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TheDocNCarolynPodcast.com Episode 126 · TheDocNCarolynPodcast

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, episode 126 of the Dr.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Carolyn podcast.
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  SPEAKER_03: 126?
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  SPEAKER_03: We're just putting these right on out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blazing right along is what we're doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Difficult to wrap my mind around the number of folks around the world that are uh we are having downloads from around the world, and that is terribly exciting and frightening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, let me tell you this list of countries.
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  SPEAKER_00: The last five downloads uh Vietnam, Singapore, Venezuela, Ethiopia, Serbia, Canada, Bangladesh, Chile, and the Congo.
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  SPEAKER_03: Very interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: The last five episodes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I and I think uh we talk a lot about Yeshua.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: We talk about our faith in Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um if you're here and especially a part of that family, the family of God, welcome to the show.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Messiah.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I and I can't help but believe that that's the kind of the binding agent that that would make somebody why else with somebody because we do a lot of goofy stuff on this program.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: We as much as we intend to inform and to entertain and to just, you know, kind of present our professions because I bring, you know, that um and if you're just punching in and have no clue who we are, I'm a retired 25-year veteran police officer.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was in broadcasting before that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, big city broadcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I worked in Chicago and Houston, uh, were the two biggest markets, and then you've been in healthcare most of your life.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: Is that fair to say?
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  SPEAKER_00: You're calculating how old does that make you?
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, because I've done a lot of different things.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_03: I've been in healthcare for a little over 15 years.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's interesting to talk to you about when you were in fuel in the fuel business.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_03: Worked in the fuel business, I worked in radio, I worked in um warehousing.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: The fuel business is really interesting because Texas is well known, you know, depicted at least in on television and movies and all that for the oil industry.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: You have some pretty in some great knowledge about like even through this thing with Iran and the Iran and the uh prices fluctuating.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: Because I think I I went to a to a shell station that's not too far away from here, and the price for premium was like five bucks a gallon.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I went down the road probably eight miles, and it was 389, 387, something like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you said, well, there's a pre the the would you say the people could have paid for it at a certain price?
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, it depends on when they filled their tanks and what rack they pulled from.
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  SPEAKER_03: And you know, there's all kinds of see it's that kind of thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you say what rack you pulled from, see that to me that's so impressive.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it takes so little to impress me, but that's impressive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you start to weep, or what was your response?
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  SPEAKER_02: I did notice a few issues that needed to be fixed.
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  SPEAKER_02: I added an archive page and kind of build it up a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: How can someone get a hold of you if they have an issue that you can fix for them?
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• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: Hammock Solutions, technical solution for the Doc and Carolyn Podcast.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: We have to talk about crypto at some point.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's back in the news.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: So much stuff is happening with the infrastructure of cryptocurrency.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: We we need to we're gonna get Kimberly Blakes back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kimberly Blakes is a published author.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: She is a teacher, uh seminar, uh uh whole what do you call her?
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  SPEAKER_00: Send seminar giver, doer?
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  SPEAKER_03: She's an educator.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's an educator on cryptocurrency.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna get her on the show on an upcoming show uh to talk about cryptocurrency because it is going to be more and more in the news, and you'll see why soon enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, back to the cruise.
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  SPEAKER_00: What helped us on this cruise?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm I'm gonna start out by talking about our pre-planning.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we did not use a travel agent per se on this on this cruise.
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  SPEAKER_00: We went through Costco travel.
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  SPEAKER_03: We did.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the nice thing about that is they offer a very, they have a very generous, well, I don't know, you're spending a lot of money.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't say it's generous, but they give you a rebate.
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  SPEAKER_00: They give you a give you a cost, uh, a Costco card.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think we got like how much 500 bucks?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, over, yeah, almost six.
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  SPEAKER_00: The only thing is Costco truthfully didn't do a lot in terms of doing, you know, some travel agents are very good about keeping up with changes in price, and when the price goes down, they could they could kind of plug in the new price and save you some some money.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: They don't do any of that, at least and and they may do it if we reach out to them.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but they don't.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_03: We have to keep an eye on it, and if it changes, we can call them and yeah, but they're not going to be proactive about that.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: So that's that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But again, maybe getting that you know, that Costco uh gift card back is you know kind of makes up for that.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: For that part of it.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: The parking, uh, I called probably I didn't even have to call really.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: I booked it online.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh maybe six months out, maybe in the last six months.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: I I got my indoor, uh got the indoor parking uh done.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_03: They always park in the same place.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and that's uh it's Patriot parking in Galveston if you uh sail from this part of the world.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: But it's easy peasy.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's all done online.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: They give you a s they email you uh um a QR code, and when you check in, you just show the attendant the code and you're and you're done.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: Let me just tell you something, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you if you do cruise, if you choose to do it, just do the suite because it is a different experience.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: From the moment you get to the cruise port, it's a different experience.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: It is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um and we and all this is all we put all this on the Doc and Carolina Podcast Facebook page, but uh, what were you gonna say?
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_03: Um it just makes everything so much more smooth.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_03: Getting on the ship, getting off the ship.
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  SPEAKER_03: When you go on excursions and you get off the ship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, there's a separate line when you get to the cruise port, there's a separate line for suites and pinnacles.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: The pinnacles on Royal are like the top tier.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: You have to get 750 points, I think, and each each night is a point.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_03: So they've been on when you're when you stay in a suite, you get two points for every night.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: For every night, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: But once you hit 750, you get this pinnacle distinction, and uh and they skip the lines, and if you have a suite, you skip the lines, and the the whole check-in process is very streamlined.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: They have cookies and little beverages, and you know, it's it's really kind of you know, it's really kind of cool.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you know, because if you get there uh during the peak embarkation times, you're gonna be in a in a long line.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_03: I think they do a good job of um spreading everyone out, like you're assigned a time to check in.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_03: So Terry said, Um, or Texas Tootie, I should say, she said that um they got right on the ship pretty quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and we've you know, we didn't know that having a suite allowed us to skip that line and go through the the special entrance or whatever.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_00: So we stood in line a bunch of times before, you know, somebody, hey, what are you in this line for?
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: You ought to come around here.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, but it was, but you're right, it w it was uh pretty painless overall, easier than flying, as far as I'm sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a in and on and off the ship.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we need to take a break and then we're gonna talk about um our actual room on the ship and some of the spots we visited on the excursions.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to this kingdom minute with your host, Kimberly Blakes on the Doc and Carolyn podcast.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: So, at what point are we going to start looking at fruit?
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm what at what point are we gonna start believing the fruit that we see?
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_01: Anytime I post anything about President Trump, here comes the dead in Christ, the Pew Warmers, the whitewashed tunes to say that God didn't choose him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even though all of the fruit points to the living God, even though all of the fruit points to that God chose him and put him there.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: We have the 2007 prophecy that says everything that's gonna happen, and we're saying right now, we have this man that literally on my TV now is playing the Bible.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: Literally for seven days, the entire 66 books of the Bible will be read by human over national TV.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_01: We've never seen a president do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: He is dedicating this nation back to God for the 250th year, and then on May the 17th, he's gonna do a whole ceremony where he dedicates the nation back to God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for tuning in to this kingdom minute with your host, Kimberly Blakes, on the Doc and Carolyn podcast.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_01: You can find me on Facebook at Kimberly Blakes, and I also have a podcast called The Faith Frame Perspective.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'll see you guys there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the ship we were on on this trip was uh Allure of the Seas.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_03: Allure of the Seas.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is uh if you if you Google this, you'll see it uh on Royal Caribbean's uh part of Royal Caribbean's fleet, and it's uh an Oasis class ship.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: At the time it was built probably 10 years, 12 years ago.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's it was one of the world's biggest cruise ships, and and it is still massive.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but now there's a higher class, right?
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_03: Oasis and then icon.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_00: Icon, yeah.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_03: Icon.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I think they're they're even well, they're coming up with a star class, but I think that's actually going to be a smaller ship by the icon.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, these ships are massive.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how to describe it, but but you could Google, and if you know the you know, water displacement and all those numbers, you'll be impressed.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_03: I think I said before on another um episode that I like the smaller ships better, I think.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_03: Well, the thing that I like about Allure and that size is Coastal Kitchen.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because they don't have coastal kitchen on the smaller ones.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the coastal is a is a separate restaurant.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's a it's a separate dining area for pinnacle and sweet guests, just like the embarkation and the debarkation um advantages.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: This is another perk of spending that money on the suite, is there's a separate dining area and lounge uh called Coastal Coastal Kitchen.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: And the food is, you know, it's it's top-notch food, you know, it's it's it's it's upper end restaurant quality food.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: And here's the thing, and this is really interesting, that there's no limit, you know, in the in the in the price you pay for that suite, all of that's included.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: And one of our last days on the ship, we were eating in there, and the table next to us was this pinnacle guy, this one of these 750 points people, and he's talking to some other uh, you know, diners there at this coastal kitchen, and he's saying, Yeah, last time I was on the ship, you know, I was sitting here and I just couldn't get full.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: So I had him bring me four lobster tails, and I ate them all, and then that wasn't enough.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: I just couldn't get full.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: So I said, bring me four more, and I ate four more.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: This guy's describing eating eight.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's how they that's how you roll.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: But I think we we never we I mean I've ordered uh ordered several appetizers.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I I have ordered more than one entree, but never just like bring me eight lobster tails.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: No, I've never done it.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_03: No, we've not been crazy like that.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_03: But remember on our first cruise what we did on the last night?
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, in in a suite.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we just ordered one of everything on the menu.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: We just said bring it all.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: That was fun.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_03: That was so ridiculous.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: One of the other nice things about this ship and and every cruise that we've been on is the crew.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we're still friends with um, there's a uh there was a sweet attendant uh on our first cruise to, you know, we flew to Puerto Rico and then went Southern Caribbean, but our sweet attendant on that cruise uh was from somewhere in the West Indies.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: I don't remember what Donna's.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: But Donna is still a friend to this day.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: And that was in gosh, that was what 13, 14 years ago.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, she's very sweet.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: So I, you know, you meet like I there was a gentleman there in one of the shops uh from Slovenia, and that's in the Czech region of the world, you know, not too far away from Russia.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: It's on part of it's on the Indian Ocean.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I remember you talking to him.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: I was shopping, but this no, it was fascinating.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: So so I asked him, I said, so um, you know, what is it like where you grew up?
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: What is Slovenia famous for?
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, is it rural?
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: Is it cities?
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, describing he just he said it has beautiful beaches.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_03: Um that's not what you that's not what comes to my mind when I hear that.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: No, and it didn't for me either, but I but I listened to him talk about uh but Google it.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_00: I mean he gave me a website to look up, and there is a lot to do there.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: One of the things that uh is pretty famous, there's a a series of caves in the in Slovenia that they have gone into and excavated a little, but but otherwise they're mostly pristine, and they've put in and they've put down train tracks.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there is a train that goes under these mountains and and into these this cave system, and you get on this on this motive means of locomotion.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if if it's an actual, you know, like a combustion thing or an electric thing, but um he says that's that's a very prominent uh so you just go to look at them or yeah, it's like you you've you've gone into some of the caves.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: We did it in Ohio.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: We went to Ohio Caves, you know.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: I say, yeah, just go down to the cave and look at the interesting that underground uh life.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's a whole ecosystem down there.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's pretty interesting.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: On that note, we're at um we're at dinner, and how did we meet Jan and Bob?
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_03: Um they were just sitting beside us and and they were pinnacle because I talked to pinnacle people.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_03: Um you talked to all the pinnacle people.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: And the so here's the funny thing.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: So we finally made diamond.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: If you know Royal, if you look up their crown and anchor society tier climbing thing, you know, you you wanna everybody wants to reach Diamond because you know that's when the the drinks start flowing.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: You get you get you know, four free drinks every day.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: Where it's you know, baked into the price, it's not really free, but you get four drinks a day.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_03: And just in time for you to quit drinking.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: I know, I know.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: So this is so I did so so my cruise was dry.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: It was dry as a bone, and I never uh was bothered by that.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: And and you know, on the on you, you know, for you for your functional medicine um purposes, you know, I I I ate some pie though, man.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: I ate some cakes, I ate some, you know, because I did this whole thing about sugar and getting off of it and why I feel better.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: But I I didn't drink, but I did have a lot of dessert.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_03: You did but you didn't eat dessert like you would normally eat dessert.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: Go ahead and say what you really want to say.
• 14:53
  unknown: What?
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: Fat boy, we'll make it we'll clean it up for the podcast.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_03: No, you didn't eat sweets like you normally do.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, that's the other thing we're talking about.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: You can order unlimited lobster, you can also get a whole pie if you want it.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they'll bring it.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_03: I even had a bite of dessert here and there, and on one of them I ate my whole dessert.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_03: It was coconut cake, gluten-free, and I have I coconut as my thing.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_03: And so I ate my whole slice.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_03: But since we've been home, we've been back on the wagon.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: Not really.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm I'm I would call it back on the wagon.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_03: What you been doing?
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: No, listen to me.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: So for me, it's it's sugar, and and we found out, and it's been said over and over again, that trying to quit sugar is like trying to quit like heroin.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's horrible.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I noticed the cravings.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I've been off of it longer than you, though.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_03: So for me, just to have a couple of bites here and there, and you know, just while we're on vacation was wasn't as hard for me to quit.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: So, what I did leading up to the cruise, I wanted to be, you know, able to handle the dessert.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: So I start like two days out, I started training.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: I started eating and then I got some other kind of chocolate, and then I ate that.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: And so by the time I hit the ship, I was ship shape.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: I was ready.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: Once I got home, oh man, I mean, just having bad cravings.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and and you taught me that that that's your your gut biome.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's that by bacteria in your in your in your gut that has telling you what it wants.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Kind of telling you, yeah.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: And and so I have to manage that.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: And it's and I'm and I know it's going to be uh uncomfortable for a little while.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_03: But so I haven't been seeing you eat anything sweet.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_03: So what have you been doing?
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, so it's a no, I haven't been.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I I have been craving it.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I haven't craving, but I haven't been eating it.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: No, just just you know, my regular I put a little bit of honey in my green tea and uh my coffee, but that's it.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_03: And when you start eating the fruit and you're eating it's a real whole food.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: Um, when you after you get off the chemical sugar sugar, it's easier to stop eating so much fruit than it's it's just a way to taper off of it.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and and and the fruit though, once you have kind of gotten over that, the harmful part of of uh of sugar and you know all the processed stuff, especially.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh eat fruit is otherwise good for you, right?
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, fruit's good for you, but if you have something like insulin resistance, you want to only have like a cup of fruit a day.
• 17:21
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• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're still cruise talking about uh our trip to the Western Caribbean.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: We went to Honduras uh our second time there, third time.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_03: I think that our third time, but this is the first time I just fell in love with it.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and we ziplined before.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: We we took um a bus to a zip lining spot uh a couple years ago, and it was really a nice zip line, nice long lines and uh from and and Honduras is very mountainous.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: This uh Rotan is.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: And um, so we went out there and uh you know, went up, took a bus up into the mountains, and they had these um zip lines uh fixed in the in the forest and long ones, fun ones, beautiful views you can see from the mountains out to the sea.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: I think at one of the platforms you can actually see our cruise ship.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: So just beautiful, just absolutely beautiful.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: I like this.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: But like you said, we didn't really the bug didn't bite us on that one.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: No, and I think we went another time we would where we didn't get off the ship.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_03: Um and we just stayed in port or something.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I mean.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: We got off the ship, but went in port, and they have and they have some nice little spots there with music and food and you know, shops like chocolate.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, where we get Honduras chocolate.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_03: I always get dark chocolate.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you do.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: So for help.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: You always gotta figure you gotta get your MP in there.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: I feel you.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta get some so dark chocolate is a little bit better for you, right?
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_03: Uh it's a lot better for you.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: I get you want to get at least 70%.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: And that's 70% cacao.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_03: Cacao.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: Cacao.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I said on this particular trip, we took a an excursion.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's a it's one we booked through through Royal Caribbean.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_03: Best excursion I've ever been on, and I've been wanting to do it for years.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: You have been talking about holding a sloth for I know at least five years.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_03: Now you're not even allowed to hold them.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_03: No, because of the because you made me wait too long.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you got you, you we still got uh but had a very close encounter with sloths.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, we did.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: You got to hold a monkey, but you you really wanted to do the monkey thing and the sloth thing.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_03: I did.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: And and we never really uh I had no interest in it.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I never booked it for you.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: I just I just don't, you know, I I got my first pet with Barney, you know, getting that cat.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean my parents had dogs, but I I never grew up with a pet, so I don't want all these sloths and monkeys crawling.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_03: I know, but now look how well you're doing with the animals.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, I like them.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_03: You're great with the cats, you feed the squirrels and the birds and the rabbits.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_03: You feed the stray dogs and everybody, dumps in our neighborhood, jerks.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: So we went to this to this uh sanctuary, and it's privately owned.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: Uh there were capuchin monkeys, there were spider monkeys, uh, some kind of pig-like thing with a long snout.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_03: And uh it wasn't a pig-like thing, but I don't remember what it was called.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: And that other thing you touched, uh, that that was in the box.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and they had a butterfly sanctuary into it, and it was all privately owned.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: And then uh another part of the that same excursion, we went into uh a place called uh Pristine Bay.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: Now this is up in the mountains, and and um I know I couldn't well pristine Bay must have been uh at obviously at the base of the of uh of of those mountains because it was on the beach.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um but it was still h hilly terrain, and you could walk from the main office of this resort uh to an infinity pool, and then further a little bit down, and and you're right there on the beach, and the water is just gorgeous and And uh they accept Bitcoin.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: At the beginning of the show, we were talking about cryptocurrencies in the news.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: This was wild as you drive up to this beautiful res golf resort uh called Black Pearl.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: If you're Googling, look this up, Pristine Bay, Black Pearl, and it says a Bitcoin resort.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: And then when you go inside, the signs are all there that say Bitcoin accepted here.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_03: And you were so excited.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, of course.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: Well, yeah.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: So that was so that was pretty exciting.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: And um, but what was it about?
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_03: And then we went on the golf carts.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we went on the golf carts and we and we uh look got a chance to see, I guess, that barrier reef that is just off of Honduras is the second largest barrier reef in the world.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: You know, everybody knows the great barrier reef, but the snorkeling snorkeling at this spot, the second largest uh barrier reef is uh everybody raves about it.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_03: And it and apparently Roatan is way different than the mainland of Honduras.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: And that's worth mentioning.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: If you're Googling um Honduras, the mainland, you know, when you look at it as a cruise destination or a tourist destination, it's like in the top five of murder capitals in the world.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: And the reason why, and this, and they're explaining this to us that uh Salvadorians and Guatemalans and their gangs are kind of infiltrating the mainland there.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: Just like everywhere else.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's extremely dangerous.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: And uh they are very protective on Roatan of their tourist industry.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm telling you, this island is absolutely beautiful, absolutely gorgeous.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: It is.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: And uh we we got to see the mangroves and and watched how this particular side of the island is protected from storms by the barrier reef and the mangroves.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: But now peep this.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm so we're going on a golf cart and they're driving us through the woods.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: Not all of it is paved either.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_00: Some of it was cart path on this golf resort, but some of it was like dirt roads, and you're off into the forest and down near these mangrove groves.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: But listen, I asked, so so the only birds I'm seeing are crows, right?
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: The same ones in our backyard.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, okay, so where are the macaws and the parrots and the toucans and the monkeys and the sloths that we saw at this at this private sanctuary we went to?
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, okay, well, where is all this wildlife?
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm looking, I'm I'm half expecting uh, you know, a sloth, a sloth to jump down on my head, right?
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking up in the trees.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: Turns out none of those are native to Honduras, they've all been imported.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: And so I said, so what is native to Honduras?
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, nothing really.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: Ants, crows.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, wow.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, they drive there.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: That climate is good for them, but it isn't, you know, just crawling with monkeys and stuff.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_03: No, we didn't see any wildlife except for the birds while we were on our little tour.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: We also went to we also went to Costa Maya.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_00: On this one, we've done uh excursions there before.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: We went to Crazy Lobster.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: If you're Googling, Crazy Lobster is a it's not a resort, it's more of a but it, but it is a resort-like uh area.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and they they don't charge you to go to the beach as long as you order food or drinks or whatever there.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: And finally, we went to Coast, uh we went to Cozumel, and Kozumel is, you know, we we always go to Mr.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: Sancho's there.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: It's a beautiful uh resort.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: The water in front of it is perfect, it's never overcrowded.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it's all inclusive for like 70 bucks.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: All you can eat, all you can drink.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: And um, for a couple of extra bucks, we can get a cabana with you know a thatched roof and you know, privacy curtains and all that kind of stuff.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: And we just lay back and you got a massage.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_03: Always get a massage on the beach there.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you seem to enjoy that.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_03: I did.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_03: It was fantastic.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_03: The food was especially since you didn't want yours.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: Nah, I can't, man.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's like uh it's like I can't be all buttered up with all that sand, man.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: I never could have been a Navy SEAL.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: All in all, the uh the vacation was really nice.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's good to be back uh for sure.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: That was a fantastic time.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_03: I think seven days on a ship is perfect because by the seventh day I'm ready to come home.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we did a nine day before, and that's we could have stayed up on and you know what's funny about it.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: We talked, we we brought up Jan and Bob before that we met uh at dinner, and what a fascinating couple.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: But they were doing a turnaround on Allure.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, we were talking about uh the Saturday, you know, we we got back on Sunday, but Saturday night we were talking to them, and they're like, you know, we're we're keeping the same room, we're just gonna turn around and do seven more.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_03: And if we didn't have the cats at home, oh yeah, can't do it because of the cats.
• 26:48
  unknown: Right.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_03: Because I feel so bad.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_03: Because especially if it was just Barney, I wouldn't feel as bad, but Andy's so scared.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's so stupid because we have cameras in the house, right?
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we have a full security and all that, but you know, so she puts the Alexa camera down on the living room floor, and then I have other cameras, one in the bedroom that we can so we can stay in touch with the cats, right?
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: And and we and we punch in, hey, Barney, Barney is aloof when we're home.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: So talking to him on the camera, what a waste of time that is.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_03: And poor Andy just hides in the closet the whole time.
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