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#712 This Week in Parenting: Banned Children, Noodle Injuries & Baby Mullets · Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

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Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families podcast. It's the podcast for.
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Speaker 2: The time poor parent who just wants answers.
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Speaker 1: Now from a waitressing point of view, when you get
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Speaker 1: to the table and there's been kids there, you're going
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Speaker 1: to spend an extra six to ten minutes cleaning up
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Speaker 1: that table compared to the one where a couple of
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Speaker 1: bad odds of evening.
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Speaker 2: It's a spaghetti house, much less. And now here's the
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Speaker 2: scars of our show, My Mum and Dad, Kylie.
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Speaker 1: This is going to be a jam packed loads of
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Speaker 1: fun this week. Aga in parenting. You're so good at that,
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Speaker 1: we should make a promo out of that and just
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Speaker 1: get it out there that everyone knows. I love this
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Speaker 1: podcast episode. This is trash talk. This is looking at
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Speaker 1: what parenting's happening in the news, what people are talking
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Speaker 1: about when it comes to paring in the news. And
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Speaker 1: I've been collecting over the last couple of weeks a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of articles where parenting has gone absolutely crazy.
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Speaker 1: We've got way too many news articles about parenting to
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Speaker 1: talk about, but I think that we should just dive
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Speaker 1: into it and get cracking. For those of you who
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Speaker 1: needed the podcast once a month, we basically look at
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Speaker 1: what's happening in parenting in the news, and we laugh
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Speaker 1: about it, or we comment on it, or we just
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Speaker 1: keep you up to date. I what people are talking
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Speaker 1: about with stuff that relates to kids and parents.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well I want to talk about the no kids
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Speaker 2: allowed in the restaurant. Right a popular Italian restaurant New
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Speaker 2: Jersey will be turning away children under the age of.
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Speaker 1: Ten BBS to Hiss. Dave Cralin explains why Nettie's House
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Speaker 1: of Spaghetti is doing this. So this is an article
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Speaker 1: that was on kids Spot just recently. It's based on
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Speaker 1: something that was happening in the United States. I can
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Speaker 1: see it happening in Australia as well, though I don't
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Speaker 1: think this is a uniquely US kind of thing. Kidspot
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Speaker 1: dot com dot Au have got this article called we
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Speaker 1: Love kids, but It's time to take control. Restaurant bans
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Speaker 1: anyone under ten. A popular restaurant has sparked debate over
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Speaker 1: its decision to ban children under the age of ten
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Speaker 1: from dining there. Neddie's House of Spaghetti in New Joysey
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Speaker 1: made the announcement last week on their Facebook page, explaining
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Speaker 1: their reasoning, we love kids, We really truly do but
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Speaker 1: lately it's been extremely challenging to accommodate children at Nettie's.
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Speaker 1: Between noise levels, lack of space for high chairs, cleaning
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Speaker 1: up crazy messes, and the liability of kids running around
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Speaker 1: the restaurant, we have decided that it's time to take
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Speaker 1: control of the situation. This wasn't a decision that was
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Speaker 1: made lightly, but some recent events have pushed us to
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Speaker 1: implement this new policy. As of March eighth, the day
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Speaker 1: we return from our winter break, we will no longer
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Speaker 1: allow children under ten to dine in the restaurant. We
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Speaker 1: know that this is going to make some of you
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Speaker 1: very upset, especially those of you with very well behave kids,
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Speaker 1: but we believe this is the right decision for our
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Speaker 1: business moving forward. Thanks for understanding, Kylie. What do you
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Speaker 1: think is it okay for restaurants to ban kids? I
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Speaker 1: think that you love this. I can tell them from
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Speaker 1: your face. You're thinking, what's the problem here? Why is
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Speaker 1: this news? So for the.
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Speaker 2: Longest time, while ever we have had young children, we
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Speaker 2: have rung restaurants and said, what time do you open
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Speaker 2: your doors? We want to be in and out before
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Speaker 2: another person comes in, because it is hard.
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Speaker 1: We would make five pm bookings like four p thirty
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Speaker 1: if we could, let's just get in, get out, get
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Speaker 1: it done.
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Speaker 2: So we will choose takeaway over taking kids out. So
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Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with the restaurant saying that
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Speaker 2: it's an adult's only zone. Yeah, Like, if they've said
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Speaker 2: you can take your ten year olds, I'd be quite
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Speaker 2: happy if they said no kids. Not that I would
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Speaker 2: want every restaurant to do that, but I don't have
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Speaker 2: a problem with there being you know, a handful of
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Speaker 2: places where adults going to go. I mean, you've got
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Speaker 2: smoke free signs, smoking zone, Like, I don't have a
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Speaker 2: problem with that at all.
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Speaker 1: I think it's great because when you and I go
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Speaker 1: out for dinner, I really like to not have the
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Speaker 1: drama of kids. And you can get it from a
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Speaker 1: like from a watering point of view, waitressing point of view.
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Speaker 1: When you get to the table and there's been kids there,
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Speaker 1: you're going to spend an extra six to ten minutes
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Speaker 1: cleaning up that table compared to the one where a
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Speaker 1: couple of adults of even.
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Speaker 2: It's a spaghetti house, for goodness sake, can imagine mess.
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Speaker 2: I know what my two year olds would do with spaghetti.
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Speaker 2: I just yeah, I don't have a problem with it
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Speaker 2: at all.
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Speaker 1: And what I think as well is from a restaurant
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Speaker 1: point of view, there's gonna be a lot of restaurants
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Speaker 1: that are quite happy to have you and your kids.
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Speaker 1: But if a restaurant says, nah, we're just done with it,
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Speaker 1: I'm totally cool with that. But that was in the news,
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Speaker 1: kidspot dot com, dot you. I am curious, like when
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Speaker 1: it comes to ten being the cutoff. I can imagine
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Speaker 1: some families like, Oh, we really like Neddie's House of
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Speaker 1: Spaghetti though, and we've got a nine year old. We've
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Speaker 1: got an eight year old. What are they going to
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Speaker 1: do ask for the births. Let's just go and check it.
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Speaker 1: Let's just tell them that they're ten, and we'll get
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Speaker 1: them in there anyway. So I think this is just
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Speaker 1: kind of like the nightclub entry. I remember when you
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Speaker 1: were sixteen or seventeen, you want to sneak into the
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Speaker 1: night club. We're gonna have all these eight nine year
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Speaker 1: old sneaking into Netti's house to get So that's the
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Speaker 1: first story. I thought it was a fun one with
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Speaker 1: parenting being in the news, I mean, they're talking about
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Speaker 1: having kid free suburbs, and kid free communities, and it's
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Speaker 1: the same thing, right, if that's what you want, field
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Speaker 1: your boots. There's plenty of places that kids can go
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Speaker 1: and plenty of places that you can eat. Well.
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Speaker 2: I think we just we have to acknowledge it takes
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Speaker 2: types to make the world go round.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, right at the day, so really Rihanna performing with
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Speaker 3: authority right as a musical icon, but also with subtle
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Speaker 3: nods that yes, she is pregnant again. And it was
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Speaker 3: no mistake that the soon to be mother of two
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Speaker 3: started and ended her show alone on a floating stage
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Speaker 3: at what her producer said was the top of the world.
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Speaker 1: So number two Rihanna at the super Bowl, Rihanna made headlines,
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Speaker 1: credited motherhood for headlining the super Bowl and said you
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Speaker 1: can do anything. So she's literally one of the world's
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Speaker 1: biggest stars. She steps out onto the super Bowl stage
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Speaker 1: in front of like one hundred million people basically because
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Speaker 1: of the way it's televised and goes around the globe.
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Speaker 1: And she did it, perform for fifteen minutes or something
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Speaker 1: like that. All of her biggest hits while she was pregnant.
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Speaker 2: You make it sound like it's a massive feet.
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Speaker 1: It was all over the news. Everyone was making a
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Speaker 1: big deal of it.
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Speaker 2: I haven't seen Rihanna, So did she do like some
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Speaker 2: major dance moves or something.
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Speaker 1: She just up on stage and she performed and rocked
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Speaker 1: the place while she was pregnant, And people are saying,
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Speaker 1: this is a really, really, really big deal. I love
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Speaker 1: how you're like, why is this a big deal? I
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Speaker 1: love that because so what she was pregnant and she
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Speaker 1: performed at a concert Like that's okay, right, yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: big news. Hey, this is that's this week in parenting.
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Speaker 1: The third story for this week in parenting.
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Speaker 2: This week in Parenting, Yes, is all about instant noodles.
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Speaker 1: Did you know instant noodles accounts for almost a third
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Speaker 1: of childhood burn injuries. A study published in the journal
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Speaker 1: Burns examine the data regarding all pediatric patients. Okay, this
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Speaker 1: was on nine honey, and I just can you trust
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Speaker 1: nine honey?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Are you saying can you trust ninety? Calling me
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Speaker 1: honey is because that's what it sounded like. Can you
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Speaker 1: trust nine honey? Yes, you can absolutely. That's that's where
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Speaker 1: Chanel nine, That's where the upcoming season two of Parental
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Speaker 1: Guidance will be.
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Speaker 2: You can definitely totally trustweay.
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Speaker 1: The headline is instant noodles or a leading cause of
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Speaker 1: child burn injuries, says a new study. Now this almost
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Speaker 1: made it into the doctor's desk, but I decided that
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Speaker 1: it was probably a little bit more this week in
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Speaker 1: pairenting the doctor's desk. It didn't feel like it was
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Speaker 1: serious enough science for me. But let me share this
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Speaker 1: with you. A popular and convenient, low budget snack is
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Speaker 1: proving to be dangerous for young kids. According to a
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Speaker 1: new US study, instant noodles account for nearly a third
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Speaker 1: of childhood burn injuries. Now I remember when I was young,
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Speaker 1: I would I never actually spilt it on me, but
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Speaker 1: burn the inside of your mouth with that hot water
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Speaker 1: like that, there's pain going on there. The study, carried
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Speaker 1: out by Research as the University of Chicago and published
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Speaker 1: in the journal Burns, analyzed data of children who were
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Speaker 1: admitted to the hospital with school injuries between twenty ten
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Speaker 1: and twenty twenty. Of the seven hundred and ninety cases,
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Speaker 1: thirty one percent were caused by instant noodles. That's a percentage.
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Speaker 2: That's a huge percentage.
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Speaker 1: I can feel a class action coming on against the
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Speaker 1: noodle manufacturers. Furthermore, unsupervised children also faced higher risk, with
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Speaker 1: forty percent of instant Nordle burns occurring when children were
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Speaker 1: reported to be alone during the time of injury. Now,
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Speaker 1: I can't believe that they're collecting this much data, but
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Speaker 1: they've got the data and that's what they're showing.
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Speaker 2: You think about the level of burn that scolding water.
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Speaker 2: A child gets from scolding water, Yeah, this is intense
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Speaker 2: and depending on how much water we're talking about, that's
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Speaker 2: the difference between you know, a finger, a hand, an
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Speaker 2: arm halfway down your body. It's noteworthy.
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Speaker 1: The researcher in charge of the study, doctor Sebastian v Rell, said, anecdotally,
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Speaker 1: it felt like every other child we were consulted on
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Speaker 1: for a burn was injured by instant nordles. It was
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Speaker 1: a great headline, the instant noodles injured me. So we
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Speaker 1: wanted to dive into the data to see what the
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Speaker 1: trend really was and obviously it's a bit of an issue.
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Speaker 1: So we're raising that if you can, I say this,
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Speaker 1: if you're one of those parents that lets your kids
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Speaker 1: eat instant noodles, like we actually have instant noodles in
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Speaker 1: our house, don't we.
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Speaker 2: No, we don't. And you know what. This week in
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Speaker 2: parenting in the Coolson household, our twenty year old who
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Speaker 2: has had her own stash of instant noodles because I
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Speaker 2: will not buy them any more. Yes, she has them there.
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Speaker 2: If we have a yo yo night.
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Speaker 1: A yoo night for those of you who are unfamiliar
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Speaker 1: with the term, is that you're on your own night
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Speaker 1: where Kylie and I just say we're not cooking for you.
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Speaker 1: Figure it out for yourself.
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Speaker 2: And so she's too lazy to do anything else. She'll
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Speaker 2: pull out one of her cups. And she pulled one
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Speaker 2: out the other night and she said, you know what,
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Speaker 2: I'm so over these noodles. I didn't think I would
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Speaker 2: ever hear that.
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Speaker 1: Disgusting.
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Speaker 2: I was so excited.
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Speaker 1: I haven't had instant noodles far. It's got to be
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Speaker 1: twenty years, maybe more.
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Speaker 2: It's not really food, is it.
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Speaker 1: Be careful people listening to the podcast to eat instan noodles.
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Speaker 1: But if you do, if you do, just make sure
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Speaker 1: they're cool. Don't burn the kids with them. They're deadly, apparently,
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Speaker 1: according to the Science.
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Speaker 2: So story number four kids breaking into phones at school.
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Speaker 2: The education Minister's being forced defend Essay's controversial school mobile
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Speaker 2: phone ban only days after it was introduced.
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Speaker 1: It comes after a series of videos emerged showing students
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Speaker 1: vandalizing the taxpayer funded pouches used to keep the phones locked.
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Speaker 1: So Kylie, This story was on news dot com dot
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Speaker 1: Au The wild Way Australian kids are out smarting the
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Speaker 1: new school rule. So basically this year in South Australian
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Speaker 1: high schools, mobile telephones have been banned and the school
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Speaker 1: bought these pouches that are called yonder pouches. The idea
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Speaker 1: is that you stick the phone in there and then
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Speaker 1: it kind of it's locked. There's a special magnetic system
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Speaker 1: to unlock the phone. It just keeps phones out of kids'
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Speaker 1: hands while they're in the school yard. But according to
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Speaker 1: news dot com tell You, Australian students have found sneaky
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Speaker 1: ways to skirt around new mobile phone bands that schools
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Speaker 1: have spent thousands of dollars implementing. Basically, what the kids
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Speaker 1: are doing is the yonder pouches. They've found ways to
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Speaker 1: break them open and you don't need magnets. You have
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Speaker 1: to do According to the TikTok videos, where there are
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Speaker 1: dozens of videos of OSSI students teaching others how to
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Speaker 1: open the pouches. Is you get the Yonder bag and
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Speaker 1: you whack it really hard on this part just here,
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Speaker 1: That's what it says. And the TikTok just whack it
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Speaker 1: right here on this part. Hit it hard a couple
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Speaker 1: of times, and what do you know, Abrica dabruh, you
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Speaker 1: can get access to your phone. I mean it probably
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Speaker 1: breaks the Yonder pouch, which is worth about fifteen dollars
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Speaker 1: or thereabouts. It just says, you just want to bang
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Speaker 1: it a couple of times, really hard. This only works
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Speaker 1: with the new one, the one with the button. I
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Speaker 1: guess what this really shows is as parents, we can
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Speaker 1: come up with every possible solution to keep the kids safe,
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Speaker 1: to keep the kids offline, to keep the kids away
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Speaker 1: from their screens. And you know what they're going to do.
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Speaker 2: They're going to find a way.
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Speaker 1: They're going to say, don't care, don't care, you can't
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Speaker 1: make me. I can do what I want, and they do,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes the things that they do end up being
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Speaker 1: quite costly because they actually don't care.
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Speaker 2: Well. Story number five is the mullet.
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Speaker 1: Story number five. Do we have more stories? How many
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Speaker 1: more have we got that's it. This is the last
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Speaker 1: one okay this week compairing. This one caught my attention
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Speaker 1: because I'm just not quite sure how i'd respond. I
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Speaker 1: think I do know, but I'd love to get your
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Speaker 1: response here. Okay, so this was once again on nine Honey.
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Speaker 1: We will link to the story in the show notes.
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Speaker 1: Aunt sparks outrage aren't after taking toddler for a mullet
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Speaker 1: haircut without permission? Do you love it? Stay tuned to
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Speaker 1: see her reaction. Yes, I was expecting a bigger response
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Speaker 1: than that. You're just looking at me, So basically, what's
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Speaker 1: happened happened. So a woman has sparked fury online after
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Speaker 1: she took her nephew for a bold new haircut without
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Speaker 1: telling his mum. The aunt, who shared a video of
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Speaker 1: the process on her TikTok account, described it as a
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Speaker 1: little prank, but it seems that most people fail to
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Speaker 1: see the humor. My sister left me in charge of
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Speaker 1: her child, so I thought it would be funny to
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Speaker 1: take him to the hairdresser and paul a little prank,
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Speaker 1: she says in the clip captioned baby Mullet. Now, I've
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Speaker 1: got to tell you, this kid has got a thick
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Speaker 1: mop of hair. Little guy hair, lots and lots of hair.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's actually a really spunky looking kid. And
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Speaker 1: she says, I'm not going to tell you guys what
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Speaker 1: it's going to be, but it's going to be so funny.
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Speaker 1: Then she holds him up so that you can see
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Speaker 1: this great head of hair. He sits down and next
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Speaker 1: thing you know, the hairdresser pulls out the clippers and
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Speaker 1: the mullet. The mullet is delivered, the sides are shaved off,
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Speaker 1: there's the ugly stuff at the back. It's really really well,
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Speaker 1: it's really bad, full stop and a story. Kylie, you've
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Speaker 1: got a kid. Your sister takes him. And this is
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Speaker 1: hard for us to imagine because we have six daughters,
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Speaker 1: but your sister takes our son to the hairdresser at
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Speaker 1: the age of what two or three?
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Speaker 2: So the problem is, I am not emotionally attached. And
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Speaker 2: that little baby is so adorable that regardless what haircut.
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Speaker 1: You're saying you're seeing, the mullet will still work. You
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Speaker 1: don't care. He's super super cute.
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Speaker 2: But if that was my child, yeah, I would lose it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I mean, you could do it with a
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Speaker 1: girl as well, though, Like, let's say your sister, one
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Speaker 1: of your sisters takes one of our kids to the
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Speaker 1: hairdresser for just a surprise, is for a haircut. She
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Speaker 1: doesn't give her a mullet, but she gives her a fringe.
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Speaker 1: Or you've been working on getting some length and she
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Speaker 1: gives her It.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't even my sister. I took the kids to the hairdresser.
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Speaker 2: I had twelve year old and the fifteen year old
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Speaker 2: in the seat, and I said to them, I will
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Speaker 2: just go and meet dad because he's got Emily. She's
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Speaker 2: going to have her haircut after you. By the time
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Speaker 2: I came back, the twelve year old had made a
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Speaker 2: decision that we hadn't talked about, and I took one
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Speaker 2: look at her and I went, what have you done?
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Speaker 1: You do take haircuts? Seriously? Do you remember the time
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Speaker 1: when I took the kids for a haircut and you
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Speaker 1: said they're only allowed to have I don't know what
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Speaker 1: was it, five centimeters taken off. We just need to
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Speaker 1: get the ends growing nicely. And I decided to get
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Speaker 1: the kids to have cut it all off. I said,
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Speaker 1: let's give them a bob instead. Let's just give them
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Speaker 1: a nice Bob, they looked gorgeous. You didn't talk to
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Speaker 1: me for a month, Oh don't. You didn't see me,
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Speaker 1: made me sleep with the dog.
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Speaker 2: You make me sound terrible.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you take your haircuts pretty seriously.
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Speaker 3: It's a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. You know what my hairdressers said to me
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Speaker 1: once when I went in for a haircut and I
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Speaker 1: was a bit unsure about it.
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Speaker 2: It'll grow on you.
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Speaker 1: Don't worry, It'll grow on you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. We hope you've enjoyed this episode of This Week
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