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Season 2

What if the best reset this fall is simply a change of scenery? Bonita & "The Adventures of Pipeman" Dean Piper explore some of the most beautiful places to take in autumn color: the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Ozark Mountains, and even a volcano-warmed soak in Costa Rica, where the same geothermal forces that shaped the mountain also warm the pools below. ITs proof that a meaningful getaway doesn't require a big budget. Give yourself permission to get away, get out there, and go for it!

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Welcome to the Ask Good Questions podcast, broadcasting live every Wednesday,

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6 p.m. Eastern Time on W4CY Radio at W4CY. com. This

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week and every week, we will reach for a higher

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purpose in money and life, as well as a focus

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on health and wellness. Now, let's join your host, Benita

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Bell Anderson, as together we start with asking good questions.

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Welcome to the Ask Good Questions podcast. I'm your host,

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Benita Bell Anderson. And today we are going to ask

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some good questions on how to kick back. And I

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couldn't think of any other guest other than our own

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Dean Piper to help me with this because we're going

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to talk about kicking back in a couple of different ways.

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So I want to invite him to the podcast stage.

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Hello, hello.

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Oh, hello. This is one of my favorite people who

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keeps me on my toes. And because he is who

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he is, I'm going to have him tell us a

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little bit about who he is in case there's anybody

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out there that doesn't know Dean Piper yet. So go

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for it, Dean.

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I'm the pipe man. There's enough said. Don't have to

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say anything else. No, but seriously, whoever did your intro, man,

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he sounds cool. Not me.

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I know.

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That voice sounds familiar. I know.

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I can't tell who it is, but it's just like

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right there. But basically, I am somebody that has multiple personalities.

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Personalities, definitely.

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Without a disorder, just multiple personalities. I think everybody should

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have multiple personalities. I think you learn that from traveling.

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Because when you travel, you see other cultures, you see

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the way other people live, how they think, how they

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look at things. And those are all imprints on you

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throughout your life. I am sure that's what it is

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because I've lived in so many places in my life.

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I've visited so many places. And it's kind of like

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there's this song by Linkin Park, Somewhere I Belong. I'm

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still finding that place. There's no one place on earth

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that has everything that I want. So that's why I travel,

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because here has some places, there has some places. So

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I think people do have to open up their world.

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We live in a sheltered world, especially in the United

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States of America.

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Wow.

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My ex-wife's grandfather never even left his street his whole life.

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And that was having both a wife and a girlfriend.

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That's how some of the South is like, because that's

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where he's in a little town called Woodstock, Virginia he

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was in, which they had a ticker tape parade when

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McDonald's came to town. So I'll tell you where it

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is on the tourist map. It ain't anywhere. But I

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think those are the people you have to meet in

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the world, because... It gives you a different perspective. It

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gives you, you know, we live in this bubble. And

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so I think that's why we're here today. And we're

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going to talk about stuff like that. And especially since

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the fall is coming up.

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Right. It was kind of like I wanted to do something.

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It's kind of like today was like kickback day and

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was like, who else but Dean could help me do that?

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But before we get into it, how did you become

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the pipe man?

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So you really want to hear the whole story?

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No, just the shortened version, Dean.

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Okay, because the whole story is about five hours, but

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I'll give you the short version. It's only about 53 minutes.

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But seriously, though, when I first started doing my show

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many years ago, first it was when I was in

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the financial business, so it was all about investments and

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very serious, and then you know, as a motivational speaker,

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I did to promote my seminars and I had multiple shows.

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I had like my motivational show and then I designed

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a relationship show and I handpicked people for this relationship show.

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And basically I wanted to get the four extreme types.

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There's Me, who has been told by relationships in my

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life or ones that did not become relationships that too nice,

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you know, friend-zoned, stuff like that. And then, you know,

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and hopeless romantic. All things I wear a badge of honor.

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I don't care who likes it or not.

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I'm wondering if I'm on the other end of the

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spectrum from you.

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You might be, you might be. So that's what led

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me to pick three. I handpicked three co-hosts. One was

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this woman who she was a very conservative married woman,

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you know, definitely on the one spectrum. Then there was

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this other female. She was married too, but she was

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a spicy Latina. And so she was the epitome and

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a good friend of mine. So I'm not saying anything

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I haven't said to her face. the epitome of the

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female player. Okay. Well, yeah, those two cover. And then

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I picked this dude. Never. He was 40 years old,

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never had a relationship longer in a year. No, uh,

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you know, no second date. If he doesn't get, you know,

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the thing on the first date that you normally wouldn't get. And, uh, and, uh,

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so we developed that show. Now at one point he

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had to leave the show. So I decided instead of

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replacing him, that I'm going to basically play both roles.

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Because a lot of times on the radio, you're playing

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a role, okay? And so that's where Pipe Man was resurrected,

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I'll say, not born. Because Pipe Man, like, it's funny.

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They interview all kinds of music artists. And they all, like,

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you never want to ask a musician, artists how'd you

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get your band name like they're so sick of that

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it's asked 10 million nobody cares but they always ask

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me how I got the pipe man name and there's

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even songs okay in fact one can play one there's

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songs that they create during an interview okay of what

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they think the pipe man is and simply it's just

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you know the it's just my name it's Piper so

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I have a nickname Pipe Man when I was younger

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so it got resurrected and Pipe Man's like the alter

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ego Pipe Man will say things on the radio that

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Dean would never say in life maybe in the head

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you know because all of us we say stuff in

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our own head yeah so with Pipe Man the filter

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is completely like destroyed beyond belief okay and It is

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a rather funny story, and that's why I do want

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to tell a little bit of it there, because it's... Hey,

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do you know where that song is, Juan? Because I'll

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find it. It's right there. You should play it. Hold on,

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let's play that song first. Let's see if he knows

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where it is. Do-do-do-do. He's trying to change it up.

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I know.

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He's all stressed out now in the background.

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I know. I put him right on the spot, but

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he should be. This is the pipe man. He's got

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a pipe.

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Pipe.

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The pipe man.

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Oh.

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He's the pipe man. Lay that pipe, pipe man.

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Lay that pipe, pipe man. Lay that pipe, pipe man.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Funky pipe on W4CY radio.

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Totally impromptu. Totally in the middle of an interview and

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there's others like that. But, you know, it's funny. Let

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people's minds go wild, you know, but So really, what's

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really funny about this is it became a good social experiment.

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Even in traveling, it does. Because we were just talking

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about this today on my show. So one time, Rebel,

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who runs my Louisiana studio, she basically came down here

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to help me do media coverage for a concert at

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the fairgrounds. And my daughter was working for me at

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the time. She was here. And we're outside of the

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interview after I'm done with the interview. And there's all these, like,

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women surrounding and stuff. And it's funny because she looks

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at my daughter and she's like, what's up with that?

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And my daughter rolled her eyes at her. Yeah, all

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the women love my dad. But they love Pipe Man.

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That's where the social experiment comes in. And I'll tell

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you how much so. Number one, I have a commercial

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that I run every presidential term. I run for president.

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Pipe Man does. 2016, I decided to write myself in

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as a candidate. I I wrote myself in as a candidate.

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I announced it on my show, and I know at

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least five or six of my listeners voted for me

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because I said so. And they were all females, okay?

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And my commercial, you know, it's basically Bill Clinton saying

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I did not have sexual relations with that woman, voiced over.

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And then Pipe Man comes on and says, elect me, Prez,

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and I will vote. have sexual relations with that woman.

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Vote pipe man for Prez. And so here's the extreme example, though,

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that this is the best of all. The kid's mom,

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we're divorced for about 10 years at this point when

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this happens. Right now it's like over 20. But she,

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my daughter's working at the radio station. She calls up

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my daughter one day. Now let me give you a

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little backstory. When we got divorced, well, when we met,

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Two months before the wedding, she broke up with me

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because I was too nice. And then when we did

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get divorced, she said, I hope you find what you're

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looking for because you're like the most romantic person I've

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ever met. I'm just not into that. Fast forward 10 years,

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calls up my daughter and says, I was listening to

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your dad on the radio. What happened to him? I

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was married to him for 12 years. He was never

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that obnoxious. He's such a player. And then she tried

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to reconcile with me. Because she thought I was now

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a player. I had friends, I've known my whole life,

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women friends, that like, ooh, what happened? I'm playing a role, idiot. Like,

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nothing happened to me. I'm the same person. But like,

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it's no different than a lot of radio personalities. Who

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they are on the radio is not necessarily who they

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are in real life. And it's rather... It's rather sad, too,

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that when I go out and do these music festivals,

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if I meet a woman, like, as Pipe Man, and

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then I want to show them who Dean is, you know,

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they're not interested in that. They want Pipe Man. So

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there's some interesting psychology.

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We're getting way off track here.

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Well, I know. Well, you wanted to know, so there

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it is.

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There it is.

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All right.

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So... We're going to talk about travel. We're going to

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talk about fall color. We're going to talk about hot springs.

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Speaking of, you know, with you and travel, what's the

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most spontaneous thing you've ever done when it's come to travel?

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Before I answer that, I'm going to say that I

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used to sell hot spring spas. So that's what I

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know about hot springs. Like way back. But anyway, no, seriously,

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that's a hard question. The reason it's a hard question

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is spontaneous is my middle name. Like pretty much most

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of it is. But it's funny because people don't get it.

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Spontaneous doesn't mean you don't plan at all. It means

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that you can plan on the fly. And people don't

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understand that.

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I bet you would never guess what mine is.

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You're a planner.

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Huh?

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You're a planner.

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I know, but you'll never guess what my most spontaneous

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moment was.

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Okay. Let me see. I'm going to guess it was

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when you decided to do the show on this network.

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No, actually you'd been beating me up about how good

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this was going to be. So no, this goes way back. Dean,

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you don't know anything about this part of my life.

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I was, I was in college and I was on a,

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a ship going around the world called World Campus Afloat.

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It was an amazing four months on the ocean. And

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my most spontaneous moment was in Thailand, catching a freight train.

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You know how like, you know, just hopping on a car.

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The other side of the island. I would say probably

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that's up there with one of my most spontaneous moments.

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That's a pretty good one.

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That's a pretty good one.

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My first most spontaneous moment would be when I used

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to be in my early 20s and I would wake

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up in the morning more than once, have the day off.

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I worked like six days a week, one day off.

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I'd wake up in the morning, usually in the middle

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of the week because I was in retail. I was

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in college, you know, like... And I would just wake

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up and like end up in Florida or somewhere else,

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you know, and just... I would get in my car

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and drive to the airport. Like I would say the

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most spontaneous thing that ever happened to me in my

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life that created this person probably is in 1980 when

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my father walked up to me and said, meet your

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new mother and we're moving to California in three days.

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Pack your bags. And so that was the start of

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how I live now. And yeah, The spontaneity and the

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traveling and the experiencing life. Because I got to tell you,

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when that happened, I was pissed. I had people I

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knew my whole life and everything. But it's probably the

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best thing that ever happened to me. And that's the

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lesson I would like to give people. Sometimes those spontaneous things,

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those things that you don't plan for, don't expect, those

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are the things that will change your life forever for

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the better. And now I'll give you a recent times.

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I don't know if I'd call it spontaneous because most

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everything I do is spontaneous. But keep in mind, like

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these spontaneous things, I'll be packed two weeks ahead of time,

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ready to go. Like I'm leaving tomorrow to go to

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Montreal to cover a festival. And that's another thing. When

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I do that stuff for radio station, you get the

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approval like a day or two before, sometimes day of.

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It takes that type of person. So basically, I planned

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the trip to Bali. And I was going to stay

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there for about two, two and a half months. It

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was a couple years ago. And I always, when I travel,

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I pay a little extra to make sure it's cancelable

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and changeable and not cost me money to do so. Unless, like,

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there's a fare change. That's different. you know, but that

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way I am flexible. That way I can be spontaneous.

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And that also comes from being a media person because

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like when you get, you're covering these festivals like I do,

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you have to do all your travel like a year

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in advance or else you're not going to get anything.

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So you book all that stuff. And if you don't

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get the approval, you just cancel it. But what happened

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here is a perfect example of why I do this

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because I You know, we look at places from afar,

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and this is why I've learned traveling, and it's not

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exactly when you're there what it looks like in the

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pictures and the videos.

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Yeah. I'm going to show some pictures today.

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Nice. Do you want to know where it is real quick?

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Back in again.

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I got to tell you the answer. Oh, okay.

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Tell me the answer. Tell me the answer.

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Golly, I flew there with an itinerary for two and

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a half months. The day I got there, I changed

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my whole itinerary and booked like 17 different places. I

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was going to be all over the island, the Nooses

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and the Gillies. Just from being there one day, I

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realized that my plans were terrible. And I kind of

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knew the first place I was at, I wouldn't like

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so much. And that's where it happened. And I had

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such major great experiences because of arriving there and just

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changing my whole plan in the day I got there.

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So now you're reeled in. Now you got me reeled in.

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So that, yeah. So I think I'm, I'm hoping I

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always want to have something that people can take away

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from the episode.

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Right.

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And so, you know, start making a list, everyone, about

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what are some of the nuggets that we're going to

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take away. So we're trying to deal with fall and

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fall color, and then we're going to pivot to hot springs.

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But what is there something about fall that you think

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makes it a good time to travel?

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I think it's an amazing time to travel. In fact,

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living in South Florida, I missed the fall because you

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don't even know it's fall here. But first of all,

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it's such a cool season in the right places because

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of the leaves changing colors, colors everywhere, even on the

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ground as it's falling down. And, you know, beautiful with

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creeks and rivers and stuff like that. And like a

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perfect example is, If you want to see something that

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looks like paradise to me, which nobody would ever think

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it would be me saying this, but when I see

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these pictures of Lake Ozark in Arkansas, not even in

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the Missouri part, but in Arkansas and the.

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Okay, so I think we better bring up the pictures

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because I did some pictures.

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All right.

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While you're talking, Dean... um we're gonna we're gonna do

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a little bit okay so.

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I've seen that butterfly somewhere you have i have i

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can't remember where but i've seen it i love.

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Butterflies okay so we're gonna talk about appalachia the ozark

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mountains so you Don't let me stop you. Keep on

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going now while we're showing some of these pictures.

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Well, going back to the Arkansas, it's like I just

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look at these pictures all the time on Lake Ozark

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with a cabin, and it's absolutely, to me, a dream.

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Talk about chilling out. You're off the grid. I'm both

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a city boy and an off-the-grid boy, and I think

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it's good to have both. Right there, I would have

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a lot of fun with that. that looks like there

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could be some whitewater rafting right there. That would be fun. Okay.

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And look at that.

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I love to kayak. And so this would be someplace

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I would love to kayak.

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I was just kayaking in my backyard with my grandkids

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the other day. So, so, but yeah, look at that,

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the color, the water, you know, it's kind of cool,

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you know, and, and, You know that after this, it's

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all going to look dead. So you kind of appreciate

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it while it's there, too. That's the other thing. As

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you start seeing the leaves falling, you probably appreciate it

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more because it's not going to last long. Look at that.

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It's like a painting. It's not even like real life,

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but that is real life.

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But it looks like it could be. Yeah, I know.

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And it is. It's just like, wow. Wow.

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See, I love road trips through stuff like this, you know,

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like scenic drives. Florida is boring as crap, man. I

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want to go through a forest of color through the mountains.

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Just like, okay, one of the things on the list,

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the Blue Ridge Mountains. Man, is it beautiful there. And,

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you know, you're just among nature, including the bears that

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are everywhere. But I got to tell you something. If

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there were... See, because I need to be... I cannot

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be landlocked. I lived always right by the beach. If

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there was a beach in the Smokies, I would live there.

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Because the people are so nice there, number one. And

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usually they're not nice to Yankees like me in the South.

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So I like it. And then.

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It's so beautiful there. And not only during the fall,

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but during the winter, during the summer, the four seasons

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give you great things to do. But the fall, I mean,

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it's just amazing. And, you know, places like that are

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a little slice of heaven and where you can get

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away from everything in the world. So fall is a

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great way. If you're stressed out about what's going on

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in your life or going on in the world, We're

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just sick of listening to all the chatter, especially the

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negative chatter. My solution has always been to disappear into

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the mountains and the forest, especially in the fall when

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I can just soak this in instead.

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Right.

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Right.

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Absolutely.

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Okay.

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Let's take down the slides for just a minute.

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One.

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And.

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I i i'm thinking now this is in germany you

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know my uh my heritage is german and um there's

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a fall trip that i still remember when uh when

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we were living in the in germany for four years

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in the 1980s and that was going to oktoberfest now

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there's color and stuff like that in the fall in

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germany but nothing like the east coast the ozarks the

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appalachian mountains but sometimes don't, I think you're, you're going

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to agree that there's times when you just, there's just

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things that stand out and that you think of. The

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other thing that I'm wondering that I want to see

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what you say is what if somebody says, I, I

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just can't, it's kind of like, do you feel like

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you sometimes have to give yourself permission to kick back

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and just enjoy it?

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I think you always have to give yourself permission. Just like,

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you know, I think you should make yourself do stuff sometimes. Yeah.

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Sometimes we feel guilty that we should be doing something else,

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especially when it comes to work. Feel guilty. Oh, I'm

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not working. Like I'm the biggest offender that I work

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like 20 hours a day. So when I'm out kayaking,

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I'm feeling guilty that I'm not working type of thing.

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And going to Germany thing, there's a perfect example. I

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was just there. Okay. And where in Germany? Wacken. Wacken. Okay.

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I'm not sure where that is. Yeah.

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It's a little town that has the biggest metal festival

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in the world. They consider it the holy ground. It

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started as a little teeny thing because it's a little village. Okay.

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But it's all on farmland. So I had this hotel

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room that was connected to a restaurant that I had

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a porch that And out on my porch were cows

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and horses and the pool was like a natural pool.

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It looked like a pond, but it was a pool.

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And like, it's amazing. Both my son and my daughter

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were stationed in Germany. My daughter, she, it's her favorite

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place on earth. She would move back there in a heartbeat.

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She never wanted to come back to the U.S., And

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one of the reasons she loved it is because of

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the scenery in the fall, in the winter, in the spring.

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But also all of the castles and festivals. And, you know,

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so like fall is great for that in Germany.

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They love to party.

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One festival after another, after another, another. And the castles

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are just absolutely amazing. They are. And it depends on

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what part of Germany you're in. Just like any country,

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there's different parts. Now, on the other hand, Berlin is

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very different than that, but I love Berlin. And there's

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the city boy in me, but Berlin is like, I'm

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a Jew. I also have German ancestry. So the first

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time I went to Berlin, what it was when I

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got there, and that's another thing. Stop letting these things

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in your head or what people put in your head

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of what's out there. because I had this thing in

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my head and I went there and I loved Berlin

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more than I could ever imagine. It was, it was,

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it was so the antithesis of what you would think

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of because of what we think of, of Berlin back

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in the Holocaust.

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Right.

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Like, like just such a liberal, nice city, you know, and,

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when I say liberal, I don't care about politics. Like

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I'm both a conservative and a liberal. I don't need

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to pick a side. Okay. And I need to just

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be me. So what I'm saying is, is, is like,

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it's just a friendly place to be, you know, and

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a beautiful place with a lot to do. So let's,

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I don't think people think of Germany that way, by

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the way, no, all of that stuff that I said, what, um.

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So have you, have you been to Appalachian area? Have

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you been to the Ozarks? You, have you done festivals there?

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Is there anything that stands out to you about those,

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that area?

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Well, yeah, I, I've been, uh, the Appalachian mountains playing times.

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00:27:51.509 --> 00:27:54.210
Cause I lived up in New Jersey and that's like, right.

466
00:27:54.250 --> 00:27:56.990
And the whole Appalachian trail is right there. And, and

467
00:27:57.009 --> 00:28:00.309
then you're also the Delaware water gap, which is really

468
00:28:00.430 --> 00:28:04.710
freaking amazing. That's the tri-state area where the three States, Pennsylvania, uh,

469
00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:08.259
New York and New Jersey meet. And it's like these

470
00:28:08.339 --> 00:28:11.119
big mountains and like you would see in a movie

471
00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:16.150
and like a little waterway that's way deep down that

472
00:28:16.210 --> 00:28:19.869
you do go whitewater rafting on. And then Appalachian Trail,

473
00:28:19.970 --> 00:28:24.289
like that's just an amazing place. Like it's a place

474
00:28:24.329 --> 00:28:27.240
where you find yourself, I think, because you hike the

475
00:28:27.420 --> 00:28:28.480
Appalachian Trail.

476
00:28:29.099 --> 00:28:36.079
I got another slide to show him. I don't remember

477
00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:38.099
where that one is. I'd have to look at my

478
00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:39.240
notes to see where that is.

479
00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:43.119
It's pretty nice, though. It looks like it could be Tennessee.

480
00:28:44.289 --> 00:28:46.829
Well, is there something about that part of the country

481
00:28:46.890 --> 00:28:48.210
that people wouldn't expect?

482
00:28:52.569 --> 00:28:54.690
I don't know that they wouldn't expect because it's pretty

483
00:28:54.809 --> 00:28:59.430
publicized of what's there. You know, the Smoky Mountains, the

484
00:28:59.470 --> 00:29:04.490
Blue Ridge Mountains, the Appalachian Trail. It's all pretty well documented.

485
00:29:04.789 --> 00:29:08.309
The one thing about the Appalachian Trail is it's the U.S.

486
00:29:08.309 --> 00:29:12.289
's version of the Camino. And I've been on the

487
00:29:12.329 --> 00:29:17.779
Camino too. But the Appalachian Trail, the Camino's easy because

488
00:29:17.819 --> 00:29:21.240
you're just walking on roads. In that respect, it's easy.

489
00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:28.940
The Appalachian Trail, you're actually hiking the Appalachian Mountains. And

490
00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:32.680
I get my hats off to people that do the

491
00:29:32.779 --> 00:29:37.289
full thing because that is a feat in and of itself.

492
00:29:37.430 --> 00:29:43.880
But they do it. because that's the ultimate in just

493
00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:47.539
escaping from the world and all that ails you and

494
00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:54.519
recharging yourself and finding who you are. And there's the Ozarks. Now,

495
00:29:54.539 --> 00:30:00.569
the Ozarks go from Arkansas to Missouri. Most people are

496
00:30:00.650 --> 00:30:05.130
more familiar with the Branson area. That's the popular area.

497
00:30:05.589 --> 00:30:09.250
But the best pictures I've ever seen were in Arkansas.

498
00:30:09.730 --> 00:30:12.130
So I don't know. That's pictures, though.

499
00:30:12.670 --> 00:30:15.130
Boy, wasn't that just like I meant to do that?

500
00:30:16.269 --> 00:30:21.930
See? Look at that. He's following my lead.

501
00:30:22.069 --> 00:30:23.130
Wide open spaces.

502
00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:26.759
Think of what it feels like to stand up there

503
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:32.640
like that and look at the vastness of nothing. Yeah, absolutely.

504
00:30:33.980 --> 00:30:36.980
I'll tell you, when I was younger, yes, I used

505
00:30:37.019 --> 00:30:39.970
to escape to places like this. I would work my

506
00:30:40.029 --> 00:30:42.650
butt off and then I would escape for like three months,

507
00:30:43.210 --> 00:30:45.470
fall off the face of the earth. Nobody would even

508
00:30:45.509 --> 00:30:48.230
know where I was. We didn't have cell phones or

509
00:30:48.329 --> 00:30:53.269
social media then. And just disappear into stuff like this.

510
00:30:54.839 --> 00:30:56.539
And recharge.

511
00:30:57.059 --> 00:30:59.920
Isn't it amazing that you've got all those different plants

512
00:30:59.980 --> 00:31:01.829
that blend together to do this?

513
00:31:02.710 --> 00:31:07.230
No doubt. Exactly. And what amazes me is like a

514
00:31:07.690 --> 00:31:11.819
lot of these plants and trees, they are built to

515
00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:17.440
survive through the times that they shouldn't. So it's not

516
00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:21.119
like you have to replant this stuff every fall. It dies,

517
00:31:21.339 --> 00:31:23.609
and then it comes back, which is so amazing to

518
00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:25.890
me because in Florida, it would just die.

519
00:31:26.730 --> 00:31:27.009
Right.

520
00:31:28.809 --> 00:31:32.109
Well, I can't believe we've been going for half an

521
00:31:32.150 --> 00:31:35.289
hour already. So I want to make sure we get

522
00:31:35.329 --> 00:31:41.380
to the hot springs because I love hot springs. Whoa.

523
00:31:41.390 --> 00:31:43.279
And so I'm going to move.

524
00:31:43.339 --> 00:31:44.339
You over to.

525
00:31:45.890 --> 00:31:48.980
The west side of the country, because I'm from Washington State,

526
00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:52.759
and I have been up to British Columbia many times.

527
00:31:52.779 --> 00:31:55.720
Ainsworth is one of the– have you ever been to that?

528
00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:56.920
Have you ever been to that?

529
00:31:56.940 --> 00:31:58.880
No, that one looks cool.

530
00:31:59.579 --> 00:32:04.940
Well, it's in caves. There is a big pool, but

531
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:06.839
then you can go into these caves.

532
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:08.960
Yeah, it looks like it.

533
00:32:09.579 --> 00:32:12.200
Yeah. Have you ever been to the Vancouver area?

534
00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:14.259
No, I have not.

535
00:32:14.829 --> 00:32:17.089
Well, see, you need to put that on your bucket list.

536
00:32:17.589 --> 00:32:19.569
I will be in Canada tomorrow, though.

537
00:32:21.250 --> 00:32:22.369
Okay.

538
00:32:22.990 --> 00:32:24.650
But not that part of Canada.

539
00:32:24.750 --> 00:32:30.009
Not that part of Canada. Okay, well, the western side

540
00:32:30.210 --> 00:32:34.509
of the continent, the western Canada, and then, of course,

541
00:32:34.549 --> 00:32:37.349
you know, I'm partial to Washington State because that's where

542
00:32:37.390 --> 00:32:41.329
I was born and raised. But there are some really

543
00:32:41.490 --> 00:32:45.170
cool places where you have all these hot springs that

544
00:32:45.210 --> 00:32:50.920
come out of the ground. And there's something about hot

545
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:54.259
springs that where I just kind of go, oh, it's

546
00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:59.289
just awesome. And so there's another picture from Ainsworth. But

547
00:32:59.569 --> 00:33:03.460
there's a lot of, but have you ever been to

548
00:33:03.599 --> 00:33:06.599
a natural hot springs up in the mountains? That's like,

549
00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:09.039
it's not developed. Have you ever been there?

550
00:33:09.059 --> 00:33:14.099
Yeah. In Costa Rica. Okay.

551
00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:15.700
Well, we're going to, I'm going to, we're going to

552
00:33:15.859 --> 00:33:18.319
end with Costa Rica. I want to tell you about

553
00:33:18.359 --> 00:33:24.150
gold bug hot springs in Idaho. Nice. You walk up.

554
00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:29.519
your car is way down the valley there and you

555
00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:33.970
actually hike up to this. The water is just right

556
00:33:34.430 --> 00:33:38.769
for sitting in and having, you know, and there's, it

557
00:33:38.829 --> 00:33:41.950
like flows down into another pool and then it flows

558
00:33:41.970 --> 00:33:47.960
down again to another pool. And it's not, it's barely even,

559
00:33:48.039 --> 00:33:50.559
there's barely even a sign down at the bottom where

560
00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:53.079
you park your car and then hike up the mountain

561
00:33:53.220 --> 00:33:56.460
to this place. But It's natural hot springs that are

562
00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:57.440
coming out of the mountain.

563
00:33:58.160 --> 00:33:59.940
Wow. Yeah.

564
00:34:00.500 --> 00:34:02.640
It's super cool. My daughter was the one that told

565
00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:06.640
me about it. So you're walking up this valley, and

566
00:34:07.779 --> 00:34:14.750
it's just amazing because it's completely not developed. So, all right.

567
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:16.179
We're going to turn.

568
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:18.179
There it is. There it is.

569
00:34:18.619 --> 00:34:23.440
Okay. Tell me, tell me about you and, and Costa Rica.

570
00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:25.780
How many, how, how many times have you been there?

571
00:34:26.619 --> 00:34:29.059
I can't even keep that in count at this point.

572
00:34:29.860 --> 00:34:30.139
Wow.

573
00:34:31.300 --> 00:34:34.260
Probably. I don't even know. I can't even answer that.

574
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:36.360
It's been, I've been doing it for years and there's,

575
00:34:37.030 --> 00:34:39.550
you know, that is one of my special places on earth,

576
00:34:39.590 --> 00:34:43.269
but again, doesn't hold everything. It holds certain things.

577
00:34:43.690 --> 00:34:44.090
Right now.

578
00:34:44.659 --> 00:34:48.599
Here, where we're showing in the picture, that's the Arenal Volcano,

579
00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:51.699
which is a big tourist spot. And I've climbed it

580
00:34:51.860 --> 00:34:54.579
in the rain. I've climbed it because it started raining

581
00:34:54.619 --> 00:34:58.699
while I was climbing it. But that volcano is what

582
00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:03.159
causes the hot springs. So the hot springs are all

583
00:35:03.289 --> 00:35:09.650
over that area. And people, the locals, they constantly just

584
00:35:09.730 --> 00:35:12.329
go and park on the side of the road and

585
00:35:12.389 --> 00:35:14.289
hop into these areas.

586
00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:17.380
Oh, not in the developed resorts.

587
00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:22.699
No, no, no. This is just out in nature, like rivers.

588
00:35:23.260 --> 00:35:26.800
Like you go into a river and there's hot springs

589
00:35:26.860 --> 00:35:31.869
in the river, you know, and it's kind of cool because,

590
00:35:33.309 --> 00:35:36.989
you know, the current can get pretty strong too. Like,

591
00:35:37.070 --> 00:35:41.449
so sometimes it's just mellow. Other times, well, you better

592
00:35:41.489 --> 00:35:47.150
pay attention because it's a river. So it depends. But

593
00:35:47.869 --> 00:35:50.989
it gets quite warm, too, because of the volcano.

594
00:35:51.530 --> 00:35:55.230
Yeah, I bet. Yeah, I know that several of these

595
00:35:55.269 --> 00:35:57.920
hot spring places will have to moderate what's coming out

596
00:35:57.960 --> 00:35:59.300
of the ground because it's too hot.

597
00:36:00.340 --> 00:36:00.940
Exactly.

598
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:06.239
Right. So... have you ever stumbled on a hot Springs

599
00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:08.690
that you weren't expecting? Have you ever, you know, like

600
00:36:08.710 --> 00:36:12.530
talking about being spontaneous? I mean, if I came across one,

601
00:36:12.550 --> 00:36:17.030
I would be detouring into that hot Springs right away. Yeah.

602
00:36:17.190 --> 00:36:21.170
I can't say that I have like just bumped into one,

603
00:36:21.510 --> 00:36:23.989
you know, like, you know, when you're going over to

604
00:36:24.030 --> 00:36:26.320
that part of Costa Rica that they have the hot

605
00:36:26.360 --> 00:36:29.119
Springs there. So even if you do bump into one,

606
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:31.559
you're not really bumping into one, if you know what

607
00:36:31.579 --> 00:36:35.610
I mean. There's other things, surprises in my travels I've

608
00:36:35.659 --> 00:36:41.360
bumped into, but not hot springs. See, you may be

609
00:36:41.400 --> 00:36:44.579
more aware of it. That's another thing too. People, it's

610
00:36:44.619 --> 00:36:47.320
what they're aware of and what they see and what

611
00:36:47.539 --> 00:36:51.510
catches their attention. So since it's a big deal to do,

612
00:36:51.590 --> 00:36:53.250
you'll notice it all the time.

613
00:36:53.690 --> 00:36:53.909
Right.

614
00:36:54.050 --> 00:36:57.050
Whatever your perspective is. And one of the things that,

615
00:36:57.659 --> 00:37:00.820
When I was thinking about this and just let's just

616
00:37:00.860 --> 00:37:04.489
kick back and do something that you could spend a

617
00:37:04.530 --> 00:37:08.130
lot of money like this Las Lagos hot springs. Probably

618
00:37:09.190 --> 00:37:12.309
it's a fair, you know, fair amount to be able

619
00:37:12.329 --> 00:37:15.510
to get in. But then you've got, but then, you know,

620
00:37:15.570 --> 00:37:18.760
on the other end of the financial picture is gold

621
00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:21.619
bug where you hike up a mountain and you just

622
00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:24.440
climb into the pool and it doesn't cost you anything.

623
00:37:24.909 --> 00:37:28.789
Yeah, Costa Rica doesn't cost you anything. I mean, there

624
00:37:28.829 --> 00:37:32.110
are places that you would pay. I'm not paying when

625
00:37:32.170 --> 00:37:33.389
it's right there for free.

626
00:37:33.969 --> 00:37:39.519
Right, right. Exactly. But however you do it, I mean,

627
00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:42.980
sometimes I think it's okay to splurge and do that.

628
00:37:43.500 --> 00:37:46.679
But I like to have a mix of experiences. I

629
00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:50.269
like to, you know, there's some things that I'm willing

630
00:37:50.329 --> 00:37:52.769
to pay for because I want the experience. And then

631
00:37:52.809 --> 00:37:56.210
there's other times when I'm just I want to just

632
00:37:56.550 --> 00:38:00.369
experience however I'm going to, you know, I don't want

633
00:38:00.389 --> 00:38:05.070
to spend a whole lot of money. So is there,

634
00:38:05.230 --> 00:38:07.659
you know, like we were talking about giving yourself a break.

635
00:38:08.090 --> 00:38:11.179
I think Hot Springs is one of those things that

636
00:38:12.099 --> 00:38:15.559
fits that, you know, because like this picture of the

637
00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:19.199
people looking at the volcano sitting in a hot, you know,

638
00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:25.780
in one of the pools, you... There's, there's something about

639
00:38:26.340 --> 00:38:29.900
giving yourself a breath, de-stressing that I think is super important.

640
00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:32.539
And the other thing that I want to say about,

641
00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:36.460
you know, like my whole, if you remember Dean, it's

642
00:38:36.500 --> 00:38:40.760
been two years ago, almost when I started my podcast

643
00:38:41.340 --> 00:38:43.000
and I knew that I was going to do a

644
00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:44.980
lot of, you know, being a financial advisor, I knew

645
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:46.639
that I was going to do a lot of financial stuff,

646
00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:50.280
but I also wanted to do health and wellness. And

647
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:54.010
one of the things I always say now is, health

648
00:38:54.110 --> 00:38:55.070
is the first wealth.

649
00:38:56.030 --> 00:38:57.489
Oh, no doubt.

650
00:38:57.510 --> 00:39:00.550
Because if you don't have, you can have all the

651
00:39:00.610 --> 00:39:02.380
money in the world and be able to go to

652
00:39:02.420 --> 00:39:04.639
places like this, but if you don't have your wealth,

653
00:39:05.059 --> 00:39:06.760
I mean, if you don't have your health, you're not

654
00:39:06.780 --> 00:39:07.679
going to enjoy it.

655
00:39:08.539 --> 00:39:10.159
And if you don't have your health, you won't have

656
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:11.460
your wealth either anyway.

657
00:39:12.019 --> 00:39:13.550
Yeah, yeah.

658
00:39:15.150 --> 00:39:18.210
And I think, too, to add to what you're saying, yes,

659
00:39:18.269 --> 00:39:21.780
people need to know what they're passionate about, That will

660
00:39:21.820 --> 00:39:25.510
give them the feelings that they want and then do it.

661
00:39:25.969 --> 00:39:28.679
You know, so like, you know, you're passionate about stuff

662
00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:32.800
like this. And there are different personalities like me personally,

663
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:36.159
cause I was in the spa business. Like, yeah, I'm

664
00:39:36.219 --> 00:39:38.590
kind of like, uh, somebody says you want to go

665
00:39:38.630 --> 00:39:42.329
hot tub and I'm like, yeah, go have fun with that. Uh,

666
00:39:42.650 --> 00:39:46.690
but then the other thing is, is I'm not usually, uh,

667
00:39:47.250 --> 00:39:50.969
a sit still person. So like, I would enjoy this

668
00:39:51.010 --> 00:39:55.679
for a while and I'm like, okay, next. To give

669
00:39:55.739 --> 00:39:59.880
another idea though, as an example, like to me, that's

670
00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:03.840
what surfing does. Okay. So like I go to Costa

671
00:40:03.860 --> 00:40:07.619
Rica and it's funny because my brother who's obsessed with

672
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:10.389
the news, he'll call me up and he's like, it's like,

673
00:40:10.409 --> 00:40:12.010
did you see the news? I'm like, no, and I

674
00:40:12.010 --> 00:40:14.309
don't care. And I'm going surfing because when you're out

675
00:40:14.429 --> 00:40:19.599
in that ocean, with just that board, you're like in

676
00:40:19.619 --> 00:40:22.199
a different world. So it's similar to what you would

677
00:40:22.260 --> 00:40:25.110
experience with the hot spring. So it depends on the person,

678
00:40:25.170 --> 00:40:29.630
but I'm a scuba diver. I mean, there you go.

679
00:40:29.929 --> 00:40:33.449
I love, I mean, there's so much of the world

680
00:40:33.489 --> 00:40:36.150
has never seen underneath. I guess I'm going to have

681
00:40:36.190 --> 00:40:39.889
to do a scuba diving, get underneath the, you know,

682
00:40:39.929 --> 00:40:42.650
get in the ocean because I've got all kinds of

683
00:40:42.690 --> 00:40:46.130
stories I can tell about crazy things that have happened

684
00:40:46.170 --> 00:40:50.710
in the ocean, but if I step back, it's all

685
00:40:50.750 --> 00:40:56.489
about allowing yourself time to kick back, to have some.

686
00:40:56.409 --> 00:41:02.920
Adventure, to disconnect, to unplug, put it away. Like I

687
00:41:02.980 --> 00:41:06.380
can't have my phone with me while I'm surfing. And

688
00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:10.460
that's a good thing. And that's a good thing, you know?

689
00:41:10.980 --> 00:41:13.840
So it's like, you're out there, Like I'll surf with

690
00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:16.980
the sunset like every day when I'm in Costa Rica.

691
00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:19.380
And there's no better feeling like what you're talking about

692
00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:22.539
with the scuba diving. Okay, so I can't scuba dive

693
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:26.360
because I had a collapsed lung. But the point is,

694
00:41:26.739 --> 00:41:29.199
what better way to escape the world but to be

695
00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:33.300
underwater because then you don't even see the world. It's

696
00:41:33.340 --> 00:41:34.719
a different world down there.

697
00:41:34.739 --> 00:41:37.400
It's a completely different world down there.

698
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:39.380
Exactly. And there's all this other stuff.

699
00:41:40.329 --> 00:41:48.530
Okay, Juan, you can take my volcano picture down. But, okay,

700
00:41:48.670 --> 00:41:53.139
I guess I'm going to have to craft something around diving.

701
00:41:53.179 --> 00:41:56.519
Because a lot of times I have people ask me about,

702
00:41:56.619 --> 00:42:01.079
and I think it's just because I love adventure. And

703
00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:04.079
it's like, you know, we only have one life. And

704
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I want to make the most of it.

705
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No doubt. I'm totally that way. Live life to the fullest.

706
00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:13.760
I also have probably the worst case of FOMO that

707
00:42:13.860 --> 00:42:19.610
anybody's ever had. But the thing is, too, I'm going

708
00:42:19.630 --> 00:42:23.190
to give some advice about podcasting right now. Okay. If

709
00:42:23.210 --> 00:42:27.630
you talk about what you're passionate about, it's easy. So, yeah,

710
00:42:27.690 --> 00:42:30.449
you should do other episodes about other things that you're

711
00:42:30.530 --> 00:42:34.739
passionate about. And if you're passionate about it, you you'll

712
00:42:34.820 --> 00:42:37.690
collect your tribe because they'll be passionate too.

713
00:42:38.650 --> 00:42:40.469
Well, and so you're making me think about, I mean,

714
00:42:40.510 --> 00:42:43.070
I'm thinking about other things that I'm passionate that have

715
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to do with the ocean conservation. I'm getting more and

716
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more into conservation and which entails adventure because I am

717
00:42:53.489 --> 00:42:58.530
either involved or helping or something with like, like, do

718
00:42:58.550 --> 00:43:01.510
you know about the great Pacific garbage patch? Do you

719
00:43:01.530 --> 00:43:02.030
know about that?

720
00:43:02.610 --> 00:43:04.320
Yeah, and I know about a lot of things because,

721
00:43:04.340 --> 00:43:06.530
first of all, my best bro that passed away a

722
00:43:06.570 --> 00:43:09.510
couple years ago, he was my best bro since 13.

723
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We were like brothers. He's a big-time environmental icon in California,

724
00:43:16.090 --> 00:43:19.789
and he does all kinds of water conservation, or did.

725
00:43:19.809 --> 00:43:25.690
And basically, he restores. He did, with the Malibu Lagoon,

726
00:43:25.730 --> 00:43:30.710
restored vegetation and steelhead trout that hadn't been there for

727
00:43:30.909 --> 00:43:36.039
thousands of years. And then other friends of mine there,

728
00:43:36.260 --> 00:43:39.960
this would be right up our alley, they go diving

729
00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:44.579
to study kelp. Yeah. You know, so they're diving all

730
00:43:44.619 --> 00:43:49.400
the time and they're doing kelp studies for the water conservation.

731
00:43:49.780 --> 00:43:54.070
My daughter up in the panhandle is on a turtle

732
00:43:54.150 --> 00:43:57.440
rescue team. It's really big where I live. This is, like,

733
00:43:57.539 --> 00:44:01.980
one of the number one places for turtle nesting and rescuing. Like,

734
00:44:02.059 --> 00:44:04.599
right in my backyard. Like, I'll go down the elevator,

735
00:44:05.019 --> 00:44:07.360
and I can... It's such a wonder to watch these

736
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:13.030
turtles dig these nests. Like, you just sit there in, like, amazement. Right?

737
00:44:13.510 --> 00:44:15.929
Well, we're almost out of time, Dean.

738
00:44:16.449 --> 00:44:16.869
I know.

739
00:44:16.889 --> 00:44:21.179
I can't believe it. It's like, whoa, just... Time goes

740
00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:27.750
so fast. So whether we've inspired you to go take

741
00:44:27.889 --> 00:44:32.369
in the fall colors that are coming up very soon here,

742
00:44:33.329 --> 00:44:36.730
or you're going to go search out some hot springs,

743
00:44:36.750 --> 00:44:38.989
or you're going to go to Costa Rica or someplace

744
00:44:39.050 --> 00:44:42.460
else in the world, my feeling is just get out there,

745
00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:47.139
go for it, go and make sure that you include

746
00:44:47.739 --> 00:44:50.869
that adventure in your life. Any last thoughts, Dean?

747
00:44:51.329 --> 00:44:54.230
Yeah, my last thoughts to add to that is what

748
00:44:54.309 --> 00:44:58.250
I found in life after road tripping almost this whole country,

749
00:44:58.409 --> 00:45:02.030
road tripping Europe three times, being all over different places

750
00:45:02.050 --> 00:45:07.050
is like there's something to see everywhere. And you need

751
00:45:07.110 --> 00:45:11.789
to see it. You know, like even in this country,

752
00:45:12.670 --> 00:45:15.510
there's states that you probably never thought to go to

753
00:45:15.610 --> 00:45:20.159
that you're missing out big time, you know. don't listen

754
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:25.710
to chatter, explore, explore and come to your own conclusions.

755
00:45:25.789 --> 00:45:29.190
Cause that's what happened to me is like, I've explored

756
00:45:29.230 --> 00:45:31.889
this world and I have come to my own conclusions

757
00:45:31.929 --> 00:45:34.650
that are rather different than the ones that I was

758
00:45:35.210 --> 00:45:36.170
being brought up on.

759
00:45:36.690 --> 00:45:36.909
Right.

760
00:45:37.710 --> 00:45:42.889
So get out there, do that, get with yourself. That's

761
00:45:42.929 --> 00:45:45.489
what happens when you explore and go in nature like that.

762
00:45:45.829 --> 00:45:48.050
You find yourself because a lot of us are on

763
00:45:48.070 --> 00:45:51.110
a hamster wheel. It's time to jump off that hamster

764
00:45:51.150 --> 00:45:54.070
wheel and find who you really are and who you

765
00:45:54.150 --> 00:45:57.429
really want to be. And travel will do that for you.

766
00:45:58.710 --> 00:46:03.809
Well, with that, we've got to wrap this up. Thank you, everyone,

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for joining us today on the Ask Good Questions podcast.

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We hope that you've asked some good questions about where

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next to go. And with that, we will see you

770
00:46:13.579 --> 00:46:16.519
next time on the Ask Good Questions podcast. Thanks again.

771
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