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Speaker 1: time poor parent who just once answers now never before

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Speaker 1: on the Happy Families Podcast, have we tried to cram

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Speaker 1: so much news into one episode? And Kylie, I know

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Speaker 1: that you roll your eye every time we do this,

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Speaker 1: but maybe we should do it more often. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: This week in parenting, sorry, I need to do it

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Speaker 1: the proper way.

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Speaker 2: This week in perishing, that was terrible.

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Speaker 3: Really, I wasn't expecting you to do it nominally. It's

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Speaker 3: all me. Well, I was joining, join me, here we go.

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Speaker 1: This week we got to count it in one, two, three.

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Speaker 1: This week in parenting, Oh my goodness, JR.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what you can do with that.

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Speaker 1: By the time this goes to it, we'll laugh and

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Speaker 1: say what will we thinking?

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Speaker 3: Six stories?

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Speaker 1: Six stories in twelve minutes, so two minutes each. There's

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Speaker 1: so much to talk about. You're going to guide me

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Speaker 1: help our families to be happy. The news media has

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Speaker 1: been going absolutely gangbusters. Where do you want to start?

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Speaker 2: Well, the first story rodbox roadblocks.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I love I love how every time we talk

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Speaker 1: about roadblocks on the podcast, you call it roadbox, folks.

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Speaker 1: In case you're wondering, we don't do roadblocks in our house.

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Speaker 1: Roadblocks roadblocks with it like R O.

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Speaker 2: B L O X. Well, the first time I caught

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Speaker 3: Let's give it the story.

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Speaker 4: We're seeing examples of these cases shifting from the online

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Speaker 2: The article suggests that roadbox is a.

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Speaker 3: Pedophile healthscape for kids. Here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: So, Hindenberg Research is a company over in the US.

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Speaker 1: They look at stock that is overvalued. And I'm going

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Speaker 1: to get all stock marketing for a second, but stay

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Speaker 1: up on their list, if you short a company, what

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Speaker 1: that basically means is that you're making a prediction about it.

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Speaker 1: and the reason I'm talking about this is because it

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Speaker 1: Hindenburg have basically said is Roadblocks is a twenty seven

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Speaker 1: Since prior to going public, Roadblocks has reported the number

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Speaker 1: Research dot com slash roadblocks. They go through all the

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Speaker 1: other stuff that's there. Why am I sharing this? I'm

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Speaker 1: sharing it for two reasons. Number One, this is a

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Speaker 2: It just seems so disgraceful that something that literally is

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Speaker 1: There's this thing in the United States. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: It's really if you're going to let your kids be

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Speaker 3: You've just got to know what's going on.

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Speaker 2: Well, this flows in beautifully into our second article.

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Speaker 5: It is universally accepted that parenting is difficult, but now

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Speaker 5: the US Surgeon General says parenting maybe hazard as to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Kylie. This one was published in the Wall Street

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Speaker 1: Now, in fact, I'm going back about five weeks, six

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Speaker 5: Doctor Vivig Murphy wrote, and aren't bad in The New

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Speaker 1: The report sites the American Psychological Association saying nearly half

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Speaker 3: They're lonelier as well.

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Speaker 2: In some ways, parenting has changed so much over the

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Speaker 2: and that has definitely got some amazing benefits to our

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Speaker 2: And the idea that we feel lonely and isolated is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, parenting was once a team sport. It really is

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Speaker 1: Got vigil aged dangers. Once upon a time, kids really

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Speaker 1: to screen based childhoods. That's what Jonathan Hate talked all

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Speaker 1: The narrative isugh, this is hard, this is breaking me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I've got what it takes to

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Speaker 1: feel it. So does parenting need to stress you out?

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Speaker 1: Do we need a mental health warning on parenting like

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Speaker 2: Over the last handful of months, we've talked about the

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Speaker 1: Yeah social media. This was in a Daily Telegraph about

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Speaker 1: love this this company. They are just doing absolutely everything

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Speaker 3: People around the world because it's not about them.

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Speaker 1: The laws allow them to do it, and therefore if

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Speaker 3: And it is just not fair.

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Speaker 2: I think if you go back to the previous story

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that they're liable.

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Speaker 1: I think there's really big challenges here. Meta's goal seems

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Speaker 3: We can't help. But what we do want to do

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Speaker 1: To encourage parents to be aware of the apps that

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Speaker 1: Number One, I think most parents do have a pretty

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Speaker 1: The day that the politicians are going to debate it.

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Speaker 3: I reckon, I reckon, we need.

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Speaker 1: To call it quits there and maybe we do another

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Speaker 1: this week in Parenting next week.

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Speaker 2: You're such a cheat.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: We can't do the other three at the time we've got.

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Speaker 1: It's just not going to fit. Can you live with it?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for your patience, thank you for

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Speaker 1: allowing you. I don't know what I was thinking when

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Speaker 1: I said we could do six.

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Speaker 2: Well, at least we didn't tell them what we were

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Speaker 1: Yeah, every now and again, I'm like, let's do four,

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Speaker 3: Like, what are you doing?

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Speaker 1: And we've only gotten through three. It's because there's so

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Speaker 1: Parental Guidance Season three is coming back next year?

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Speaker 3: You have not I can't.

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Speaker 3: Langdon I'll tell you more about that. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe in older bed it tomorrow Tomorrow, I reckon we.

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Speaker 3: Can do that.

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