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S8Ep: 2047 The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your Dream Vacation with Dr. E · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  What is the hardest thing to plan when you're going on vacation?
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  Is it setting up the bags? Is it preparing the artillery?
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  What do you do when you know it's time to take a vacation?
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  We have to talk about this. And what better person than the man himself who
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  has been on plenty of his own private jets to Tahiti, to Hawaii,
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  to pretty much everywhere you can think of all over the globe. the world traveler, Dr.
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  E, who's back again from his, what, 20th trip of the year.
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  And he's going to tell us, because he's the guru of how to have a successful vacation.
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  And we're going to talk about our favorite parts of vacation,
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  because have faith let it begin.
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  Vacation, well, maybe I'll play, maybe I'll play the vacation. What's that?
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  Oh, Chevy Chase. Yeah, this is right about now where we'll start playing the
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  music, right about now. Starts right now.
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  Music.
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  Here is your host, Angel Santana, and special co-host, Dr. E.
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  Have faith, let it begin. We started with the actual theme song to the Chevy Chase movies.
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  I can't even think of the title right now. National Lampoon Vacation.
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  National Lampoon. That's what the song was all about.
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  Dr. E, it's vacation time. Are we going to Wally World?
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  I love it. I got to tell you something. Vacations are what I live for.
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  Vacations are that little oasis, that little area of respite from our day-to-day
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  struggles, our day-to-day routines, our day-to-day stress, our day-to-day worries.
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  And there's a week, one week a year, two weeks a year, however many weeks a year.
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  You certainly overrepresented how much vacation I take. but I'd rather have
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  it overrepresented than underrepresented.
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  I am a big vacation fan and I have a ton of advice on how to,
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  again, this podcast specifically, how to successfully prepare yourself,
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  put yourself in a position to have the best vacation you can.
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  Well, let's just point this out. It's the fact that anybody that goes on more
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  than two trips is better at, equipped with talking about vacations and that's you.
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  I do one every five years, but that's not the point. The point is,
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  is that when we do go on vacation, there are certain rules.
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  Yes. I actually have a list of rules for vacation. Here we go.
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  And here's what we're going to talk about.
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  Probably the one rule, the number one rule for sure.
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  And this is what me and my kids and what I've been trying to cram down my,
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  my wife's throat for the last 20 years is that never go on a vacation.
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  Unless you have another vacation planned, because the pain that comes with leaving
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  and ending a vacation is just too much.
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  If you have nothing else to look forward to.
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  So a vacation has a life.
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  The life begins with the conception of the vacation.
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  So you guys are going to digger land, bigger land.
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  And you have one that night when you're sitting
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  with Rachel and you're trying to pitch this Diggerland vacation
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  on her and she's looking at you like you have
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  three heads and you're absolutely lost your
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  mind and she thinks I want a romantic weekend
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  with you in Paris with with your parents watching the kids and you're thinking
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  I'm taking you and the kids the Diggerland let's start with the conception so
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  that's the conception of the vacation then the concept then when the vacation
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  And then the beauty of a vacation is all the months that you look forward to going on vacation,
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  you should get one of those apps like dream days or whatever,
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  where you have a countdown to how many days you have 75 days,
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  42 days, 22 days, seven days, one day.
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  And that's part of the vacation, believe it or not. That build up and getting
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  ready and do not look at travel days as travel days are a pain or they're,
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  you know, uncomfortable or you have to get up at two o'clock in the morning
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  and all that kind of stuff.
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  Vacation days are part of your vacation and you get to go to airports and bus
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  terminals and train stations or get in a car and go out of state or whatever. Yeah.
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  Those are that's part of the vacation. Those are part of the stories that that's
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  part of the whole process.
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  And then the other thing that's crucial is enjoy the preparation for the vacation.
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  Make that packing list. Make it two months ahead.
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  Start packing ahead of time. Wash your pretty clothes. Put them away. Get them ready.
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  Get the suitcases out. Get the mothballs out of the suitcases.
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  Start packing start getting excited start
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  making dinner reservations immediately for
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  wherever you're going make your tours because you
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  know if you don't when you get there you're going to be scratching your head
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  saying why are all these people going to this great place when i can't get in
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  it's because they were prepared and they did what they had to do to get ready
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  for vacation So it's crucial that you guys, number one,
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  never go on a vacation unless you have another vacation planned.
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  Number two, prepare for your vacation. Number three, enjoy the prelude to vacation
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  and the countdown to vacation, and then enjoy the travel days because that's what it's all about.
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  And at the end of the day, Angel, the only thing
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  that a vacation really is when you really distill it
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  to its most essential form is
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  it's that memory you're making a memory you're
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  making a legacy between you and your loved ones
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  you're going to choose the people you travel with you're not
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  just going to go indiscriminately with some idiots that you don't even like
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  you want to go with your kids your parents your loved ones your friends and
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  you want to travel with them and make these memories because all i do when i'm
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  together with my wife and my kids and we're having fun and we're just eating
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  at the table, they'll say,
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  Hey, you remember the time when we did this, sir?
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  Remember the time when you freaked out or when you fell at the airport and you
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  tore your, you tore your, your hamstring, or do you remember that meal we had
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  in Greece? Or do you remember this or that?
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  That's what it's all about, making the memories, because when you are ready
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  to have your soul split from your mortal body and you're going up to meet your
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  creator, you want your life to kind of be playing in front of your eyes.
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  And the last thing you want to see are the memories of you listening to the
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  ocean, feeling the sand, getting in the water, climbing that mountain,
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  eating that meal, and being with your loved ones.
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  Angel did i put it together nicely for you i did
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  and there's two rules that you don't do before you
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  go on vacation and i've broken both of them yes let
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  me hear one do not watch jaws yes harm that's got to go on that's a horrible
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  thing and i've watched all four four movies and i don't know why i did it but
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  i did and number two yes i clean underwear yes you have to that's Well,
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  I don't know if that's a new underwear.
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  My new underwear. Yes. Don't wear the same stuff.
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  No. Underwear. Yes. That's it.
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  That's what my mom always said. You got to go with clean underwear.
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  Anywhere you go, it's got to be clean.
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  Love it. All right. Let's pray about it because God knows this vacation is going
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  to be interesting. All right. Digger land. Let's go. That's it, man.
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  Heavenly Father, we thank you for today's episode. We thank you for trips,
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  vacations, good weather, even the bad weather, that we can stay together and
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  talk about the good times, the bad times, even the miserable times because sometimes
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  they are the ones that we can laugh about.
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  We pray that every single person gets to their destination and arrives there on a timely fashion.
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  And if there's any type of accidents maybe possible in this realm of this world,
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  let's try to get them out of our path. Let's not even think about them.
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  Let's think about getting to your destination safely, Let's not rush.
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  Let's just get there and enjoy the good times because that's what it's all about.
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  May God be with you. May he shine his light upon you and grant each and every single one of you,
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  peace on earth. And never forget, have faith, let it begin, baby.
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  Talk to you later. Thank you for listening to Have Faith, Let It Begin. We'll be back tomorrow.
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  Thank you for listening to another episode of Have Faith, Let It Begin.
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  That's right, Ariel. We're done with another show. And it's always great to
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  have this show with you, my love.
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  Yeah. and we she's smiling at me guys enjoy your day thank you for listening
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  Music.