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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.

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Speaker 1: Now good.

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Speaker 3: It's doctor Justin Coilson, the author of a whole bunch

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Speaker 3: of books about how to make your family happier. Still

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Speaker 3: enjoying holidays with you, Kylie and our kids.

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Speaker 1: Kylie is my.

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Speaker 3: Wife, co host on the podcast, and mum to our

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Speaker 3: six daughters.

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Speaker 2: I'm grateful that you are still enjoying holidays with me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how could I not?

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Speaker 3: Hey, because we're having holidays trying to keep the podcast

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Speaker 3: short and simple so that you can spend as much

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Speaker 3: time as possible with your family while still getting some

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Speaker 3: useful hints and tips to make your family happier. And

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Speaker 3: I was thinking just recently about one of my all

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Speaker 3: time favorite movies. You're looking at me like you don't

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Speaker 3: know what my all time favorite movies are?

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Speaker 2: Was it Top Gun?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Come on, are you serious? Are you serious? Do

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Speaker 1: you really just say that to me?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You were so excited when I got its new release.

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Speaker 1: Our Top Gun two is still yet to be released.

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Speaker 4: You were excited when you heard it was coming. Yes,

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Speaker 4: and you made me watch the first one because I've

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Speaker 1: It and I can't believe how bad it was.

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Speaker 4: I can't believe how bad it was either, but you

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Speaker 4: made me watch it, so I thigured it was must

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Speaker 4: have been your best, your favorite one.

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Speaker 1: And I did grin like an idiot the whole way.

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Speaker 2: The whole way through. You reminded me of some fifteen

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Speaker 2: year old teenage boy.

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Speaker 1: It was kind of it was kind of positively nostalgic

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Speaker 1: for me. I really enjoyed watching it. Anyway.

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Speaker 4: That's okay, So clearly that's not your favorite movie, No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 4: is it Braveheart?

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Speaker 3: No, it used to be. I watched that just recently

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Speaker 3: during these holidays. I was pretty disappointed with it, and

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Speaker 3: I found it like the world has changed since nineteen

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Speaker 3: I think it came out in like nineteen ninety six.

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Speaker 3: Mel Gibson is there with this almost teenage girl who

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Speaker 3: he marries, and he's meant to be the same age,

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Speaker 3: but he looks like he's fifty years old. And I

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Speaker 3: was watching it and cringing the whole time, just going, wow,

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Speaker 3: I'm just so.

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Speaker 1: Offended by this. It's not right. And then there was

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Speaker 1: just the whole movie.

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Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't like it nearly as much as

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Speaker 3: we did back in the nineties. But no, it's not Braveheart,

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Speaker 3: which used to be one my favorites. Princess Bride used

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Speaker 2: You're not going to guess, Okay, well you better tell

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Speaker 2: me then.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I could guess what you'd say, by

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Speaker 3: the way, I reckon, you'd say Mission Impossible. You like

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Speaker 3: Mission Impossible?

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Speaker 2: Really, really, that's what you're gonna say my favorite movie is.

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Speaker 1: Or you'd say one of those rom coms, like my

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Speaker 1: best Friend's Wedding? Oh my, what would you say?

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Speaker 4: What's your best I can't say it on the podcast.

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Speaker 4: My parents might be listening.

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Speaker 1: What's your favorite movie?

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Speaker 2: Pretty Woman?

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Speaker 3: I was close with Princess with It's got Julia robertson it.

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Speaker 1: Come on, no, Pretty Woman? Really you like that that much?

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Speaker 2: I really like it, I reckon. I haven't watched it

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Speaker 1: I reckon if you watched it again now, you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: love it as much as you have. I really if I.

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Speaker 2: Had somebody to watch it with. But I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to watch Pretty Women.

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Speaker 4: I have to watch Mission Impossible. And I thought you

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Speaker 4: really like Fast and the Furious.

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Speaker 1: Oh you that's the kids, not me. Come on all right.

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Speaker 3: One of my favorite movies in the last few years,

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Speaker 3: mister Rogers Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a bit weird for me.

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I thought it was beautiful.

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Speaker 3: For those of you who haven't seen it, I just

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Speaker 3: think that's one of the best movies ever.

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Speaker 1: This podcast has already gone too long, by the way,

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Speaker 1: way too long.

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Speaker 3: But we're just going to finish the thought because we

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Speaker 3: wanted to be short and sweet and it's important, so

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Speaker 3: Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: We can get short or sweet, but we're going to

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Speaker 1: Tom Hanks is in it.

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Speaker 3: He plays the part of mister Rodgers, this television character

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Speaker 3: who was enormously important in the United States for about

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Speaker 3: thirty years he had this TV show, but in Australia

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Speaker 3: we really didn't get to see it. But mister Rodgers

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Speaker 3: shows up touches people every single day every episode, not

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Speaker 3: physically touching, no, no, emotionally psychologically every single episode for

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Speaker 3: about thirty years. He sings this song it's exactly the

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Speaker 3: same song to start the show as he walks through

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Speaker 2: Are you going to sing?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: And then he takes his jacket and shoes off and

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Speaker 3: puts on a cardigan and his inside shoes that feel

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Speaker 3: never changes. He's completely consistent. It's about order, routine, consistency, predictability, dependability.

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Speaker 1: Do you know where I'm going there?

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Speaker 2: Consistency matters.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: These are the hallmarks of mister Rogers's decades of success

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Speaker 3: on the screen, and I think that they're the hallmarks

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Speaker 3: of success in our family. And I'm not talking so

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Speaker 3: much about discipline routine around managing behavior and bedtimes and

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Speaker 1: Pa.

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Speaker 2: You are into a card again on and your slippers.

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Speaker 3: Well, these things are important, there's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about something else. I'm talking about being predictable

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Speaker 3: and consistent, dependable when we listen so that our kids

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Speaker 3: know that we're understanding them, or being predictable and consistent

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Speaker 3: and dependable when we say that we'll be there so that.

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Speaker 1: They can trust us that we actually will.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about being predictable and consistent, dependable when we

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Speaker 3: say that we're going to do something and we actually

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Speaker 3: do it so that we can build integrity.

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Speaker 2: Keep our promises.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm talking about being predictable and consistent,

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Speaker 3: dependable in the way that we treat others, so that

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Speaker 3: we can demonstrate by example our inclusivity. I'm talking about

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Speaker 3: the predictable, consistent, dependable reality of saying I love you

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Speaker 1: And they know that they matter.

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Speaker 2: You know, we had a child the other day.

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Speaker 4: She had a conversation and told us that we have

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Speaker 4: not been consistent enough in teaching her hygiene.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I couldn't believe that. It's like we tell you,

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Speaker 2: You've been really good at teaching me how to love

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Speaker 2: people and be kind. She said, but I don't think

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Speaker 2: you've done a really good job at hygiene.

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Speaker 4: I said, Oh, so those conversations we had every day

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Speaker 4: about brushing your teeth morning and night.

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Speaker 1: Go and have a shower for the fiftieth time.

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Speaker 2: She didn't have much to say after that, did she?

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Speaker 3: She was like, well, I shower three times a week.

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Speaker 3: They know, do better. We have been teaching you this

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Speaker 1: Anyway.

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Speaker 3: There's a book called How a Mighty Fall by Jim Collins,

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Speaker 3: and he says, and I quote the signature of mediocrity

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Speaker 3: is chronic inconsistency.

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Speaker 2: We don't want that.

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Speaker 3: No, So school holidays are almost over for most people

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Speaker 3: around Australia, and who knows wherever else you might be

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Speaker 3: in the world, maybe you're finishing your school holidays as well.

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Speaker 1: And I think that we need a challenge around being consistent.

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Speaker 4: So I think that we need to get clear about

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Speaker 4: what we need to be consistent about moving into term

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Speaker 4: three and make a plan.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sit down with the kids and work out how

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Speaker 3: you're going to be consistent. Week one is where it

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Speaker 3: all starts. Get the routines right.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what?

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Speaker 4: I'm going to pull you up there? Because week one

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Speaker 4: is not where it starts. It actually needs to start

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Speaker 4: before week.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's right, it kind of starts now and the

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Speaker 3: days leading up to week one yep. Just like your

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Speaker 3: morning starts the night before, week one starts the week before.

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Speaker 3: So the challenge is get your house in order, get

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Speaker 3: can start in a stress free, easy going manner. Sound good,

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Speaker 3: Let's do it, okay, and be consistent as well in

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Speaker 3: the way you show your kids you love them. The

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Speaker 3: Happy Families podcast is produced by Justin Rulin from Bridge

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Speaker 3: Media and Craig Bruce is our executive producer. If you

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Speaker 3: want more info about how to make your family happier,

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Speaker 3: you can find it all at happy families dot com

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Speaker 3: dot au. And sorry for talking so long in this one.

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Speaker 3: I know we said short and sweet. We've been pretty good.

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Speaker 3: We've been pretty short and pretty sweet, but this one's

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Speaker 3: gone a bit. I'm forgive us. Next time, we'll be

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Speaker 4: Mm hmm