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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On Canberras hit one or four point seven. It's Roden
Gabby Rat.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I don't know where to start this story other than
there's been something that as student listeners have mentioned to me, Yeah,
what's going on? Because from time to time you have
just had to leave the show for some very time
specific appointments which had been to donate but not to
actually to get blood tests. And those who've been through
(00:26):
what you're managing at the moment were beginning to put
some pieces together. Yeah, and you've told me you'd like
to talk.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
About it today.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Yeah, well, I think I'm ready to talk about it.
It's taken a bit to get to that point. But
for the last year, yes, never and I have been
trying to have baby number two, but it hasn't worked
out that way. It's really interesting because secondary infertility, which
is infertility going into the second baby, it's just not
(00:52):
something that's talked about as much as infertility in general.
And I guess people think it's all under one basket.
But so many people said to me, and I've heard
so many amazing stories of people going through hell with infertility,
getting their first baby and then their second one comes
(01:12):
along naturally, and so many people said to me, oh,
you know, your body knows what to do. Now you've
had baby number one, your body would have kicked into gear.
You'll be fine, and so I kind of held on
to that hope. But that isn't what happened with me.
It's actually been a lot harder this time around, which
was unexpected and not something that I had I guess
(01:34):
heard about as much as infertility in general, as I mentioned,
So when we first started trying this time last year,
we thought we'd try and naturally see what happened. But
if not, because with Olivia it took three years and
we used very minor medication to bring on ovulation and
have her, which was all the tests and everything leading
(01:56):
up to that was hell. Three years of very all
consuming kind of fertility thoughts and experiences and tests and
trials and blood tests and whatever else. But then it
was a simple medication that worked. So it's like, cool,
we know what worked, let's just do that. So we
went to the fertility doctor at the start of this
(02:17):
year and we tried that and my body just did
not respond, so we up to the dose still didn't respond,
so then we went to injections and it still wasn't
responding to the level of medication that we started with,
and we had to up and up and up and
up and up. And I couldn't even tell you how
many needles I've had to inject in the past nine months. No, like,
(02:39):
it has been a wild ride.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And I remember how scared you were about having to
do it yourself. You're good at it now it's been going.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I can do advise shut like I've done so many injections.
So it was about a month ago that or maybe
a bit over a month ago, that my husband and
I had the conversation and we were like, all right,
all of this guess work with scheduling everything and questioning
whether the medication is going to work or not this month,
because every month my body would just resist it more.
(03:10):
I'm like, I just can't do all these question marks anymore.
So we decided to take the step to IVF, which
I've just started the medication on the weekend. So this
is my first round of IVF and my only round.
Because when we first started this journey, we were like,
we know how well consuming it was before Olivia, and
we don't want to fall into that hole when we
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have a toddler that we don't want to miss out on.
We don't want to be so consumed with trying to
conceive that we miss all of these beautiful moments that
are currently happening. So it's been a weird mental battle
to not let it consume me and not let it
take over our lives. And I think I've done okay, amazing.
(03:57):
There was a month there where I didn't and even
I had some hard chats. But we also had to
have an end date where we're like, okay, we've put
my body on the line for like six years now,
where we first started to have, you know, thoughts of
babies and then infertility and then Olivia and then breastfeeding,
and then now back into the infertility roller coaster. I'm like,
(04:19):
I can't do this forever, so we need to have
an end date. So we've decided we're going to do
one round of IVF and if that isn't meant to be,
it's not meant to be. And then at the end
of the year, that's where we're kind of gonna put
a line in the sand. So that expiry date's coming up,
and it's a little bit scary, but it's also like
a light at the end of the tunnel where I'm like, okay, cool,
(04:40):
I can stop. I can stop, you know, I can
stop putting my body on the line. And I've got
Olivia and that's beautiful and I've got that blessing, so
i can focus on that. But yeah, it's it's been
a year of huge ups and downs and appointments that
I've had to run to and not I haven't even
been keeping it a secret as such, but I wasn't
ready to sh share it because it is something that,
(05:02):
you know, if it doesn't work out, it's a hard
conversation to have.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
People are listening to this, how do you feel about
them speaking with you and asking you about it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I'm actually at a place now where I'm okay with that.
I wasn't and I didn't want to have those conversations
at first because it is scary. But yeah, it's taken
me nine months to get to a point where I'm
really comfortable talking about it. The process is so interesting,
the science behind it and all the like. We got
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to chat to the lady in the lab who talks
about like the details of the science of how everything
happens and why and how we're gonna go about it,
and because there's kind of different ways you can do
it and so super interesting. So the learning of everything's
been really actually quite fun, learning all the different aspects.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
But I've known secondhand and never known more.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
And also you've been so honest with where you're at
as far as the up and down is concerned, because
the hormonal impact with the different medications that they've been
giving you or giving you incrementally more and more and
more over the months.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You know you call me and you say, get ready.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Mate, don't fight me today because you will not wear enough.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And my husband's well aware of that, and I get
similar conversations from you.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, And I think that's important to be open with
the really close people around you because you know they
are on this journey with you when it comes to
your hormonal mood swings.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But with that in mind, your ability to manage its
banning extraordinary. Anyone who listens to this show, you're always happy.
We all had moments. God knows, we don't do that
part on the air so much. Well, there's been, but
barely in all honesty you So for you to have
managed or you have is unbelievable and then to draw
a line in the sand, you have our admiration. We
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love you so much.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
It's a really tough call. Like people do go through
this for years and years and years and years and
they don't they don't stop. But I just I know
that I can't do that. That's just not something that
I'm going to be able to continue doing while keeping
a sense of myself.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
And I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I just I want my body back, to be honest,
Like there needs to be a point in the timeline
that I know that I will have control over my
body again, which sounds really odd, but it's just it's
the weirdest thing. To every decision I make, I have
to be like, oh, but can I do that? Will
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that affect pregnancy? Will that affect conception? Will that affect
the baby if there is one in future? Like there's
so many things that you've got to think about, and
I just I'm ready to not.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Final question obviously you are ready to talk about, is yes,
Does it feel like there's a weight off to a
degree in that we speak about every part of our
lives and the radio we have four hundred and ninety
seven episodes. Yeah, to not feel that you can discuss that,
And now knowing that you can share that, how does
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it feel.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It's definitely a weight off because I am such an
open book. I love to talk about anything and everything,
especially if it is going to help anyone out there
going through the same thing.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You tell Chelsea and I disadventure every day, I do,
you know, and it is it is a day today,
you know, commitment that you've made. Yeah, I know you
like talking about it.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Yeah, And I want to share it because if anyone
is going through secondary and fertility and is feeling like
it is something that isn't talked about or comment like
it is common, and it absolutely is, but people are
maybe not having these conversations as much and maybe not
like I was feeling like I was not right, like
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that my body wasn't working the way that everyone else's does.
But that's not the case, and so talking about it
is definitely important. And I'm if I'm able to make
anyone else feel less lonely if they're going through this
same role, then I love that.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Good.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
All right, we love you. Go time.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
If I get angry over the next few days, forgive me.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I've already been warned. You give me the exact amount
of medication that is increased from the last few minutes.
You're doing an amazing job.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
This is Ron Gaby wrapped on camera four point seven.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Let's do this, let's do this challenge, this little test,
because you could be receiving this text message, as a
lot of Australians have over the last couple of weeks,
and it reads oi mate.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
It just turns out I've never received a message that
starts that way.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So straight away you're not suspicious. You're not going to
hang and where's this from? We mate? It's not from
a number in your phone, obviously because it can't be.
But you read it and it goes, O we mate.
You're still playing the pokies now, you were playing the
pokies and you go, I don't know which one of
my mates is his?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
So someone from the bug Indoor pub right back in
the name this all fits, mate, and Pokey's it fits.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Or you go, okay, it's a wrong number. It's a
wrong number, but let's read on. You know, this could
be someone who's trying to tell someone else something. Mate.
You still play in the Pokey's. I found this new
site today, grabbed a free ninety nine ninety nine and
hit a massive win straight up laughing emoji fitn ink
if it's some real and then a pointy emoji copy
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and click the link.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So it feels like AI or someone who's asked AI
to translate a text into Ozzie lingo right, because it's
very it's too far. It's too far, Ossy.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
You don't have a friend that talks like this.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
No, not in text door.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
This is wrong. Gay rapped on cameras four point seven, Rod.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
And Babby's hit the drop. It's your shot at winning
the Alpha Theta Compact DJ Controller. DJ's know what I'm
talking about. Our aspiring ones. This is like the ultimate
beginning unit and get you in the game to perhaps
be one of the all time greats who we are
challenging this week to put together the songs that we've
always thought they'd be awesome together, but we don't know
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how to do it.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It does take a bit of time.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
There's a it's very professional, there's a bit to it.
So I am so excited to introduce our next guest.
Gabby will be selecting a DJ to challenge before the
week is out, so we'll produce a Chelsea However, this
next DJ joined us on the show earlier this year.
Before she played here in camera. She's been here plenty
(11:45):
of times. She's not just popular here, she has been
voted Australia's number one DJ three years in a row.
Rolling Stone have her in the fifty Greatest Australian Electronic
Acts of all time and she is one of the
best music producer in the world. That is why she
has over one and a half million followers across the
social platforms. DJ Tiger Lily welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Hello, Hi, rod Hi, Gabby, gosh, my head is so
big after that intro that was amazing. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You know what's more impressive than that. You're back DJing
and you've just had a bub right.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, I have. I am buck at it a five
months postpartum and second time round. Let me tell you
it is even more wild than the first time round.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Oh well, I'm just so intrigued by how sleeplessness when
you have a new baby affects you. Because you're a DJ,
which means you're doing late nights and crazy hours as
a career. So does that actually help you when it
comes to having a new baby and doing crazy hours
and sleepless nights.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You know what, I will actually say yes, because you're
used to being tired, and you know that even when
you're tired, like you might have a few meltdowns, but
you know that you be okay, And I think that
actually really helps. Like last night, we had a doozy
of a night. My son is sick and he woke
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up every hour and you know, obviously it's terrible, unexhausted.
We're all exhausted, but you know it's going to be okay.
Life goes on and yep, there are at some tiers
and there are some yep, some moments, some meltdown, some arguments,
but yeah, you just get on with.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It, will you sound fresh?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
This isact.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I've had a few coffees.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
We spoke about this with one of the players from
the AFLW team, the Giants, a few weeks ago. One
of their players is also a DJ. And so when
you've got a DJ in the room, whether or not
they're in the sheds, whether or not you're here managing babies,
whatever is that you're doing, DJ's have an ability to
read the room, to conduct a vibe check and then
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take it where it needs to go how do you
go managing the music around baby and change times and
sleep and all those things.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, look, I'm not gonna lie, it's really challenging with
one kid. I think it was a breeze. Both my
kids have been, you know, generally speaking, good eaters, good sleepers,
happy boys. But second time around, it's become a lot
more challenging because obviously you're not just juggling one human,
you're juggling too. So yeah, it's been a wild five months.
(14:25):
We have like a lot of help. My husband is
super supportive and hands on so so with our family.
But yeah, I still, you know, still catch myself thinking,
what the hell am I doing? Many many times a day.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Is your Spotify rapped as messed up as mine is
with the wiggles and the memo and all of that thrown.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
In beyond beyond it's not even my Spotify anymore. It's
just lando Spotify check to listen to my own music.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And now having a second it's like the person who
comes up to you to gie and goes, can you
play these one? And you're like the rest of the
room doesn't want to hear that.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, Like we've started a thing in
the car when driving where we each get a song request.
So my husband gets one, and then Lando, my eldest son,
gets one, then I get one. And it's actually been
game changing because otherwise he will just be screaming wiggles
and Emma Memmo requests at us, and now he has
to wait for his request, which was quite enjoying.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Well, yeah, I tell you, I could not feel more
privileged in all honesty, for one of the all time
greats to accept this challenge. Twenty four hours ago I
sent you through four songs. It's like I've just I've
taken everyone's turn and.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Just know, well, you haven't wished it, You've asked for
it to be more, and.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I don't even know if it's possible. So twenty four
hours ago I said to you, can you get this?
It's blowing up, it's on the charts, we're playing it
here and he won O four point seven. Everyone loves
Snowbroke Boys at the moment, so obviously that seemed like
obvious one. Then I wanted to get a twenty twenty
five viral hit that blow up out of La and
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so kats I turned this into a huge hit. They're
a classic e DM arm and Van Buren.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
You challenge.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I just feel like this is a big sound, and
then I thought we need to get a hip hop
classic in there with Man in fifty cent? Is this
even possible?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Can I be honest? When you send the list through?
I was slightly horrified. I was slightly horrified. I wasn't
sure if it was going to work, and I was
sitting there thinking, oh my goodness, what have I said?
Yes too? But you know what, I'm pretty excited to
show you the final product. I'm hoping you're going to
like it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
All right, I'm so excited. So this has just been
sent through from producer Chelsea. You bounced this across to
her in twenty four hours. You've done it, Okay, I
am so how do you go with people listening to
your stuff like this? By the way, normally you know
you're on stage and you can see that's right, you
just go. Are you cool with us listening to this together?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I'm really pumped. Maybe it's the coffees, Maybe it's for
you adrenaline. I'm a bit nervous, I'm a bit excited,
but let's do it all right here?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
It is this is the DJ Tiger Lily, mash up
of all those songs, putting them together. Get ready first
listen now they are around.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
How did you do?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I don't know what you've done with Armond van Buren there,
but that's the coolest version I've ever heard of that song.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, I'm actually pretty impressed with myself to do that.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I just want to go out now as well. Wow.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Using that yeah, that little vocal at the end and
repeating it to like drag it into the No Broke
Boys was I wasn't sure if it was going to work,
but it ended up sounding really good with that little
and vocal loops. So yeah, I'm stoked with how it
turned out. I did not think it was possible with
all those cross genres, but hey, we made it work.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Wow. When we hear someone's going to win this little
alphabetic compact DJ controller, does it start with a little
bit of gear like that and then it can turn
into a lifelong career.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yeah? Absolutely, it does. Like having the ability to practice
in your own home. That's what I say to all
you know, the younger people who are messaging me asking
for advice, And that's how I started. I borrowed a
friends like set up. Back in the day, they were
the CDJ four hundreds, so completely different technology to what
we have now. And I had them at the end
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of my bed on milk rates and I practiced every
single day for hours. And yeah, that is how it
all starts, just practicing in your bed room, annoying your
parents and you know, mastering your craft.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I love it. Well, your next level that mess of
songs I gave you, you turned that into something incredible. Thank
you for being part of a really fun thing we're
doing here this week.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yeah, just before we let you go as well, is
it true you released a song just like three days ago.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yes, it is true. Ah, I'm so excited. I was
going to put it into the mashup and then I
was like, no, it wasn't on his list. It's not good.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Okay, we got to play that now, we got to
play that. Yeah, all right, you've had I known I
would have. That would have been easy. Dreaming Okay, okay,
let's give you the Dreaming spin as well. DJ Tiger Lily.
We're going to put that up and wait until you
hear the other world class DJs that you will have
you worked with around the country and the world who
are going to be showing up for the remainder of
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the week, and then can Bearan's will get to vote
on that and one lucky person will win that incredible price.
In the meantime, we are the winners today. That was
so cool, lovely catching up with you again. Congratulations on
professional and personal life. You're very busy, so we really
appreciate the time.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Thank you for inviting me. I can't wait to hear
everyone else's mash ups. It's going to be such a
good week and I can't wait to hear who wins.
Vote for me everyone.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
This is Rock and Gabby rapped on camera four point seven.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Coming back to Canberra soon, Jimmy Reese, which is really
an incredible transformation recreation of a character who was the
biggest star of children's television in Australia with hood Belle,
Hootley and all the puppets on ABC Kids. But now
he's known by a bunch of well mums like you
(21:36):
know you and Ashley, no one from the newsroom.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
But it's our entertainment, not a kids that's right.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Jimmy Reese, thank you for hanging around on the phone
there made as a bloke who knows. It appears online
everything about every city that you visit. Was that news
to you that the Town Cry Championships were in Canberra?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Not at all? No, No, we need a shouting match.
It's going to be in Canberra, right, protests. I like
that they should just stand in front of the protests
and then yell news at them. That's what I think
they should do. And then and then and then people can,
like you know, they can dabble in town crying and
be like the comment section on Facebook and just yell
at each other. I think Camber needs that. You guys,
(22:17):
aren't You guys aren't sick of that? No, you should
have more of that.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But that makes more sense than Facebook.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
It's like in London you can get like a little
soapbox you literally stand on and we shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
We should get comes from get on your soapbox. There's
I don't know how many million people have viewed this,
and we don't have that many million people in camera,
so others are obviously entertained. But it's a video you've
got going around that says border control for camera. Now,
this is really interesting for us because during lockdown, a
lot of us live over the border gaming in Queenbean.
(22:47):
Should should I say bung Indoor me in the Yas Valley.
So a lot of us lived over the border during lockdown,
and so we were there's all sorts of confusion around
what border control might look like and somehow you've channeled that.
Take a listen to this for a second.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yeah, just looking to get into have to call you back.
There's someone here who wants to get into Canberra by camera.
Everyone in Canberra is called what ken ken barns?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Correct? What nailed it? One out of one? Could you
believe it when you heard that story?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Oh that was so silly. That was great. That was
really funny, and everyone just in Cammebra just got around it.
But the border control was quite funny.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You know.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
I didn't intend it to be, you know, like in
you know lockdown, you know you kind of like in
your own little zone, aren't you. But then people started
commenting like this is actually our real life which actually
needs control because we actually they were getting stopped at
the border for some reason. It's crazy times.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
It was funny. The police lost interest within and out
two days. I reckon, I remember crossing over and we're
all cued up and there's a bunch of us and
they're just checking out.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I don't know what they're like, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Very quickly we just threw our hands up in the
end when New South Wales all of us and we're
all just coming in and out.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
No way checked the month.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I love with these videos that you ask people to
contribute different, you know, iconic things about the local environment.
So cam Barons have actually contributed a lot of this
for you to make the video. But then how many
cam barons then got mad about it?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Oh, it's just it's quite silly, isn't it. You told
me to say these things, and now you're offender.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
It's like we're allowed to be mad at both. We're
allowed to be mad at our family, but if anyone
else says.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
It about us, you can't say it out loud. I'm
telling you in confidence, that's right. Don't be so revealing
about my catman dude jacket and I want blop life
around the lake Burly Griffeths and I don't care.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
You are all welcome here, believe it or not. Jimmy
Reese in real life, It's Saturday, November twenty nine, The
Royal Theater Camera Final tickets via ticketech dot com dot
au Orfrontier Touring dot com slash Jimmy Reese. Get those.
There won't be many left you of the greats. I'm
going to talk about reinvention. There's Madonna and then there's
(25:03):
Jimmy Reese slash Jimmy giggle. It's the most incredible second,
you know, sort of phase or era of a career.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Mate.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
So congratulations and we can't wait to see you again
on Saturday, November twenty nine.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Thanks guys, I'm looking forward to it. See you soon.
On Canberras hit one or four point seven. It's Roden
Gabby Rat.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I don't know where to start this story other than
there's been something that as student listeners have mentioned to me, Yeah,
what's going on? Because from time to time you have
just had to leave the show for some very time
specific appointments which had been to donate but not to
actually to get blood tests. And those who've been through
(00:26):
what you're managing at the moment were beginning to put
some pieces together. Yeah, and you've told me you'd like
to talk.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
About it today.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Yeah, well, I think I'm ready to talk about it.
It's taken a bit to get to that point. But
for the last year, yes, never and I have been
trying to have baby number two, but it hasn't worked
out that way. It's really interesting because secondary infertility, which
is infertility going into the second baby, it's just not
(00:52):
something that's talked about as much as infertility in general.
And I guess people think it's all under one basket.
But so many people said to me, and I've heard
so many amazing stories of people going through hell with infertility,
getting their first baby and then their second one comes
(01:12):
along naturally, and so many people said to me, oh,
you know, your body knows what to do. Now you've
had baby number one, your body would have kicked into gear.
You'll be fine, and so I kind of held on
to that hope. But that isn't what happened with me.
It's actually been a lot harder this time around, which
was unexpected and not something that I had I guess
(01:34):
heard about as much as infertility in general, as I mentioned,
So when we first started trying this time last year,
we thought we'd try and naturally see what happened. But
if not, because with Olivia it took three years and
we used very minor medication to bring on ovulation and
have her, which was all the tests and everything leading
(01:56):
up to that was hell. Three years of very all
consuming kind of fertility thoughts and experiences and tests and
trials and blood tests and whatever else. But then it
was a simple medication that worked. So it's like, cool,
we know what worked, let's just do that. So we
went to the fertility doctor at the start of this
(02:17):
year and we tried that and my body just did
not respond, so we up to the dose still didn't respond,
so then we went to injections and it still wasn't
responding to the level of medication that we started with,
and we had to up and up and up and
up and up. And I couldn't even tell you how
many needles I've had to inject in the past nine months. No, like,
(02:39):
it has been a wild ride.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And I remember how scared you were about having to
do it yourself. You're good at it now it's been going.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I can do advise shut like I've done so many injections.
So it was about a month ago that or maybe
a bit over a month ago, that my husband and
I had the conversation and we were like, all right,
all of this guess work with scheduling everything and questioning
whether the medication is going to work or not this month,
because every month my body would just resist it more.
(03:10):
I'm like, I just can't do all these question marks anymore.
So we decided to take the step to IVF, which
I've just started the medication on the weekend. So this
is my first round of IVF and my only round.
Because when we first started this journey, we were like,
we know how well consuming it was before Olivia, and
we don't want to fall into that hole when we
(03:33):
have a toddler that we don't want to miss out on.
We don't want to be so consumed with trying to
conceive that we miss all of these beautiful moments that
are currently happening. So it's been a weird mental battle
to not let it consume me and not let it
take over our lives. And I think I've done okay, amazing.
(03:57):
There was a month there where I didn't and even
I had some hard chats. But we also had to
have an end date where we're like, okay, we've put
my body on the line for like six years now,
where we first started to have, you know, thoughts of
babies and then infertility and then Olivia and then breastfeeding,
and then now back into the infertility roller coaster. I'm like,
(04:19):
I can't do this forever, so we need to have
an end date. So we've decided we're going to do
one round of IVF and if that isn't meant to be,
it's not meant to be. And then at the end
of the year, that's where we're kind of gonna put
a line in the sand. So that expiry date's coming up,
and it's a little bit scary, but it's also like
a light at the end of the tunnel where I'm like, okay, cool,
(04:40):
I can stop. I can stop, you know, I can
stop putting my body on the line. And I've got
Olivia and that's beautiful and I've got that blessing, so
i can focus on that. But yeah, it's it's been
a year of huge ups and downs and appointments that
I've had to run to and not I haven't even
been keeping it a secret as such, but I wasn't
ready to sh share it because it is something that,
(05:02):
you know, if it doesn't work out, it's a hard
conversation to have.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
People are listening to this, how do you feel about
them speaking with you and asking you about it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I'm actually at a place now where I'm okay with that.
I wasn't and I didn't want to have those conversations
at first because it is scary. But yeah, it's taken
me nine months to get to a point where I'm
really comfortable talking about it. The process is so interesting,
the science behind it and all the like. We got
(05:33):
to chat to the lady in the lab who talks
about like the details of the science of how everything
happens and why and how we're gonna go about it,
and because there's kind of different ways you can do
it and so super interesting. So the learning of everything's
been really actually quite fun, learning all the different aspects.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
But I've known secondhand and never known more.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
And also you've been so honest with where you're at
as far as the up and down is concerned, because
the hormonal impact with the different medications that they've been
giving you or giving you incrementally more and more and
more over the months.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You know you call me and you say, get ready.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Mate, don't fight me today because you will not wear enough.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And my husband's well aware of that, and I get
similar conversations from you.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, And I think that's important to be open with
the really close people around you because you know they
are on this journey with you when it comes to
your hormonal mood swings.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But with that in mind, your ability to manage its
banning extraordinary. Anyone who listens to this show, you're always happy.
We all had moments. God knows, we don't do that
part on the air so much. Well, there's been, but
barely in all honesty you So for you to have
managed or you have is unbelievable and then to draw
a line in the sand, you have our admiration. We
(06:53):
love you so much.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
It's a really tough call. Like people do go through
this for years and years and years and years and
they don't they don't stop. But I just I know
that I can't do that. That's just not something that
I'm going to be able to continue doing while keeping
a sense of myself.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
And I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I just I want my body back, to be honest,
Like there needs to be a point in the timeline
that I know that I will have control over my
body again, which sounds really odd, but it's just it's
the weirdest thing. To every decision I make, I have
to be like, oh, but can I do that? Will
(07:32):
that affect pregnancy? Will that affect conception? Will that affect
the baby if there is one in future? Like there's
so many things that you've got to think about, and
I just I'm ready to not.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Final question obviously you are ready to talk about, is yes,
Does it feel like there's a weight off to a
degree in that we speak about every part of our
lives and the radio we have four hundred and ninety
seven episodes. Yeah, to not feel that you can discuss that,
And now knowing that you can share that, how does
(08:05):
it feel.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It's definitely a weight off because I am such an
open book. I love to talk about anything and everything,
especially if it is going to help anyone out there
going through the same thing.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You tell Chelsea and I disadventure every day, I do,
you know, and it is it is a day today,
you know, commitment that you've made. Yeah, I know you
like talking about it.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Yeah, And I want to share it because if anyone
is going through secondary and fertility and is feeling like
it is something that isn't talked about or comment like
it is common, and it absolutely is, but people are
maybe not having these conversations as much and maybe not
like I was feeling like I was not right, like
(08:45):
that my body wasn't working the way that everyone else's does.
But that's not the case, and so talking about it
is definitely important. And I'm if I'm able to make
anyone else feel less lonely if they're going through this
same role, then I love that.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Good.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
All right, we love you. Go time.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
If I get angry over the next few days, forgive me.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I've already been warned. You give me the exact amount
of medication that is increased from the last few minutes.
You're doing an amazing job.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
This is Ron Gaby wrapped on camera four point seven.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Let's do this, let's do this challenge, this little test,
because you could be receiving this text message, as a
lot of Australians have over the last couple of weeks,
and it reads oi mate.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
It just turns out I've never received a message that
starts that way.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So straight away you're not suspicious. You're not going to
hang and where's this from? We mate? It's not from
a number in your phone, obviously because it can't be.
But you read it and it goes, O we mate.
You're still playing the pokies now, you were playing the
pokies and you go, I don't know which one of
my mates is his?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
So someone from the bug Indoor pub right back in
the name this all fits, mate, and Pokey's it fits.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Or you go, okay, it's a wrong number. It's a
wrong number, but let's read on. You know, this could
be someone who's trying to tell someone else something. Mate.
You still play in the Pokey's. I found this new
site today, grabbed a free ninety nine ninety nine and
hit a massive win straight up laughing emoji fitn ink
if it's some real and then a pointy emoji copy
(10:29):
and click the link.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So it feels like AI or someone who's asked AI
to translate a text into Ozzie lingo right, because it's
very it's too far. It's too far, Ossy.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
You don't have a friend that talks like this.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
No, not in text door.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
This is wrong. Gay rapped on cameras four point seven, Rod.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
And Babby's hit the drop. It's your shot at winning
the Alpha Theta Compact DJ Controller. DJ's know what I'm
talking about. Our aspiring ones. This is like the ultimate
beginning unit and get you in the game to perhaps
be one of the all time greats who we are
challenging this week to put together the songs that we've
always thought they'd be awesome together, but we don't know
(11:22):
how to do it.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It does take a bit of time.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
There's a it's very professional, there's a bit to it.
So I am so excited to introduce our next guest.
Gabby will be selecting a DJ to challenge before the
week is out, so we'll produce a Chelsea However, this
next DJ joined us on the show earlier this year.
Before she played here in camera. She's been here plenty
(11:45):
of times. She's not just popular here, she has been
voted Australia's number one DJ three years in a row.
Rolling Stone have her in the fifty Greatest Australian Electronic
Acts of all time and she is one of the
best music producer in the world. That is why she
has over one and a half million followers across the
social platforms. DJ Tiger Lily welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Hello, Hi, rod Hi, Gabby, gosh, my head is so
big after that intro that was amazing. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You know what's more impressive than that. You're back DJing
and you've just had a bub right.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, I have. I am buck at it a five
months postpartum and second time round. Let me tell you
it is even more wild than the first time round.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Oh well, I'm just so intrigued by how sleeplessness when
you have a new baby affects you. Because you're a DJ,
which means you're doing late nights and crazy hours as
a career. So does that actually help you when it
comes to having a new baby and doing crazy hours
and sleepless nights.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You know what, I will actually say yes, because you're
used to being tired, and you know that even when
you're tired, like you might have a few meltdowns, but
you know that you be okay, And I think that
actually really helps. Like last night, we had a doozy
of a night. My son is sick and he woke
(13:08):
up every hour and you know, obviously it's terrible, unexhausted.
We're all exhausted, but you know it's going to be okay.
Life goes on and yep, there are at some tiers
and there are some yep, some moments, some meltdown, some arguments,
but yeah, you just get on with.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It, will you sound fresh?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
This isact.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I've had a few coffees.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
We spoke about this with one of the players from
the AFLW team, the Giants, a few weeks ago. One
of their players is also a DJ. And so when
you've got a DJ in the room, whether or not
they're in the sheds, whether or not you're here managing babies,
whatever is that you're doing, DJ's have an ability to
read the room, to conduct a vibe check and then
(13:53):
take it where it needs to go how do you
go managing the music around baby and change times and
sleep and all those things.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, look, I'm not gonna lie, it's really challenging with
one kid. I think it was a breeze. Both my
kids have been, you know, generally speaking, good eaters, good sleepers,
happy boys. But second time around, it's become a lot
more challenging because obviously you're not just juggling one human,
you're juggling too. So yeah, it's been a wild five months.
(14:25):
We have like a lot of help. My husband is
super supportive and hands on so so with our family.
But yeah, I still, you know, still catch myself thinking,
what the hell am I doing? Many many times a day.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Is your Spotify rapped as messed up as mine is
with the wiggles and the memo and all of that thrown.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
In beyond beyond it's not even my Spotify anymore. It's
just lando Spotify check to listen to my own music.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And now having a second it's like the person who
comes up to you to gie and goes, can you
play these one? And you're like the rest of the
room doesn't want to hear that.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, Like we've started a thing in
the car when driving where we each get a song request.
So my husband gets one, and then Lando, my eldest son,
gets one, then I get one. And it's actually been
game changing because otherwise he will just be screaming wiggles
and Emma Memmo requests at us, and now he has
to wait for his request, which was quite enjoying.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Well, yeah, I tell you, I could not feel more
privileged in all honesty, for one of the all time
greats to accept this challenge. Twenty four hours ago I
sent you through four songs. It's like I've just I've
taken everyone's turn and.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Just know, well, you haven't wished it, You've asked for
it to be more, and.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I don't even know if it's possible. So twenty four
hours ago I said to you, can you get this?
It's blowing up, it's on the charts, we're playing it
here and he won O four point seven. Everyone loves
Snowbroke Boys at the moment, so obviously that seemed like
obvious one. Then I wanted to get a twenty twenty
five viral hit that blow up out of La and
(16:09):
so kats I turned this into a huge hit. They're
a classic e DM arm and Van Buren.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
You challenge.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I just feel like this is a big sound, and
then I thought we need to get a hip hop
classic in there with Man in fifty cent? Is this
even possible?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Can I be honest? When you send the list through?
I was slightly horrified. I was slightly horrified. I wasn't
sure if it was going to work, and I was
sitting there thinking, oh my goodness, what have I said?
Yes too? But you know what, I'm pretty excited to
show you the final product. I'm hoping you're going to
like it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
All right, I'm so excited. So this has just been
sent through from producer Chelsea. You bounced this across to
her in twenty four hours. You've done it, Okay, I
am so how do you go with people listening to
your stuff like this? By the way, normally you know
you're on stage and you can see that's right, you
just go. Are you cool with us listening to this together?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I'm really pumped. Maybe it's the coffees, Maybe it's for
you adrenaline. I'm a bit nervous, I'm a bit excited,
but let's do it all right here?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
It is this is the DJ Tiger Lily, mash up
of all those songs, putting them together. Get ready first
listen now they are around.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
How did you do?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I don't know what you've done with Armond van Buren there,
but that's the coolest version I've ever heard of that song.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, I'm actually pretty impressed with myself to do that.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I just want to go out now as well. Wow.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Using that yeah, that little vocal at the end and
repeating it to like drag it into the No Broke
Boys was I wasn't sure if it was going to work,
but it ended up sounding really good with that little
and vocal loops. So yeah, I'm stoked with how it
turned out. I did not think it was possible with
all those cross genres, but hey, we made it work.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Wow. When we hear someone's going to win this little
alphabetic compact DJ controller, does it start with a little
bit of gear like that and then it can turn
into a lifelong career.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yeah? Absolutely, it does. Like having the ability to practice
in your own home. That's what I say to all
you know, the younger people who are messaging me asking
for advice, And that's how I started. I borrowed a
friends like set up. Back in the day, they were
the CDJ four hundreds, so completely different technology to what
we have now. And I had them at the end
(19:51):
of my bed on milk rates and I practiced every
single day for hours. And yeah, that is how it
all starts, just practicing in your bed room, annoying your
parents and you know, mastering your craft.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I love it. Well, your next level that mess of
songs I gave you, you turned that into something incredible. Thank
you for being part of a really fun thing we're
doing here this week.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yeah, just before we let you go as well, is
it true you released a song just like three days ago.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yes, it is true. Ah, I'm so excited. I was
going to put it into the mashup and then I
was like, no, it wasn't on his list. It's not good.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Okay, we got to play that now, we got to
play that. Yeah, all right, you've had I known I
would have. That would have been easy. Dreaming Okay, okay,
let's give you the Dreaming spin as well. DJ Tiger Lily.
We're going to put that up and wait until you
hear the other world class DJs that you will have
you worked with around the country and the world who
are going to be showing up for the remainder of
(20:45):
the week, and then can Bearan's will get to vote
on that and one lucky person will win that incredible price.
In the meantime, we are the winners today. That was
so cool, lovely catching up with you again. Congratulations on
professional and personal life. You're very busy, so we really
appreciate the time.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Thank you for inviting me. I can't wait to hear
everyone else's mash ups. It's going to be such a
good week and I can't wait to hear who wins.
Vote for me everyone.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
This is Rock and Gabby rapped on camera four point seven.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Coming back to Canberra soon, Jimmy Reese, which is really
an incredible transformation recreation of a character who was the
biggest star of children's television in Australia with hood Belle,
Hootley and all the puppets on ABC Kids. But now
he's known by a bunch of well mums like you
(21:36):
know you and Ashley, no one from the newsroom.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
But it's our entertainment, not a kids that's right.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Jimmy Reese, thank you for hanging around on the phone
there made as a bloke who knows. It appears online
everything about every city that you visit. Was that news
to you that the Town Cry Championships were in Canberra?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Not at all? No, No, we need a shouting match.
It's going to be in Canberra, right, protests. I like
that they should just stand in front of the protests
and then yell news at them. That's what I think
they should do. And then and then and then people can,
like you know, they can dabble in town crying and
be like the comment section on Facebook and just yell
at each other. I think Camber needs that. You guys,
(22:17):
aren't You guys aren't sick of that? No, you should
have more of that.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But that makes more sense than Facebook.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
It's like in London you can get like a little
soapbox you literally stand on and we shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
We should get comes from get on your soapbox. There's
I don't know how many million people have viewed this,
and we don't have that many million people in camera,
so others are obviously entertained. But it's a video you've
got going around that says border control for camera. Now,
this is really interesting for us because during lockdown, a
lot of us live over the border gaming in Queenbean.
(22:47):
Should should I say bung Indoor me in the Yas Valley.
So a lot of us lived over the border during lockdown,
and so we were there's all sorts of confusion around
what border control might look like and somehow you've channeled that.
Take a listen to this for a second.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yeah, just looking to get into have to call you back.
There's someone here who wants to get into Canberra by camera.
Everyone in Canberra is called what ken ken barns?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Correct? What nailed it? One out of one? Could you
believe it when you heard that story?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Oh that was so silly. That was great. That was
really funny, and everyone just in Cammebra just got around it.
But the border control was quite funny.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You know.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
I didn't intend it to be, you know, like in
you know lockdown, you know you kind of like in
your own little zone, aren't you. But then people started
commenting like this is actually our real life which actually
needs control because we actually they were getting stopped at
the border for some reason. It's crazy times.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
It was funny. The police lost interest within and out
two days. I reckon, I remember crossing over and we're
all cued up and there's a bunch of us and
they're just checking out.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I don't know what they're like, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Very quickly we just threw our hands up in the
end when New South Wales all of us and we're
all just coming in and out.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
No way checked the month.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I love with these videos that you ask people to
contribute different, you know, iconic things about the local environment.
So cam Barons have actually contributed a lot of this
for you to make the video. But then how many
cam barons then got mad about it?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Oh, it's just it's quite silly, isn't it. You told
me to say these things, and now you're offender.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
It's like we're allowed to be mad at both. We're
allowed to be mad at our family, but if anyone
else says.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
It about us, you can't say it out loud. I'm
telling you in confidence, that's right. Don't be so revealing
about my catman dude jacket and I want blop life
around the lake Burly Griffeths and I don't care.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
You are all welcome here, believe it or not. Jimmy
Reese in real life, It's Saturday, November twenty nine, The
Royal Theater Camera Final tickets via ticketech dot com dot
au Orfrontier Touring dot com slash Jimmy Reese. Get those.
There won't be many left you of the greats. I'm
going to talk about reinvention. There's Madonna and then there's
(25:03):
Jimmy Reese slash Jimmy giggle. It's the most incredible second,
you know, sort of phase or era of a career.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Mate.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
So congratulations and we can't wait to see you again
on Saturday, November twenty nine.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Thanks guys, I'm looking forward to it. See you soon.
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