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Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Girl. Hey, everyone,

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Speaker 1: welcome to I Choose Me. This podcast is all about

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Speaker 1: the choices we make. We're back with Phil Rosenthal, host

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Speaker 1: of Somebody Feed Phil, and he's about to tempt me

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Speaker 1: with some amazing restaurant choices. Warning you're about to get hungry. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm a vegan, so you know it's I'm limited as

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Speaker 1: far as like where I can go.

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Speaker 2: And if you go to New York and LA you're doing.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're doing okay. Anywhere else be.

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Speaker 2: A happy vegan?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure?

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Speaker 2: Just the Indian food alone, right?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, did you go to London?

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Speaker 2: Of course?

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Speaker 1: Have you had the Indian food in London?

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Speaker 2: Amazing?

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Speaker 1: Amazing?

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Speaker 2: But I found a place in New York that I

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Speaker 2: think is as good as London. Nothing's as good as India. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: been there?

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Speaker 1: No, not yet?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So you can be a very happy vegan in

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Speaker 2: India because a lot of people are so. And and

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Speaker 2: if you listen, if you like Indian food gets where,

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Speaker 2: it's really good in India. Same with every other country

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Speaker 2: you can think of. But there's a place in New York.

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Speaker 2: Next time you go. You might want to write this down.

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Speaker 2: It's called Bungalow.

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Speaker 1: Bungalow.

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Speaker 2: It's on the Lower East Side. Okay, brilliant, brilliant chef.

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Speaker 2: And that's some of the best Indian food I've ever

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Speaker 2: had in New York, London or India. That's the one

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Speaker 2: thing I find. Don't be mad at me, people that

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Speaker 2: maybe La doesn't have as strong a game.

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Speaker 1: M Yeah, I've never really like sought out all the

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Speaker 1: Indian food.

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Speaker 2: There are great places, there's just not I find as

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Speaker 2: many as in New York, London, and of course India.

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Speaker 1: Is it's what's your favorite kind of food?

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Speaker 2: I actually love Indian and I can eat it once

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Speaker 2: a week. I think I do really love Italian. I

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Speaker 2: love Chinese, I love Japanese, I love barbecue, I love

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Speaker 2: Korean barbecue. I love Korean food. I love you know,

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Speaker 2: I live right in the middle of town, and you

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Speaker 2: know I love a diner.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, I want to ask you about the diner.

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Speaker 1: You are opening a diner.

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Speaker 2: Yes with Nancy Silverton. You know who she is?

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Speaker 1: Incredible? What's it called? And where can people find it?

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Speaker 2: Because it'll be on large bumple of art in LA.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully it's lovely little street.

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Speaker 2: Lovely hopefully it'll be uh end of the summer. But

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Speaker 2: you know, the city's very tough with the inspections and

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Speaker 2: everything with just yesterday a guy came in. Different guy.

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Speaker 2: It's always a different thing.

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Speaker 1: Was a different guy.

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Speaker 2: We did this, take a look according to the blueprint. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: that's no good. What do you mean The inspector said,

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Speaker 2: this is exactly right. Yeah, but I didn't.

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Speaker 1: Why do they have to make things so difficult?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but it's like, you know, have you

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Speaker 2: ever worked with a studio where you get a note

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Speaker 2: from one guy and then you do it, and then

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Speaker 2: another guy has a different that's like that. Yeah, everyone

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Speaker 2: wants to be king of their kingdom, so you have

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Speaker 2: to deal with that. But it's it's a necessary evil. Anyway.

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Speaker 2: The Diaerd's going to be fantastic.

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Speaker 1: It's named after your mom and dad.

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Speaker 2: It is called max Helens Maxon Helens. And they were

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Speaker 2: always in somebody feed Phill while they were alive. They

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Speaker 2: did a little scene with me at the end. I

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Speaker 2: would zoom with them just like this from wherever I

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Speaker 2: was in the world to tell them about the place

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Speaker 2: I was at. And they were always so sweet and funny,

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Speaker 2: really funny. They never failed, they always delivered. Anyway, this

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Speaker 2: is a little tribute to them. My dad loved his

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Speaker 2: very soft scrambled eay. It was his favorite thing in life.

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Speaker 2: So there'll be Max's fluffy eggs on the menu and

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Speaker 2: Helen's Matsi bol soup.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm coming.

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Speaker 2: Come on.

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Speaker 1: You know it's hard to find a good mats of

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Speaker 1: ball soup.

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Speaker 2: Well, Nancy Silverton, I have to say, uh, no offense, mom,

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Speaker 2: but this is a little better.

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Speaker 1: Oh exciting everybody.

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Speaker 2: Everything he touches it becomes the best you ever had.

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Speaker 2: So imagine the diner of your dreams, like just nothing fancy,

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Speaker 2: just basic diner. The best waffle you ever had, the

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Speaker 2: the best Oh my god, well Vegan, it's gonna be

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Speaker 2: a little harder for you, But.

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Speaker 1: I know I can have a waffle. It's got to excentent,

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Speaker 2: Waffle batter have eggs in it, I.

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Speaker 1: Think, so, I think so maybe yours.

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Speaker 2: Well, salads, there's salads.

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Speaker 1: Well it's coming and that's a exciting. So everybody look

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Speaker 1: out for Max and Helen's opening soon hopefully. We talked

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Speaker 1: before about how your family seems to play such a

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Speaker 1: big role in everything you do, which again is why

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Speaker 1: I think everyone loves you. See what I did there,

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Speaker 1: from everybody loves Raymond to your foundation, to your new

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Speaker 1: diner to your new cookbook.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, what's happening.

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Speaker 1: You have a new cookbook.

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Speaker 2: Here's the first one, and that did very well. That

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Speaker 2: was a New York Times bestseller. Somebody feed filled the

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Speaker 2: book and we thought we'd expand on that. The first

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Speaker 2: one was just recipes from the first four seasons of

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Speaker 2: the show, but now we have eight scenes of the show,

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Speaker 2: so my favorite recipes from the rest of the show,

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Speaker 2: and friends and family recipes. So it's Phil's favorites.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, your life is so good right now.

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Speaker 1: You just eat and laugh and have fun and travel.

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Speaker 2: These are the values family, friends, food, travel, laughs. That's it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's life to me. That's that's what makes life good.

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Speaker 1: Did you grow up in a diner?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, My whole life spent in diners. Yeah, sure,

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Speaker 2: so New York, New Jersey, that whole area that's diner

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Speaker 2: we went after high school. This is where every event

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Speaker 2: after high school. Let's go to the diner. You have

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Speaker 2: a cheeseburger deluxe.

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Speaker 1: Would you know where I used to go Canters?

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Speaker 2: Of course. Well that's a deli and it's a lot deli.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm too old to go out that

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Speaker 2: And we see guns and roses there, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's quite a scene.

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Speaker 2: It was a scene, but it's wonderful. And I love

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Speaker 2: breakfast all day. I think that's great.

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Speaker 1: You and my husband both yes, yes, Dave loves a

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Speaker 2: Me too. We won't have breakfast burritos. That's too new.

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Speaker 2: So we're going back. Okay, this old school diner.

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Speaker 1: This is like on the plate.

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Speaker 2: And the designer of the space said, what do you want?

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Speaker 2: I said, listen, I just wanted to look like we

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Speaker 2: has that history. What if it looked like this diner's

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Speaker 2: the menu you kind of reflected, you know, the basic,

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Speaker 1: You got to go back to the classics. You got

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Speaker 1: to go back to where you started. I think that's

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Speaker 2: Well, it's that comfort food. It's that ratatoy thing if

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Speaker 1: It will take you somewhere. I know where it'll take me,

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Speaker 2: All are fantastic, but choose your own adventure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my gosh. Okay, So, like you said, you've

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Speaker 1: been married to your wife Monica since nineteen ninety Is

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Speaker 1: that right?

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Speaker 2: Exactly right?

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Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, that is rare and amazing. Congratulations in this

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Speaker 2: I have a travel show.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? You're gone a lot?

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Speaker 2: The real secret sense of humor?

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Speaker 1: I love that.

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Speaker 2: That's our most undervalue trade as human beings.

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Speaker 1: I think, well, what about when the jokes are old

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Speaker 2: She can always make me laugh. I think I can

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Speaker 2: if you don't have laughs with the person I don't,

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Speaker 2: My parents, you know, they came from they came from Germany.

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Speaker 2: I'm in good with mom, or I made dad laugh

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Speaker 2: or I made my brother laugh. That's everything. That's that's

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Speaker 2: that's like. And what's better? What's better? Everything's good when

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Speaker 1: What if what if there are homes out there that

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Speaker 2: You lighten up. First of all, you watch you don't

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Speaker 2: Somebody Feed the People?

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Speaker 1: Right, that's so true. I think we can get scared

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Speaker 2: Meeting great nice people like you? Because again that you asked,

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Speaker 1: It's so easy to listen and spread the word of

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Speaker 2: We still have to fight, We still have to fight for,

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Speaker 2: is it worth fighting for? Yes? Because we want to

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Speaker 1: And everybody wants to.

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Speaker 2: Be happy golden rule.

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Speaker 1: Yep, that's very good advice. Well, before I let you go,

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Speaker 1: Phil Rosenthal, what was your last I choose me moment?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I guess right before I got on with you,

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Speaker 2: to you. Uh, I was on the elliptical for a

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Speaker 2: half hour.

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Speaker 1: That great.

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Speaker 2: Right, So not only do I do weights in the morning,

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Speaker 2: but I find another spot if I want to watch TV.

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Speaker 2: Don't just sit there, get get up and move a

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Speaker 2: little bit. Mat you do feel better? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Move move move yeah yeah. Oh my goodness, it's been

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Speaker 1: such a pleasure talking to you.

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Speaker 2: My pleasure. Dear.

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Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go eat at the Douglas okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: or I'll see at the diner too, Yep, I'll be there.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Bye, dear Bye,