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Becoming a MOM with Katie Morton · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Almost Says Podcast. It's been here
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  Speaker 2: with you today on the pod, and today I'm connecting
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  Speaker 2: with someone across the pond who we all got to
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  Speaker 2: know back on Colton season of the Bachelor and again
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  Speaker 2: during her time on Bachelor in Paradise season six. Now
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  Speaker 2: she's living her best life over in the UK. It's
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  Speaker 2: Katie Morton. Hello Katie, Hi, it has been a while
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  Speaker 2: since we've gotten to talk.
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  Speaker 3: I know, honestly, how are you? I know we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: ask how I am, et cetera about how are you?
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  Speaker 2: You know, Katie, I am in a really fun season
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  Speaker 2: of life and I cannot express to you how different
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  Speaker 2: it really is. It's like, you know, two years ago,
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  Speaker 2: a good day would mint I got a workout in
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  Speaker 2: and I worked and then I had some time to
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  Speaker 2: like read or chill and then hang out. Yeah, those
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  Speaker 2: things still exist, not as frequently, and a good day
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  Speaker 2: has enhanced with like this morning, before I did this,
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  Speaker 2: my wife had a meeting and Whennie and I went
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  Speaker 2: out bug hunting in our yard for like an hour
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  Speaker 2: and a half, and that was incredible, Like let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you, there is no greater joy than seeing like
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  Speaker 2: a little kid get excited about something crawling on the
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  Speaker 2: ground and that you're excited with them. So life looks different,
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  Speaker 2: but it's so good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I keep hearing that it's like having kids opened
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  Speaker 3: your eyes to seeing life in a new again. Mm hm,
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  Speaker 3: like a whole new way, and you're re experiencing life
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  Speaker 3: from a completely different perspective. And I feel like that's
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  Speaker 3: one thing I'm really excited about and sounds just so magical.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's an excitement to life that I think
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  Speaker 2: just like comes off on YouTube because they're excited about everything,
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  Speaker 2: and you're now excited about everything. And so many people
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  Speaker 2: had so many different things to me to say to
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  Speaker 2: me about having kids. Right some were like super jacked
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  Speaker 2: about it and said, hey, this is the coolest thing ever.
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  Speaker 2: Others were like, oh, there goes your golf game, and
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  Speaker 2: it's yeah, it's one hundred percent good. Like there are
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  Speaker 2: like things that I wish I didn't have to do,
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  Speaker 2: like my knees hurt from squatting a thousand times a day.
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  Speaker 2: But I think the perspective is when you are in
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  Speaker 2: the right place for it, there's no greater gift.
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  Speaker 3: I think the good probably always the bad.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't even tell you. I was trying to think
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  Speaker 2: when I said it, like, what is something bad that
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  Speaker 2: I have to that Jess and I have to do now?
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  Speaker 2: And I can't really even think of anything bad. There's
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  Speaker 2: like unfortunate things like I still don't love cleaning a diaper,
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  Speaker 2: but you do it and it's not that bad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like I don't like not that
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  Speaker 3: this is a comparison, but like I don't like doing
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  Speaker 3: the dishes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it is. It's very like it's like.
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  Speaker 3: It's a part of life, like you have to do it.
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  Speaker 3: It's not making my life worse.
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  Speaker 2: It's not making my life.
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  Speaker 3: It's making my life better in the sense I'm not
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  Speaker 3: living in filth. Yeah, obviously it's completely not the same
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  Speaker 3: as having a baby, but there's so many things in
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  Speaker 3: life that it's going to be like, yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 3: like that, but I have to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Katie, you were entering into something I would my
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  Speaker 2: only advice to you would be to say, buckle up,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be an incredible ride.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, great, and you can do it.
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  Speaker 2: So, Hey, you're living in the UK, now, obviously we
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  Speaker 2: just got in with the World Cup over here in
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  Speaker 2: the States and England finished the highest day finished since
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  Speaker 2: their win in nineteen sixty six. What's the vibe like there,
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  Speaker 2: Because I know there were high expectations.
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  Speaker 3: Right, there was high hopes. I'm not sure if the
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  Speaker 3: expectations were as high as the hopes were to be
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  Speaker 3: completely honest. Also, British people are super known for like
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  Speaker 3: sweeping things under the rug. So as soon as we
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  Speaker 3: did not win, it was very much like, oh, anyway,
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  Speaker 3: it was very much as if it didn't happen for
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people. The next day, it didn't feel
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  Speaker 3: like the vibes were low. I thought vibes were going
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  Speaker 3: to be low. It was oh, we aren't talking about
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  Speaker 3: it really, okay. Yeah, And so it was more like
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  Speaker 3: as soon as we lost, everyone that I was around
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  Speaker 3: was like, oh, well, Spain's gonna win basically, and so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the vibe was very high though going into the game,
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  Speaker 3: people were hoping and praying because they were basically going
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  Speaker 3: to make Monday Bank holiday if England won. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so there's lots of pride, but also at the same
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  Speaker 3: time England's I'm sure there's groups of people in England
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  Speaker 3: that are like sore losers. But I feel like there's
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  Speaker 3: other pockets of England that just pretend nothing ever happened,
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  Speaker 3: and I was in whatever pocket that was.
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  Speaker 2: Are you? I mean, I don't even know if this
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  Speaker 2: is a fair question ask. You don't even have to
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  Speaker 2: answer it. But if USA played England right now in
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  Speaker 2: the World Cup Finals, who are you cheering for?
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  Speaker 3: USA?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but honestly, Norway the USA, Ya's USA, But it
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  Speaker 4: would mainly be for funsies to go against everybody I
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  Speaker 4: know here.
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  Speaker 3: But also I have a lot of American friends here,
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  Speaker 3: so we'd all kind of band together.
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  Speaker 2: The move to the UK happened, I believe in like
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, correct, So it's been give or take
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  Speaker 2: four years. Yeah, what's been the hardest part?
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  Speaker 3: The transition wasn't too hard. It was more figuring out
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  Speaker 3: like visas all the time, constantly having to either try
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  Speaker 3: and get like a student. I had to get a
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  Speaker 3: student visa at one point and did my masters, not
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  Speaker 3: even to really do my masters, but because I really
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  Speaker 3: liked it here, I was like, I gotta find a way.
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to experience it, and I completely understand
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  Speaker 3: why you can't just move to a country and then
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  Speaker 3: just live there. But I really wanted to, so I
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  Speaker 3: was like, I'm going to do what it takes. So
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to have experience. A lot of people
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  Speaker 3: come over on work visas and with social media and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: it's just you can't go to work visa Like that's
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  Speaker 3: not a thing. So I went back to school and
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  Speaker 3: that was It was the visa stuff that was hard.
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  Speaker 3: But other than that, I also had like gone through
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  Speaker 3: a breakup when I first came over. Oh, and that
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  Speaker 3: was really hard but fine, Like it actually was really
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  Speaker 3: nice because it kind of like introduced me to England
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  Speaker 3: and then I really liked it, so it was a
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  Speaker 3: silver lining.
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  Speaker 2: So would you go back to get your master's on
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  Speaker 2: business business? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: I did business admin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I don't know this. I don't remember
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  Speaker 2: this part of your story. I do. I think remember
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  Speaker 2: a breakup, but you are now married. So you moved
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  Speaker 2: to the UK, I guess in my mind.
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  Speaker 3: Dating someone that was from England and we lived We
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  Speaker 3: were dating for a well over year and a half
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  Speaker 3: before moving to England and his job was an Englis
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  Speaker 3: and so we moved here and then I was just like,
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  Speaker 3: this is not my forever person. Okay, I mean it
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  Speaker 3: was just clear for me. I just like saw it
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  Speaker 3: so clearly. And then I saw my life so clearly,
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  Speaker 3: and then I was like, this isn't my forever person,
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  Speaker 3: but dang it, I really like it here. So obviously
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  Speaker 3: I was meant to come here for a reason. And
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  Speaker 3: at first I was like, am I just being stubborn
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  Speaker 3: just because I've done all this work? I just don't
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  Speaker 3: want to go home now? But I really liked it.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I feel some sense of peace here
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  Speaker 3: that I didn't quite feel when I lived in La
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  Speaker 3: And I'm sure I could have done something easier, like
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  Speaker 3: moved to Colorado felt sense of peace there, but it
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  Speaker 3: just so happened that I found a community really quickly
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  Speaker 3: here and found that sense of peace. So I just
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  Speaker 3: decided to like send it.
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  Speaker 2: And then you met Nick, which is your now husband,
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  Speaker 2: while kind of in the in between over there.
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  Speaker 3: While I was when I was just about to finish school. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I met Nick and on Hinge.
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  Speaker 2: It or not good for you.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone's like meeting on Hinge Tuesdays, but we met on
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  Speaker 3: Hinge and I was dating just generally at that time.
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  Speaker 3: It was the summer two years ago, and we just
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  Speaker 3: kind of kept hanging out forever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It was ard of one of those things. It wasn't like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my god, we just fill madly in love. It
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  Speaker 3: was just like we just kept wanting to hang out
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  Speaker 3: with each other and didn't stop. Yeah, and then now
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  Speaker 3: we're worried.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're married, and on June eighteenth, Katie, you announced
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  Speaker 2: that you're expecting. Uh, do you too know the gender
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  Speaker 2: of the baby?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we do. It's a boy.
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  Speaker 2: It's a boy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about boy?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I feel so good. It's crazy because for
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  Speaker 3: many many years I was like, I'm going to be
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  Speaker 3: a boy mom. There's just like I feel that I'm
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  Speaker 3: a boy mom. I don't know why I said that,
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  Speaker 3: because like a girl would be great. And the week
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  Speaker 3: leading up to finding out the gender, I was like, actually,
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  Speaker 3: maybe I want a girl, like I know how to
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  Speaker 3: do girl things. Like I take it back, like maybe
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  Speaker 3: it's a girl. Maybe a girl, And I was like,
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  Speaker 3: what about dance, you know? And I was like, but
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  Speaker 3: I always said I would be a boy mom. And
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  Speaker 3: then we found out it's a boy, and I was
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  Speaker 3: over the moon. I was gonna be happy either way.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, Oh I don't think. I think when that questions asked,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there is a a better or worse.
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  Speaker 2: I do find it interesting, though, because if I was
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  Speaker 2: honest with myself, I would say, yeah, I was always
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  Speaker 2: going to be a girl, dad, like a hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: you were.
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  Speaker 3: You really were always going to be a girl dad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like there was zero dow. I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: One day, maybe a little boy squeaks in there. But
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  Speaker 2: I always knew that I was built, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: get stickers put on my face, and you know, like
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  Speaker 2: you could have.
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  Speaker 3: A boy and you will be so great and it
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  Speaker 3: would make so much sense whatever. But you were going
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  Speaker 3: to be a girl dad. It was no question. And
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  Speaker 3: that's literally how I have felt if like, that's how
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  Speaker 3: I've always kind of felt, like I'm probably going to
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  Speaker 3: be a boy mom.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure, like I just like.
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  Speaker 5: That's who I am.
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  Speaker 2: What about Nick?
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  Speaker 3: He didn't carry either way. He's one of three boys,
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  Speaker 3: so the chances of having a boy were higher. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: let's be honest. He didn't carry their way. But he
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  Speaker 3: did look a little like for two seconds sad, he goes,
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be a girl. All yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like you could just tell like he was like, I
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  Speaker 3: actually thought I was going to be a girl. And
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  Speaker 3: the way he looked like was just like I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: it's a boy. But man, that would have been also
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  Speaker 3: very cool. And I guess it's not like a gender
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  Speaker 3: disappointment thing you do like mourn for two seconds, like
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  Speaker 3: your life could go one way or another, not that
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  Speaker 3: it's side stone, but for a couple of seconds you're
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  Speaker 3: like you see it the years.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I think I would imagine, if we speak
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  Speaker 2: for him, if you grew up with all boys, there
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  Speaker 2: is an excitement to the new of like a girl,
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  Speaker 2: possibility of hey, the boy would be great, but I've
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  Speaker 2: done this boy thing for a long time surrounded by boys,
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  Speaker 2: Like having another like little girl would be exciting. It
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  Speaker 2: would be different.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And he did say like it would be a
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  Speaker 3: little me and like when he's talked about it, he'd
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  Speaker 3: be like, is it be a little you like attitude
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  Speaker 3: and all. Yeah, but his best friend has a girl,
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  Speaker 3: and I think his best friend's really softened up having
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  Speaker 3: a girl. So I think he really has enjoyed seeing
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  Speaker 3: his friend kind of change in that way. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 3: I think that's kind of what was behind it. But
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  Speaker 3: he's going to be a great yeah either.
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  Speaker 2: Way, Yeah, one hundred percent. No, they definitely do make
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  Speaker 2: me softer. The obviously, my wife is pregnant right now.
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  Speaker 2: I this is our second go around. I've seen the
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  Speaker 2: different stages of pregnancy all miraculous and wonderful, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: so glad I don't have to do it. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: you opened up in the past about being diagnosed with narcolepsy,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think that's like com I mean, you've
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  Speaker 2: talked about it publicly, but I was before we got on.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to make sure that that was true and
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  Speaker 2: that you didn't mind talking about it. I know that
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  Speaker 2: being pregnant makes you very tired, uh, and your energies
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  Speaker 2: are sucked. I'm assuming and you tell me, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: this is my question is does narcolepsy make it worse?
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  Speaker 2: Is there like a like what's happening in your body now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? So, I mean, of course I can't quite compare
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  Speaker 3: because I don't know without it. But my first trimester,
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  Speaker 3: like a lot of women, I was so wiped, but
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  Speaker 3: I did have it felt so uncontrollable with narcolepsy. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I've felt times where I felt it being
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  Speaker 3: more like narcolepsy, and then I felt it being more
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  Speaker 3: like something I'm not experienced, and that's where I was like,
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  Speaker 3: there seems to be a difference here between when it's
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  Speaker 3: a narcaliptic situation and when it's pregnancy or aka the
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  Speaker 3: thing I've not experienced yet, because narcolepsy feels like I'm
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  Speaker 3: like weak to my core, like my muscles are melting
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  Speaker 3: into the bed type of thing, and pregnancy just felt
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  Speaker 3: like like head tired, like I just had to just
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  Speaker 3: get to sleep. And there were times when it felt
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  Speaker 3: like both and I couldn't quite determine either way. I
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  Speaker 3: was sleeping all the time. And now, because narcolepsy's kind
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  Speaker 3: of also characterized by not getting RESTful sleep, it's really
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  Speaker 3: hard to decipher, Like, Okay, I know as people get bigger,
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  Speaker 3: their sleep isn't as RESTful as well, So like is
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  Speaker 3: this narclepsy is it pregnancy? What I can say is
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  Speaker 3: I'm feeling really lucky because I had to get off
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  Speaker 3: of my narcollepsy medication in order to do this pregnancy
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  Speaker 3: because there could be a lot of bad side effects
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  Speaker 3: et cetera. And so I was really nervous that it
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  Speaker 3: could take me out more than it has, and I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I'm very well managed. But I have slept
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  Speaker 3: more during the day than I normally ever would. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, also, other other pregnant people are too. I
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  Speaker 3: will say, though, I think it's really beneficial for me,
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  Speaker 3: as someone who's narcleptic and pregnant to not have a
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  Speaker 3: traditional nine to five. I think that that would be
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  Speaker 3: a different story, and I think that I would be
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  Speaker 3: not as effective for whoever my employer was, because I
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  Speaker 3: can tell I like space out more. I'm just like
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  Speaker 3: I can get really slow in conversation and my processing
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  Speaker 3: times are slower, and I'm just tired from I mean
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  Speaker 3: nine am until until so I have spouts of energy
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  Speaker 3: and I try and do everything in the morning and
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  Speaker 3: then in the afternoons. I like, see how I'm feeling,
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  Speaker 3: but I really can't tell because other women are saying
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  Speaker 3: they're super tired when they're pregnant.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm like, I don't know, it sounds like a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: Then like that you can't tell, Like it sounds like
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  Speaker 2: it's the best case scenario, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Because I have narcolepsy with cataplexy, which is like technically
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  Speaker 3: the falling over, but I don't fall over sleeping. I
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  Speaker 3: follow over with big emotions like laughing. I will like
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  Speaker 3: my knees will go weak and I'll like fall on
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  Speaker 3: the floor, like I'll like drop to my knees like laughing,
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  Speaker 3: And that is part of narcolepsy. But it doesn't look
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  Speaker 3: like it. It just looks like I'm dramatic.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to like derail us here
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  Speaker 2: from the big moment of you bringing life into this world.
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  Speaker 2: But narcolepsy is very fascinating to me because obviously I'm
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  Speaker 2: only familiar with uh well, I'm most familiar with like
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  Speaker 2: the movie scenes where somebody's driving and all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden they're.
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  Speaker 3: Like or like rat race, like with mister p.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Is that how it is or is it different?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not. It's it constantly is like misdiagnosed as
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  Speaker 3: depression or ADHD or like. It takes people eight to
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  Speaker 3: ten years typically to get diagnosed with narcolepsy because it's
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  Speaker 3: hides itself as so many other things because technically it's
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  Speaker 3: excessive daytime sleepiness, but oh so many things can cause
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  Speaker 3: excessive day time sleepiness, like how late you stay up,
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  Speaker 3: how much you're on your phone, how stressed you are,
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  Speaker 3: Like there's a million things, so it's hard for people.
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  Speaker 3: And I just had a family history of seizures, which
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  Speaker 3: is why they tested me for seizures and found out
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  Speaker 3: I had narcolepsy. But I mean, anytime I cry, I
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  Speaker 3: have to take a nap afterwards because I can't keep
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  Speaker 3: my eyes open. If I'm laughing like way too hard,
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  Speaker 3: way too much, I'm like too weak to stand up.
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  Speaker 3: So that's part of the cataplexy thing. But I'm not
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  Speaker 3: falling over falling asleep. And I kind of describe it
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  Speaker 3: as like a toddler, like I get hyper or cranky
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  Speaker 3: right before I need a nap.
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  Speaker 2: But you were diagnosed as a teenager. But then, how
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: long the world did you do the Bachelor? I don't know.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: I mean I think there's like way medicine, Okay, I
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: was gonna say Paradise feels like it would be a
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: consistent emotional rollercoaster of needing to sleep.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Oh it was. It was like Paradise was I obviously
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: was on medicine, but at the same time, like your
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: medicine's only supposed to you're supposed to still sleep a
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: good night's sleep, yeah, and then take medicine and you're
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: not doing that. So there was this cry scene that
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: I remember with what Wills and I.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Will blubbering Wills, Okay.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: I was blubbering. I just remember. I was like, my
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: brain was malfunctioning. I was not computing. I was crying.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: I felt so tired. I was like, I just want
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: to go to bed and I don't want to deal
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: with strong emotions right now. And I had no choice,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: and I don't even know what came out of my mouth.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: It wasn't English, it was. But yeah, I think there
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: were definitely moments on Paradise where I think there's a
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: couple of scenes where I'm doing this and it looks
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: like I'm crying, but I'm like, I just want to
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: go to bed. Yeah, So yeah, it was hard.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I bet Okay, switching back gears here, I just want
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: to send you a word of support of Hey, yeah,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: pregnancy is not easy on anybody. It's a big deal.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: It's a wild thing. It's crazy when you start to
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: think too much about it. And you've got a lot
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: of people probably listening to this that are just sending
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: their thoughts of support as you continue through it. It's
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: worth it, it is, Yeah, And I hope that you
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: get like a really good sleeper, Like I hope that
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: for you. I hope this little guy comes down and
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: he's like, I'm gonna give mom good night's rest. Yeah,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: but it also flies by. I mean goodness, it's like
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: three months and all of a sudden, like sleeping gets
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: better for most, not all.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: And there's something to be said about adrenaline. Adrenaline will
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: carry you far and like, yeah, like it's not like
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: because with narcolepsy, like I'm still totally affected by adrenaline,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: and so if I feel like it's like I need
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: to do this as like or death, like adrenaline will
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: kick it.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's it's uh, it's it's a wild time
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: that I don't even hardly remember. And it wasn't that
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: long ago for me that the first you just kind
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: of do it and then you know, all of a sudden,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: you have a little kid walking around. I am curious though,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: You've done a lot of interesting things in your life. Obviously,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: as we mentioned Nick, you've gotten married. He sounds great.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: You've mentioned his excitement in becoming a dad, but you
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: also moved to the UK has what's the wildest UK
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: slang that you can't quite get used to or that
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: makes you giggle every time you hear it?
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Wildness UK slang? Oh my plate teacher called me popit
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: this morning?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: She's like, you are right, popit? Or like she said
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: something like pop it. That's just like darling, but it's
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: very like an East London vibe. But she's said it
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: was such a thick accent. So if anyone ever calls
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: me popit, I giggle because it just feels so.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: British does yeah, yeah.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: It's like you get pop it and she does a
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: little thing the whole you all right, you're are you
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: all right? People say you are right that that means
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: like how are you, but they actually don't expect a response.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: And I used to say I'm okay and you and
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: that's not really what they're looking for. It's you all right,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: and then you say you are right and then it's done.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Oh so you respond with the same thing they just said,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: like no one.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Cares okay, it's like you're right, yeah, you're right, and
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: then you're done. And then that's it's like, hey, hey,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: so that I was very confused in the beginning, and
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: I was answering very robotically and caught off guard because
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I'd be like, I'm fine, yeah, like I'm okay. So
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: that I guess popa is one I can think of
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: off the top of my head because it's just like
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: cute and funny.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: The uh, well, I think that is cute and funny.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Have you noticed yourself developing an accent?
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: No, I don't have an accent. I don't think, but
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: I do say different words. I say quite quite a lot.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: I say quite You're like that's quite nice. I say
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: stuff like that, but I don't have an accent. I
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: actually ran into an American this weekend who was while
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: you were in the Cotswaltz and she said, are you
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: guys from America? The whole table was except for Nick
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: and we were like yeah, And I was like, are
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: you obviously from here? And she's like, no, I'm from
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: America and I was like, you're British. Her accent was
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: so and I was like, people always ask me that question,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: do you find yourself developing an accent? I'm like, no,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: how could you kind of thing? She can she did,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: She's been here for two years, so I was like, Okay,
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: I guess it's not going to happen for me. Like
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: my accent is how I sound, but I think some
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: people are maybe more susceptible.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I could find myself. I mean honestly, I think
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I would be one. When I go down and spend
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: months in Honduras, like I'll I'll be starting to like
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: speak the speak the language here, the language, understand the
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: language use similar like slang in terms that they use
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: in the Yeah, in the in the region that I'm in,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: And then I get back here and I'm a month
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: back in the States and I don't have any of
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: it left. Like I don't know. I'm a weird one
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: like that. I'm very susceptible to the environment I'm in.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I think, well, I say.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: The words and some of the slang, but there's a
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: difference between completely having the accent m yeah, and sounding
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: like you are from there.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I was susceptible to mocking when I first got here
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: on accident. Really not mocking, but like kind of because
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: if someone had a really strong accent, I would almost
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: do it back.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Sure that happened, Yeah, that may I'm glad you said
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: it makes sense like you would. It's almost like watching
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: a movie and like quoting the line back when it's
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: like somebody British on the movie and you're like that,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: that's like a really cool way they said that, and
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: then you say it back to them and then like
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: what do you do?
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like oh, sorry, yeah.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey Katie. As we close up here, it's so
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: good to catch up with you. I you know, there's
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: a lot of reasons why I want to have you
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: on the talk. One of the biggest is, obviously, you know,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: the celebration of a marriage and life coming into the world.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: What are you and Nick, if you can speak for him,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: most excited about when it comes to being parents or
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: most nervous about. Does the nerves outweigh the excitement right now?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: And that's okay if it does.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I think in the beginning it did, because it all
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: felt like, oh, okay, so we're okay, so I'm pregnant,
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: and so it felt very like, Okay, this is big,
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: this is a big deal, because up until then it's
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: very conceptual, like it's so much like a concept, like
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I couldn't quite make it reel in my head, I
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: think what we're most I'm most nervous about, naturally is
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: just the labor day, the day of giving birth. I
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: think what we're most excited about is probably also the
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: day of giving birth simultaneously. But also I'm excited to
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: see us both change, like in the way that our
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: hearts will both expand because I think we're both filled
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: with a lot of love, and I'm excited to kind
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: of just like fall in love with something so much.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I feel like that's my biggest excitement, is like I
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: get something to fall in love with that's all ours.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, there's many a night where we'll be
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: laying in bed as a family and jess what it
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: can mean and say, can you believe she's ours? And
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: you just can't. It's it's impossible. And that first day
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: is is a wild experience for you and Nick and
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: everybody involved. And then it is just filled with the
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: most the coolest thing ever. And that's what I want
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: to share is it's you. You are going to be great.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: It's gonna rocket, It's gonna be an incredible ride here
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: of a life full of love. Let me tell you
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: that that is one thing I can promise you is
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: love is not the issue. Uh, there's so much love
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: that comes in. It's the greatest thing ever. And so
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I'm pumped for you. I'm excited for the two of
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: you to do this together. And I'm also excited for
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: that first moment where you because I do it with
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: my wife, I know she does with me. Like when
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: you see Nick step into that dad role and you're
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: watching this person that you love love on this other
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: thing that you love, and goodness, the world will never
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: be the same. Yeah, it just changes everything. It's the
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: best crazy Yeah.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's really crazy.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fun.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: I'm so happy for you.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. I'm happy for you. It's a it's
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: a it's a good thing to celebrate. Uh, it's it's
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: a fun chapter in life that you're You said it perfectly,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: like it's all conceptual. And I was the most nervous
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: person internally leading up to having a child, Like, wait,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: do I really think I can do this? Do I
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: really want to do this? Was a question?
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how am I? That was my questions in the
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: first trimester. And now I'm more of like, it's already happening.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then once it happens you're like, oh, yeah,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: like this is all this is the best.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been like whoa, oh my god, Okay, do
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: I actually want to be a parent? Well okay, well
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: no I'm gonna so.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: It's very much like.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: And then you and then you are and then you
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: don't question anything. Yeah, more than if you know how
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: to do it and you'll figure it out along the way.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Nobody does perfectly. So Katie, pumped for you, will be
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: following your journey. When's the due date?
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: End of November? November Thanksgiving baby, there you go.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: The holiday babies, We're we're doing to end of December.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: So well, if you need anything to the end of December. Yeah,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: holiday babies, Yeah, they're just I just don't want them
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: to have to share a birthday with a holiday. That's
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: my one hope, selfish hope for them. Katie. Congrats, keep
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: being you, thanks for jumping on today, and we wish
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: you the best in the months ahead.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Thanks Ben, this has been great. Thank you.
• 28:23
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