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Hey y'all - In this week's what's cooking with Paula Deen, Paula and Bobby sit down and chat about Claudia's birthday and her birthday gift from Bobby where they headed off to a Yoga retreat at the Dahlonega Spa and Resor ( http://dahlonegasparesort.com/)
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hey y'all welcome to what's cooking with
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Paula Dean this week yeah what is
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cooking I think I think we got a couple
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of four-legged friends here that think
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that they're going to be the host today
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the more you rub him the longer he'll
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stay son he's all right well I want I
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want um I want to talk to Bobby about
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something cuz I hadn't talked to him
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about it yet but yesterday was cloudy as
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birthday MH and uh so for her birthday
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y'all she wanted this Yoga Retreat up in
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Delanica Georgia so you took your wife
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for her birthday to Dela I did she she
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asked me um and I can be you know kind
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of reactionary and sometimes not think
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things uh you know through too much and
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and when she asked me or when she told
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me rather hey this is what I want to do
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for my birthday it's by the way it's uh
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it's my wife's 31st birthday I thought I
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thought it was her 31st and uh boy does
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she think she's old how many times have
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I heard how old 31 is in the past year
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I've been hearing it 31 is so old I'm
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like I'm 46 shut up I'm here to tell you
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what's
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coming anyhow uh those of you that know
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my family and know me and Cloud know
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that cloud is totally into yoga and
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health and exercise and all this
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different stuff she she loves yog she
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loves yoga and and I've never never done
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yoga in my life me neither so some good
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yogurt so she said never done little
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different so she said we actually had
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just the best time she said uh I'm so
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glad son she said uh there's a yoga
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retreat in Delana Georgia that I'd
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really like to go to to for my birthday
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and I said all right that's what you
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want to do let's do it and you know like
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I said didn't really put a lot of
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thought into it and began to think about
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it as leading up to it I was like man am
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I gonna enjoy this but it didn't it
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didn't didn't matter I went into it with
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a with a good attitude and of
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acceptance of knowing this is something
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outside of my comfort zone and and it
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might be something great for me so um it
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was and we went to uh the Dela spa
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resort and Dela Georgia is gorgeous so
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beautiful is gorgeous on its own but the
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Dela Spa uh and Resort is a beautiful um
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Dela is in North Georgia up above
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Atlanta and it's beautiful Rolling Hills
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and uh it's out in the woods and there's
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deer and turkey and all that stuff and
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um
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anyhow there was a there's a woman named
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Helen nello putting on uh it's called
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yoga by Helen she turned out to just be
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a wonderful sweet woman and uh does this
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retreat at the spa it was Claudia and me
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and 14
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women and uh you were in hog heav
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weren't you well I or they I don't know
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who I was kind of I was a little popular
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while we were there um and it was a
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weekend of uh they had these cabins it
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was really cool they have these cabins
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off beside the hotel that are in the
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woods no
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television no super great amenities just
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real kind of bare bones really nice and
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uh you could really get a chance to
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connect with your husband or wife or
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whatever it was a it was a very yoga
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thing I heard Namaste a lot of times
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while I was who Namaste Namaste what's
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saying Namaste Nam there's a lot of
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peace and wellness and centeredness and
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all that stuff so anyhow it was a really
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uh they schedule everything for you so
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the food was scheduled the yoga classes
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were scheduled there were you know walks
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in the woods and there was a lot of
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byself or as a group as a group as a
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group as a group and it was just it
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turned out to just be it was great I
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mean I really enjoyed it I'm so glad
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that you did and my my uh uh um my mind
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and my body were real tight when I got
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there so I really needed it you know
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what I mean it really helped me to
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loosen up in
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fact um I'm uh I enjoy practicing
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Jiu-Jitsu and it's something that I
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participate in often during the week and
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it's a real um intense it's intense
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veryt and and Michael sery 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 I'll be Dar if he wasn't
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right it was just great way to relax and
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and uh and uh you know lot of stretching
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so if you got stuff that ales you in
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your body is you might enjoy it you know
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I think I would son uh if if I could you
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know just take that step forward and do
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it maybe maybe uh Cloud could help me
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hard it's not hard well can be some it's
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hard it can be intense uh those people
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that do that hot yoga that's intense you
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know in a 100 degree room I don't get it
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you could have done what we did this
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weekend there was at least one woman
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there that was older than you and and
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that you know all these people were my
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age at I'm 46 and they were all at least
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my age except for cloud I think cloud
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was maybe maybe two other girls that
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were yeah yeah there were some younger
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people but but you see the people in in
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yoga and they uh they run the gamut that
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makes me so happy I love I 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 it's things like
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that something that help us grow that's
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the only way to live I mean you ain't
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living if you're not doing stuff well
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you know especially when opportunity
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comes along this is a new side that I'm
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getting to see of you and I have to say
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I love it getting older yes yes getting
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older it's too bad that
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um why don't we you're almost the same
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age as
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mama okay let's take a break let's do it
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I need or I'm going to have to take off
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my shoes because it's getting high in
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I really do want to see if Cloud will
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just show me some basic moves or you or
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both of you you go to do something like
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this and it's you and you and Michael
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would you would enjoy it you would enjoy
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it it was a retreat for it was a retreat
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for it was all
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women save for
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me and there were a couple of people
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there that said oh well my husband was
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going to come but you know something
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came up and he couldn't but it's for
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everybody yeah and it was not the
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intensity level was not
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um high I would love just the stretching
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part do you think it would help my
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knees I do I have a knee injury and
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that's part of what I was excited about
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was to go well tell me now they had your
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meals planned they tell me what you ate
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tell me all about the lettuce that you
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ate these the no no no listen listen now
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they uh this place is and and I don't uh
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owe them anything and and we paid full
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PR I went in that what I really loved
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about it was the anonymity nobody knew
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or cared anything about me or or or
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where who we are or what we do or
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anything like that uhhuh and uh don't
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have to say the names of these places at
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all I'm saying them because I want to I
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really enjoyed meeting Helen she was a
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uh a really nice woman um the Dela in
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and Spa was an amazing place to go and
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be for the weekend so if you live in
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Georgia or live close if you're trying
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to think of something that you'd like to
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do with your a nice gift for your wife
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um oh that would be a wonderful you got
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an anniversary or something coming up it
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would just be great in fact cloud and
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I'll probably go back and do it again
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but um there were a lot of uh 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 um
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it's always not nice to have a buddy uh
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don't you think to do things like that
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well to do something like you know what
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you know what there was it's interesting
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that you say that cuz there was one
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other uh younger person there and she
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was celebrating her birthday as well she
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was celebrating her 30th birthday the
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day before Cloud did and she came right
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by herself didn't know one person there
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and came and the thing with it was
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everybody by the end of the weekend had
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become they really accepted me and yeah
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everybody was friends and and we shared
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sat at a common table and shared meals
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together all right so that's what I'm
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trying to get to tell me about your
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meals so the food was uh they ask you in
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advance before the retreat is planned
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are you vegan vegetarian or do you eat
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meat or whatever and um there is a chef
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there I wish I knew his last name his
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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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conversations together and not only was
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the food great it really was great uh
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they were happy to share all the recipes
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so we left there with a couple of really
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good um vegan recipes aoup couple order
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as a vegan um 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 sternos
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underneath and so uh one night there was
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a beautiful salmon uh another night
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there was H chicken there was always
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great salads um really fresh salads and
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you could tell you could no no no no
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great uh there was a you know what what
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I'm making it tonight they had a uh
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vegan chili there yesterday it was like
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a five bean chili with um I mean you'll
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get the idea of it there was no meat but
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there was like five different kinds of
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chili there was uh bell peppers there
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was uh corn there was carrots there was
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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 everything was they had a Minon one
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day that was really good they did a um
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Mediterranean style chicken breast that
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was great um and there were all kinds of
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they did the chicken bread uh it seemed
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to be baked I I wasn't in the kitchen
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but it appeared to be baked it had
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camata olives and tomatoes and it was
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just everything was super flavorful and
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good I thought that I was going to go up
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there and be hungry for the weekend and
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it turned you some snacks I took stuff
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so yeah so a can of VI sausage and
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Sal no although that sounds
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delicious that was one of my favorite
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things when I was a kid I used to eat B
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sa B sausages and
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olives those were my mouth getting wet
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thinking about it those were the two
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things I love a if Mama if Mama uh
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conned me cuz that's what it was and to
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go into the grocery store it would
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always be for you know I there would be
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an ex exchange I'll buy you some olives
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and and I would always open up the we
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would every time we would ring up an
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empty jar of Olives CU I would open it
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and drink all the juice I'm not lying
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drink all the juice and ate every Olive
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in the jar and he didn't pee for three
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days and then ring up and I wondered why
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I had these just pounding headaches
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could never figure out why I had these
12:35
headaches cuz uh it was all but you know
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I couldn't here's the deal you know I
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couldn't afford to buy olives every week
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they're expensive because it was like it
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was like $3 son and I could make a meal
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for us for the four of us with that $3
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yeah I know you've really G gone outside
12:55
your mother's Comfort I got more
12:56
interviews to do after this so oh okay
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well let's take another break and then
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I'll come back and tell you bye H
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at the space that you live in really
13:07
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13:09
recommendation is start by updating your
13:12
window treatments with Smith and Noble
13:15
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13:17
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13:20
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13:22
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13:24
needs to get started today contact Smith
13:27
and Noble to get my special limited time
13:30
offer 25% off on your winter treatments
13:34
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13:37
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13:40
details about my special offer go to
13:43
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13:45
slaa that's Smith and noble.com
13:48
paaa or call 1800
13:52
659
13:54
3300 that's 1 1800 659
13:57
3300
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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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today I am 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 well my favorite
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thing to do is what's cooking with poine
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y'all we're going to go on a yoga
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retreat and we'll take her okay telling
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you you could do it it was
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listen one quick question have you got
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your Christmas shopping done for your
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wife it's it's really bad like Michael's
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birthday is December the 13th December
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birthdays make it very very hard don't
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it on Christmas so what do you have you
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thought about what you're GNA give for
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Christmas you know what we have
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commercialized this this holiday so much
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that it's uh it does put a lot of
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pressure on you to buy things and I and
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and I've got Cloud some some stuff but
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we've sort of agreed as a couple you
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know we like she you know what she
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really likes I lik's from Venezuela and
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so all this stuff is of course she
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Christmas she does but the stocking is
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her favorite thing they didn't do
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stockings where she when she grew up and
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so we do so we're going to do just the
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stockings little things she likes just
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little stuff I love stockings that was
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my favorite my favorite when I was a kid
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so that means like diamond rings and
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necklaces things like that that you know
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that stocking can be quite expensive so
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get her some makeup remover and stuff
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like that that doesn't cost a fortune
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she didn't wear makeup all weekend long
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she did turned her phone off when we got
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there and didn't turn it on until we
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left yesterday she doesn't need it we
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got to go huh we got to go I know we got
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to go we'll see y'all next time bye
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everybody Merry Christmas Merry
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Christmas
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