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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to this edition of Amy and TJ. It

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Speaker 1: is Sunday, October twelfth, and a new study caught our

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Speaker 1: eye about how just twenty minutes can change your health.

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Speaker 1: That we see a lot of these headlines, we often

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Speaker 1: attribute them to clickbait, but I loved this one in

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Speaker 1: particular because it's how twenty minutes in nature can boost

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Speaker 1: your health. And if you have been dismissive of that,

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Speaker 1: there are real scientific research behind that even a lunchtime

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Speaker 1: walk to the park or taking a beat on a

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Speaker 1: bench can actually have significant health done if it's not

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Speaker 1: just physically to you, but mentally as well. And they

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Speaker 1: go through four ways that being in nature actually improves

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Speaker 1: your health.

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Speaker 2: Do you buy it?

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Speaker 3: No, I've just clickbait. You fell for it, just a

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Speaker 3: clickbait like all the other headlines here we go seriously

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Speaker 3: makes you think you just said there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: clickbait headlines. Yeah, you study this and that. This one

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Speaker 3: got your attention, But what makes this one any different?

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Speaker 1: Because for me, if I'm feeling stressed in any way,

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Speaker 1: if I just go outside, if I just walk outside

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Speaker 1: and I don't care what the weather is or even

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Speaker 1: honestly where I am if I can find a tree,

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Speaker 1: if I can find green grass, if I can hear water,

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Speaker 1: it immediately takes my stress level down.

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Speaker 2: Do you not have that same experience?

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Speaker 3: You need to live outside? Then you should just go

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Speaker 3: live off the land. That'll be good for your health.

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Speaker 3: I don't I do it all the time. When there

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Speaker 3: was a time we still had we had two places.

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Speaker 3: We some of the the ideas you got most from me,

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Speaker 3: the freshest ideas. Where after I took a walk, i'd

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Speaker 3: leave you say bye. By the time I got ten

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Speaker 3: fifteen minutes and got to the other apartment, you were

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Speaker 3: flooded with text messages of ideas and thoughts of this

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Speaker 3: and that. So yeah, I'm a huge fan. The just

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Speaker 3: need to get out of the house.

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Speaker 1: You said your mind is firing. You would say that

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Speaker 1: my mind is firing on this walk, and that I

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Speaker 1: think all. I think everyone listening can say they have

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Speaker 1: had a similar experience. But it's interesting to understand the why,

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Speaker 1: the science behind it. And so according to the study,

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Speaker 1: they actually looked at twenty thousand people.

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Speaker 2: This is a study out of the UK.

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Speaker 1: And they say, when you see green trees, when you

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Speaker 1: smell pine, even if you hear leaves rustling, or a

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Speaker 1: bird chirping, It actually impacts your add Wait, I'm an

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Speaker 1: autonomic nervous system, so that's all the nerves that control

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Speaker 1: your unconscious process. So you don't know what's happening, but

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Speaker 1: you can feel it happening, and you don't know why

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Speaker 1: it's happening, but it's happening. And yes, water, Yes, so

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Speaker 1: like even the sounds of nature can actually change your

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Speaker 1: heart rate variability. So your heart it actually starts to

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Speaker 1: beat slower, you actually start to calm down physically. That

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Speaker 1: is fascinating to know. So sometimes all it takes is

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Speaker 1: for you to hear something, smell something, see something in nature,

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Speaker 1: and your body biologically physically response.

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Speaker 2: Have you had that experience?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's while we go to the ocean, that's while

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Speaker 3: you go to the beach, crashing waves. Do it for

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Speaker 3: me every time. There's very simple things. And yes, people

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Speaker 3: can relate to that a bird chirp, and you can

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Speaker 3: relate to hearing raining outside. You can relate to hearing

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Speaker 3: the leaves after the wind hits them. We can all

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Speaker 3: relate to yes, finding nature, finding peace. It this all

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Speaker 3: makes perfect sense. But yeah, it confirms how it works

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Speaker 3: for everybody, and that's why being in a concrete jungle,

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Speaker 3: you're all stressed out. I ain't heard a bird, I

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Speaker 3: ain't heard a damn thing.

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Speaker 2: Except for police.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to study done for people living in urban

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Speaker 1: areas where you hear a barrage of ambulances, fire trucks,

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Speaker 3: I want to know specifically the block of thirtieth and

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Speaker 2: Over there, it's terrible.

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Speaker 1: Or if you live near a fire station, which I

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Speaker 1: have moved somewhere quieter, and it has absolutely impacted my wellbeing,

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Speaker 1: and I believe it has yours as well.

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Speaker 3: Oh, without a doubt, you can say whatever. I'm just

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Speaker 3: walking to the other room and I'm good. It doesn't

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Speaker 3: matter how this episode goes. I'm going to walk out

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 1: It does speak volumes to when you're choosing where you live.

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Speaker 1: If you know you have to be in a busy

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Speaker 1: been in this situation. But if you can make a

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Speaker 1: point to find some space, someplace where there is nature,

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Speaker 1: it actually has an impact.

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Speaker 2: So they say your.

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Speaker 1: Hormones actually reboot, that is the word they used. So

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Speaker 1: spending time outdoors triggers your endocrine system, which then that

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Speaker 1: impacts your levels of cortisol and adrenaline, and those are

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Speaker 1: the hormones that come raging on when you're stressed out,

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Speaker 1: when you're taxed, so it actually calms down, it drops

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Speaker 1: your adrenaline hormone. So that is actually when you have

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Speaker 1: an increase in hormones, like your adrenaline is rushing, it

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Speaker 1: actually is a killer of cells in your blood system.

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Speaker 2: It actually creates disease.

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Speaker 1: I remember my brother, who is a physician, told me

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Speaker 1: stress is absolutely one.

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Speaker 2: Of the biggest killers in this country.

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Speaker 1: And people don't recognize how important it is to address

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Speaker 1: stress because stress leads to cancer, stress leads to heart

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Speaker 1: to stress leads to all sorts of things that end

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Speaker 1: up taking away years of our lives. And so to

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Speaker 1: actually focus on that and recognize, how can I put

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Speaker 1: myself in an environment where my stress level goes down.

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Speaker 2: Even if it's just for twenty minutes each day.

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Speaker 3: My pastor said, family member will raise your blood pressure fast,

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Speaker 3: and the piece of pork, ever will To your point, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we think, well, yes, we should focus on diet, We

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Speaker 3: should focus on what we put in our bodies. We

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Speaker 3: focus on all of that so much, don't we That's

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Speaker 3: what we should change, That's what we should change. No,

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Speaker 3: you're stressing yourself out. I don't think we too. I

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Speaker 3: don't think we see directly enough that connection between the

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Speaker 3: stress we put on ourselves and how that impacts our lives.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, getting outside can reduce that automatically all.

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Speaker 1: For Okay, this is really crazy. So this study found

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Speaker 1: that people in a hotel room for three days who

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Speaker 1: were breathing in the smell of a Japanese cypress. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So that was it was a hotel they did, Yes, Yes,

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Speaker 1: then they put it like this, a three day weekend

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Speaker 1: they said they were doing. They've tested your blood levels,

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Speaker 1: your hormone levels. Even a month later, it can be

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Speaker 1: twenty four percent improved from where it was, So it

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Speaker 3: But this idea, the talking about being in nature, they

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Speaker 3: didn't know they were in nature, correct, right, They were

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Speaker 3: breathing in something, had no idea they.

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Speaker 1: Were breathing, they were emulating nature. So even if you

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Speaker 1: can't make it outdoors. That's why lighting candles, why do

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Speaker 1: you instantly feel better?

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Speaker 3: Wait, what's the connection here with the cypress?

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Speaker 1: Then the smell, the smell of a tree, the smell

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Speaker 1: hotel rooms, absolutely Elicits a chemical reaction in your body

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Speaker 2: They feel like you're outdoors.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I didn't realize, Okay, I didn't put that together.

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Speaker 3: They were conscious of what they were smelling. They essentially

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Speaker 1: I don't know that they were conscious of it, but

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Speaker 1: actually was a chemical response in their body. Hormone levels

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Speaker 2: How cool is that?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 1: Here one of the sciences says, pine is a really

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Speaker 1: good example. The smell of a pine forest can make

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Speaker 1: for about ten minutes. They've done this study. So when

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Speaker 1: scents that emulate nature, you actually will have a physical

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Speaker 1: detectable response in stress hormones.

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Speaker 2: That's remarkable.

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Speaker 3: Or do we have what's our scent to your candle scent? Well?

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Speaker 1: I love pine. I do love a nature scent.

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Speaker 2: What other we like? Pumpkin in the fall? I like

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Speaker 3: There was there were two flavors I hated, but they

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Speaker 3: became a candle you had and I loved. What was it?

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Speaker 3: It was in the bedroom. I hate coconut, pumpkin or something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's exactly what it was, and I

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Speaker 1: And you made a lot of fun of me one

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Speaker 1: I just said, look, I pretty much like every candle

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Speaker 2: And I believe you made fun of me from that moment.

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Speaker 3: Fun of you because you said that out loud of

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Speaker 3: TJ Max with me and Spein, and we were embarrassed,

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Speaker 1: I got specific you had thought about this before I

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Speaker 1: have because I have spent a lot of time. Okay,

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Speaker 1: anyone listening, how many of you have spent and wasted

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Speaker 1: countless minutes smelling every candle in TJ Max and Marshall's

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Speaker 1: trying to find the perfect fun my hands down, I.

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Speaker 2: Need like a coffee to cleanse the palate.

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Speaker 1: You know, they have you and like those fancy stores

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Speaker 1: that you smell coffee beans or something to try and

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Speaker 2: When you're in TJ Max, that's not available. So you're just.

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Speaker 1: Going from candle to candle to candle, and every time

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Speaker 1: I smell one with a vanilla undertone, I'm out.

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Speaker 3: I just get anyone that's labeled tobacco or cognac, and

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Speaker 3: those are the ones that get there, usually in a

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Speaker 3: black case. Those are the candles for dudes.

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Speaker 2: You like those, Yeah, I like put.

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Speaker 3: Them in the bathroom. I put them in the office.

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Speaker 3: I put it. Yeah it smells. Yeah that's a good smell.

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Speaker 3: I don't want in the living room, but yeah, others

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Speaker 3: it works, all right.

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Speaker 2: This study was so fascinating to me.

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