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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's. This is where it gets awkward.

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Speaker 2: This needs to be discussed. It's pulling a band aid.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it.

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Speaker 3: Filling in for the breakfast show is no easy task.

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Speaker 3: There was one on air break that threatened to tear

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Speaker 3: the fabric of my relationship with Amanda and doom any

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Speaker 3: chance of us ever working together. On Andrew and Amanda's show,

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Speaker 3: there was a segment called the Rumor Mill, where people

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Speaker 3: would ring in with rumors they had heard, usually though

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Speaker 3: were pretty benight. Coke had a new flavor, Baby John

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Speaker 3: Burgess was going to be hosting a new show. What

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Speaker 3: usually rung in by Baby John. One morning, a rumor

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Speaker 3: flashed up on my phone screen Amanda Keller pregnant. I

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Speaker 3: used the two way to talk to the producer, who

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Speaker 3: assured me it was okay and it was a funny

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Speaker 3: care In my mind, I imagine the call would have

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Speaker 3: something to do with the plunging neckline Amanda had displayed

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Speaker 3: on the show Good News Week that week. Andrew had

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Speaker 3: been giving a grief about it before they went on hold,

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Speaker 3: intimating that her bosoms.

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Speaker 1: Had got bigger. Do you remember that? No, the caller

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Speaker 1: went on air and said Amanda's pregnant.

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Speaker 3: My co host this morning was former Simon Townsend, Wonder

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Speaker 3: World reporter and one time Playboy model Jody Young.

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Speaker 1: Jody asked how.

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Speaker 3: The caller n this, and I was preparing for that well,

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Speaker 3: Andrew was talking last week that her bosoms had got bigger.

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Speaker 1: I'd already had an answer prepared.

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Speaker 3: Instead, he said, I saw her coming out of an

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Speaker 3: ultrasound clinic.

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Speaker 2: You know, I thought I'm going to cry hearing this.

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Speaker 1: It's so funny.

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Speaker 2: This was twenty years ago, yep, and I still feel it.

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Speaker 3: Keep reading, keep reading well, and we didn't have delay,

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Speaker 3: and I just Jody and I looked at each.

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Speaker 1: Other color alert.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't pregnant.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 3: What wasn't known by me and everyone else was that

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Speaker 3: Amanda and her husband Harley had been trying for a

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Speaker 3: baby with IVF, and that particular day at the clinic,

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Speaker 3: they'd just been told their last attempt had been UNSUCCESSU

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Speaker 3: Triple Am sent a bunch of flowers for me, and

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Speaker 3: that wasn't enough. I wrote her a letter in which

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Speaker 3: I expressed my sincerest apologies. And if I'd known what

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Speaker 3: that caller was going to say, there is no way

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Speaker 3: it would have ever got to air. I mailed it

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Speaker 3: then when on my Christmas break, but I still felt

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Speaker 3: that it hadn't been resolved. When I came back to work,

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Speaker 3: instead of going through the usual door, I went round

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Speaker 3: through the sales side. My plan was going well until

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Speaker 3: the first person I ran into was Amanda, who for

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Speaker 3: some strange reason, was on that side of the building.

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Speaker 3: She looked, gave me a kiss on the cheek and said,

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Speaker 3: thanks for the letter.

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Speaker 1: And that was that.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it funny? I still I'm straight back there just

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Speaker 2: hearing this.

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Speaker 1: Well, it was terrible.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me read my bit from that in my

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Speaker 2: book and then well then we'll discuss where are we.

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Speaker 2: This is at the end of your chapter of Yeah,

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Speaker 2: is it the end of the.

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: I'm not triggered. This is life, and this is you know,

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Speaker 2: this is and I'm proud that as friends we've overcome this.

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Speaker 2: So I've written here about a whole lot of IVF stuff.

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Speaker 2: At one point during my IVF year, I was given

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Speaker 2: chemicals to trick my body into thinking I was pregnant,

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Speaker 2: hoping this would make those pesky embryos stick. As a result,

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Speaker 2: there's no point in having a blood test two weeks

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Speaker 2: later to check for pregnancy markers. They'd be present whether

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Speaker 2: I was up the duff or not, so we had

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Speaker 2: to endure a six week waiting period when an ultrasound

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Speaker 2: would give us the news. Once again, we were left

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Speaker 2: broken hearted, sort to injury. A colleague called the next

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Speaker 2: day and said, a congratulations in order. I heard on

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Speaker 2: the radio that you're pregnant. The rumor that I was

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Speaker 2: pregnant had been called in by someone saying they'd see

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Speaker 2: me leaving an ultrasound facility. Josie says he would never

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Speaker 2: have let that story through if he'd heard the details

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Speaker 2: of the call beforehand. He was simply told, it's a

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Speaker 2: funny story about Amanda. Hilarious, What in any way is

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Speaker 2: funny about a woman being seen in an ultrasound facility.

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Speaker 2: I could have been leaving with a dire medical prognosis,

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Speaker 2: And if I had been pregnant, in what world would

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Speaker 2: I wanted announce that way? As it was, it had

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Speaker 2: been a devastating day for me in Harley. What made

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Speaker 2: it even harder was that the very people who'd let

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Speaker 2: the rumor go to air were the ones you'd think

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Speaker 2: would be looking out for me. A few days later,

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Speaker 2: a lovely handwritten note from Jonesy arrived in my letterbox

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Speaker 2: apologizing for airing the call. It was very sweet. I

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Speaker 2: know how hard it was for him to write, but

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Speaker 2: I felt bruised and betrayed for quite.

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Speaker 1: A while, huh.

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Speaker 2: And I remember the big thing for Harley and I

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Speaker 2: even doing IVF was this like a privacy sure, And

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Speaker 2: we decided as a couple while I said, we have

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Speaker 2: to put the need for privacy aside. If we want

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Speaker 2: to do this, we have to make having a baby

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Speaker 2: a priority and deal with the consequences. And so to

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Speaker 2: to have it exposed like that on our very network,

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Speaker 2: on our very show, it seems so cruel.

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Speaker 1: It was. It was.

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Speaker 3: And I know in two thousand and four when we

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Speaker 3: started working together, we went out and.

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Speaker 1: I remember spoke about it, and we spoke it I

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Speaker 1: broke down. You know.

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Speaker 2: It's funny because I remember you you wondered why I

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Speaker 2: hadn't responded to the letter, and I just couldn't.

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Speaker 1: No, I didn't wonder, I just couldn't.

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Speaker 2: And I just I remember I couldn't even keep it

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Speaker 2: because it's still it just burnt my hands even holding it.

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Speaker 2: It was the sweetest, sweetest gesture, gesture, but I was

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Speaker 2: still too raw to respond to it. And also, that's

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Speaker 2: what I love about us, you and me, is that

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Speaker 2: you were the first person I told when I was pregnant.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting. I've got an email of facts

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Speaker 2: in those days from someone saying, I wondered why when

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Speaker 2: you were finally having a baby, I wondered why you

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Speaker 2: hadn't had one earlier. I'd wondered why you weren't brave enough,

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Speaker 2: and I thought, you've got no idea of the journey

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Speaker 2: to get here. And that's what I love about how

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Speaker 2: you love my kids.

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Speaker 1: I love your kids.

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Speaker 2: You're such a part of the story. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: brought up a lot, has another to be reading.

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Speaker 1: From the book. Oh cup of tea, cup of tea.

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Speaker 1: Thanks friend, Well, well, thank you, thank you. It's just,

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Speaker 1: you know, I look at your boys. I'm so proud

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Speaker 1: of them. You know they're are so great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that too.

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Speaker 1: There's lovely boys, and I'm very lucky. Making me cry.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's gamation