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Speaker 1: It's happening, and it's happening tonight.

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Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to the Happy Families podcast, Real parenting

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Speaker 2: Solutions every day in Australia's most downloaded parenting podcasts. We

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Speaker 2: are Justin and Kylie Colson, except the solutions and not

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Speaker 2: on the podcast today. They're on the TV tonight nine

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Speaker 2: and nine. Now Monday June thirty, seven thirty pm. Our

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Speaker 2: kids are growing up in the world we never imagine.

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Speaker 3: Take a breath.

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Speaker 2: This is confronting content. It is tonight seven thirty pm.

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Speaker 2: Parental Guidance Season three kicks off.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited. I'm so excited, Kylie.

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Speaker 3: Our kids are pretty excited too.

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Speaker 2: We're having a big party in the backyard. We've told

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Speaker 2: everyone to bring their parkers. They're doingers whatever. We've hooked

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Speaker 2: up the TV. We've got on the standoutside. We're just

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Speaker 2: hoping that the weather will be good and we're going

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Speaker 2: to sit there and watch Ali Langdon and myself talk

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Speaker 2: about some of the biggest topics that are haunting challenging

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Speaker 2: parents today for Parental Guidance, a limited series four episodes

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Speaker 2: over four big nights on Channel nine. Can you tell

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Speaker 2: that I'm excited about this? I'm so bummed.

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Speaker 3: So, if you haven't watched season one or two, can

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Speaker 3: you give us a brief synopsis of what the show's

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Speaker 3: actually about?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so a quick explainer today's podcast. We're just going

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Speaker 2: to give you a preview of tonight and parental guidance. Generally,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what questions Kyle's got for me. I'm

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Speaker 2: just going to answer them. So the quick explainer is

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Speaker 2: as follows. The last two seasons, we've got a bunch

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Speaker 2: of families who have been willing to do a whole

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Speaker 2: lot of challenges. Then we sit in the studio and

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Speaker 2: watch them as they participate in those challenges. They've already

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Speaker 2: been done. We're just watching the recordings of the challenges,

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Speaker 2: and then everybody passes non judgmental judgment on what they're doing.

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Speaker 2: In other words, they make comments to say, but why

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Speaker 2: are you doing that? Or this is an issue for me,

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Speaker 2: or genuine conversation is about parenting challenges like when the

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Speaker 2: kids are anxious, or what to do about screens, or

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Speaker 2: bullying issues and so on. Really compelling stuff.

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Speaker 3: So reality TV, yes.

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Speaker 2: But non exploitative reality TV. Why because we've got parents

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Speaker 2: and families, there's children involved, here, and we need to

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Speaker 2: honor them in a way that too many reality TV

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Speaker 2: shows don't honor bear contestants and participants.

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Speaker 3: So, if you've seen the trailer, the trailer is mind blowing.

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Speaker 3: In an Allie Langdon's words, we're diving into the biggest

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Speaker 3: parenting mind fields. Yet, how does it compare to the

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Speaker 3: first two seasons.

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Speaker 2: Well, I haven't seen the whole thing yet. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's on TV tonight. I've seen some snippets. I think

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Speaker 2: I the first season, we had no idea what we

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Speaker 2: to run this show. We developed it ourselves. Well, actually

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Speaker 2: the production team did. I was just the parenting experts

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Speaker 2: I'd never been on a TV show before. Ali didn't

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Speaker 2: guesswork in season one. In season two we felt like

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Speaker 2: just sort of it was like putting on a favorite

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Speaker 2: sloppy Joe. We sat on the couch and we were like,

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Speaker 2: here we go. This is going to be great. And

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Speaker 2: we've shifted at this time so that there's no competition.

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Speaker 2: It's not like we're looking for a winner. We've just

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Speaker 2: got eight really great families who are willing to vulnerably

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Speaker 1: Go out of the microscope literally critique. Yeah, so that

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Speaker 2: Work out how we can deal with many of the

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Speaker 2: issues that so many parents are really struggling with today.

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Speaker 2: So hit me with your questions. What do you want

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Speaker 2: to know? Obviously I can't give any spoilers, but I

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Speaker 2: can tell you heaps about the show, and that's what

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Speaker 2: today's podcast is about. To get everyone amped for how

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm really curious because as the show's parenting experts,

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Speaker 2: So, I mean I've been doing a lot of media

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Speaker 2: To war or something like that, but I'm talking about

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Speaker 2: in peacetime, as families just navigate the daily grind of

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Speaker 2: raising children. The stuff that we're dealing with today is unprecedented.

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Speaker 2: The body image challenges, the screen time issues, things like bullying,

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Speaker 2: that there's a way through. Like this is a hopeful show.

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Speaker 2: We see one full redeeming conversations.

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Speaker 1: There is hope, We hope builders.

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Speaker 2: As parents, we need to believe in a positive future

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Speaker 2: for our kids, and I think this show gives us

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Speaker 2: the tools and the keys that we need to get there.

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Speaker 3: Did you have a favorite couple a favorite family?

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Speaker 2: I really enjoy every family for different reasons, and as

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Speaker 2: I've watched the snippets, I keep on I'm just cracking up.

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Speaker 2: I hope they come through it well because they are

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Speaker 2: a great family. So every single time, I mean, no

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Speaker 2: show is designed. It is designed to poke holes. It's

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Speaker 2: designed to have us asking hard questions, and therefore every

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Speaker 2: family will have a moment where they squirm, but they'll

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Speaker 2: also have wonderfully redemptive moments where they absolutely shine as well.

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Speaker 2: We should be very careful not to feminize our males.

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Speaker 3: Oh so in season one and two, we had some

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Speaker 3: really creative parenting styles. Yes, we had strict parents, we

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Speaker 2: Major parents, tiger parents, helicopter parents, we've had them all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so how does this season compare? What kind of

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Speaker 2: Okay, so there are eight different parenting styles. We've got

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Speaker 2: big on screens. They social media influences and work in

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Speaker 2: tech respectively. For Courtney and John, active parents, aiming Mark.

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Speaker 2: from screens. The upfront parents. I just I love these guys, seriously,

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Speaker 2: They were up for absolutely anything, and they are literally

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Speaker 2: upfront as in strong expectations, mutual respect. They just they

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Speaker 2: Will be introduced to them over the next couple of weeks,

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Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna sort of labor all of those

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Speaker 3: So the primary does a great job of helping us

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Speaker 3: I can't wait to see it all play out on

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Speaker 3: the big screen. But what are the big topics that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so all of them, and all of them is

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Speaker 2: going to do all of them, and the specific parts

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Speaker 2: I want you to see all of them.

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Speaker 1: Peer pressure, body image. Oh my goodness. The body image

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Speaker 2: Break your heart. Oh my goodness, and it will also

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Speaker 2: be so inspiring. I'm getting weepy just thinking about it.

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Speaker 2: The mental health topic is really really carefully addressed, and

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Speaker 2: I think we do a good job with that.

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Speaker 1: Screen time. Screen time, screen time, And we're going.

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Speaker 2: To talk about AI, but specifically AI bots and the

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Speaker 1: To hear it over all.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, it's such compelling TV. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: Just wanted to mention that again, so we'll wrap it

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow will be our first of three review episodes where

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Speaker 2: we take a look at the big issues that arise

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Speaker 2: from this evening's episode. These podcasts reviews are going to

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Speaker 2: we talk about the things that happen on Parental Guidance

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Speaker 2: on the previous Monday night Tonight nine Now and Channel nine.

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Speaker 2: If you can check it out live, that would be amazing.

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Speaker 2: If you're overseas, I'm so sorry at this point I

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Speaker 2: create the conversations and fingers crossed. Sometime soon it may

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Speaker 2: be played in your country. Parental Guidance Season three Special

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Speaker 1: Because starts tonight seven point thirty on nine and nine Now.

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