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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation big things. We've been on air

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Speaker 1: for twenty years. We've shared so much of our lives,

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Speaker 1: so much stuff. And something amazing happened to you just

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Speaker 1: in the last few weeks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a bunch of carpet of in the house.

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Speaker 2: Some I was good. I did a bit of painting.

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Speaker 1: When I said I wasn't a softy.

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Speaker 2: My daughter got engaged, brilliant.

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Speaker 1: My grandfather and yes, Morgan and Zoe had a baby boy. Well,

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Speaker 1: how do you feel you was a grandfather? You know

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Speaker 1: the image we have of grandfathers, you know it's on

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Speaker 1: popular culture, is an old bloke smoking a pipe in

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Speaker 1: a rocking chair. You're not that, and I'm sure most

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Speaker 1: grandfathers of these days aren't. But how do you feel

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Speaker 1: being a granddad?

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Speaker 2: That's pretty cool? It is pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: And I saw a fabulous photo that you sent of

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Speaker 1: Helen holding the baby and you said it reminds you

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Speaker 1: of when all those years ago, when she was holding

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Speaker 1: Morgan in her house. It must be an extraordinary thing.

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Speaker 2: It's uncanny how much the little guy looks like Morgs.

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Speaker 2: It's uncanny really, and.

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Speaker 1: Probably looks like you as a baby. That's genetics. At work.

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Speaker 2: But he said, to your mom, you're holding him a

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Speaker 2: bit too tight. I said, mate, I've done this before.

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Speaker 1: Every grandparent has this same discussion where the new parents

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Speaker 1: are allowed to say, oh, don't do this, don't do that.

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Speaker 1: But I've been here before. And so it begins as.

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Speaker 2: I'm smoking a pipe over.

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Speaker 1: It's wonderful news and great news at Romany. Your daughter

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Speaker 1: and Michael got engaged. That's a big family things.

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Speaker 2: The potential son in Laura's moved up a night. I

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Speaker 2: know absolutely, so it was all happening.

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Speaker 1: It was all happening, a big couple of weeks for

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Speaker 1: your family. Congratulations all round.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, And now look at us. Here we are

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Speaker 2: doing this.

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Speaker 1: Here, we are doing this and they were little babbies

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Speaker 1: when we first started.

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Speaker 2: That's true, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It is true, And yet we've aged backwards. Like Benjamin Button,

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Speaker 1: I'm in a nappy. I'm hoping that's because I'm young.

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Speaker 2: He's an engagement in my family. Little bit maybe came

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Speaker 2: into the world. I'm now grandpa. Enough about my holidays.

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Speaker 1: What did you do for one of the weeks of

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Speaker 1: the holidays. I went with my sons Liam and Jack

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Speaker 1: to Tokyo and I've been traveling to Japan for over

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Speaker 1: thirty years. I used to go Beyond two thousand and

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Speaker 1: it's one of my favorite places in the world. And

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Speaker 1: the boys have been there before, but to go with

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Speaker 1: them as adults now I saw such a different side

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Speaker 1: to Tokyo. It was actually I was in tears before

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Speaker 1: I left. Actually, the morning we went, I bought a

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Speaker 1: new suitcase and I thought the man in the shop

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Speaker 1: had shown me how to lock it. And I've never

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Speaker 1: in my whole life locked a suitcase, so I thought

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Speaker 1: I'd better lock it. And then half an hour before

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Speaker 1: I was about to leave the house early in the morning,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't unlock it. All my things were in there

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Speaker 1: and I couldn't unlock it, and I was so fraught

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Speaker 1: I started to cry, as you can imagine, because I thought,

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Speaker 1: what do I do? Do I send my bag to

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Speaker 1: Tokyo by a standing knife and slice it open? But

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Speaker 1: they're built so sturdily these days, would that even work?

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Speaker 1: And Harley was saying, look, they're not going to let

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Speaker 1: you fly with a suitcase that can't be opened. Someone

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Speaker 1: at the airport would be able to help you. And

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Speaker 1: it's a samsonite and I was trying to phone the

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Speaker 1: twenty for our helpline and a tsa lock on it

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Speaker 1: that only an airport can unlock. Well, that's what I read.

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Speaker 1: That twenty for our helpline didn't quite exist, and it

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Speaker 1: was so early in the morning that no one could

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Speaker 1: help me. Finally, on the way to the airport, I

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Speaker 1: got hold of the Samsonite shop at the airport. You

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Speaker 1: know when you see those suitcase shops, you think, he

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Speaker 1: goes in here when you're about to fly. That was me.

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Speaker 1: It was me and a lovely man. I think his

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Speaker 1: name was Brian. He was so helpful. I said, I

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Speaker 1: can't unlock my suitcase and he got a little implement

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Speaker 1: and he said, have you put the code in zero

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Speaker 1: zero one? I said no, why would to do that?

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Speaker 1: And he said, that's exactly what you've put in here.

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Speaker 1: And I must have, just thinking I hadn't set the

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Speaker 1: code yet moved it because it's always zero zero zero

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Speaker 1: when you first get it. Something had happened so fine.

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Speaker 1: That was before I even left. I had that tension.

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Speaker 2: That's why you should have a duffel bag.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's why she should have a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: That's why she should drink more gin and tonics. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I had a great time and everything. I

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Speaker 1: love everything about Japan and I have for years and years.

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Speaker 1: And with the kids, as I said, we went bar hopping.

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Speaker 1: We went to one small little bar just us. It

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Speaker 1: was an anime bar. It's just us. Actually. There was

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Speaker 1: an English guy in the corner who was unusual, and

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Speaker 1: the barman who doesn't give a rats whether you're there

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Speaker 1: or not. And there was a snake in a jar

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Speaker 1: of alcohol and we drank shots from that. Oh and

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Speaker 1: that was early in the evening and the next day

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Speaker 1: the end of the even would want school or didn't

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Speaker 1: you think? And I've become obsessed with the bide. I've

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Speaker 1: never really been into the bid a before the toilet

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Speaker 1: in the hotel and Liam and I were discussing this.

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Speaker 1: He and Jack had a separate room. But when you

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Speaker 1: walk towards it, it opened up and you'd sit down

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Speaker 1: and the seat was warm, and then the bid a

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Speaker 1: there there for hours and when I and then it

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Speaker 1: would flush the minute your step stood up. So I've

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Speaker 1: come home, I just walk away from the toilet, expecting

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Speaker 1: it to be flushed. But Lean put me off because

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Speaker 1: he said it freaked him out a little bit. It

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Speaker 1: was like a greedy toilet, like hungry, hungry hippop or

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Speaker 1: cookie monster when just to consume things. But another great

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Speaker 1: Barbie went.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like an only fan.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I would have gone to the end

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't mean if they want to hang out with me,

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Speaker 1: I would have. I don't care where we are. But

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Speaker 1: it was so great to spend that time with them

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Speaker 1: as big grown men, and they're so big with big heads.

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Speaker 2: Of early hair.

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Speaker 1: They stood a head above everybody, so I could find

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Speaker 1: them anywhere.

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Speaker 2: It was just and they're on your dime.

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Speaker 1: Of course, of course mums opening the wallet and the toilet.

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Speaker 2: Who wants some snake drinks? English guy in the corner,

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Speaker 2: so good