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In today's episode of what's cooking with Paula Deen, Bobby visits and talks about Claudia's birthday gift. For Claudia's birthday, she and Bobby visit a Yoga retreat. Paula considers doing Yoga as well.
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hey y'all welcome to what's cooking with
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Paula Deen's yeah yeah what is good I
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think I think we got a couple of
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four-legged friends here that think that
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they're gonna be the host today the more
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you rubbing the longer he'll stay sign
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he's alright
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well I wanna I want to talk to Bobby
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about something because I hadn't talked
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to him about it yet but yesterday was
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cloudiest birthday and so for her
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birthday y'all she wanted this yoga
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retreat up in Dahlonega Georgia so you
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took your wife for her birthday to
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Dahlonega I did she she asked me and I
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can be you know kind of reactionary and
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sometimes not think things you know
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through too much and and when she asked
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me or when she told me rather hey this
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is what I want to do for my birthday is
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Bo its it's my wife's 31st birthday oh I
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thought it was her 33rd and boy does she
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thinks she's old many times have I heard
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how old ear I've been those of you that
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know my family and know me and cloud
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know that cloud is totally into yoga and
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health and exercise and all this
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different song sheets she loves it she
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loves yoga and I've never never done
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yoga in my life
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me neither she says so she said
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different so she said we actually had
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just the best time she said oh I had Sun
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she said there's a yoga retreat in
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Dahlonega Georgia that I'd really like
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to go to for my birthday and I said all
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right that's what you want to do let's
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do it and you know I said didn't really
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put a lot of thought into it and began
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to think about it as leading up to it I
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was like man am I gonna enjoy it but it
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didn't it didn't didn't matter I went
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into it with a with a good attitude and
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my second summer of knowing this is
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something outside of my comfort zone and
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and it might eat something great for me
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so it was and we went to
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the Dahlonega spa resort and Dahlonega
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Georgia is gorgeous is gorgeous on its
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own but the Dahlonega spa and resort is
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a beautiful Dahlonega is in North
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Georgia up above Atlanta and it's
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beautiful rolling hills and it's out in
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the woods and there's deer and turkey
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and all that stuff
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and anyhow there was a there's a woman
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named Helen novella putting on it's
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called yoga bot Helens turned out and
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just be a wonderful sweet woman and does
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this retreat at the spa it was Claudia
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and me and 14 women you were in how well
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I are they I don't know who I was kind
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of I was a little popular while we were
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there and it was a weekend of they had
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these cabins it was really cool they
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have these cabins off beside the hotel
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they were in the woods
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no television no super great amenities
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just real bit kind of bare-bones really
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nice and you could really get a chance
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to connect with your husband or wife or
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whatever it was a very yoga thing I
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heard namaste a lot of times there's a
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lot of peace and wellness and so anyhow
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I was really they schedule everything
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for you so the food was scheduled the
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yoga classes were scheduled there were
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you know walks in the woods and there
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was a lot of as a group as a group and
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it was just it turned out to just be it
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was great I mean I really enjoyed it I'm
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so clean and my my mind and my body were
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real tight when I got there so I really
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needed it you know what I mean it really
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helped me there's no in fact I enjoy
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practicing jiu-jitsu and it's something
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that I participate in often during the
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week and it's real
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mantan it's intense
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and and and Michael Sergey my instructor
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is the guy he's been telling me for a
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long time you need to try yoga you need
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to try yoga and
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I'll be darned if he wasn't right it was
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just a great way to relax and and and
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you know a lot of stretching so if you
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got stuff that ails you and your body's
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good you might enjoy it you know I think
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I would sign if I could you know just
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take that step forward and do it maybe
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maybe it's not hard help me well can be
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can be hard
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it can't be intense those people that do
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that hot yoga that's intense you know in
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a hundred degree room I don't get it you
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could have done what we did this weekend
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there was at least one woman there that
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was older than you and and that you know
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all these people were my agent Lee I'm
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46 and they were all at least mindset
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for cloud I think cloud was maybe maybe
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two other girls there they were yeah
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yeah but but you see the people in yoga
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and they they run the gamut it makes me
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so happy I'm you wouldn't you love it I
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love it when I get to see you go out of
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your comfort zone I love seeing you push
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yourself into things that you're not
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quite sure of you know these things like
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that suddenly helped us grow that's the
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only way to live I mean you know even if
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you're not doing you know especially
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when opportunity comes along side of you
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and I don't have to say I love getting
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older yes it's too bad anymore I'm going
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to take off my shoes because it's
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getting hot in here everybody has a
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favorite holiday tradition and for me I
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love giving gourmet goodies from Harry
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and David calm Harry and David has
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something delicious for everybody on
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your list include me in fact I've got
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ahead of the holidays and I enjoyed
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preparing
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a wonderful fresh pear salad with those
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delicious juicy pears entertaining of
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the holidays is so easy especially when
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you can gather all around and enjoy
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treats from Harry and David and right
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now Harry and David is offering you 20%
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off your holiday purchase that's 20% of
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all the Christmas gifts and goodies that
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the lucky person on your list can handle
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sending any of Harry and David's
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delicious goodies is a perfect way to
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show your friends family and co-workers
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just how much you're thankful for them
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and whether they're a chocolate lover
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late-night snack er or wine lover or a
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holiday hostess Harry and David has
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something for everybody to love and I
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think 20% off your holiday order is an
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amazing deal but you have to hurry
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because it expires Friday Harry and
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family of brings and the company that I
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go to for all my holiday gift-giving and
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I really do want to see if cloud will
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just show me some basic lose or you or
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both of you go to do something like this
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and it's you and you and Michael would
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you would enjoy it you would enjoy it it
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was a retreat for it was a retreat for
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it was all women safe for me and there
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were a couple of people there that said
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oh well my husband was gonna come but
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you know something came up and he
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couldn't but it's for everybody yeah and
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it was not the intensity level was not
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high I would love just a stretching part
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do you think it would help my knees I do
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I have a knee injury and that's part of
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what I was excited about was to go and
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tell me that they had your meals planned
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that tell me what you ate tell me all
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about the ladies no no no no they this
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place is and and I don't owe them
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anything and we paid full probably what
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I really loved about it was the
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anonymity nobody knew or cared anything
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huh me or where who we are what we do or
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anything like that and don't have to say
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the names of these places at all I'm
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saying them because I want to I really
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enjoyed meeting Helen she was a really
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nice woman
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the Dahlonega Inn & Spa was an amazing
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place to go and be for the weekend so if
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you live in Georgia or live close if
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you're trying to think of something that
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you'd like to do with your a nice gift
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for your wife that would be a one if
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you've got an anniversary or something
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coming up it would just be great in fact
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cloud now will probably go back and do
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it again but there were a lot of best
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friends in there do you know what I mean
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a woman and her best friend or we went
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to college together or whatever but it's
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always nice to have a buddy don't you
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think you do things well to do some like
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you know what you know what though it's
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interesting that you say that cuz there
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was one other younger person there and
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she was celebrating her burrow
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they as well she was celebrating her
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30th birthday the day before cloud did
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and she came right by herself didn't
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know one person there and came and the
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thing with it was everybody by the end
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of the weekend had become they really
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accepted me and yeah and everybody was
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friends and and we shared me sat at a
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common table and shared meals together
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so that's why it was just get to tell me
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I'm back okay so the food was they asked
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you in advance before the retreat is
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planned are you vegan vegetarian or do
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you eat meat or whatever and there is a
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chef there I wish I knew his last name
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his name is Victor and he's from Peru so
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he's he's Latin as well Spanish is his
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first language so he and Claudia were
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really really enjoying their
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conversation about that and not only was
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the food great it really was great they
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were happy to share all the recipes so
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we left there with a couple of really
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good vegan recipes a couple couple of
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they serve well they put it all out
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there were 15 of us and they had the
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food out prepared so it was it reminded
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us it reminded me really of when we
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cater so chafing dishes with the
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star-nosed underneath and so one night
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there was a beautiful salmon another
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night there was chicken there was always
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great salads really fresh salad and you
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could tell you could no no no great
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there was a you know what what I'm
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making it tonight
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they had a vegan chili there yesterday
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it was like a five bean chili with I
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mean you'll get the idea but there was
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no meat but it was like five different
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kinds of chili there was bell peppers
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that was corn that was carrots and
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onions a tomato paste to kind of thicken
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it up and I'm sure it was made with a
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bay leaf and a little chili powder to
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give it that chili flavor but it was so
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good
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everything was they had a minestrone one
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day that was really good they did a
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mediterranean-style chicken breast that
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was great
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and there were all kinds of it seemed to
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be baked I wasn't in the kitchen but it
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appeared to be baked to add kalamata
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olives and tomatoes and it was just
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everything was super flavorful and good
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I thought that I was gonna go up there
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and be hungry for the weekend and it
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turned out I took stars my mouth's
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getting wet mama mama conned me because
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that's what it was and to go into the
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grocery store it would always be for you
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know that would be an exchange I'll buy
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you some olives and and I would always
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open up the we would every time we would
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ring up an empty drawer olives cuz I
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would open it and drink all the juice
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I'm not lying
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drink all the juice and eat every olive
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in the jar any didn't pee for three days
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just pounding headaches could never
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figure out why I had these headaches cuz
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here's the deal you know I couldn't
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afford to buy olives every week they're
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expensive it was like it was like three
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dollars son and I could have make a meal
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for us for the four of us with that
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three dollars yes I know you really got
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going outside your mother's come I got
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more interviews to do after this so okay
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let's take another break and then I'll
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come back and tell you bye how's that
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everybody has a favorite holiday
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tradition and for me I love giving
14:07
gourmet goodies from Harry and David
14:09
calm Harry and David has something
14:12
delicious for everybody on your list
14:15
include me in fact I've got ahead of the
14:18
holidays and I enjoyed preparing a
14:22
wonderful fresh pear salad with those
14:25
delicious juicy pears entertaining of
14:28
the holidays is so easy especially when
14:31
you can gather all around and enjoy
14:33
treats from Harry and David and right
14:35
now Harry and David is offering you 20%
14:38
off your holiday purchase that's 20% of
14:43
all the Christmas gifts and goodies that
14:45
the lucky person on your list can handle
14:48
sending any of Harry and David's
14:50
delicious goodies is a perfect way to
14:52
show your friends family and co-workers
14:54
just how much you're thankful for them
14:57
and whether they're a chocolate lover
14:59
late night snack or wine lover or a
15:02
holiday hostess Harry and David has
15:05
something for everybody to love and I
15:08
think 20% off your holiday order is an
15:11
amazing deal but you have to hurry
15:13
because it expires Friday Harry and
15:16
David is part of the 1-800 flowers
15:19
family of brands and the company that I
15:22
go to for all my holiday gift-giving and
15:25
my entertaining needs to get 20% off
15:28
select holiday favorites now go to Harry
15:31
and David comm click the radio icon and
15:35
enter code Paula that's Harry and David
15:38
comm click the radio icon and enter code
15:42
PA ula for 20% off / y'all because the
15:48
offer ends Friday
15:49
[Music]
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well son I so appreciate you stopping
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long enough to come in between your yoga
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and yoga yeah and all your other
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interviews you're lucky that you got me
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to that I'm lucky I'm lucky that I had
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you I'm happy to be here it's always a
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lot of fun all right we're gonna go on a
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yoga retreat and we'll take her okay
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telling you you could do it hey listen
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one quick question you got your
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Christmas shopping done for your wife
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it's really bad like Michaels birthday
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is December the 13th December birthdays
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make it very very hard don't it on
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Christmas so what have you thought about
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what you don't give Christmas you know
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what we have commercialized this holiday
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so much that it's uh it does put a lot
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of pressure on you to buy things and I
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and I've got clouds and some stuff but
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we've sort of agreed as a couple you
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know we like she know what she really
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likes I like from Venezuela and so all
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this stuff is of course she'd Christmas
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she does but the stocking is her
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favorite thing they didn't do stockings
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where she when she grew up and so we do
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so we're gonna do just the stockings a
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little things you know I love stockings
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that was my favorite so my favorite when
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I was a kid so that means like diamond
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rings and necklaces things like that but
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that stock can be quite expensive so get
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her some makeup remover and stuff like
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that that doesn't cost a fortune
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she didn't wear what makeup all weekend
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long she did turn the phone off when we
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got there and didn't turn it on she
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doesn't need it maybe we got to go huh
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we got to go
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I know we got to go that's ours see
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y'all next time
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ah hi everybody meet Chris Merry
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Christmas
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