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Vic DiBitetto: Everyday Frustrations and Viral Comedy · Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic

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Speaker 1: From the heart of the city, where the beat meets
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Speaker 1: the rhythm of your day. It's Shauna m. What's up.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to Shauna and Lalla.
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Speaker 2: You could follow me on Instagram at the Real Shawna.
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Speaker 4: May and check me out at Bella Underscore Lalla one
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Speaker 4: two five.
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Speaker 3: It has been a crazy week with this weather. It
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Speaker 3: is definitely bipolar. Yesterday we had an ice storm, we
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Speaker 3: lost electricity and in the middle of the night and
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Speaker 3: I have been up since.
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Speaker 4: And next week it's supposed to be in the high seventies.
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Speaker 4: So that makes no sense, right, It's like twenty degrees
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Speaker 4: this week and seventy next week.
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Speaker 2: I don't get it. I really don't understand what is
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Speaker 2: going on.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, this year has been pretty, uh, pretty up and down,
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Speaker 4: and like everyone's saying, we it's kind of like karmo.
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Speaker 4: For the past few winters, we had really easy going winters.
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Speaker 4: We really didn't have a lot of snow, we had
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Speaker 4: warm days, and now this year it's it's just taking
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Speaker 4: the cake. It's like, no, we're gonna pile everything on
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Speaker 4: top for this year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we got over sixty inches of snow
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Speaker 2: this year.
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully spring is on its way.
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Speaker 3: The groundhog I think saw his shadow or didn't see
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Speaker 3: his shadow, I'm already even really.
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Speaker 4: Sure, I don't know, but we're getting closer. We're in March.
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Speaker 4: I always get happy in March. My husband does not
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Speaker 4: agree with me. He says he's not happy till the
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Speaker 4: end of May. I'm like, no, March is like the
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Speaker 4: light at the end of the tunnel for me. So
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Speaker 4: we're almost there. April's next month, even though it usually rains,
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Speaker 4: but we're almost there.
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Speaker 2: I agree with Mike.
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Speaker 3: I don't get happy until well, end of May is
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Speaker 3: my birthday. But it's still kind of cold sometimes though,
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Speaker 3: I know, so I'm really not happy until the end
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Speaker 3: of June.
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Speaker 4: You guys are so what do they call you guys?
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Speaker 4: Pessimists there? I'm like, March, I'm like, the light is there,
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Speaker 4: the light at the end of the tunnel. The days
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Speaker 4: are getting longer, this sun stay up and he's like, now,
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Speaker 4: not until end of May. June, and you're like, end
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Speaker 4: of June. But yeah, the glass half full or half empty,
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Speaker 4: that's how they people see it, right, I'm seeing it
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Speaker 4: as half full and you guys are seeing it as
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Speaker 4: half empty.
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Speaker 2: I always see everything it was half empty.
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Speaker 4: Gotta change that, right, I tell him the same thing.
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Speaker 4: We got to change that more positive thinking. That's the
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Speaker 4: that's another goal we can work on.
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Speaker 3: Yes, But you see, I always think the worst, and
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Speaker 3: I always plan for the worst, because if it doesn't happen,
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Speaker 3: then it's like, oh, few.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know about that with you, she says that.
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Speaker 4: But this girl, every time we've ever done anything together,
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Speaker 4: she's never planned for the worst because the worst always happens,
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Speaker 4: and she's like, oh, I didn't know that could happen.
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Speaker 4: Like when we went to New York City and the train.
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Speaker 4: Remember you didn't plan for the train schedule. We were
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Speaker 4: stuck there almost till one in the morning. What was
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Speaker 4: the other thing?
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Speaker 2: I fell down the stairs, fell down the stairs there?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 4: I mean there's a few times that you're like, oh,
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Speaker 4: I didn't think of that, Like you're.
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Speaker 6: Not planning that.
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Speaker 4: No, But I get it. I get it. You do
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Speaker 4: think the worst for certain things, but when it comes
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Speaker 4: to us going somewhere, it seems like you don't think
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Speaker 4: of the worst because we always get stuck in the
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Speaker 4: worst and you're like, oh, oops, mean while what am
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Speaker 4: I always doing? Plan what if this happens?
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Speaker 2: Make sure we have this, make sure that.
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Speaker 4: I need to chill down. I need to chill out
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Speaker 4: with that stuff. But I guess it's weird how we
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Speaker 4: both certain things. I'm an optimist and certain things I'm
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Speaker 4: neurotic about and anxiety have my anxiety, and then you're
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Speaker 4: you're like, eh, blah and lottied out with certain things.
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Speaker 4: Then you're pessimists with others. Right, Yeah, it's crazy. Traveling
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Speaker 4: I'm just like whatever, yeah, or and sometimes even with interviews,
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Speaker 4: I'm like, damn, she's so calm. I'm like, one of
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Speaker 4: the questions, we gotta make sure this this, and Sean
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Speaker 4: is just like, you know, we got it, we got it,
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Speaker 4: I got it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And sometimes you leave me and You're like, I can't
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Speaker 2: even do this right now.
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Speaker 4: I have like an anxiety attaxa. It is crazy how
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Speaker 4: human beings are you. In certain areas you have strengths
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Speaker 4: and other areas you have weaknesses. And that's the beauty
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Speaker 4: of it, right.
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Speaker 2: It's crazy. Everyone is different.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Well, on today's show, we have a longevity coach
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Speaker 3: that we interviewed Erica Holland Drake Weir, and we interviewed
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Speaker 3: her at the Modern Day Wife event a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna hop into an interview.
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Speaker 6: With her today. We have Erica Holland Drake Weir here
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Speaker 6: at the w Hotel and she is a certified long
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Speaker 6: debuty coach whose mission was born from personal experience. So
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Speaker 6: can you tell us a little bit about the personal
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Speaker 6: experience and what made you want to help other people.
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Speaker 7: Make their life longer? Thank you, Thank you, Shauna, and
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Speaker 7: thank you so much for having me. It's real triat
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Speaker 7: to be in person as well. Yes, so, I I
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Speaker 7: guess when it really hit me was I was a
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Speaker 7: very stressed out, high performer business world, climbing the carport ladder,
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Speaker 7: twenty five years old and sitting in a doctor's office.
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Speaker 7: I had a doctor tell me I've written me around
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Speaker 7: a three months.
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Speaker 6: I kept up my habits, my current habits, and I
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Speaker 6: knew I selt it, but to hear it, I needed
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Speaker 6: to make a drastic cheach. I wasn't dealing with stress,
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Speaker 6: and the stress was taking over.
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Speaker 5: My body and.
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Speaker 8: My behaviors were a result of not having tools in
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Speaker 8: my toolbox in order to deal with my sense of refectionism,
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Speaker 8: my drive to succeed, so I left the business world.
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Speaker 6: So why I started this was that I didn't want
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Speaker 6: other people in my shoes to totally have to roll
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Speaker 6: up their life in order to get their help and
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Speaker 6: wellness back. And so when this happened, it was actually
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Speaker 6: perfect timing. I decided, well, right now, I'm going to
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Speaker 6: have kids, and so that's how it began. My husband
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Speaker 6: and I decided to have babies, and I was walking
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Speaker 6: enough to stay home and pursue my other passions, which
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Speaker 6: was starting up a charity based on helping moms that
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Speaker 6: use hit blu fangs develop life skills around parenting highness,
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Speaker 6: get them getting them back into the workhorks. But unfortunately
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Speaker 6: COVID shut that down. So we've been operating for four
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Speaker 6: years helping so many months get them out of the
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Speaker 6: bank system and not shut it down. And I was
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Speaker 6: watching a Netflix docuseries, I don't know if you'd seen it,
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Speaker 6: calls It's the Boozoons How to Live two hundred. It
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Speaker 6: reminded me that I had read this book about twenty
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Speaker 6: years ago, and it hit me, this is the way
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Speaker 6: I live every day.
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Speaker 7: I grew up on a farm we raised dollar. My
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Speaker 7: parents were big all entering into the community, and and
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Speaker 7: I had found things in my life that gave me
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Speaker 7: a huge sense of purpose and belonging, and I wanted
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Speaker 7: everybody to have that. And I knew how far I
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Speaker 7: had come and all the tools I had put in
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Speaker 7: place in order to get to this spot, and I
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Speaker 7: decided to start this company that really helps. Mostly I
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Speaker 7: go into again corporations with a lot of high performers,
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Speaker 7: ambitious people, but they run hot their systems inside.
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Speaker 6: They don't realize what the stress stressed over is within
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Speaker 6: our heads. It was in our bodies, right, Our digestion slows,
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Speaker 6: our mitochondria, I guess are hit, our synthetic nervous system
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Speaker 6: goes into overdrive. So we don't realize that all this
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Speaker 6: was our bean. So what kind of tools do you
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Speaker 6: have in your toolbox that you share with your clients? Right,
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Speaker 6: So mostly it's about taking a look at their existing life.
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Speaker 6: So the Blue Zones is nine common concepts that apply
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Speaker 6: to all five areas in the world where people live
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Speaker 6: the long, tan and healthy. But within these nine concepts
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Speaker 6: and they are a varieties such as you know, ignore eat, plant, face, moving,
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Speaker 6: every day, have a sense of purpose, have a slicy belonging.
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Speaker 6: Why not five is actually one because that's about celebrating
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Speaker 6: the day and enjoying loved ones. And I think people
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Speaker 6: really underestimate how important it is to have not only
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Speaker 6: you know, you need a salad a day and.
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Speaker 7: Go to the gym for a now and you think
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Speaker 7: you're happy, healthy, But if you don't have a community,
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Speaker 7: a sense of belonging, if you don't have close family ties,
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Speaker 7: if you don't vouce here to help others, these are
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Speaker 7: chi contributors to your health and happiness.
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Speaker 6: So we take a look at their whole like are
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Speaker 6: they commuting, are they sitting a lot? What kind of
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Speaker 6: access do they have to whole food? Do they have
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Speaker 6: a handley that mixclows why? And we look at it
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Speaker 6: those nine concepts. How what's the easiest way to get
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Speaker 6: the greatest impact? So, uh, you focus on longevity and
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Speaker 6: sustainable wellness, but uh, what does longevity really mean to
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Speaker 6: just beyond just living longer? Yeah, it's really the oppo
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Speaker 6: set of quick fixes. And today we're in a society
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Speaker 6: where everyone's flipping on Instagram.
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Speaker 5: You know, what's the holmet?
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Speaker 6: Do I take? What your best diet. How fast can
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Speaker 6: I do this? Hopes? And really its urgency is what's
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Speaker 6: causing especially woman to end up in unhelped situations. And
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Speaker 6: I feel in North America always really engineered help out
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Speaker 6: of our society. So long jeopany is about creating sustainable
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Speaker 6: factus is it's about asking your eighty year old self,
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Speaker 6: what can I do today that you hak for when
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Speaker 6: you're eighty? So it's really about uh, it's not it's
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Speaker 6: the opposite of quick fixes. Again, it's about little things.
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Speaker 6: Putting a kettle belt bottom of your stairs. It's not
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Speaker 6: realistic to go with wait three times a week, but
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Speaker 6: every time you walk up and down the stairs you
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Speaker 6: can get your heart rate up. That's really helping you. Right,
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Speaker 6: you're waiting for your coffee in the microwave, you do
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Speaker 6: ten air squats. You uh have saber podcasts?
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Speaker 5: Do you make sure you only listen to it while
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Speaker 5: you're walking? Sync like that? Easy, easy, little sake. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: And I had no idea. I also suggest everyone to
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Speaker 5: do some sort of wearhole.
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Speaker 7: I wear a whoop, but anything works because I underestimate
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Speaker 7: you name here about wrap works, rap work and breathing workshops,
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Speaker 7: And why do people go somewhere to learn how to breathe.
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Speaker 7: But I started doing breathwork as I started cultubbing, and
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Speaker 7: the only way to spay in the cultub was to
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Speaker 7: breathe very heaky.
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Speaker 6: And I couldn't need the way it changed and relaxed
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Speaker 6: my nervous system. And then it reminded me throughout the
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Speaker 6: day to take one minute to take five really really depress,
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Speaker 6: and my wearable shows that my overall stress during that
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Speaker 6: day is lower. So just simple sible thing. But I've
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Speaker 6: always struggled with breathing. Uh ever since I was little.
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Speaker 6: They're always like, take a deep breath, and I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 6: it is. It's a practice. So that's why there are
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Speaker 6: rest practitionery.
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Speaker 5: Yes, it's just what I see was like under estimated.
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Speaker 6: I can't of thought it was like, well, Terry see yeah,
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Speaker 6: but no, it actually relaxes during your system and allows
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Speaker 6: your body to work better. So how do you keep
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Speaker 6: your patients or your clients on track and making sure
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Speaker 6: that they are doing what you say they need to do.
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Speaker 6: I mean obviously they have to have hold a little
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Speaker 6: bit of Yeah, it's all as a callow up. And again,
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Speaker 6: most is my work is with corporations, so they'll bring
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Speaker 6: me in, but I say it, and there's no point
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Speaker 6: in having a speaking a conference. Everyone gets all motivated
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Speaker 6: and you don't call a lot weekly to find out.
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Speaker 6: It's a five minute zoom set up where people get
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Speaker 6: to talk without their most say. It's about talking about
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Speaker 6: their challenges and what isn't working. That's how I find
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Speaker 6: it helps people stay accountable because they can tell you
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Speaker 6: one thing that it deep down their challenges or prefending
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Speaker 6: him from doing it it doesn't work.
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Speaker 7: So it's like we see accountability check as. So where
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Speaker 7: can our viewers follow you or book a session with you?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: Thank you. I'm on Instagram's are for We Are Wellness
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Speaker 6: and there's a leech in my bio to book session.
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Speaker 6: And I say to everyone, I would love to chat
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Speaker 6: with you at no charge for half an hour, but
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Speaker 6: we have to have a walking meeting. So you're on
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Speaker 6: your phone. I'm on your phone, but we just chat
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Speaker 6: about what are some really simple things you can do.
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Speaker 4: I'm so excited this weekend? Are you excited about Saturday?
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Speaker 2: I'm so excited.
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Speaker 4: We are going to meet Vic Divitto. And if you
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Speaker 4: don't know who he is, he is a comedian. He
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Speaker 4: went viral on social media years ago.
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Speaker 2: He is amazing.
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Speaker 4: He's like an Italian New Jersey native that is just
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Speaker 4: like it is. He says what we all think that
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Speaker 4: we're afraid to say, and he says it.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 4: We sat down for an interview with him, and oh
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Speaker 4: my god, he was amazing. It was like I felt
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Speaker 4: like it was talking to a family member. Yeah right,
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Speaker 4: It's like someone we knew or I knew who's in
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Speaker 4: my like my uncle, Like hey uncle Joe.
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Speaker 2: You know he's great, so he could be our uncle Vic.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Uncle Vic. You know that's sound like Uncle Vick's
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Speaker 4: on the phone. He's just so funny. So we are
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Speaker 4: going to meet him this Saturday, go backstage, and I'm
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Speaker 4: excited for that.
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Speaker 5: I can't wait.
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Speaker 2: I'd spend years since I've seen him.
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Speaker 3: I did see him many years ago here in Middletown
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Speaker 3: and it was a sold out show. Tickets sold out
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Speaker 3: like so fast, and we were lucky enough to get them.
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Speaker 2: And he is just a riot.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's so nice, so down to earth, and
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Speaker 4: I love that one. Whenever we talk to somebody who's
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Speaker 4: in the spotlight, you know, there's some that aren't as friendly,
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Speaker 4: or or they act like they're know what doesn't stink?
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Speaker 4: But Vic, he was so down to earth. You would
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Speaker 4: never guess that he is in the limelight or anything
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Speaker 4: like that. He's just so down to earth and I
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Speaker 4: absolutely love that.
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Speaker 3: Today on the show we have Vic die Bittato, one
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Speaker 3: of our favorite comedians. And I had the pleasure of
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Speaker 3: meeting you and seeing you in Middletown many many years ago.
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Speaker 1: I know you look familiar. I know you look familiar.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and I interviewed your friend Fred Rubino.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes?
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Speaker 3: And is he You're going to be at Bergen Pac
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Speaker 3: on Saturday March seventh? Right?
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Speaker 2: Is he gonna be with you?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 9: I have no idea who's opening for me? You think
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Speaker 9: I would know that, right? I find out when I
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Speaker 9: get there.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's all right, Hopefully it won't snow. This was
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Speaker 3: an unexpected ice storm that we had.
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Speaker 1: Man, I'm so sick it is It's enough? Is enough? Now?
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Speaker 1: I heard seventy degrees Monday?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm here. It's bipolar. It's bipolar.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome to New Jersey.
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Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about your show and what
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Speaker 2: our fans can experience on Saturday of high energy.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a monologist. I'm very loud. I talk about
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Speaker 1: I don't pick on people.
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Speaker 9: I talk about myself, being married, having kids, living in Jersey,
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Speaker 9: being Italian.
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Speaker 1: It's very relatable. It's uh, you know a lot of
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Speaker 1: people say it will come to your show, pick on
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Speaker 1: my friend. I don't pick on people unless they heckle me,
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Speaker 1: which which I don't have any problem my fans at
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Speaker 1: the best. But now I'm noticing I'm getting heckled by
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Speaker 1: my own material. They're yelling out my bits, which is
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Speaker 1: pretty funny. But it's just everyday relatable topics that people
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Speaker 1: relate to.
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Speaker 2: Were you always funny as kid?
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Speaker 9: Yes, I was, and I was the class clown. I
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Speaker 9: was sneaky funny when the teacher when the teacher turned
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Speaker 9: around to write.
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Speaker 1: In the chalkboard. By the way, a chalkboard was this
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Speaker 1: big black thing that you had to write on. Yes, anyway,
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Speaker 1: and apparently.
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Speaker 2: They don't have chalkboards now in school. I can't believe it.
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Speaker 1: Please the world is everything has changed?
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Speaker 9: But uh, yeah, and it's funny you ask me, because
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Speaker 9: a lot of people even ask my wife that They
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Speaker 9: always ask.
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Speaker 1: Her is he funny at home? And she tells him no,
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Speaker 1: he's a miserable bastard. Can I say, can I say
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Speaker 1: that word?
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Speaker 4: You're fine?
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Speaker 1: Fine? Okay?
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Speaker 3: And I was going to actually ask, you know how
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Speaker 3: how your wife handles you, like at the house in
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Speaker 3: an everyday situation, because you gotta be cracking off.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know what, She's used to it. We're married
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Speaker 1: almost forty five years, so she's used to it. But
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Speaker 1: I still do I make a laugh, I make a smile.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 9: She still comes to some of my shows, and she
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Speaker 9: she even tells me what's what's funny and what's not funny.
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Speaker 9: So she's she's very honest with me.
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Speaker 3: Is she ever like in a situation that happens and
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Speaker 3: she's like, do not use this in your act?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, there's been a couple occasions where she was in
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Speaker 9: a green room and she heard me.
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Speaker 1: Says, why did you say? That's what's wrong with you?
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Speaker 1: You know there's a limit. But then I'll only do
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Speaker 1: it when she doesn't come with me.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And so how did you get started in comedy?
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Speaker 1: Well, like I said, I was the class clown. You know.
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Speaker 1: I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and there was
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Speaker 1: a comedy club called Pip's Comedy club and sheep said
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Speaker 1: Bay Brooklyn and they had an amateur night and my
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Speaker 1: friend said, why don't you give it a shot? You know?
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Speaker 1: So I went on.
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Speaker 9: It was a Wednesday night and half the crowd was
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Speaker 9: family and friends, and I went on stage and uh,
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Speaker 9: I did all okay, you know, the needle was hooked.
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Speaker 9: I like they hit the laughter and fast forward.
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Speaker 1: I kept at it.
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Speaker 9: I started, uh, opening for other for big names, and
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Speaker 9: eventually I was headlining. And now fast forward, I'm doing
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Speaker 9: the Bergain Pack Saturday night.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, which we love and uh we actually support them
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Speaker 3: and they've you know, supported us, and we love going there.
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Speaker 9: It's a great venue. I'm there once a year. New
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Speaker 9: Jersey never lets me down. I mean I'm in Jersey
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Speaker 9: twenty years. I live in an alpin in Mamma County. Uh,
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Speaker 9: New Jersey.
18:37
Speaker 1: I love Jersey. It's like a second you know.
18:40
Speaker 9: Friend to me, Yeah, I want I want Brooklyn, Staten Island,
18:45
Speaker 9: New Jersey, like most people who live around here in
18:48
Speaker 9: an allopin.
18:50
Speaker 2: Yes, we got to get you back up to Middletown.
18:52
Speaker 4: Yeah we won't hear I'll see you.
18:55
Speaker 1: Yeah.
18:57
Speaker 4: Do you change your content like based on the area
19:00
Speaker 4: that you do a comedy show in do you do
19:02
Speaker 4: you ever find yourself having to do that?
19:04
Speaker 9: Uh, No, not really because it's it's you know, I
19:09
Speaker 9: do shows from New England to Florida, and it's all
19:12
Speaker 9: the same. You know, my my fans wherever I go,
19:17
Speaker 9: they're all from New York and New Jersey anyway, they're
19:19
Speaker 9: all transplants, so I don't really have to change much.
19:23
Speaker 9: You know, instead of saying route nine, I'll say, you know,
19:26
Speaker 9: whatever area I'm in, it's not really I'm like, you'll
19:32
Speaker 9: never see me in Boise, Idaho, let's put.
19:34
Speaker 1: It that way.
19:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, they'd be like, what is he talking about exactly?
19:39
Speaker 9: The East Coast is really different than the West Coast.
19:41
Speaker 9: We have a I think we have an advantage growing
19:44
Speaker 9: up in the Northeast. You know, we grew up with
19:47
Speaker 9: street smarts, you know where you know, people say we're arrogant,
19:50
Speaker 9: but they don't understand that when you live amongst millions.
19:53
Speaker 1: And millions of people, you know, and you got to
19:56
Speaker 1: deal with whether like this, it kind of takes its
19:58
Speaker 1: toll on you.
19:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to have a thick skin, and that's
20:01
Speaker 4: what I was looking for. So, like you usually say
20:06
Speaker 4: what everyone's thinking, but you say it out loud. Does
20:11
Speaker 4: do you ever worry about being too honest in today's world?
20:14
Speaker 1: No, because if it's about me, they really can't say anything.
20:18
Speaker 1: You know, I don't. I don't talk politics. I don't
20:22
Speaker 1: do any racial stuff. I leave that. I leave politics
20:25
Speaker 1: to Bill Maher and Colbert. It's just not worth it.
20:28
Speaker 9: I can't deal with no matter what I say, I'm
20:30
Speaker 9: gonna lose half my audience. I just stay the middle
20:35
Speaker 9: of the road, talk about myself. I've never had a
20:37
Speaker 9: problem with anything. Really, I've been pretty lucky.
20:41
Speaker 4: That's good. Yeah, I mean us following you all these years,
20:44
Speaker 4: it has been pretty You talk about reality things that
20:47
Speaker 4: we all deal with, you know. Even from the milk
20:50
Speaker 4: and Bread. I was joking with Shauna. I said, I
20:51
Speaker 4: didn't it's no today and I didn't go out and
20:53
Speaker 4: get the milk and bread, and my kids wanted French toast,
20:55
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh, this is this is the joke.
20:58
Speaker 1: You know, it's really well, the French toast is milk, bread,
21:02
Speaker 1: bread and eggs.
21:03
Speaker 4: I had the eggs, but I didn't have the milk
21:05
Speaker 4: and bread.
21:06
Speaker 9: But that video is amazing. I did that in twenty
21:09
Speaker 9: and thirteen and every winter, it comes back. It's it's
21:12
Speaker 9: like Christmas Carols. It's like it's part of Americana. It's crazy.
21:17
Speaker 1: It's played on the Weather channel, they play it on
21:20
Speaker 1: radio stations, weather stations all over the country. It's it's
21:23
Speaker 1: the it's the viral video that's never going away.
21:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's so ingrained in US now that every
21:30
Speaker 4: time it snows, we all joke gotta get the milk gun.
21:32
Speaker 1: Yeah. And now now, TikTok, I did another video on viral.
21:37
Speaker 9: I start, I'm walking around with a with a coffee pot,
21:39
Speaker 9: screaming who wants coffee? TikTok that my audio is all
21:45
Speaker 9: over TikTok. They're using my audio. There's nothing I could
21:48
Speaker 9: do about. I don't mind, but I.
21:50
Speaker 1: Just wish they would give me a little credit, you know,
21:52
Speaker 1: that's all I asked, Just just put in the lower
21:54
Speaker 1: left hand corner of de Boteto credit. But you know, TikTok,
21:59
Speaker 1: you're allowed to do anything.
22:00
Speaker 9: So but you know, there's a guy on a balcony
22:03
Speaker 9: in Italy holding a cup of coffee and you hear
22:05
Speaker 9: my voice over. It's just it's pretty gratifying. Actually, you know,
22:10
Speaker 9: they say it's the highest form of flattery.
22:13
Speaker 4: It is, and it's going to continue. And then you know,
22:16
Speaker 4: I'm doing it to my kids. And then is that
22:18
Speaker 4: going to be when you're long gone? People are going
22:20
Speaker 4: to be selling We'll get the milking, but you know,
22:22
Speaker 4: and it's gonna who's.
22:23
Speaker 1: That's gonna be what I'm known for, bread and milk
22:26
Speaker 1: and coffee.
22:29
Speaker 2: Well, you do have your own coffee line, I see.
22:32
Speaker 9: Yes, Unfortunately that didn't do well and we don't we
22:35
Speaker 9: don't sell it anymore.
22:36
Speaker 1: But at least a coffee company contacted my.
22:40
Speaker 9: Manager, you know, and had an an idea to use
22:44
Speaker 9: me as a spokesperson. You know, I do a lot
22:46
Speaker 9: of videos about home goods, and uh, you would think
22:49
Speaker 9: home Goods would would contact me to be as spoke
22:52
Speaker 9: you know. I guess the cursing makes them nervous, but
22:55
Speaker 9: all they you know, the cursing could be eliminated. We
22:58
Speaker 9: could send you a script, you know, and you could
23:00
Speaker 9: approve it. You know, look at Bob Sagett, May he
23:03
Speaker 9: rest in peace. He was the filthiest stand up comic. Meanwhile,
23:08
Speaker 9: the networks put him in a sitcom.
23:10
Speaker 2: You know, I didn't know that.
23:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, very dirty and he was I don't know what's
23:16
Speaker 1: that sitcom he was in a few years ago. I
23:18
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys remembered it.
23:19
Speaker 9: I don't know, but anyway, that is what it is,
23:22
Speaker 9: you know, hopefully, Like right now, Lexus call my manager
23:26
Speaker 9: because I do videos from my car. I talk about
23:28
Speaker 9: Lexus that thinking of using me for you know, one
23:31
Speaker 9: of those local infomercials, you know, in the New Jersey area.
23:36
Speaker 1: So it was.
23:36
Speaker 9: But I don't get excited til the checks clears and
23:39
Speaker 9: the money's in the bank. If I had a penny,
23:41
Speaker 9: if I had a penny for every project, Oh, I
23:45
Speaker 9: have an idea.
23:46
Speaker 1: It's just it's a brutal business man. It's not who
23:48
Speaker 1: you know, it's who knows you.
23:50
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, we've dealt with that.
23:56
Speaker 1: You're only as good as your last good deed exactly.
24:00
Speaker 3: So Tommy is really feeling different these days, and everyone
24:07
Speaker 3: is offended no matter.
24:08
Speaker 2: What you say, no matter what you do. Yeah, but
24:13
Speaker 2: how does that has that changed your material?
24:18
Speaker 1: No, because I don't.
24:19
Speaker 9: I don't give them anything to complain about. You know,
24:22
Speaker 9: like I said, it's all about me, my family. Everyday
24:26
Speaker 9: situations I don't talk about. You know, you look into
24:30
Speaker 9: my audience. I have a wide age group. I did
24:33
Speaker 9: a show one time.
24:34
Speaker 1: There was a nineteen year old and an eighty six
24:37
Speaker 1: year old in my audience, you know. And I also
24:41
Speaker 1: do the characters.
24:42
Speaker 9: I pretend I'm the manager of the Yankees and the Giants,
24:44
Speaker 9: and that open another audience where I have an African
24:48
Speaker 9: American following from football.
24:50
Speaker 1: You know. It's I just try to watch what I say.
24:55
Speaker 1: Like I said, I've been lucky, because you know, you
24:56
Speaker 1: can say the wrong thing. Somebody films it, puts it on.
25:00
Speaker 1: My career is in the shit? You know?
25:02
Speaker 8: Yeah?
25:03
Speaker 1: Careful, yeah, Facebook, No matter what you put on Facebook,
25:09
Speaker 1: it turns political.
25:10
Speaker 9: I did a simple video about the snow, and you
25:14
Speaker 9: look in the comments. That's because of Donald Trump, That's
25:17
Speaker 9: because of Joe Biden. I'm like, what the hell does
25:20
Speaker 9: that have to do with this video? People are insane?
25:24
Speaker 9: People are insane.
25:26
Speaker 4: It really, It's become so bad, and you're afraid to talk,
25:29
Speaker 4: you're afraid to post, you're afraid to have conversations with people.
25:33
Speaker 1: Not good. It's bead enough. I got to argue with
25:35
Speaker 1: Italians whether it's called social gravy. Oh no, I don't
25:40
Speaker 1: even want to wait. You know, when I say call it,
25:43
Speaker 1: what you want. As long as you like it, that's
25:45
Speaker 1: all good. That's all.
25:48
Speaker 2: Yeah.
25:49
Speaker 4: I've had those. I'm Italian, so I've had those arguments
25:52
Speaker 4: with my father in law and we get into bad.
25:57
Speaker 1: Yeah.
25:58
Speaker 5: I agree.
25:59
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, we would love to see you. So
26:02
Speaker 4: Sean has been to your show? I haven't yet, but
26:04
Speaker 4: I've watched you and followed you for years.
26:05
Speaker 2: I love you. And we have to go on Saturday.
26:09
Speaker 9: Yeah, because the videos are entirely different than my stand up.
26:13
Speaker 9: You know a lot of people who follow me on
26:16
Speaker 9: the social media watch my video. They come to my
26:18
Speaker 9: stand up, they're expecting me to run around the stage
26:20
Speaker 9: for an hour and yell and get the bread of milk.
26:22
Speaker 1: I gotta get the bread of milk. It's it's My
26:25
Speaker 1: stand up is a whole different dimension from the videos.
26:29
Speaker 1: I have to go it is.
26:30
Speaker 2: Yes, we have to go on Saturday.
26:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can come. If you do, come make sure
26:35
Speaker 1: you meet me. We'll take a picture.
26:37
Speaker 4: That'd be great.
26:37
Speaker 1: I love that.
26:38
Speaker 6: That'd be great.
26:39
Speaker 4: Can you let our listeners know like times and know
26:41
Speaker 4: that so they could find information to buy tickets and
26:43
Speaker 4: go see you this Saturday?
26:46
Speaker 1: I guess contact the the Burgain Pack. Okay, right, yeah, yeah,
26:52
Speaker 1: I get Yeah, I'll go to my website vicdebiteto dot net.
26:57
Speaker 2: Awesome.
26:58
Speaker 1: You know it's frustrating.
26:59
Speaker 9: I have a flyer, I have a banner on my
27:02
Speaker 9: Facebook page, I have a website, and like the day
27:05
Speaker 9: after I'll give you an example. Last week I was
27:08
Speaker 9: in I was in Rhode Island. Uh the Odium Theatre
27:11
Speaker 9: in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The next day somebody texts me,
27:15
Speaker 9: when are you coming to the Odium Theatre in East Greenwich.
27:20
Speaker 1: I'm like, I was just there, but.
27:23
Speaker 9: I'm your biggest fan. But if you're my biggest fan,
27:25
Speaker 9: you would have known that. Yes, it's frustrating if you
27:31
Speaker 9: don't hold their hand and guide them, forget it. But
27:33
Speaker 9: meanwhile they'll spend hours on Amazon looking for a lampshade.
27:38
Speaker 1: Please.
27:41
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
27:42
Speaker 2: It's so true though.
27:45
Speaker 3: I mean, I follow you and I've known that you've
27:48
Speaker 3: been playing You're playing at the Bergen for months.
27:51
Speaker 2: I've been following about it.
27:52
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.
27:54
Speaker 4: She's like, we need to get him on an interview.
27:55
Speaker 4: He's coming over here.
27:57
Speaker 9: People have no pay remember the old I don't know
27:59
Speaker 9: if you guys, remember when you ordered something in a
28:02
Speaker 9: catalog it would say six to eight weeks business business weeks. Now,
28:07
Speaker 9: if the Amazon guy doesn't come to your door after
28:09
Speaker 9: you order something five minutes, what do you mean it's
28:12
Speaker 9: gonna come later tonight?
28:15
Speaker 4: Try and get a refund. People who try to get
28:17
Speaker 4: a refund, they didn't come in two days. I'm like.
28:20
Speaker 1: The same thing with the videos, because I could.
28:22
Speaker 9: I could click on Facebook and they can tell you
28:25
Speaker 9: I have to do to get monetarizered on Facebook, the
28:27
Speaker 9: video has to be at least three minutes. Most people
28:30
Speaker 9: watch the first I'm not making this up, the first
28:33
Speaker 9: twenty seconds and they don't watch the rest.
28:37
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't watch a three minute video. Then
28:41
Speaker 1: they have ds. The edge are ten seconds.
28:44
Speaker 9: I tried watching the video, but then this ad kind
28:46
Speaker 9: of watched it. When you go to a movie theater,
28:48
Speaker 9: don't you watch previews? When you watch TV, don't you
28:50
Speaker 9: watch commercials. It's just please, don't get me started. I'm
28:54
Speaker 9: trying to save the energy for the shows this weekend.
28:57
Speaker 9: It's too early for the blood pressure to get going here.
29:00
Speaker 4: They want that instantaneous the gratification.
29:04
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
29:06
Speaker 4: It's sad. I mean we're all guilty of it. How
29:10
Speaker 4: many times on YouTube in my hit and skip ad
29:12
Speaker 4: because I don't commercial. You know, it's just become that.
29:16
Speaker 4: It's unfortunate.
29:18
Speaker 9: But the social media when it first came out, was
29:21
Speaker 9: a great tool. People are reconnecting. You're looking at recipes
29:26
Speaker 9: and videos of cats.
29:28
Speaker 1: Now it's like wow, it's like.
29:31
Speaker 2: Which is what we were doing yesterday? Looking at cats?
29:35
Speaker 1: Well, I have a cat.
29:36
Speaker 9: I love forget it, I love cat. My cat, Eddie
29:39
Speaker 9: has fins. I'm on stage one night, people yelling out,
29:42
Speaker 9: how's Eddie?
29:43
Speaker 1: This is?
29:44
Speaker 4: Showed me videos of Eddie yesterday. Cats I have.
29:49
Speaker 9: I have a I have a po box because people
29:51
Speaker 9: like the Sunday gifts, which I say, don't send me.
29:53
Speaker 1: Just be a fan.
29:54
Speaker 9: Just buy my tickets. That's how you could help me.
29:56
Speaker 9: People send me cat toys for Eddie in my he
30:00
Speaker 9: oh box.
30:01
Speaker 2: That is cute.
30:02
Speaker 1: How great is that? And he'll start animals. Animals they're
30:07
Speaker 1: better than people.
30:08
Speaker 2: They truly are. You know when they're climbing all over your.
30:12
Speaker 1: Laptop and oh my god, I did a video about that. Yeah,
30:18
Speaker 1: I'll tell you today. He goes, I'm gonna be a
30:20
Speaker 1: basket case. I tell my wife after this one, no
30:22
Speaker 1: more pets because it's hard to travel. I got we
30:25
Speaker 1: gotta get a cat sitt Of of course he gets
30:28
Speaker 1: anxiety flee.
30:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy, like another set of children. When you
30:35
Speaker 4: have pets like telling you it.
30:37
Speaker 1: Is it really is. You're better up with a goldfishy.
30:42
Speaker 4: Ever ruined a video that you've made or a bit
30:45
Speaker 4: that you've made.
30:47
Speaker 1: No, he just makes them better. There's an old saying,
30:51
Speaker 1: and show them that you can't follow children and animals.
30:55
Speaker 1: Edie steals the He steals the show, and he gets
30:58
Speaker 1: a lot of good views. If I do a video
31:00
Speaker 1: with Eddie, I get a lot of views. A lot
31:03
Speaker 1: of people love animals. You can't go room with animals.
31:06
Speaker 2: So true it is, it's so true. Well, thank you
31:10
Speaker 2: so much, Vic for taking the time out today.
31:13
Speaker 9: I just want to apologize for coming late. I'm sorry.
31:17
Speaker 1: It just it's the laptop on the phone. Sometimes it
31:21
Speaker 1: doesn't work in the phone. And my kids are here,
31:23
Speaker 1: and god forbid, they helped me. I showed you. I
31:27
Speaker 1: showed you the last time you please. Yep.
31:31
Speaker 2: That's me with my mom. She comes in every day like,
31:34
Speaker 2: oh my god, I showed you this already.
31:39
Speaker 1: I'm sixty five, so you got to bed with me.
31:42
Speaker 2: She's going to be seventy.
31:43
Speaker 4: So yeah, I know, we get to that age. I'm forty,
31:48
Speaker 4: and I said, now I know how my parents felt
31:50
Speaker 4: because I don't want to learn anything new. I had
31:52
Speaker 4: to set up a printer the other day. I'm like,
31:54
Speaker 4: I don't want to do this.
31:55
Speaker 6: I don't know.
31:56
Speaker 1: Print is are the worst they take. They make all
31:59
Speaker 1: these noises. It takes like twenty minutes to print your forty.
32:04
Speaker 1: You know when I was your age, I was forty.
32:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm forty forty, two kids and God blessed, thank
32:14
Speaker 4: you that that's midlife.
32:17
Speaker 1: When they say sixty is midlife, this is a senior citizen.
32:21
Speaker 1: I got my AARP card, I got my Medicare card.
32:24
Speaker 1: You'll hear all about it. If you come to the
32:26
Speaker 1: show Saturday.
32:28
Speaker 4: I want to call. I'm definitely gonna make my plans
32:30
Speaker 4: to get there.
32:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me know. Let the chiff No, I'll bring
32:33
Speaker 1: you backstage. Okay, so good, cool, all right, and you'll
32:37
Speaker 1: meet whoever's opening up for me. I have no idea.
32:40
Speaker 4: Maybe it's Eddy.
32:42
Speaker 1: Oh that would be great.
32:44
Speaker 4: You need to bring him, have like a little cat
32:46
Speaker 4: backpack and bring him to your shows.
32:49
Speaker 1: Oh that thing. Once he sees that thing, that what
32:52
Speaker 1: they call the thing. We get it. He hides, he
32:55
Speaker 1: guns under the bed. Whenever we got to go to
32:57
Speaker 1: the vet's we have a plan. We got it.
33:00
Speaker 9: We gotta kiss him and hug him. Then we got
33:02
Speaker 9: and she's in the other room. The thing is already open.
33:04
Speaker 9: We gotta put him in. It's a whole it's a
33:06
Speaker 9: whole ritual. It's horrible.
33:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta start three days before I take him.
33:10
Speaker 3: I got it there, and it's a whole big process
33:14
Speaker 3: and sometimes it doesn't happen.
33:16
Speaker 1: No, And when he gets to the vet, he's a sweetheart.
33:19
Speaker 1: They love him at the vet. He's so good. Yeah,
33:22
Speaker 1: it's just just getting him there is the problem. Yeah.
33:25
Speaker 3: My vet says that my cats are the a star patient,
33:28
Speaker 3: but not the transport. Yeah, thank you so much, Vic
33:33
Speaker 3: for coming on the show. And uh, we can't wait
33:36
Speaker 3: to see you on Saturday and go backstage.
33:38
Speaker 2: And hang out.
33:40
Speaker 3: Make sure you get your tickets for this Saturday night
33:44
Speaker 3: little date night at bergen Pack. Come see Vic d
33:48
Speaker 3: Boteto with us eight pm and tickets are still available.
33:53
Speaker 3: You can get tickets at Ticketmaster and on bergen Pack's website.
33:58
Speaker 2: That's our show for this week. Than thank you so
34:00
Speaker 2: much for tuning in.
34:02
Speaker 3: Make sure to follow us on all social media platforms
34:05
Speaker 3: at Shauna and Lala. You could follow me on Instagram
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Speaker 3: at the real Shauna May.
34:11
Speaker 4: And check me out at Bella Underscore Laala one two five.
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Speaker 2: We will see you next week