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Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast for
the week of June twelfth, twenty twenty

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three. Hi am Katherine Heleco,
and I'm here with Nicole Heretics. Hello,

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and Terry Morrow. Hello. Every
week we chat about what parents are

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talking, complaining, and obsessing about
right now. This week we're complaining about

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silly fights and obsessing about a certain
ted lasso scene. And we also are

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taking a couple of breaks for an
entertainment discussion and a recommendation roundup. Today

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we're talking about summer plans and goals. This was two topics that Nicole suggested

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and I just combined them into one. So and we did talk a little

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bit about goals last week when we
talked about recommitting to resolutions. But you

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know, I think a lot of
times people have sort of a summer bucket

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list or a summer goals or like
this summer I really want, you know,

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some vague dreams and plants. So
I don't know, doesn't do any

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of us have any of those plans
goals something? Nah, Okay, we

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don't do summer anymore. Really.
The kids are working, I'm working.

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My husband has the summer off because
he works for a college but to like

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plan to go on a vacation or
something, it would involve changing the kids

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work schedules, and I don't want
to do that. They're you know,

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hanging on by their part time fingernails. So it's just we've we go on

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vacation for Christmas week and the rest
of the year, we just kind of

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keep on keeping on. So when
they were in school, we would have

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had goals for the summer. We
would have had plans of things to do.

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Now we're just a bunch of adults. Just what I did resolve to

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just recently, to drink more water. So I like filling up water bottles

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and trying to empty them over the
course of the day, which mostly means

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that I am in the bathroom all
the time. But other than that,

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we'll see how long that lasts.
But hydration, I guess that's my plan

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and my goal for the summer.
Hydration. I plan to hydrate. Keep

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working. I would like the work
too, to keep up and possibly increase

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a little bit since we're down a
paycheck for the next couple of months.

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But if not, it's fine,
I'm fine, everything's fine. I'd also

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like to get my closet switched over
from summer to winter, which I started

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doing last night but while watching the
show we're going to talk about tomorrow,

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but did not finish. There is
still a large pile of sweatshirts on our

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love seat in our living room,
and my goal is for them not to

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be there the entire summer. It's
a good goal. It could absolutely.

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It's very comfortable there the sweatshirts are
you know, they're really kind of getting

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comfy. Yeah, we don't need
to go into that trunk. We're fine

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here. Nobody ever sits on the
love seat. It'll be fine. What

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about you, guys, do you
have exciting plans? Let me live vicariously

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through you. I talked about this
with the resolutions, but I am starting

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a new job, so that's kind
of my plan, you know, because

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at the moment, I don't really
know what my hours are going to be

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and what my schedule is going to
be, so I feel like I can't

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really make many plans. As long
as you still have time to record podcasts,

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Catherine, I have your priorities straight, girl, Yes, don't worry,

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they're they're in order. But yeah, you know, like I know,

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you know, of course, well, one of our goals will certainly

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have to be to get our kid
ready for college drop off at the or

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the end of summer. So my
daughter came home and I was like,

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whatever happened to the extra long sheets? You know we must have we must

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have a set of those from you, And she said, well, they

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are completely basically, I don't know
where the top sheet is anymore, and

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the fitted sheet is all like pilly
and and rough, like it's not comfortable

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at all. So so yeah,
we're gonna have to start over with the

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with the sheets. Apparently, so
but apparent I received and I know at

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least one other person I know whose
kids going to a different school, got

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a flyer in the mail that was
like from the school, but it's for

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you know, sort of a dorm
shopping pack. Oh that's like the way

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in elementary school you'd get by all
your school supplies, was like buy all

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your beddings. Handy. So will
it come all like with her name on

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it like the school? Oh that's
handy. Yeah. And my other goal

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is for my son to get a
summer job, which hasn't happened yet,

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and I'm starting to worry that it's
too late. I know he's he's applying

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in a bunch of places, so
we're just waiting for that to fall into

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place. Well, good luck.
Yes, you always hear about how everybody's

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dying for employees, but yeah,
I think that was a while ago.

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I don't know if that's still a
thing. Well, I mean, like

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a friend of his works at a
local store, a hardware store, and

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so during the school year, my
kid applied there and they never answered him,

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and then he went in and tried
to meet with the person and resubmitted

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the application. Still nothing, And
now the kid who does work there is

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like they're always complaining about how they
don't have any aple and my son's like,

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do they want me to apply a
third time? Like why they have

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certain They always say, we'll keep
your information on file files. Yeah.

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Yeah. Anyway, how about you, Nicole, you're juggling, You're always

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juggling multiple jobs. Yeah, although
I've trimmed them back quite a bit.

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Okay, so I'm not as busy
this summer, which is kind of nice.

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And I've got some house projects to
take care of, um and just

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kind of like catching up on life
stuff because it was like NonStop action from

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August of last year till March of
this year, so or May. Actually

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I was pretty busy at May as
well, So I'm just kind of like

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looking for My goal is to have
some downtime and to just kind of recalibrate

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and reevaluate. Yeah, that'd be
nice, like I yeah, I mean,

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I enjoyed the the diversity of the
jobs that I had, but it

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was almost too much like yeah,
you know, like I was the juggling

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and the just you know, keeping
track of everything ye all the time,

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like you know, multiple times a
day. So um, I like that.

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Yeah, consistency is key for me. So yeah, so my goal

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is to be to have a consistent, low key summer and then maybe try

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and streamline my schedule for the fall. And yeah, so that's kind of

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where I'm at. Um, and
have a trip back to Canada. I

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want to go back up and see
my daughter Nice at some point in the

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summer. And I don't know.
A friend suggested a girl's trip to Portugal,

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so oh my goodness, I don't
know, you know, that might

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happen. I don't like that,
although this rosary I do. They're going

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to Ecuador. Oh and uh,
first problem, I not that I would

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want to go to Ecuador. Now, there would have been times in my

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life I totally would have wanted to
go with but they said, well,

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it's the altitude is going to be
high. So if you have any problem

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with blood pressure or heart or any
of that, SIT's that that leads me

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out of you have any trouble walking, you know, a whole lot,

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so many many reasons why I wouldn't
be able to go, but also the

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political situation, they're not so good. Are you sure you want to go

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there? Right? So? Right, um, yeah, I am not

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daring. There would have been a
time in my life as we discussed my

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ill advised Europe trip where I would
have been, yeah, sure, sign

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up, I'll go. But Terry, I just had a friend throw out

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that she's going to Puerto Rico for
a Hamilton like fundraising performance where it's going

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to have a lot of the original
cast and it's raising money. And she

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unexpectedly had an additional ticket and threw
it out to our group, and I

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was like, oh man, I'm
so tempted. But as I was saying,

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I don't know what my schedule is
going to be, yeah, and

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you know, like we're having this
graduation party for a lot of people,

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right, like dropping kind of a
lot of money yet so I don't feel

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like it's responsible for me to do
this. But wow, did that sound

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that would be tempting because I haven't
done a vacation, vacation and you know

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where it's not just we're going to
see family or whatever. I haven't done

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anything like that in a long time. That girls trip, you guys went

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to Grease, right, Yeah,
that wasn't twenty eighteen. Wow, so

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it's been a while. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't have friends really,

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so those invitations don't come up.
My we you know, we take a

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weekend and that's the special Olympics.
That's our girls weekend. My friend and

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I and we sit in a parking
garage in the shade for but you who,

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well, well, who was the
friend that you would talk to like

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every week or something? Yeah,
that's that's my friend. Yes, we

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don't, we don't. Okay,
we don't do exotic vacations. But okay,

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we do do go to Trent and
New Jersey for sporting events. That

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sounds exotic in the world. Actually
youing, it's actually youing the beautiful College

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of New Jersey. But yeah,
yeah, I don't know. We used

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to go on vacations. I mean, we still have this timeshare, and

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we used to go on vacations and
my friend and her husband would come with

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and that would be real fun.
But nobody's proposing adventure vacations to me of

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any sort so or foreign vacations,
and I wouldn't go if they did.

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So I am settling into the fuddy
duddy stage of my life where I just

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want to sit on my front porch
and rock and yell at kids to get

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off my lawn and to call up
the neighborhood Watch and say, Nicole has

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homeless people outside your house again,
right, do something about that? Oh

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I don't know. Well, I
will live, you know, you guys

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will. We'll talk about your summer
things as they go by, and I'll

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go, wow, that sounds nice, that sounds cool. I'm already enjoying

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the don't have to get up in
time to get my kid to school.

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Oh yeah, yes, that's been
great. Yeah, the high point of

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my summer so far. Yes,
that is one of the best things about

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your kids graduating. But of course
you never didn't have to take him during

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the summer when he wasn't. Yes, true, but but this is the

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This is ther first part of you
are enjoying it with the knowledge that you

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will not have to start doing it
again. That's right, extra little dollarp

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of joy. There's no expiration doing
on it right now? He said,

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will you have to drive him to
college? Well, just the first day?

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I mean okay, Well, I
mean if he wants to come home,

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you have to go pick him up. Oh, we'll see. He

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may he may have a vehicle.
I don't know. Well, okay,

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yes, make sure he makes friends
with people who will be driving in your

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direction. Yes, it's a directory
of that. Well he has he has

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three friends that are going to not
his school, but the one in the

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same town. So nice. Yeah. Oh there's a different school in the

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same town. Wow. Oh yeah, okay, well that'll be nice.

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Yeah yeah, So that's definitely impossibility
convenient. When does he When does he

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move into college? Um, the
last weekend in August? Okay, oh

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go fast, yeah, I will. Well, we will have a lot

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to talk about then, that's right, But we have less to talk about

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now. So that's it for today's
round one. Tune in tomorrow for entertainment

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