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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to Theme Party the podcast. I'm

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your party host, Moretta mos. In case this is your

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first time listening to a TPTV episode, here is what

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we're doing. Every season, I pick a theme and our

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team comes up with their own ideas for an audio

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drama that somehow fits that theme, even if it only

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fits if you ask everyone really nicely to ignore all

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the ways it doesn't. Once they've made their episode, I

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invite them to talk about it and I am thrilled

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to be here with my party guest, Nedda. El say

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it Hi. In a previous life, Nedda was a dentist,

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but now she's in the electric sector. She dabbles in

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voice acting as well as plays D and D and

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a variety of games. Bay Area based Nedda loves to

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travel at ten concerts and comedy shows, snowboard and can

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never say no to brunch. Nedda, please say hello, Hi, Ritta.

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I've been starting off these episodes by describing the kind

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of party I think you are as kind of a

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way to tell the audience who I think you are

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as a person, and maybe you can either agree or

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disagree to further in the people of like what they're

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getting into with our conversation here today. So the kind

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of party that I think you are, and bear with

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me here because I know this is not people's traditional

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definition of a party, but I think you would be

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a first date, and by that I mean I'm imagining

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that there would be a fabulous meal. And I understand

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that I have also talked extensively about food with everybody

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that I've interviewed so far, and that was not on purpose.

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But it's okay, a fabulous meal because I think that's

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how you show your love is either by experiencing good

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food with somebody, or by making good food with somebody

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or for somebody. I think also that your first date

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would involve an adventurous activity or something like that that

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gets you out of the house and moving, either like

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a hike or snowboarding as you mentioned, or a concert

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as you mentioned, followed by a cozy end to the

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evening with just like a little bit of like enjoyment

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of getting to meet this person and celebrate starting whatever

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the future holds together, or just celebrate like, hey, I

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don't have to do this ever again, depending on how

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the date goes. So that is that an accurate portrayal

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or not?

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Speaker 2: I would say yes, because funny enough, I do have

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a new boyfriend. Yeah, and yes, he he's on a

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completely different level and I'm I'm very happy. Our first date,

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we were supposed to meet up for like a drink,

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that sort of thing, and I ended up scratching a

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company car day because I was trying to park in

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a very tight garage area and I'm not I drive

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a Prius. I'm not used to trust.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, is this something I have to cut out

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of the episode? Does your boss know? That's not okay?

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I just wanted to check it.

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Speaker 2: No, No, they know because it was a rental.

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Speaker 1: Oh they know, they know, they were well aware.

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Speaker 2: I got I got in touch with them immediately.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Ah, dang that sucks.

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Speaker 2: So he was very sweet. He was like, oh you

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sure you you know you don't want to get a

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drink that sort of thing, and I'm like, you know,

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I'm I'm too stressed out right now, let's put a

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hold on this Q. About a week and a half later,

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we actually finally do have a date. We go see

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Superman and we had some lovely ty food after and

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it was just really good. We ended up like spending

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six hours.

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Speaker 1: Together something like that whoa on a first date?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it was really good.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations. Oh I love that Twitter painted phase where you're

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just like so into each other. I mean, I shouldn't

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say phase. Some people are probably just storid to painted

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all of the time. That must be amazing. The theme

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for this season is family Traditions. Did your story fit

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the theme?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah, yeah, yes, Listen.

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Speaker 1: I tell everybody to shoehorn their ideas and as much

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as possible if it fits it. Anyway, it fits a theme,

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that's good.

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Speaker 2: It definitely fits because, like you know, I basically talks

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about a whole year of activities, So yeah, it does.

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Is it necessarily family? No, but I was very distracted

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at the time and I couldn't really think of anything

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else to write.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: Also, like the concept of found family, like it's not true.

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I mean, I know, the story centers around your relationship

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with this person, but you know, there's also the factor

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of the friends that you guys spend a lot of

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time with and the interactions with his family and your family,

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and he did not end up becoming family per se.

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I don't know what your friendship status is with this

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person anymore.

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Speaker 2: At it he's a friend. That's it? Sure in the circle,

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that's yeah. No, no, no, Necessarily direct communication is needed, gotcha?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I will say still that I think your episode,

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even though it's not focused on your interactions with blood

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family member or even somebody that you would consider to

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be found family necessarily, I do still think that the

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periphery around the main story still falls in line with

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that theme.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you have a point.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look at me, I got there. Well, your episode

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title is first and last. Would you please read for

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us your log line and your tagline.

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Speaker 2: The narrator reminisces on memories created with a loved one,

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but their current form of relationship must end. Role for chemistry.

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Speaker 1: Check nice Netta's roles in making this episode include producer, writer,

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and actor. Let's listen to a sample of your episode.

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Speaker 2: We hit it off right away. You gave me a

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reason to laugh every day. I was in a dark

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place processing my dad's death while also starting out as

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a state, all while dealing with keeping an estranged family

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at arm's length. I would definitely want koftaburgers and fries.

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I would have to be the grill master again. Since

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you're color blind, you would have a hard time telling

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when the burgers were done. These traditions we meet together

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and the ones we haven't been begun will never be

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more than what they are now.

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Speaker 1: NEDA. What podcast production role did you take on for

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the first time and how did it.

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Speaker 2: Go For the first time? There was writing. I'm not

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much of a writer, so that was interesting to do.

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That was the biggest thing. Actually, I've done a little

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bit of voice acting before, so nothing new there unrelated

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to theme party. But I have been delving into the

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sound design for Peculiar Radio and that has been fun too. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's so exciting to dive into sound design, and

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every time I learn a new skill in sound design,

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I'm like, look at me. I could do this professionally

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for money.

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Speaker 2: It's very satisfying of having the audio effects line up

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correctly with the voices. Oh, oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: I was like, yes, this is so good. What was

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your favorite part about writing for the episode?

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Speaker 2: I guess because of the topic of it. It was

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just cathartic. Yeah, it was good to express those feelings

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in a healthy avenue.

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Speaker 1: You started writing this when it was still really fresh

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and really raw, right.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, No, My original plan was to write about

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like Ramadan and the Ads, and like how it is

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in comparison between like the US and in Egypt. And

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I was just very, very distracted by this breakup, so

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that was all I could think of.

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Speaker 1: We'll have to have you back for another episode in

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the future so we can find out whatever it was

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you were going to write about for Ramadan and Aid. I

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would love to hear that. That sounds very interesting. Do

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you want to tell us a little bit about how

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they're different between the US and Egypt right now? Like,

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don't give anything away if it's going to be an

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incredible episode for the future.

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Speaker 2: But I hones say the biggest difference, like out of

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personal experience, is just it's in Egypt. I have a

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lot of family there, so it's just a very very

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family oriented event and vibe in comparison to what it

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was here in the US because usually it was just

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our family, so we'd be just going to the mosque,

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have the prayers there and get some free candy since

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we were kids and you know, some money. My sister

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and I there's only a year and a half between us.

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We have to wear matching dresses of course, as it.

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Speaker 1: Goes very classic for little girls.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, that pretty much sums it up for the

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US more or less. Oh, I love that, But in

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Egypt it was definitely more enjoyable, I would say, just

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because there's more family people.

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Speaker 1: More extended family. Yeah, how inclusive of extended family are you?

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Because my family gets together every summer with extended family

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out to my cousins and like my aunts and uncles

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and my kids generation. Right, we do family reunions that

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like branch out farther down the tree, but it's not

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as well attended as it used to be, and it's

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certainly not around a special holiday or something. It's you know,

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just gathering together like the local community center kind of

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thing and having some pot luck.

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Speaker 2: So I don't really deal with my dad's side of

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the family family history thing. We hang out always with

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my mom's side. It's basically whenever there's an opportunity. Because

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some of the family members live closer than the others,

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we tend to like just meet up in the countryside

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because that's what's easiest for one of the family members.

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would go down there, spend the weekend at the very least.

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Speaker 1: And this is in Egypt, or this.

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Speaker 2: Isn't no, this is in Egypt, okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And here in the US, we don't have a lot

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of family members here. Yeah, it's a more sparse.

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Speaker 1: Well, it sounds dreamy to have like a bunch of

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built in friends to go and visit them for fun

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family events.

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Speaker 2: And I will say though, in comparison to when I

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was a child, the celebrations now is definitely more lax.

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like that. So with some family friends, old old family friends,

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we would get together, like on the weekend at the

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very least of the week of the celebration, just get together,

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have breakfast and hang out. Oh so that is that

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is wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for sharing that. I cannot

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wait to hear what you intended to write about it

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for your episode. We'll have to come up with a

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theme that I can work around your story. Well, speaking

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of family and gatherings, I think you told me the

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last party that you hosted was a wedding.

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Speaker 2: Yes, not me per se, it was for it was

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my brother's wedding.

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Speaker 1: Well I didn't I didn't even apply that you went

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to your own wedding, the last party you went to

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when you have real quick with this new boyfriend. Dang,

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that would be quite the reveal in the what ten

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minutes we've been talking about.

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Speaker 2: I mean, let's put it this way. He's very serious.

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Speaker 1: Oh dang, Okay.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and he has gone kind of all out

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like he's already on his own starting to learn Arabic.

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He even signed up for classes. He's met my family,

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he's met family friends.

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Speaker 1: And how long have you been dating?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: What's that giggle for?

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Speaker 2: Well, because I know for a lot of people to

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be like, oh my god, that's so fast, it's been

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like now two months, two and a half months. But

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here's the thing. And this is what it really blew

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me away in his perspective, because when I was telling

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him like I can't believe that you're actually already learning

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this or you know you're interested in doing this, and

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he's like, well, because we met over Hinge, you expressed

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in your profile how this is important to you, so

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then that means it should be important to me. Whoo.

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So it's like, oh, is that how it's supposed to be?

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Oh my, It's like, oh, I didn't know that. This

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is how this works.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, Yeah, congratulations. Wow, all right. Do you want to

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talk about your brother's wedding or do you want to

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just talk about planning your own? Oh no, this.

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Speaker 2: Nowhere anytime soon. But it feels good, It feels good.

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Speaker 1: Happy for you. That's wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. But if you want to go back to

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the brother's wedding, that was a lot of fun. We

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went to Egypt for that.

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Speaker 1: What's a wedding like in Egypt?

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Speaker 2: So there's a thing like at the start of a wedding,

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there's a thing called a zepha, which you have a

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bunch of musicians and dancers that show up at the

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beginning and they kind of walk the bride and groom

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across the area to where they're going to be sitting down.

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It's just a whole ceremony thing with a bunch of

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horns and drums and it's very enjoyable after that. Wedding

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could be as Western or Oriental as you want, essentially,

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but it's it's typically very Western. We have the DJ

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dance floor, buffet dinner thing. My brother married his childhood sweetheart.

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Speaker 3: They were oh yeah, I love that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've known each other since they were kids. And

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fortunately finally she heard from the embassy she'll be having

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her interview so she can come over finally because they

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got married earlier on like on paper, so they can

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get that paperwork going. Sure, And then we did did

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the full celebration last May.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, well, I'm what a happy ending. Married your

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childhood sweetheart and she gets to come live with you.

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Speaker 2: It's been a process.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, Well, I'm glad it's working out. That's good

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to hear. Yeah, congratulations to your brother and his beautiful bride.

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Pretty much opposite of a wedding to your childhood sweetheart.

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What is your opinion on surprise parties and has anybody

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ever thrown a surprise party for you or have you

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ever thrown a surprise party for someone else?

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Speaker 2: I think surprise parties can be pretty fun, but you

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got to time or know what kind of mindset that

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the person who's getting surprised. That is the key point.

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Don't want to have them come in and having a

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very bad day at work and then suddenly be surprised

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with a bunch of people when all you want to

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do is wind down and shut down.

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Speaker 1: Or even I like surprise parties agreed that you have

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to be bindful of somebody's mindset for the day and

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if they're going to be interested in this. I also

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don't like surprise parties where people are led to believe

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that everyone has forgotten about their birthday leading up to that,

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because that is cruel. What makes somebody feel like they

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have no friends and then surprise, You're not a loser,

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you know, like that's it's so sad.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: That didn't even cross my mind of the fact that,

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you know, even friends would pretend like I know that happens,

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But in my head it was just like, Okay, everybody's

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here surprise, but not even the mindset of actively being like,

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oh is it today, what's happening today? No, that did

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not cross my mind.

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Speaker 1: I would like to think that people involved with participating

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in or planning surprise parties would work around that and

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not make that the situation. But I think I think

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it has to happen sometimes, right, like where people plan

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a birthday surprise on the day and everybody is trying

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to be hush hush about what the actual plans are

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and being probably pretty flaky about celebrating in other ways,

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And yeah, I mean, I guess as you get older,

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like birthdays also don't feel as important unless it's like

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a milestone birthday kind of thing. So maybe it's not

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that big of a deal. Then that's true. But man

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if I were thirteen and none of my friends did

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happy Birthday, oh gosh and surprise me, I would be devastated.

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Speaker 2: That's trauma right there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you carry that forever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. To answer your other questions, I've been a part

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of one, one or two surprise parties back in the day,

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like during the college years. Essentially I was never the planner,

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just participant and helped with it after the fact. I've

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never actually had a surprise party.

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Speaker 1: Would you want a surprise party?

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Speaker 2: I think would be interesting to try it, But I

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mean it's not something that's like I must have this.

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I think it would be How would I say this?

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It's like the concept is nice because then it's like, oh,

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you know, people do care kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the extra effort it takes to keep that secret

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is nice, and the yeah, the masterful deception. I don't

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know if somebody's gonna be good at thinking around. I

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don't know what the redeeming qualities are of somebody who

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can throw a good surprise party except that, Hey, that's

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neat that you lied to me like that and it

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was for good reasons, I suppose.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Wow, that's valid.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know where to go from this anyway. Well,

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speaking of big and a slump, from knowing how to

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transition out of that weird place that I ended up

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about surprise parties, how do you get out of a

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work slump if it feels stuck around motivated or something

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like that, what do you do to get the creative

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juice's flog again?

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Speaker 2: So here's the funny thing, don't I don't really feel

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work slumps. I feel more of like just a constant

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cycle sort of thing. So it's like, how do I

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want to get out of that feeling of just repetition? Essentially,

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I usually tend to do something that I don't usually do,

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so it's like, okay, you know what, I'm going to

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go to the movies, or I'm going to go take

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a walk, or I will tour the city sort of thing,

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Like I need to do something out of the normal

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to break things.

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Speaker 1: So more like a life slump than a work slump. Yeah,

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it's like getting out of the rut.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because this is kind of bullshit of me to say.

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I don't know if I could say that, but he's

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at him.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, all right.

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Speaker 2: All right, this is kind of bs for me to say, but.

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Speaker 1: I gotta believe it's fine.

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Speaker 2: But I don't commonly get slumps because I usually just

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go into a work mode and just like I keep

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going until it's done, essentially, and then I'll be like,

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all right, I need to do something different. I need

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to get out of this sort of feeling. But yeah,

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I tend to be a work horse, not healthy.

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Speaker 1: But it sounds like you've got a good method for

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like shaking it off when you're done, so you're not

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carrying it through to other aspects of your life outside

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of work.

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Speaker 2: I try to as much as I can.

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Speaker 1: Good good, I'm glad to hear that, Netta. You're invited

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to a party. What are you told to bring to

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the party.

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Speaker 2: Usually I'd be told to bring bougie foodie thing, because

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I'm the foodie of the group.

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Speaker 1: Essentially, give me a list of boo things.

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, a lot of it is Middle Eastern.

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Speaker 1: I love Middle Eastern food. Tell me what it is.

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Speaker 2: So like, there's this dessert call well, everybody knows what

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it is now knefa yep. But it's not just like

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the dried little pastry bits. It's an actual dish and

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the filling is usually of nuts or some cheese cream

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like consistency in They're very delicious. When someone else was

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hosting a benicotta, everybody had to bring different ingredients. I

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brought a whole variety of mushrooms. Like, I'm not keeping

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it just to portobello and white. No, that's boring. Let's

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get some chittaki, some trumpets, oyster, that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to announce here now, what the best

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mushroom is? Do you have one?

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Speaker 2: You know what? I honestly don't because I just really

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like mushrooms general. I would not say no to mushrooms.

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Speaker 1: I will agree, I think a blend is the best overall,

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But if I had to pick one, I think I

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would go oyster mushroom. I think their flavor and texture.

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You have a point, They're so good in everything.

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Speaker 2: They really are very adaptable.

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Speaker 1: Other bougie foods that you need to bring to parties.

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What else?

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Speaker 2: M Well, my mom kind of makes some of it,

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but then I finish it off something called mashie. That's

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an Egyptian dish. It's something stuffed with rice. So in

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this case, there's cabbage rolls, grape leaves, zucchini, eggplant, peppers,

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and there's this rice. It's very herbaceous and it has

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a tomato sauce base to it. You cook it in

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chicken stock or beef stock, and it is really good.

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I sacrilegiously, I like to dip it and ketchup, but

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not a lot of people agree with me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel about that, and I

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eat ketchup. Listen. I can't tell other people how to

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eat their food, though, but I yeah, if it's good,

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that's great. I love that part of you. You mentioned

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that your mom makes a lot of food for you

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to bring to parties or for parties that you host.

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Is there a recipe that your mom taught you to

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make that is particularly special or that you guys make together.

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Speaker 2: Maybe? No. She is more of a hands off kind

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of person.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean, Oh, like like your hands off.

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Speaker 2: Out, my hands off, my hands off? Yeah, I reverse that,

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that's okay. The recipes, she doesn't have anything written down right,

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It's just all in her head and I know all

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the components and all the ingredients, and that's actually just

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enough to be able to do it, because nothing's measured

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out all just by feeling. And while her food will

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look good, mine won't necessarily look good, but it will

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still taste.

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Speaker 1: Great, and that's what matters exactly.

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Speaker 2: I will say, though, that I am now solely in

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charge of Thanksgiving. What she got tired of me commenting do.

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Speaker 1: You do an American style Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: Or American one hundred?

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Speaker 1: So your cooking the turkey and the potatoes and the stuff, Yang,

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that's a big responsibility. Congratulations for having that pisode upon you,

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and also I'm sorry that you had upon you.

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Speaker 2: You know what, Actually I don't feel bad about doing it.

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I look forward to it because it's like, oh, I

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made this, and it's it's better than what you would

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have ever scample.

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Speaker 1: What were you unsatisfied with in your mom's interpretation of Thanksgiving?

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Speaker 2: Oh, she did a typical American style too, but it's like, oh,

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the brutus maybe a little bit dry, or the cranberry

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sauce is a little bit too sweet, you know, maybe

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you should add some orange to it. And she got

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kind of fed up and I'm like, all right, I'll

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do it, and I immediately got myself like, you know,

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one of those injectable things for the turkey.

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Speaker 1: So yack, the giant turkeys are ringe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I just went all out and she has no complaints.

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I can say that much.

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Speaker 1: You know what, for making you be hands off in

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her kitchen to entrusting you with all of Thanksgiving, that

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is a huge leap, and we'd love to see growth.

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We love to see a comeback story that's good. After

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telling us about all these bougie foods that you're responsible for,

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can you tell us what poor ban's cranberry juice is?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, So this is This is hibiscus and tamarind

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boiled together essentially, so it's like a herbal tea, but

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you just add enough sugar because tamrend adds a bit

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of tartness to it and the hibiscus gives that kind

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of floral fruity note. So with the sugar, it just

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kind of ties it all together. And it is truly

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the poor man's cranberry juice.

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Speaker 1: I don't think of cranberry as being a rich man's drink.

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Speaker 2: No fair okay, So fair point when I say that

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so okay, I when I said that, it's kind of

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more in reference to when I was living in Egypt. Oh,

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because cranberries are not very common there. Like the only

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kind of cranberries I've ever seen is ocean missed jelly.

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Speaker 1: That is it. I make my own cranberry sauce every

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year for Thanksgiving. I still like this stuff out of

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the can. I will eat that one hundred percent if

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somebody is serving it.

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Speaker 2: So oh no, well, I mean we did eat it.

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I mean, but the thing is, it's like it's the

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only thing there's Like, cranberry juice does not exist essentially

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unless you're buying something from a supermarket that has foreign foods,

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which is extremely expensive in comparison to regular food. So hence,

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why the term of poor Man's cranberry juice, because it

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was a very good comparison to that.

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Speaker 1: Gotcha, and can you tell me how poor Man's cranberry

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juice fits the theme of your episode.

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Speaker 2: You can keep having good thoughts, good things happening and happening,

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but if there's no real substance, because hey, you'd rather

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have the cranberry juice right over having the poor Man's

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granmary juice right Let me just have the real thing.

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It's a lot less work because it's a lot of

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less work exactly. I think, yeah, that would be its

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comparison to it is just you know, not saying that obviously,

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anybody hearing the episode will know it's it's not all bad's,

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but it's not all good either, and it's I guess

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it's just in comparison to all the time and effort

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and the outcome was poor Man's cranberry juice when you

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really wanted the cranberry juice instead and just couldn't get that.

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Speaker 1: Wow, I've kind of blown away yet I have to

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keep talking, I guess. Thankfully we're coming to the end

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of the episode, so I won't have to keep talking

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for long. It's been a pleasure chatting with you. But

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before we go, could you please tell the people what

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you're promoting or celebrating right now, if anything.

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Speaker 2: Not promoting anything in particular. Halloween is around the corner,

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so I'm looking forward to that very much. If anybody

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was in Vegas this past weekend to see when we

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were young, you guys rock.

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Speaker 1: This past weekend being mid October, because this episode is

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coming out in November.

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Speaker 2: That is correct. Thank you, no problem.

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Speaker 1: I doubt that they're having multiple versions of that concert

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repeating weekend to weekend.

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Speaker 2: That would be something omen a residency or you know, right,

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one can wish.

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Speaker 1: Your promo got me thinking, though. You do talk about

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Halloween in your episode. Is there a costume planned for

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this year?

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Speaker 2: Yes? There is. Oh, my boyfriend and I we're going

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to a Halloween party this Saturday, actually, and we are

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going as very bad Hawaiian tourists. So we have like

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the typical red flower t shirts, the khaki shorts. If

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you notice in the corner, I got some.

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Speaker 1: Lais there.

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Speaker 2: A bad hat? My boyfriend is gonna have some. He's

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all right. I'm gonna have to say he is very white.

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He's going to have like some white face paint on

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the nose for the sunscreen. Yeah, even got coconut cups.

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Speaker 1: Like your drinks. Amazing. Are you guys going to have

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like old style cameras? I hate to call him old

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side cameras because people still have like DSLR cameras or

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like point and shoot cameras that are not phones. But

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you're gonna have those or.

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Speaker 2: It's actually not a bad idea because that would be

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fun just to take pictures.

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Speaker 1: Y I like that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you're welcome, make a note of this right now.

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I am a happy to assist her way over here.

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Oh incredible, I guess I just demand to see those

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pictures then when you are done having the Halloween party.

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent yay.

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Speaker 1: And Nedda, where can people find you?

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Speaker 2: I am typically on Instagram. I don't post often, just

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like whenever I'm doing something fun. Tag is doctor NMSY.

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You can see me there and uh yeah all right.

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Speaker 1: I highly recommend if you are interested in seeing some

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exciting adventures, going over and checking out Nedda's Instagram pages

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because Nedda is always getting up to some really really

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fun things. We've mentioned the snowboarding and the concerts and stuff,

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but Nedda loves to travel and loves to eat, and

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it is a delight just to go over there and

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see what she's up to. You could also check out

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Nedda in episodes of Peculiar Radio, in the collection of

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Moira Graves and just live in life. That just leaves

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me to thank Ntda el Sayed for coming to my

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theme party. Thank you also to Bad Machine for making

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our shows music, and to Alyssa Esteban for our show

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art and art story development. Another huge thank you to

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Netta and everyone else involved in making firsts and last.

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If you want to learn more about the episode and

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it was created by Tyler Hurtchuk. Once again, our theme

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for this season has been family traditions. I've been Miriamo's

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and this has been an interview episode of theme Party,

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the podcast Celebrate Creativity. I want to hear more about

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this boyfriend. I don't want to ask too much. A

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hold on, let me pause. We'll just edit that part

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out Lengthy Tangent