February 9, 2025 • 72 mins
As I turn 52, I'm indulging in a mix of personal reflections, laughter, and future dreams, all while sharing the excitement of a public holiday birthday in Australia. Amid giggles and birthday musings, I reveal the unique connection I share with Mozart, adding a historical twist to the festivities. Join me for a candid catch-up after a brief hiatus, as I navigate the joys and challenges of another year, peppered with humour and the occasional Aquarian traits that make life all the more interesting.
The journey of growth and relaxation is one I know well, having recently embraced both during a refreshing weekend in Forster, New South Wales. Between navigating a work transition and preparing for an exhilarating trip to Japan, I'm finding that balance is key to enjoying life's moments. I'll share my plans to explore Tokyo and Kyoto with the enthusiasm of someone finally living out a long-held dream. Whether it's soaking in hot pools or sampling sake, the anticipation of new experiences is palpable, sparking joy and wanderlust in equal measure.
Music lovers, brace yourselves, because there's a tribute to Mozart that pays homage to his timeless genius and unmatched influence. As I flirt with the idea of my own genius — perhaps tequila-fueled — I also reflect on personal milestones and the potential of moving to Japan. This episode is a heartfelt expression of gratitude to everyone who's supported my podcast journey, promising more laughter, authenticity, and perhaps even a touch of quantum physics in conversations to come. So, grab a drink, get comfortable, and let's explore life's adventures together!
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welcome to the Tequila Hour.
My name is Amanda.
That's a smash pad.
I don't know what date is.
It's Sunday, I know that much.
Let me check.
Look, I know it's Sunday.
The date I mean.
You know I will catch upeventually.
You know I will catch upeventually.
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The date today is the 9th ofFebruary.
I was going to say January.
I've only had one drink.
I promise it's the 9th ofFebruary.
It is 2025.
This is the Tequila Hour.
You will catch up and so will IWelcome.
If this is your first timelistening to this podcast,
you're probably wondering shouldI stop listening?
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And I say no, just wait, justwait.
Eventually I will get my shittogether and I will sound like I
know what I'm doing.
Until then, enjoy the ride.
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Oh, I don't know why I'mlaughing so much.
Anyway, it's been a while.
I keep saying this.
Every time I do a motherfuckingpodcast, I keep saying it's
been a while and it has.
When did I release my lastpodcast?
Let me just check for you.
The 19th of January.
Oh, do I have that?
Is this much bad?
Let me see.
Um, I should have it because itsounds really good.
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No, I don't think it's that oneum no, it could be that one.
No, uh, now I'm gettingdistracted by my smash pad.
Your call is very important tous.
Please hold it is.
I'm not going to get distractedby my road, even though it's
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beautiful.
Let's just get into.
Let's get into this podcasttoday.
Hello everybody, yes, the titleof this podcast, it's not a word
, it's just a number, the numberbeing 52.
You might be like, if you'venever listened to this podcast
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before, you'd be like 52?
Is that the meaning of theuniverse?
If you know what I'm talkingabout, I think the meaning of
the universe was number 47 or 41.
Anyway, getting distracted.
If you are not aware, 52 is mynew age, so I've just celebrated
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a birthday.
Wait, stop, I'm already into itand I haven't.
No, this is very rude.
How rude of me.
I haven't done any.
You know what?
Motherfucking admin, let's go.
That's right.
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This is the Tequila Hour.
My name is Amanda.
Like I said, apparently it isthe 9th of February 2025.
What is the agenda today?
So, number one, I'm going togive a quick catch up of what
I've been doing between my lastpodcast, what Really Matters,
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which was released on the 19thof January, up to today's date,
which was released on the 19thof January up to today's date.
I'm going to then talk aboutanother famous person Now, I'm
assuming I'm famous and I'm notIn my own mind.
I am Another famous person bornon my birthday, being the 27th
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of January.
Yeah, applaud that shit.
Oh, I'm going to.
Yeah, yes, yeah, turning orturning or turned.
I am right now, not earlier.
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Well, I was earlier, but priorto the 27th I wasn't.
I was 51.
Now I am 52.
What does that look like?
Pretty much what I looked likebefore, except my hair is
shorter.
What do I plan for the future?
Big questions.
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Will I have a plan?
Maybe I don't.
Maybe I'm just talking it outright now on this podcast.
Look, today it's just an easybreezy cover girl thing.
We're just going to have aquick catch up.
We're going to chill.
You're going to probably listento me ramble and then ramble
some more.
I'm going to talk about thefamous person who was also born
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on my birthday, but many, manyyears earlier, even centuries
earlier, than myself, and then,finally, I'm going to talk about
future endeavors and what's tocome.
So if that is something thatinterests you and you like
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listening to the diltic tones ofmy voice, then please keep
listening and, yeah, we'll getinto it.
So let's go.
I'm in a very laugh mood, maybebecause I'm feeling
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uncomfortable because I haven'tbloody done podcast.
Anyway, enough about me, me, me.
So first discussion or topic ofdiscussion today is what's been
happening.
So last podcast was the 19th ofJanuary.
In the meantime I had mybirthday, which was the 27th of
January.
It was a Monday.
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It was a public holiday inAustralia, lucky for me, yay.
So Australia granted me a dayoff.
Thank you, and you should thankme.
No, australia Day was on the26th of January.
If you're not Australian, youmight know that.
But yes, the 26th of January isAustralia Day.
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It was a Sunday.
It fell on, so therefore thepublic holiday is a monday.
So that was my birthday beingthe 27th.
I worked that week.
It was a hectic three weeksprior, yep.
And then I moved.
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I moved into a well-earned weekoff, yay For me.
I had a weekend at FosterTancari.
If you're not Australian, youprobably wouldn't know I live in
New South Wales.
Foster is approximately a bitover two hours from where I live
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in New South Wales, in a secretlocation which I'm pretty sure
I've told you where that is,which I think.
I then deleted the.
Anyway, I'll tell you again inthe future.
No, so I went to Foster Tunkerwith my husband, had a great
weekend, basically Saturday,sunday, monday, then had a week
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off.
It is now the Sunday, the lastday of my day of freedom, and I
go back to the grind tomorrow.
So, yes, we all need to work Ido if I want to achieve the
goals that I want to achieve,being traveling, more traveling,
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more traveling.
You know what?
Yeah, travel, it's a lot.
It's a lot on my mind at themoment.
I do have a big trip coming upvery soon, in three weeks, which
I will talk about in a second,but first I want to touch on my
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birthday.
So my birthday was prettylow-key this year.
I think it was a warm day.
I pretty much floated aroundour backyard pool, had a couple
of drinks, just relaxed.
Mate, I think I don't know, youmay or may not feel the same,
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but when you now I feel reallyold by saying this statement.
But when you get to a certainage in your life, you know
you're not going to the Ivy andshooting up coke.
That's not what I was doing.
I probably shouldn't have saidthat.
No, look, you're not partying.
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All right, you might be, youmight be doing shit you
shouldn't be doing.
For me, it's just, it was a dayoff to relax and have a couple
of drinks and unwind and I wasgoing to say rewind that's not
the word unwind and just chill,and that's what I did and it was
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fantastic.
When I talk about you know gifts, because if you know me and
listen to this podcast, I lovegetting gifts.
I'm not going to lie.
Who doesn't like a present?
Like cut the shit, you know,unless you're one of these rich
motherfuckers who haveeverything and it's your
birthday and you don't get apresent and you don't care.
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Well, good on you.
But for me, give me the love,give me the gifts.
Love means gifts.
Love equals gift on you.
But for me, give me the love,give me the gifts.
Love means gifts, love equalsgive.
Uh, that didn't happen.
Oh, actually I lied.
I did get one gift, which wasoh, no, now I'm telling
porcupines, I've got two.
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I got a gift voucher for uh,what do you call it?
A place called frontlinehobbies which is, as the name
suggests, a hobby store locatedin newcastle 100 bucks, I don't
know what that was.
No, noise, I don't know whatthat noise was.
Just, I don't have a chichingsmash band, uh, yes.
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So I got that.
I haven't spent it yet.
Probably should.
I think I'm gonna buy.
Well, I'm not, I don't think Iknow, I'll buy some lego
eventually with that.
And I also got a bottle of amazeperfume from my husband,
because he knows me so well.
Uh, I don't know it's, I don'tknow the name.
(12:04):
I probably could look it up,but the keynote is rhubarb.
It's mate, if you know me atall, love perfume, have a pretty
good collection.
I love all things amaze.
Uh, I have a lot of Amez makeupand some jewelry pieces.
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But I'm just going to say nowand I'm pretty sure I've said
this in the past Amez perfume isunderrated.
It really is underrated, in myopinion.
I don't hear anyone talkingabout it.
Maybe they think it's toohoity-toity.
I don't hear anyone talkingabout it.
Maybe they think it's toohoity-toity, I don't know.
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I mean, we all know a mess isexpensive.
I'm telling you right now theyhave some beautiful perfumes,
well-priced, and one of thembeing this Rhubarb.
I don't know the name, I'll putit in the description for you,
but it has a note of Rhubarb.
Now I tell you, I am tellingyou, not telling you, but it has
a note of rhubarb.
Now I tell you.
I am telling you, not tellingyou, I am telling you right now,
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mate, it's beautiful, I love it.
It's feminine, leaning, it'sfresh.
I know it's just a great, easy,bright, kind of weird kind of
floral, I don't know.
It's just nice.
For me, who normally lives inthe dark side of town with
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leather draping all over theirbodies, or oud, it's a light
perfume which I really enjoy.
So I got that.
What my husband also has doneis he has kindly saved some
money for my upcoming trip.
So, uh, he's giving me thatwhich, he's going to give me
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that very soon because I'm goingaway very soon, and he's also
going to pay for my which whichis kind of boring but actually
very well needed a CPAP travelmachine.
So, if you didn't know, I havesleep apnea and I use a machine
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every night and because I'mtraveling, he has kindly offered
to buy me the travel version ofmy machine, which I'm very
grateful for because it'slighter than the one I'll be
taking, which I use now.
So, yeah, there's that.
So, all in all, presents, toptier, right Didn't get a lot but
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top tier.
Very happy Birthday done anddusted.
I'm trying to think my mood, soI don't know.
I've been in a very strange.
No, I haven't actually.
I was gonna say I've been in astrange headspace.
I haven't.
I have been a lot in my head,as I normally am if you know me
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anywhere, everywhere all at onceI have really been conscious of
getting out of my head and justrelaxing and just letting be
what be and going with the flowand all of the above.
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So, yeah, there's been a lot ofthat happening, trying to, you
know, still follow a path ofwanting to learn more about
self-development and you know meas a person and to grow and
what I want to achieve in mylife, and the skills and skill
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sets and all that kind of goodshit you need.
If that's something that youaspire to, it also ties into,
you know, that overlap of lifework as well, and there's also
then, then, what I want toachieve, deliver, embrace,
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experience and all of that.
So, yeah, there's a lot of thatgoing on at the moment in my
mind and trying to like not getcarried away with too much over
analysis, which I tend to do,which I tend to do, and, yeah,
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so for me, you know, I quicklymentioned in my last podcast
that my work was going to behectic not hectic, but probably
more stressful than normal.
That time has passed.
I mean, I had three weeks and I, as I, stepped into a different
role and then, like I mentioned, I had a glorious weekend in
Foster and if you're inAustralia and you live in New
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South Wales and you haven't beento Foster, you're doing
yourself a disservice, may I sayyou just go.
It's a beautiful, stunning,beautiful place on this planet.
Uh, foster, uh, tancari, newsouth wales go, just go, it's
just great.
Stayed in a cabin, reasonablypriced, went snorkeling.
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The sea was warm, but not toowarm.
Temperature was beautifularound, I know, between 28 and
31 degrees.
The weekend was just great.
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So to then have a week off whereI've had a bit of space on my
own, where I've pretty much donefuck all, I'll be honest, which
is nice and my apologies.
I now have a runny nose,probably because I'm talking a
lot Seems to happen.
Wait, I'm just going to have arunny nose, probably because I'm
talking a lot Seems to happen.
Wait, I'm just going to have aquick sip of my drink Drink
break.
First, one Drink break, drinkbreak.
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Yes, I'm drinking tequila, bythe way, don Julio Blunkle, I
don't know why I said it likethat.
Anyway, yes, just had a weekoff, did fuck all.
It's been fantastic.
Watched a bit of YouTube, a bitmore YouTube.
You know I did some choresaround the house, the usual yada
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, yada shit.
I was going to read some of thebooks that I've acquired
recently I've decided that mostof those books will probably
take to me.
Take to me a couple of thosenovels, fictional novels,
non-fiction yeah, non-fiction,sorry.
I will take with me to Japan,and that's what I'll talk about
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in a second, because that'sapproaching super fast.
And yeah, I just took the timejust to downtime.
Just to fucking downtime, mate,not to overanalyze, not to try
and plan my life's purpose,which I seem to be drawn to more
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and more as I get older.
And I don't know, I don't knowif it's, you know, just thinking
out loud, where you know, again, it's that getting to a certain
age thing where you suddenlyrealise that you need to hurry
the fuck up and get your shitsorted if you haven't already.
Or it's just you know you'reover everything thing G not G,
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yeah, g not okay.
You know you're over everythingthing, not yet, gene, okay.
And you really just want toembrace the things that just
bring you life and purpose.
So for me, this is going to bea cracker year.
I know it's going to be acracker year.
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I'm super pumped.
I'm looking forward to whatlife brings, but what I also
have planned, and with that I'malso then thinking about what I
want to plan for the future.
So I'm just going to quicklystop because I need to grab
another drink.
Drink, drink, drink, drink.
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Yeah, I'm back.
I don't know what that was, Ijust realized just by the way,
I've grabbed a new drink.
I grabbed a water.
I also quickly went to the looand blew my nose.
Look, I'm keeping this shitreal right, this is life.
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If I was on someone else'spodcast, I'd be at 20 minutes
and be like can I go off air?
Because I just need to go tothe loo and grab a drink.
And they'd be like no, that'swhy I have my own podcast.
No, you may hear I don't know,I haven't done any auditory
editing at this point but youmight also hear a whirling in
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the background.
I realized for the start ofthis podcast I've got the fan on
the background so you mighthear that.
So my apologies if you do heara weird whirling.
It's just my ceiling fan,because it's I don't know.
Let's see, the temperature ispretty good here in the secret
location.
Let me tell you what it isright now.
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It is at 3.38 pm in New SouthWales, in Australia, in the
secret location, it is 28.9degrees, feels like 31.8,
apparently.
According to the Bureau ofMeteorology.
Bullshit.
Feels like it's warm.
It is warm, look alive, it'swarm.
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It's good, though, uh, yeah.
So what was I talking about?
Yes, I talked about my birthday.
I talked about the fact that Ihave just had a week off it's
Sunday and looking to the future.
So, yeah, first of all, beforewe get into all that future
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goodness, that's right.
I was going to talk about mybirthday and I was thinking the
other day.
I'm like, you know, I couldtalk about me, me, me, and this
podcast is about me but I couldalso talk about other famous
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people or I keep saying I'mfamous, I'm including myself in
this famousness other people whoare born on the same day as me,
not necessarily the same year.
I was born in 1973.
If you can do the math, youshould have worked it out by now
, because I'm 52.
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And there's one person thatalways comes to mind when I
think about my birthday and Ithink about other people born on
my day.
So the reason why I think ofthis person is I am someone.
I'll put it out there.
I'm not going to talk aboutstar signs today, but if you
were to read a description of anAquarius, that's my star sign,
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by the way, textbook, that's meall right, I could be on the
edge of different ones, maybe,but not really.
No, I'm a true Aquarian and Ihave to say one of the things
that always oh no, right nowit's bringing a smile to my face
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is, if you read star signs anddescriptions of star signs, they
often say and now I'm going totoot my own, why am I so nervous
about this that Aquarius arethe most intelligent sign.
I'm calling it the mostintelligent sign of the Zodiac.
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All right, we are trailblazers,right.
If you need shit done, we'redoing it.
If you need a muse, I'm in.
Apparently, that's true Genius.
The word genius comes to mindSavant, even the savant, would I
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say.
I was savant.
Let's the tequila's now talking?
No, I'm not a savant, notprobably a genius either, but
maybe no.
A genius either, but maybe no.
But this person.
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When I think of my birthday andI think of famous people born on
my birthday, this one person,mate, shits over me, not
literally.
Classic, amazing, phenomenal,wow this.
If you, yeah, who is it?
You'd be like.
Who is that?
Classic, amazing, phenomenal,wow this.
If you, yeah, who is it?
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You'd be like.
Who is that?
It's not an actress, it's notan actor.
It is the one, the only mostfamous person born on my and
this is a phenomenal person, bythe way, wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
, bam Drop the way.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, bamDropped the mic.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Now, if you don't know who,that is fucking shame on you.
Clearly, I just think ofclassical music.
All right, close your eyes ifyou need to.
I'm doing that right now.
He's a composer.
Oh, he was a composer.
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He's dead, of course.
He was born on the 27th ofJanuary 1756.
17, 17, that's right, not 21,1756.
I'm going to read this offWikipedia.
I mean, I could read this offWikipedia.
I mean I could read it offother sites as well, when we're
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talking about this legend of aperson.
But I don't know, for me, Ilove music.
Yeah, I just I'm not.
You know, I'm not impartial toall genres.
I'm not going to say Iabsolutely hate one genre
against another.
I'm an open book.
I'm happy to listen to anythingand everything.
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I don't shit on anything,because music's music, I love,
music, I love.
I was going to say composing.
I haven't composed anything,but I will.
Maybe I could channel Wolfgangbecause we're born on the same
day, years apart.
I don't know.
But Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartlegend, may I say, was a
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prolific and influentialcomposer of the classical period
, despite his short life now hislife.
He was born on the 27th 27th1756.
He died on the 5th of december1791, so he was aged 35.
Is that right?
Yes, it was 35, so he was young.
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I'm 52, right?
So he died.
He had short life.
Despite his short life, hisrapid pace of composition and
proficiency from an early ageresulted in more than 800 works
representing virtually everywestern classical genre of his
time.
Legend.
Many of these compositions areacknowledged as pinnacles of the
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symphonic, concerti, chamber,operatic and choral repertoire.
These are big words.
Mozart is widely regarded asone of the greatest composers in
the history of Western music,with his music admired for its
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melodic beauty, its formalelegance and its richness of
harmony and texture.
Whoever wrote this glorious?
You know old Wolfie, as we knowhim, that was his nickname.
Born in Salzburg, salzburg,mozart showed prodigious.
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Prodigious, is that how you saythe word?
Prodigious, yes, ability fromhis earliest childhood.
At age five, he was alreadycompetent on keyboard and violin
, had begun to compose andperformed before European
royalty.
Fuck yeah, his father took himon a grand tour of Europe and
then three trips to Italy.
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At 17, he was a musician at theSalzburg Court but grew
restless, aquarian and travelledin search of a better position.
Mozart's search for employmentled him to positions in Paris,
mannheim, munich and again inSalzburg, during which he wrote
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his five violin concertosSinfonia, concertante I'm
butchering this, my apologiesand Concerto for Flute and Harp.
I don't know why I said that.
The harps, it's magical as wellas sacred pieces and masses,
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the Motete Exaltate, jubilate.
Oh no, I'm butchering this.
Now, whilst visiting in viennain 1781, mozart was dismissed,
was dismissed from his salzburgposition.
He stayed in vienna where heachieved fame but little
financial security.
During mozart's early years invienna, he produced several
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notable works, such as the operaDie.
I'm not going to pronounce that.
There's a lot of symphoniesgoing on.
Throughout his Vienna years,mozart composed over a dozen
piano concertos.
Many consider some of hisgreatest achievements.
In the final years of his life,mozart wrote many of his
best-known works, including hislast three symphonies,
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culminating in the JupiterSymphony, the Serenade, four
operas and his Requiem.
The Requiem was largelyunfinished at the time of his
death.
What is the requiem?
His death at the age of 35, thecircumstances, which are
uncertain and much mythologized.
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Hmm, interesting.
I could go on.
I'm just going to say I, yeah,I've listened to some of his
music.
It's just mind-blowing.
I was just.
I typed in probably one of hismost famous symphonies, if
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you've listened to classicalmusic at all.
So it's Symphony no 40 in Gminor, k.
Yeah, that's it.
Yes, g minor.
Symphony number 40 in g minor.
Is that right?
Yes, thank you.
And even now, if I was to playyou something and hopefully I
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don't have any issues with meplaying this, as in copyright,
you will recognise this.
Let me see if you can hear it.
Oh, here we go.
No, I don't want to play that.
What just happened?
then, Did you hear that this isdone by the Desert Drummers and
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the Salih Bar use of Symphony no40, mozart in 7th octave, and a
Moroccan rhythm.
I'll put in the link in thedescription on YouTube if this
video is coming from.
Okay, I'm getting lost in themusic, mate.
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If, if you don't recognise thatthat's Mozart, that's fucking
Wolfie.
I need a nickname like Wolfie.
No, I can't think of one, mate,what, what Aren't we truly
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blessed to have that in ourlives?
I'm sorry, it's just phenomenalClassical music.
If you're just listening tofucking Carly B, no shade on
Carly B, but just do yourselfsome favours and, just for once
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in your life, if you're onSpotify, listen to some fucking
classical music for an afternoonand don't tell me that you
would not be inspired and movedand motivated after listening to
some bloody Mozart or someBeethoven.
I just mate a very, very, very,very, very long time ago, I used
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to play the piano.
I played the drums.
I still play the drums and nota not, not a lot, not a not, not
enough.
But, and I play the French hornand I play the other thing.
We won't talk about my musicalpast.
I love music.
I love playing a musicalinstrument.
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It's classical music, mate.
Those are my legend.
So I am truly honoured reallyto share a birthday.
I'm not joking, I am honored tobe sharing a birthday with
someone as phenomenal, manyyears apart.
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Yes, I know Someone likeWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, wolfie
to me and his friends, and yeah,so listen to some bloody Mozart
this afternoon if you want tojust check out the sublimeness,
the eloquence.
I mean at 17, he was creatingthese symphonies and you know,
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like, imagine if he lived to 60,what he would have done.
I don't know.
It's just clearly a genius,clearly probably a savant Not
wish I, wish I was, but he is.
And yeah, what a phenomenalperson.
So, truly, yeah, when I thinkof my birthday and I think of
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people who were born on mybirthday and you know, I don't
know if you ever do this or youever thought about this, where
you know there's that questionaround oh, if you could
interview someone, who would youinterview?
Or if you could meet someonewho's now passed away, who could
that be?
Or you know those kind oftopics of conversations after
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you've moved from small talkwith new friends, then yeah, for
me, mate, you'd have to meethim.
You'd have to meet the personwho, a person who was born in
the same day as you, and arethey like you in any way?
I don't know, I don't think hewould be like me, but he could
be.
No, I don't compose music,unfortunately, but I could, and
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yeah, it's just fascinating.
So, yeah, I don't know thatwhole conversation about, like,
who would you like to meet orwho would you want to speak to.
If you could speak to someone,they could be alive or they
could be dead.
So for me, he'd have to be.
He is on, not have to be.
He is on the list.
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I definitely, yeah, I'd have toknow what he was like.
Anyway, so, yeah, mozart, checkme out, just listen to some
classical music.
Do yourself a favor, get someenrichment in your life, if you
haven't done so already.
So now, next topic ofconversation.
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I'm just going to have a quicksip of my drink Drink break.
That was short Drink break.
Oh, that was so nice.
Take, the job Is.
I've had my birthday, we'regoing back to work, the future
is nigh, the future is now now,yes, so let's move into what's
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happening in three weeks.
Let's get into it in threeweeks time.
And I still and I'll talk aboutthis too, because I keep saying
this to myself and I'mwondering why I'm doing this.
Actually, I'm going to Japan.
It's happening.
I'm going to fucking Japan inthree weeks.
I am beside myself withexcitement.
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Probably I'm trying to containmy excitement.
Maybe that's the issue, Idon't't know.
Maybe because I am scared andanxious and excited all at the
same time.
But I'm going to motherfuckingJapan and I cannot wait.
So I've pretty much goteverything I need to get.
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There's a couple of extrathings I need to purchase.
I need to get a couple of AppleAirTags.
I think there's a Bluetooththing I need so that I can use
my own earphones like my AppleiPods on the plane.
Maybe some snacks for the plane.
Pretty much, that's it.
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It I got some yen.
Now I've got some fucking yen.
Yeah, cash, I need a cash thinglike a cash smartphone.
I've got some yen.
I've got all my clothes.
I did that the other day.
I made sure I had a nice winterjacket.
I've got like thermals.
I've got some great walkingshoes.
I've got all the gear like.
I've got like thermals.
I've got some great walkingshoes.
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I've got all the gear Like.
I've got like beanies, becauseit's going to be cold Apparently
in Japan, like.
I mean Tokyo is an example wasthree degrees at the moment.
It's going to be cold.
Okay, it might suddenly warm up.
I doubt it.
I'm hoping I am.
Yes, am I manifesting that Iwant it to snow in tokyo there?
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I don't know.
It would say it sounds cool.
It could be shit, mate.
It's very likely, because I amgoing to see the snow monkeys
that there'll be snow there.
So, yeah, I will be in the snow.
Yes, so I probably need somesnow gloves because I've got
leather gloves, but I probablyneed some little snow gloves for
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my tiny hands so they're notfreezing the fuck off.
But it's going to be cool.
It's 30 degrees right now inAustralia, so think about 3 to
30.
They probably will be like ah,I'm in shock.
I know my husband the other day,when I said to him like it's
like, I think it was minus orsomething.
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Oh, did I tell him that?
No, I think I told him it waseight degrees, anyway, and he's
like oh, it's cold.
And I said, yeah, I know it'scold.
He's like why would you go toJapan when it's cold?
I'm like, I know it's cool.
So, yeah, I'm super pumpedabout that.
I'm super pumped that I'm going, which is weird, that it's
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going to be like it's hot hereor warm, like it's not boiling,
but it's warm to like.
I'm going to be wearing probablymultiple layers of clothing.
So, like the other day, I wentto the shops and I bought from
is it Kathmandu, kathmandu,whatever the clothing store.
I bought a real thick, you knowjacket to wear and I bought
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some other you know jumpers, etcetera to wear, and I bought
some other you know jumpers, etcetera, and not that it was
weird buying them.
But I'm thinking, like in threeweeks' time I'm going to be
wearing this shit because it'sgoing to be freezing.
I'm going to be freezing my assoff, which is just, yeah, it's
a whole thing.
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So there's that Hoping it'sgoing to snow in Tokyo, I don't
know, I don't know.
So there's that Hoping it'sgoing to snow in Tokyo, I don't
know, I don't know, somehow itwould just top off a dream,
anyway, yeah, so there's acouple of things I still need to
do.
I need to because I'm in theprocess of doing this, drafting
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a whole Word document for myhusband so he knows where I am
and, excuse me, hotels that I'mstaying in, yada, yada.
So he has my itinerary, because, if he didn't know, I'm going
on my own on a tour to Japan.
What else?
Oh, my phone's ringing.
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Give me one second and I'm back.
That was my husband.
I turned down my phone becausenormally, if you've heard any of
my podcasts, I always seem torecord at the same time when he
then rings me when he finisheswork, and it's really loud.
Anyway, this time I actuallysaw enough about my husband.
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Yes, so it's going to be coldin Japan.
I've got all the gear.
There's a couple of extralittle nuggets I need to buy,
and then I'm ready.
So I leave Australia on the 3rdof March, so three weeks away,
yes, and I come back on the 12thof March.
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So, mate, I am frothing.
Everyone hates that, say it'skind of annoying, but it's kind
of cool.
I'm super pumped, I can't wait.
I've got three weeks back atwork, which you know I'm kind of
like, know that whole thingthat I've talked about in the
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past, not wishing the time awayand trying to be more present.
So I have that in my mind, butat the same time I'm like how
the fuck am I going to be ableto concentrate on work when all
I want to think about is Japan,japan, I don't know what that
was, anyway.
So, mate, I'm going to fuckingJapan.
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I'm super pumped, can't wait, Iwill.
This is not a conundrum, it'snot that extreme, but you know,
I am a kind of, I am the kind ofperson where I really do like,
when I go somewhere, even thoughI'm at home, you know, I might
take a picture, yada, yada.
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When I'm somewhere new, I wantto just experience the newness.
I don't want to be on myfucking phone taking pictures of
the newness.
So I am already like thinking,you know, because I want to, I
don't know.
For me it's such a well, I knowI'm going to go there again.
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I already know that, unless youknow.
No, actually, I know I'm goingto go.
I don't know what I'm saying.
I will definitely be going again, but what I'm trying to spit
out is I just want to be in themoment.
At the same time, though, Iwant to record the moment, but I
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don't want to be stuck in therecord mode.
I just want to be present inthe present, while I'm there,
while I'm there.
So there's that and just being.
You know that fine dancebetween just, you know, taking a
picture for the sake of takinga picture and just living in the
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moment and being in the moment.
So there's that.
I know the time, unfortunately,will probably past really
quickly.
So I again like thinking outloud, just want to absorb it all
in and just live in that.
So yeah, I'm super excited, I'mtrying to, not, I mean, there's
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things I want to do in Tokyo andI've got basically one day to
do them, because the travel, theyou know time, like the 10 days
, is going to go super fast andwhich is good because I'm going
to see lots of things all atonce.
But I'm also aware that for me,I probably could just have a
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whole week in Tokyo, to behonest, or two weeks in Tokyo.
So that's probably somethingthat I will plan for.
My next trip is just going toone place, which I was thinking
of doing anyway until I decidedon the whole trip, a deal thing,
which that's the company I'mgoing on this trip with, because
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, being my first trip to Japan,I probably want a little bit of
a safety net and that's mysafety net.
So once I've been, I know whatit's like.
I'm confident to say that I'llprobably then just choose a
place to stay in, like for aweek or two weeks solely without
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going anywhere else, so I canreally absorb that place, and I
know Tokyo will definitely beone of those places.
So, yeah, being mindful of thelimited time, I have somewhere
like that and what I want to doand, you know, already trying to
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plan out a little bit of a planof attack prior to getting
there, kyoto being the otherplace that you know, I think, on
the tour that I'm on, insteadof me actually going on one of
the day trips that they provide,I'm going to have or you can
use that as a you know a freeday going to have, or you can
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use that as a you know, a freeday.
Um, so my my second day.
So I land on the monday eveningof the third into tokyo.
So the second day of the tripis a free day.
You can also, if you want to,they have a tour on that day,
but I'm going to treat that as afree day because I just want to
do my own shit.
There's also the same kind ofthing, but in Kyoto as well.
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So, depending on how I'm feelingand how I'm traveling, I might
go on one of their day tripsthat they offer.
I might not as well, I mightjust do my own thing.
So there's that, because I knowthat.
Not that I don't want to go ona day trip, it's more that I
just want to have the experienceof winging it and, yeah, seeing
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what that feels like.
So at least I have some room todo that.
So, yeah, I have everythingready to go.
I know what I need to do priorto leaving, as in Australia, and
a couple of forms that I needto fill out and, like I said,
you know, I've got my bag andI've got my clothes and I've got
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my passport and all that kindof good stuff.
And, yeah, I just these threeweeks.
I know that I'm going back towork tomorrow, but honestly, I'm
just my mind is trying to notburst at the thought of going to
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Japan in three weeks' time.
So, yeah, there's that.
I'm super pumped, super excited.
And it's not the only trip thatI have this year.
I still have the trip bookedfor Bali as well, which I still
need to book flights for.
By the way, I have the tripalready booked, which is great
in accommodation.
I just need to book flights toget there.
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So I need to do that.
That's in the 3rd of August,another three.
3rd of August Again, I'll talkabout that trip closer, because
right now all I can think aboutis Japan, japan, japan, japan.
I'm just yeah, it's.
And I think I've mentioned thisin the past when I've always
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wanted to go to Japan for a verylong time.
When I was turning 50, I saidto myself that for my 50th I
wanted to go to Japan.
It didn't happen.
Things don't happen sometimesas they do didn't happen.
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Things don't happen sometimesas they do.
And I was still decided adamantis probably the word I'm
looking for that I'm going toJapan, full stop.
It's happening.
So, yes, I took a bit longerthan I thought it would take,
but now, two years later, I'mgoing and yeah it's.
I think I, I know I'm going andstill I think I said this to my
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husband the other day thatthere's still that.
I don't know, maybe because it'ssuch a big lifelong dream of
mine to be going to Japan that Ijust haven't allowed my full
consciousness to expand to thefact that I'm actually going.
So I don't blow my load.
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Yeah, probably wrong term, butpretty much that.
Yeah, I just.
You know, you still got to workand you still got to do life
and all the rest of the shitthat you got to do.
You know what I mean.
But yeah, I, I just want totake the next three weeks to
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just acknowledge and startliving in the I don't know in
the essence of mate.
I'm going to Japan, mate.
This is my lifelong dream to dothis.
So, yeah, it's a lot.
And the other thing is that Iwas a bit unsure about this and
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the more I think about it, themore I'm like and I haven't put
a lot of thought.
I'm not going to say this ismore an idea or an ideal than an
actual.
This is truly happening is thatI actually want to do a podcast
in Japan.
I want to record in Japan, soI'm going to make that happen.
There's obviously stuff I needto sort out, like recording
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equipment that I will take overwith me to do the recording.
It will probably be that I'llbe recording on my phone, yet I
don't know.
It's just I'm inspired to dothat, mate, and look, I know
then, moving forward, that, yes,it might all turn to shit and
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it might sound a bit crappy, butit will also help me with my
next trip, because I certainlydo want to do a podcast on my
next trip as well, what thatlooks like and what that feels
like and what that, moreimportantly, sounds like.
But, yeah, how could I not, howcould I not do a podcast in
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Japan, in Japan?
So, yeah, that's, I'm shootingfor that as well.
So, just because I like to dothat, I'm aiming for that as
well, which I'm super pumpedabout.
So there's a couple of things Ineed to get sorted out for that
, to make that a reality and tobe comfortable in doing that.
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So I will sort that out becauseI want to make that a reality.
I'm slapping my hand in thebackground.
It's kind of a quick drink,drink break, drink break.
Yeah, I want to make that areality as well.
So, yeah, there's that.
And then, yeah, before you knowit, then you know and I don't
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actually you know what I wasgoing to say then, before you
know it, you're back at work andlife goes on.
I'm not even going to go there.
I was going to go there and I'mnot.
I'm going to say to myself thatI've got three weeks to get, to
go, to get there, to get towhere I'm going Japan.
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In the meantime, I'm just goingto open up my consciousness, my
mind, my heart, my everything,to the excitement, the
exhilaration, the prospects, allof the above, to achieving and
achieving and actuallyexperiencing a massive life
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achievement which is going toJapan.
And I'm joking.
And then, yeah, what does thatlook like?
You know, I'll think about therest, Whatever comes.
Whatever comes may bethereafter have a trip in July
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August, not July.
Well, pretty much August.
Well, it is the August, notpretty much August.
It is the 3rd of August.
To that though, um, there isgoing to be greater
conversations around.
I know my work, what I want todo, where I want to go moving
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forward.
Do I even want to do that?
What do I want?
What do I motherfucking want?
So there's these kind ofconversations that I will have
in the not too distant future,but for now, I'm just going to
relish the fact that I have atrip to my life.
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One of my lifelong destinations,egypt, is another one.
There's another place I sawtoday which, doing my head in,
you know, I don't know if you'vedone this.
Once you've actually come tothe point where you go yeah, I'm
doing this and I'm booking mydream destination you're like
where else can I go?
Where else can I fucking go?
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Egypt is a place that I'vealways wanted to go.
I'm not going to lie, I don'tknow if I'll ever get there, one
of the reasons being my husbanddoes not want me to go, which I
understand the reasoning behindthat.
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The other place which I sawtoday and I saw a YouTube video
was this resort in Saudi Arabia,and I know if I was to say to
my husband I'm going to SaudiArabia, he'd be like fuck, you
aren't, you are not going.
He'd probably tie me to the bed.
I don't know, it's clearly veryexpensive.
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I don't know if that'll happen,but, mate, I saw this resort.
You fucking blew my mind.
Uh, if you follow me oninstagram, I instagram to post
on it.
It's this uh sick resort inbloody.
Where was it?
I don't know somewhere, I justit was.
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I don't know.
If you see something sometimeson Instagram and you're like is
that real?
And you're like that can't bereal, and you realise it is the
Shibara Resort.
Sorry, she, shibara resort,sorry, uh, shibara, shibara,
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s-h-e-b-r-b-a-r-a.
It's in saudi arabia, but, bythe way, in the red sea, um, yep
, I, I'm, I'm telling you rightnow.
I saw it and I had an immediatevisceral reaction needs to go,
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I don't know.
So, yeah, just what do you want?
What do I want?
You know what do I want?
You know for a lot of the timein my mind, and I have watched
many videos and I think this isagain, this is probably an age
thing, to be honest, or it couldbe.
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Just, you know, you get to acertain point in your life and
then you just, well, again,that's an age thing, isn't it?
You just start examiningeverything deeper, and or you
mightn't, but I do you knowpurpose, what do you want?
What am I here for?
All this kind of good shit andyou know a lot of it is why are
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we doing this?
You, you know, just ride it,baby, just ride the wave and see
what happens.
Or working out, you know, ortrying to ascertain what your
fucking purpose is, and thenaiming for that, or trying to
explore what that is, or what doyou want, and then working out
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what you actually want not whatyou're doing, but what you
actually want to do and thengoing for it.
So, yeah, I can.
Just the door's been opened.
It's strange because now thedoor is open and I'm walking in.
It's kind of like that.
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You know what it is.
I'm trying to describe it toyou so you understand what I'm
saying, because it's in my mind,not in my words.
When you finally come to a placewhere you go, you know, this is
what I want to do and youactually own that.
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And then you make it happen andthen you in your if you want to
, in your mind's eye, mind's eye, close your eyes, if you need
to visualising a door and youstepping through it, and just
before you're about to stepthrough, so you're in the arch
of the door and there's likethat line, but often it's an
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invisible line, like there canbe a physical line on the floor.
But if I was to say to you it'sreally an invisible line that
only you see, no one else sees,really only you see, no one else
sees, really only you see.
And you go to move forward andit's like an invisible force
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field that, as human beings,we've created as a self-barrier
to not be comfortable with juststepping through gracefully with
all like that's what I'mfeeling at the moment.
It's a bit weird.
It's kind of like that's weirdbecause I'm just like I made
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this Because if you don't know,yeah, you might recognize the
wording, the wording I'm in thedoorway and I'm stepping through
and it's electric.
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It's an invisible force that Iactually physically feel as I
speak about it and instead of mepushing against the force, I
want to be enveloped by theforce.
I don't know if you understandwhat I'm putting down right now.
You might be like what the fuckare you talking about?
Amanda, I'm saying to you thatfor most of my life I really
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haven't been in a place where Ican just think that I could be
enveloped by this, that there'salways going to be some
invisible barrier that as I gothrough the door or look out the
window, I'm going to bang myhead on the window or, you know,
I go to step through the doorand I'm going to trip and
fucking break my leg.
Do you know what I mean?
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I just fucking break my leg.
Do you know what I mean?
I just I'm now at, and now I'mat the door and I'm moving
through the door and I want tohave that sense of envelopment
and forward momentum, but with,I know, a feeling of love and
encapsulation.
I don't know why that word cameto mind.
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Yeah, that's what I want tofeel and yeah, I want to feel
encapsulated by what I've gotyou know what I've got and just
being comfortable in that andthen just walking through, not
feeling like I'm at the door andI'm about to step, and by step,
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I can feel that invisiblebarrier and I can feel the
energy, and the energy is like,no like, but that energy is what
I've created.
I have created that.
I mean it mightn't be all of it, I'm not that powerful.
It could be where there is thatforce that stops me for my own
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safety and wellbeing.
I'm sure that's part of it.
I'm probably now moving intothe supernatural.
I'm already there, we'realready there.
We're already there.
But, yeah, it's just that Iwant to move through the door
and feel, just feel it and justlet it and just let it grab me
(01:02:36):
and take me, not fight it, andthat's probably a bit of the
feelings that I'm trying totraverse.
I'm coming up with somecrackers today Traverse, I love
that English language.
Yeah, they are some of thefeelings I'm experiencing,
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physically and mentally feelingright now.
So, yes, I look forward verymuch to just settling feeling
and letting go and just lettingit take me and being safe.
In that I am prepared.
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So I've got nothing to beafraid of.
I really don't.
I do not have anything to beafraid of.
I've done all my homework, I'mready.
I just need to convince myselfthat I'm ready in my mind and
that also leads into life.
Do you know what I mean.
It just also leads into thislife moving forward, into my
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life, moving forward, that I amready and, yeah, there's been
versions of readiness and,depending on you know my
circumstances, what I've broughtand what I haven't.
But yeah, yeah, I'm now readyand I'm eager and excited and
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exhilarated and hopeful and,yeah, honored, and yeah, I can't
wait.
I can't wait to see the snowmonkeys.
I'm hoping truly, apart fromsnowing in Tokyo, I'm
manifesting that shit.
I want it to snow in Tokyo.
I want it to snow in Tokyowhile I'm there.
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I know something about it in myheart of hearts, feeling it,
and I also, when I I don't knowbecause I don't think I can, but
I think I can go to pools thatare near snow monkeys.
Actually, I'm not swimming withthe snow, like I won't be like,
ooh, breaststroking with thesnow monkeys, but with the hot
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pools and everything that I'llbe in a hot pool there and I'm
just, I'm naked and living mybest life, mate, one with nature
, as God intended.
Now, apparently, I don't know.
Do I believe in God?
I don't know.
This is a discussion for anotherday, as was attended.
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I don't know why I'm excusingmyself now that, yeah, it's just
, I can't wait.
I'm so excited.
I can't wait to just have somesake and eat a delicious bowl of
ramen in fucking Japan.
Yeah, I can't wait.
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I look forward to the weeks tocome prior to my trip.
I look forward to talking youtalking with you, talking you
talking with you about thingsthat I love to talk about.
So you may have noticed that onInstagram, I really decided I
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don't know, not that I'm notauthentic.
I just want to be just morejust me.
I don't want to have thispodcast be a place where I feel
like I have to sell myself toyou or have people follow me or
not you know or understand who Iam or not.
(01:06:30):
This is just me doing a podcastand talking about stuff that I
want to talk about.
The end If it's something thatyou like, then awesome, two
thumbs up.
If it's something you don't,then don't listen.
It's really now, probably aspart of my mental mind state, et
(01:06:57):
cetera, that I'm like you knowwhat this is it?
Again, I think I've gone tothis question before and people
have asked me this questionwhat's your podcast about, and
I've tried to make it more.
Sometimes, in my answers topeople who don't know me at all,
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I've tried to make it moreexciting or make it seem more
important than it actually is.
So a good example of that iswhen I say oh, yeah, it's about
beauty and makeup, oh, and aboutquantum physics, like you know,
to try and make myself seemsmarter than I am, or not.
Do you know what the podcast isjust about?
What the fuck I want to talkabout?
Okay, that's it.
The podcast is just about whatI want to talk about.
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One day it might be aboutbeauty and makeup.
One day it might be abouttequila.
One day it might be aboutbeauty and makeup.
One day it might be abouttequila.
One day it might be about Japan.
That's it.
It's nothing more and nothingless.
Sometimes I might talk aboutquantum physics, or developing
an Apple application, orcreating my own app, or creating
my own lipstick makeup line, orit could be about me writing a
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novel, or it could be about mewriting a novel, and it could be
about me writing music.
And you know, it's just it.
That's it.
If you're interested inlistening to what I am putting
down, then you can listen tothis podcast anytime.
Segue to this podcast anytime.
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Segue via Spotify or ApplePodcasts.
With the Tequila Hour.
I also am on Instagram, theTequila Hour page.
I also have my own personalpage being the underscore one
underscore, amanda.
You can contact me anytimeanytime I know bizarre Find my
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email address, which is info atthetequilahourcomau.
So thank you for those who dotake the fucking time to listen
to my podcast.
I actually do really appreciateit.
This has been how many yearsnow I'm still chugging along.
I will chug along for the restof time.
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I was going to say I'm going tomove to Japan when I'm in Japan
.
No, look, this could happen.
Honestly, I have thoughts in mymind about moving to Japan,
like, I don't know how that'sgoing to go, being married, but
I don't know.
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Yeah, that's a conversation foranother day.
But thank you to those who docontinually download this
podcast, who've put up with myramblings, who probably like
what the fuck are you talkingabout?
And all of the above.
I do actually really appreciateit.
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Like I said, you can reach outto me anytime via that email,
which is info atthetokillhourcomau, and you know
what.
I'm going to catch you nextSunday, so I'll see you.
Well, you won't see me.
Well, if I take a pictureyou'll see me, but you will hear
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me always.
Have a good one, see yano-transcript.
You know what?
Let's just get into it.
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ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha haha ha Ha ha ha ha ha, ha, ha,
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, haHa um yep um, well, hello and
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welcome to the Tequila Hour.
My name is Amanda.
That's a smash pad.
I don't know what date is.
It's Sunday, I know that much.
Let me check.
Look, I know it's Sunday.
The date I mean.
You know I will catch upeventually.
You know I will catch upeventually.
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The date today is the 9th ofFebruary.
I was going to say January.
I've only had one drink.
I promise it's the 9th ofFebruary.
It is 2025.
This is the Tequila Hour.
You will catch up and so will IWelcome.
If this is your first timelistening to this podcast,
you're probably wondering shouldI stop listening?
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And I say no, just wait, justwait.
Eventually I will get my shittogether and I will sound like I
know what I'm doing.
Until then, enjoy the ride.
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Oh, I don't know why I'mlaughing so much.
Anyway, it's been a while.
I keep saying this.
Every time I do a motherfuckingpodcast, I keep saying it's
been a while and it has.
When did I release my lastpodcast?
Let me just check for you.
The 19th of January.
Oh, do I have that?
Is this much bad?
Let me see.
Um, I should have it because itsounds really good.
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No, I don't think it's that oneum no, it could be that one.
No, uh, now I'm gettingdistracted by my smash pad.
Your call is very important tous.
Please hold it is.
I'm not going to get distractedby my road, even though it's
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beautiful.
Let's just get into.
Let's get into this podcasttoday.
Hello everybody, yes, the titleof this podcast, it's not a word
, it's just a number, the numberbeing 52.
You might be like, if you'venever listened to this podcast
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before, you'd be like 52?
Is that the meaning of theuniverse?
If you know what I'm talkingabout, I think the meaning of
the universe was number 47 or 41.
Anyway, getting distracted.
If you are not aware, 52 is mynew age, so I've just celebrated
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a birthday.
Wait, stop, I'm already into itand I haven't.
No, this is very rude.
How rude of me.
I haven't done any.
You know what?
Motherfucking admin, let's go.
That's right.
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This is the Tequila Hour.
My name is Amanda.
Like I said, apparently it isthe 9th of February 2025.
What is the agenda today?
So, number one, I'm going togive a quick catch up of what
I've been doing between my lastpodcast, what Really Matters,
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which was released on the 19thof January, up to today's date,
which was released on the 19thof January up to today's date.
I'm going to then talk aboutanother famous person Now, I'm
assuming I'm famous and I'm notIn my own mind.
I am Another famous person bornon my birthday, being the 27th
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of January.
Yeah, applaud that shit.
Oh, I'm going to.
Yeah, yes, yeah, turning orturning or turned.
I am right now, not earlier.
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Well, I was earlier, but priorto the 27th I wasn't.
I was 51.
Now I am 52.
What does that look like?
Pretty much what I looked likebefore, except my hair is
shorter.
What do I plan for the future?
Big questions.
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Will I have a plan?
Maybe I don't.
Maybe I'm just talking it outright now on this podcast.
Look, today it's just an easybreezy cover girl thing.
We're just going to have aquick catch up.
We're going to chill.
You're going to probably listento me ramble and then ramble
some more.
I'm going to talk about thefamous person who was also born
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on my birthday, but many, manyyears earlier, even centuries
earlier, than myself, and then,finally, I'm going to talk about
future endeavors and what's tocome.
So if that is something thatinterests you and you like
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listening to the diltic tones ofmy voice, then please keep
listening and, yeah, we'll getinto it.
So let's go.
I'm in a very laugh mood, maybebecause I'm feeling
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uncomfortable because I haven'tbloody done podcast.
Anyway, enough about me, me, me.
So first discussion or topic ofdiscussion today is what's been
happening.
So last podcast was the 19th ofJanuary.
In the meantime I had mybirthday, which was the 27th of
January.
It was a Monday.
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It was a public holiday inAustralia, lucky for me, yay.
So Australia granted me a dayoff.
Thank you, and you should thankme.
No, australia Day was on the26th of January.
If you're not Australian, youmight know that.
But yes, the 26th of January isAustralia Day.
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It was a Sunday.
It fell on, so therefore thepublic holiday is a monday.
So that was my birthday beingthe 27th.
I worked that week.
It was a hectic three weeksprior, yep.
And then I moved.
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I moved into a well-earned weekoff, yay For me.
I had a weekend at FosterTancari.
If you're not Australian, youprobably wouldn't know I live in
New South Wales.
Foster is approximately a bitover two hours from where I live
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in New South Wales, in a secretlocation which I'm pretty sure
I've told you where that is,which I think.
I then deleted the.
Anyway, I'll tell you again inthe future.
No, so I went to Foster Tunkerwith my husband, had a great
weekend, basically Saturday,sunday, monday, then had a week
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off.
It is now the Sunday, the lastday of my day of freedom, and I
go back to the grind tomorrow.
So, yes, we all need to work Ido if I want to achieve the
goals that I want to achieve,being traveling, more traveling,
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more traveling.
You know what?
Yeah, travel, it's a lot.
It's a lot on my mind at themoment.
I do have a big trip coming upvery soon, in three weeks, which
I will talk about in a second,but first I want to touch on my
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birthday.
So my birthday was prettylow-key this year.
I think it was a warm day.
I pretty much floated aroundour backyard pool, had a couple
of drinks, just relaxed.
Mate, I think I don't know, youmay or may not feel the same,
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but when you now I feel reallyold by saying this statement.
But when you get to a certainage in your life, you know
you're not going to the Ivy andshooting up coke.
That's not what I was doing.
I probably shouldn't have saidthat.
No, look, you're not partying.
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All right, you might be, youmight be doing shit you
shouldn't be doing.
For me, it's just, it was a dayoff to relax and have a couple
of drinks and unwind and I wasgoing to say rewind that's not
the word unwind and just chill,and that's what I did and it was
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fantastic.
When I talk about you know gifts, because if you know me and
listen to this podcast, I lovegetting gifts.
I'm not going to lie.
Who doesn't like a present?
Like cut the shit, you know,unless you're one of these rich
motherfuckers who haveeverything and it's your
birthday and you don't get apresent and you don't care.
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Well, good on you.
But for me, give me the love,give me the gifts.
Love means gifts.
Love equals gift on you.
But for me, give me the love,give me the gifts.
Love means gifts, love equalsgive.
Uh, that didn't happen.
Oh, actually I lied.
I did get one gift, which wasoh, no, now I'm telling
porcupines, I've got two.
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I got a gift voucher for uh,what do you call it?
A place called frontlinehobbies which is, as the name
suggests, a hobby store locatedin newcastle 100 bucks, I don't
know what that was.
No, noise, I don't know whatthat noise was.
Just, I don't have a chichingsmash band, uh, yes.
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So I got that.
I haven't spent it yet.
Probably should.
I think I'm gonna buy.
Well, I'm not, I don't think Iknow, I'll buy some lego
eventually with that.
And I also got a bottle of amazeperfume from my husband,
because he knows me so well.
Uh, I don't know it's, I don'tknow the name.
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I probably could look it up,but the keynote is rhubarb.
It's mate, if you know me atall, love perfume, have a pretty
good collection.
I love all things amaze.
Uh, I have a lot of Amez makeupand some jewelry pieces.
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But I'm just going to say nowand I'm pretty sure I've said
this in the past Amez perfume isunderrated.
It really is underrated, in myopinion.
I don't hear anyone talkingabout it.
Maybe they think it's toohoity-toity.
I don't hear anyone talkingabout it.
Maybe they think it's toohoity-toity, I don't know.
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I mean, we all know a mess isexpensive.
I'm telling you right now theyhave some beautiful perfumes,
well-priced, and one of thembeing this Rhubarb.
I don't know the name, I'll putit in the description for you,
but it has a note of Rhubarb.
Now I tell you, I am tellingyou, not telling you, but it has
a note of rhubarb.
Now I tell you.
I am telling you, not tellingyou, I am telling you right now,
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mate, it's beautiful, I love it.
It's feminine, leaning, it'sfresh.
I know it's just a great, easy,bright, kind of weird kind of
floral, I don't know.
It's just nice.
For me, who normally lives inthe dark side of town with
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leather draping all over theirbodies, or oud, it's a light
perfume which I really enjoy.
So I got that.
What my husband also has doneis he has kindly saved some
money for my upcoming trip.
So, uh, he's giving me thatwhich, he's going to give me
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that very soon because I'm goingaway very soon, and he's also
going to pay for my which whichis kind of boring but actually
very well needed a CPAP travelmachine.
So, if you didn't know, I havesleep apnea and I use a machine
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every night and because I'mtraveling, he has kindly offered
to buy me the travel version ofmy machine, which I'm very
grateful for because it'slighter than the one I'll be
taking, which I use now.
So, yeah, there's that.
So, all in all, presents, toptier, right Didn't get a lot but
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top tier.
Very happy Birthday done anddusted.
I'm trying to think my mood, soI don't know.
I've been in a very strange.
No, I haven't actually.
I was gonna say I've been in astrange headspace.
I haven't.
I have been a lot in my head,as I normally am if you know me
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anywhere, everywhere all at onceI have really been conscious of
getting out of my head and justrelaxing and just letting be
what be and going with the flowand all of the above.
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So, yeah, there's been a lot ofthat happening, trying to, you
know, still follow a path ofwanting to learn more about
self-development and you know meas a person and to grow and
what I want to achieve in mylife, and the skills and skill
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sets and all that kind of goodshit you need.
If that's something that youaspire to, it also ties into,
you know, that overlap of lifework as well, and there's also
then, then, what I want toachieve, deliver, embrace,
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experience and all of that.
So, yeah, there's a lot of thatgoing on at the moment in my
mind and trying to like not getcarried away with too much over
analysis, which I tend to do,which I tend to do, and, yeah,
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so for me, you know, I quicklymentioned in my last podcast
that my work was going to behectic not hectic, but probably
more stressful than normal.
That time has passed.
I mean, I had three weeks and I, as I, stepped into a different
role and then, like I mentioned, I had a glorious weekend in
Foster and if you're inAustralia and you live in New
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South Wales and you haven't beento Foster, you're doing
yourself a disservice, may I sayyou just go.
It's a beautiful, stunning,beautiful place on this planet.
Uh, foster, uh, tancari, newsouth wales go, just go, it's
just great.
Stayed in a cabin, reasonablypriced, went snorkeling.
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The sea was warm, but not toowarm.
Temperature was beautifularound, I know, between 28 and
31 degrees.
The weekend was just great.
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So to then have a week off whereI've had a bit of space on my
own, where I've pretty much donefuck all, I'll be honest, which
is nice and my apologies.
I now have a runny nose,probably because I'm talking a
lot Seems to happen.
Wait, I'm just going to have arunny nose, probably because I'm
talking a lot Seems to happen.
Wait, I'm just going to have aquick sip of my drink Drink
break.
First, one Drink break, drinkbreak.
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Yes, I'm drinking tequila, bythe way, don Julio Blunkle, I
don't know why I said it likethat.
Anyway, yes, just had a weekoff, did fuck all.
It's been fantastic.
Watched a bit of YouTube, a bitmore YouTube.
You know I did some choresaround the house, the usual yada
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, yada shit.
I was going to read some of thebooks that I've acquired
recently I've decided that mostof those books will probably
take to me.
Take to me a couple of thosenovels, fictional novels,
non-fiction yeah, non-fiction,sorry.
I will take with me to Japan,and that's what I'll talk about
(18:55):
in a second, because that'sapproaching super fast.
And yeah, I just took the timejust to downtime.
Just to fucking downtime, mate,not to overanalyze, not to try
and plan my life's purpose,which I seem to be drawn to more
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and more as I get older.
And I don't know, I don't knowif it's, you know, just thinking
out loud, where you know, again, it's that getting to a certain
age thing where you suddenlyrealise that you need to hurry
the fuck up and get your shitsorted if you haven't already.
Or it's just you know you'reover everything thing G not G,
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yeah, g not okay.
You know you're over everythingthing, not yet, gene, okay.
And you really just want toembrace the things that just
bring you life and purpose.
So for me, this is going to bea cracker year.
I know it's going to be acracker year.
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I'm super pumped.
I'm looking forward to whatlife brings, but what I also
have planned, and with that I'malso then thinking about what I
want to plan for the future.
So I'm just going to quicklystop because I need to grab
another drink.
Drink, drink, drink, drink.
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Yeah, I'm back.
I don't know what that was, Ijust realized just by the way,
I've grabbed a new drink.
I grabbed a water.
I also quickly went to the looand blew my nose.
Look, I'm keeping this shitreal right, this is life.
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If I was on someone else'spodcast, I'd be at 20 minutes
and be like can I go off air?
Because I just need to go tothe loo and grab a drink.
And they'd be like no, that'swhy I have my own podcast.
No, you may hear I don't know,I haven't done any auditory
editing at this point but youmight also hear a whirling in
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the background.
I realized for the start ofthis podcast I've got the fan on
the background so you mighthear that.
So my apologies if you do heara weird whirling.
It's just my ceiling fan,because it's I don't know.
Let's see, the temperature ispretty good here in the secret
location.
Let me tell you what it isright now.
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It is at 3.38 pm in New SouthWales, in Australia, in the
secret location, it is 28.9degrees, feels like 31.8,
apparently.
According to the Bureau ofMeteorology.
Bullshit.
Feels like it's warm.
It is warm, look alive, it'swarm.
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It's good, though, uh, yeah.
So what was I talking about?
Yes, I talked about my birthday.
I talked about the fact that Ihave just had a week off it's
Sunday and looking to the future.
So, yeah, first of all, beforewe get into all that future
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goodness, that's right.
I was going to talk about mybirthday and I was thinking the
other day.
I'm like, you know, I couldtalk about me, me, me, and this
podcast is about me but I couldalso talk about other famous
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people or I keep saying I'mfamous, I'm including myself in
this famousness other people whoare born on the same day as me,
not necessarily the same year.
I was born in 1973.
If you can do the math, youshould have worked it out by now
, because I'm 52.
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And there's one person thatalways comes to mind when I
think about my birthday and Ithink about other people born on
my day.
So the reason why I think ofthis person is I am someone.
I'll put it out there.
I'm not going to talk aboutstar signs today, but if you
were to read a description of anAquarius, that's my star sign,
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by the way, textbook, that's meall right, I could be on the
edge of different ones, maybe,but not really.
No, I'm a true Aquarian and Ihave to say one of the things
that always oh no, right nowit's bringing a smile to my face
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is, if you read star signs anddescriptions of star signs, they
often say and now I'm going totoot my own, why am I so nervous
about this that Aquarius arethe most intelligent sign.
I'm calling it the mostintelligent sign of the Zodiac.
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All right, we are trailblazers,right.
If you need shit done, we'redoing it.
If you need a muse, I'm in.
Apparently, that's true Genius.
The word genius comes to mindSavant, even the savant, would I
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say.
I was savant.
Let's the tequila's now talking?
No, I'm not a savant, notprobably a genius either, but
maybe no.
A genius either, but maybe no.
But this person.
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When I think of my birthday andI think of famous people born on
my birthday, this one person,mate, shits over me, not
literally.
Classic, amazing, phenomenal,wow this.
If you, yeah, who is it?
You'd be like.
Who is that?
Classic, amazing, phenomenal,wow this.
If you, yeah, who is it?
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You'd be like.
Who is that?
It's not an actress, it's notan actor.
It is the one, the only mostfamous person born on my and
this is a phenomenal person, bythe way, wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
, bam Drop the way.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, bamDropped the mic.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Now, if you don't know who,that is fucking shame on you.
Clearly, I just think ofclassical music.
All right, close your eyes ifyou need to.
I'm doing that right now.
He's a composer.
Oh, he was a composer.
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He's dead, of course.
He was born on the 27th ofJanuary 1756.
17, 17, that's right, not 21,1756.
I'm going to read this offWikipedia.
I mean, I could read this offWikipedia.
I mean I could read it offother sites as well, when we're
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talking about this legend of aperson.
But I don't know, for me, Ilove music.
Yeah, I just I'm not.
You know, I'm not impartial toall genres.
I'm not going to say Iabsolutely hate one genre
against another.
I'm an open book.
I'm happy to listen to anythingand everything.
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I don't shit on anything,because music's music, I love,
music, I love.
I was going to say composing.
I haven't composed anything,but I will.
Maybe I could channel Wolfgangbecause we're born on the same
day, years apart.
I don't know.
But Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartlegend, may I say, was a
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prolific and influentialcomposer of the classical period
, despite his short life now hislife.
He was born on the 27th 27th1756.
He died on the 5th of december1791, so he was aged 35.
Is that right?
Yes, it was 35, so he was young.
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I'm 52, right?
So he died.
He had short life.
Despite his short life, hisrapid pace of composition and
proficiency from an early ageresulted in more than 800 works
representing virtually everywestern classical genre of his
time.
Legend.
Many of these compositions areacknowledged as pinnacles of the
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symphonic, concerti, chamber,operatic and choral repertoire.
These are big words.
Mozart is widely regarded asone of the greatest composers in
the history of Western music,with his music admired for its
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melodic beauty, its formalelegance and its richness of
harmony and texture.
Whoever wrote this glorious?
You know old Wolfie, as we knowhim, that was his nickname.
Born in Salzburg, salzburg,mozart showed prodigious.
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Prodigious, is that how you saythe word?
Prodigious, yes, ability fromhis earliest childhood.
At age five, he was alreadycompetent on keyboard and violin
, had begun to compose andperformed before European
royalty.
Fuck yeah, his father took himon a grand tour of Europe and
then three trips to Italy.
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At 17, he was a musician at theSalzburg Court but grew
restless, aquarian and travelledin search of a better position.
Mozart's search for employmentled him to positions in Paris,
mannheim, munich and again inSalzburg, during which he wrote
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his five violin concertosSinfonia, concertante I'm
butchering this, my apologiesand Concerto for Flute and Harp.
I don't know why I said that.
The harps, it's magical as wellas sacred pieces and masses,
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the Motete Exaltate, jubilate.
Oh no, I'm butchering this.
Now, whilst visiting in viennain 1781, mozart was dismissed,
was dismissed from his salzburgposition.
He stayed in vienna where heachieved fame but little
financial security.
During mozart's early years invienna, he produced several
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notable works, such as the operaDie.
I'm not going to pronounce that.
There's a lot of symphoniesgoing on.
Throughout his Vienna years,mozart composed over a dozen
piano concertos.
Many consider some of hisgreatest achievements.
In the final years of his life,mozart wrote many of his
best-known works, including hislast three symphonies,
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culminating in the JupiterSymphony, the Serenade, four
operas and his Requiem.
The Requiem was largelyunfinished at the time of his
death.
What is the requiem?
His death at the age of 35, thecircumstances, which are
uncertain and much mythologized.
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Hmm, interesting.
I could go on.
I'm just going to say I, yeah,I've listened to some of his
music.
It's just mind-blowing.
I was just.
I typed in probably one of hismost famous symphonies, if
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you've listened to classicalmusic at all.
So it's Symphony no 40 in Gminor, k.
Yeah, that's it.
Yes, g minor.
Symphony number 40 in g minor.
Is that right?
Yes, thank you.
And even now, if I was to playyou something and hopefully I
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don't have any issues with meplaying this, as in copyright,
you will recognise this.
Let me see if you can hear it.
Oh, here we go.
No, I don't want to play that.
What just happened?
then, Did you hear that this isdone by the Desert Drummers and
(32:01):
the Salih Bar use of Symphony no40, mozart in 7th octave, and a
Moroccan rhythm.
I'll put in the link in thedescription on YouTube if this
video is coming from.
Okay, I'm getting lost in themusic, mate.
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If, if you don't recognise thatthat's Mozart, that's fucking
Wolfie.
I need a nickname like Wolfie.
No, I can't think of one, mate,what, what Aren't we truly
(32:47):
blessed to have that in ourlives?
I'm sorry, it's just phenomenalClassical music.
If you're just listening tofucking Carly B, no shade on
Carly B, but just do yourselfsome favours and, just for once
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in your life, if you're onSpotify, listen to some fucking
classical music for an afternoonand don't tell me that you
would not be inspired and movedand motivated after listening to
some bloody Mozart or someBeethoven.
I just mate a very, very, very,very, very long time ago, I used
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to play the piano.
I played the drums.
I still play the drums and nota not, not a lot, not a not, not
enough.
But, and I play the French hornand I play the other thing.
We won't talk about my musicalpast.
I love music.
I love playing a musicalinstrument.
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It's classical music, mate.
Those are my legend.
So I am truly honoured reallyto share a birthday.
I'm not joking, I am honored tobe sharing a birthday with
someone as phenomenal, manyyears apart.
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Yes, I know Someone likeWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, wolfie
to me and his friends, and yeah,so listen to some bloody Mozart
this afternoon if you want tojust check out the sublimeness,
the eloquence.
I mean at 17, he was creatingthese symphonies and you know,
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like, imagine if he lived to 60,what he would have done.
I don't know.
It's just clearly a genius,clearly probably a savant Not
wish I, wish I was, but he is.
And yeah, what a phenomenalperson.
So, truly, yeah, when I thinkof my birthday and I think of
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people who were born on mybirthday and you know, I don't
know if you ever do this or youever thought about this, where
you know there's that questionaround oh, if you could
interview someone, who would youinterview?
Or if you could meet someonewho's now passed away, who could
that be?
Or you know those kind oftopics of conversations after
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you've moved from small talkwith new friends, then yeah, for
me, mate, you'd have to meethim.
You'd have to meet the personwho, a person who was born in
the same day as you, and arethey like you in any way?
I don't know, I don't think hewould be like me, but he could
be.
No, I don't compose music,unfortunately, but I could, and
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yeah, it's just fascinating.
So, yeah, I don't know thatwhole conversation about, like,
who would you like to meet orwho would you want to speak to.
If you could speak to someone,they could be alive or they
could be dead.
So for me, he'd have to be.
He is on, not have to be.
He is on the list.
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I definitely, yeah, I'd have toknow what he was like.
Anyway, so, yeah, mozart, checkme out, just listen to some
classical music.
Do yourself a favor, get someenrichment in your life, if you
haven't done so already.
So now, next topic ofconversation.
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I'm just going to have a quicksip of my drink Drink break.
That was short Drink break.
Oh, that was so nice.
Take, the job Is.
I've had my birthday, we'regoing back to work, the future
is nigh, the future is now now,yes, so let's move into what's
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happening in three weeks.
Let's get into it in threeweeks time.
And I still and I'll talk aboutthis too, because I keep saying
this to myself and I'mwondering why I'm doing this.
Actually, I'm going to Japan.
It's happening.
I'm going to fucking Japan inthree weeks.
I am beside myself withexcitement.
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Probably I'm trying to containmy excitement.
Maybe that's the issue, Idon't't know.
Maybe because I am scared andanxious and excited all at the
same time.
But I'm going to motherfuckingJapan and I cannot wait.
So I've pretty much goteverything I need to get.
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There's a couple of extrathings I need to purchase.
I need to get a couple of AppleAirTags.
I think there's a Bluetooththing I need so that I can use
my own earphones like my AppleiPods on the plane.
Maybe some snacks for the plane.
Pretty much, that's it.
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It I got some yen.
Now I've got some fucking yen.
Yeah, cash, I need a cash thinglike a cash smartphone.
I've got some yen.
I've got all my clothes.
I did that the other day.
I made sure I had a nice winterjacket.
I've got like thermals.
I've got some great walkingshoes.
I've got all the gear like.
I've got like thermals.
I've got some great walkingshoes.
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I've got all the gear Like.
I've got like beanies, becauseit's going to be cold Apparently
in Japan, like.
I mean Tokyo is an example wasthree degrees at the moment.
It's going to be cold.
Okay, it might suddenly warm up.
I doubt it.
I'm hoping I am.
Yes, am I manifesting that Iwant it to snow in tokyo there?
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I don't know.
It would say it sounds cool.
It could be shit, mate.
It's very likely, because I amgoing to see the snow monkeys
that there'll be snow there.
So, yeah, I will be in the snow.
Yes, so I probably need somesnow gloves because I've got
leather gloves, but I probablyneed some little snow gloves for
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my tiny hands so they're notfreezing the fuck off.
But it's going to be cool.
It's 30 degrees right now inAustralia, so think about 3 to
30.
They probably will be like ah,I'm in shock.
I know my husband the other day,when I said to him like it's
like, I think it was minus orsomething.
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Oh, did I tell him that?
No, I think I told him it waseight degrees, anyway, and he's
like oh, it's cold.
And I said, yeah, I know it'scold.
He's like why would you go toJapan when it's cold?
I'm like, I know it's cool.
So, yeah, I'm super pumpedabout that.
I'm super pumped that I'm going, which is weird, that it's
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going to be like it's hot hereor warm, like it's not boiling,
but it's warm to like.
I'm going to be wearing probablymultiple layers of clothing.
So, like the other day, I wentto the shops and I bought from
is it Kathmandu, kathmandu,whatever the clothing store.
I bought a real thick, you knowjacket to wear and I bought
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some other you know jumpers, etcetera to wear, and I bought
some other you know jumpers, etcetera, and not that it was
weird buying them.
But I'm thinking, like in threeweeks' time I'm going to be
wearing this shit because it'sgoing to be freezing.
I'm going to be freezing my assoff, which is just, yeah, it's
a whole thing.
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So there's that Hoping it'sgoing to snow in Tokyo, I don't
know, I don't know.
So there's that Hoping it'sgoing to snow in Tokyo, I don't
know, I don't know, somehow itwould just top off a dream,
anyway, yeah, so there's acouple of things I still need to
do.
I need to because I'm in theprocess of doing this, drafting
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a whole Word document for myhusband so he knows where I am
and, excuse me, hotels that I'mstaying in, yada, yada.
So he has my itinerary, because, if he didn't know, I'm going
on my own on a tour to Japan.
What else?
Oh, my phone's ringing.
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Give me one second and I'm back.
That was my husband.
I turned down my phone becausenormally, if you've heard any of
my podcasts, I always seem torecord at the same time when he
then rings me when he finisheswork, and it's really loud.
Anyway, this time I actuallysaw enough about my husband.
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Yes, so it's going to be coldin Japan.
I've got all the gear.
There's a couple of extralittle nuggets I need to buy,
and then I'm ready.
So I leave Australia on the 3rdof March, so three weeks away,
yes, and I come back on the 12thof March.
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So, mate, I am frothing.
Everyone hates that, say it'skind of annoying, but it's kind
of cool.
I'm super pumped, I can't wait.
I've got three weeks back atwork, which you know I'm kind of
like, know that whole thingthat I've talked about in the
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past, not wishing the time awayand trying to be more present.
So I have that in my mind, butat the same time I'm like how
the fuck am I going to be ableto concentrate on work when all
I want to think about is Japan,japan, I don't know what that
was, anyway.
So, mate, I'm going to fuckingJapan.
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I'm super pumped, can't wait, Iwill.
This is not a conundrum, it'snot that extreme, but you know,
I am a kind of, I am the kind ofperson where I really do like,
when I go somewhere, even thoughI'm at home, you know, I might
take a picture, yada, yada.
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When I'm somewhere new, I wantto just experience the newness.
I don't want to be on myfucking phone taking pictures of
the newness.
So I am already like thinking,you know, because I want to, I
don't know.
For me it's such a well, I knowI'm going to go there again.
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I already know that, unless youknow.
No, actually, I know I'm goingto go.
I don't know what I'm saying.
I will definitely be going again, but what I'm trying to spit
out is I just want to be in themoment.
At the same time, though, Iwant to record the moment, but I
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don't want to be stuck in therecord mode.
I just want to be present inthe present, while I'm there,
while I'm there.
So there's that and just being.
You know that fine dancebetween just, you know, taking a
picture for the sake of takinga picture and just living in the
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moment and being in the moment.
So there's that.
I know the time, unfortunately,will probably past really
quickly.
So I again like thinking outloud, just want to absorb it all
in and just live in that.
So yeah, I'm super excited, I'mtrying to, not, I mean, there's
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things I want to do in Tokyo andI've got basically one day to
do them, because the travel, theyou know time, like the 10 days
, is going to go super fast andwhich is good because I'm going
to see lots of things all atonce.
But I'm also aware that for me,I probably could just have a
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whole week in Tokyo, to behonest, or two weeks in Tokyo.
So that's probably somethingthat I will plan for.
My next trip is just going toone place, which I was thinking
of doing anyway until I decidedon the whole trip, a deal thing,
which that's the company I'mgoing on this trip with, because
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, being my first trip to Japan,I probably want a little bit of
a safety net and that's mysafety net.
So once I've been, I know whatit's like.
I'm confident to say that I'llprobably then just choose a
place to stay in, like for aweek or two weeks solely without
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going anywhere else, so I canreally absorb that place, and I
know Tokyo will definitely beone of those places.
So, yeah, being mindful of thelimited time, I have somewhere
like that and what I want to doand, you know, already trying to
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plan out a little bit of a planof attack prior to getting
there, kyoto being the otherplace that you know, I think, on
the tour that I'm on, insteadof me actually going on one of
the day trips that they provide,I'm going to have or you can
use that as a you know a freeday going to have, or you can
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use that as a you know, a freeday.
Um, so my my second day.
So I land on the monday eveningof the third into tokyo.
So the second day of the tripis a free day.
You can also, if you want to,they have a tour on that day,
but I'm going to treat that as afree day because I just want to
do my own shit.
There's also the same kind ofthing, but in Kyoto as well.
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So, depending on how I'm feelingand how I'm traveling, I might
go on one of their day tripsthat they offer.
I might not as well, I mightjust do my own thing.
So there's that, because I knowthat.
Not that I don't want to go ona day trip, it's more that I
just want to have the experienceof winging it and, yeah, seeing
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what that feels like.
So at least I have some room todo that.
So, yeah, I have everythingready to go.
I know what I need to do priorto leaving, as in Australia, and
a couple of forms that I needto fill out and, like I said,
you know, I've got my bag andI've got my clothes and I've got
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my passport and all that kindof good stuff.
And, yeah, I just these threeweeks.
I know that I'm going back towork tomorrow, but honestly, I'm
just my mind is trying to notburst at the thought of going to
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Japan in three weeks' time.
So, yeah, there's that.
I'm super pumped, super excited.
And it's not the only trip thatI have this year.
I still have the trip bookedfor Bali as well, which I still
need to book flights for.
By the way, I have the tripalready booked, which is great
in accommodation.
I just need to book flights toget there.
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So I need to do that.
That's in the 3rd of August,another three.
3rd of August Again, I'll talkabout that trip closer, because
right now all I can think aboutis Japan, japan, japan, japan.
I'm just yeah, it's.
And I think I've mentioned thisin the past when I've always
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wanted to go to Japan for a verylong time.
When I was turning 50, I saidto myself that for my 50th I
wanted to go to Japan.
It didn't happen.
Things don't happen sometimesas they do didn't happen.
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Things don't happen sometimesas they do.
And I was still decided adamantis probably the word I'm
looking for that I'm going toJapan, full stop.
It's happening.
So, yes, I took a bit longerthan I thought it would take,
but now, two years later, I'mgoing and yeah it's.
I think I, I know I'm going andstill I think I said this to my
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husband the other day thatthere's still that.
I don't know, maybe because it'ssuch a big lifelong dream of
mine to be going to Japan that Ijust haven't allowed my full
consciousness to expand to thefact that I'm actually going.
So I don't blow my load.
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Yeah, probably wrong term, butpretty much that.
Yeah, I just.
You know, you still got to workand you still got to do life
and all the rest of the shitthat you got to do.
You know what I mean.
But yeah, I, I just want totake the next three weeks to
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just acknowledge and startliving in the I don't know in
the essence of mate.
I'm going to Japan, mate.
This is my lifelong dream to dothis.
So, yeah, it's a lot.
And the other thing is that Iwas a bit unsure about this and
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the more I think about it, themore I'm like and I haven't put
a lot of thought.
I'm not going to say this ismore an idea or an ideal than an
actual.
This is truly happening is thatI actually want to do a podcast
in Japan.
I want to record in Japan, soI'm going to make that happen.
There's obviously stuff I needto sort out, like recording
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equipment that I will take overwith me to do the recording.
It will probably be that I'llbe recording on my phone, yet I
don't know.
It's just I'm inspired to dothat, mate, and look, I know
then, moving forward, that, yes,it might all turn to shit and
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it might sound a bit crappy, butit will also help me with my
next trip, because I certainlydo want to do a podcast on my
next trip as well, what thatlooks like and what that feels
like and what that, moreimportantly, sounds like.
But, yeah, how could I not, howcould I not do a podcast in
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Japan, in Japan?
So, yeah, that's, I'm shootingfor that as well.
So, just because I like to dothat, I'm aiming for that as
well, which I'm super pumpedabout.
So there's a couple of things Ineed to get sorted out for that
, to make that a reality and tobe comfortable in doing that.
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So I will sort that out becauseI want to make that a reality.
I'm slapping my hand in thebackground.
It's kind of a quick drink,drink break, drink break.
Yeah, I want to make that areality as well.
So, yeah, there's that.
And then, yeah, before you knowit, then you know and I don't
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actually you know what I wasgoing to say then, before you
know it, you're back at work andlife goes on.
I'm not even going to go there.
I was going to go there and I'mnot.
I'm going to say to myself thatI've got three weeks to get, to
go, to get there, to get towhere I'm going Japan.
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In the meantime, I'm just goingto open up my consciousness, my
mind, my heart, my everything,to the excitement, the
exhilaration, the prospects, allof the above, to achieving and
achieving and actuallyexperiencing a massive life
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achievement which is going toJapan.
And I'm joking.
And then, yeah, what does thatlook like?
You know, I'll think about therest, Whatever comes.
Whatever comes may bethereafter have a trip in July
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August, not July.
Well, pretty much August.
Well, it is the August, notpretty much August.
It is the 3rd of August.
To that though, um, there isgoing to be greater
conversations around.
I know my work, what I want todo, where I want to go moving
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forward.
Do I even want to do that?
What do I want?
What do I motherfucking want?
So there's these kind ofconversations that I will have
in the not too distant future,but for now, I'm just going to
relish the fact that I have atrip to my life.
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One of my lifelong destinations,egypt, is another one.
There's another place I sawtoday which, doing my head in,
you know, I don't know if you'vedone this.
Once you've actually come tothe point where you go yeah, I'm
doing this and I'm booking mydream destination you're like
where else can I go?
Where else can I fucking go?
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Egypt is a place that I'vealways wanted to go.
I'm not going to lie, I don'tknow if I'll ever get there, one
of the reasons being my husbanddoes not want me to go, which I
understand the reasoning behindthat.
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The other place which I sawtoday and I saw a YouTube video
was this resort in Saudi Arabia,and I know if I was to say to
my husband I'm going to SaudiArabia, he'd be like fuck, you
aren't, you are not going.
He'd probably tie me to the bed.
I don't know, it's clearly veryexpensive.
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I don't know if that'll happen,but, mate, I saw this resort.
You fucking blew my mind.
Uh, if you follow me oninstagram, I instagram to post
on it.
It's this uh sick resort inbloody.
Where was it?
I don't know somewhere, I justit was.
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I don't know.
If you see something sometimeson Instagram and you're like is
that real?
And you're like that can't bereal, and you realise it is the
Shibara Resort.
Sorry, she, shibara resort,sorry, uh, shibara, shibara,
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s-h-e-b-r-b-a-r-a.
It's in saudi arabia, but, bythe way, in the red sea, um, yep
, I, I'm, I'm telling you rightnow.
I saw it and I had an immediatevisceral reaction needs to go,
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I don't know.
So, yeah, just what do you want?
What do I want?
You know what do I want?
You know for a lot of the timein my mind, and I have watched
many videos and I think this isagain, this is probably an age
thing, to be honest, or it couldbe.
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Just, you know, you get to acertain point in your life and
then you just, well, again,that's an age thing, isn't it?
You just start examiningeverything deeper, and or you
mightn't, but I do you knowpurpose, what do you want?
What am I here for?
All this kind of good shit andyou know a lot of it is why are
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we doing this?
You, you know, just ride it,baby, just ride the wave and see
what happens.
Or working out, you know, ortrying to ascertain what your
fucking purpose is, and thenaiming for that, or trying to
explore what that is, or what doyou want, and then working out
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what you actually want not whatyou're doing, but what you
actually want to do and thengoing for it.
So, yeah, I can.
Just the door's been opened.
It's strange because now thedoor is open and I'm walking in.
It's kind of like that.
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You know what it is.
I'm trying to describe it toyou so you understand what I'm
saying, because it's in my mind,not in my words.
When you finally come to a placewhere you go, you know, this is
what I want to do and youactually own that.
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And then you make it happen andthen you in your if you want to
, in your mind's eye, mind's eye, close your eyes, if you need
to visualising a door and youstepping through it, and just
before you're about to stepthrough, so you're in the arch
of the door and there's likethat line, but often it's an
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invisible line, like there canbe a physical line on the floor.
But if I was to say to you it'sreally an invisible line that
only you see, no one else sees,really only you see, no one else
sees, really only you see.
And you go to move forward andit's like an invisible force
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field that, as human beings,we've created as a self-barrier
to not be comfortable with juststepping through gracefully with
all like that's what I'mfeeling at the moment.
It's a bit weird.
It's kind of like that's weirdbecause I'm just like I made
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this Because if you don't know,yeah, you might recognize the
wording, the wording I'm in thedoorway and I'm stepping through
and it's electric.
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It's an invisible force that Iactually physically feel as I
speak about it and instead of mepushing against the force, I
want to be enveloped by theforce.
I don't know if you understandwhat I'm putting down right now.
You might be like what the fuckare you talking about?
Amanda, I'm saying to you thatfor most of my life I really
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haven't been in a place where Ican just think that I could be
enveloped by this, that there'salways going to be some
invisible barrier that as I gothrough the door or look out the
window, I'm going to bang myhead on the window or, you know,
I go to step through the doorand I'm going to trip and
fucking break my leg.
Do you know what I mean?
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I just fucking break my leg.
Do you know what I mean?
I just I'm now at, and now I'mat the door and I'm moving
through the door and I want tohave that sense of envelopment
and forward momentum, but with,I know, a feeling of love and
encapsulation.
I don't know why that word cameto mind.
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Yeah, that's what I want tofeel and yeah, I want to feel
encapsulated by what I've gotyou know what I've got and just
being comfortable in that andthen just walking through, not
feeling like I'm at the door andI'm about to step, and by step,
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I can feel that invisiblebarrier and I can feel the
energy, and the energy is like,no like, but that energy is what
I've created.
I have created that.
I mean it mightn't be all of it, I'm not that powerful.
It could be where there is thatforce that stops me for my own
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safety and wellbeing.
I'm sure that's part of it.
I'm probably now moving intothe supernatural.
I'm already there, we'realready there.
We're already there.
But, yeah, it's just that Iwant to move through the door
and feel, just feel it and justlet it and just let it grab me
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and take me, not fight it, andthat's probably a bit of the
feelings that I'm trying totraverse.
I'm coming up with somecrackers today Traverse, I love
that English language.
Yeah, they are some of thefeelings I'm experiencing,
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physically and mentally feelingright now.
So, yes, I look forward verymuch to just settling feeling
and letting go and just lettingit take me and being safe.
In that I am prepared.
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So I've got nothing to beafraid of.
I really don't.
I do not have anything to beafraid of.
I've done all my homework, I'mready.
I just need to convince myselfthat I'm ready in my mind and
that also leads into life.
Do you know what I mean.
It just also leads into thislife moving forward, into my
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life, moving forward, that I amready and, yeah, there's been
versions of readiness and,depending on you know my
circumstances, what I've broughtand what I haven't.
But yeah, yeah, I'm now readyand I'm eager and excited and
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exhilarated and hopeful and,yeah, honored, and yeah, I can't
wait.
I can't wait to see the snowmonkeys.
I'm hoping truly, apart fromsnowing in Tokyo, I'm
manifesting that shit.
I want it to snow in Tokyo.
I want it to snow in Tokyowhile I'm there.
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I know something about it in myheart of hearts, feeling it,
and I also, when I I don't knowbecause I don't think I can, but
I think I can go to pools thatare near snow monkeys.
Actually, I'm not swimming withthe snow, like I won't be like,
ooh, breaststroking with thesnow monkeys, but with the hot
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pools and everything that I'llbe in a hot pool there and I'm
just, I'm naked and living mybest life, mate, one with nature
, as God intended.
Now, apparently, I don't know.
Do I believe in God?
I don't know.
This is a discussion for anotherday, as was attended.
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I don't know why I'm excusingmyself now that, yeah, it's just
, I can't wait.
I'm so excited.
I can't wait to just have somesake and eat a delicious bowl of
ramen in fucking Japan.
Yeah, I can't wait.
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I look forward to the weeks tocome prior to my trip.
I look forward to talking youtalking with you, talking you
talking with you about thingsthat I love to talk about.
So you may have noticed that onInstagram, I really decided I
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don't know, not that I'm notauthentic.
I just want to be just morejust me.
I don't want to have thispodcast be a place where I feel
like I have to sell myself toyou or have people follow me or
not you know or understand who Iam or not.
(01:06:30):
This is just me doing a podcastand talking about stuff that I
want to talk about.
The end If it's something thatyou like, then awesome, two
thumbs up.
If it's something you don't,then don't listen.
It's really now, probably aspart of my mental mind state, et
(01:06:57):
cetera, that I'm like you knowwhat this is it?
Again, I think I've gone tothis question before and people
have asked me this questionwhat's your podcast about, and
I've tried to make it more.
Sometimes, in my answers topeople who don't know me at all,
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I've tried to make it moreexciting or make it seem more
important than it actually is.
So a good example of that iswhen I say oh, yeah, it's about
beauty and makeup, oh, and aboutquantum physics, like you know,
to try and make myself seemsmarter than I am, or not.
Do you know what the podcast isjust about?
What the fuck I want to talkabout?
Okay, that's it.
The podcast is just about whatI want to talk about.
(01:07:42):
One day it might be aboutbeauty and makeup.
One day it might be abouttequila.
One day it might be aboutbeauty and makeup.
One day it might be abouttequila.
One day it might be about Japan.
That's it.
It's nothing more and nothingless.
Sometimes I might talk aboutquantum physics, or developing
an Apple application, orcreating my own app, or creating
my own lipstick makeup line, orit could be about me writing a
(01:08:03):
novel, or it could be about mewriting a novel, and it could be
about me writing music.
And you know, it's just it.
That's it.
If you're interested inlistening to what I am putting
down, then you can listen tothis podcast anytime.
Segue to this podcast anytime.
(01:08:29):
Segue via Spotify or ApplePodcasts.
With the Tequila Hour.
I also am on Instagram, theTequila Hour page.
I also have my own personalpage being the underscore one
underscore, amanda.
You can contact me anytimeanytime I know bizarre Find my
(01:08:51):
email address, which is info atthetequilahourcomau.
So thank you for those who dotake the fucking time to listen
to my podcast.
I actually do really appreciateit.
This has been how many yearsnow I'm still chugging along.
I will chug along for the restof time.
(01:09:11):
I was going to say I'm going tomove to Japan when I'm in Japan
.
No, look, this could happen.
Honestly, I have thoughts in mymind about moving to Japan,
like, I don't know how that'sgoing to go, being married, but
I don't know.
(01:09:32):
Yeah, that's a conversation foranother day.
But thank you to those who docontinually download this
podcast, who've put up with myramblings, who probably like
what the fuck are you talkingabout?
And all of the above.
I do actually really appreciateit.
(01:09:53):
Like I said, you can reach outto me anytime via that email,
which is info atthetokillhourcomau, and you know
what.
I'm going to catch you nextSunday, so I'll see you.
Well, you won't see me.
Well, if I take a pictureyou'll see me, but you will hear
(01:10:13):
me always.
Have a good one, see yano-transcript.
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