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A Year of Big Shifts, Big Lessons, and Big Surprises · Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's the start of another year. Twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: is about to kick off, and we are ready for
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  Speaker 1: the Happy Families Podcast, brand new year, Kylie, I just said,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. We're keeping it in because this is
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  Speaker 1: what happens at the start of the year. It messes
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  Speaker 1: with your head. You didn't pick it up, did you.
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  Speaker 1: You were just going with it. I was just going, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness. I hope that's not an omen I hope
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  Speaker 1: it's not a sign of what's to come in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. At the start of the year, I've made
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of predictions. I made eight predictions about
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  Speaker 1: things that I thought would change in the world of
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  Speaker 1: parenting or school or tech and the stuff that applies
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  Speaker 1: to us as parents.
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  Speaker 2: How do you think you went?
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  Speaker 1: I know how I went because I've done the prep
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  Speaker 1: for today's podcast, because we're going to review my twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five predictions, look at what went right and what
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  Speaker 1: went wrong. I got a couple wrong, so we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about those first and then we'll kick off with the
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  Speaker 1: stuff just only human, you know I am. But I
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  Speaker 1: also have I've cut back. Instead of doing eight predictions,
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  Speaker 1: I've got four predictions for twenty twenty six, Predictions for
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen when it comes to the social
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  Speaker 1: media band, when it comes to AI chatbots, when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to our children and parenting, all that stuff. Right
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  Speaker 1: after this stay with us. I'm so excited for a
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  Speaker 1: brand new year. I'm so excited. My favorite I think
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  Speaker 1: this is literally my favorite episode of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Do you you say that?
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  Speaker 1: Like, no, no, no, I know I get excited about Doctor's
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  Speaker 1: Desk episodes and that sort of thing, but predictions, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about the predictions that I made at the
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  Speaker 1: start of the year all through the year, and then
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  Speaker 1: I'm also thinking about the predictions that I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: make at the start of the year for the next year.
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  Speaker 1: I've been thinking about today's podcast literally since last year
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  Speaker 1: when we're recorded last year's podcast on the same topic,
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  Speaker 1: which makes me. You're weird, Thank you a little weird?
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  Speaker 1: All right, So welcome back for those of you who
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  Speaker 1: are brand news the podcast you have somehow just discovered
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  Speaker 1: us on day one. My name is doctor Justin Cols.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the parenting expert and co host channel lines hit
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  Speaker 1: TV show Parental Guidance. Don't know if I've got another
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  Speaker 1: season coming up, yet can't say anything about it because
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  Speaker 1: nobody's talked to me about it. But I've got my
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  Speaker 1: fingers crossed. Also the author a bunch of books and
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  Speaker 1: missus Happy Families, Kylie beside.
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  Speaker 2: Me, I have not written a book.
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  Speaker 1: No, but you've read a lot, and you've reared our
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  Speaker 1: six daughters Mum to our six Kids podcast co host EXTRAORDINAI, Kylie,
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  Speaker 1: you want to talk about my predictions, and specifically, you
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about what I got wrong first.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's only fair.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks to that. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a little bit of a side prediction you
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  Speaker 2: made about TikTok survival.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, okay, So this time last year I said that
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  Speaker 1: TikTok was not going to survive. It certainly not in
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  Speaker 1: its current state, because the US government had concerns that
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  Speaker 1: by Dance, which is a Chinese company, well technically it's
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  Speaker 1: run out of China, but the CCP is behind a
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  Speaker 1: lot of what's going on, and there's the information gathering
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  Speaker 1: and so on. I just thought with the US government
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  Speaker 1: and the Biden administration passing the law and Congress being
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  Speaker 1: a one hundred percent across this that TikTok was going
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  Speaker 1: to be dismantled and demolished or restructured. As it happens.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump has been in office for the last year
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  Speaker 1: and he's pretty much just ignored the law and he's
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  Speaker 1: allowed TikTok to keep on going. And there are some
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  Speaker 1: stories about some rich friends of his who might do
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  Speaker 1: very well as TikTok sort of progresses and all that
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  Speaker 1: sort of stuff. But anyway, I was totally wrong because
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is unpredictable and the TikTok thing didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Got it wrong. TikTok still exists. Everyone's still on it.
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  Speaker 1: There's my first mistake.
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  Speaker 2: Dum all right, Next one intergenerational living and staycation.
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  Speaker 1: So because of the cost of living crisis, because of
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  Speaker 1: the increasing interest rates, because everyone's going, oh, my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: life is expensive and we can't afford to do anything
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  Speaker 1: anymore for goodness sakes like apples. Have you seen how
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  Speaker 1: much apples cost?
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  Speaker 2: Or it's actually really blown my mind.
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  Speaker 1: I went into our regular like just a fruit shop.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a discount fruit shop down the road. The
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  Speaker 1: other day they had our favorite what are they, pink
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  Speaker 1: Lady apples seven dollars ninety nine a kilo for apples,
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  Speaker 1: and they were like massive, they were the size of
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  Speaker 1: my fist, double or enormous. It was like that's a
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  Speaker 1: meal for three people, but nobody wants to eat an
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  Speaker 1: eight dollar apple, do you know what I mean? Like
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  Speaker 1: it was a kilo of apple. So anyway, I predict
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  Speaker 1: that there would be more more families saying hey, let's
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  Speaker 1: all move in together with the grandparents or whatever. And
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  Speaker 1: I also predicted that we would be traveling overseas less
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  Speaker 1: as a nation because it costs a lot to live.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't find any strong data at order to specifically
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  Speaker 1: confirm a major surgeon multi generational living. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: looked for it. I really tried to find out that
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  Speaker 1: I was right, but I couldn't find the data for it.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm probably wrong, but I did.
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  Speaker 2: Well, everybody I know hates their families.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what what is going on with that?
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  Speaker 1: That's a prediction that I didn't make. But can we
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  Speaker 1: start just getting along with our families again, like our
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  Speaker 1: extended families? Holy cow, everyone you talk to is estrange
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  Speaker 1: from their in laws or from their parents, or from
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  Speaker 1: a brother or a sister or an arty or like
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  Speaker 1: it's every anyway, I digress, Australians went on more overseas
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  Speaker 1: holidays in before.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we definitely added to the data there.
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  Speaker 1: Well we did. We had that big New Zealand my
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  Speaker 1: fiftieth birthday trip. But so I got those two things
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  Speaker 1: completely wrong. TikTok still exists as it was, and more
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  Speaker 1: Australians are holdaying overseason ever before. Can't confirm or to
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  Speaker 1: know whether there's intergeneration or living going on, but it
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  Speaker 1: seems that people are complaining a lot about the cost
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  Speaker 1: of living, but certainly not moving in with the in
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  Speaker 1: laws to cut costs.
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  Speaker 2: So there was a couple that you kind of partially
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  Speaker 2: got right. I still think we're going to call them wrong,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll give it to you partially right or not.
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  Speaker 2: AI Education Revolution. Tell us more about.
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  Speaker 1: That, okay. So I predicted that AI would explode across
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  Speaker 1: the education sector, that it would be used in the
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  Speaker 1: schools and classrooms and teachers would be all over it
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  Speaker 1: and students would be all over it. And I actually
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm saying that I kind of got this right,
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  Speaker 1: because every student, every high school student especially that you
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  Speaker 1: talk to, is using AI. They're just not telling the
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  Speaker 1: teachers and they're trying to be sneaky about it, and
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  Speaker 1: I know from talking to a lot of teachers that
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  Speaker 1: they are doing everything they can to figure out ways
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  Speaker 1: to get AI to reduce their workloads because teachers remain
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  Speaker 1: stressed and carrying huge workloads.
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  Speaker 2: So can I just put a sidebar here? AI has
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  Speaker 2: actually become my best friend?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's going to be part of one of the
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  Speaker 1: predictions that I got right, and we will talk about
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  Speaker 1: that in this second. But anyway, there is definitely growing
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  Speaker 1: evidence of AI literacy initiatives and debates about AI in schools.
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  Speaker 1: But where the twenty twenty five was actually the inflection
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  Speaker 1: point I predicted, I'm not sure yet. I think that
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  Speaker 1: this runway is still got a fair bit to go.
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  Speaker 1: This runway. I'm getting my metaphors mixed up, but I
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  Speaker 1: think there's still a fair way to go on this one.
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  Speaker 1: And this year's going to be bigger for AI than
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  Speaker 1: last year was, is.
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  Speaker 2: My Well, especially now that I know about it, you were.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, Okay, So I kind of partially maybe got
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  Speaker 1: that right, but we probably don't really have the evidence
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  Speaker 1: for it.
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  Speaker 2: And the last one that you kind of you think
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  Speaker 2: you partially got right was the year of the Boys.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So basically what I said was everyone's recognizing
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  Speaker 1: that our young men, males, even our older men are struggling.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got all party parliamentary committees around the world,
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  Speaker 1: We've got institutes and think tanks coming up really focusing
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  Speaker 1: on the interests of boys and men, because when one
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  Speaker 1: gender doesn't do well, the other gender can't do well.
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  Speaker 1: And there's been a really, really strong emphasis for the
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  Speaker 1: last thirty forty fifty sixty years on how can we
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  Speaker 1: bring women along. And while there's still work to do,
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  Speaker 1: I think that we've done a reasonable job in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of areas there. Like I said, still plenty of
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  Speaker 1: work to do, and oh my goodness, there are some challenges,
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  Speaker 1: but boys and men are struggling, and I predicted that
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  Speaker 1: there would be a shift, there would be a genuine shift.
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  Speaker 1: I think that the underlying data certainly supports my concerns.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think twenty twenty five or laid them at all.
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  Speaker 1: We know that young men's participation in the workforce is declining.
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  Speaker 1: We know they're doing worse at education they ever have.
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  Speaker 1: Their engagement in school university is lower. Mental health challenges
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  Speaker 1: persist neat NAT not in education, employment or training. Figures
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  Speaker 1: continue to go up for young men much higher than
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  Speaker 1: they are for young women. But again, I just can't
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  Speaker 1: be sure about twenty twenty five specifically being the year
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  Speaker 1: of the Boy, specifically where I said that masculinity would
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  Speaker 1: start to be celebrated. Again, I don't think that's happening.
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  Speaker 1: I think that there are too many voices that are
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  Speaker 1: not keen on that happening. So I got it wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that it went the way that I
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  Speaker 1: thought that it would. I think there's still room for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of improvement in terms of supporting young men.
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  Speaker 2: What I will say is I feel like there is
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  Speaker 2: a much greater awareness than there's ever been, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a conversation that's been had more than has ever been had.
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  Speaker 1: Totally agree, and we've got so many huge names out
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  Speaker 1: there that are really talking it up, making a lot
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  Speaker 1: of noise about it, and I think that's part of it.
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  Speaker 1: So they're the ones where I got them wrong or
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  Speaker 1: there's some insufficient evidence. But I've got some good news
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  Speaker 1: and I'm very excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a few rights.
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  Speaker 1: The other five I nailed. The other five actually the
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  Speaker 1: Lighthouse parenting one. I said the lighthouse parenting would be
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  Speaker 1: the parenting style of the year. I think it probably was.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not like there's overwhelming evidence for that one either.
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  Speaker 1: I would say insufficient data was there, although I did
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  Speaker 1: do a Google Trends search and there was more talk
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  Speaker 1: about lighthouse parenting on the Internet last year than ever before.
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  Speaker 1: So definitely on the rise. And there are a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of sources that I found fairly credible, major mainstream news
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  Speaker 1: outlet sources that said that light has parenting was gaining
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  Speaker 1: serious momentum, surging in popularity, and becoming a response to
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  Speaker 1: the exhaustion of gentle parenting. H I feel like I
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  Speaker 1: got it right.
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  Speaker 2: So you did mention before that we were going to
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  Speaker 2: touch on the AI parenting revolution, All.
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  Speaker 1: Right, you've discovered it. Why don't you go first, and
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  Speaker 1: then I'll tell you why I was right.
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  Speaker 2: So I have a really bad habit of double booking
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  Speaker 2: or forgetting appointments, do it all the time, and I've
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  Speaker 2: actually lost a hairdresser over it. Like it's been a
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  Speaker 2: big deal.
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  Speaker 1: When you say I lost a hairdresser, it's not like
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  Speaker 1: you just like be sad to me. Exactly she said,
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  Speaker 1: you're not what covers are plant anymore. You've missed two
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  Speaker 1: hair dressing appointments in the last six months, not seeing
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  Speaker 1: you again.
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  Speaker 2: So we invested in a skylight.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, a hashtag, not sponsored. They don't know who we are,
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  Speaker 1: they don't know that we exist. We just bought one
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  Speaker 1: of these things because they are online and all the
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: electrical outlet stores. We just bought a skylight. If you
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: haven't seen it, google it. We'll link to it in
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  Speaker 1: the show notes. We're not geting to kick backs. We'll
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  Speaker 1: just tell you all. You'll find it.
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  Speaker 2: And I am in love. So the one feature of
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  Speaker 2: all the things I know we're talking about calendars and
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  Speaker 2: getting things right, But the one feature is I can
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  Speaker 2: take a photo using AI of all of my recipes,
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  Speaker 2: whether they're handwritten, typed or in a recipe book, and
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  Speaker 2: it will upload the recipe to my Skylight. And then
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  Speaker 2: when I go into my weekly meal plan, I can
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  Speaker 2: ask it to auto populate. I don't even have to
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  Speaker 2: make a decision about what we're eating for dinner. And
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  Speaker 2: then the best part of all is I literally push
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  Speaker 2: a button and it includes all the ingredients for that
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  Speaker 2: meal in.
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  Speaker 1: My grocery list, and then you just open the fridge
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  Speaker 1: in the pantry and cross of everything that we've got,
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  Speaker 1: and then you don't even need to give me the
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  Speaker 1: list because we've both got the app. So then I
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  Speaker 1: go to the shops and I've already got a grocery
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  Speaker 1: list there.
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  Speaker 2: It's the best thing ever. And then when you it
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  Speaker 2: in the trolley, you just tick the box and it's gone.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how we've lived our lives without a
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  Speaker 1: Skylight for that. Anyway. This is not a sponsored post.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, it's a very big digression, but honestly has changed
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  Speaker 2: my world.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now that you've done the plug that you
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  Speaker 1: said that you had to do. I predicted that there
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  Speaker 1: would be an AI parenting revolution and that parents would
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  Speaker 1: be used. I'm revolting AI everywhere, and it does seem
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  Speaker 1: that AI has absolutely become a mainstream parenting assistant. During
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Parents are using them for meal planning
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  Speaker 1: and homework help and scripts for emotional support when the
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  Speaker 1: children are having a hard time, and birthday party planning
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  Speaker 1: and co parenting, and everybody's openly discussing how they're co
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  Speaker 1: parenting with Chat, GPT or Claude or Skylight or whatever
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  Speaker 1: AI that they're using. ABC's Good Morning America did major
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  Speaker 1: segments on the trand as did all of Australia's major
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  Speaker 1: news outlets one at one point or another. And because
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  Speaker 1: this is such a big deal and the kids use
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  Speaker 1: so much, OpenAI has even introduced parental controls over the
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  Speaker 1: last six months. Because this thing is mega, it's massive.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of a it was a free shot,
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  Speaker 1: really like I couldn't miss that one. But it has.
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  Speaker 1: I was right, That's all I'm saying. I was right.
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  Speaker 2: What about the homeschooling surge that you predicted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, massively validated. Australian homeschooling has increased by ninety two
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  Speaker 1: percent nationally since twenty twenty. Queensland's experienced a staggering one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three percent increase in homeschooling. I found
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  Speaker 1: this on the Today Show. Well, homeschooling has sowed across Australia,
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  Speaker 1: with numbers more than quadrupling over the past decade in
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  Speaker 1: New South Wales alone. So it's been all over the news,
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  Speaker 1: it's been everywhere. Bullying, school refusal, anxiety, concerns about school policies,
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  Speaker 1: concerns about the curriculum, neurodiversity. They're all confirmed as primary drivers.
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  Speaker 1: Got it right.
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  Speaker 2: So one of the big predictions you made was in
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  Speaker 2: relation to the social media ban and specifically this digital
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  Speaker 2: detox movement that we are striving for as parents for
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  Speaker 2: our children. How did that go well?
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  Speaker 1: I was one hundred p correct. Australia ended up leading
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  Speaker 1: a global revolution by implementing the world first under sixteen
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  Speaker 1: social medium in a major legislation came into effect on
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  Speaker 1: December ten, twenty twenty five. I was invited to cure
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  Speaker 1: Billy with the Prime Minister and a whole lot of
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  Speaker 1: other people who were very, very interested in making sure
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  Speaker 1: that this worked, and I'm really really delighted that the
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  Speaker 1: government did it. However, there's a whole lot of countries
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  Speaker 1: that are watching very close to see what works and
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  Speaker 1: what doesn't. And right now it's had a pretty bumpy landing.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going nearly as well as I had hoped,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly not nearly as well as predicted. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about that with my twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: predictions in a minute. But we know that France are
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  Speaker 1: looking at it, Malaysias looking at it, in New Zealand's
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  Speaker 1: looking at it and a bunch of others considering similar measures.
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  Speaker 1: It's necessary, it's important, but the rollout it's problematic. That
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  Speaker 1: was my next prediction that I got right. And there
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  Speaker 1: was one more that I nailed as well. Hunt what
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  Speaker 1: was that one YouTube? I said that YouTube would continue
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  Speaker 1: to dominate. I don't care what other platforms are out there,
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  Speaker 1: no one and nothing comes close to YouTube. YouTube maintained
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  Speaker 1: its position as the number one streaming platform in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five and accounted for nine point seven percent of
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  Speaker 1: all US TV viewership. Netflix only reaches seven point six. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: and that's only the US. I can't get Australian data
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  Speaker 1: and worldwide data. It's really hard to find all the
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  Speaker 1: right information. But it's it's more popular than everything, and
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  Speaker 1: it has two point seven billion monthly active users. So
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  Speaker 1: YouTube is going to continue to be the one to watch.
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  Speaker 1: And the organization that owns YouTube is the same organization
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  Speaker 1: that owns Google. It's called Alphabet, and my twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six prediction is that they are going to continue to
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  Speaker 1: absolutely smash it as AI booms. Anyway, I got five
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  Speaker 1: out of eight. I'm pretty happy with that. I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was I feel like that means.
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  Speaker 2: That while we find down to four this time, well
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  Speaker 2: less to get wrong.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's because by the time you do the review
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  Speaker 1: and then you do the predictions, it ends up being
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: a very long podcast. One of my New Year's resolutions
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  Speaker 1: is to get this podcast back to about ten or
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  Speaker 1: twelve minutes. What do you think we're up to? Have
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  Speaker 1: we hit fift We've gone past.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe you put it on the podcast publicly
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  Speaker 2: and now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry pretty much by a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 2: So it's our first podcast, seriously.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: That's why we don't set news resolutions. Actually we've said
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: some we have. We're going to talk about that on Friday.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're going to do because we've already gone
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: well over time, and I do want to honor people, like, Seriously,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: if you're dropping the kids off and you want to
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: get the pairing inspote that you're looking for, you don't
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: need this to waffle on for twenty five minutes, which
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: we also often do because we love talking to each other.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: So what we're going to do is we're going to
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: stop the pod now and tomorrow instead of doing what
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: we were going to do tomorrow, will do my four predictions.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: We can easily do that in twelve minutes.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: You reckon. No.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, that doesn't include ad time, right,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: like when our sponsors put their ads in. That doesn't
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: think it where, it's just it's us. So that's it.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: We're going to wrap it up there, my predictions. I'm
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: pretty happy with that. I feel a little bit expertish
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: when I get my predictions right.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Can I do a prediction?
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I predict well, hang on, no, that's tomorrow. You
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: got to say it for tomorrow. No, do it now?
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Do it now? We need one prediction, go for it.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: I predict that we won't get it down tomorrow.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: We have to Oh my goodness, Hey, you talk way
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: too much me. Yeah, oh my goodness. We're going to
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: stop now. Okay, the podcast.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: At twenty three or right.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: No, the podcast will be back tomorrow though, and we
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: can't wait to share with you my predictions for twenty
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: twenty six in the world of parenting and tech and
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: everything that applies to your children and how you're raising
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: your family. So that's tomorrow on the pod. Thanks so
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: much for listening today, Thanks for joining us for another
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: year on the Happy Families Podcast, which, as always continues
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: to be produced by the wonderful Jr. Who takes care
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: of so much good stuff for us. We also receive
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: additional assistance, support and admin and so on from Mimhammond
• 17:03
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