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Speaker 1: Read to flick with Ben o'she good morning Ben, good

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Speaker 1: morning mate. Something for the holidays?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, school holidays are coming next week and you've

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Speaker 2: got a couple of weeks you need to entertain the kids.

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Speaker 2: One of the best ways to do it taken to

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Speaker 2: the movies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's about an hour and a half. What

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Speaker 1: do we do for the rest of the time of

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Speaker 1: time zone?

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Speaker 2: You know, maybe maybe throw a time zone in there,

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Speaker 2: maybe have lunch as well. Ideally you handball them to

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Speaker 2: another set of parents, you know, you little little Timmy's

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Speaker 2: best mate, Matt. Maybe you can go to the movies

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Speaker 2: to get.

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Speaker 1: Good Ben until it's your turn. Yeah, then it backfarck is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the bill always comes due.

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Speaker 1: That's what might we be offloading them all to see?

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Speaker 2: Well, I've got a few, I've got a few recommendations.

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Speaker 2: And now you're the same sort of vintage as me.

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Speaker 2: So maybe you remember in the eighties Saturday morning cartoons,

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Speaker 2: you had the Smurfs, you had he Man, and of

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Speaker 2: course you had bit older than me.

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Speaker 1: Look at that. You don't look at day over it.

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Speaker 1: But I was in high school in the eighties. I

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Speaker 1: wat wasn't watching the Smurfs smurf.

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Speaker 2: Fed No, no, all right, man, it just wasn't my type.

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Speaker 1: What about the Transformers, Well, see, now again I do

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Speaker 1: remember them. I remember that. That's sort of about mid

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Speaker 1: eighties Robot Disguisa, and there was the comics and it

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Speaker 1: was all that. It was a tour the movies that's

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Speaker 1: before them. Well see, yeah, see I'd moved on to

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Speaker 1: it by then.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough, fair enough. So so anyway, so has

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Speaker 2: Bro released. Of course this toy line, Transformers. It was huge,

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Speaker 2: it was huge. Me and my brother collected them like crazy.

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Speaker 2: Then they turned it into an animated TV series on

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Speaker 2: Saturday mornings, Optimist Prime and Megatron and you know, more

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Speaker 2: Than Meets the Eye all that kind of stuff. And

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Speaker 2: then in nineteen eighty six they released an animated feature

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Speaker 2: which divided critics and it just made everybody under twelve

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Speaker 2: cry because they killed off Optimus Prime. But it was

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Speaker 2: a bizarre kind of film. It had the voice of

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Speaker 2: Awesome Wells. Wells was in it, Leonard Nimore was it?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. It was a strange film, very dark,

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Speaker 2: very violent. After watching you know, sort of you're eating

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Speaker 2: your corn flakes watching Transformers, and then you'll go to

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Speaker 2: the movies and it's like, what the heck am I watching?

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Speaker 1: How do I play with my Transformers toys? After seeing that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it was traumatic for many kids in

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Speaker 2: the eighties. And then you know, nothing much happened after that.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, then Michael Bay came along with

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Speaker 2: the live action Transformers movies. He directed the first five

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Speaker 2: of those, and look, they made a ton of money

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Speaker 2: at the box office. They've now been seven live action

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Speaker 2: Transformers movies. They've made over seven point eight billion dollars

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Speaker 2: at the box office, good enough, the fourteenth all time

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Speaker 2: in the history of cinema as far as franchises go.

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Speaker 2: But to be honest, they just got worse and worse.

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Speaker 2: And that's saying something considering the first few starred Shilah

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Speaker 2: buff but even still and there was you know, like

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Speaker 2: Meaghan Fox, remember her, she was in.

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Speaker 1: All a time.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, they did. They just got increasingly silly. But

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Speaker 2: did it move toys though? If it kept selling toys,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I don't know if the Transformers

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Speaker 2: toys were still selling that that well. But then they

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Speaker 2: realized in twenty eighteen, the format is getting a bit stale.

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Speaker 2: Let's kind of send it off in a different direction

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Speaker 2: with a spinoff based on the Bumblebee character, and that

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Speaker 2: was fun, kind of reinvigorated the franchise. And then they

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Speaker 2: released Transformers Rise of the Beast last year, which was

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Speaker 2: not good.

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Speaker 1: So it was it was extremely redeemed themselves.

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Speaker 2: Well, so now they've had a huge detour. They've gone

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Speaker 2: back into animation. So the new film, Saturday Morning Transformers

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Speaker 2: one is back to being an animated film, and the

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Speaker 2: voice cast is just an all star collection of talent.

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Speaker 2: You got Chris Hemsworth doing Optimus Prime, the first time

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Speaker 2: anyone other than Peter Cullen has done Optimus Prime's voice

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Speaker 2: in forty years. You've got Brian Tyree Henry as Megatron,

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Speaker 2: Scarlett Johanson as a new character, alider Ie, Keegan Michael

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Speaker 1: Making it come back.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, they're really they're really banking on this being a

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Speaker 2: new franchise, new animated franchise. Keegan Michael Key, the comedian's Bumblebee,

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Speaker 2: Starscream Lawrence Fishburned John Hamm. So it is a this

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Speaker 2: is that's a big cast. As for the film itself, look,

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Speaker 2: sometimes it's a bit hard to watch. The action sequences

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Speaker 2: are so crazy with the transforming and everything. You know,

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Speaker 2: as an adult watching them, you just be going, oh,

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Speaker 2: this is not pleasant.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't take yourself back to nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 2: Now. The animation is so hectic now it's nothing like

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Speaker 2: it was back in the eighties. It is a bit

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Speaker 2: hard to watch. But the other stuff is actually quite good.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty funny. There's it's a good storyline. The character

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Speaker 2: has figured out how to transform himself into a hypocrite,

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Speaker 2: which is you know, I don't know if his his

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Speaker 2: kind of journey makes a lot of sense. But overall,

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Speaker 2: you know, like, if you've got if you've got young boys,

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Speaker 2: they're froth, they'll wroth over this. But for everybody else,

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Speaker 2: I've got some other options if you're interested.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so basically maybe not one for two older blogs,

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Speaker 1: one older than the other. Look, if we went for

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Speaker 1: the kid for the kids, if this could be the go.

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Speaker 2: If we went to the movies together to watch this,

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Speaker 2: I think people would be like, something not right there,

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Speaker 2: something not right. But there are some other movies as well,

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Speaker 2: so if you go, if you're looking for the whole family,

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Speaker 2: you maybe got younger kids, you're looking for something wholesome.

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Speaker 2: The wa made runt based on the Craig Sylvie book

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Speaker 2: best seller is that's really about this one? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's a great film. It's Today. It's about today little

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Speaker 2: dog and her owner Annie Shearer go to London to

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Speaker 2: take on, you know, so the best dogs in the

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Speaker 2: world to win a huge cash prize to save the farm.

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Speaker 2: Kind of classic family film plot. It's got Jai Courtney,

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Speaker 2: Celeste Barber, Jack Thompson, Deborah Malman and a very very

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Speaker 2: cute little dog as well, like you know, like I

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Speaker 2: reckon better than Red Dog?

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Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, better than Red Dogs. But there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of anticipation for this. We're talking it.

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Speaker 2: Up extremely extremely tweet was mostly filmed in York Ye Celest.

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Speaker 2: Barbara told me that she ate a number of flies

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Speaker 2: during the production of this film. Celeste and the final

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Speaker 2: film that I want to draw your attention to is

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Speaker 2: a new animated film called The Wild Robot and the

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Speaker 2: ads for Yes Yep. Directed by the dude who did

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Speaker 2: Lelo and Stitch back in the day. It's a masterpiece.

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Speaker 2: This is another dream yeah dream DreamWorks. So the people

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Speaker 2: who gave a Shrek how to Train Your Dragons? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they know their stuff. And it stars Lapita and Yongo

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Speaker 2: as this robot who gets kind of marooned on an

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Speaker 2: looking for a prime directive, looking for someone to kind

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Speaker 2: of give her instructions, and ends up becoming the adopted

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Speaker 2: and raise this duckling and keep it safe from all

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Speaker 2: the evil things, the wild beasts exactly. You've got a

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Speaker 2: great voice cast here as well, Pedro, Pascal, Catherine O'Hara.

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Speaker 2: The list just goes on.

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Speaker 1: And on and on.

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Speaker 2: Animation is incredible, Like we're talking like Wally or Up

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Speaker 2: or one of those really really great animated films. This

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Speaker 2: is jaw droppingly beautiful. It's a very poignant story. You know,

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Speaker 2: people and nature, how we interact all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: So it's a pretty special film. So, you know, I

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Speaker 2: think that's one that adults will go to and they'll

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Speaker 2: probably go, oh, I feel my inner child talking to

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Speaker 2: me right now, and maybe have a bit of an

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Speaker 2: emotional moment while they watch it. It's one of those

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Speaker 2: type of films. And for the kids, you know that

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Speaker 2: just love seeing the critics.

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Speaker 1: So we've got something for twelve year old boys, yeap,

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Speaker 1: Transformers one. Yeah, and we've got two great movies Runt

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Speaker 1: and The Lost Robot, The Wild Rab The Wild Robb

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Speaker 1: Turn one I Lost the title for everyone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, So it's plenty to choose from the.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, get the jumbo popcorn, get a couple of chop tops.

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Speaker 1: Ben, Thank you for leading us in the right direction.

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Speaker 1: Parents need all the help they can get over the

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Speaker 1: next two weeks. Exactly good. And you can tell Clarsy

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Speaker 1: and Lisa about a new movie next week. Sure, well,

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Speaker 1: thank you,