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Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and Lauren Zema coming to you from the

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Speaker 1: home office in Austin, Texas. Opening up the playbook today

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Speaker 1: on a very interesting and very specific topic, and it's

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Speaker 1: a topic neither one of us have really ever discussed,

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Speaker 1: but it came to us via social media and we

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Speaker 1: have a special guest joining us a little later. But

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Speaker 1: it is gender disappointment, and on its face, when you

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Speaker 1: hear that, LZ, it has such a negative connotation, such

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Speaker 1: a guilty negative connotation. We are here to dispel that.

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Speaker 2: So I didn't even know this was a phrase, but

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Speaker 2: because of this video, I was kind of googling it.

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Speaker 2: Gender disappointment even has a Wikipedia entry, and yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: just a really interesting concept because this woman posted a

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Speaker 2: gender reveal and people have a lot to say about it,

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Speaker 2: and her caption of her video was gender disappointment is real.

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Speaker 2: So I start looking into that, and I do think

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Speaker 2: people have strong opinions right away. A lot of people say,

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Speaker 2: whatever your baby's going to be, you should just hope

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Speaker 2: for a healthy baby, and of course we all hope

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Speaker 2: for a healthy baby, but I also think we have

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Speaker 2: to acknowledge what's real. I thought a lot about your kids,

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Speaker 2: About Josh and Taylor, you have a boy and a girl,

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Speaker 2: and let's even let's take parents and siblings and kids

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Speaker 2: into it. Taylor has often said, oh, you know, it

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Speaker 2: would have been great to have a sister, or Josh

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Speaker 2: probably wishes he would have had a brother. I know

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Speaker 2: my own brother has two sisters and has always said

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Speaker 2: he wished he had a brother. So of course, in

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Speaker 2: any family, you're going to kind of have feelings of, oh,

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Speaker 2: you know, what if we'd had boys and girls, and

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Speaker 2: you just think about your dynamic. Right.

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Speaker 1: Can we all just come at this with an open heart,

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Speaker 1: in an open mind, and an understanding that we all

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Speaker 1: agree on a couple of principles. It's a blessing to

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Speaker 1: have a child. Not everybody can. It's difficult. When you can,

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Speaker 1: it is a blessing, and what you're really praying for

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Speaker 1: as a healthy baby. We all can agree that is true.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, what you were just saying,

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Speaker 1: LZ can also be true, and that is you can

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Speaker 1: kind of hope for a boy or hope for a girl.

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Speaker 1: In my family, it had been I think I've gone back.

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Speaker 1: It's been it was like forty five or fifty years

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Speaker 1: of all boys in my family, what all boys like

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Speaker 1: from I had a cousin. I'm the youngest of seven cousins,

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Speaker 1: so what two or three cousins ahead of me was

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Speaker 1: rest of the cousins, including myself, and then I want

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Speaker 1: to say, nine great grandchildren over forty eight or fifty years.

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Speaker 1: So when I had, my brother had.

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Speaker 3: Two boys and it's just you and your brother.

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Speaker 1: You have no trus me and my brother. And then

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Speaker 1: my brother had two boys ahead of me. And then

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Speaker 1: I had, I got pregnant and it was a boy.

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Speaker 1: It was Joshua. Then we got pregnant again, and I'll

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Speaker 1: be honest, I was kind of hoping it was going

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Speaker 1: And if I had another boy, my god, I would

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Speaker 1: have been blessed and happy. But when I found out

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Speaker 1: to tell my grandmother, We're going to have a girl finally.

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Speaker 1: So you know, you and I talk about this a lot,

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Speaker 1: and it comes up a lot two things and even

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Speaker 1: multiple things can be true at once totally.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I know with my little brother, he

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Speaker 2: They knew that my dad had had girls, and then

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Speaker 2: he got a boy, and he was so happy. I

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Speaker 2: distinctly remember I was like eight, and I remember going

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Speaker 2: had just given birth, and I remember saying him, Dad,

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Speaker 2: I think he's too small for this stuff.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I can totally relate to your dad. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I bought Joshua like Cowboys Dallas Cowboys gear, like all

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Speaker 3: Eight pounds, right.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I often think that when people are projecting,

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Speaker 2: like putting negative or critical comments online, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I witnessed a lot of that.

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Speaker 3: And we sure did and we felt it.

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Speaker 2: But I do think when people are truly being harsh,

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Speaker 2: and that doesn't make it okay. But I just try

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Speaker 2: some really great strides about gender not being such a

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Speaker 2: at the same time, gender also like unites us in

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Speaker 2: So it totally makes sense that people could be excited

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Speaker 3: I was hoping for a girl.

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Speaker 1: And if this doesn't resonate with you because you feel

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Speaker 1: the way LS was just talking, that's great too. Like

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Speaker 1: nobody is saying all things need to be true for

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Speaker 1: all people. It's just there are moms and dads out

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Speaker 1: and siblings. And the whole point of this and the

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Speaker 1: make you okay with the fact that you've had those feelings,

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Speaker 2: You know, I have a question about when you had kids, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: because you then got a boy and a girl. Is

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Speaker 2: say you'd gotten two boys, do you think you would

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Speaker 2: have had a third child?

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Speaker 1: We I will be very revealing and honest here. We

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Speaker 1: had what's called the king's choice, older boy, younger girl.

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Speaker 1: Someone told me another phrase, I haven't someone explained that

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Speaker 2: Right, it makes sense your ex is a child of

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Speaker 2: two also, so you guys were familiar with two kids situations.

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Speaker 1: We thought we were pregnant with a third and technically

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Speaker 3: Interesting. Yeah you've never shared that with me before.

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Speaker 2: Well, and I'm sorry, but I mean it's no matter what,

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Speaker 2: it's a loss. And as you're saying that, I'm sitting

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Speaker 2: at the time, my mom told me later when she

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Speaker 2: found out she was pregnant, she cried out of sadness.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, because she was so ready to get back

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Speaker 2: to her career. Yeah, and that was her plan.

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Speaker 2: And so it's just really interesting. How like I say

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Speaker 2: you know, just because someone's having feelings in a certain way,

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Speaker 2: that's their life and it doesn't discount your feelings and

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Speaker 2: But how these different, You know, we can all have

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Speaker 1: And even for your mom again, so many things can

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and now she loves my brother.

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Speaker 1: Well, and we all love John, but all you know,

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Speaker 1: so many things can be true at once. And that's

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Speaker 1: why I think this black and white world we live

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Speaker 1: never the case in anything in life. There are so

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Speaker 1: many layers. Take your mom for example. She could be

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Thing, Yeah do you We never did one, by.

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Speaker 2: The way, I don't think it was a thing years ago,

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Speaker 2: Well, and they've been problematic, they've caused chaos, they've gone

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Speaker 2: And I'm not against gender reveals. I'm against them being

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Speaker 2: done in ways where they can har others, hurt harm others. Yes,

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Speaker 2: some have gotten really stupid. Can we just cut a

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Speaker 2: cake and keep it easy? Some get out of control?

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Speaker 1: Like I think it's cute if you know the guy

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Speaker 1: Or what this woman we're about to bring on Kendra.

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Speaker 1: they're in the woods and they have a jackal lantern

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Speaker 1: Well, the reason we wanted to have you on was

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Speaker 1: able to express how you're feeling and not feel guilty

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Speaker 1: about it. And I know a lot of parents have

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Speaker 1: been in your shoes before, and I think you just

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Speaker 1: really brought to light something that we have all felt before.

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Speaker 1: So thank you so much, Kender And by the way,

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Speaker 1: belatedly congratulations you have such a beautiful family. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, the whole point of this was, Hey, we're

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Speaker 1: going to do a gender reveal because it's the last one.

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Speaker 1: It's one you're never going to forget.

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Speaker 4: Ever, I'll never forget it. I'm very happy, so lucky. Honestly,

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Speaker 4: I'd love my girls. Wouldn't change the world.

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Speaker 1: God bless you and your family.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much. You have a great day.

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