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what's the biggest thing you were completely wrong about when you imagined adulthood the biggest thing
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probably that we would know what we're doing at this stage like that we have somehow figured
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life out yeah i think that's the biggest misconception about getting
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older it is yeah it's funny isn't it the more the older you get the more you look around
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and you go oh no one's got the foggiest idea what's
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going on either yeah well at least we get obviously you mature
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and you get um more confident within yourself
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and you you get very good at certain areas like maybe you're really good at what you do
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or you know you um are not as insecure anymore but there is always this
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feeling of you know we're just learning as we go rather than arriving somewhere where you just know things yeah
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if it makes sense yeah it does it does G'day guys, welcome to the Aussie English Podcast.
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Grab a cuppa, get comfy and let's have a yarn.
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G'day you mob, welcome back to the Aussie English Podcast.
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I'm your host Pete and my beautiful wife Kel is here.
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How are you Kel?
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Good, how are you?
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Good.
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Today we're going to be talking about adulthood and I guess childhood as well, being young and thinking about what life is like as an adult.
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Yeah.
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So what did teenage you think life would look like when you got older?
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This is one of those things that I always keep thinking about, the older I get.
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Yeah, because I always had in my mind that everyone had it together.
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Life was super easy.
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You get a job.
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You've got plenty of money.
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You just do whatever you want.
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You know, there's no...
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You don't have to worry about anyone telling you what you can or can't do.
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Go to bed whenever you want.
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And then you get here and you're like, oh, I just want to be a kid again.
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Well, but that is also a reflection of the people you had around you that were probably, you know, very successful, you know,
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like very down to earth and ticking all the boxes.
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So that's your reference.
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Because for me, it's like I would think it was terrifying.
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What do you mean you thought it was terrifying?
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I just looked at people around me and I could already see no one knew what they were doing.
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From what age are we talking?
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But also just like, you know,
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some sort of idea that the adults around me were not as stable as they should be, you know.
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So I think it's just back to growing up in different sort of perspectives.
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Yeah.
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So what did you think when you were a teenager and you were thinking about adulthood?
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What did you think adulthood was going to be like?
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Definitely easier than it is.
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But also, I just had this real feeling of I'll know what to do.
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So I thought at this age I would be certain about things or if I had kids,
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thinking back then, I just wouldn't know how to parent them.
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Those things would come naturally.
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And you work somewhere fancy and you have all these dreams.
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But then you get there, it's like we do know, but also we just, like I said before, we're just learning, learning on the job kind of thing.
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I used to always think when I had fights with my parents or with adults, you know, and you would have that tension of they don't know what it's like being a kid.
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But also they used to be kids and they should know what it's like, you know, even if they are 30, 40, 50, 60 years old, they were once kids.
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Like, yeah, but at the same time, no one understands me because I'm, you know, young and nasty.
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And your issues are so unique to you.
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And now I'm in that age where I'm like, fuck, I can't remember what it's like being a kid.
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So quite often I find myself getting angry with our kids, you know, about being too loud, making too much noise, never sitting still, running around like crazy.
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And then I have to remember that that's exactly what I was like as a kid.
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I do though get a feeling when I look at them, like not a memory, but their feeling of I sort of know what you're feeling.
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Yeah.
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You know, when they just play and being loud.
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Yeah.
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It is easy just to look at them and be like, even though we don't remember what it felt like,
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but you're like, these kids are so young that you sort of get a sense of they have no idea.
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Yeah.
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So you see yourself being that age again kind of thing.
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I see that a lot with Noah because he's more similar to me.
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And I just...
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Yeah, it takes me back to like, I know exactly why you are frustrated.
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Yeah.
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But, you know, I still have to parent you.
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Yeah, it's an interesting thing.
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I guess it's just, yeah, the distance between you now and when you were four or five, six, seven years old is so great that even though you passed through it.
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And it just changed so much.
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Like nowhere near as who you were when you were that age.
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Yeah.
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You know, you're just evolving.
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What was I doing recently?
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I was sitting in the car and Noah was making all this like, which is literally.
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And I'm just like, God damn it, dude, will you just shut up?
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Like I wasn't saying that, but I was thinking the whole time, like can't you just sit still and be quiet?
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Can't you just chill out?
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But then when I went home and I was, you know, got online and I was like, you know what, I want to know why children do that.
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And I can't remember if it was ChatGPT or Google or what it was, but it was effectively explaining that here's why children don't just sit still.
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Here's why they make so much noise their brains are still growing and learning and, you know, they're learning to control their voice.
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They're learning to control their movement.
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So, like, regulating.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, well, they're just getting used to it.
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Whereas for adults, we've done it for 30, 40, 50 years.
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And so, you know, they're playing with sounds and making noise and singing and experimenting with movement and noise, you know, whereas our kids will be just running around.
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And you're just like random songs and like rhythm and just like little stories sometimes we walk past and they're like
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just like i know today i was i had a break
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and i was playing a bit of minecraft my kids got me sucked into it
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so i was just like you know i'm gonna have 10 minutes of just playing
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and then noah walks into the room and i'm just like oh not
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because i don't want him to be there
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but as soon as he comes he's like i want to play i want to take over i want
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and i'm like i just wanted 10 minutes to just chill
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and he's like don't worry dad i'm just gonna watch quietly
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and i was like oh okay okay buddy
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and then straight away oh don't don't do
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that dad oh watch out for that dad don't oh dad you did that
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and i'm like you just play noah like you just play
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no the poor thing he wants to feel like he's part of it he's helping you i know
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but it just drives me nuts sometimes
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because then what happened he i i got eaten by a zombie
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or whatever it is in there and he was just like
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that wouldn't happen to me and i'm like i'm out oh don't do that i feel judged judged by my six
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he's so like um he wants to feel like he's helping you yeah you know
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that he could like contributed to you advancing in the game
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or whatever i have no interest in minecraft
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but he'll still be like come to me every time like
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so excited about this thing that he built or whatever that he found out how to do.
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So you can imagine how I feel because I have no connection to this game.
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At least you know what...
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I don't want to be here.
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When you were young, what age felt old?
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Oh, that's a good question.
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What do you mean?
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Like I...
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When I started feeling that I was getting older?
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Yeah, I don't know.
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When you were thinking about adults as a kid, whether you were Noah's age or a teenager, what was old?
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The 30s people in their 30s because my mom was only 30 something
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when i remember being like you know capable of thinking yeah
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but um a 30 something was old
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and people yeah like we say millennials changed the way old looks
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because you know someone for 40 today that's yeah old at all like you just less sun exposure yeah sunscreen
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so i just think yeah that's probably 30 something I would say oh you're so old.
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Yeah.
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I'm gonna get you to let the cat out
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because we've got a cat in here in my office and she's just going nuts running around like a psycho.
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She's getting frisky.
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She wants to do something to shut it completely or more.
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So she's got the door here.
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I'm just going to shut it.
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Alright.
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So yeah for me I don't know I felt like I
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remember being it was funny you would be like year seven at school
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and you would think the people in year 12 they're like
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adults oh they're like 17 18 years old you're like look it's
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so big i remember being like 13 or 14 it's at high school
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and just thinking oh my god that's like a lifetime away oh no you know it just goes
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so fast and then you get there and you're like oh man
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and it's so funny because i think that
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that feeling keeps happening throughout life we just don't have the same sort of reaction
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but it It keeps happening where you get to a milestone, whatever, in regards to age.
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And you're just like, oh, that wasn't exciting at all.
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You know, it's just like, what a letdown.
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Because you don't arrive anywhere.
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Yeah.
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You know, you just like become.
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somewhat a different version of who you already were yeah
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if it makes sense yeah yeah yeah i remember watching the tv show friends
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when i was young it used to be on tv from the 90s until the early 2000s
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and kel hates it but my family loved it so i was always watching it and i i did like it
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but i remember there was a key moment when i was younger
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and i think towards the end of the series all the characters i assume the actors as well
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but the characters started turning 30 and i remember
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that being like a oh that's like halfway through your life like damn you know that's all oh
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and now i remember getting to 30 and thinking about
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that really and being like oh damn i'm over the hill
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and also thinking like i thought they were
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so much older in my mind and now i'm 30
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and i'm like i feel like a fraud yeah i don't
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feel like i'm you know i i thought by 30 you
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had a house you had kids you had it all together you had a proper job
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and i was like finishing my phd with no job, no kids, no girlfriend.
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And I was just like, no savings.
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Nothing.
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Did you think you'd be richer than you currently are?
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You are pretty rich.
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I am.
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Being my wife, you're loaded.
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Absolutely no money at all.
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No, I don't know.
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I thought I would be working somewhere fancy was always a
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big thing like not i want to say fancy what i
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mean it's like doing something important respected respected yeah um so i
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because i don't know maybe the culture whatever there's a lot
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of identity tied to what you do for a living in brazil yeah um
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so i thought i would be doing something you know very important
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but um not rich no yeah it was very realistic in
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that aspect did you want to be rich Was that something you aspired to be?
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100 % always.
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I don't know.
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Maybe Brazilians are much more modest and sort of like, no, I don't need that.
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No, we do like money.
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Well, it's the same for us.
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Everyone wants to be rich.
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You think in your mind it makes life easier.
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I guess as I got older, maybe even like early 20s, I would think, oh, it'll just happen.
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I'll just get money, you know.
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Just off a tree.
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It just became so clear as I got older that these things are very hard and rarely happen, you know.
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You're not going to win the lottery.
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It's just a very real sense of how short life is, but also these are your odds, you know.
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It's very rare that a life -changing thing will happen, like, you know, you're going to get millions of dollars.
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You did kind of strike gold by marrying a fair dinkum Aussie bloke.
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Oh, God, stop it.
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Jesus.
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What's wrong with that?
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That's true.
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Look at you.
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So what moment did you realize, you know, that everything wasn't as you thought it once was, that nothing was going to be true, the curtain was pulled back and you saw reality?
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I think that my 30s have been really eye -opening in also having kids.
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But that was a real sort of reality drop.
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Can you say that?
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Reality check, yeah.
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Yeah, of like, oh, okay.
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So closer to my 40s now than I am to my 30s.
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Tell me about it.
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It's around the corner.
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And it's like, oh, okay, okay.
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It's not forever.
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I don't have a lot of time, you know.
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Okay.
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Yeah, it's scary.
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Maybe that's what people say, it's a midlife crisis.
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I think so.
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And I don't see, like, crisis in a bad way.
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I also think it's like you just become so aware of how temporary things are, you know?
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And that's the sort of momentum for you to, okay, now I'm going to take up exercising, you know?
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It's a real, people say, oh, you're trying to deny or whatever.
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but I think it's more like we know we've been through so many changes from,
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you know, young adults, adults in our middle age that you're just like, that's it.
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There's no, we don't have a lot of infinite time, you know.
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It's true.
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I mean, being candid about it, you have to realize, you know, this is like I'm not going to have other relationships.
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I may not get rich.
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I may not travel the world and i think that's the whole
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if the midlife crisis thing comes from focusing too much on
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the things you are missing out on you know it's having
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that the glass is half empty look instead of the glass
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is half full as opposed to instead of thinking well i'm
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not gonna you know have a relationship with other people
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but i am having this strong relationship with a single person
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that's going to last a very long time i am having
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children i do have a solid career many people don't you know Yeah.
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it's also thinking the boxes you did check you know like oh yeah i have kids you know i did that
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married in australia and just it just becomes this thing of um really looking at it from a very
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realistic perspective of maybe you do become a little bit sour as you get older
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and less of a dreamer like as you know in your 20s you have all this
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but it's just it's a good thing in a sense because you're like, okay, this is limited amount of time.
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I want to use it wisely.
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I think though that happens as a parent, right?
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Because you stop thinking about yourself first.
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I mean, it happens in a relationship too, but I mean, you stop thinking about, you know, like for me with Aussie English working on this business, it's sort of like I could spend,
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I could try and spend way more time growing it, making more money, getting more success, you know, blah, blah, blah.
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But I'm like, I really enjoy spending as much of my spare time as I can with my kids and my family,
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you know, which isn't necessarily as much as it could be. But if, you know, there are plenty of other parents that I know
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that they're never there for drop offs at school or for pickups.
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They're never there at home with their kids all the time.
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And I work here, so I have to constantly be trying to make time.
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And I could lean more into work if I really wanted.
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But it's kind of like, what do I actually get out of that?
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No one's going to remember that you worked harder the kids will remember
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that you were there for them it's literally just looking at
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things from like i have only this amount of time
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and using it in a way
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that is like okay we do still have to make money
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but also i want to enjoy it i want to enjoy it
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because you know how fast it goes and that's why i buy
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so many guitars it's not really like it's not dark in a sense
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so you you know you You're just counting your days, whatever.
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But it's just a very interesting place to be at where you're not old, but you're not young anymore,
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but you have this in the middle sort of like, okay, I've come this far.
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Yeah.
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Now I want this other half of my time here to be lived this way.
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I think the first moment that I kind of realized
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that I was old was when I I started getting sour looks from younger women when you would talk to them.
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It's like, why are you talking to me?
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Really?
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Yeah.
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And it's not like I was approaching random women in the street.
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No, I know what you mean.
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But I remember there was one young girl.
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She must have been like 21, 22 at daycare when our kids were there.
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I can't remember her name.
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But I like making small talk.
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Yes.
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And there were a few times when I thought, you know, I'm young, I'm hip, I'm cool.
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I'll just go, oh, what are you up to?
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What are you doing?
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What are you, you know?
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I can't even remember what the conversations were about
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but I got this vibe of why are you talking to me old man you know
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and being like I think I was left afterwards kind of like oh oh humbled
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immediately you know when you're in your 20s
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and you're talking to I don't know older teens there's a little spark there still of like
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yeah I know it for me I know
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that feeling no one gives you a look no no you accepted
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but I got this vibe of like what does this old guy want Not one of us anymore.
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Yeah.
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And I was just like, ah, I'm off the team.
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Ah.
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It was that moment he realized.
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Emotional damage.
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Pretty much.
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Man, I'm never going to forget that.
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I was actually kind of triggered.
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I get a lot of that at work because we have, I work in the music school.
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So we have kids of all ages
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and we're trying to be as friendly as possible
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and there are people that you know regulars obviously got been
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that going there for years that we chat to every week
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so you sort of build this relationship with this person
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and then some kids they're like they really would just like roll their eyes at us
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when we try like hi how are you going how was your weekend
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and it's like oh typical greeting
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but then you get to see it's such a beautiful thing
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because i've been there for the last four years i remember like
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when this little kid started let's just an example
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and then seeing them four years later just getting a little bit more yeah you know getting older
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and just understanding that small talk is part of it it's so cute
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but yeah the the young generation giving you a dirty look is a bit yeah i wasn't ready for
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that i felt kind of what was the other thing i went to i was at a burger joint once
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and And again, I just like being friendly to everyone.
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I don't care if you're a teenager behind the, you know, behind the cash register at a burger place or whatever.
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And I was just, I can't remember what I said.
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It was something like, you know what?
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I was curious about anyone being named my name today.
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So this young girl, she was probably 18, 19.
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I was like, do you know anyone called Pete in your generation now?
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Like, I don't see Peter, Thomas.
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Jeffrey, James, I don't see these old Christian names, Richard.
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She goes.
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And she goes, my dad's called Pete.
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She goes, I don't know.
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No, no. She said, oh, my dad's called Pete.
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And I was like, God damn, I'm really feeling my age now.
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There are those sort of two key moments.
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I feel like, oh, my God, so embarrassing.
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Get out.
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So what's something that no one warned you about getting older?
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Oh, my God.
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Yeah, put you on the spot.
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You're making really hard questions.
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We probably already covered a few of these things I don't want more of me You know what,
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for me, I'll go first The pressure of having a mortgage Yeah Good grief It just sucks everything out Like,
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that's it Of your bank account Especially once the interest rates rose I know, good grief Yeah, that was a brutal reality Where you're like,
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oh I have to now be more budget minded
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And plan ahead a little more and not just be as frivolous with my money.
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Yeah.
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So that was one thing I don't think anyone warned me about.
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And then I realized I had more compassion for my parents looking back and I'm like, oh, they were struggling with all these things in the background.
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But maybe they were good parents because I was always unaware of those things.
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They kind of just never made those my problem.
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And they shouldn't be.
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No. Uh -oh.
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What is that?
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We got an interrupter. Is it?
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Who is it?
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It's my daughter.
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Oh, Jojo.
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Joey, did you hear us yapping about in the background?
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What are you doing JoJo?
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What is no doors?
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Well, I've got a feeling this episode is going to have to be continued another time.
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Oh, we can do a part two.
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We can, we can.
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There you go guys.
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What is no doors?
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This is what life is like being a parent.
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This is another thing no one warned you about.
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He's not in the room.
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You no longer have your freedom.
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You have to do whatever your kids want.
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I'll have to take her and find her brother.
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Yeah, go.
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Night night JoJo's.
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High five.
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Say bye bye.
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Give me a whoosh!
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Yeah!
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Alright guys, well, we will continue this.
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To be continued.
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Okay?
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Thanks for joining us and we'll see you next time.
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Say bye, Joey!
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She's waving.
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See you guys.

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このレッスンでは、オーストラリア人夫婦の自然な会話を通じて、大人の生活についての考え方や日常的な英語表現を学びます。動画で英語学習をすることで、リアルな会話のリズムやイントネーションを身につけ、shadowspeak(シャドースピーク)の練習にも最適です。特に「大人になるとすべてがわかるようになる」という誤解について語られる対話から、日常会話でよく使われるフレーズや思考の表し方を実践的に習得できます。

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  • misconception:誤解、錯覚。「大人になるとすべてがわかる」はよくあるmisconceptionです。
  • figure out:理解する、見極める。「lifeをfigure outする」は「人生を理解する」という意味です。
  • have the foggiest idea:少しもわからない。「no one's got the foggiest idea」は「誰もわかっていない」という口語表現です。
  • on the job:実際の仕事上で、現場で。「learning on the job」は「実践的に学ぶ」という意味です。
  • grab a cuppa:コーヒーや紅茶を一杯飲む。オーストラリア英語の口語表現で、親しみのある言い方です。

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「used to」 used to + 動詞 — 今はもう違う過去の習慣や状態used to always think · used to be
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てるare frustrated · was pulled · be lived
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シャドーイングとは?英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング(Shadowing)は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的:ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影(shadow)」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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