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Don't make this mistake when you receive a compliment.

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Hey Lindsay, how's it going?

Michelle, it's excellent, it's a beautiful day here in Boston and I'm feeling good overall.

This is actually, actually this episode's coming out during my vacation week, so I should be on a road trip in the south.

Oh, that's so much fun. Oh, I want to take a road trip. That's cool.

I love road trips, and we are going to be exploring West Virginia

area and like the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Great Smoky Mountains, that area,

so I'm super excited. I'm just I'm happy to be on vacation.

That's awesome good. Well I hope you're enjoying.

Yeah, I hope so too.

That's great. That's great. Okay, awesome. Well, did you just move?

I actually did also just move to a new place here in Cambridge Mass. I'm still in Cambridge, but it's a new space so everything feels like clean like a new start it feels great

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