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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, I'm Kaylie Short and this is too much

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Speaker 1: to say asking questions now turn it out you If

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Speaker 1: you can hear things in the background of this podcast,

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Speaker 1: I'm very sorry. I'm still recording from home and for

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Speaker 1: some reason, my neighborhood has gotten so noisy, whether it's

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Speaker 1: which I feel like a reason notice or construction. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: very very very annoying. So um, hopefully we'll be in

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Speaker 1: my god, it's so loud, but for real. So anyways,

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Speaker 1: Hello guys, how are you hope you've had a wonderful week. Um,

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Speaker 1: I've actually had a really wonderful week, and I wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk about something today that is applicable to me

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Speaker 1: having a good week, um, and are unapplicable to living

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Speaker 1: beautiful places. What is with what is scientifically called a

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Speaker 1: Mediterranean climate, and that basically just means that it's the

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Speaker 1: it's always warm gets cool at night. So you can

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Speaker 1: still wear your cute jackets. But it's like it's just

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Speaker 1: you know what it's going to be. I personally fucking

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Speaker 1: love that I don't have to put away my clothes

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Speaker 1: for the Season's like my whole closet is out. I

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Speaker 1: I can just dress the same every day. But um,

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Speaker 1: And I feel like I've gotten really used to the

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Speaker 1: of keep myself feeling good during those really like you know,

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Speaker 1: So what we're talking about is this lovely little thing

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Speaker 1: called seasonal effective disorder. It affects many, many many people. Um.

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Speaker 1: like it's actually like a real thing and it happens

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Speaker 1: to pro vitamin D deficiency, and like I think that

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Speaker 1: But if any of this resonates with you, you now

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Speaker 1: So on this episode, we're talking about seasonal depression and

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you the like actual Mayo Clinic

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Speaker 1: dot com dot com um. Seasonal effective disorder, or s

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Speaker 1: a really nice grounding thing to remember. UM. But thank

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Speaker 1: you guys so much for tuning in. I'm Kaylie shure.

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Speaker 1: This is too much to say, and I will see

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Speaker 1: you next week. Don't ask me questions now, turn it

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Speaker 1: out you