SMS 006: Raja Ayurveda and Air Travel – A Yogi’s Guide to Flying

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Topics

  • The three main bio-energies and their ***-ness.
  • How to help them.
  • Vie does not need help. Tim does.
  • Mobility Training before, during and after the flight.
  • The Spartan Squat Pose: https://youtu.be/AIfWysRGJ6k
  • Nutrition before, during and after the flight.
  • Habits before, during and after the flight.
  • The Blue Blockers: https://amzn.to/2x34r75
  • The worst thing you can do for air travel.

Resources

Global Ayurveda Conferences can be found at: https://www.globalayurvedaconferences.com/

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100-hr Ayurveda for the Mind Course on the island of Aegina, Greece: https://spartanmindstrength.com/ayurveda-for-the-mind-aegina-greece-100-hr-immersion-training/

Global Ayurveda Conference on the Island of Aegina, Greece: https://www.globalayurvedaconferences.com/aegina-conference-page.html

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with snow shimazu of air beautiful at the global ayurveda conference in atlanta

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Na’maste kala! Which in Greek means: May we all be well!

Audio Transcript

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The Spartan Mind Strength podcast the
podcast for mental grit and resilience

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hosted by Vie Binga and Tim Ganley -- Hello

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-- this is Vie -- and this is Tim -- and this is
episode 6 of our Spartan mind strength

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podcast -- yes actually our episode
came up yesterday

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we're now on Apple and all of those things -- 
exactly -- we started yesterday so today is

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actually October 1st -- yes happy October --
and tomorrow we're flying to Greece so

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this episode is mainly (there'll be some
tangents -- of course -- and stuff like that) but mainly

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going to be about a raja ayurveda look
at traveling -- stay tuned we'll be right

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back --

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this first part is brought to you by
global ayurveda conference's bringing

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Ayurveda all over the world -- we're going
to be talking mainly about Raja Ayurveda

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and flying but even though flying wasn't
around back when ayurveda was created unless you listen to

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astronaut theorists say there was flying -- ancient astronaut theorists says yes  -- yes but for this talk -- let's assume -- let's assume that

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humans weren't flying so how do you
bring in Ayurveda to something that

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didn't exist because you can't say that
okay they wrote this in the books on how

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ayurveda for traveling exists -- it's the
same thing as ayurveda's view on coffee and

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chocolate you use Ayurveda the way it
was intended which is you use it as a

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framework to analyze different
situations ayurveda gives us the frame

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the framework through the qualities the
20 qualities the five elements the three

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bio energies and -- bio energies are the
other stuff we'll be talking about we'll

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be talking about all of this forever but
quick synopsis of what is a bio energy

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because that's gonna be important for
this right -- exactly very important so Ayurveda

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says that there are three bio
energies first we'll name them and then

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we'll analyze them there is the Vata
Pitta and kapha the vata bioenergy is

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the bioenergy of movement -- the
bioenergy is not something you can see

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necessarily but you feel it
so the vata bio-energy is all about

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movement think the air element has
a lot of movement in it think the space

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element so travel for example has a lot
of that vata bioenergy it's a lot about

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movement the pitta bioenergy is about
transformation think fire think water it

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transforms things mainly fire a little
bit less water and like it would be

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turbulent water and then the kapha bio-energy -- quick question on that so but

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does that fit into here being in st.
Pete and then ending up in Greece is

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that what -- that has a lot of the movement
in it and it has -- transform -- some of the

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transformation because it's it's the
environment has shifted has changed

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there is a lot of transformation going
on that's that's exactly correct I was

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trying to keep it a little bit simpler
but and then kapha is the bio energy of

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stability think calm stable static
water think earth -- where's that in flying --

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there isn't exactly that's why you want
to bring it in

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wow you're on today so the idea is ayurveda
says  okay look at the air travel

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what do you have a lot of you have a lot
of movement and you have a lot of

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transformation and not necessarily good
transformation because another part of

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the transformation is the inflammation
like as in bacteria and viruses too so

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so what do you want to do you want to
bring in a lot of the kapha a lot of the

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stability and the easiest way you're not
gonna like me for this the easiest way

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to do that to bring in the stability
during flying is to fall asleep

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while on the plane -- which I can't do at all -- 
and most people cannot do

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that's why we want to analyze everything
else that you can do -- so Vie can sleep

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because of your parents - I am blessed -- your upbringing your mother was -- she worked for

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several airlines in Greece and we had
free tickets everywhere and -- your father -- and

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my father was the head of the Civil
Aviation Authority and we had access -- so you've lived at the

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airport -- 
exactly exactly I used to go to the

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cockpit during a lot of flights and hang
out with the pilots -- nice -- what because

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tomorrow we leave we head for Greece we
fly out we're flying Emirates so we head

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we leave from Tampa to Newark and we are stuck there for a while -- and then Athens -- and then Athens -- yes so we'll be in Athens like

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Wednesday afternoon local time -- we
started preparing for this travel almost

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a couple weeks ago -- yeah a couple of
weeks ago yes -- because you want to do

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certain things -- you want to prepare ahead
of time you want to start adjusting you

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want to start start helping your bio
energies and there are a lot of things

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you can do in terms of movement in terms
of food and in terms of habits and

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that's what we'll start talking about -- do you like
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love to hear from you

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and we're back the first thing is
movement a lot of mobility -- mobility

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mobility mobility you want to be doing a
lot of mobility training for a couple of

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weeks before you are going to fly -- Sun
Salutations get-ups -- Sun Salutations

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Spartan get ups -- and wild table rock
pose -- squats lunges -- the peanut butter jar

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thing -- the coconut manna jar -- so lots of
different movements to keep us mobile

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-- exactly because what's going to happen
is you may not have the chance to be

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able to get up and move around as much
while on the airplane -- and then the one that both

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of us hate the most is the standing in
the low low squat to help to -- yes you want

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to put a link on this episode for that
-- sure sure -- yeah it's sitting

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in a low squat -- yeah but you call it
something special isn't it the Spartan

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squat -- yes actually I do call it the
Spartan squat because it is painful in

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every way --
yes and everyone at the studio hated

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that one -- yes -- so it's a great one to do
-- and everybody can do it and they can do

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a modification of it -- that's before -- yes --
now we are at the airport --  so whatever your mobility

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training choice is just go ahead and do
it -- but now we're at the airport we

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do something different -- while at the
airport

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try not to just sit walk around that's
why it's also good to travel light

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because then it gives you the chance to
walk around walk around walk around walk

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around stand just don't sit -- yeah
we're going to Greece for six weeks to

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set up all these trainings pick the
olives all of those things and we're

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bringing three carry-ons for both of us
and that includes all the computer gear -- exactly and

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no checking no checking three carry-ons
and that includes yes all of the

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electronics so you can do it -- it takes a
while but it does work -- it may lead to

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some domestics but it's worth it -- on the
plane -- on the plane um well I sleep

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so I am good -- you should get up and walk -- yeah you should get up and walk just get up and walk like

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every 20 minutes or every half hour just
move around even while sitting see if

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you can sit like cross-legged just
crossing one leg at a time just do

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something  --  point and flex your feet if
that's the only thing you can do while

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you are waiting -- exactly -- stretch like raise your
arms overhead and stretch you know --

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don't hit the people behind you in
front of you or next to you --

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yes stretch your
obliques your sides

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just do something fidgeting even is is
healthy just do that -- when we land --

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-- and when we land again mobility
mobility mobility as much as possible

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and the other thing we try to do we
don't always succeed depends on the

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environment is go out at a park or
something on the beach if you can and

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walk barefoot but that depends on your
environment -- and that's the kaphaness --  and that -- kaphaness that's a word right -- the

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kaphaness oh my goodness I think I will remember that forever -- kaphaness --
that's that's raising

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the good kapha quality that is
giving you grounding that's the best

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thing you can do and not just in terms
of movement the walking but in terms of

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your mitochondria you are bringing in
good gut bacteria but then again when we

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say walk barefoot use common sense
please and only do it if the environment

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is conducive for that otheriwse
your kaphaness will lead into

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bad pittaness because you are gonna pick
up things you don't want to like

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bad bacteria and viruses -- movement is very
important --  movement is very important if

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you haven't gotten the point by now
movement is very important -- number two is

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nutrients what do we eat and not eat
before during and after so let's go with

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before -- okay so there are two things that
are going on here you want to bring as much

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good kapha as possible to keep the vata
at bay so grounding and stability you

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wanna bring in and also you want to
support your immune system against any

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negative pitta
so you want hydration you want good fats

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-- oleation -- oleation and you want nutrients
for your immune system okay hydration

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you want good electrolytes so don't
just think water -- don't think Gatorade

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either -- yeah no my goodness don't think
Gatorade yes thank you for that don't

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think soda so hydration is clean water
filtered water and good electrolytes and

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when we say electrolytes we are talking
Himalayan salt lime or lemon and a

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little bit of good sugar to assist with
that which would be the raw

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unfiltered honey -- as long as you can eat
honey -- as long as you can eat honey -- oh by

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the way attorney thing if -- yes yeah -- 
don't do anything you shouldn't do

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-- full disclaimer don't do anything you
shouldn't be doing or anything a doctor

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a medical 
doctor has told you not to do and so

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good electrolytes and if you cannot do
honey maple syrup organic raw maple

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syrup is the best in terms of good fats
you want your extra virgin coconut oil

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your extra virgin olive oil careful when
you buy olive oils a lot of times they

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have canola oil in them -- and canola oil that's a whole another podcast -- yes that would be a
very long tangent we would have to go on

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so no and since we started no vegetable
oils period and then good grass-fed

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butter good grass-fed ghee good lard if
you can tallow all that and avocados

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if you can if they are in season and we
said hydration we said fat and now the

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immune system to support your immune
system the best thing you can do is have

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bone broth we make our own bone broth
but you can always get good bone broth

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from the store as long as it is
grass-fed -- grass finished --  and grass finished

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and you're usually gonna find it in the
frozen section -- yes -- not in the what

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is the soup regular bad broth section
so that's what you want to do before in

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terms of food --  on the plane ideally 
you -- real quick before we get on the

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plane is we cut out any any dry food
like salads

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-- yep no raw perfect yes no raw food like
salads nuts -- that all feeds the vata --

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that all raises the vata and that's
what you do not want to do and no cold

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no we cut all well we don't drink cold
drinks but if you were to be drinking

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cold drinks you don't wanna have cold drinks -- no ice cream

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and yogurt today -- no

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no you can have it I am not it's not
worth it so and then on the plane again

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we stay away from all the peanuts nuts
pretzels they are dry they have

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vegetable oils in them they are just
terrible -- we actually don't even eat anything -- we don't eat the airplane food

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we do not touch it we do we do time
restricted eating it's not only that you

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stay away from any bad stuff that you
would be putting in your body you also

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through the not eating assist your
mitochondria who creates the energy of

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life and then when we land we go for
great warm home-cooked style food again -- yeah

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when we went to Okinawa they took us to a great
restaurant and we had -- it was the best

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thing ever -- it was pigs feet and some type of -- 
some type -- organ soup -- yeah organ soup it was

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warm and those noodles whatever they
were buckwheat noodle -- yes yes yes --  oh my god it

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was like the best thing you can have after a long flight -- and that really kicks -- and that yeah we

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didn't feel anything we had even way more energy than before leaving -- we

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actually had more energy than some of
the people that were taking us around -- oh

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of course yeah but yeah it was amazing
so home-cooked meal lots of good fat

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lots of good oleation your good
electrolytes and your are set -- that's food --

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that's food -- we'll be right back with
some more stuff -- yay --

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-- and we are back --

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this next section is brought to you by
Snow Shimazu of air beautiful all about

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staying sane while traveling we'll have
the link in the comment section of

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course -- of course -- 
so now we're getting into habits and the -- habits -- habits -- and we're

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going to talk about before during and
after so what do we start doing before

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we start traveling -- time restricted eating
and intermittent fasting what it is

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basically is you eat eat eat and then
you don't eat for anywhere between 12 to

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24 hours
no caloric intake -- and I want to jump in

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real quick because some people that are
listening might say well that that's

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today's fad -- fad exactly -- and it's not a fad this actually
this is what what is the ayurvedic term

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for this --  this is as ayurvedic as they
come it is considered the most important

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practice to address any imbalance and
the Sanskrit word for it is langhana

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and the reason it is so it is the
most important health practice is

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because it helps your ahara rasa which
is considered the input to your rasa

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dhatu in other words it helps clean up
what goes into your body that will feed

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the tissues -- and what that means is -- just
do it -- because because this is thousands

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of years old and it's not a today's fad -- no
it's not -- eating every two to three hours

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is a today's fad because that's only ten
years old twenty years old -- yeah -- it

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doesn't
fit -- yeah -- the way that ayurveda the way

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that Greek medicine had talked about in
the scriptures -- and this is one of the

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things that both systems of medicine
both ayurveda and ancient Greek medicine

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were saying it is the most important
thing you can do for your body is stop

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feeding it all the time -- and we'll get
into fasting a lot because that's one of

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the main things that we like to do so
let's jump though to travel -- so basically what

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exactly so before traveling a couple of
weeks before traveling what you wanna do

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is have your last meal or your last
caloric intake say your glass of wine by

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8 o clock in the evening and then do not
put any calories in your body for at

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least 12 hours which means 8 o clock the
next day that would be 12 hours if you

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want to do 14 hours it would be 10 o
clock so it is really easy to do so

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that's what we do a lot well we
do it all the time -- all the time but we make sure that we follow it --

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exactly -- two weeks before -- and that's why
we mentioned when we are on the plane

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which all together it can be more than
twelve hours we just don't eat and and

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then once we arrive there after the
first couple of days we do it again this

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way you allow your body to cleanse and
rejuvenate

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no caloric intake means you can have
black coffee you can have your tea with

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as long --  but I wouldn't be drinking
black coffee on the plane --

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no no no no no no we do not put
anything in our body that comes from the

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plane except -- sparkling water -- sparkling water which comes out of a sealed bottle because even the water the

00:22:53.020 --> 00:22:59.230
regular water bottles -- can be -- can be -- 
refilled -- yes -- a lot of the planes

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actually refill the water bottles -- exactly -- and then
bring them and that refilling is coming

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from the
tanks which you don't know the last

00:23:06.310 --> 00:23:16.990
time -- exactly --  that was cleaned  -- and you may be putting bad pittaness in your body doing that -- see I created a whole new slang -- yes so that's

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about the time restricted eating and
intermittent fasting -- supplements --

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supplements we like to take activated
coconut charcoal which is again an

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extremely old practice because
charcoal was being used to help people

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get rid of -- poisons -- and -- with that though
you don't want to eat activated charcoal

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with good food -- no because then you're
missing out on everything -- because it's sucking all the

00:23:46.510 --> 00:23:50.650
goodness out of what you just put in
your body we take the activated charcoal

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because we're on the plane breathing in
a whole bunch of stuff -- exactly that's why we

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take it and we take it like on an empty
stomach and -- or if we did eat bad -- or if we did

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eat bad because of whatever -- so that's and then 
krill oil -- krill oil -- we like to take some extra

00:24:11.650 --> 00:24:22.060
krill oil because the omega-3s is exactly
what you need to to pretty much to

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prevent any inflammation omega-3s are
really important because a lot of what

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you're you may be breathing in or eating
or whatever has too many omega sixes and

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again we do wait 12 hours before we put
the krill oil because that is fat -- exactly the

00:24:41.740 --> 00:24:45.820
krill oil is fat and it is considered
calories and you don't want to take

00:24:45.820 --> 00:24:50.770
krill oil together with coconut charcoal
because then you are missing out on all of the benefits -- you just

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spent a whole bunch of money on nothing -- exactly and --  glasses -- glasses blue blockers or

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blue light blockers this is something we
wear a lot when we are inside you know

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bad lighting which is pretty much
everywhere and we don't wear them all

00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:17.659
the time though but on the plane
on the airplane and the

00:25:17.659 --> 00:25:26.840
airports you just have way too many bad
rays hitting you and that's why we like

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to wear the blue blockers and there are
several out there now we have just a

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couple of favorite ones and we'll put
the link in the comment section and they

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I believe also they look really cool so to
me -- if you've ever seen her

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YouTube videos you will know that she
wears them pretty much all the time -- yes --

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next is the socks -- yeah compression socks
and air beautiful has great

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compression socks they are actually -- in fact 
those are the ones we use -- those are the

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ones we use and I didn't know how
great they were until I actually used

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them and we wear them like pretty much
from the moment we leave our place to

00:26:11.840 --> 00:26:19.519
the moment we land -- yep -- and they help they
really do help a lot if you have to just

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sit a lot they they just they just work
-- and then we bring layerings -- layering is

00:26:27.590 --> 00:26:34.009
the most important thing at least for me
in terms of clothing because the

00:26:34.009 --> 00:26:39.710
temperature changes the airport maybe
depending on where you are depending on

00:26:39.710 --> 00:26:46.009
which say lounge you are at -- like right
now it's 98 degrees outside -- yeah -- when we

00:26:46.009 --> 00:26:50.389
hit the airport it'll be 50 degrees -- so
depending on where you are and then on

00:26:50.389 --> 00:26:55.820
the airplane also the temperature
changes so again you want to minimize as

00:26:55.820 --> 00:27:01.490
much of the vataness the movement the
change in temperature you want to

00:27:01.490 --> 00:27:06.559
minimize it you want to help
your body yes when you are

00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:13.970
healthy your body will thermoregulate
on its own but why add an extra stressor

00:27:13.970 --> 00:27:20.210
to your body so layers work great this
way you don't have to carry around

00:27:20.210 --> 00:27:27.139
really thick stuff bulky stuff like
sweaters and things like that so layers

00:27:27.139 --> 00:27:32.179
work great
-- we get we're using patagonia --

00:27:32.179 --> 00:27:38.389
yeah Patagonia's jackets and shirts -- because
they pack up really small so it's very

00:27:38.389 --> 00:27:45.950
easy to carry the rain gear and their jackets we take it
everywhere -- and they look really cool

00:27:45.950 --> 00:27:56.029
they match my sunglasses and then 
lounges -- yes spend the money on being

00:27:56.029 --> 00:28:01.419
able to get into a lounge because when
you're doing like a six hour layover

00:28:01.419 --> 00:28:09.379
man it's nice to be in the lounge
instead of in sitting on a hard --  exactly yes in

00:28:09.379 --> 00:28:16.399
the main area it is it is great it is
worth it so -- in fact sometimes we

00:28:16.399 --> 00:28:20.090
actually even try to get the lay over so
we can go spend the time in the lounge

00:28:20.090 --> 00:28:24.200
-- yeah some of those lounges are pretty
impressive the lounge in athens

00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:30.590
has one of the best dishes of lamb and 
potatoes I've ever had -- and that's going

00:28:30.590 --> 00:28:37.360
from that's going from Athens to --
to London -- to London yes oh my goodness -- excellent

00:28:37.360 --> 00:28:39.080
one of the best lunges I've ever been in

00:28:39.080 --> 00:28:45.139
China's lounge was nice too -- oh yeah it was it was really good -- we were in China for what we had a layover

00:28:45.139 --> 00:28:51.559
14 or 15 hours -- yes -- and so we had to
leave because it was overnight so we had

00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:56.480
to leave the International Airport and
go outside and then we got to come back

00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:02.740
in right when it opened in the morning -- fresh food and everything -- we hit that and their food was excellent

00:29:02.740 --> 00:29:08.330
-- their service -- the people there was beyond wonderful
-- yeah they spent forty five minutes

00:29:08.330 --> 00:29:13.850
trying to help me set up the internet
connection and they didn't complain at

00:29:13.850 --> 00:29:19.610
all -- no -- so if you get into the lounge it
is very simple and it costs us because

00:29:19.610 --> 00:29:33.529
you are you are a - american express priority pass -- priority pass so you're free and I'm sometimes a free pass and sometimes not -- and you are a companion -- I'm a companion

00:29:33.529 --> 00:29:36.780
so the lounge is by far one of the biggest
things that

00:29:36.780 --> 00:29:42.500
makes traveling simple -- yes it adds a lot

00:29:42.500 --> 00:29:50.310
and next is grounding right 
like -- do things that ground you -- do things

00:29:50.310 --> 00:29:56.790
that ground you so when you get there
when you arrive to your destination go

00:29:56.790 --> 00:30:03.510
outside find a clean place and walk
around barefoot if possible otherwise

00:30:03.510 --> 00:30:08.310
just walk around and observe your
surroundings just for a little bit -- and

00:30:08.310 --> 00:30:12.420
if you can't even with that because
sometimes the layovers we can't but

00:30:12.420 --> 00:30:19.410
grounding poses such as one-legged stuff
tree -- one legged balancing poses yes --

00:30:19.410 --> 00:30:25.410
are extremely grounding and you don't
even have to do the whole pose so people

00:30:25.410 --> 00:30:30.540
look at you weird -- yes -- if you want to you can
but just taking one foot off the ground

00:30:30.540 --> 00:30:36.330
will start getting your body back into
being grounded -- exactly so if you can get

00:30:36.330 --> 00:30:41.790
outside and walk around and observe your
surroundings please do that just for a

00:30:41.790 --> 00:30:50.850
couple of minutes and if not then just
the one-legged balancing poses even in

00:30:50.850 --> 00:30:57.090
your tiny hotel room will do wonders 
they are more powerful than you think

00:30:57.090 --> 00:31:02.610
you may think oh that's too easy too
simple simple doesn't mean that it

00:31:02.610 --> 00:31:06.810
doesn't work actually simple is the most
powerful and one of the other things

00:31:06.810 --> 00:31:11.700
that we didn't mention but we start doing right about what two weeks

00:31:11.700 --> 00:31:19.140
out is no inversions -- oh yes no
inversions no --  before during and after

00:31:19.140 --> 00:31:26.670
-- yes because inversions are the worst
thing you can do for your vata and pitta

00:31:26.670 --> 00:31:33.780
bioenergies it will aggravate the heck out
of them so that means no head stands no

00:31:33.780 --> 00:31:41.580
arm balancing inversions not holding
down dogs not holding standing forward

00:31:41.580 --> 00:31:45.060
folds
none of that anything that brings the

00:31:45.060 --> 00:31:51.410
head below the heart is considered an
inversion and it's the worst thing you can

00:31:51.410 --> 00:31:56.990
do for your vata and pitta bioenergies and you won't know it until

00:31:56.990 --> 00:32:03.800
it is way too late -- yeah because it's a very
subtle -- it is a very very subtle energy

00:32:03.800 --> 00:32:09.800
that it brings in so the imbalance is
going to take a while to manifest in a

00:32:09.800 --> 00:32:15.590
way that you can realize it because what
happens is we do not realize how screwed

00:32:15.590 --> 00:32:20.770
up we are while we are screwing
ourselves up -- very good

00:32:20.770 --> 00:32:26.720
so snow actually talks about two other
things that I want to hit real quick - yes -- and

00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:30.620
you might have a couple things too but
two things that I really want to talk

00:32:30.620 --> 00:32:39.110
about is she brings throwaway shoes -- yes -- so
when you take your shoes off on the

00:32:39.110 --> 00:32:43.430
plane you slide them in so you're not
picking up all that junk on the ground

00:32:43.430 --> 00:32:47.690
while you're walking around while you're
walking to the bathroom so she brings

00:32:47.690 --> 00:32:58.460
extra like slippers throwaway slippers -- or thick socks -- no throwaway slippers she
does not bring extra socks because

00:32:58.460 --> 00:33:03.980
that's going over top of your socks you
are wearing then the other thing she brings

00:33:03.980 --> 00:33:12.560
she mentions is to when you flush the
toilet -- make sure the lid is down the lid

00:33:12.560 --> 00:33:18.020
that covers the toilet make sure
it is down so all of those bacteria

00:33:18.020 --> 00:33:22.790
really nasty bacteria are not flying
around in the air while you are in there

00:33:22.790 --> 00:33:27.470
breathing them in and she actually
created a course I believe on things

00:33:27.470 --> 00:33:34.960
that you can do on the plane -- yes yes yes yes and
all that will be on her website -- yes -- and

00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:40.820
the other thing is that it's a good
practice unless it gets you into trouble

00:33:40.820 --> 00:33:47.450
with your neighbors is to cover the
shades -- yep -- to shut the shutters on the

00:33:47.450 --> 00:33:54.680
airplane windows so you don't have all
that form of radiation coming in but

00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:58.710
only do that if it doesn't cause any
trouble -- yep --

00:33:58.710 --> 00:34:03.270
you don't want things like that on the
plane -- so we are heading to Greece

00:34:03.270 --> 00:34:08.879
tomorrow -- oh and then the other thing is
please be nice to the people working on

00:34:08.879 --> 00:34:14.159
the airplane it is they have a very very
hard job they have an extremely vata

00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:20.970
and pitta deranging job and you wanna
you wanna show that you respect what

00:34:20.970 --> 00:34:29.460
they do so please be nice to them -- give
them a tip even --  yeah -- so thank them -- we

00:34:29.460 --> 00:34:35.369
leave tomorrow -- yes -- we fly out
we're heading into Greece we're going to

00:34:35.369 --> 00:34:37.649
be hitting the ground moving very
quickly

00:34:37.649 --> 00:34:43.050
we go to we have to deal with some
paperwork right when we get there and

00:34:43.050 --> 00:34:47.849
then we're heading to South Greece to
pick olives -- to start picking olives -- from there

00:34:47.849 --> 00:34:54.659
we have to not have to we get to go to
the island of -- Aegina and prepare -- we're setting

00:34:54.659 --> 00:34:58.470
up three different trainings yes the
first one is going to be with Deborah

00:34:58.470 --> 00:35:06.240
-- Deborah Lamber of Picasso's moon -- and
she's creating a this is very cool she's

00:35:06.240 --> 00:35:10.099
bringing a group of people and I don't
know she might actually already be full

00:35:10.099 --> 00:35:18.920
but she's bringing at over 20 people -- yes --
to the island to teach knitting and

00:35:18.920 --> 00:35:25.950
meditation and it's it's even more than
that she's given them -- it is using

00:35:25.950 --> 00:35:33.210
fiber and it is a very very
traditional form of knitting what she's

00:35:33.210 --> 00:35:38.760
doing and you can figure it all out
through her Instagram account -- yes -- and

00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:43.710
that's Picasso's moon -- Picasso's moon yes -- 
next is right after we get done with

00:35:43.710 --> 00:35:50.490
that group we're then going to do a
hundred hour -- a 100 hour Ayurveda for the

00:35:50.490 --> 00:35:57.180
mind course which is it's actually a
hundred hour course that involves online

00:35:57.180 --> 00:36:02.599
preparatory training in-person training
on the island of Aegina and then post

00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:07.290
practicum that's actually the most
important part on how you can use

00:36:07.290 --> 00:36:15.640
everything you learn for your own
and with your clients --and then after that is a

00:36:15.640 --> 00:36:23.390
three to five day conference with AAPNA -- 
yep global ayurveda conference co-hosted

00:36:23.390 --> 00:36:29.390
with AAPNA the association of Ayurvedic
professionals of North America and we

00:36:29.390 --> 00:36:36.710
are going to have Ayurvedic doctors from
all over the world -- we know already that India Canada

00:36:36.710 --> 00:36:45.980
US -- UK -- UK possibly Holland -- Pakistan -- Pakistan 
so we're gonna have this awesome awesome

00:36:45.980 --> 00:36:50.990
group of individuals that they
specialize in ayurveda giving a

00:36:50.990 --> 00:36:55.910
conference on that island -- yes -- and what's
cool about that island is in Greek

00:36:55.910 --> 00:37:04.240
Apollo is the one who brought medicine
to the world today -- yes -- so and there's this

00:37:04.240 --> 00:37:11.030
one of the oldest -- the temple one of the
oldest temples -- is right there on the

00:37:11.030 --> 00:37:17.210
island and we can look at it while the
conference is going -- yes so talk about

00:37:17.210 --> 00:37:24.410
talk about an amazing place for 
such a conference and if you

00:37:24.410 --> 00:37:31.910
decide you ever want to travel or
if you do travel Aegina Greece is one of the greatest -- Aegina is the best one of the

00:37:31.910 --> 00:37:41.840
best islands you haven't heard of yet --
yes okay anything else -- that's it --  so -- next time --

00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:49.040
we will be either doing this in Greece
we might be doing this in -- Newark

00:37:49.040 --> 00:37:54.980
Newark -- it depends -- but will be on the road
thank you so much -- much much love from

00:37:54.980 --> 00:38:01.540
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