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Speaker 1: This is the Happy Families Podcast Friday Edition. Today we're

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Speaker 1: checking out a Letter of the Week as well as

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Speaker 1: that K Pop demon Hunters.

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Speaker 2: The story continues in our.

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Speaker 1: Home the Netflix smash movie, plus a brand new game

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Speaker 1: that is going to change your family forever based on

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Speaker 1: our experience with it. And the phrase the phrase of

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Speaker 1: all the phrases that I've taught by kids, the phrase

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Speaker 1: that has stood out the most as we dissect Father's Day,

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Speaker 1: all that and more, all some Sabrina Carpenter gooss as well.

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Speaker 1: I forgot that coming up in Just to Sex. Stay

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Speaker 1: with us on the Happy Families Podcast. Hello and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Happy Family's podcast, Realpairing Solutions every Day. We

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Speaker 1: are Justin and Kylie Coulson. Kylie, so much to get

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Speaker 1: through today. Going to start with our Letter of the Week.

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Speaker 1: You can email your letters to podcasts at happyfamilies dot

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Speaker 1: com dot au.

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Speaker 2: Letter of the Week, Email of the Week.

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Speaker 3: You've been holding out on me. I don't know anything

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Speaker 3: about a letter of the week.

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Speaker 1: What are the challenges with the work that I do,

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Speaker 1: the travel that I do is sometimes we don't get

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Speaker 1: to talk about everything. I've been whispering, sweet, nothing's into

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Speaker 1: your ear? Instead instead of telling you about the letter

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Speaker 1: of the week, email of the week, whatever you want

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Speaker 1: to call it. So this one comes through from Amy

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Speaker 1: who wanted to share a letter from her school principle.

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Speaker 1: And I think this one is a big one and

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Speaker 1: a big shout out and thumbs up to Templestow Park

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Speaker 1: Primary School and Victoria for this one. The principal, Mark Roberts,

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Speaker 1: sent out the following to parents and cares of year

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Speaker 1: two students. Following discussions with the school counsel, of the

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Speaker 1: school's leadership team, staff and other schools, the decision has

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Speaker 1: been made to not commence the bring your own Device

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Speaker 1: program in year three. This means you won't have to

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Speaker 1: provide an iPad for your child in twenty twenty six. Basically,

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Speaker 1: they're saying, we want your kids to not have screens

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Speaker 1: a whole lot more, but that's the gist of it,

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Speaker 1: and I just thought to myself, we need more letters

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Speaker 1: like that coming through. We need more principles having the

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Speaker 1: courage to say, let's stay analog. It's actually not going

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Speaker 1: to revolutionize kids' education by putting them on an iPad.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 3: That's not the letter of the week. That sounds like

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Speaker 3: the winter of the year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, that's pretty awesome.

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Speaker 1: So many parents just breathed that and went, oh, reassurance,

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Speaker 1: Thank goodness for that. We can we can do this,

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Speaker 1: little bit of news as well a bit of goss.

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Speaker 1: Last week, we were talking about Ca Pop Demon Hunters,

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Speaker 1: and I asked you if you were going to take

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Speaker 3: To see you, we're going to throw one of our

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Speaker 2: And you know where I'm going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So while I'm throwing you under the bus, first,

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Speaker 1: You didn't do it, and so and not died I

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Speaker 1: because I was away, but because it's available on Netflix

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Speaker 1: the Hollywood Reporter, strong language, a lot of explicit content

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Speaker 1: as part of the broader I'll do better Tomorrow conversation.

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Speaker 1: All right, So that's the latest news in pairing. As

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Speaker 1: let us know about anything that's big via podcasts at

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Speaker 1: Happy families dot com dot a U Kylie, I'll do

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Speaker 1: better tomorrow. It's time to dissect the week that was.

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Speaker 1: Talk about where you won, where you would have liked

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Speaker 3: I actually have a question for you. How do you

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Speaker 2: Next question? I mean, I know I'm supposed to love it.

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Speaker 1: I know there's a whole lot of scripting around what

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Speaker 3: You're not asking very much, very low expectations. Verry said, no,

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Speaker 1: I think we had an absolute cracker of a Father's Day.

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Speaker 3: Don't hide the fact that we got to church on

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Speaker 3: so we made a massive team order and ordered all

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Speaker 1: I have more ties than I'm ever gonna wear. Like

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Speaker 1: I only wear a tie on a Sunday. That's pretty

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Speaker 1: So I don't need tires. I don't have space for tires.

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Speaker 3: And I knew if this was going to work, Emily

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Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm saying this. This is a terrible confession.

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Speaker 1: This meant to me your old a better tomorrow, and

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Speaker 2: No, I'm not all right. Maybe I'm throwing you're a

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Speaker 2: very good job by yourself.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, Emily hands it to you and you actually look

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Speaker 1: I have to I mean, while I'm just absolutely destroying

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Speaker 3: But Emily was very proud of herself. She paid with

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Speaker 3: Picking a tie that was going to work for everybody.

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Speaker 3: We get to church and as you're doing a reverse park,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a guy called guy like literally that guy, that guy,

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Speaker 3: You did a double take, and I knew in that

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Speaker 1: But I didn't see anything bigger than just oh, guy

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Speaker 3: So you get out of the car and you make

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Speaker 3: and he said, you actually asked him where did you

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Speaker 3: it from the Father's Day store. So your brain is

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Speaker 1: there's no Father's Day Still, I'm thinking maybe there was

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Speaker 1: a maybe there was a stall at the plaza or something.

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Speaker 3: And I had made it clear to you that we'd

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Speaker 3: gone to shopping.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so you were like, this doesn't make sense. Okay.

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Speaker 3: Then the next thing, another.

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Speaker 2: Guy, Sam drives in, drives in, he.

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Speaker 3: Gets out, and me and the other wife are looking

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Speaker 3: at each other. We're just waiting for this here. But

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Speaker 3: Sam is oblivious. He has not even like clicked.

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Speaker 2: But God was walking after his kids, so he didn't

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Speaker 1: And I'm not Guy Sam, no way, and The first

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Speaker 2: Did you get the tie?

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Speaker 3: So now you're peppering me to ask me exactly what store.

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Speaker 1: Because here's the thing, because Sam actually said, oh, I

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Speaker 1: If you'd like more resources and ways to make your

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