Ep 39: Can You Help Us?

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Hello everyone.
Welcome back to another episode.

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Ohh, Teach, Sleep, repeat.
My name is Dylan and it's just

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me, so there's no Aiden this
week.

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As you know, you've been
listening to the podcast lately.

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There was quite a big event in
Hayden's life, quite a big

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thing.
He didn't move house.

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No, not like me.
Moving house.

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Very stressful.
He had the arrival of his

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beautiful daughter in the last
week or two.

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So whether we like it or not,
trying to get a bit of time

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aside, he did try his hardest to
come along this week.

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But things just get in the way
and I can understand I'm doing

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it myself.
I'm amazed I've managed to find

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this time just to come online
with just me.

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Anyway, why are we still here?
Well, a couple of reasons.

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I know we've had weeks before
we've missed that podcast, and

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it's one of the reasons we
started the Bite size ones just

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to keep you ticking over every
week.

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If we ever didn't miss one out
for our longer episodes, this

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isn't going to be a longer
episode.

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Guys, I'm sorry if I click
baited you.

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I'm sorry if I've tricked you
into thinking there's going to

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be an hour of good banter with
the.

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But no, it's just me.
There's no Hayden to bounce off.

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And in fact, I feel really bad
doing anything.

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Whilst he's not here, I can't do
it behind his back.

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If anything I'll be talking him
up because you know, he really

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is an integral part of why this
podcast happened.

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So a little bit of a reflection
first and then I'm going to ask

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you for a favour as the title of
this episode does kind of

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suggest.
Now, firstly this podcast.

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I thought I'd come on, it's just
me and I'm the one who was

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pestering Hayden.
So I thought I'd just take a

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look back at the podcast so far
and think about how far we've

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come now.
Why did we even start this

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podcast?
Well, like I said, it was me

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going on and on and I said to
Hayden for probably a couple of

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years, why don't we start one?
Why don't we start one?

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Why don't we start one and go,
OK, well, think of something we

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can talk about.
And to be fair, I never ever

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did, which was one of the
reasons why it didn't happen

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until the teacher strikes.
That was the catalyst.

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That was the thing where Hayden
said, OK, yeah, sure, we can

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talk about the teacher strikes.
Because I'm sure you can imagine

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as two people who decided to
strike the media coverage and

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the commentary around it was
rather frustrating because as

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you know, as we've talked about
a million times in this podcast,

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we do this job for the children.
That's what keeps us coming back

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is those amazing bonds we can
make with them, the help we can

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give them.
So when that was brought into

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question because we dared to
strike, we dared to stand up to

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the government who you know, do
so much for children.

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Obviously the government are
always there for our kids.

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How could we possibly question
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Hope you sense the sarcasm
there.

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But as you can probably imagine,
it was quite frustrating for us

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as two people who chose to
strike when we just wanted to

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get our voices heard.
Now that was the catalyst.

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The first ever episode we did
was called Why Are Teachers

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Striking?
And we were able to hop on and

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talk about it candidly and what
Hayden always wanted from this

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podcast.
And it's something I'm really

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glad has come to fruition,
especially more recently, is

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that it was to be lighthearted.
It was to be fun.

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It was to be the kind of podcast
that you enjoy listening to

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because although we're in the
world of education, sometimes it

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can be quite dry just listening
to, you know, theories and

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pedagogy.
And no, we wanted it to kind of

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reflect our personalities, which
was always up for a laugh.

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So that's where it started.
We did those really weird

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accents.
If you haven't watched the first

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one, it's worth listening to
just to hear us with our

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original kind of very stern
voices, because we have just

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starting a podcast and we need
to sound very professional, but

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then very quickly descending
into doing accents and things

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like that.
And I guess over the year

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almost, since we started doing
this at the start of 2023,

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what's evolved nicely is that
we're just way more comfortable

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now in front of the microphone.
And hopefully, if you've

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listened from the start or if
you've just joined us, the most

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recent episodes really do sum up
how far we've come.

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And I guess the end of the
reflection was to just kind of

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say thank you to you guys
because we built up this podcast

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from literally nothing.
We weren't those people who had

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thousands of Instagram
followers, thousands of Twitter

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followers, been in the education
world for so long and been

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building up a following.
We didn't have that.

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It was just us two and we just
started a podcast.

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So the fact we have hundreds of
listeners every single week, we

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can't tell you how grateful we
are for you guys listening.

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So the first thing we just
wanted to say was a huge thank

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you.
Now you probably thinking,

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alright Dylan, Jesus, keep going
on and on about it.

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What do you need help for?
What's the title of the episode

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about?
Well, it's really simple and

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it's something I've asked you to
do a lot.

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If you started off early on and
it's just for a review now.

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I can't explain to you how much
people coming across a podcast

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and they see the review number
and it really impacts whether

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they even give it a go or not.
So we've managed to get quite a

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lot of reviews, especially on
Spotify.

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It really does set us apart now.
So all I'm asking you guys to

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do, we have hundreds of
listeners every week, but we

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only have roughly around 80
reviews in total across Apple

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Podcasts and Spotify.
I just would love you guys to

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please leave us a review,
whether that's just a five star

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review on Spotify or if you're
an Apple podcast which are no

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more than half of you guys
listen on the iPhone.

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So if you're on Apple Podcasts,
leave us a five star review

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please.
And if you could write a written

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review, just a short couple of
sentences.

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If you guys sum up what our
podcast is like, it means so

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much to us and new listeners can
read that.

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And no, it's not just us saying
it's the best podcast the world.

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Because why would anyone believe
that from the people who run the

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podcast?
So that is what I want you to

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do.
Well, at least it's 1/2 of it.

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So when I said can you help us?
Number one, please leave us a

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review, especially if you've
enjoyed it.

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Of course, if you haven't
enjoyed it, we'll just leave US1

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anyway and just give us five
stars won't hurt you.

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But if you've enjoyed it, please
do because it helps give us some

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credibility, it helps us grow.
And I guess that's where the

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second part of the kind of Help
you comes in, because we would

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really love it this week when
there is no real long episode.

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We'd love it if you could share,
share your favourite episodes so

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far, Just share the podcast in
general.

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It goes such a long way coming
from you guys rather than from

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us.
So if you're an avid listener of

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the podcast and you've enjoyed
what we've done so far, hours

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and hours and hours of
entertainment and random

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ramblings from ours, if that's
helped you, if that's given you

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some confidence in work, or if
you've just found it funny and

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something that you have on in
the background while you're

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doing your commute.
Whatever it is guys, if you're

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listening to this podcast, can
you try and spread the love,

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Share it to someone you think
would love it as well and it

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would just massively, massively
help us out.

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So if you're doing that, we
would be eternally grateful.

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And I suppose the last thing I
wanted to talk about was just

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the amount of messages that we
get.

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Now obviously as we've grown we
get more messages.

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So lately we're getting more
messages than ever from people

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and they are our favourite thing
in the world to receive Hayden.

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And I wouldn't do this if we
didn't love doing the podcast.

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But hearing from you guys, that
makes it all worthwhile hearing

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from you listeners.
Now we know.

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Again, if we look at our
analytics, we know you're out

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there and we've not heard from
nearly 1% of you in the past,

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but every message we get, it
makes us This is why we do it.

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It could be a message just to
say hello.

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It could be a message to say
actually a very specific thing

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you talked about on the podcast
has helped me this week and it's

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allowed me to question this
thing and it's improved my

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well-being.
Anything we receive, it lights

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our face up and the first thing
we do is send it to each other.

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So I guess this is threefold
here.

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Can you help us in three
different ways?

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Can you leave us a review?
Can you share our podcast?

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And guys, this to me is
genuinely the most important

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thing.
Whether we grow anymore or not

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is kind of irrelevant.
If you send us a message because

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if you're listening already,
we're happy with our call

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following up and perfectly
honest.

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And if you want to just reach
out and just say, hey guys, I

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listen every week, great stuff.
Or even if you say I listen

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every week, I often disagree
with you guys.

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But you know it's on in the
background.

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It doesn't matter.
We just want to hear from you

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guys.
We want to put some names to

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your listeners.
Do get in touch and we will be

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sure to reply as much as we
possibly can.

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I guess that's it really.
I don't want to go rambling on

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and on.
I don't want to keep you for too

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long.
Hopefully this is a nice short

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one.
Again, I could have called it a

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bite size then that would be
like 4 byte sizes since our last

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one.
So again, apologies if I've

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managed to click mate you or
catfish you or you think I've

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done you dirty here.
And huge apologies to my own

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family because I know Hayden is
their favourite co-host.

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He's not here.
So if Hayden is your favourite

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cost and you've had to listen to
me ramble for this long, I'm

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very sorry.
If I am your favourite co-host

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then definitely do message me
and I'll be sure to send it to

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Hayden immediately, who I'm sure
is ultra jealous that we've

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managed to put an episode out
without him.

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Anyway, guys, thank you so much
for listening.

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Thank you so much for helping us
in advance.

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And thank you so much for your
future listening because I'm

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sure if you've got this far,
you're going to listen to us in

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the future as well.
You can find us on Instagram at

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Teach Repeat Podcast.
You can e-mail us at Teachmeet

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repeat pod@gmail.com.
I hope you noticed that without

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Hayden here, I didn't want to
mess up.

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He puts too much pressure on me.
OK, Perhaps, you know, we just

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get rid of him completely.
I'm joking.

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I need him back because I wanna
bounce off him.

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It's very weird.
I don't like it.

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So I'm going to wrap up there.
Guys, thanks so much for

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listening and I'll catch you
next time and I will be with

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Hayden then.