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Speaker 1: Welcome to your Diary episode. Here's the thing. I'm a

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Speaker 1: bit of a nomad, so these episodes come to you

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Speaker 1: 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 discoveries,

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Speaker 1: to swimming in Hidden Byron Bay Beaches. Come with me

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Speaker 1: as I share my adventures with you. Tali Ho, Hello,

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Speaker 1: La Diary, coming at cha. I want to say this

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Speaker 1: might be week seven, recording this once again in my

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Speaker 1: car because hello, great acoustics. Okay, the week that was

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles went to a Dodger's match. Love a

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Speaker 1: Dodgers match. Fun fact, if you go to a home

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Speaker 1: match on a Friday night at Dodgers Stadium, they have

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Speaker 1: fireworks every Friday if it's a home match, as far

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Speaker 1: as I'm aware. So we saw Dodgers versus Cubs, the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs starting to understand the rules. I think that

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Speaker 1: is my fourth baseball game now, so I'm starting to

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Speaker 1: get my head around the rules. I got to say

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Speaker 1: I have a thing for a merch store, no joke.

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Speaker 1: You can get really good La caps right around there's

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Speaker 1: a shop called Lids, which is like you can find

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Speaker 1: great caps. Now, since I've been dyeing my hair brown,

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Speaker 1: my natural hair is blonde and so like a dark,

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Speaker 1: good at wearing caps for that, you know, after that

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Speaker 1: very gray. So anyway, the cool thing about the Dodger's

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Speaker 1: Merch Store at the Dodger Stadium is you can get

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Speaker 1: stuff you usually can't find anywhere else. So I got

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Speaker 1: myself a little cap with palm trees all over it,

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Speaker 1: and it's an Ala Lakers Dodgers should I say not

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Speaker 1: Lakers cap. I already have what's called the confetti cap,

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Speaker 1: which has got baby little alays all over it and

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Speaker 1: then the big lay on the top of the cap.

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Speaker 1: You might have seen me and wear it all the

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Speaker 1: time on male INSTRONI, but this instead of little alas,

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Speaker 1: has got little palm trees all over. It's very cute.

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Speaker 1: So I got that for myself. It was a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun, though I didn't get a Dodger dog. The

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Speaker 1: But it does look cool. It looks like imagine a

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Speaker 1: Bunning's hot dog, but forget the slice of bread. It's

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Speaker 1: in like a proper hot dog bun. And then the

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Speaker 1: condiments are ketchup, which is tomato sauce for us, mustard

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Speaker 1: like a dijon, and then pickles chopped up pickles, don't

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Speaker 1: mind if I do. I was like eye. My friend

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Speaker 1: Alex got the pickles, and I was like, oh, that

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Speaker 1: would make it delish. But I just knew i'd have

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Speaker 1: it's called. Then it's really interesting, like there's so much

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Speaker 1: I saw all the food that's like Dunkin Donuts. There's

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Speaker 1: different bars. It all feels very spandangly. There's nachos, there's

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Speaker 1: giant pretzels. You can get whatever you want at Dodgers Stadium.

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Speaker 1: It's really cool. It is kind of like near Deep

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Speaker 1: hope I'm saying that right geographically, but it took That's

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Speaker 1: one thing. If you're going to go from the west side,

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Speaker 1: I used to live in East Lost Fearless, it would

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Speaker 1: last spoke, I was going for my license. The next

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Speaker 1: day I rocked up. So I have been to DMV.

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Speaker 1: So it's Department of Motor Vehicles. I think that's what

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Speaker 1: my goodness. First of all, lush, I felt like I

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Speaker 1: was in a luxurious DMB, gorgeous, clean, crisp. And then

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Speaker 1: rock up Santa Monic one and they're so lovely. They're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: square the driving teach. And my driving teacher was so lovely.

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Speaker 1: chit chatting about Australia or about German. Oh sorry, not

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Speaker 1: about Belgium. Gin. He was so so nice. He fully

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Speaker 1: was one where I was like, oh, this is a

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Speaker 1: gentle with me. I got my points, so I think

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Speaker 1: you're allowed to fail with I don't know how many

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Speaker 1: points you're allowed to lose, but I lost four. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how I actually do. In America, you're allowed

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Speaker 1: or in LA. In California, you're allowed to turn on

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Speaker 1: So they call it the Cali Slide. I knew I

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Speaker 1: could do the Cali Slide, but there was a lot

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Speaker 1: I shouldn't have snuck out. I should have waited until

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Speaker 1: there was a big enough gap for me to go. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: the Cally Slide and I was like, oh, I can't

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Speaker 1: I've got one hundred percent success rate with Aussies. You

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Speaker 1: haven't got my official driver's license, and they give it

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Speaker 1: to you now with real ID, So real ID will

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Speaker 1: then become I use that instead of a passport with

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Speaker 1: travel in America. I think that will become a legal

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Speaker 1: to have real ID. This is again info if you're

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Speaker 1: am on an American permanent resident anyway, right, what else

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Speaker 1: is on my list? So I passed it? Thank you

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Speaker 1: for all the love and and all the support. Also,

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Speaker 1: you don't pay you to do your written your physical one.

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Speaker 1: You pay to do your written ones. So so once

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Speaker 1: and do it again. And you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: Like I thought, every time you go you got to

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Speaker 1: I got it in one, and then I got it, well,

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Speaker 1: I got the physical one in one, Okay. I also

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Speaker 1: went to a book club. We went to this beautiful

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Speaker 1: So I've already told you about this place called Zinc,

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Speaker 1: which is rocket for us cherry toms. There's like a

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Speaker 1: like Ala Bowl. It's got a little bit of cheese

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Speaker 1: my goodness. Okay, I've tried so many new coffee places

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Speaker 1: I go to Yog's in the morning and I take

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Speaker 1: myself out for coffee. Right, first of all, I met

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Speaker 1: so I'm just kind of like in that let's build

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Speaker 1: an awesome gang vibe. And so anyway, I had a

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Speaker 1: with two shots of espresso. Holy mack. It tasted insane,

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Speaker 1: like ten out of ten insane. I loved it, and

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Speaker 1: It's not hot enough. He yet to be ordering ice.

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Speaker 1: I only order ice coffees in the summertime, not so

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Speaker 1: still crisp in the mornings here. But okay, So that

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Speaker 1: call it erawan and it's nowhere spelled backwards. Anyway, the

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Speaker 1: other place I've had a great coffee, and I've started

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Speaker 1: the matter is, I'm a black coffee drinker, but I've

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Speaker 1: kind of been taking myself up for little almond lardes

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Speaker 1: after yogs. Anyway, I've started putting it with cinnamon because

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Speaker 1: and then you know, and they've got the like pump

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Speaker 1: Pleasure doing business with your friends, And I'll see you

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Speaker 1: All right, Mega love from Ala City of Dreams. Bye,