Latest / Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families / #635 Your Children Don't Need Punishment
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- 0:03Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families podcast. It's the podcast for the
- 0:07Speaker 1: time poor parent who just once answers.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Now, I'm not big on gentle parenting, but i am
- 0:12Speaker 2: really big on being good to kids, make sure they've
- 0:15Speaker 2: got appropriate boundaries, but making sure that we're communicating with
- 0:19Speaker 2: them in a way that acknowledges and recognizes that they're people.
- 0:24Speaker 1: And now here's the stars of our show, my mum
- 0:27Speaker 1: and dad.
- 0:28Speaker 2: I have no idea, Kylie, if this is going to work.
- 0:30Speaker 2: This is the first time, first time ever that we've
- 0:32Speaker 2: tried to record a podcast with the entire family home
- 0:35Speaker 2: and the dishwatcher going and children in the shower, bath,
- 0:38Speaker 2: the whole lot. So fingers crossed, it's going to work, obviously, Folks.
- 0:43Speaker 2: We don't record the podcast the minute that you're hearing
- 0:46Speaker 2: it live to air on the morning of the podcast.
- 0:50Speaker 2: We do it the day before or something like that.
- 0:53Speaker 2: But this time we are running late. Our lives have
- 0:56Speaker 2: been hectic, our schedule has blown up, like absolutely, and
- 1:01Speaker 2: we are trying to do this in a really complicated way.
- 1:05Speaker 2: So I've just been in Sydney last night. I was
- 1:07Speaker 2: at bridget Ene College in the Eastern Suburbs talking about
- 1:11Speaker 2: sex consent and staying safe, and now we're doing our
- 1:14Speaker 2: very best with technology to pull this off. Kylie's got
- 1:17Speaker 2: the kids running around the house and I'm trying to
- 1:20Speaker 2: push the buttons from where I am and I have
- 1:22Speaker 2: no idea if it's going to work. So here we go.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Let's do our best. Are you ready?
- 1:27Speaker 3: Hey?
- 1:27Speaker 2: You know what I want to do. We were trying
- 1:29Speaker 2: to get hold of Ryan Reynolds for the show Ryan
- 1:31Speaker 2: Renolds for the podcast what are you laughing at? I'm serious.
- 1:34Speaker 2: We sent the invite out, nothing came back, but it's
- 1:37Speaker 2: got a new movie coming out email. I haven't got
- 1:41Speaker 2: his email address. No, I do what I can.
- 1:43Speaker 4: Here's Twitter.
- 1:45Speaker 5: No, I should have tweeted him. I should have said, Ryan,
- 1:47Speaker 5: come on the show. I've got six daughters. He's got
- 1:49Speaker 5: three daughters. And because he wasn't available to talk to
- 1:53Speaker 5: the Happy Families podcast. I mean, we do have a
- 1:55Speaker 5: lot of listeners and we have been nominated as Australia's
- 1:59Speaker 5: Best Parenting PODCAS for later on this month of the
- 2:01Speaker 5: Istraian Podcast Awards. But maybe I should tweet him and
- 2:04Speaker 5: let him know and see if he'll do it. I
- 2:06Speaker 5: mean that would be epic, that would be epic.
- 2:08Speaker 4: Could you imagine really Jimmy Fallon.
- 2:10Speaker 2: Well, he was speaking with Jimmy Fallon about the things
- 2:12Speaker 2: that I wanted to talk to him about. That is
- 2:15Speaker 2: his brand new Spirited movie, which we're not going to
- 2:19Speaker 2: We're not going to talk about that because we can't.
- 2:21Speaker 2: But also he he he and his wife, Blake Lively
- 2:25Speaker 2: are expecting another child. This is what he had to
- 2:29Speaker 2: say about maybe number four on the way. Will it
- 2:31Speaker 2: be a girl? Talking with Jimmy Fallon, maybe number four
- 2:34Speaker 2: on the way, number fo. I'm so happy for you
- 2:39Speaker 2: and Blake.
- 2:39Speaker 3: Thank you, SENSI Blake, please, I definitely will. Yeah, it's
- 2:44Speaker 3: it's another Yeah, No, it's a lot. I mean we
- 2:46Speaker 3: have we have three beautiful girls right now and fourth
- 2:50Speaker 3: one on the way. It's really making me rethink stunts.
- 2:54Speaker 3: You know, I've been doing the action movies twenty five years.
- 2:57Speaker 3: I've broken twelve bones. I just had a seventh surgery.
- 3:00Speaker 3: And you know, kids though they beat you up, I
- 3:02Speaker 3: got you know, my daughter's like you know you I
- 3:05Speaker 3: oftentimes like it's not an alarm clock that wakes me up.
- 3:08Speaker 3: It's like a jump, a need of the jugular, Yeah,
- 3:10Speaker 3: of course. Yeah, And like I just want to keep
- 3:13Speaker 3: I'm rethinking doing stunts now because I'm starting to realize,
- 3:16Speaker 3: like I want to be able to still kind of
- 3:17Speaker 3: be active with my kids and stuff like I love
- 3:20Speaker 3: I love throwing them up in the air, Like I
- 3:22Speaker 3: could throw my daughter Betty.
- 3:23Speaker 2: Especially, I can throw her. She's so little. I could
- 3:25Speaker 2: throw her high in the.
- 3:27Speaker 3: Air still, and she loves it. The problem is I
- 3:31Speaker 3: can't catch her.
- 3:32Speaker 2: Yeah, that's.
- 3:34Speaker 3: So, that's how the biggest the biggest issue that I'm facing.
- 3:38Speaker 2: But yeah, do you know, do you know if it's
- 3:40Speaker 2: boy or girl? We don't.
- 3:41Speaker 3: We never find out. We always wait till they come
- 3:44Speaker 3: down the chute. But you know, I actually, yeah, I
- 3:50Speaker 3: just even after they're born. I don't ask because I
- 3:53Speaker 3: respect the privacy. But I'm kind of hoping for a
- 3:57Speaker 3: girl because I know i'm a bit of a hen myself.
- 4:00Speaker 2: I know girls. I like, I'm a girl dad. I'm
- 4:03Speaker 2: used to that. I'm ready for that.
- 4:05Speaker 3: I feel like, yeah, yeah, you're good.
- 4:08Speaker 2: Yeah. So I like Ryan Reynolds because girl dad, this
- 4:12Speaker 2: is what I'm thinking. I've got to I've got to
- 4:14Speaker 2: tweet him. I've got to contact his publicist. We've got
- 4:16Speaker 2: to do whatever we can. Six Daughters Podcast Parenting families
- 4:21Speaker 2: like he would be so good to talk to. What
- 4:23Speaker 2: do you think should we do it? Of course I
- 4:26Speaker 2: think we should do it. That's what I'm gonna once
- 4:28Speaker 2: we finished putting this podcast together, I'm going to jump
- 4:31Speaker 2: onto Twitter and try. Okay, I'm going to try, and
- 4:35Speaker 2: they're forced be with you now. Now the topic of
- 4:38Speaker 2: our podcast today, I wonder what Ryan Reynolds would say.
- 4:41Speaker 2: The topic of our podcast is your children don't need punishment.
- 4:46Speaker 2: They need you to be responsive, They need you to
- 4:48Speaker 2: not be putting them in time out. They don't be
- 4:50Speaker 2: yelled at. Your children don't need punishment. And I just
- 4:54Speaker 2: wonder what would he agree with that? But what would
- 4:57Speaker 2: he say? I mean, I'd imagine he would say something
- 4:59Speaker 2: like Deadpool doesn't punish. Deadpool just kills people. If the
- 5:02Speaker 2: children do the wrong thing, let's just let's just go.
- 5:05Speaker 4: They just throw them up in the air and you
- 5:06Speaker 4: don't catch them.
- 5:08Speaker 2: Who needs punishment when you've got a dad like that?
- 5:10Speaker 2: So let's let's talk about this topic and we'll save
- 5:13Speaker 2: Ryan Reynolds for another day. We'll see if we can
- 5:15Speaker 2: get a scoop with Ryan Reynolds down the track. Where
- 5:19Speaker 2: do you want to start this conversation.
- 5:21Speaker 4: Well, you don't really love the phrase gentle parenting?
- 5:25Speaker 2: Oh, yes, I know. And whenever I talk about this
- 5:27Speaker 2: idea of kids not being punished, everyone says, well, that's
- 5:30Speaker 2: because you're your a gentle parent. That justin Colson Happy Families,
- 5:34Speaker 2: it's all about gentle parenting.
- 5:35Speaker 4: So why don't you like it? Like, what's wrong with
- 5:38Speaker 4: to be a gentle parent?
- 5:39Speaker 2: No, well, there's nothing the matter with being a gentle parent.
- 5:41Speaker 2: It's it's more the definition of the lack thereof of
- 5:45Speaker 2: gentle parenting. So essentially, gentle parenting is just anything that's
- 5:48Speaker 2: not traditional parenting that's kind and gentle and nice. It's
- 5:50Speaker 2: like a soft version. A lot of people see gentle
- 5:52Speaker 2: pairing as a permissive version of traditional parenting. That is,
- 5:56Speaker 2: I'm going to raise my children like everyone else raises
- 5:58Speaker 2: their kids, but I'm just not going to them into trouble.
- 6:00Speaker 2: And I'm also not getting them into trouble. But the
- 6:03Speaker 2: whole idea, the whole gentle parenting thing, it really sets
- 6:06Speaker 2: some people off. It gets some people really really annoyed
- 6:08Speaker 2: and frustrated. It's not a well defined term, so from
- 6:12Speaker 2: a research point of view, it just doesn't exist in
- 6:14Speaker 2: the academic literature because it's so loosely defined. And what
- 6:19Speaker 2: it really I think stands for is it's just a
- 6:22Speaker 2: soft kind version of the old school parenting. It's old
- 6:26Speaker 2: school parenting but without the without the disciplinary approach where
- 6:30Speaker 2: we're being punitive, and so many people think that it
- 6:34Speaker 2: means that the kids can get away with anything. So
- 6:37Speaker 2: I'm not big on gentle parenting, but I am really
- 6:39Speaker 2: big on being good to kids, making sure they've got
- 6:41Speaker 2: appropriate boundaries, but making sure that we're communicating with them
- 6:47Speaker 2: in a way that acknowledges and recognizes that they're people
- 6:51Speaker 2: and that they're having challenges. So that's the main reason
- 6:55Speaker 2: that I'm not a big fan of it.
- 6:56Speaker 4: So one of the things that we try to do
- 6:58Speaker 4: while we work with our children is not actually at
- 7:00Speaker 4: them in trouble that actually work through the challenges that
- 7:03Speaker 4: we're experiencing or they're experiencing to come to a conclusion
- 7:07Speaker 4: that will work for all a solution that will work
- 7:10Speaker 4: for all of us.
- 7:12Speaker 2: And some people would call that gentle parenting, just to
- 7:13Speaker 2: be clear, So we're not saying that it's not. I'm
- 7:16Speaker 2: just saying I struggle with the term, and I think
- 7:18Speaker 2: there are other things that we do that don't qualify
- 7:20Speaker 2: as that.
- 7:21Speaker 4: So what would you label us?
- 7:22Speaker 3: Then?
- 7:23Speaker 2: Well that's what my new books about, which we're not
- 7:25Speaker 2: going to talk about until next year. But essentially, what
- 7:27Speaker 2: we're trying to do is create an environment that supports
- 7:29Speaker 2: our children's needs so that they can do what they're
- 7:32Speaker 2: supposed to do and grow and develop mastery and do
- 7:35Speaker 2: better in their lives. But this whole idea of getting
- 7:37Speaker 2: your kids in trouble, what we've found is every time
- 7:40Speaker 2: we get the kids in trouble, we lose the relationship.
- 7:43Speaker 2: The kids feel lousy about themselves because they feel like
- 7:46Speaker 2: they're being both controlled and they feel like they're being
- 7:48Speaker 2: judged as incapable and incompetent. And so, as you said,
- 7:52Speaker 2: our goal with the children when they're doing things that
- 7:55Speaker 2: don't work is to sit with them and say, hey,
- 7:59Speaker 2: we having a hard time here. We need to work
- 8:01Speaker 2: this out. I get that you're struggling, but let's get
- 8:04Speaker 2: everyone cool. Let's get everyone into a out of the
- 8:08Speaker 2: hot emotional state that they're in because high emotions, low intelligence,
- 8:12Speaker 2: or as one of our favorite podcast listeners and Premium
- 8:16Speaker 2: Happy Families members has said, when you're on the brink,
- 8:18Speaker 2: you need to stop and think. You can't think straight
- 8:21Speaker 2: in a high emotion state, because our kids respond to
- 8:24Speaker 2: things based on what's going on in their brain and
- 8:26Speaker 2: their body before they respond to things in a rational way.
- 8:30Speaker 2: If they're really heightened, we catch their emotions, but they
- 8:33Speaker 2: blow up and we can't have useful conversations with them.
- 8:37Speaker 2: So our job really is to say, hey, let's just
- 8:41Speaker 2: be together. Let's help you to feel safe and secure,
- 8:44Speaker 2: and once you feel like that, then we can work
- 8:46Speaker 2: out a way forward. It sounds so easy in practice,
- 8:48Speaker 2: in theory, in practice, so wow, it's hard.
- 8:54Speaker 4: Just thinking about the last week and the multiple opportunities
- 9:00Speaker 4: we've had to work with our children. Some of them
- 9:02Speaker 4: haven't gone so well. And the thing that stands out
- 9:05Speaker 4: to me in each of the cases where things did
- 9:08Speaker 4: not go the way we would have wanted them to
- 9:11Speaker 4: was just that sense of injustice that the kids felt
- 9:15Speaker 4: because they felt so wrongly and harshly judged. Yeah, we
- 9:21Speaker 4: attribute the worst possible motives to our kids' behavior when
- 9:26Speaker 4: it doesn't fit in with the things that we want,
- 9:29Speaker 4: and it's in those moments that we actually need to
- 9:34Speaker 4: kind of have soft eyes and see them for the
- 9:38Speaker 4: beautiful children that they really are.
- 9:40Speaker 2: So to put that into context, what that really means
- 9:44Speaker 2: when you're saying we attribute the worst possible motives to them,
- 9:46Speaker 2: is we're walking thro the room and say, how many
- 9:47Speaker 2: times do I have to tell you? I can't believe
- 9:49Speaker 2: you're doing this again? There's something deficient about your character.
- 9:52Speaker 2: You're a problem. You're always doing this, and we call
- 9:55Speaker 2: them names, we label and we say things about them.
- 9:58Speaker 2: What is your issue is at the very heart of
- 10:02Speaker 2: what's going on here. What our kids need, as you've said,
- 10:06Speaker 2: is they need is to walk in and say, you're
- 10:08Speaker 2: really struggling at the moment, I'm here to help. Let's
- 10:11Speaker 2: get you out of the room. Let's get you away
- 10:12Speaker 2: from your sister, Let's get you away from the issue
- 10:15Speaker 2: that's being created here, and when everything's cool, we'll have
- 10:18Speaker 2: a chat. In case in point, about a week ago,
- 10:20Speaker 2: one of our kids was super, super angry at her
- 10:23Speaker 2: sister and we separated them, and then the one that
- 10:29Speaker 2: was really angry she had to go and take care
- 10:31Speaker 2: of something that was going to take her a few hours.
- 10:33Speaker 2: It was a Saturday, and she had another commitment that
- 10:35Speaker 2: was going to take her out of the house for
- 10:36Speaker 2: a few hours when I picked her up from where
- 10:38Speaker 2: she'd been, I said to her, do we need to
- 10:41Speaker 2: talk about what happened this morning? She looked at me
- 10:44Speaker 2: and said, Dad, I've had a really good opportunity to
- 10:46Speaker 2: think about it, and no, we don't need to talk
- 10:48Speaker 2: about it. And I know I need to be better
- 10:49Speaker 2: and I'm really sorry, and I'll make it right tonight
- 10:51Speaker 2: when I get home. Now, we've had ongoing incidences with
- 10:56Speaker 2: that child and her sister because they're human, they're not perfect.
- 11:00Speaker 2: They still struggle. I mean, adults still struggle. We still
- 11:02Speaker 2: struggle with our own siblings and our own parents, and
- 11:05Speaker 2: sometimes even with one another. But it's about giving them
- 11:10Speaker 2: the opportunity to have the learning to make the decision
- 11:13Speaker 2: for themselves to be better and to move things forward
- 11:17Speaker 2: in a positive and constructive way. That's the goal. Getting
- 11:20Speaker 2: them to do it, recognizing that they're going to fail,
- 11:23Speaker 2: because we all fail. But if we can do that,
- 11:26Speaker 2: I just think we get much better outcomes and they learn,
- 11:29Speaker 2: They learn to be resilient, they learn how to they
- 11:33Speaker 2: learn how to regulate, they learn how to get beyond
- 11:38Speaker 2: the challenges they're facing. Like the traditional parenting model, I
- 11:41Speaker 2: come across a great quote from Mona Dellahok. I'm hoping
- 11:43Speaker 2: to get her on the podcast and she's brilliant, and
- 11:46Speaker 2: Mona Delahook said, traditional parenting is agnostic of social emotional development.
- 11:50Speaker 2: In other words, when you're doing this standard parenting thing,
- 11:53Speaker 2: you don't really care about what's going on socially and
- 11:54Speaker 2: emotionally with your child. It's just, well, you've done the
- 11:57Speaker 2: wrong thing. You want compliance, Yeah, that's right. Now you
- 11:59Speaker 2: need to do the right thing. Whereas a more responsive
- 12:03Speaker 2: approach is where we say you've done the wrong thing,
- 12:06Speaker 2: you're really upset, Let's work through the emotional stuff first
- 12:09Speaker 2: and then we can have a logical conversation. Kind of
- 12:11Speaker 2: makes sense. I mean, if you've ever been in a
- 12:13Speaker 2: blue with an adult, there's no point trying to get
- 12:16Speaker 2: through this when you're both angry. You've got to go
- 12:18Speaker 2: and cool down before you have a sensible conversation about it.
- 12:20Speaker 2: That's really all we're talking about, and that's why I
- 12:22Speaker 2: don't think we need to punish our kids. There's no
- 12:26Speaker 2: justification for it, because once we get everyone calm, we
- 12:28Speaker 2: can have conversations, problem solve and get on with things.
- 12:33Speaker 4: The more I learn about myself and the way I
- 12:35Speaker 4: deal with things, the more I'm recognizing just how integral
- 12:40Speaker 4: learning to regulate one's emotions impacts every facet of our lives. Yeah,
- 12:46Speaker 4: and so you've obviously talked through some of the things
- 12:49Speaker 4: that we do. But if we could just break it
- 12:51Speaker 4: down into some really simple steps. When we've got kids
- 12:54Speaker 4: who are playing up, how do we teach them how
- 13:00Speaker 4: to regulate their emotions so that they can work through
- 13:04Speaker 4: those challenges in more effective ways, especially considering that as adults,
- 13:09Speaker 4: most of us actually still struggle to do this ourselves.
- 13:13Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was going to be the first thing
- 13:14Speaker 2: We've actually got to model it. We've got to be
- 13:16Speaker 2: a good example of emotional and control ourselves. And I know,
- 13:20Speaker 2: I mean I'll speak really personally, encounteredly. When I'm tired
- 13:24Speaker 2: and the kids are going nuts, I just don't do
- 13:27Speaker 2: as well. I'm much more likely to be volatile, to
- 13:30Speaker 2: be frustrated, to be loud or even explosive and say
- 13:34Speaker 2: that's it. I've had a laugh. This is ridiculous, because
- 13:37Speaker 2: when we're tired and when we're hungry, when we're at
- 13:39Speaker 2: the end of our tether, we just can't seem to
- 13:42Speaker 2: do it nearly as well, so number one, we've got
- 13:45Speaker 2: to keep it together ourselves, because emotions are contagious. High emotions,
- 13:48Speaker 2: low intelligence. Once we're keeping it together. There's a question
- 13:51Speaker 2: that I've started asking myself just in the last few weeks,
- 13:53Speaker 2: and I think it's really powerful. How do I not
- 13:56Speaker 2: add to my child's suffering right now? So when children
- 14:00Speaker 2: are playing up, when they're behaving in challenging ways, it's
- 14:03Speaker 2: because they're experiencing a challenge, they're experiencing hardship, they're experiencing
- 14:06Speaker 2: difficulty to take it to an extreme, perhaps they're experiencing suffering.
- 14:10Speaker 2: So I try to remember to ask myself, how can
- 14:14Speaker 2: you not add to her suffering? Like, what can you do?
- 14:17Speaker 2: How can you approach her in a way that will
- 14:19Speaker 2: not make things worse for her? Because high emotions, low intelligence.
- 14:25Speaker 2: When you're on the brink, you need to stop and think,
- 14:26Speaker 2: we've got to pull things down. Emotions contagious. Once I've
- 14:30Speaker 2: asked that question, I step in with much softer eyes,
- 14:33Speaker 2: with a much more gentle and compassionate heart, and with
- 14:37Speaker 2: a desire to help not hurt. At which point you
- 14:41Speaker 2: separate the kids or you move them away from whatever
- 14:43Speaker 2: it is that's causing the ruckus and say you have
- 14:47Speaker 2: a really tough time. I'm not going to say anything
- 14:49Speaker 2: to you. Just now, let's just go for a walk.
- 14:52Speaker 2: Let's get you outside, Let's get you in a different
- 14:54Speaker 2: environment where we can take a few deep breaths, and
- 14:56Speaker 2: we'll deal with this a little bit later. Let's just
- 14:59Speaker 2: get out out of the conflict situation. And I think
- 15:01Speaker 2: that's actually enough because once you're out of the conflict situation,
- 15:05Speaker 2: maybe you wait thirty seconds, maybe you wait thirty minutes,
- 15:07Speaker 2: maybe you wait three hours, but then you can come
- 15:10Speaker 2: back to it when everyone's in an emotionally cool state
- 15:12Speaker 2: and say, hmm, let's figure this out. That that's the
- 15:16Speaker 2: approach we're looking for. That's the outcome we try to achieve.
- 15:19Speaker 4: What I love about this is when things don't work
- 15:23Speaker 4: out like that, things escalate. They go from being hot
- 15:28Speaker 4: to like boiling point very very quickly. But not only
- 15:35Speaker 4: it does do things escalate usually between the two people
- 15:40Speaker 4: that have started or instigated the struggle, but then you
- 15:45Speaker 4: get involved, and often if there's another parent in the house,
- 15:48Speaker 4: they get involved, and before you know it, you've got
- 15:50Speaker 4: four or five people at top end emotions struggling to
- 15:56Speaker 4: kind of work through this. Whereas, as you've talked about,
- 15:58Speaker 4: I guess a better, better way of doing things says,
- 16:02Speaker 4: I'm listening to you share all of that. I'm thinking
- 16:04Speaker 4: about the times where it hasn't worked out like that
- 16:07Speaker 4: and watched the climate in the house go from two
- 16:11Speaker 4: children having an argument to now mom and dad being
- 16:14Speaker 4: involved and heightened emotions on all levels, and it just
- 16:19Speaker 4: escalates out of control very very quickly. Whereas, if we
- 16:24Speaker 4: can take a step back and try that approach, as
- 16:28Speaker 4: you've kind of articulated it so beautifully, what happens is
- 16:34Speaker 4: we discharge the antagonism and anger in the room instead
- 16:43Speaker 4: of adding to it, instead of having everything explode disportionately,
- 16:47Speaker 4: we actually calm everything down and give it the space
- 16:52Speaker 4: that it needs for everybody to start to think clearly
- 16:55Speaker 4: and work through it at a much more intelligent leafs
- 17:00Speaker 4: of thinking.
- 17:01Speaker 2: And that's the secret. That's what we're trying to do.
- 17:03Speaker 2: We've got a free course available to help you to
- 17:07Speaker 2: do that. It's called the Timeout Alternative. It's a seven
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- 17:25Speaker 2: and work through, workout problem solve together with your kids.
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- 17:38Speaker 2: at doctor Justin Colson's Happy Families. I'm going to go
- 17:41Speaker 2: and jump onto Twitter right now, try and get hold
- 17:43Speaker 2: of Ryan Reynolds, see if he'll come on the podcast
- 17:46Speaker 2: with us, wish me luck.
- 17:48Speaker 4: Or just let them know that miss missus Happy Families
- 17:50Speaker 4: wants to talk to him.
- 17:51Speaker 2: All right, Okay, no, no, I'm not going to let
- 17:54Speaker 2: you do. I do all the interviews on this podcast.
- 17:56Speaker 2: I do the interviews, and that's the way it's going
- 17:58Speaker 2: to stay, especially with Ryan Renolds. Hey tomorrow, I'll do
- 18:01Speaker 2: better tomorrow. Please join us. Then, thank you so much
- 18:03Speaker 2: for listening to the podcast. We hope it's been helpful.
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