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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation. We oh the weather was a

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Speaker 1: bit nice on the weekend. On Saturday, we dodged some showers.

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Speaker 1: I meet up with a friend and we go for

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Speaker 1: a walk in the mornings. I take the dog and

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Speaker 1: then we sit and have a cup of tea at

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Speaker 1: a cafe outside, which is nice.

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Speaker 2: This sounds good.

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Speaker 1: And there was a table of women next to us

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Speaker 1: and they had some dog treats with their dog and

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Speaker 1: they offered a couple to Mini, and which was very nice.

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Speaker 1: They asked me first, which is always a nice.

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Speaker 2: Thing, was she did take tea treats from strangers?

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Speaker 1: Well, she'll take food from anyone. Most dogs will.

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Speaker 2: What if it's laced with something?

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Speaker 1: Well, that's why these people, that's why it's nice to

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Speaker 1: have them say you might not forgive your dog some

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Speaker 1: and you look at them, think you look like a

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Speaker 1: nice person. You've got dogs with you.

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Speaker 2: Of course, mind if I slip your dog of roofy.

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Speaker 1: Well I did say, look, I won't give her too

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Speaker 1: much because she's put on a little bit of a condition.

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Speaker 1: And I said, but she's coming into the sun to

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Speaker 1: a haircut season. So when we trimmer right down, because

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Speaker 1: I always say it's a fur that makes her look big.

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Speaker 1: It's like the inside of a sausage roll when she

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Speaker 1: has a haircut. And then sometimes she gets a haircut

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Speaker 1: and we go, well, that doesn't work.

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Speaker 3: So that woman she came up to you and she said,

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Speaker 3: your dog's fat and he said no, no, it's just

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Speaker 3: really hairy.

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Speaker 2: And then she smoothed all the fair.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and she said no, no, look at this and

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Speaker 1: this strangers patting down my dog just showed me that

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Speaker 1: she was overweight. Can't do that, can't do that.

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Speaker 3: We have a situation at the moment because my potential

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Speaker 3: son in law who is great, and he's got a

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Speaker 3: little dog, Lilah.

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Speaker 2: But the dog is put on a bit of condition.

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Speaker 3: And I pointed out and they said, oh, don't say that,

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Speaker 3: and I said, well, the dog is put on a

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Speaker 3: bit of condition.

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Speaker 1: Well, Minnie had to go on a big diet because

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Speaker 1: she was getting sow little wrists and things like that.

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Speaker 1: And it's a big deal for them to carry more weight,

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Speaker 1: but for all of us carry more weight than we

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Speaker 1: should have. Put pressure on your joints and things.

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Speaker 2: Imagine if someone came and smoohed your furd out.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is what we were talking about. As I said,

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Speaker 1: once she get the dog gets a haircuts, she'll look

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Speaker 1: so much smare I said, that's why I have short hair,

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Speaker 1: I said, as a joke. And one of the women

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Speaker 1: said that she'd seen her mother recently, who'd said, when

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Speaker 1: you pull your hair back like that, it makes your

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Speaker 1: face look fat. And then we're all laughing at the name.

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Speaker 1: You know that that's such a thing a mother would say.

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Speaker 1: And one of the other women said that she had

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Speaker 1: traveled from Singapore to La to see her mother, and

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Speaker 1: her mother kept going on about how her amazing her

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Speaker 1: brother was for traveling to visit her and he lived

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Speaker 1: forty minutes away. And then the other one said, what

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Speaker 1: about my mother? She said to me, what about my mother?

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Speaker 1: She said to me recently, considering you hardly eat anything,

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Speaker 1: you're still big. And then we all were laughing at

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Speaker 1: the terrible things our mothers say to us. And someone

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Speaker 1: said at the end, has anyone got the number of

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Speaker 1: a good therapist? It just seems to be the nature

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Speaker 1: of mothers, and it makes you look at what you

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Speaker 1: say to your own children, and are we saying things

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Speaker 1: that will stab them in the heart without realizing it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but mothers do this.

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Speaker 3: We had a situation, you know how Fizzle cat passed

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Speaker 3: away in front of us last weekend. Yeah, we're sitting there,

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Speaker 3: all gathered quite upset because there's Fizzle the cat dead,

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Speaker 3: and Roman he's upset and Helen's and she said that

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Speaker 3: was my cat.

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Speaker 2: And Helen says, well, yeah, but then you abandoned her.

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Speaker 1: Now it's not the time.

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Speaker 2: Bit, now's not the time because she's allergic to cats.

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Speaker 2: But you know that's what Helen meant. But then you

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Speaker 2: abandoned her.

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Speaker 1: That's not how you say it. Mellly, our executive producer,

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Speaker 1: was saying that her sister's having a baby, and her

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Speaker 1: mother said to the sister, said to Millie, oh, she

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Speaker 1: looks incredible. She hasn't put on anyway, Millie, when you

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Speaker 1: get pregnant though, Actually, what were the words, Millie, Yes

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Speaker 1: you will. On the other hand, Millie, when you get pregnant,

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Speaker 1: you will be ginormous. That was the word ginormous.

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Speaker 2: You must do it to your boys.

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Speaker 1: Look, I try not to, but who knows, though I

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Speaker 1: would be aware if I said to them, you look ginormous.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't say anything like that.

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Speaker 3: No, My own mother wrote the book on this I

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Speaker 3: could go down, but we all could.

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Speaker 1: But why don't we all join in? Because this is

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Speaker 1: what mothers do. Jenna, our social media guru, has just

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Speaker 1: said that. Years ago, many many years ago, when she

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Speaker 1: was at school, her mother said, you're on your computer

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Speaker 1: so long you'll get a fat bottom. So now Jenna

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Speaker 1: says she has spinal issues because even today she will

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Speaker 1: sit on one cheek and then squinch over to the

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Speaker 1: other side because it's still in her head that her

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Speaker 1: mother said she had a fact.

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Speaker 3: Did your late mom, Jenna, for ever say anything to you?

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Speaker 1: I had a million times, a million times I saw

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Speaker 1: you on television. You looked a bit broad across the

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Speaker 1: beam was one thing. She said that, and then I

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Speaker 1: bursted and she said, I can't say anything to please you.

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Speaker 1: My very first story, I was a segment producer on

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Speaker 1: the midday show and there was a man who was

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Speaker 1: blind and he had traveled the world, an extraordinary thing.

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Speaker 1: So we took him up in a helicopter to see

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Speaker 1: what sensations he had and what he was feeling. And

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Speaker 1: all my mother said was I was in the story

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Speaker 1: as well, And they shot me as in the front

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Speaker 1: of the helicopter, and Mum said, gee, your hair was short,

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Speaker 1: you know. You know. She probably said other things too,

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Speaker 1: but that's what I remember.

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Speaker 2: I can't say anything to please you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah things your mother said, what have you got for it?