Ep 21 This Is Your Life

How well do you really know your sister?

When you meet your sisters for the first time as adults, there's a LOT of catching up to do.

So, in this week's episode of Sperm Sisters, Gemma and Helen secretly contacted Nat's closest friends to uncover the stories and memories (and, of course, embarrassing moments) that shaped the sister they never got to grow up with.

From wild adventures in France and Australia to raucous university parties, to the (not so) surprisingly thoughtful things Nat does for Mother's Day. We're piecing together the missing years, one story at a time. Which sister should go next? 

Because when you've missed decades together, how else do you make up for lost time than by getting the gossip from everyone who knew her before you did? 

It's funny and occasionally mortifying, heartwarming and a beautiful reminder that getting to know someone isn't just about discovering where your DNA comes from, it's discovering who they really are.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_11 0:00

Do bidah sisters.

SPEAKER_01 0:17

This is a story about sisters. Just not the kind that you're expecting. Three years ago, we were strangers, living separate lives.

SPEAKER_00 0:25

Now we know we're biological sisters, connected by the same sperm donor. And that's just the beginning.

SPEAKER_04 0:32

This podcast dives headfirst into the how, the why, and the uncomfortable questions no one seems to want to answer.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

Uncovering secrets the medical world would rather keep buried. How many donor-conceived people are there really?

SPEAKER_01 0:44

No one can give a straight answer. Not the clinics, not the system, no one. So, how many siblings could be walking past us every day without a clue?

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It's messy, it's shocking. At times it's almost impossible to believe. And somehow, it's also really funny.

SPEAKER_04 1:02

Come with us as we dig deeper, ask the uncomfortable questions, and laugh our way through the chaos of discovering who we really are. And just how many of us there might be.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Coming up on this week's episode of Spurm Sisters.

SPEAKER_04 1:20

We'd just have like a full bender weekend there. We wouldn't sleep. We'd just have loads of sex with these guys and then like, come home, it was so good. It was honestly like when I look back, best home of my life.

SPEAKER_06 1:35

One of my funniest things about Tash is that looking back at uni photos of us over together. I cackle at Tasha's middle-aged woman haircut. Sometimes it looks like your auntie's arrived at the party.

SPEAKER_07 1:49

A message to all of Nat's friends keep telling us all of these stories so we get to know our sister that we missed out on, but we're definitely making up for now. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Sperm Sisters. Do you know who we are by now, surely? Surely.

SPEAKER_11 2:10

Surely. Hello from the back.

SPEAKER_07 2:13

Um We were just chatting about the wedding, and I just started pressing record because it seems like the perfect way to flow into what this episode is about today. Nat has no idea. Helen and I have planned it and we've had a lot of fun doing it. Um the episode is Nat, this is your life. Told through all of your closest friends, sending us voice notes, getting all the inside gossip. Yeah, you let us in. You gave us a gateway to your friends. So how else are we gonna get to know our our sister that we met four years ago? The best juicy story.

SPEAKER_04 3:05

I'm sure they're good.

SPEAKER_07 3:09

And I think you're gonna you're gonna wish that you're gonna wish that you never invited us to the wedding.

SPEAKER_01 3:17

I was gonna say the ones I've got were actually like really wholesome and nice. So mine aunt. Shit. I mean, should we talk about the wedding first? What's your favourite bit? Well, my favorite bit was, and actually, in equal parts devastating. Um, Nat and James had this like big ice cream cart where it was like a big thing of candy floss, and then you could have a scoop of ice cream on top. And I was like, God, my mouth is washing now. I'd seen it and I was like so pumped for it. And then my daughter selfishly needed to be fed. So I was on the chair, feeding my baby, and then Ross was really nice and was like, Do you want me to go and get you an ice cream? I was like, hell yeah. So he was like, What shall I have on it? I said, just do the whole, like, whatever's available, whole thing, please. Every flavour. Basically, stack it up. So then he came back and it was like a huge, huge ice cream. And then it was during the speeches in like actually quite quite a like sweet emotional part that my um the circular bit of my ice cream just flopped off the candy floss, and I had to catch it like a baseball, and it was like melting, just melting into my hands, and it was one of those things of like, at what point can you sort of go onto the plate to sack off the ice cream? But uh it was difficult. And I know that what I wasn't the only person that happened to.

SPEAKER_07 4:52

It was so funny. I thought it was one of my favourite moments. Another one of my favourite moments, I was told this story second, third hand, was when was from Beth, one of your closest uni friends. No, you've probably met her, and Helen hasn't.

SPEAKER_11 5:13

That's what I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_01 5:16

Helen, do you want to tell the story? Honestly, this makes me want to die so much. What I do want to say is that Jack and I were literally running on two hours sleep maximum, so we were really like quite delirious. And you know when when the night goes on and you're having such a nice time, but you get like slightly more tired, delirious as the night goes on. Well, I hadn't met Beth yet, and I recognized her, and she came up to me and gave me a massive hug and was like, Helen, it's so nice of me. And I was like, Oh, you must be Beth. I've heard so much about you. It's so great to meet. Gave her a massive cuddle, had like a nice, probably five-minute conversation with her. She then left, carried on dancing. It was maybe like an hour or so later. I turned round and saw this girl, and she looked at me and smiled. And I walked up to her and I was like, Hi, it's so nice to meet you. You must be better and she went, don't it makes me want to die so much? She was like, Yeah, thinking I was doing like a bit or something. And she went, Yeah, I know. And I was like, Right. And she went, I've already met you. And I was like, And at that point, I had to just really own up to what was happening, and I was like, I'm so sorry, I'm so tired. And yes, I have already met you. I was like, but it's so nice of me. I was telling that later on in the night, and then Beth walked over to me, stuck her hand out, and was like, Hi, I'm Beth, so nice of you. That was terrible. It's lucky she's so funny. That was really lucky. Like, she took that very well.

unknown 7:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:02

Do you know what? Actually, shout out to Beth because Beth is currently in Sri Lanka and I FaceTimed her yesterday. She was under her mosquito net in her hotel room, and I was like, What you do, what you're doing? And she was like, I've just watched an episode of sperm sisters.

unknown 7:16

Nice.

SPEAKER_10 7:20

International. We're international, baby.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

Can I tell you one of my favourite moments of the wedding? Yes. Obviously, other than seeing you get married, Nat, that was beautiful. Another really beautiful moment was uh during all the dancing, we sat down for a brief moment and then Jack turned to Gemma and Ion and was like, guys, do you want a drink? Gemma, you were, I would describe it as having a really nice time at that point.

SPEAKER_10 7:51

And you went before or after she like walked through the dance floor with like her plate of shots. After that, the shotgirl was like after that.

SPEAKER_11 8:06

Still got it.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

But then John was like, Can I get you a drink? And Gemma went, Oh yeah, oh yeah, what what should I have? What should I have? I think Leon ordered a whiskey or something, and then Gemma went, Do you know what? I'll have a double tequila with a tiny bit of lemonade.

SPEAKER_11 8:27

And Jack was like, Are you sure? And she said, Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

And so Jack went and got that. Came back, and Gemma was keeping me company because again, I was feeding my selfish baby, so was just having water. And then because Gemma had seen I was having water, for some reason she assumed Jack had got her water, and so she drank a massive amount of it and then turned to Leon. And to Leon was like, You said that was water. He was like, No, I didn't. And all of us like, nope, you ordered pretty much straight tequila. She just said down. Speaking on behalf of Gemma and I, uh, we had a fantastic time, obviously, at the wedding. It was so fun because we love you so much. But what was so brilliant was just being in a room full of people that love you and James so much as well. It was just so brilliant and beautiful to see. So, with that in mind, I actually received a message from your friend Maddy, and I just thought it was so lovely what she said. I'm just gonna read it out. Let me find it. She said, Can I just say that I'm so glad you and Gemma found her and scooped her up? Because although she has this gang of women friends who love her so fiercely, there's nothing quite like the bond between sisters. And I know she's really lucky to have that with you. Stunning message. But then it made Gemma and I think, do you know what though? Stunning friends, because you do you do have such Maddie's right, like such a gang of women around you who are just so incredible. So we contacted them directly, obviously, from from Rip like Re Creepy, ripped off the numbers from the Hendoo group, like, hi guys, individually.

SPEAKER_07 10:38

We each divided up the list of people. We asked them your most memorable moment with Nat, your favourite thing about her, something important you think we should know, or what's the most gnat thing that Nat has ever done? It's basically just covering our bases. Now, Lucy did not disappoint. Oh God. Lucy says We once went to Lille, Lille in France, to visit some friends that Nat met in Australia. We went for New Year and got so carried away with the merriment of drinks, restaurants, clubs, etc., that we missed our Eurostar home. I went, nah, our train is in two minutes, and we were standing, not packed, hung over in our friend's apartment. We got to the station, begged to be put on the next train in an hour. Maybe they took pity on us. And then we got on the train and realized they double booked the seats. We went to the train manager and explained our seats were taken, who sat us in first class with the businessman and handed us glasses of champagne. We felt rough, but at least we were made to feel more comfortable. Next message. I have left out the fact that we were both very stoned at the time. And she's then sent this.

SPEAKER_05 12:06

I do have some other stories, but I think that they are ones that I will have to take to the grave.

SPEAKER_04 12:14

Yeah, please have old. There's a lot that Lucy has kindly not shared with our listeners there. I don't think it would be, we wouldn't, we wouldn't be able to put it on. But um, you know, we went through a time of going to France and having a really great time with um we used to go and visit this guy that I met, that Harriet and I met. Harriet and Maddie and I met when we were living in this hostel in Australia. Yeah. And yeah, we basically, like, I loved him, we all loved him, and then like, you know, I used to have a bit of like a thing with like his best mate. And uh, and Lucy used to, you know, like in enjoy his company, and you know, we just had a ball, you know. But they were like, I don't even know if you can put this in, but they were like the biggest fucking druggies going, right? Like they were the biggest druggies going. And this was like at a point in our lives where we were also doing like a lot of drugs. We basically would just go there and just spend like a we'd just have like a full bender weekend there. We wouldn't sleep and then like come home. It was so good. It was honestly like when I look back, best time of my life. Oh my god. So one story that I probably can tell, at least you won't mind me telling, is we used to go, we actually went multiple times to stay with this with these guys in France, in Lille, um, and then later on in Paris. But basically, the first time that we went, we it was just parties, like there were just house parties all of the time. And the first night that we were there, there was this big house party, and you know, that we were everyone was quite stoned. And Lucy Lucy basically got like well, we both were really stoned, but she I remember her being like asking me to go to the toilet with her, and she was like, I can't breathe.

SPEAKER_10 14:24

She was like, I can't breathe. She was like, I'm having an asthma attack, she doesn't have asthma. I had my asthma pump, which I never used, right? But it's just always always in my bag, and I was like, Oh, would you like to use my asthma pump? She was literally like, how do I use it? And I just remember us like her being in the bathroom and me being like, oh no.

SPEAKER_07 14:56

Laura's most memorable moments of your time together before you got married. Right, are you ready?

SPEAKER_05 15:04

Okay, so hundreds and hundreds of memorable moments with my darling Tasha, but this one it just will forever stand out. And it's dreadful for storytelling because you absolutely had to be there. But Tasha went to that, and she has this memory jogged. Um, and I'm just gonna give you a headline, Tash can fill in any blanks. My most memorable moment with Tasha was when we were in Australia staying at her cousin's house, and I levitated, I levitated off of the bed. Um and it's the most memorable moment for me because I think it is the the most I've ever laughed in my life at one individual thing. We laughed until we cried, we tried to recover, and then we laughed until we couldn't breathe. We laughed for about an hour solid. The next day her cousins were like, What the hell happened last night? But that is my most memorable moment with that.

SPEAKER_04 16:13

She left. That's a great one. That's a good one. No, you know when like someone um like jumps in their sleep. Yes, but like Laura and I like we were staying in the Blue Mountains, like with some of my cousins on this trip to Australia, and uh and she like fell obviously like fell asleep but jumped. But I have never seen anything like it. She she left the bed and like like flew up here for like like stopped mid-air for a second, I swear, and then landed back on the bed. And we like she says it in the voice note, we laughed until we could not laugh anymore. Like it was so, it was so funny. It was so funny. That's a great memory. I'd for I'd actually like forgotten about that, so that was nice to be reminded of. It was very, very funny.

SPEAKER_07 17:08

Um, okay, and we have another note, the most Tasha thing, apparently.

SPEAKER_05 17:15

Are you ready? So I'm actually gonna pick something that happened very, very recently because it does perfectly sum up Natasha and the type of person she is. So at Tasha's wedding, um, rather than just having a couple of key equals to be part of her wedding party, she shared it across so many people that she loves and respects and has special bonds and connections with. Um, there was lots of contributions from different people in different ways, and that is just very much Natasha. She's so loved and so popular, her friendship group is extremely wide. Um, and she did a really beautiful thing to make sure that everybody felt a connection to her big day and was thought about and was considered, and it's just a confirmation of how big her heart is and how lucky we all are to have her.

SPEAKER_07 18:20

Oh no, that was my message just playing at the end. How nice is that? That's so lovely.

SPEAKER_04 18:28

So lovely. Right back at Laura because like that that voice note that she's just sent is like a mirrored, it's like a mirror of like what she is like as a person as well. So if you're listening to this or watching Laura, I love ya.

SPEAKER_11 18:44

Okay, gonna You're getting it then. What the fuck is this? What is Jack's chair?

SPEAKER_04 18:56

Oh no, it's all come off on my oh it's coming off.

SPEAKER_11 19:02

So it's coming off.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

Brother, uh brother, uh turn the light on in here, do you think? Yeah, go on.

SPEAKER_07 19:12

Now we're moving on to two people who are very dear to you as a couple. It's James's sisters.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

Yeah. Oh I might do tour first. She's answered every question uh in one, but she was very organized because they were zipping off the turkey, and we gave her like no notice whatsoever, and she was like, I'll do it. So I was really impressed. So I'm gonna hold it up to here, and hopefully, you can hear. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 19:44

Hey, sperm sisters. So my most memorable moment with Tash um is probably when she asked me to be her bridesmaid, um, was very unexpected. Um, I think I knew she was going to include the kids, but I didn't realise that she was gonna include me and my sister as much as she did. So um that was a beautiful, beautiful moment. Um, my favourite thing about her is the fact that she's now officially my sister-in-law, could not have wished for a better sister-in-law or a better wife for my little brother. Um, perfect. Something important I think you should know about Tash is just how patient she is. Um, she absolutely must be, because she put up with with Jay and all his little things. Um the most Tash thing that she's ever done um is how thoughtful she is. So I messaged her probably only a few days before the wedding, just asking if she could preserve a table for my mum to sit at at the wedding, and because my mum can get a bit confused and I wanted it to be comfortable. Um why I didn't realise that Tash would have already thought of all this stuff before, weeks before, and sorted it all out. Um, she just thinks of everybody um and thought of all the little things that were important. Um, she's amazing. Love you, Tash.

SPEAKER_11 21:15

Guys, I really wasn't prepared for this.

SPEAKER_04 21:20

Well, it's like I was gonna say they they keep on coming because like it's just oh, I just feel so like as if the wedding wasn't enough. Do you know what I mean? To be like, to really um oh, what's the word? Like I know, I know that I'm surrounded by the most amazing human beings. And like the wedding absolutely like the lead up to it, you know, the w the wedding day itself, like absolutely solidified all of that for me.

SPEAKER_11 21:50

But this is just oh my oh me, oh my, little oh my god me oh my god.

SPEAKER_07 22:00

Hope I was hoping for more stories about piss and shit, to be honest. Yeah, it's shitting yourself. I don't know. Like, can you tell us like when you have shat yourself? Maybe like just a it's never happened.

SPEAKER_11 22:16

Have you not shattered?

unknown 22:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

You must have. No. Gemma has. Gemma did it in the woods. Oh, that's the time you're talking about, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:26

Oh wait, were you running?

SPEAKER_07 22:28

No, it was a flag. No. No, I had a. We were coming back from Cornwall and I stopped off at Extra Services. And I won't name and shame the restaurant, but um, I had some noodles and they did not sit well with me. And we stopped off at the woods not far away from our house, so Albus, our golden retriever, could get out and stretch his legs after a long drive. And then I just felt the hot snakes coming. The bubbly bubblies. Oh bobby. And I was like, oh god, what's happening? And that Angel's like, that's a good tree. Like, what makes a good shit tree? I don't know. And Albus was like, mommy, what's happening? What's happening? Yeah. And I can imagine.

SPEAKER_01 23:19

Anyway, well. So, right. Okay, should we do Well, from aren't we doing Liz now? I haven't done Liz. So I was gonna say from uh from shitting up a tree to actually I'm I'm quite surprised. Really wholesome voice notes. So strap in that. I think this one's up.

SPEAKER_11 23:41

From Liz. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

I know. We were all right. I was surprised too. So let me turn this, let me turn off the fan because it deserves the fan to be off. Okay, right. Here we go. Funny actually, she said on her one the noise is the back in the background is a fan, sounds like I'm on a mountain. So here we go. This is her up Mount Everest.

SPEAKER_09 24:01

Oh my god, this is like the third time I'll try to record this. If we don't do it now, I'm not gonna do it because I'm probably gonna melt today, and then I won't be able to do it. So just a little note for Tasha, which is what I call her. Um I think I just want to say what my favourite thing about her is. And for me, Tasha is just the most selfless, kind, loving people pleaser, to her detriment sometimes, person that I know. She's just a very, very special human being. Uh, and I know that she makes my little brother immensely happy. And I think one of my favourite moments with her was having the privilege of being with them there at their wedding at the weekend and just watching them get married, which is just super special. And I'm just so, so happy that she's officially part of the family. I mean, she's always been part of the family ever since she met Jay, but she's now officially part of the family. But yeah, she is just the loveliest, loveliest, loveliest, loveliest, loveliest girl. Um, and I'll never forget when I split up with my daughter's dad, uh, well, which was a really long time ago now. Um, it wasn't the most easiest of times. And Tasha was just really lovely at reaching out. I remember it was Mother's Day, and she sent me a really gorgeous book from Molly, who's my daughter. Obviously, Tasha sent it. Molly was like 18 months old, and it was like a Mr. Men book, uh, just loads of little bits that you could fill in. And I just thought it was so, so thoughtful. Um, and just really meant a lot when I was going through a difficult time. Anyway, I'm waffling now. It's actually made me want to cry talking about that. So I'll say, love you, Tasha. Um, yeah, and Molly's here as well. Just say hello.

SPEAKER_02 26:09

Hi.

SPEAKER_09 26:11

And we both absolutely loved being there at the weekend. Love you.

SPEAKER_04 26:17

How lovely is that? Oh, this is a lot. Oh, that's really, really lovely. No, that's so lovely. That's really, really lovely.

SPEAKER_07 26:29

Um Hannah. Hannah, how do you know wonderful Hannah?

SPEAKER_04 26:37

I know Hannah uh through from university, but she grew up with Lucy. So they kind of they came to university together, and then I, well, I just I became friends with Hannah through Lucy. So yeah.

SPEAKER_07 26:51

Lovely. I've got a similar setup with two of my uniphones as well. That's really nice. Okay. I'm gonna show you a visual clue. She has sent a photo. A visual? Is it?

SPEAKER_11 27:05

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 27:08

So up on the screen. Yeah. Okay. So you're twins. Here we go.

SPEAKER_06 27:12

So I thought I'd do your voice note for the last one because we know she loves the voice note. So my most memorable moment. This was really hard because there's lots of little moments, but gone for a bigger moment. Um, so Tasha's birthday is the 9th of October, and my birthday is the 10th of October. So we always used to call each other twins. Um, and we would make jokes from Nights Out that we were sisters. Um, so technically I can join the gang, right? Um so yeah, and like nights out, we'd write on each other's arms, like Tasha's twin, Hannah's twin, when it was like Carnage. Does anyone remember Carnage at uni? Oh god. Um so for our 21st, we decided we were gonna have a big bar, like joint party. Um we held it in my uni house because it was like three floors and yeah, classic student house. Um, but we invited way too many people, obviously, between us. I think that was like 120 people. I think it's actually bigger than my wedding. Um, yeah, and yeah, it was raucous but hilarious and really fun. So yeah, happy 21st to us. Flashback uh to a wild party. I'm sure I could find a photo. Actually, there's probably a Facebook album full of photos from that night, as we all used to do, but yeah, it was a it was a fun time.

SPEAKER_04 28:41

That's so so lovely. Honestly, she's she is just golden, Hannah. She's just like one of the nicest women in the world. Do you know what I mean? Like she's just so so gorgeous, and yeah, Carnage, what a night.

SPEAKER_07 28:56

What a night. What a night. So how did it get at what point on that night when people were turning up, did you start to get the fear of like, oh no?

SPEAKER_04 29:09

I mean, probably from from the minute it started, to be honest. Like, I just because they their house was huge. Like, I also lived in a house, but like theirs was massive. There were a lot of them that used that used to live in that house, and it was just such a good party house because of like the floors, you know. Yeah, yeah. Just classic uni, big party, everyone come, such beautiful memories. Nice, nice.

SPEAKER_07 29:37

How did you get rid of everyone? Like at the end of the party, did it just?

SPEAKER_11 29:41

Well, you don't I don't remember that. I was just wondering.

SPEAKER_07 29:47

So I d I I just wanted to pick up on something else Hannah mentioned, just uh just after she sent that void that that voice note. She goes, also, hope someone mentions her middle-aged woman's haircut at uni. Oh no.

SPEAKER_11 30:05

No, no, no. Right, can I just caveat this with no officially do one just in case it doesn't get brought up?

SPEAKER_06 30:20

It's one of my funniest things about Tash is that looking back at uni photos of us all together, Lacey Tash, and I cackle at Tasha's middle-aged woman haircut, um, to the point where sometimes it looks like your auntie's arrived at the party. However, the funniest thing is at the time it wasn't a funny haircut. Tasha absolutely rocked it. We never thought she had a weird haircut. In fact, only now, looking back like what she totally rocked it. I sure as does.

SPEAKER_07 31:00

Were you trying to go for like LaRue?

SPEAKER_04 31:03

No! Oh my god, no, no, I was going for no, I wasn't even going for the original cut, was Frankie from The Saturday's Cup. Hello, yeah. And I looked sick, I looked unbelievable when it first got cut. But then my issue was is that I never got it cut again. So then it just like grew into this weird mullet, and then I used to just like clip it all of the time, and then like would just wear it to the side. And Hannah is right. At the time, I think everyone was just like Tash. But looking back, even now, including my husband, look back at those photos and he's like, Don't show me another one.

SPEAKER_10 31:44

He's like, Because this this marriage will end here. Don't show me another photo of you like that.

SPEAKER_07 31:52

That's so funny. Thank you so much, Hannah, for sharing that stage of our sister's life with us. That I'm really sad that we missed out on that haircut.

SPEAKER_01 32:02

I'm sad we missed out on that. I am. I had a weird haircut a bit like that though.

SPEAKER_07 32:08

Yeah, you did. It's all coming out now.

SPEAKER_01 32:11

I don't I'll try and find a picture of it, but it was weird.

SPEAKER_07 32:16

You also you your brief was also Frankie from the Saturdays. No.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

Yeah, I swear. It was her, and Agnes Dane or Dean is who I wanted to be. Who's Agnes Dean? Do you not? You'll you'll know her. Hang on. That's hard! That's who I wanted to be.

SPEAKER_04 32:38

Yeah, but that's like dead trendy and cool, actually.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

Yeah. So that didn't happen to me. That's what I wanted to look like. There's one of there's one from Glastonbury which does actually sum it up. When did you go to Glastonbury? I went the uh when Michael Jackson died.

unknown 32:58

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 32:58

Have you been before? Like as in How many times have you been? I just went that one time, but I would always go to Reading and then I did Isle of White and Who headlined that yeah? Oh god, do you know what? I could honestly oh blur! Oh, cool. Um, but couldn't don't remember a lot of it, obviously. Sure. Oh no, okay, there's one.

SPEAKER_04 33:20

Yeah, but I just think that that's not I mean not dissimilar to what's going on now.

SPEAKER_07 33:26

Jess. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

And we haven't listened to this yet. So we haven't listened to this, but what I will say is when I sent her like the questions of what we wanted to do, obviously, personally loved Jess's speech at the wedding. I thought it was so funny. She's just the funniest woman ever, I think. But so basically, she then said, well, kind of her speech actually answers most of the questions anyway. And she was like, Do you want me to re-record it? And I was like, Yes, of course I do. I want to listen to it again. So she actually sent the full- I'm gonna listen to it again. She sent the full video, anyway, but um she has since recorded it because she was gonna make it a little bit shorter and bits just about you. So we haven't heard this, so this is hush off the press. So here we go.

SPEAKER_03 34:16

My dearest Natasha, I'm going to take us all the way back to 2012 when I first met Tasha at work. Upa Home Healthcare. What a turn to be alive. In she came on her first day, very professional, in her little pencil skirt and crisp shirt, looking like she was about to run the place with her little headset on. Although it didn't last very long, as she was soon being told to please wear longer shorts around the office. Put our karaoke, singing Drake's first album on our lunch breaks, endless tea rounds, and living exclusively in top shop leggings. So the day she got escorted out of the building for calling poor old Karen for a counter jobs worth on email. I'll always remember the moment she rang me and said, mate, you'll never guess what's happened. I've had sex. And I just knew this girl was going to be my best friend for life. And somehow, because the universe clearly wasn't done with us, a year later we ended up working together again in Camden Town for four whole years. Honestly, some of the best and funniest years of my life, we were like two naughty school girls, and I would be here all day reading off some of the stories if I could. We laughed until we cried, cried until we laughed, and somehow managed to grow up slightly along the way, helping each other through all the highs and the lows. We were that inseparable that we would actually cry when either one of us went on holiday. And then, of course, there was a day that we both got made redundant. In the same room, may I add, just silently side-eyeing each other whilst being given the boot. I mean, I'll never understand why. When all we ever did was try to peaceably watch episodes of Taui and Love Island during working hours. Truly dedicated employees, if you ask me. Still one of the funniest moments of my life, but it felt so sad to be an end of an era. But jokes aside, I wanted to tell Tasha and everyone in this room how much she means to me. Because behind all of those memories is someone who has been the most loyal, caring, supportive, and genuinely the most perfect best friend a girl could ask for. I truly do adore our friendship and just how bloody funny we are. You are the person I trust with my whole soul. I've never known someone who can sense something wrong with me from miles away. And checks, what's going on? Before I've even said a word. From the very beginning, I just knew we were meant to meet. And today I know your mum will be looking down, bursting with pride at the incredible woman you've become. Strong, loyal, hilarious, and with the biggest heart of anyone I know. And that is for you, my dearest Natasha. All my love, Jess.

SPEAKER_04 36:59

How nice.

SPEAKER_11 37:01

So nice.

SPEAKER_04 37:02

So amazing.

SPEAKER_07 37:06

She's so special. Um I think the biggest takeaway from that was um uh what did you say in a C mail to Karen? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:20

No, right. So basically, oh when we used to work at paper home healthcare, it wasn't, I didn't even think it was that bad, but this bloody woman who worked me upstairs kept asking me for ridiculous requests. And I was just like, I literally can't give that answer to you right now. And then I just emailed her saying, Karen, stop being a jobs worth. I'll get that information to you when I'm able to. And then the next thing I knew, the next thing I knew, literally my manager and like the director of like that particular thing came over to me, and they literally like it, it happened like the same day. They were like, um, we have to escort you out, we're gonna put you on immediate garden leave. And like, I just was all I was like, well, what about my stuff? And they were like, You can take your mug. And I just had to walk with my mug shamelessly through the Booba Home Healthcare office in Harlow, all the way to the entrance. It was actually really horrifically traumatic.

SPEAKER_11 38:24

It was so horrified, it was actually really sad because it was like my life, you don't understand.

SPEAKER_04 38:40

My life was Ubai in healthcare at this. I had nothing, I had nothing, I had nothing. I literally had nothing without this job, and yeah, they escorted me out, and I was like, oh no. Oh no.

SPEAKER_07 38:56

How long how long were you on Garden Leaf for six weeks?

SPEAKER_04 39:01

Oh what did you do in my six weeks? Lost my mind.

SPEAKER_11 39:12

So she's allowed to go back in.

SPEAKER_07 39:14

No, I was never allowed back in. That was it, you just got sacked. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:18

There's actually a really nice woman called Donna, who I love, who actually does still work there. Who has also commented on sperm sister things saying, like, listening now. She's just like.

SPEAKER_07 39:27

Can we give her a bit of a shout-out then? The best part of Booper was Donna.

SPEAKER_04 39:32

Yeah, we love shout out to Donna Brightman. Honestly, like the sweetest, most like mothering figure in the world. She should have told you not to call her jobs up.

SPEAKER_11 39:46

Donna!

SPEAKER_07 39:47

Donna.

SPEAKER_11 39:49

Come on.

SPEAKER_07 39:51

Okay, the last one. The last one is Selena. And you go, Oh no, just love her. Fellow wedding girl. I just I thought it's just really weird. We've really bonded over the place that we both grew up and everything.

SPEAKER_01 40:05

She said when I met her at the wedding, she was like, Oh, I'm Selena. And I was like, I know you, showcase cinema. And she was like, She was like, that's not what I want to be known for. I was like, it is number three.

SPEAKER_07 40:25

That's so sweet. She doesn't mention anything rude or naughty at all. So you have to tell us a really cheeky story in a minute. Okay, hello. I've gone with my favourite thing about her, but it's turned into a few things and possibly more of a thesis on my adoration for her. So feel free to just use whichever bit might work for the and I won't be offended if it doesn't make the cut. It's hard to sum her up, and I'm envious of how well the speeches were written. Fair play to everyone who did a speech. She's right.

SPEAKER_04 40:54

They were incredible.

SPEAKER_07 40:56

In Natasha's company, she always gives you her absolute attention, and she is so genuinely interested in what's going on in your life slash how you really are. She's very intuitive and somehow always knows what's going on. I feel like we have a real shared understanding despite having had very different life experiences. It's rare we ever get through a dinner together without a few tears, but it's always through some sort of shared connection, and it feels very special, plus tears of laughter, as she's always so bloody hilarious. The care, love, and attention she gives to her friends and loved ones is unmatched. I'm so proud of all she has achieved, and most recently with this bloody brilliant podcast. Tell us something silly about you and Selina.

SPEAKER_04 41:43

Well, I mean, I I just feel like mine and Selena's silliness is honestly everything that she's just summed up in that thing because we do always end up crying whenever we're together, but it's always over the most like loveliest, loveliest things. Like most recently, well, actually, no, like two things that happened recently. So we always do like a come dine with me dinner. It's like me, James, Selena, and her partner Matt, and that's our thing. We always do a come dime with me, and we each take it in turns to like cook. And we also spend every year on um what's it called?

SPEAKER_01 42:19

The Scottish Oh yeah, Burns Night.

SPEAKER_04 42:23

Burns night. We always host a Burns night together, which is always it's like just a really like lovely tradition. And basically, like recently, Selena and Matt came over for dinner, and I have made like a soup as part of one of our like part of the menu. And uh I have a soup spoon that is my soup spoon from growing up. And it's I've I haven't got the rest of the set, it's just like a single soup spoon, but it like I all I always used to use it when I was like growing up, and I don't know how it's like ended up with me, but I still have it. And I put it where she was sitting, and she sat down at the table and she started crying, and I was like, oh my god, Selena, what?

SPEAKER_11 43:06

And she went, This is the same soup spoon that I used to have growing up. And we were both literally like, oh I was like, It's my soup spoon too.

SPEAKER_04 43:19

And we just like ended up like basically crying our eyes out, and then another thing happened when I went to theirs for dinner, and they had um this beautiful, like Chinese um designed like bowl. It's like a Chinese bowl, and I was like, and there were just like nibbles in there, and I was like, oh my god, I was like, guys, I haven't seen these for so long. Like we used to have these at home when I was growing up, like these are so beautiful, and like I got a bit teary-eyed, and she did as well, because she was like, Is that what I used growing up to? And then basically for my birthday that year, Matt and Selina bought me that set of Chinese bowls. They managed to like find them online, and like I opened them at the pub where I had my birthday and like burst into tears. I was like, So like Selena is so right. Like, we've had very different like life experiences and like journeys, but we have a real, like a really strange like understanding of uh of each other and like how our lives have like shaped us. I don't know, it's really strange, but it's always been like that, so yeah, that's a really lovely one to end on. Guys, thank you so much!

SPEAKER_11 44:46

Well, I love that.

SPEAKER_07 44:47

Yeah, I love that because I feel like through all of these amazing people, we have learnt so much about you. And, you know, had we not met all of these brilliant souls, we wouldn't know about the soup spoon. We wouldn't know about you sending Liz beautiful gifts on Mother's Day, we wouldn't know about the fact that you did load loads of drugs in France and had sex with a random guy that you knew in Australia. Like you're such a wholesome person. So a message to a message to all of Nat's friends. Always please keep telling us all of these stories, not to embarrass Nat, but just so we get to know our sister at the level, at such a beautiful, deep level with all of these silly Billy stories that we missed out on, but we're definitely making up for now. So yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:41

And um, thank you to you both, honestly, for just coming up with such a beautiful episode. It means the world. I feel like that that's been like a really lovely, like almost like closing the book on like wedding season. That's been like a really lovely way to do it through this episode. So thank you so much. And of course, thank you so much to all of the girly whirliers who sent in messages and voice notes. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy lives to do that means so much.

SPEAKER_07 46:08

Yeah. And and thank you very much for listening to this week's episode of Sperm Sisters. If you if you liked it, or if you liked, if you like us and if you're a friend, then um please feel free to give it a five-star review or share it with people. It really helps us out. And we'll be back next week with Harriet Part 2, a brilliant, a brilliant friend of the podcast. Thanks, thanks. Bye bye.