Welcome to Curious with Josh Pax, start the show.

Here we are again. Can you believe this? I mean, we've got to stop meeting like this or maybe

we need to keep meeting like this. I am thoroughly enjoying this podcast and I hope you guys are too.

I am a lover and a consumer of podcasts and all many auditory experiences. I like a book

on tape. I like music and I love me some podcast and I feel so honored and grateful that you guys

are continuing to go on this ride with me. You beautiful listeners. It's been a great week. I

recently got back from a vacation with my wife and some good friends in Hawaii and we were

those people. We go on vacation now. I'm married. We planned this trip five months ago, paid for it

and then it's you know I'm starting to get a great appreciation about planning a trip

and having it to look forward to. And I've heard that over the years is like this important thing

and it's really good to have a trip to look forward to and it really is. It really is because

because then it comes and you go and you do the whole thing. I mean, got to the hotel, got the

lay, the flowers around the neck and go out onto the beach and you're in the water and you're like,

what do I do this more? And you're like, because I don't live in Hawaii. That's why I don't just

frolic on the beach and in the water on a regular basis. Like yeah, I live in Southern California

with the beach and the water here is scarier. It's a different experience when you live close to it.

But when you're in Hawaii, there's just like a new, there's a new thing that happens. Takes me a

while to decompress. I get there and I resent the fact that I'm there because I'm not relaxed and

I'm worried about work and what I'm missing and what I could be doing or should be doing. And

do I even deserve this vacation? Oh no, my wife can see that I'm uncomfortable and I got to be

grateful because this is so great and look what I'm doing. I'm lucky. Who gets to do this? Very few

people. But then two or three days go by and kind of get into the energy of the place that you're at

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