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Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families podcast.

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Speaker 2: It's the podcast for the time poor parent who just

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Speaker 2: wants answers Now.

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Speaker 1: Before we start today's conversation about I'll do it tomorrow, Kylie.

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Speaker 1: Next week. I'm so excited. It's three massive guests. I'm

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Speaker 1: speaking with the Yellow Wiggle, Emma Watkins also known as

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Speaker 1: Emma Memmer. She's going to be on the pod on Monday.

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Speaker 1: How exciting. On Tuesday, a guy called Matt Purcell who

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Speaker 1: runs something called Social kung Fu. Social Kung Fu. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be great. But the one that I'm I

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Speaker 1: don't want to say, I'm actually pretty excited about those ones. Well,

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Speaker 1: but on Wednesday, Chanell Kontos teaches consent. Chanell Kontos, the

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Speaker 1: person who has completely turned the conversation around consent intimacy

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Speaker 1: upside down in this country, is going to be joining

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Speaker 1: me for a conversation next week. Oh and next week

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Speaker 1: we're also chatting about homeschool. How that's been going for

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Speaker 1: the last twelve months. Because we're a year in now,

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Speaker 1: I'm feeling a little bit insecure my job.

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Speaker 2: On the line.

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Speaker 1: You're only doing one podcast with something I don't know.

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Speaker 1: You don't like doing interviews so I just did the

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Speaker 1: interviews on my own.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Well, I'm going to show my age here.

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Speaker 2: Did the Yellow Wig will become Emma? It was Greg.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't watched The Wiggles for a while, I know,

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Speaker 1: but everyone is listening to the podcast knowing it has

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Speaker 1: been a what kylie since you've watched the Wiggles, clearly

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Speaker 1: because Emma Watkins says huge news and she's wonderful and

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to have her on the pod on Monday. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: There's two things that I wanted to mention. That was

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Speaker 1: the first one. Next week's podcast lineup is massive. The

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Speaker 1: second one is this lately on the pod, you and

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Speaker 1: I have had a handful of conversations. Last week was fun.

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Speaker 1: Last week was the best one we've ever had, I reckon,

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Speaker 1: but I am consistently impressed with how just with who

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Speaker 1: you are as a mum and how amazing you are.

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Speaker 1: We're under I'm under a fair bit of pressure at

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Speaker 1: the moment. Work is just a lot all the time,

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Speaker 1: and I've got this book deadline. I promised that I

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Speaker 1: was going to write this book about boys, which is

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Speaker 1: really it's kind of getting me down in some ways.

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Speaker 1: It's a bit bleak. In other ways, it's so exciting,

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Speaker 1: but in some ways it is kind of bleak. And

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Speaker 1: I haven't been at my best around the house a

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Speaker 1: little bit, and you, Kylie, have been just this model

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Speaker 1: of goodness to the kids. Every time there's an emotional meltdown,

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Speaker 1: every time somebody is losing it, every time I'm getting

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Speaker 1: impatient and frustrated, You're the one who comes to the rescue.

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Speaker 1: And I just I know it's a little bit public

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Speaker 1: and it's a podcast, but I just wanted to make

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Speaker 1: and say how grateful I am that when I'm not

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Speaker 1: at my best, you can be there. It's just it's

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Speaker 1: such a such a gift to our children that you're

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Speaker 1: it when you're a terror an e menace as well.

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Speaker 1: I was about to say we were a bit of

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Speaker 1: bit tagged anyway. Today is I'll do better tomorrow? Ladies?

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Speaker 1: First today, what's your i'll do better tomorrow? As you've

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Speaker 2: We've had a jam packed week in our house while

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Speaker 2: you've been really stretched work wise. I volunteer for a

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Speaker 1: And there's like thirty of them, have about.

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Speaker 2: weekend just gone was our annual young women's camp. And

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Speaker 1: Provide food for provide food. I'm willing teens who don't

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Speaker 2: Think that that's the reality for the majority of them.

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Speaker 2: they leave them behind? No, they did not. They definitely

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Speaker 2: I'm not even their parent, and yet I was so

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Speaker 2: proud of them. I was so proud of them. The determination,

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Speaker 1: So what's to take message?

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Speaker 2: The take home messages? Our kids don't know what's good

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Speaker 2: And if we, just as parents, need to push through

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Speaker 2: Right, So about twenty five dollars?

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Speaker 2: So what did you do?

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Speaker 2: Who do you throw popcorn?

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Speaker 1: At? This out? And forgot to cook the popcorn though,

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Speaker 1: I felt like I was winning it. I spend the money,

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Speaker 1: I spent the time. We sat down. We watched The

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Speaker 1: Wild Robot.

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Speaker 2: How did you like it?

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Speaker 1: It's a movie about a gosling, a robot, and a fox.

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