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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 from

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

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Speaker 1: 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, and welcome to your La Diary pod.

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Speaker 1: So we are at week sixteen, Holy Mac, that's like

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Speaker 1: nearly four months right. So in the Diary app, I

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Speaker 1: talk about everything that's happened in the week that was.

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Speaker 1: It's different to the Monday app where it's a guest on.

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Speaker 1: Although the Monday Just Gone was like an even I

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Speaker 1: want to say, weird episode because we did True Crime

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Speaker 1: La with David the Medium, really courl real, fascinating, totally

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Speaker 1: check it out if you're into anything true crime. And

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Speaker 1: then next Monday we have Minaje Diaz. He's a breath worker.

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Speaker 1: He's trained and actually raised Buddhist and we knew each

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Speaker 1: other from Melbourne like eight years ago, but we both

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Speaker 1: are here in La and so this pod happened and

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Speaker 1: I did his holotropic hohe I'm saying that right breath

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Speaker 1: work course too, So lots of health. That's a very

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Speaker 1: health based episode coming out on Monday. But this week

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Speaker 1: I have here that I have a book review for

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Speaker 1: you that I finished today. I have.

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Speaker 2: Food reviews for you.

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Speaker 1: I have some acting successes and failures to share with you.

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Speaker 1: I've been acting school, so let me share everything that

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Speaker 1: I can. And yeah, this will just be a little

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Speaker 1: check in. So let's start with the food. My friend

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Speaker 1: Alex took me to this place called farm Shop in Brentwood,

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Speaker 1: so yummy.

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Speaker 2: Out this really delicious chicken salad.

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Speaker 1: She got what's called the Angry Crab pasta, which I

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Speaker 1: think is what it's famous for.

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Speaker 2: So good. We also got this like avo hummus thing

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Speaker 2: and this artichoke moose thing ten out of ten. Great vibe.

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Speaker 1: It's also a deli so you can buy like preserved

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Speaker 2: There's a bakery there. Absolutely love it.

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Speaker 1: It's in the Brentwood country Mark, So Brentwooter is a

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Speaker 1: suburb near Santa Monica. It's quite affluent and the country

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Speaker 1: Mart has like a Goop, a really beautiful bookstore. There's

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Speaker 1: a Christian Luberton that we did go into afterwards and

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Speaker 1: it was locked, so we had to press a buzzer

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Speaker 1: and Sharon Osbourne was in there. There you go, Speaking

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Speaker 1: of celeb spottings. About an hour ago, I walked down

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Speaker 1: Woolies or Coals, and I walked past and made eye

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Speaker 1: contact with Jack Black. What a great celeb spotting.

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Speaker 2: What a ledge.

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Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. Probably should have said you're a legend,

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Speaker 1: but you know, when you have that retrospect thing and

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Speaker 1: I didn't, but he's a legend, and he was kind

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Speaker 1: I also went to coffee at Alfred's, which is in

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Speaker 1: Melroe's place. It was amazing coffee, but it was a

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Speaker 1: It was just a mega megawight. I've also been to

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Speaker 1: you know, the food there is incredible. The trick with

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Speaker 1: so you get the best of both worlds. Highly recommend

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Speaker 1: doing it that way. So I did my headshots on Friday,

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Speaker 1: So I did new headshots and I got myself a

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Speaker 1: Okay, another cool place somewhere I've walked past his place

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Speaker 1: like a hundred times. It's called House of Pies. It's

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Speaker 1: I got a Southern pecan pie, which was incredible and

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Speaker 1: I think they're my favorite things. If you're like, what

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Speaker 1: it traded, Joe's all right. I also went to Air

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Speaker 2: I've definitely told you about it before.

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Speaker 1: Organic celery, cucumber, collared green, Swiss, charred parsley and ginger.

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Speaker 1: I've also been buying all these like shots. So at

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Speaker 1: Trader Joe's they have this organic mighty turmeric shot and

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Speaker 2: It's all organic chimeric juice, lemon and black pepper. It's

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Speaker 1: And then Lasson's, which is kind of like a co

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Speaker 1: But it's really great for juices. It's a little bit

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Speaker 1: word lessons. It's a good option for whole foods, but

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Speaker 2: Right, Oh, do we do book review now? I think

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Speaker 2: we can.

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Speaker 1: So this book is called Putting the Rabbit in the

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Speaker 1: Hat by Brian Cox, who's off Succession. It's an autobiography.

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Speaker 1: It is so good. He doesn't just there's heaps of

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Speaker 1: He's in his seventies now, so he's just like Holds,

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Speaker 1: doesn't hold back and just like shares the highs, the lows,

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Speaker 1: a really honest, awesome chat. So it's called Putting the

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Speaker 1: Rabbit in the Hat by Brian Cox. I highly recommend

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Speaker 1: it if you're into acting one hundred percent. If you're not,

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Speaker 1: It's a really fascinating life story. He came from nothing

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Speaker 1: as a kid and yeah, now he's like, arguably on

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Speaker 1: one of the best shows in the world right now, Succession.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, definitely go watch it and

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Speaker 1: listen to the soundtrack. Right. Oh, I've got a little

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Speaker 1: bit of acting goodness for you one Seci So you

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Speaker 1: quote today, I got you a quote and then I

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Speaker 2: It's by the lovely Ryan Gosling about.

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles it's filled with all these gun kiyoty type characters.

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Speaker 3: Everyone's with their families, their homes, their friends, their jobs

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Speaker 3: to pursue a dream where they know that the percentage

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Speaker 1: How good love, It's so brutal, so honest, so la

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Speaker 1: honestly all right, in the spirit of talking about acting things,

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Speaker 1: I was so excited. I got booked for this commercial

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Speaker 1: for a massive supermarket chain across America. Gave my availability.

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Speaker 1: I had to hold today and tomorrow and then crickets

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Speaker 1: nothing at all, like, no location, no time, and the

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Speaker 1: way that they contact you is through the casting website,

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Speaker 1: so you can't contact them, only they can contact you.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, put two days on hold, no no dice,

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Speaker 1: in twenty four hours. I have been in acting school, though,

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Speaker 1: which was so much fun. I trained specifically in sitcom

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Speaker 1: training and multi caam sitcom training, so I think friends

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Speaker 1: it was so much fun. I learned loads. I was honestly,

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Speaker 1: I stayed in American Dialect for class and it was

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm just wrapped because all next week and

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Speaker 1: the next month I'm doing voice school training. So I

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Speaker 1: And like I said, multiicam sitcom training, A lot of

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Speaker 1: from Los Angeles, the City of Dreams. Mega mega love

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Speaker 1: and remember always do what you love.