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We are here with the

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darling, the hilarious, the talented,

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the advanced pregnant,

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Ashlaengbie, welcome

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back friend of the pod, friend of the pod, friend

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of the family, of course, but

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never physically been in the house, never

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been to our home before at what

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this is some trivia. Last time

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Ashlaeng did it over zoom, she was

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in town, she begged to come in. We were

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having guests and we just didn't feel comfortable with

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you being in our home at that point. Oh,

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well what's changed between now and then?

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Honestly, it's your pregnancy. Fauci got

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fired. Yeah, and Fauci. Fauci's big

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moves. Fauci got fired.

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My whole social occasion, my whole

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social calendar just opened right up.

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Wait, so Ashlaeng, I didn't even know you were

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pregnant. I'm sorry, I'm not on social media. So

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if you posted it. I only

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did the day before yesterday because I wasn't

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hiding. It started off as I couldn't be

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bothered talking about it. And then

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it became almost like a challenge to

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see how long I could last. You're

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a sturdy last. I am a bit

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short. Thanks Natasha. I remember

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when I was a child, my grandfather

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told me that I wouldn't make the weight

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at a Kerry Pony contest. You

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wouldn't make the weight, hold on. The weight at a Kerry Pony

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contest. That's so Irish I'm going to need you to translate

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a bunch of things. That sort of feels like I hadn't really

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thought about it too much until just that moment there. No, I can just

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tell that you... It's sturdy last. We'll say all

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that. No, no. Is that heavy or light?

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What's a Kerry Pony contest? Oh yeah, what's

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that? So in Kerry, the ponies would be...

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Kerry's a city. I have traumatic

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memories from Kerry. And

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doesn't everyone. And the

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Pony contest there would be... a big thing. And I

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suppose he was either suggesting me or the me

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or the pony probably wouldn't

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be too big for both the races

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or the jockeys. That sounds like a

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sturdy last like born to

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carry child. Of course, big

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hips strong back. But put

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a saddle on her. Off

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she goes. She can do it for me and

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the lady of the big house. She could carry

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her. I was talking

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to you in the foyer and your

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head was almost touching our chandelier and

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I'm like, wow, Ashley, you're so like,

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I mean, you're just like, it

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means like tall, gorgeous, like you just like,

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and also what I was sure he does

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mean gorgeous. Yeah. No, I

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know. I was. Can someone just

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lower, get up to the source there. Quiet,

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quiet pony. Like, just gorgeous. Horse

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face, horse face. The thing,

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will you guys just let me talk? Yeah,

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you're doing a good job so far. The

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thing that came to my attention

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is you just were like so tall

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and like becoming and gorgeous. And I

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didn't even realize you were pregnant. And

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I'm saying you, you almost seem like

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you don't realize you're pregnant. I haven't

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really, but to be fair, my belly

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is probably at your eye line

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as well, which is saying, I'm like, is this

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because I'm tall or is this because you're small? I feel

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like we're in a little sketch or something like that.

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I looked so short and squat when I was

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pregnant and I was waddling. You were gorgeous. You

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were not because I saw you when you were

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pregnant. I remember, I think we went to a

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games night at Andrew Michonne. That sounds right. And

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I feel like you were pregnant then. I feel

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like you were pregnant then. I'm just saying my

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pregnancy. And you were tiny and you were kind

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of like, oh, who got that child pregnant? That

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man officer. That's what you look like.

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You look like a teen, a teen pregnancy.

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But I haven't really until the last week,

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I haven't really blown up. I

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do have a bit of stand up about how people

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are saying you've been hiding it really well. And

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because I'm an unmarried, Yes,

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but obviously no in the way you're

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saying. Swashboody. Is that

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it? Is anything better?

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Say, squash potato, potato.

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Macdonald. Shrashing. Shrashing. It's

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spelled S-A-O-I-R-S-E. Sturgeon. Sturgeon.

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Smoke sturgeon. Swashreen. I'm Jewish. That's

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a resonant. That's my culture. Everything

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becomes a smoked fish. Swarson.

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Swarson. Smoked swishins. Smoked

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dojans. It is seerscha. Seerscha.

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That's a beautiful name. It's a beautiful name. You

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had to say that. You had whatever I said.

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Only when someone says it. I'm sorry.

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It's really hard when you... So how do you look

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at it? You look at it S... Do

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you want to... So how do you pronounce it now? S-A-O-I-R-S-E.

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Okay, can I

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talk to you? We

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sounded like we were on a... That was a very like, I

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felt like a sound of a quiz there. And

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so the letters you have are S-A-O-I-R-S. Her

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whole life. Yeah. Natasha, don't

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do that. Your boyfriend is Australian, you know? It's like you guys

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might not be in Ireland. Yeah, you should find in your culture. Are

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you prepared for every single time she starts a

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new grade, they're like, Swarson? Well

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here's the thing. First of all, that's my

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life and I don't mind it. Okay. I

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am second of all... You like it kind of. Oh, it gives you

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extra like... It gives people are like, oh what? I have a phonetically

13:22

fucked up name too. I like that. Yeah, motion.

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Even though... There's no A at the end.

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Yeah, there's no... But even if

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you said Moshe, you'd probably get it right. Well, the real

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truth is there is no A. It's not an A, it's

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an E that doesn't exist in English and so I just...

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Ah, so what were the right... I overcorrect... There's

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a subtlest E in the world. It's Moshe.

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It's like a dropped E and they don't have

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that. So I just default to A because

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it's easier than whatever guess they're going to make. So

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it's kind of like Moshe give up. Yes,

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yes, yes. Abandon ship at the end. Get ready,

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get ready. So you

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liked when people were like, A is

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Ling. It's more that I like the...

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So the name means freedom. So Saoirse

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because Saoirse is the Irish word. It's

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beautiful when you say it and it

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means and it only started being used in

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the 1920s when Ireland

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was like finding its own Self-confidence

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again and wanting freedom from

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the British and then it started becoming a girl's

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name But the thing is Saoirse Ronan

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is so famous. She's doing the Lord's work at night

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there She's doing the heavy lifting for you It's

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Saoirse not Saoirse but the I like

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Saoirse Saoirse. Yeah, and also my

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niece is 18 months And

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I said it to her once and she got it. So

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I do feel like You

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know you guys will will manage. I'll be fine.

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Yeah By

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the way not to bring this Roshi is

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ro is I with an accent n right

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Roshi But you got but I only knew

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that was her name because someone said it

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out loud and I was saying oh this

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this girl Row row is in is really

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yeah It all

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goes back to it's my problem But I'm

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just saying it sounds stressful to me to

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have to always because I grew up as

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a Natasha and it was a name that

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Everyone can turn out but do people don't

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say Natasha a lot. They said that's it.

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That's my name, but you're saying Tasha No,

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no, no, no, sure. It's a people in Canada

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say Natasha Natasha And do you mind is that

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a mispronunciation or is that an accent thing? Cuz

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I was that I don't mind at all But

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what I liked about my name was that no

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one had it, but everyone could pronounce it Ah,

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yes, and so then I that's what I wanted

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for my child, but it's interesting You want

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the same thing you had for your child.

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It's more it's more it fee I definitely

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wanted to I wanted a name that made

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me feel Connected and

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that wasn't about it was about connection And I

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think when you're an immigrant and I've been living

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away from your culture That's very important to you

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for so long You can only have that little

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bit of something with you So it's either let

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me keep my name as Tina Turner would say

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but you're like trying to hold on to your

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thing And that's why I think

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so many there was a time when a

15:57

lot of immigrants are and still do to

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try and get rid of their thing to make life easier

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for their children. And I think we're

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like Irish people are definitely the stage where we're like, we don't need

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to make it easier for you. The world

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is set up for these, you know. I

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have a few points here. Yes, thank you.

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One, I think there's a statistical, I'm almost

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sure about this. I think I

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might be, I'm like 20% making this up fully and 80%

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this is real. Isn't that show

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business though? Yes. That show business.

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Girls specifically who are given difficult

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to pronounce names, it

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is good for them because they

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are forced into the position where they

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must constantly say, no, I am this.

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Yes. And it therefore makes them

16:37

stand up for themselves by default and that

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is a good, I'm almost sure that there's

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a psychological study that was done about that.

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Slow, but sure. Yes, their whole life. I've

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never ever met or seen written another motion

16:47

anywhere. You haven't. No, never, never, never.

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It's the only one I've ever known or seen or

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seen written or anything. Well, I think that might be

16:53

the demographic where you grew up. Okay.

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Very, very, very absolutely. Or

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do you have another point? My other point, did

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I have another point? Yes, I had

17:02

another point. You wanna think about it and

17:05

I'll do mine? Yeah, you do yours, girl. I love

17:07

your relationship. We love it too. Oh, I've already

17:09

written three things to talk about with him after you

17:11

leave. Oh, things you're upset about? Okay.

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What a big, too tall, knocked

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my bloody chandelier with our dumb ass

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tall head. If

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that isn't the most, someone's doing well for themselves.

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We cannot invite any more tall people

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around. They simply keep knocking into the

17:29

chandelier. No,

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I wanted to say, do you have any

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questions for me about motherhood? Oh,

17:36

interesting. Is there anything you're nervous about?

17:38

Is there? No, I hated

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being, sorry. No, you do not.

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No, it's more I hated

17:44

being pregnant, don't enjoy this at

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all. And also maybe have felt

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a little bit like it doesn't really feel like

17:51

an achievement to me. And the things I do

17:53

feel like an achievement have been less

17:56

celebrated and that I think having lived

17:58

quite a long time. as

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a single lady with no children, I feel like

18:02

those lives and choices are just as valid. And

18:05

they don't often get the sort of round of applause

18:08

as things which are sort of the buy the book things.

18:10

And that makes me feel a bit like, aren't you

18:12

an award-winning actress? Thank you

18:15

finally, didn't lead with it though Moshe. Didn't

18:17

lead with it. I'm just saying, the

18:20

accolades have come. Hold up. For

18:22

me, those are the like, I'm like, yes,

18:24

oh my God, I worked so hard for

18:26

those. And this, I was like an opioids

18:29

from steroids, from shoulder surgery and got accidentally

18:31

pregnant. I'm like, oh my God, so many

18:33

people who thank. But here's the thing, Ashling

18:36

Darling. Yes, yes, yes. Here's my real

18:38

question. Are you prepared

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to change? Oh,

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that was the end of the question. Sorry,

18:47

that was very, no. I

18:50

knew it. That's what that's the vibe I'm getting

18:52

from you. Not at all. I've

18:55

got ADHD anyways. And so does

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my boyfriend. Our lives are constantly

18:59

like, I think people with ADHD

19:01

are very good at parenting because there's no

19:03

amount of like emotional tantrums that you don't

19:05

understand. Sometimes my niece has a

19:08

breakdown over like, I said

19:10

that was my shoe and she wants it to be

19:12

her shoe. And I'm like, I get that. It's irrational.

19:15

It's dramatic. It's crying. I'm like, yeah, I

19:17

would be upset too if I thought something

19:19

was my shoe and it actually belonged to

19:21

your aunt. Oh. So

19:24

you think basically you're, and

19:26

I, by the way, I'm

19:28

adult with ADHD myself. You're

19:31

saying essentially your emotional brokenness

19:33

and immaturity will allow the

19:35

parenting process to be

19:37

one of peer, a meeting of mine. I have never

19:39

had a problem with a child. They always look

19:41

at me as their equal. And I

19:43

have never, when I'm down on the floor pretending to be a

19:46

horse, they're not like, oh, you

19:48

should be beyond this. When you do that in the

19:50

meeting with your accountant, they're like, you

19:52

need help. Like, what is this?

19:54

And I'm like, I'm just trying to be a horse.

19:56

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, so I've always

19:58

gotten a while with children. people, I guess,

20:01

the sort of vibe of, I

20:03

don't sleep anyways. No questions,

20:06

Natasha. No questions,

20:08

your wisdom is not watching. I'll

20:10

think of one, I'll think of one. No, no, please

20:12

don't. No, because I just expect the

20:14

interview questions to be, do

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you have any questions for us? No, no,

20:20

honestly, it was only if you had been

20:22

being stressed about being pregnant, but like I

20:24

said, you're wearing it well, girl. It was

20:26

this bit that I didn't like, this bit

20:29

I haven't enjoyed, because it's just like

20:31

physically. Yeah, it sucks. And

20:33

also everyone celebrates your good news,

20:35

but like you're there on the loo with your third

20:37

UTI in a month and you're like, ah,

20:40

thank you, blast, hashtag

20:42

blast. But I'm very aware

20:45

of like, I'm of an age where, oh

20:47

my God, so many of my friends have just not

20:49

been able to manage it. They've had the worst time

20:51

trying to get pregnant. It's been like three year journeys

20:53

to even sometimes just leave with a bag of debt

20:55

and drama and nothing else. And I'm

20:57

very aware of that as well. Like God love anyone who's

21:00

trying to go through it. And that bit's

21:02

the tough bit. I'm very aware that I'm in my

21:04

sort of like, oops, got burned in by a man

21:06

of the musical. You know. But

21:09

you guys are doing great. But we're doing great.

21:11

You have a wonderful relationship. And I do feel

21:13

like you have wisdom. And we would

21:16

like you to give some advice. I

21:18

would also, the wisdom I would like is getting

21:21

a job in childcare when you're

21:23

a performer, traveling performer and two performers

21:26

together. How do you manage

21:28

childcare? Yeah. How do you manage childcare?

21:30

We stopped working together. Yeah, that's true.

21:33

We used to tour together a lot. Now we don't do

21:35

that anymore. But when they're really little, you can

21:37

because you can have a nanny and they're not in school.

21:39

Now our daughter's gonna be in first grade. So they can't

21:41

really leave. The first five years I

21:43

suppose are easier in a sense because you can

21:45

get up and like bring them with you. But

21:47

then when it's school, it's like. Oh, and not

21:49

just school, like the Los Angeles government.

21:52

Like when Moshe, he brought our kid late

21:54

to school the other day. We got three

21:56

calls and two emails and we have to

21:58

write why our child was.