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Join Caren and Mel as they uncork the ups and downs of the holidays. They share their perspectives and experiences with warmth and humor about how to keep your sanity this holiday season. From holiday travels and family gatherings to navigating tough conversations, they offer valuable insights and practical tips for maintaining peace of mind during life's chaotic moments. With their genuine camaraderie and engaging banter, Caren and Mel will leave you feeling uplifted and inspired. Tune in and get ready for the holidays with much needed laughter, wisdom, and a genuine love for life. Cheers!
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welcome back to another segment of Life
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on court we're happy to be here I'm Mel
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and I'm Karen we're excited to see you
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cheers I love your cup Mel okay I have
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to tell you I bought okay I'm gonna go
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through this whole
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thing this first of all it's the Grinch
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which I absolutely love and I was in
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Hobby Lobby a couple weeks ago and
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actually it was before Thanksgiving so
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longer than that and I said there's no
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they have all their Christmas stuff out
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already and I said there's no way I'm
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not shopping for Christmas things it's
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too early I can't do it I made it about
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a foot and I saw this on an end cap and
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it's like it's naughty or nice and I
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definitely naughty that's what I was
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goingon to say progress that was my
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favorite one and it was so much fun that
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I had to have it so and it has a candy
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cane straw I mean how fun is that it's
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the cutest thing ever so Hobby Lobby
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there you go I love that that is so much
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fun before I caved and started chopping
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for Christmas things because I have but
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anyway so Cheers Cheers happy you're
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back we've been thinking you know and
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again as we like to say that's always
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dangerous when we think but we've been
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specifically thinking about travel
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during the holidays isn't that fun uh
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it's it's not fun anytime during the
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year right now anyways but in the
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holidays boy that's all I can say well
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and we were lucky Thanksgiving we all
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stayed here but people traveled here and
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you know there's always I always think
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of that movie ples trains and Auto aob
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right because it's it's a running joke
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and it's true I just anything that can
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happen will and it's hard and it's
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stressful and like we talked about last
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week peace of mind yeah keeping your
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peace of mind and keeping your sanity
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and keeping your
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calm while you're traveling during the
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holidays is not easy I mean it's so easy
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to just my patience is gone yeah me too
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and I don't even travel my patience is
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gone you know and and there's two pieces
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of that though they traveling people
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coming to travel to see you and then the
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holiday experience of having either
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guests in the house or you know wherever
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they're staying and everyone comes
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together and what happens at the meal um
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you and I make a big point that not to
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talk politics we never talk politics
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it's not anybody you know we just don't
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do that we don't talk about that but you
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can't avoid it at your dinner table it
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just happened so how do you make sure
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that you keep your peace of mind Mel
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when all of a sudden talk goes Dr
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cheers I'm not kidding you I so and I
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and this really came to light during um
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during covid you know I we heard so many
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stories families really torn apart
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because of the differing views and
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opinions on topics at hand and that's
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normal at a Holiday meal and under the
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best circumstances and these are not
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always the best circumstances lately
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there's a lot of opportunity for
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division right controversy and anger
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and inflamed conversations and you try
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and be respectful but there can come a
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point and and especially with immediate
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family I'm an adult but I can get around
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my birth family and I'm reduced to like
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that 12-year-old kid and that role in
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the family and the way that we interact
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comes out and it's like you know no no
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I'm 64 years old stop talking to me like
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I'm 10 right but that all these things
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come out and all these layers and I
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would love to get uh we need to get a
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psychologist on with us because there's
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probably a better way to handle it than
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we just kind of muck our way through the
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dark but the way to avoid it is to to I
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mean I don't like to avoid things I like
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to be respectful because I like I don't
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I like to hear different opinions I like
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right that opportunity and I have a
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husband who likes to stir the pot and he
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knows exactly which people think what
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and he will just sit there and my
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my gave him a spoon last year for
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Christmas Christmas that said pot ster
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official pot stir and we still laugh
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about it because he he just sits back
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and watches it fly but the other thing
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he does he likes to get
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conversations going right and what
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usually comes after the initial
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onslaught of Sparks and the volume and
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talking over each other and the anger
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that can arise in very passionate
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expression comes a really good
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conversation where we see that maybe our
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thoughts are not so different and that
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at the end of the day we really are not
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all so different right even within our
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family so I think that's really
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important and we try and keep that or I
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try and keep that in the back how about
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you yeah well we do two things and we
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just started doing it within the last
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year we actually did it um several weeks
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ago when I went to visit my family and
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everybody was there and there's four of
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us with their spouses and my parents
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everybody was in there's 10 of us and we
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we tend to get into it and this last
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time we decided to do something
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different and we decided to because
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we're very blessed our parents are still
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alive we decided to have them tell us
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stories from when they were growing
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up and it allowed us first of all to
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hear stories some of them we' had never
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heard before or if we had heard them we
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were very very young and don't remember
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them and we had some really great laughs
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in fact we had some laughs because both
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my brother and I were born in Tennessee
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my dad was in the Navy no there's no
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water there I don't get it but that's
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where that's where he was you know
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stationed um and so we uh talked about
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the fact that uh we lived above a
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funeral parlor an apartment above the
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funeral parlor and back in 1956 things
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were way different than they are today
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um and they were telling us all these
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Amazing Stories which really just
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brought the whole family together I love
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that and we started a couple years ago
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on Thanksgiving doing that going around
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the table and and sharing one something
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that we had been really grateful for
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that happened to us during the previous
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year and then our hope for the coming
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year whether it was for our personal
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lives or collectively and it gives us a
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chance to really move out of the current
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event opportunity for contrast and
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Division and it was also a beautiful way
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to go forward right I love that that is
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awesome uh so we're telling you there's
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different ways to do this you know you
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you can prepare in advance um we we do
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this we've done that as well what are
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you grateful for you know give us the
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one thing and or who do who are you
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grateful for who are you grateful for
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and generally everyone will look to the
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person next to them and they'll say well
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that person sitting right over there um
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you know we're talking about travel and
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it's not just about the holidays you
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know you and I went um traveling a
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couple of months ago and um we have a
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really cool ebook that we are um it's
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launching this month and you can get a
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copy of it is our travel guide to Napa
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how fun is that yeah and we had fun
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putting it together it's all of our
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favorites and we you know Karen lived
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there you lived there so you showed me a
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Napa that I didn't know and I've
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traveled there a few times and I love it
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and we share our experiences and kind of
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really dial down why we've picked the
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venues whether it's the hotels or the
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restaurants that we have and the
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activities um a little off the beaten
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path and it's really toward our
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demographic right and when we travel and
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we were two women traveling alone so we
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took that into account and we really had
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creating this for you you're I think
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they're going to love it because it's
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what to do what to see where to shop um
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where to go all that really cool stuff
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and you'll be able to get um the link to
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get this it's absolutely free it's going
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to be down in the copy go check it out
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and let us know what your favorite place
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is if you go and actually um visit some
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of these places we'd love to hear or if
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you've been there and there's something
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that you really love that's not in our
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list you know share it because part of
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the community is sharing that and
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expanding our experience Mel we love our
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we love our people out there and as we
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said make sure you check down below in
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the copy we have links to some of the
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things that we talked about and most
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importantly check out the Napa travel
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guide we are so proud of it Mel works so
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hard on this and we hope that you enjoy
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it it's absolutely free click on that
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button and we'll see you next week next
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week
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[Music]
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ciao
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