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Speaker 1: New Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, congratulations to you for Double a Chattery, not just

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Speaker 2: because it's a great podcast with your friend Anita McGregor,

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Speaker 2: but your podcast yesterday revolved around something that I've been

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Speaker 2: aware of that's been happening in your personal life for

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Speaker 2: the last few years, and you finally talked about it

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Speaker 2: on the radio and it was just it was very insightful.

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Speaker 2: It was I got weepy. I also laughed, but it

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Speaker 2: was very brave. It was brave for you and Harley

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Speaker 2: to get this out.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, Harley was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease probably six

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Speaker 3: or so years ago. And my job here and I

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Speaker 3: love this. Part of my job is to share my

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Speaker 3: life and it's been something we haven't been able to

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Speaker 3: share because it's not necessarily it's Harley's story. In the

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Speaker 3: midst of that, it has impacted obviously my life and

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Speaker 3: our family too. But I wasn't aware really until recently

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Speaker 3: why Harley wanted to keep a lid on. So he

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Speaker 3: wanted to wait for his mum to pass away. His

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Speaker 3: mum was in the nineties and he didn't want her

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Speaker 3: to be burdened with this information about her son. So

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Speaker 3: it's it's I still don't know how I feel having

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Speaker 3: said it out loud, because his private story and many

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Speaker 3: friends have known, and I'd be very grateful that they've

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Speaker 3: kept our counsel on this, But now that everybody can

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Speaker 3: know it, I still don't know. I feel a bit

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Speaker 3: tender today. But there are a couple of instances that

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Speaker 3: made me think I just want to tell the story.

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Speaker 3: One is I just want to open the window and

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Speaker 3: be able to fly out without people looking and thinking

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Speaker 3: what's going on there? You know, I want to live

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Speaker 3: more freely because I talk about this in the podcast.

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Speaker 3: He was a waiter, very nice man, but he said, oh,

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Speaker 3: you're in this restaurant. I was there with Jack and

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Speaker 3: he said, oh, you're in this restaurant a couple of

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Speaker 3: weeks ago with an old man who didn't look very well.

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Speaker 3: And Jack and I were just flawed by it because

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Speaker 3: I thought, what that comment says, that's what you see

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Speaker 3: when you look at Harley. This disease has robbed him

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Speaker 3: of his youth and his his stature. He's stooped and

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Speaker 3: all the symptoms you get with Parkinson's, and he's slower,

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Speaker 3: And I thought, what that comment doesn't see about Harley,

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Speaker 3: the richness of who he is. So I just want

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Speaker 3: people to know what's going on, and I want Harley

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Speaker 3: to have the freedom too that we can.

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Speaker 4: And Harley's fine.

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Speaker 3: He actually doesn't care what people think. I mean, he

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Speaker 3: does care, but it's been very hard being alongside someone

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Speaker 3: going through this, And many of the comments I'm seeing

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Speaker 3: from you, from people who are responding to this are

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Speaker 3: relating to that what it's like to care for someone

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Speaker 3: who's going through something like this.

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Speaker 2: Having known you guys for a long time, I found

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Speaker 2: Harley's approach to it. He's very scientific, He's very matter

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Speaker 2: of fact.

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Speaker 3: He's very stoic, very stoid, because he's a science head,

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Speaker 3: and he's not a winger.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't winge about it.

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Speaker 2: There was a bit where he was saying that all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, I can't use chopsticks and he.

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Speaker 3: Can't dop a button every day. There's something else I

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Speaker 3: can't do.

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Speaker 2: Which Parkinson's robbed you of. But to him it's almost

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Speaker 2: like a curiosity. It's like, oh this is this wasn't

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Speaker 2: happening yesterday. I did from the podcast yesterday. We don't

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Speaker 2: mind me playing it. I liked what he spoke about here,

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Speaker 2: just about that everyone, we've got it. We've all got

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Speaker 2: this asteroid heading towards us.

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Speaker 3: You've also said that this is not a tragic story.

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Speaker 3: This is not a tragedy.

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Speaker 1: No, So I was saying, it's funny when you see

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Speaker 1: a news report about, say, an asteroid has just missed

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Speaker 1: earthed by you know, five hundred thousand miles and we

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Speaker 1: were lucky it didn't smash into us and kill us all.

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Speaker 1: And scientists then come up and say, how we can

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Speaker 1: maybe approach the asteroid and knock it off his path. Well,

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Speaker 1: guess what, we all have an asteroid heading towards us

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Speaker 1: right now. And it's in the nature of nature that

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Speaker 1: we last a certain time and then that's it, and

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Speaker 1: we get taken out by something. And in my case

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Speaker 1: it's something taken out at the late stage by Parkinson's slowly.

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Speaker 1: But for a lot of people, you know, cancer or

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Speaker 1: anything can take us out when we get older. It's

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Speaker 1: the nature of things.

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Speaker 4: It's very sabrary, very sabering.

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Speaker 2: I also liked what he spoke about, and this gave

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Speaker 2: me a lot of food for thought.

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Speaker 4: You know how my head works, alternate universes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is and the latest scientists are thinking about

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Speaker 3: alternate universes, and it's given Harley some comfort. Actually, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you're a big science head. You have taken a lot

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Speaker 3: of comfort in the idea that's been explored in modern

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Speaker 3: science about parallel universes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that's just one of those things that's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: At the moment, we live in a amazing age where

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Speaker 1: physicists physics people are saying there might be other universes

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Speaker 1: that we bump into, where sort of part of this

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Speaker 1: frothy state of universes that are everywhere and in one

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Speaker 1: universe because of the there are universes based on all possibilities.

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Speaker 1: So there is the universe that Parkinson's doesn't exist, and

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Speaker 1: they I'm persfullly unaware of that. And also your situation

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Speaker 1: could be. I mean, it's infinitely variable. So somewhere in

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Speaker 1: another universe, I'm married topherson. You told her, well, she

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Speaker 1: thinks she lives in.

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Speaker 3: This it is I did ask him in those other universes,

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Speaker 3: what am I wearing?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, I don't make it about you.

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Speaker 2: About you really, congratulations, it's just as I said, I've

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Speaker 2: had it insightful, I found it informative.

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Speaker 4: I've haund It funny and anything. When you see people.

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Speaker 2: In public, you know, you know, keep your piehole shut

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Speaker 2: is another thing that I got out of that with

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Speaker 2: that weight of story.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and yet and yet people are so lovely. The

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Speaker 3: comments have been lovely, and I feel all the love

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Speaker 3: and thank you. And as Harley texted to people yesterday,

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Speaker 3: I know you texted him. He said, life is good.

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Speaker 3: We navigate this, but life is good.

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