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Speaker 1: The Wiggles acknowledge the traditional custodians of country throughout Australia

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Speaker 1: and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay

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Speaker 1: our respects to elders, past, present and emerging.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to wiggled Talk, a podcast for parents.

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Speaker 3: I'm Simon. I'm six foot four, yes, and I'm the

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Speaker 3: Red Wiggle. Hello Simon, Hello Locky. My name is Lockie.

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Speaker 3: I am the Purple Wiggle and little bit under Simon.

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Speaker 3: It's six foot that's a perfect heid, Lockie. I think, well, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a good, good solid structure. Do you ever think

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Speaker 3: about how tall you children are going to be? Funnily enough,

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Speaker 3: Asher is he's always been. I think I've said this before.

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Speaker 3: He has been little for his age. Yes, well, kind

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Speaker 3: of yield classes. He was born sort of average height

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Speaker 3: and weight and is still kind of maintained that. But

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Speaker 3: the expectation, given the fact that I'm six foot four,

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Speaker 3: that he will be tall, and you think that will

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Speaker 3: probably happen. But at the moment it's still smaller than

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Speaker 3: a lot of his children his own age.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, were you like that though?

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Speaker 3: I was always tall the back middle of the class.

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Speaker 3: Fuck tripping over because I couldn't walk like a giraffe.

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Speaker 4: He'll have a I think I was like after year seven,

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Speaker 4: I got taller. But I don't know about the girls.

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Speaker 4: I think they'll I mean, jasp is catching up to

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Speaker 4: Dona pretty quickly.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, he probably won't be overly tall. But I

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Speaker 2: don't know. Funny, isn't it the girls?

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Speaker 4: I think at them, I mean always walks into tippy toes,

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Speaker 4: but they're kind of exactly the same height.

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Speaker 2: So whether one of them, yeah, one of them, yeah,

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Speaker 2: shoots up.

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Speaker 4: Shoots above, they go together?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, with twins because they're not identical, Yes, what's going

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Speaker 3: to happen likewise?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I's never thought of that. Yep.

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Speaker 3: It's interesting because Asha has gone through a gross spurt

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Speaker 3: and he is getting longer and taller, and then just

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Speaker 3: for a period of a couple of weeks, just eight,

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Speaker 3: it is extraordinary what his body's telling him he needs

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Speaker 3: without him, you know. And so I expected when he

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Speaker 3: was going back to his friends again that maybe he'd

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Speaker 3: kind of caught up. But they've obviously similar things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, And then what's he going to be

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Speaker 2: when he grows up? If we don't know, no, we don't.

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Speaker 2: These are the questions.

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Speaker 4: What is it a agent.

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Speaker 2: Gift gift card shop owner. That's what we've told this story.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my career adviser had to do the multiple choice

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Speaker 3: thing and came out.

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Speaker 2: Lift card shop.

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Speaker 4: You would be I can imagine that those setups would

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Speaker 4: be very like these ones. If a mum there's a

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Speaker 4: dad anniversary that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be and they'd all be in line

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Speaker 3: and nothing out of place and drive me mad when

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Speaker 3: actual customers came in the store because they'd mess up

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Speaker 3: the order.

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Speaker 4: Someone would just take an envelope the card with it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It reminded me yesterday afternoon after I got home and

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Speaker 3: there was was really windy at home, and there was

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Speaker 3: leaves in the pool. The pool's a new thing, and

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Speaker 3: I'm scooping. As I'm scooping, the wind's still blowing, and

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Speaker 3: my personality is I have to get every single leaf

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Speaker 3: out of that pool, and I actually do find it

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Speaker 3: really relaxing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have said this before too.

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Speaker 3: And then there's all leaves lying around the out side

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Speaker 3: them away. But as I'm sweeping, I'm not even thinking

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Speaker 3: I'm going against the wind who's then blowing it. But anyway.

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Speaker 3: So there's got nothing to do with the gift cards,

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Speaker 3: and it's nothing to do with this segment.

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Speaker 2: Wigle Talk Talk Talk, wiggle Talk. It's Dear Wiggles, authorized

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Speaker 2: by Simon Luckey.

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Speaker 4: This one's from Celia. Would you like to hear it?

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Speaker 4: Please looky okay? Now this is a deer Wiggles question

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Speaker 4: from Celia, who writes Hello Wiggles. Somehow, my child has

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Speaker 4: started calling me by my first name, not mum, not mummy,

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Speaker 4: just my full government name in public, like where colleagues

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Speaker 4: it's kind of iconic, and part of me is like,

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Speaker 4: have I lost all authority forever? Do you lean in

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Speaker 4: or do you shut it down fast before it becomes permanent? Celia.

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Speaker 3: That's interesting, Celia, Yeah, that's very funny. We got to

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Speaker 3: Wiggles and you know, Simon he was more familiar with

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Speaker 3: and we realized that he actually had no.

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Speaker 2: Idea of mum's name and all that being Lauren.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right, and so Ash will do things like if

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Speaker 3: somebody comes up and wants a photo, he'll say a

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Speaker 3: thing like, that's my Simon. That's my Simon, you know,

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Speaker 3: because he's getting a bit funny about always being interrupted

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Speaker 3: our time together, and he's now learnt Lauren's name. He's

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Speaker 3: never called us by our names, always mum or mummy

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Speaker 3: or dad or daddy. We started using our names as

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Speaker 3: a way of introducing letters and language, including his name

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Speaker 3: as well, but clearly he hasn't gone to the point

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Speaker 3: of calling it Simon and Lauren.

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Speaker 4: Is that interesting that the my Simon? That because that's

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Speaker 4: a Wiggles thing too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, that's yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, reassociates Simon to Wiggles, Yes, knowing it's me, so

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Speaker 3: it's yeah, it's really yeah.

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Speaker 4: The girls are cheeky at the moment. They will say

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Speaker 4: more Danda than they do Locky, or sometimes they say

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Speaker 4: Lotty and I think it's locky. They're like, Dad, I

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Speaker 4: said lotty.

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Speaker 2: Name is Lachlan.

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Speaker 3: I think so.

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Speaker 4: But Jasper obviously calls me locky because he is my

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Speaker 4: beautiful step son. He doesn't do daddy, but I feel

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Speaker 4: like you do need to. Even Mum is a funny

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Speaker 4: one when you've heard mummy for four years and all

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Speaker 4: of a sudden they come out with, oh, Mum, can

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Speaker 4: I have a Jasper's now mum all the time?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, mister to be.

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Speaker 4: Called mommy just for a bit longer. But I feel

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Speaker 4: like in a fun way, but also I think you

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Speaker 4: should pull it up. Don't want to be called your

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Speaker 4: first name, your government name, by your childs yeah, dad

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Speaker 3: Funnily enough, I grew up calling my dad by his

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Speaker 3: first name because he didn't want to be called dad.

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Speaker 3: So it's always been Tony. Yeah, so Mum and Tony

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Speaker 3: and that's how we grew up. But that was a

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Speaker 3: choice that he made that he would like to be

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Speaker 3: what do you call your dad Tony? And I think

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Speaker 3: the thought was that there was a stepfather, yes, because

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Speaker 3: that's more of a common thing in regards to names

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Speaker 3: in the household. But yeah, he just didn't want to

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Speaker 3: happy to be he wanted to be Tony.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And same so when with Asher with as grandparents

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Speaker 3: Anne and Tony. Okay, yeah, and that's just the personal

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Speaker 3: choice that it made. But you know that doesn't help

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Speaker 3: you at all, Celia, and so we're too.

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Speaker 4: Do you think if you'd probably just say to Asher

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it depends on the I think I

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Speaker 3: would then make light and make fun of the language

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Speaker 2: I think if maybe trying to shut.

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Speaker 3: It down firmly, of course we'll actually heighten the situation.

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Speaker 3: But I would, Celia, Bilia or I would start doing

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Speaker 3: playful plays on your name, like you know, I called

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Speaker 3: Asher the other day Ashy bangers and Mashy, you know,

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Speaker 3: just as a fun thing to do. And he thinks

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Speaker 3: it's hysterical. And we kind of do playfulness with our

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Speaker 4: Cilia, whatever your child's name is, just do it back.

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Speaker 4: But I think I'm sure it'll be a phase to you.

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Speaker 4: It's probably just a fun thing that that the child's learned. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I would think thinks it's pretty funny and cool for

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Speaker 4: a bit, and then it will go back to yeah,

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Speaker 4: go back to mummy, Celia, don't worry.

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Speaker 3: And probably that thing too, where it's about getting a response,

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Speaker 3: isn't it. Yes, when there were babies and the cause

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Speaker 3: and effect, they'd throw a toy on the ground and

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Speaker 3: you pick it up and they throw it back again.

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Speaker 3: It's probably along those same terms and same lines and

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Speaker 3: what sort of response they get from it. But I

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Speaker 3: think you make it fun and playful that you're kind

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Speaker 3: of going along with it, you probably might stop it

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Speaker 4: The girls, because of Bluey, when they're playing together, they're

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Speaker 4: always like, oh take that, darling.

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Speaker 2: I think I actually called me big guy or something

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Speaker 2: the other.

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Speaker 4: Yea, that makes sense too, Yes, yeah, big guy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is amazing they pick up us I think

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Speaker 3: said yes, funny.

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Speaker 4: Well, Celia, I hope you get mummy very soon. Thank

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Speaker 4: you for your great question.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Ciliabilia.

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Speaker 3: Yes, thank you for listening to Wiggle Talk. It's a

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Speaker 3: podcast for parents.

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