WEBVTT - Explore your own city

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to spend some time exploring your own city.

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<v Speaker 1>Little adventures make time feel more rich and full, and

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<v Speaker 1>the upside of staying local is that you don't need

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<v Speaker 1>to spend much time in transit. I know that a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of people feel so busy during the week that

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<v Speaker 1>they get to the weekend and have no real thought

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<v Speaker 1>about what to do. The net result is that people

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<v Speaker 1>tend to putter around, or at best, do the same

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<v Speaker 1>things over and over again. There's nothing wrong with routine,

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<v Speaker 1>but over time, too much sameness tends to make time

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<v Speaker 1>collapse into a memory sinkhole. That's too bad, because almost

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<v Speaker 1>any location has some cool stuff. Some places are destinations

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<v Speaker 1>in their own right, and if you live in one,

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<v Speaker 1>be sure to capitalize on this. People pay good money

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<v Speaker 1>to deal with t s A and turbulence to fly

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<v Speaker 1>to your town. You get the town without needing to

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<v Speaker 1>do any of this. A listener from Los Angeles recently

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<v Speaker 1>wrote me that she tries to adopt this attitude. I

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<v Speaker 1>subscribe to l a magazine and keep a running list

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<v Speaker 1>of things I really want to see. She says, I

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<v Speaker 1>keep Google maps of the city with things I want

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<v Speaker 1>to do clustered together, then add new things to the

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<v Speaker 1>appropriate map as I learned about them. So, for instance,

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<v Speaker 1>on a recent day, her family toured a stained glass

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<v Speaker 1>production facility, and while they were there checked out two

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<v Speaker 1>unique shops, a quote unquote secret garden that was open

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<v Speaker 1>to the public and a venue where you pay for

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<v Speaker 1>a table and food and then get access to their

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<v Speaker 1>library of board games that you can play all night.

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<v Speaker 1>Needless to say, that's a more memorable day than you'd

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<v Speaker 1>get by doing chores and watching Netflix. It's amazing to

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<v Speaker 1>me how many people don't ever truly explore their own city.

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<v Speaker 1>Our listener says, when I mentioned the things we've done

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<v Speaker 1>to people who've lived in l A their entire lives,

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<v Speaker 1>they are always surprised that such a thing even exists.

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<v Speaker 1>She notes that sarah pity happens too. While in that

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<v Speaker 1>secret garden, they happen to strike up a conversation with

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<v Speaker 1>someone working in law enforcement who talked about careers with

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<v Speaker 1>the listeners son. Of course, creating such a day requires planning.

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<v Speaker 1>You have to know about places and events, and you

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<v Speaker 1>have to make a decision to go to them. Subscribing

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<v Speaker 1>to a local magazine is a great idea, as is

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<v Speaker 1>checking out local online bulletin boards. Performance venues will be

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<v Speaker 1>happy to send you their schedules. In Any large institution

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<v Speaker 1>like a library, museum, university, or house of worship likely

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<v Speaker 1>has plenty of programming. Build in ten to fifteen minutes

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<v Speaker 1>a week for perusing such listings, and if you see

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<v Speaker 1>something that strikes your fancy at least get it on

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<v Speaker 1>the calendar. You're not committing to it unless it's, say,

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<v Speaker 1>Hamilton's production, and you need to get tickets in the

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<v Speaker 1>first minutes they're available. The vast majority of events won't

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<v Speaker 1>require a decision until a day or two ahead of

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<v Speaker 1>time at most. You can also make a local version

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<v Speaker 1>of my favorite list, the list of a hundred dreams

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<v Speaker 1>past episodes we've talked about, this long list of anything

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<v Speaker 1>you might want to spend more time doing. Try making

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<v Speaker 1>a different version of this list that involves anything you

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<v Speaker 1>might like to try within two hours of your house

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<v Speaker 1>that's feasible for a weekend day trip. Again, you're not

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<v Speaker 1>necessarily committing to anything. It's more that when you have

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<v Speaker 1>such a list, the perpetual question of what are we

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<v Speaker 1>doing this weekend can involve a more fruitful conversation than

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<v Speaker 1>the usual I don't know, what do you want to do?

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<v Speaker 1>You can look at the list and remember that you

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<v Speaker 1>thought it might be fun to go to a pick

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<v Speaker 1>your own farm, and hey, your calendar of events shows

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<v Speaker 1>that the library near the pick your own farm is

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<v Speaker 1>having a concert that night too. Now you're making memories

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<v Speaker 1>in your local landscape, which can give us a profound

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<v Speaker 1>sense of belonging while also making time feel rich and full.

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<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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<v Speaker 1>here's to making the most of our time. M Hey everybody,

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