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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to our Friday episode of the Byron

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Speaker 1: Life Diaries. This is a little taste of life in

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Speaker 1: Byron Bay with the Boss.

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Speaker 2: And I have just moved to Each week, only you

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Speaker 2: know what's been happening and share our journey with you all,

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Speaker 2: from food to nature, to celeb spotting to yolks.

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Speaker 1: You name it. This is a weekly check in and

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Speaker 1: we'll cover it all. Sending big love from our new

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Speaker 1: home Byron Bay. Bonil, I feel like bon might be nighttime.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Friday episode of the pod. If you

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Speaker 1: new to this episode, it's kind of like a diary

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Speaker 1: esque kind of check in where we talk about basically

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Speaker 1: life in Byron Bay, which is where the Boss and

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Speaker 1: I live, and what's been going on. I've just added

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Speaker 1: a new section to it where I do a little

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Speaker 1: book review and I am so pumped to talk talk

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Speaker 1: to you about that book because it's only just come

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Speaker 1: out this week and Monday's episode will be with that author,

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Speaker 1: so I cannot wait. I'll tell you all about that soon.

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Speaker 1: But first of all, it's still a weak catch up Easter.

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Speaker 1: I hope everyone had a lovely Easter. I hope you

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Speaker 1: still feel like you've been living off chocolate because I

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Speaker 1: am sure as I'll do. I've just in the last

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Speaker 1: two days kind of clicked into back into intermitt and fasting,

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Speaker 1: and I'm starting to feel a little bit clearer. In fact,

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Speaker 1: don't you hear this. That's my little straw tapping on

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Speaker 1: my coffee cup because I'm drinking my second coffee as

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Speaker 1: we record this, So I might even just use this

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Speaker 1: opportunity to have a little slurpy. I'm drinking with a

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Speaker 1: straw because white I whiten my teeth so easter. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: both Boss Boss's fam and my fam are from Melbourne

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Speaker 1: and we were kind of in mini lockdown here in

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Speaker 1: Barden Bay. We became what's called an orange zone. The

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Speaker 1: blues fest got canceled here, and you know, masks were

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Speaker 1: we'll kind of use that from Melbourne life anyway, when

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Speaker 1: Melbos was in lockdown. But I think it was the

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Speaker 1: we'd always call Bunday because everyone would pick up their

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Speaker 1: a Thursday aka Bunday. We went into like a mini

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Speaker 1: lockdown thing, and we came out of it. I think

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Speaker 1: Monday night you were still allowed to have people over

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Speaker 1: us had a little Easter feast. Boss goaded lamb roast, spuds,

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Speaker 1: meal with this incredible raspberry jam inside. So young. Then

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Speaker 1: I did an Easter egg hunt Sunday morning for the Boss,

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Speaker 1: like even last night we were making a sneaky little

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Speaker 1: I've had a few food experiences in Byron since the

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Speaker 1: My friend Kelly was in town. We did the lighthouse

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Speaker 1: And then I had a bulletproof coffee. Got a lot

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Speaker 1: the food was incredible and all made by his partner, Sam,

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Speaker 1: So Boss and I were so spoiled because the food

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Speaker 1: What else are in my little notes? Think of trying

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Speaker 1: the weekend. Excuse me, I'm just having another swiggle of

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Speaker 1: my cough ones. Can you? Oh yeah, that's my glass straw?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, it's not. How rude? Am I just keeping

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Speaker 1: a sex. So Monday's episode that came out this week

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Speaker 1: It's incredible. And in Monday's episode, even if you're not

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Speaker 1: found really enjoyable in Kim's episode. So I'll pop Kim's

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Speaker 1: We've got coming out and I have been so excited

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Speaker 1: stop talking about them. That's what happened with Candace Fox.

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Speaker 1: So she's brought a book out called The Chase. It's

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Speaker 1: literally just come out, and that's the book that we're

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Speaker 1: going to review today. So I have full disclosure. I

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Speaker 1: It's so fun. And we've booked massages soon so at Comma,

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Speaker 1: So you cannot wait for that, all right, toodles, Happy Friday.

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Speaker 1: Candace Fox on the pod Absolute Legend, Big love, Bye,