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Speaker 1: My husband's ex thought he would be a dead beat dad.

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Speaker 1: on my main I female twenty seven, married my husband,

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Speaker 1: male twenty nine, about a year ago and we've been

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Speaker 1: year old from a past marriage. Sorry for the upcoming length,

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Speaker 1: but I think all the context is important. Things. Da

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Speaker 1: Coda says before his days.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to apologize for the length.

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Speaker 1: No, you don't.

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Speaker 2: We accept it. However it is.

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Speaker 1: However it is. Wait, I met that in a good way.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I have the longness because it's a

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Speaker 2: You didn't have to explain it.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to explain yourself.

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Speaker 1: I realized I could have come off as it does.

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Speaker 2: But I've read they don't have to explain yourself. Read

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Speaker 2: you're fine, dude. Read the story. Read, look at the timer, read.

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Speaker 1: Read by the way it was, I took it as

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Speaker 1: good as you should. He did good.

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Speaker 2: And now we're moving forward. Now we're gonna read.

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Speaker 1: There we go. Pinky the sayers says, we all need

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Speaker 1: to code his leg. But by the way, this comes

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Speaker 1: Here's where we already get a little messy. Both my

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Speaker 1: and for the wrong reasons, and then emotionally it ended

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Speaker 1: before they officially said it. I mean, okay, they're like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: They can acknowledge that.

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Speaker 1: And she also cheated on him with different partners for

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Speaker 1: a large part of their marriage.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's not as fine.

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Speaker 1: All around, just not the right people for each other,

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Speaker 1: which happens. She got pregnant after they had started to

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Speaker 1: think about ending things, and to make a long story short,

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Speaker 1: he and his family and frankly myself are convinced that

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Speaker 1: she got pregnant entirely on purpose, like the cliche, poked

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Speaker 1: actively tracking her period. Don't know how it went down,

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Speaker 1: but while she was pregnant, she said she wanted a

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Speaker 1: divorce fast forward. She had the baby. He tried to

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Speaker 1: stay and make it work for their son, but in

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Speaker 1: the end they got a divorce and he and I

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Speaker 1: got together. I did not know him when they were married.

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Speaker 1: To be clear, I love him and his son so deeply,

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Speaker 1: and he and I have a very open conversation on

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Speaker 1: my role as a step mom. He fought for her

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Speaker 1: to accept a fifty to fifty custody schedule. Good scheduling

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Speaker 1: is up to them, not a judge. After he and

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Speaker 1: I moved in together, after only having him for weekends

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Speaker 1: and paying crazy high child support and still giving her

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Speaker 1: I am able to do daycare pickup and drop off,

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Speaker 1: while his work schedule didn't allow for that, which is

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Speaker 1: why he only did weekends. So it seems like he

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Speaker 1: kind of got screwed over.

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Speaker 2: He did not get the fair end of the bargain.

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Speaker 1: No, so now we have him fifty percent of the time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and brain says, is it his son, Yeah, it's not

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Speaker 1: Ope's son, but it's uh Ope's partner son. Yep. He

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Speaker 1: still pays the child support but does not send her money,

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Speaker 1: and she and I communicate a lot as I take

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Speaker 1: on a relatively traditional mother role. The biological parents still

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Speaker 1: handle all major decisions, but my husband regularly consults with

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Speaker 1: me on them, especially because I have higher education in

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Speaker 1: child development. But every decision in Milestone starts a fight

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Speaker 1: between them. She was mad when I gave him a

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Speaker 1: haircut during his time with us, nothing drastic, just a trim,

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Speaker 1: because it was in his eyes and it wasn't his first.

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Speaker 1: She was upset when we took him to an event

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Speaker 1: we had no idea and it was during our regular

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Speaker 2: Oh no, not one of these.

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Speaker 1: She got mad where my husband got him his first bike,

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Speaker 1: because she should have been able to do that with him. Uh,

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Speaker 1: like my husband isn't allowed to have core memories with

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Speaker 1: his own son as well. They are mostly uh there,

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Speaker 1: there are, There are honestly more, even her getting mad

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Speaker 3: This is literally the exact same energy as like like

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Speaker 3: the like the divorced dad that like shows up, you know,

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Speaker 3: because and he's like, instead of instead of just being

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Speaker 2: Like you shouldn't be doing that. That's my thing, that's

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Speaker 2: my job. Stop it.

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Speaker 1: Like, who do you think you are. It's like jealous

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Speaker 1: of his child's happiness. Yeah, it's ridiculous. A recent fight

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Speaker 1: between them was when he asked to lower child support,

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Speaker 1: not even get rid of it, because he and I

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Speaker 1: are both in well paying jobs, and agreed, we could

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Speaker 1: afford helping her since we have equally split customer custody.

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Speaker 1: Oh so basically he would be paying less, but she

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Speaker 1: would be paying more, So they would split the custody.

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Speaker 1: They would split the child support between OP and op

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Speaker 2: Wait, how is how does that make sense?

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Speaker 1: I think they just want to because OPI feels like

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Speaker 1: the kid is hers too.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh so she was like offering.

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Speaker 4: In Yeah, that's that's an angel move.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. She lost it and said she is the primary

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Speaker 2: Wait, or it just deserves to give the support.

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Speaker 1: Wait. A recent fight between them was when he asked

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Speaker 1: the lower child support. So OP asked the lower child

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Speaker 1: support that he's paying uh uh for to his previous partner. Oh,

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Speaker 1: could afford helping her. So not getting rid of it,

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Speaker 1: but basically lower the child support. Sorry. So she's not

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Speaker 1: She lost it and said she is the primary parent

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Speaker 1: and deserves the support. Unkind words were shared and nothing

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Speaker 1: was really resolved. This is such a common trend in

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Speaker 1: our co parenting and when venting to my best friends,

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Speaker 1: she suggested that his ex thought he'd be a dead

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Speaker 1: be a dead beat. Dat. Wow, he's very far from it.

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Speaker 1: He's very he's very involved.

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Speaker 2: It was like he's the polar. It sounds like if

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Speaker 2: anyone was the dead beat, it's her.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it made so much sense when she said it

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Speaker 1: a single parent, even though his ex has a partner.

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Speaker 1: But that's a whole other story. Worry things like always

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Speaker 1: making sure as X knows, we can be flexible with

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Speaker 1: whose time it is. We're very flexible with holidays and

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Speaker 1: are always willing to go off the schedule for special events.

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Speaker 1: We'll send photos when he's with us with us and

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Speaker 1: always do face times if he's missing his mom, But

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Speaker 1: he has stopped asking lately. Is the mom doing something? Maybe? Why?

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Speaker 2: I bet you's a mom's horrific.

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Speaker 3: Toxicity is maybe seeping out of her without her realizing

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Speaker 3: has now just clocked it and been like, oh, she sucks.

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Speaker 1: I think desperation and security show up in odd ways generally,

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Speaker 1: and like, the more insecure you are, you're going to

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Speaker 1: subtly show that to everyone around you. And like children

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Speaker 1: are extremely emotionally perceptive, yes, but not necessarily can't necessarily

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Speaker 1: intellectualize it, right, but.

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Speaker 1: Can pick up on the vibe and will distance themselves, right?

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Speaker 2: But I mean, I don't think you're wrong.

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Speaker 3: You're probably right because she's the parent who's like, how

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Speaker 3: dare you have a relationship with my child?

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Speaker 2: That's my job?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like you can't. You're not allowed to be the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just so self centered.

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Speaker 1: So self centered. It's like, do you not want what's

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Speaker 3: You have to I always say, this is my line.

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Speaker 3: You have to think of the children, Think of the children.

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Speaker 1: Think of the children. That's his line.

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Speaker 2: No, I'll leave it at that. But and he's an

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Speaker 2: advocate for women's wrongs.

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Speaker 1: And women's wrongs and children. Stand up for women, stand

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Speaker 1: up for women. Look at them, look at them. So

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Speaker 1: no visual humor, the cod of.

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Speaker 2: Just I stood up for those listening. I stood up.

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Speaker 1: If he's missing his mom, but he has stopped asking lately.

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Speaker 1: If anyone has advice on how to navigate this co

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Speaker 1: little trauma from split households as possible, I greatly appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I think the hard thing about this is like, I

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Speaker 2: I mean you can try like a like a joint

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Speaker 2: Therapy kind of break down some of the walls.

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Speaker 1: I think, I think you need to understand, like obviously

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Speaker 1: she is not trying to I don't think she's trying

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Speaker 1: get taken out on the child. It's totally not Op's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's got to figure out what she's doing. I mean,

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Speaker 3: because they had a toxic relationship.

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Speaker 2: We'll cheat on each other. Yeah, like they weren't. You know,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't it wasn't a fit.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know if maybe you know she's holding

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Speaker 3: onto any negativity from that, you know, their their marriage,

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Speaker 3: but like you got to.

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Speaker 2: Move on from it for the kid, for the children. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: for the children. You have to figure out how to

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Speaker 2: not be a monster for your children. She probably doesn't

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Speaker 2: even know she is one.

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Speaker 1: So we got an update, We got an update, Let's go,

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Speaker 1: Let's dig. Also six minutes, six minutes for food six

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Speaker 1: likely be my one and only update.

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Speaker 4: Oh, especially since it's a throwaway only.

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Speaker 1: It's a long one, and we'll probably leave people angry

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Speaker 1: and with more assumptions. Oh all right, My husband read

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Speaker 1: But I think honestly, like if she even if she

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Speaker 3: I mean, she's officially recognized as a parental figure.

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Speaker 1: But still Kimberly find says, No, she said that was

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Speaker 1: I want to know what we look like look worse

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Speaker 1: or better?

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Speaker 2: But is it an improvement or or do we go back?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, please tell us, tell us we're pretty. But with that,

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Speaker 1: that is the end of the stream.

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Speaker 2: We're not gonna eat.

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Speaker 1: Are go to his date? Maybe? Also this little this

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Speaker 1: little counter right here, I click it every time I like,

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Speaker 1: like lean into joy and I just clicked it because

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Speaker 1: I love you guys. That yeah, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for supporting the show. It means a lot. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for staying here with us for so many hours, truly

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Speaker 1: so much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, guys, you guys, it's.

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Speaker 1: Such a joy to be with you. Guys with friends

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Speaker 1: like this is great.

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Speaker 3: There'd be no okay, story time with out, without y'all

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Speaker 3: to tell the stories to.

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Speaker 2: Who would listened to the stories if it wasn't for y'all.

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Speaker 1: Listen, But if you love us, hold on, hold on.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, listen, I may have a date,

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Speaker 2: but I love y'all.

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Speaker 1: And now we can do the close out all right.

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Speaker 1: But if you love us, make sure to subscribe. We

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Speaker 1: love you and see it morrow.