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Speaker 1: O'Connell show podcast. Shout out to all the mums and

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Speaker 1: dad who are hanging out running on vapors until the

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Speaker 1: kids finally begin the new school year of the next

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Speaker 1: couple of days and next week. Patsy, how's it going

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Speaker 1: in your household?

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Speaker 2: Well, something struck me for six yesterday. So we have

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Speaker 2: just the one child, a daughter who is coming up fifteen.

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Speaker 2: She's going into year nine, so still three or four

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Speaker 2: years to go yet.

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Speaker 1: But these are years. They are the years, it really is.

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Speaker 1: It gets real now. It's so intense for them. But

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Speaker 1: it's like in Australia the education system, it's sort of

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Speaker 1: at like a one speed and then suddenly from year

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Speaker 1: nine upwards and ten eleven, twelve, it's like so much

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Speaker 1: more intense. It's really hard for them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think the thing for Chris and I,

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Speaker 2: my husband and I is if your listeners, Melbourne listeners,

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Speaker 2: you'll probably know our story, but the rest of the

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Speaker 2: country wouldn't. In that we had a lot of trouble

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Speaker 2: getting Audrey. She was five years in the making and

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Speaker 2: lots of you know, miscarriages and stuff, so she every

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Speaker 2: child is special, but for us, we knew we were

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Speaker 2: only going to have this one shot. So it's kind

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Speaker 2: of like intensifies all those little things. And yesterday it

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Speaker 2: was such a.

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Speaker 1: Okay to be honest and say you were tiger mum.

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Speaker 1: My wife is a tiger mum, and I wish I

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Speaker 1: had a mum that was as tigris as that think

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Speaker 1: you care so much.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, she's just she's our oxygen. But yesterday we had.

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Speaker 1: To take that's maybe an announcement. It's not I enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: That's are lots of pot on the kid, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: If you leave suffocate or these other people call it

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Speaker 1: the front door.

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Speaker 2: We had to get new school shoes yesterday and in

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Speaker 2: our suburb we go to the same shoe shop with it.

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Speaker 1: When you go to the Ancho section of came we

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Speaker 1: go to.

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Speaker 2: Our local shoees. Actually they're a beautiful family business and

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Speaker 2: we've been taking her there since she could walk, since

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Speaker 2: she was a toddler, so they know it's it's that

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Speaker 2: that's so cool, so lovely.

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Speaker 1: And tell me there's patsy. They ain't still using that

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Speaker 1: metallic thing. Yes, I also get so nervous as they're

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Speaker 2: That thing, you think, oh god, they're going to cut

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Speaker 2: my foot off. When you were little, it's like, what

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Speaker 2: are they doing with that? Anyway, we walked in, they said, oh, hi, Audrey. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: the man that owns the shop just said something that

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Speaker 2: really took me for six inches. I wasn't prepared for it.

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Speaker 2: It was just an innocent comment. And he goes, oh,

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Speaker 2: what year this year? And she goes year nine, and

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Speaker 2: he said, well, you know this will be your last

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Speaker 2: pair of school shoes unless you've had a procedure done

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Speaker 2: where you're not letting her feet grow anymore, at least another.

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Speaker 1: Two or three parts. This is a thing. No care's

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Speaker 1: feet have only stopped growing in year night.

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Speaker 2: Well, the last pair have lasted like four or five

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Speaker 1: She made us got toes peeking out the top of it.

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Speaker 1: Not that bad. But just she will grow. She will. Girls.

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Speaker 2: Don't boys do slow down?

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Speaker 1: Give this information from stop pair of school two daughters.

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Speaker 1: They did not. There were no more shoes from year nine,

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Speaker 2: She's already like a size eight going into Ladies nine

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Speaker 1: Even if they fit, the soul would wear down to

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Speaker 1: wet as not just that you have to whenever you

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Speaker 1: buy the school shoes. It wasn't how quick to they

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Speaker 1: grow out of them. It's the scuff factor or myself

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Speaker 1: pick you know, especially about being an empty nesss I

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Speaker 1: don't need to say that to anymore, but sometimes I

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Speaker 1: see kids dragging their feet games. Mom and dad are

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Speaker 1: going to see that. Pick your feet up, mate, But

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Speaker 2: Little bit and you'll you'll probably condemn me for this,

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Speaker 2: but it's almost like when you're grieving for someone right

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Speaker 2: and someone will say something you trust.

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest. These are the shittiest years.

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Speaker 2: I just I'm already like fearing you twelve and then

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Speaker 2: flying the coop. And yesterday it was like another nail.

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Speaker 1: I thought, Oh no, a feet l a fate. It's

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Speaker 1: like last shoes. I'm not ready for the last you've got.

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Speaker 1: Just all you have is now. Just enjoy the ride now,

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Speaker 1: and it's not like it ends when they leave. No

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Speaker 1: trust me the computer game of being a pair of

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Speaker 1: just because actually I find more complicated, more complex, just

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Speaker 1: as expensive, yes, even more so. Probably other ends. So

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Speaker 1: it's not like it ever ends, and nor should it.

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Speaker 1: It's just a different And also, you got all this year,

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Speaker 1: You've got another couple more years.

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Speaker 2: And I love packing your lunches. And I think mostly

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Speaker 2: because I've never been there in the morning for it,

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Speaker 2: because I've always been at.

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Speaker 1: Worst of the day those kids are I've done it

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Speaker 1: on me ten times well at the school run because

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Speaker 1: I've done breakfast ready for so long and I literally

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Speaker 1: and be like, I don't know how she does it.

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Speaker 1: It's going to take me six hours to go back

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Speaker 1: and get them. It is like live like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know. My husband does an amazing job

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Speaker 2: and I'll probably get the better end of it.

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Speaker 1: So being in the Special Forces in terms of just

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Speaker 1: the insurgency you have to deal with, Yeah, yeah, why

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Speaker 1: are we getting in the car so early? Don't drop

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Speaker 1: his hair? That's see you or the elephant Dad.

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Speaker 2: I know he cops it every morning. He cops it

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Speaker 2: every morning. He does a great job. So but I'm

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Speaker 2: not ready for the last How do you.

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Speaker 1: Think he would have got on if you've been doing

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Speaker 1: the school and all the years, how do you think.

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Speaker 2: Shocking shocking two women, No, absolutely shocking.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I wish I've been a flannel war in my

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Speaker 1: I'm outnumbered in my house, right. My life's the better

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Speaker 1: for it, okay, But honestly, if there was a flying

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Speaker 1: of all those three strong sisters, you got to my

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Speaker 1: two daughters and my wife as well. It's sometimes it's

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Speaker 1: scared with that energy. I'd just go to hide in

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Speaker 1: my own house. Suddenly the argument was stopped, and I

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Speaker 1: just sad. Someone going, where is that? I gotta go.

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Speaker 1: I gotta come out from under this bed right now.

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