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Summertime and The Living Is Easy.... Sometimes!
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Jun 8, 2022
It's been a wild year and we're ready to get out and get living! It's summertime and we are kicking it off with the Uncorked essential guide to living well all summer long. There's a lot to navigate in the coming months; traveling, staying active and healthy as temperatures rise, and making time to wind down. SO Grab your drink, sit back and enjoy, the best is yet to come! #summertime #summer #uncorked 📌 Subscribe to the Channel: https://YouTube.com/cgmusc Look what we’ve Uncorked this month in this curated list of our favs: http://www.uncorked.shop Check out the Uncorked playlist: https://www.uncorkedplaylist.online This show is hosted by Vitalcy, the guide to living in a stage of growth, purpose, and discovery. Visit to watch all the Uncorked shows and more: https://www.vitalcy.com/watch/uncorked
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life exposed in the most unexpected ways
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where what you see is not always what
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you get isn't that the truth
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uncorked is so proud to be on the vital
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c network so thank you vitalsy
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so what are we talking about today well
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summer of course of course and and
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honestly well no what am i doing first
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what do we do oh i have to drink
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okay what are you drinking i'm drinking
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some sarah which in the summer i i go i
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move to white wines it's too hot in the
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desert as much as i love my reds so this
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is a light
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crisp enjoyable cocktail well mine's
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light and crisp too but
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it's it's a red bull peach red bull with
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a little bit of vodka thrown in because
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why bother if you're not going to throw
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the vodka in so uh cheers everyone i'm
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trying so hard not to judge but
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it's delicious i love it yeah okay
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somebody has to
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somebody has to love it better you than
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me i know i know so we're talking about
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summer
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because it is it's summer it's summer
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and you know we've we spoke last month
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about our year we celebrated our first
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year and
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we kept thinking about that preparing
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for this show where we've come right in
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a year and one and your favorite show
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was our should i stay or should i go
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when we talked about the differences
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that we were forced to make or we chose
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to make right you know based on on our
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world and where we are a year later and
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so now we have big news from karen who
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was only staying uh yeah i was only
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staying back then because i was uh i was
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still afraid and i was still very
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um neurotic as i like to say about not
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going out but here we are one year later
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and really excited i got i got my
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passport picture taken
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because
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i'm getting my passport renewed because
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because i'm going i'm leaving i am going
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to british columbia i'm going to
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vancouver this summer one of my favorite
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cities on the planet and i said i said
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this to you when you share that with me
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i
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on a clear day it is one of the most
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gorgeous cities on the planet i love
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vancouver you're gonna have the best i
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cannot wait and what's even more
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exciting is i'm going with my brothers
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and sisters and what a beautiful way to
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kind of start wow getting back out in
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the world very much so you know and when
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i finally made the commitment
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what does that feel like um i felt like
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i was back to me was it hard to say to
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make to pull that final it was and then
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it was and then it wasn't it was like
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okay i i have to get out of my own way
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here and so my first step was to go
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renew my passport and it was almost like
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okay i think i'm gonna be okay and so do
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you do that like once like you ruminate
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and you and you stress and oh yeah and
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obsess over a decision and then you can
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just let it go yes once once i've made
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the decision
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the decisions made i don't go backwards
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and so i'm very excited um so
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everything's in process and i'm i'm
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going away i'm so so so excited you're
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doing that uh and going in we're going
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next month actually wonderful i'm so
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excited great time to get out of here
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yeah i'm so excited going next month so
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uh
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i've never been um to this particular
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place that we're going we're going to
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this little private island um i can't
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pronounce tort whatever it's called i'm
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so thrilled i'm just so excited
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you're so excited what's going on with
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you so we we are traveling we are um
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we're cruising this month and
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to
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from we leave from miami just a short
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fun cruise on virgin and i'm excited to
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try this trip it's like the rockstar
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suite cab yeah it just looks really fun
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and we're going to dominican republic
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and bimini
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and we're going with a couple other
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friends and it started out as a
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celebration for one of their friends
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50th birthdays or excuse me wedding
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anniversaries and
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because we were supposed to do this last
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summer which it didn't happen and now
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none of them are going but our friends
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and and we're we're game
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and i'm really looking forward to it i
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as you know i'm not
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there are certain circumstances when i
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love to cruise and i'm really looking
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for i think it's going to be a different
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experience now the world being what it
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is and i think i'm going to enjoy it
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even more so i'm really excited i'm
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excited for you i can't wait to hear
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about the the whole virgin cruise thing
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because this is relatively they launched
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i think right at the beginning the
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beginning of the company so there's no
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experience exactly
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when i saw that come out i literally
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turned to my husband and said we have to
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go on that and then of course everything
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happens so we will go on it but well and
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i'm hoping that it's it
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it lives up to its its printed promises
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because it looks fabulous and they are
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they have incredible itineraries in
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europe and
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and they did a really cool thing
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when we we they had to cancel it wasn't
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you know just it was what it was you had
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the opportunity to get your money back
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or get fifty percent like two for one on
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a future cruise so basically we're
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getting two cruises for the price of one
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so now we just have to decide another
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time where to go let me know when you're
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going and we'll go because we'll go
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we'll definitely it's my favorite kind
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it's the my favorite kind of vacation
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i'm thinking i'm thinking um greece
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around the glacial islands would be fun
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but we'll look at itineraries that would
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be amazing go to santorini athens that'd
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be really really fun so
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so you've been traveling i mean even
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even
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when we talked about this last year
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should i stay or should i go and we
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talked about the fact that you were to
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go i mean you you've gone and you keep
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going even these things were getting
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again you still
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kept going but safely yeah and i think i
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think again what i and what i love about
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um we we view the world and we view a
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lot of things really differently and we
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respect that about each other absolutely
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and
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we did not you know i wasn't gonna stop
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living and right um a lot of choices
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were made based on those philosophies
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right and we had some incredible trips
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with beautiful friendships and last year
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and
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i'm looking it was but i will not lie it
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was not fun to travel i
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flying with a mask
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long it's hard to breathe i mean they're
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just there are restrictions necessary
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restrictions right that make it less
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enjoyable yeah so i'm you know i'm
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hoping that that i don't as a as we
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speak right now i don't think it's
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changed but um i'm hoping that that does
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too for flights right now by that you
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can or that it doesn't become a mandate
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or that they ease those restrictions but
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we'll see and i'm not it's not going to
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keep me from doing it so
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no and i'm actually going to it's not
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going to keep me from doing it either
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and that's that's the thing i'm i'm past
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the uh i'm scared stage okay and now i
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can't wait to go stage so what is what
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does summer kind of look like for you
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you're going to travel and everything
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but you got your family and and you do
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things with your family and your kids
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not just going solo out with your hubby
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but that's always fun that's interesting
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and both of uh my oldest son and his
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wife both turned 30 this year and they
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want to plan they're in the midst of
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planning something and we do all travel
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together a lot and we plan family but
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now as their family expands and there
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it's it's growing because of his wife's
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family and they're they spend time
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together
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we're very fortunate all the families
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are close with their children so they
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want to spend time with each of us and
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so we kind of just i can see i've had
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friends and i would watch them like some
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they would be at christmas for a holiday
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or thanksgiving and they kind of split
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things up and that's that's what i'm
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sure we'll do and we'll just keep
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keep flowing with it all and and making
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it work how fun how fun well yeah
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well we're going to do the the trip
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next month and um my plan is because now
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i i do feel comfortable going is going
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up to see my folks because i haven't had
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a chance because of everything i'm going
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to go up and take a vacation with my
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family up in l.a
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and just start getting out a little bit
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just
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exploring and we've had some fun while
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you've been here you know going out and
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exploring and eating some great food and
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going to great restaurants and too much
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good food
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i know i know but get back home to my
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workouts
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but you can still get your clothes on so
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that's all
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that's that's all good that's all good
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and i think that um you know summer
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looks different when you're working
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versus when you're retired
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you know so my my husband is getting
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ready to officially 100 retire which
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means he's gonna have a lot more
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open time and empty time and i'm not
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quite retired at this point in fact and
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i don't want to be and that's the thing
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i don't want to be retired i think a
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retired karen would be very dull karen
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and so i'm you know
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we don't want to build karen so i'm i'm
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continuing to work but it's going to
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change how we travel when we start
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traveling again um you know you're
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you're working obviously clearly and
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dean your husband is is clearly working
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i think he works more than anybody i've
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ever met and he's been like he doesn't
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view himself and and life as ever
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retiring but we own our companies
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and he can and he has set up i mean he's
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free to
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getting freer right to to spend more
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time away and and i think that's how he
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views his retirement just how much time
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he can be away because he loves he loves
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his work he loves his all of his clients
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right and what he's doing and now
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with what's really wonderful is is the
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the company that it's grown so much in
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the past year
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that the youth that has come on the the
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young advisors so he loves being around
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that energy energy yeah so it's even
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more fun for him yeah and i mean that's
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also part of the whole changing of
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family dynamics as well i mean my my son
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and his wife live here in the desert and
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we're hoping to be able to see them more
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often now now that they're my son lives
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in uh dana point and he'll come now now
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i'm feeling comfortable everybody's
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coming everybody coming and i know that
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you know you're you're some of your kids
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not both of them but one of your kids
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and
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grandchild and what they live with you
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which is such a cool thing it is and and
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they came you know that's
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was was a temporary thing when they
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moved um back to tucson from l.a
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and
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waiting for the markets to slow down so
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they can buy a house because there's
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just no inventory and the prices are
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just through the roof
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but i i do joke with them that i'm never
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letting them leave and they do kind of
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keep encroaching on rooms in our house
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and and as matthew took over he moved
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his production studio recently this into
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one of the guest rooms
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i thought he was joking with his wife
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and she goes don't worry we'll give you
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a 30 day notice when you need to
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so we may be the ones leaving and that
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let me take the house which would be
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okay you heard it here you heard it you
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heard it here first um we're really
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excited about something though so more
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trouble more travel more travel related
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i mean you talked about you're going on
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the virgin cruise um
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that's not the only cruise you're going
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on no i'm very very excited about a
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cruise coming up in september to alaska
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and it is actually through our very
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exciting new feature on the vitalscene
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network our travel
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network right right and this is the
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maiden voyage if you will for vita
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vitalcy travel and i will be holding
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workshops on writing on it and meeting
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everyone but what's really exciting is
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that by booking your travel through
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vitalsy
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you're not only going it's not summer
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camp you're not funneled through with
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like you know on these tours with you
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you are with like-minded people you
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don't have to but you get so many
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so many special perks at your fingertips
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a con 24 7 concierge on the crew leading
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up to the cruise lots of fun swag and
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this is all included in your in your
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booking and you get to go with males i
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mean let's let's first one the first one
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and who knows you know this is and this
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is the and they're also taught
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really wonderful cruise lines seabourn
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windstar um holland so i think uh
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celebrity or there's a bunch of them
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yeah i mean it's so exciting seven seas
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i think that's the seventh i think
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that's the allowance
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yeah and it's a really beautiful new
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adventure for all the growing vitalsy
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community and if you're not part of it
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hop on over to vitalc.com and and check
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out it'll be right there one thing i'm
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going to pitch her because she did the
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most fabulous interview she hosts the
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peak stage show with dave cause
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i have loved and i when i found out they
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they were also long time friends i died
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because i am obsessed with him and so
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i'm just wanting to be in that room he's
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a fabulous musician and through learn so
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much more about him through their
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interview so check them all out see
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what's going on at vital c and um and
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get your travel there's there are a few
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spaces left it's looking up quickly i
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think everybody is on the same page
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we're ready to try we're ready if you
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weren't
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you want to and if you have been you're
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ready for a brand new experience
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so you know when we were talking about
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doing the show we were talking about
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doing the deep dive and talking about
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you know what this meant at this stage
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in our in our world and getting out but
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we also
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want to mention the fact that we both
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live in the desert and it is hot during
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the summer right it isn't in fact i feel
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a song coming on but it is very hot so
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how do you do well and we joke it's a
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dry he it does matter because i i i went
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to school and lived in washington dc
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where it's very humid and so dry heat
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matters and that doesn't really bother
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me however i have noticed
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that
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as i've aged it bothers me more and
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living in tucson is i grew up in san
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diego spent a considerable amount of my
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childhood and young adult life in the
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coachella valley right i love the desert
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heat right it just feels so good to go
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to walk outside but it feels less good
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now
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for extended periods of time it does
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bother me more
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yeah
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and and you've been you've been here to
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visit me during when it's i mean we had
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like 122 degree weather for like
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extended periods of time and for a
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newbie in the desert was like oh whoa i
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didn't sign up for this i don't think
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but i think you do acclimate more or
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less yeah in fact i've been fond to say
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it's only 90 right now it's so
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uncomfortable yeah even though who would
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who says that right it's 90 and
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comfortable well if you put it in
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perspective because you you likely are
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in an air-conditioned car or heated car
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as you are in a building or home so what
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it is outside doesn't really matter and
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i personally i need the sun i need warm
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weather
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i i love my
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college roommates used to joke because i
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was good for about two weeks
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in the snow and the cold
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and they're like you're not on vacation
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you know i'm like i need to be on this
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needs to be a vacation this cannot be
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home oh my god i do need the warmer
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weather but the really really hot
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temperatures do get to me so i do so how
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do you stay cool
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i i escape i i go i try not to be in in
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arizona in the summer obviously or a
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good portion of it as much as we can
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just you can't i spend it in the pool or
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i spend it in my backyard i i'm getting
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a slip and slide this summer oh my god i
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love it
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i'm gonna put it on my grass okay we're
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gonna get footage of that and you're
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gonna see it i'm going to go slip and
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the other thing i'm going to do is i'm
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putting an outdoor shower in my backyard
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now normally an outdoor shower means
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that you've got a pool in your backyard
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you need no i'm just putting it there so
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when it gets so hot which is you know
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during the summer i can go cool off so
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that's how i'm going to stay cool is go
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slip and slide all over my
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and um so
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let's i want to talk about something
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else that we actually skipped over
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in addition to the cruise and travel
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that we've got going you've got a new um
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thing going on at vital c it's your
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mel's moments let's talk a little bit
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about that so it's a it's a it's part of
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the platform and it's my own little
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space in the platform and i haven't
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quite figured out how to define that
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right but because it's a combination of
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things and people and contributors right
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and and really it is introducing the
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world to some phenomenal people where
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meet the meat section that you if you're
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part of the community you've already
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been introduced to a lot of the fabulous
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um people i've featured in the
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interviews and that will be in there
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we're kind of it's really touching on
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a different angle of
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getting through and living and enjoying
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the peak stage of life yeah it's it's
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phenomenal it's fine it's been really
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fun lots of great things that are going
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on that i've been reading in there good
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stuff so go check it out and while
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you're there i mean i know you're
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watching the show right now on vitalc
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but while you're in the vital c platform
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go go binge watch us i mean we're fun i
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think you should go binge watch us
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i think so too and while you're there go
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binge watch we have a sports show and we
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have the peak stage as you mentioned we
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have a health show that's on we have a
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business show that's on uh with with we
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have some amazing amazing programs on so
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go check it out and go down the rabbit
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hole yeah and it's easy to to deep dive
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into that totally keep going totally um
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and as we say every month uh thank god
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for mel
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mel is our is our curator and she has
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created some amazing things in the
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uncork shop so go check it out at
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uncork.shop some cool items and cool
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things to
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keep you cool keep you cool keep your
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cool yeah um in the heat and then
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finally we want to make sure you go
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check out the music because again mel
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this is your this is where you come from
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you're yeah
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i was going to say an old dj but you're
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not old so you're simply a past dj yes
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right
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and she's created some amazing songs and
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i find myself putting them on all the
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time and just rocking out and what's
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really fun as as we have somewhat of a
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theme for each month
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i try to tailor them to that within
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going back to our generational love
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favorites and new music and we
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let's say it again our favorite our our
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obsession right now teddy swims
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love god you guys have to go check him
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out i it's i have to be honest had uh if
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i had not heard his voice and just saw
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this picture of him yeah i probably
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would have said pass and moved on only
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because
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go over him just you wouldn't think
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amazing heads up bonnie rate has some
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new music out is yeah yeah so check it
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out it's on the playlist go make sure
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you check it out guys we're thrilled
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that you join us today and every month
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on the second tuesday any last thoughts
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i think that i'm grateful to be where i
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am this year we made it we made it
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through the year and and i'm really
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happy for you karen to be going out i
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thank you i worry about everyone that
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that was isolated i do i do so i'm
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really glad you're getting it i am
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excited too and one of the places i'm
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actually going to go is come visit you
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so that i didn't i didn't say that but i
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really am going to go do that now that i
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feel like
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i can come out go out everyone and give
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somebody an awesome day we'll see you
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next time on the next
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