Was Hotwings absence ever completely explained?

[Philly Mike]

A) Who is dude and why do you keep calling him dude?
B) I think that perhaps he was gone for some fertility issues. Aren't they trying to get preggers and she's having a hard time? Maybe she doesn't want all 83 of us listeners to know that they had to try IVF again or something.

the dude is a guy they get to interview the people they don't want to interview before the internviews existed. http://www.dudeshadoway.com/real/