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Fluffy, Sticky & Thick · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: And he's in. It's one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: Since we know the topic matter. That's a pretty pretty
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  Speaker 2: funny tease. Katie has been gone for a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: How long you been gone?
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  Speaker 1: I have, yeah, almost two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: And where were you and what were you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I have, Well, we've talked about it before.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going through the IVF process where my husband and
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  Speaker 3: I are trying to have a baby.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the International Vulture Foundation. Correct, correct, correct, actually
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  Speaker 4: in veto fertilization if you're not familiar. But and you've
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  Speaker 4: been at this for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we started this in May and we have gone
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  Speaker 3: through two processes, which are called egg retrievals, where they
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  Speaker 3: take my follicles and mature them into eggs, and then
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  Speaker 3: we had to pick from the best lot. Out of that.
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  Speaker 3: We have six. But last week or actually yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: this week.
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  Speaker 1: It was Monday.
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  Speaker 3: They put the strongest of the embryos into me and
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  Speaker 3: it's a little boy. Oh wow, but boy was that
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  Speaker 3: not an enjoyable process?
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  Speaker 1: Whoa mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Were you awake?
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  Speaker 1: I was awake. I that to my surprise. I was awake.
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  Speaker 2: For some reason. I always thought you were. I would
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  Speaker 2: have just assumed you're asleep during this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they knocked me out for both of the egg retrievals.
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  Speaker 1: So I was going in.
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  Speaker 3: There all, you know, chest puffed out like I got this.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna knock me out. I'm gonna wake up. I'mnna
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  Speaker 3: feel great. No, No, was awake for the transfer process, which.
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  Speaker 1: Is invasive.
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  Speaker 2: Did they go in through or you who? Or how
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  Speaker 2: do they do it?
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  Speaker 1: They go in through the you who. It's okay, we're
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  Speaker 1: adult here.
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  Speaker 3: It's the same process of as having a pap smere Okay,
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  Speaker 3: it's they.
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  Speaker 2: I've not had one, so I know you have not.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, y n Jack free for the sake
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  Speaker 2: of us all, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, a whole cleansing.
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  Speaker 3: No, but for any female listening, they'll they'll understand what
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about. But so, yes, they go in through
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  Speaker 3: the maturely called you who, as Jack said, and.
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  Speaker 1: They inserted a catheter.
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  Speaker 3: Into my uterus and writer into my uterine lining which over.
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  Speaker 1: The I know Jack Jack will clicking about the throw up.
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  Speaker 1: Uh which over the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: One of the reasons that I've been needing to be
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  Speaker 3: like down for the count is because the medications that
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  Speaker 3: I've been taking have been making my lining of my
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  Speaker 3: uterus fluffy as they've been saying fluffy. They use all
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  Speaker 3: the adjectives no female ever wants to be described as
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  Speaker 3: they've been calling me fluffy, sticky, and thick.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: One of the girls who did one of my ultrasounds went, damn, girl,
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  Speaker 3: you thick.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, thank thank you, thank you, that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're looking for.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I actually I posted the video up at
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  Speaker 3: armstrong getty dot com in Katie's corner. It's actually really
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  Speaker 3: fascinating because you can so she inserts the little catheter
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  Speaker 3: and you can hear me. She's She's trying to talk
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  Speaker 3: to me as this is going on, and I'm going
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  Speaker 3: mm hmm, okay, yeah, because I'm just I'm just like,
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  Speaker 3: get out of there.
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  Speaker 2: Was it was it painful or just uncomfortable? You know,
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  Speaker 2: two different.
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  Speaker 3: I'm having a hard time telling the difference between the two.
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  Speaker 1: But I can't tell.
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  Speaker 3: If it was so uncomfortable that it was painful, I
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  Speaker 3: don't I don't really know. All I know is at
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  Speaker 3: the end, once everything was done, my color left my
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  Speaker 3: body and I damn near passed out.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my, Katie, tell me if this rings true to
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  Speaker 4: you having had a number of uh significant medical procedures
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  Speaker 4: and you have two Jack, there's a feeling. It's not
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  Speaker 4: pain exactly, but it's your animal brain telling you this
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  Speaker 4: should not be happening.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was thinking of when they buyap seed my tumor.
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  Speaker 2: So they had to go in through my back with
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  Speaker 2: the long needle all the way inside, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if you've described it as specifically painful, but it
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  Speaker 2: was just like, yeah, it was like, this is not
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  Speaker 2: something that's supposed to happen to me. Whatever is happening here, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know what that that's exactly it.
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  Speaker 3: And my doctors, doctor Amy of oz Day out of
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  Speaker 3: the East Bay in uh California, and she's just she
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  Speaker 3: is an angel. But the whole time she was kind
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  Speaker 3: of tapping the side of my legs, going relax your legs,
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  Speaker 3: Relax your leg cause my.
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  Speaker 1: My whole, my whole.
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  Speaker 2: Fist right in your relax. I'm sorry I lost, but
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  Speaker 2: that was so and.
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  Speaker 3: Like I actually remember trying to like center myself and
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  Speaker 3: relax the lower half of my body, but I just couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: I know how many times have I done that where
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  Speaker 2: I like, Okay, I'm on top of this I got it.
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  Speaker 2: I've said my mantras, I and then like it disappears
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  Speaker 2: in a second lot.
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  Speaker 4: I'm playing a golf course in my head, a second
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  Speaker 4: hole is a power for now I.
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  Speaker 1: Can't get up. Yeah. Oh, she she came in. She
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  Speaker 1: comes into the room. She's like you ready.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I'm ready, let's do this, and like
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  Speaker 3: two point five seconds into it, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Like no, no, no, no, no no. You know. So
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  Speaker 1: it was actually quite the production.
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  Speaker 3: There was an embryologist there who was the woman who
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  Speaker 3: actually had the embryo and who has been doing all
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  Speaker 3: this science y stuff to it. I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: all that is.
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  Speaker 1: I know that she put.
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  Speaker 3: Drew's sperm in there and has been watching him grow.
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  Speaker 3: That's all that I know. But she came in through
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  Speaker 3: a door that I didn't know was in the room.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she came up from behind me and she here
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  Speaker 3: she comes, and she's got it like she's holding it
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  Speaker 3: like a silver platter, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And doctor Amy goes, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: And they put it up on the big screen and
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  Speaker 3: it was this whole thing, and they were doing their
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  Speaker 3: best to like distract me from what I was physically
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  Speaker 3: going through.
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  Speaker 2: We like funny faces, stuff like that, animals.
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  Speaker 1: Cracking jokes. There was house music on in the room.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, you know, like I don't know, well, you know
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  Speaker 4: enough to over overdo the theme. But so much of
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  Speaker 4: modern medical medicine as a miracle. But those things would
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  Speaker 4: never happen to you unless you are being murdered. Like
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  Speaker 4: for the entirety of human history, nobody would be doing
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  Speaker 4: what they did with that needle jacket unless it was
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  Speaker 4: a sword.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But she so she gets and you know it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: She put the catheter in, which I don't know that
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  Speaker 3: I felt. I think my brain felt it, which made
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  Speaker 3: me feel it because I could see it on the screen.
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  Speaker 3: But then she she takes the embryo and she goes, okay,
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  Speaker 3: here we go. And in the video you can see
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  Speaker 3: this little light white blob going through this little tube
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  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, right into my uterus
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  Speaker 3: and almost lit up.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And what was funny is when she when she was
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  Speaker 3: doing it, doctor Amy as as he went because it's
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  Speaker 3: it's a boy, as he went into my uterration, she went, oh.
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  Speaker 2: Oh sound effects.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then and then after that it was done.
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  Speaker 3: Other than the fact that they had to get me
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  Speaker 3: like six ice packs and bring me back to life
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  Speaker 3: because I've decided to, you know, vacate.
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  Speaker 4: So is God willing the pregnancy going to proceed in
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  Speaker 4: more of the usual way at this point or do
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  Speaker 4: you still have to get jabbed and poked and drugged
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  Speaker 4: and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So I have my first pregnancy test next Tuesday, and
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  Speaker 3: then they do a follow up just to make sure
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  Speaker 3: on Thursday. And then at eighteen weeks is when they
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  Speaker 3: do the big test to make sure that he does
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  Speaker 3: not have polycystic kidney disease, which is the whole reason
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  Speaker 3: we've been doing this.
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  Speaker 1: So that's called PGA testing.
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  Speaker 3: So they're gonna I have a feeling, I have a
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  Speaker 3: terrible feeling that that's going to involve a needle going through.
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  Speaker 1: My stomach to get the ANII fluid.
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  Speaker 3: I think, I know, I hate to tell you, but
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  Speaker 3: and I hate to think that that's what they're gonna do.
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  Speaker 3: But uh so, it's gonna be kind of a waiting
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  Speaker 3: game until eighteen weeks and then I'm just staying positive
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  Speaker 3: that he does not have it.
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  Speaker 1: He's not gonna because it's a fifty to fifty shot.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty fifty.
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  Speaker 3: It's polycystic kidney disease is a fifty to fifty percent
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  Speaker 3: hereditary disease.
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  Speaker 2: So but he's in there, well do we say congratulations?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, he's in there.
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  Speaker 3: And and let me tell you, I've had to quit
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  Speaker 3: all of my vices, which is a good time, right,
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  Speaker 3: No drinking, no occasional vaping, no uh anything, which.
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  Speaker 1: Has made me a joy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, yeah, no comment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Drew's still alive. I will let you know that.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 1: But everything's good.
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  Speaker 3: I I and I was texting with Hans and I
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  Speaker 3: was like, dude, I just I just want to come back.
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  Speaker 1: It's I didn't. I didn't like being away for as
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  Speaker 1: long as I was.
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  Speaker 3: And so I we're feeling good and a little still
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  Speaker 3: a little medicated, but I will be medicated for another
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  Speaker 3: twelve days and then I think I'm done with those.
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  Speaker 2: But I remember when you're pregnant. It funny, I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember this. Do you drink caffeine or not? No, no caffeine, Nope.
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  Speaker 1: That's some coffee list today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so that's a tough one too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Other things yeah, yeah, caffeine booze. Uh sushi, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, that's one of my.
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  Speaker 2: Favorite can't eat sushi when you're pregnant.
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  Speaker 3: Deli meats, so no like Deli sandwiches unless it's hand
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  Speaker 3: carved stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Probably probably bull riding. You're not doing any of that anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Go bull riding, which is like passion. Yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 3: I know, so well cool, Yeah, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, his name is Jack Joe Michaelangelo Hanson Green.
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  Speaker 2: How roughly long have they been doing this for people?
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  Speaker 2: How long has this technology been like a regular thing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh jeez, I don't like decades or a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years or I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I know, doctor Amy's been doing it for a long time,
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  Speaker 3: and she's I mean, she's one of the best of
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  Speaker 3: the best, so I should ask her how long she's
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  Speaker 3: had her practice.
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  Speaker 2: But can you explained to us that insurance is not
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  Speaker 2: covering a lot of this and it's pretty expensive.
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  Speaker 1: It's quite expensive. But there are there are certain.
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  Speaker 3: Places like if you have I've read that if you
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  Speaker 3: get like if you have a job at Amazon, Amazon
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  Speaker 3: actually covers in fertility it am, but I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know other companies do that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad I asked the very first successful IVF birth
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  Speaker 4: I remember this was Louise Brown in England in nineteen
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  Speaker 4: seventy eight. Oh wow, and doctor Robert Edwards won the
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  Speaker 4: twenty ten Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this breakthrough.
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  Speaker 2: It's obviously progressed. Yeah, I just wonder how long it's
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  Speaker 2: been like common for regular people to do. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: I was blown away by the amount of people that
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  Speaker 3: listen to the last podcast about this and reached out
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  Speaker 3: to me on Twitter or whatever, saying, you know, my
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  Speaker 3: wife is going through this and it was really nice
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  Speaker 3: to hear somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Else talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's why I you know, I've never really
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  Speaker 3: been a closed book about anything, so I have no
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  Speaker 3: problem talking about this stuff. And the other cool part
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  Speaker 3: is that so since we have six very healthy embryos. Also,
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  Speaker 3: I'm very good at making girls because I have one
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  Speaker 3: boy embryo the rest of chicks.
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  Speaker 1: But once the two we want two babies.
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  Speaker 3: So once we're done, the remaining embryos are going to
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  Speaker 3: be donated to families that can't.
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  Speaker 2: What a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so be afraid there might be more of me
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  Speaker 1: out there.
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  Speaker 4: Fine, God help us. Final note on my months of
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  Speaker 4: research on this topic. It was really in the early
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  Speaker 4: two thousands that they stepped on the gas pedal and
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  Speaker 4: it became much much more widespread and efficient, and millions
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  Speaker 4: of babies have now been born worldwide. If since nineteen
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  Speaker 4: seventy eight.
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  Speaker 2: Well we all learned something. I don't want to put
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  Speaker 2: my feet in those stirrups. I just don't feel like
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  Speaker 2: that's my best side.
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  Speaker 3: You should try it one time, just one time, just
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  Speaker 3: going there, when you go to the doctor's office and
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  Speaker 3: be like, hey, doctor, there a stirrups on this chair.
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  Speaker 1: Let me can I just one time.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of comfortable, seems like I'd feel very vulnerable
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  Speaker 2: exactly to help your empathy there.
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  Speaker 1: Tough guy, yeah, murder face, Yeah, there's.
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  Speaker 2: No need to go after his murder face. You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: make him more murdery. My wife is going to do that.
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  Speaker 4: But after hearing this, we're just gonna do a foreign
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  Speaker 4: exchange student this summer.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's it.
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  Speaker 3: Michael.
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  Speaker 1: You're just the greatest