I'm not on a call. Well yes I was.

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Speaker 2: In fact, I'd called the school mom's group chat for

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Speaker 2: twenty two minutes.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, our jaws are on the floor. Stacy like,

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Speaker 3: if this is not a visual medium, but if you

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Speaker 4: This is not something that happens to us very often.

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Speaker 4: We had never lost for words, never never, But.

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Speaker 3: Here we are.

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Speaker 4: This is my worst night, very in any situation.

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Speaker 3: I'm clutching my purse, and this is something that I

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Speaker 3: Like that is literally something that I would do. This

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Speaker 4: That's a long time. This is why you need to

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Speaker 4: check that the phone is off or away before you

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Speaker 4: start getting into the nitty gritty.

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Speaker 3: SERI is not listening and doing things.

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Speaker 4: I really want to know more about the fallout. I

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Speaker 4: really want to know what happened and how many people.

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Speaker 3: Heard the details, and if they committed to the full

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Speaker 4: There is no way on this earth I would be

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Speaker 4: hanging up on that call. If someone accidentally called me

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Speaker 4: and I was hearing the nedy gritty of their dating life,

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Speaker 4: I would be listening to every single second of it.

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Speaker 3: So corn straight to the microwave. I'm afraid to.

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Speaker 4: Say, I think everyone heard everything you had to say,

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Speaker 4: but I think everyone would be very jealous of what

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Speaker 3: I agree, actually, and I think this is not a

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Speaker 3: shameful one. This is the walk of fame, not a

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Speaker 3: walk of shame, exactly. They'll talk about you for decades,

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Speaker 3: So he's jealous. Yeah, and this will be the story

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Speaker 3: that they tell to their other mum friends in the

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Speaker 3: best possible way. I mean, I look at that legend,

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Speaker 3: the great sex life, off she goes the spring and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think she should be a shamed by

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Speaker 4: this at all. I think this is brilliant. And look

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Speaker 4: at the great table fodder that she's given to other

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Speaker 4: people to talk about with their friends. Like sometimes when

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Speaker 4: not doing that much, You're not getting out and doing

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Speaker 4: as much as other people. So really, you've done a

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Speaker 4: public service by sharing this story. I think it's great.

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Speaker 3: And for that, for your active service, for the service

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Speaker 3: of others doing God's work. I give you, Sexy Lady

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Speaker 3: a solid ten out of ten.

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Speaker 4: I give you ten butt dials out of ten. Well done.

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Speaker 3: And if you've got a confession, we would love to

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Speaker 3: hear it, Like we really really live for this. We

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Speaker 3: want to know it and just get it off your chest.

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Speaker 3: Release better out than in. As the old saying guy.

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Speaker 4: You'll feel better once you tell us.

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Speaker 3: We promise send us your secret shame. You can be

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Speaker 3: completely anonymous or leave a voice note or email. We

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Speaker 3: just want to hear from you. All the details are

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Speaker 3: in the show notes.