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Speaker 1: Hi, Catherine, Dougie, come over here, Hime over here, do

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Speaker 1: come up here, Dougie, come around, come around you thinking

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Speaker 1: about it? He's very thoughtful, Douggie comet. He only does

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Speaker 3: I love like on camera he just looks like a

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Speaker 1: There he is that's my baby, who's my beautiful baby.

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Speaker 4: He did get black again, like I know you had

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Speaker 4: said it. He turned brown and now he's I feel

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Speaker 1: Down yeah, good, down, good boy.

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Speaker 4: And Weddy, lets you snuggle him, even though he doesn't

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Speaker 1: I know. But he's getting better. He understands that there's

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Speaker 3: Chelsea, let's talk about books.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I've read a few, a bunch of books lately.

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Speaker 1: I have some good book recommendations.

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Speaker 3: Okay, do you want to start? Do you want to sure?

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Speaker 1: Sure? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Well, one that I have been reading that I just

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Speaker 3: I realized, like the three that I.

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Speaker 3: It's fiction.

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Speaker 4: There's like a tiny bit of magical realism in it,

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Speaker 3: But it is called in there, it's called north Woods.

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Speaker 4: It's by Daniel Mason, and it's all set in New

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Speaker 4: England at this house that's built like sort of maybe

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Speaker 4: Fitness and wellness questions? Well, Chelsea's personal trainer Ben Bruno

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Speaker 4: is about to guest on an episode, So right into

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Speaker 4: Dear Chelsea podcast at gmail dot com with all your

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Speaker 4: fitness and wellness questions.

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Speaker 1: What else?

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Speaker 4: You got a couple other ones that I really loved.

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Speaker 4: I just finished one called The Cold Vanish.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. This is called The Cold Vanish. It's by John Billman.

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Speaker 3: In the Woods, God We're just in the woods.

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Speaker 1: And now this next book is called Kin by Tyri Jones.

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Speaker 1: The word of the week is evocative evocative.

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Speaker 4: Adjective intending to bring out an especially emotional response. Chelsea

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