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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the heart of it. We are

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Speaker 1: recording on bunge lung Land.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: We are somewhere very special and very different to our

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Speaker 1: usual place.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. We're nestled in the Barn Bay, Hinto Land

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Speaker 2: at a place where luxury meets healing. It's called it

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Speaker 2: does Gaya.

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Speaker 1: Gaya Retreat and Spa. We are currently the luckiest people

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Speaker 1: on the planet. I will own that, or the most

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Speaker 1: fortunate people. Should we say we had an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: do a getaway. We're still here at Gaya Cam and

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Speaker 1: I to come and experience it. This is their twentieth year, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well this is what they're saying, celebrating twenty years

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Speaker 2: of healing and empowerment.

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Speaker 1: You're feeling it without a day, like.

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Speaker 3: Forty eight hours we've been here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. And some of you might know it

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Speaker 1: as Olivia Newton John's Place, And of course she did

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Speaker 1: originally start it twenty years ago and it was sold

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, and since then there's been more

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Speaker 1: upgrades and some changes, but like really quality considered changes.

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Speaker 1: They haven't gone. They haven't gone on Hollywood, you know,

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Speaker 1: I would say this.

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Speaker 2: Is what I've said to the guys that we've spoken to,

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Speaker 2: the gm M, the gm.

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Speaker 1: M and M and her lovely husband Mitch, who's the

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Speaker 1: one of the chefs here and does food and beverage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a place you can probably imagine. We

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Speaker 2: can imagine it twenty years ago and it would have

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Speaker 2: been like a homestead where guests met. But then there

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Speaker 2: were different styles of accommodation popped around the place.

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Speaker 1: Ye.

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Speaker 2: And it's just it's just had this evolution. It seems

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Speaker 2: this wonderful growth that hasn't been overdone. It's all about

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Speaker 2: the green I think.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're sitting here looking at probably one of

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Speaker 1: the most beautiful views in the world. Out to this valley.

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Speaker 3: Looks like a veil painting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of looking northwest in a way. It's but

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Speaker 1: everywhere you look, every window that you look out of,

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Speaker 1: everywhere you walk to it's just beauty. It's green and

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Speaker 1: lush and just it's as I think I called it, nirvana.

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Speaker 1: Not to exaggerate, but that's kind of what I'm feeling

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Speaker 3: There's so many elements to it.

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Speaker 2: As you said, it's just considered and it seems like

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Speaker 2: they've just gone, Oh, this is this is a great

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Speaker 2: place to sit, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Let's put a couple.

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Speaker 2: Of benches here, yes, and cushions and things.

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Speaker 1: So the sun rise. Yeah, another spot to watch the

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Speaker 1: sun set.

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Speaker 3: There's a spot. I'll take a picture of it.

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Speaker 2: You have to check out our socials because there's all

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Speaker 2: the pictures and videos and stuff that are there, and

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Speaker 2: there is there's this one spot. It's an early morning

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Speaker 2: perch that you can see the hot air balloons come

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Speaker 2: up and they blow across across the valley and yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's just spectacular. It is so peaceful and rejuvenating. And yes,

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Speaker 2: the breeze is blowing right now and it is just

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Speaker 2: like it's just like this kissing of the.

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Speaker 1: Skin and something something that am the general manager and

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Speaker 1: we were talking earlier, and I think if you're a

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Speaker 1: middle aged lady like myself, you're going to understand this. Sometimes.

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Speaker 1: I think that is the hardest thing to do for ourselves,

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Speaker 1: is is self care. We're busy, we're stressed. We can't

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Speaker 1: afford it. I can't. I've got teenage daughters, I've got

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Speaker 1: parents that are aging. I'm in full blown menopause. Whatever

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Speaker 1: the reason is, I feel like this time of our

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Speaker 1: lives for women is often not only is it the

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Speaker 1: hardest time to do self care, but it's actually the

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Speaker 1: most important time to do self care. Never do we

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Speaker 1: need it more, I feel than going through perimenopause, because

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Speaker 1: there's so much changes, as everyone knows, going on in

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Speaker 1: your body and your mind, and for me, what's happened

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Speaker 1: coming up here Once I sort of shake the idea

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Speaker 1: all of that, all of the machinations, what's actually happened

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Speaker 1: I've felt my thoughts finally disconnect from the worry. They've

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Speaker 1: in my brain, and my brain just feels as it's gone. Ali,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for this, because God knows you

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Speaker 1: needed your brain to be saying.

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Speaker 1: My brain, I hope, so it feels like it has.

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Speaker 1: It definitely went down in my face after I got

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Speaker 1: it facial.

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Speaker 3: I mean that was crazy.

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Speaker 2: I know, I know Ali had a ninety minute facial yeah,

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Speaker 2: about two hours ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and yeah, you look great anyway, sweetheart.

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Speaker 2: But thank you, But it was it was quite a different,

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Speaker 3: After that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could really feel it without looking, I could

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Speaker 1: feel my face had lost its puffiness. And oh, but

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Speaker 1: do you want to just talk about the food?

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Speaker 2: I mean seriously, I mean I'm doing I'm being that guy,

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Speaker 2: that Instagram guy that's taking photographs food.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I never take pictures of food. I'm hopeless.

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Speaker 1: We want to share it with everyone.

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Speaker 2: It's important because Okay, so a lot of this is

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Speaker 2: I mean you've heard the term farmed table, but they're

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Speaker 2: growing a lot of their food, especially the salad stuff stuff,

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Speaker 2: the salad ingredients, and it's all on the plate and

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Speaker 2: it's done, the amount of flavors in there and different ingredients. Look,

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Speaker 2: I'm not food, but the time spent and the consideration

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Speaker 2: given to each meal has been than five star.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say it's been incredible because when they

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Speaker 1: say it's farm to table, it's literally like fifty meters away,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, It's that close because there's

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Speaker 1: so much that they grow here that you know, things

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Speaker 1: It's just it gets carried fifty meters over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which I didn't.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize how important that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you can definitely taste the freshness of it,

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Speaker 2: You can taste of fresh but you can can and

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Speaker 2: the crispiness in the in the veggies, and oh the nuts,

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Speaker 3: They're mixing it all.

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Speaker 2: The dessert we had last night, Ali said, you said

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Speaker 2: And that's each time we sit down, that's what it's been.

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Speaker 2: And then you're sitting down with this most incredible view

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Speaker 2: of green and trees, and to your point before about

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Speaker 2: being in a restorative place and spending and needing to

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Speaker 2: take that time to to care for yourself, I think

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Speaker 2: this is a good spot as any to come with

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Speaker 3: It's hard not to Yeah, it didn't take long to soften.

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Speaker 2: And then but then there was also, just as you said,

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Speaker 2: it's actually worked its magic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you're on the same path when you're here

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Speaker 1: in that sense, because you're both here for the restored

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Speaker 1: and it's like, how is that for you? Amazing? How

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Speaker 1: have that kind of shared experience is also really special

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Speaker 1: to share with your partner. I know that there's a

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Speaker 1: They really love it as well. So I would love

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Speaker 1: Would you go with riv Ah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, father and son experience. How gorgeous would that be?

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Speaker 2: It would be riv might be, well, there's a fantastic

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Speaker 2: then I think that was like I've done a fair

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Speaker 2: wouldn't have done a yoga class in maybe, you know,

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Speaker 2: And to do that class with her today, and she

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Speaker 2: to yeah, we'll fix our mainten's okay, And I was

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Speaker 1: It was it's literally called restorative yoga. I feel like

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Speaker 2: And to be doing it in the location. The studio

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Speaker 2: and then you've got Then she had bells and what

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Speaker 1: Sang, I know, it's really magical.

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Speaker 2: could have gone two ways. We don't know what you're

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Speaker 2: how you're going to sing? She sung so beautifully and

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Speaker 2: it was what some Hindi Indians.

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Speaker 1: The Sanskrit sanscript yeah there you go chant yeah.

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Speaker 2: Which was so soothing and with the bells and things

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Speaker 2: going on. Wow, it was very impressive and a wonderful experience.

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Speaker 1: It's a place that we've been told also that people

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Speaker 1: come back to over and over again, in fact, there's

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Speaker 1: a there's a guess that's coming back. They have been

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Speaker 1: pretty good average, right, and it's someone that that needs

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Speaker 1: it for health, Like I think a lot of people

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Speaker 1: And that's why you know when they talk about the

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Speaker 1: restoration that happens, that they're not kidding, you know, they

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Speaker 2: So Gaya, which is Gaiaretreat dot com dot Au.

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Speaker 1: Well, that will be in our so you can just

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Speaker 1: No, Please don't send me back to the hustle and

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Speaker 2: It's so beautiful. And the rooms, yeah, our room, it's

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Speaker 1: Actually, I could live, I could live.

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Speaker 3: I live here, I could do this podcast from the bath.

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Speaker 1: Yeah's move to Bungelong Country and just stay here.

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Speaker 1: Well listen, look it up online, check it out, see

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Speaker 2: Gaya Gaya.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we've described it as deliciously as we're feeling it.

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