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Speaker 1: Welcome to your diary episode.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm a bit of a nomad, so these episodes come

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Speaker 1: to from wherever I'm living or traveling to at the time,

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Speaker 1: so I'll share with you what's going on in my world,

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Speaker 1: from book tours, animal encounters, delish meals, nature adventures, health

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Speaker 1: discoveries to swimming in hidden Byron Bay beaches. Come with

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Speaker 1: me as I share my adventures with you.

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Speaker 2: Hello.

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Speaker 1: So this is a Bangalow diary for the Americans listening

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Speaker 1: to this. Bangalow is a hinterland town in the northern

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Speaker 1: Rivers of New South Wales, so really close to Byron Bay,

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Speaker 1: like a twenty minute drive fifteen to twenty minute drive

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Speaker 1: from Byron Bay, which is a famous like surf hippie

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Speaker 1: town that the Boss and I love, and we have

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Speaker 1: lived here on and off over the past five years.

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Speaker 1: Like when I started spending half of my time in America,

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Speaker 1: Boss would be in Byron and we've lived in different areas.

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Speaker 1: We've lived in Bangalore, which is where we are now.

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Speaker 1: We're staying with our mates and it's so nice to

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Speaker 1: be back here. That air it's like a really humid

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Speaker 1: rainforest kind of vibe. So the air just feels really

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Speaker 1: like balmy, and there's always wildlife. I've seen cooker burrows,

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Speaker 1: I've seen bats, keep looking out for snakes. Haven't seen

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Speaker 1: a snake yet, hopefully.

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Speaker 2: I will. And just kind of been soaking up.

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Speaker 1: All the nature and morning walks and just trying to

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Speaker 1: like soak up all of the magic that Bangalow has

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Speaker 1: to offer. And because we used to live here, it's

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Speaker 1: really nice to come back and it's got a real

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Speaker 1: villagey kind of feel. So that is what we've been doing.

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Speaker 1: On Monday, we flew in and so we had been

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Speaker 1: spending time in Malbs. Dad picked us up from that

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Speaker 1: hotel stay I did at the Motley Hotel in Richmond,

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Speaker 1: which we love, and then Dad was we didn't have

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Speaker 1: a flight till the afternoon, so Dad's like, let's go

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Speaker 1: for lunch, and he took us to this place called Convoy,

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Speaker 1: which is the same owners as Terror Twilight, which we love,

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Speaker 1: and both Dad and I got these gluten free sweet

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Speaker 1: potato pancakes so good and they just were like the

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Speaker 1: most delicious thing around they had. They were cinnamon skroll

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Speaker 1: flavor and they had a crumb on them and delish.

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Speaker 1: Highly recommend if you're in Melbourne, go to Convoy and

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Speaker 1: get them. And then Terror Twilight has the same gluten

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Speaker 1: free sweet potato pancakes but a black forest situation.

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Speaker 2: So good.

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Speaker 1: So then from there we went home did a mad

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Speaker 1: dash packed, which is what I'm about to do now.

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Speaker 1: We're about to do a mad dash pack because we're

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Speaker 1: moving from our mate's place in Bangalow to an Airbnb tonight.

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Speaker 2: The sabo should I say? So?

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Speaker 1: That's really exciting. I'm looking forward to yeah, oh why

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Speaker 1: can hear dog go? I'm looking forward to our little

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Speaker 1: We've booked a little rainforest stayed there, which is going

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Speaker 1: to be really really nice. But here's some of the

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Speaker 1: cool stuff we've done in Bangalow our full disclosure, our

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Speaker 1: mate's own woods a cafe in Bangalow, a good mate

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Speaker 1: Salmon Andy and it is The food is so delicious.

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Speaker 1: It's the first place we went when we landed from

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Speaker 1: La Like, it's that good.

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Speaker 2: It's so yummy.

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Speaker 1: I swear by their banana bread. It's gluten free, vegan,

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Speaker 1: dairy free, and they do this like whipped maple vegan

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Speaker 1: butter on top with like a macadamia crumb and berry

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Speaker 1: like a blueberry is a compost that we say like

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Speaker 1: a cookedown berry mixture. And then we tried for the

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Speaker 1: first time this gluten free carrot cake, so yummy.

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Speaker 2: What else did we get?

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Speaker 1: I got this new thing that's going to be launching

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Speaker 1: on the menu soon, which is a Mexican shoshushka, which

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Speaker 1: is where the eggs approached in the like sauciness. And

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Speaker 1: it was all like it can bean, so yummy. Dirlish

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Speaker 1: ten out of ten loved it.

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Speaker 2: And what did Boss get?

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, Oh, he always gets a little

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Speaker 1: egg and bacon brecky rolls.

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Speaker 2: And what else have we had from there? We've been

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Speaker 1: This morning the boys got their famous it's like a

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Speaker 1: cheese scne with veggiemit, which is very Australian to my

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Speaker 1: American friends. Veggiemite is like this yeasty spread, but it's

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Speaker 1: got quite a pungent, strong flavor. But ossies are mad

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Speaker 1: it in ages. And so they got this like cheesy

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Speaker 2: Look really good.

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Speaker 1: And I've been gieing my long blacks. The best coffee

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Speaker 1: also been going to Touch Shop, so it was the

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Speaker 1: first time we actually went to tuch Shop, which is

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Speaker 1: there another place that they own. It's more restaurant vibes.

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Speaker 1: It is open during the days I think Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

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Speaker 1: or maybe Wednesday, Thursday, Fridays for lunches and so, but

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Speaker 1: we've been for the last two nights for dinner. So

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night is cheap Tuesday and you can get like

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Speaker 1: yummy fried chicken and what.

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Speaker 2: Else did we get? We got tacos, which was really nice.

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Speaker 1: And then last night we did it was their past

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Speaker 1: tonight and I had this beautiful beef risotto.

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Speaker 2: Boss got a really yummy.

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Speaker 1: Fish dish and Andy got a passa dish.

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Speaker 2: Really really yummy, really really good.

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Speaker 1: And then tomorrow I've got a really big pod with

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Speaker 1: an American guest first thing in the morning, and I

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Speaker 1: have just received their book manuscripts, So I'm going to

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Speaker 1: literally now have to just like pack up myself and

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Speaker 1: bunker down and prep for this podcast literally all day long,

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Speaker 1: because it's a final mad dash. I've got to somehow

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Speaker 1: read two manuscripts in the next six hours. So I've

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Speaker 1: got some speed reading ahead of me, but the guest

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Speaker 1: is really big and I couldn't say no. And as

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Speaker 1: you know, anyone that's this pot, I rarely record on

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Speaker 1: Zoom and this is going to be a Zoom recording

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Speaker 1: because they live in America, so that'll be really fun.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just going to be today, a lot

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Speaker 1: And I've got another pod on Monday with a local

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Speaker 1: author here that I'm actually m seeing their book launch

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Speaker 1: in Byron Bay for the Monday night as well, so

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Speaker 1: Really keen to also like downregulate and just chill and

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Speaker 1: take it easy while we're in Byron as well, because

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Speaker 1: it is just such a beautiful place to be and

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Speaker 1: to ground and just like be in nature and all

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Speaker 1: the cool thing all that kind of like you know,

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Speaker 1: important stuff I think I would say, but that is me,

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Speaker 1: my friends.

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Speaker 2: This is your Bangalow update.

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Speaker 1: And if you are ever visiting Byron Bay, make sure

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Speaker 1: you get to Bangalow. It is such a beautiful hinterland

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Speaker 1: town and I love it and Boston. I literally we

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Speaker 1: had our little house we rented here for I want

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Speaker 1: to say, three years before we moved out of Bangers,

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Speaker 1: and we just, yeah, love it. The farmer's market, everything's amazing.

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited to go to the farmer's market tomorrow

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Speaker 1: after I record the pod. We're going to literally record,

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Speaker 1: have a coffee, record the pod, and then just like

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Speaker 1: jet straight to the farmer's market. I cannot wait. It's

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Speaker 1: my favorite farmer's market in all of the Northern Rivers.

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Speaker 1: It's the mull and Bimbie Friday morning farmer's market, and

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Speaker 1: I have dreamt about it since we moved to La

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Speaker 1: So I am just going to get all my favorite

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Speaker 1: things and just have a few days of just like

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Speaker 1: real retreat vibes at home and eating really clean and

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Speaker 1: feeling really good. And yeah, I'm really looking forward to

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Speaker 1: this little staycation vacation thing because this is the end

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Speaker 1: of our trip now, and soon it's time to head

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Speaker 1: back to Beautiful Angeles. I've got some really exciting things

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Speaker 1: I also am really looking forward to this kind of

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Speaker 1: importance of like going back to la really recharged and

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Speaker 1: really excited because Melbourne and Sydney was like go, go go,

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Speaker 1: we really didn't stop, whereas here, I know we can

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Speaker 1: kind of like slow a little bit, being nature, swim

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Speaker 2: And content and you know all those things. Anyway, that

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Speaker 2: is me, my friends.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at two three big suitcases here. I'm about

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Speaker 1: to pack and get ready for the next Airbnb location,

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Speaker 1: which will be Noise if you have anywhere you want

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Speaker 1: me to try or anything like that. And Byron, we're

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Speaker 1: here for a fair bit longer, so looking forward to

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Speaker 1: soaking all of it up. And your next diary episode

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Speaker 1: will be a Byron Diary. Today it's Bangalore in the

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Speaker 1: hinterland of the Northern Rivers, and next week will be

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Speaker 1: a Byron Diary. And I've got a fun influencer stay

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Speaker 1: coming up as well in Byron, but I think that

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Speaker 1: won't happen next week that I have in the week after,

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Speaker 2: So that's exciting.

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Speaker 1: So lots lots of fun stuff to soak up. I

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Speaker 1: am Also, I don't know about you, because we've been

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Speaker 1: moving around so much and doing like two nights here,

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Speaker 1: three nights there. I'm just so excited a ground and

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Speaker 1: like actually unpack my suitcase because we've been living out

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Speaker 1: to just like fully unpack at this next airbnb because

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Speaker 1: we're there for a while. All right, Mega love, my friends,

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Speaker 1: go do that stuff you love. I'm going to get

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Speaker 1: into podprep and pack in these suit suitcases, all right.

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Speaker 2: Hooru Big Love by