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Info You Can Use: Cruise Travel Expert who works with professionals, family reunions, and veteran organizations for stress free cruise trips. · Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: guest is a twenty four year Army veteran turned travel
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  Speaker 1: entrepreneur who Create You, who creates travel experiences, corporate retreats
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  Speaker 1: and group trips as they own a global travel design
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  Speaker 1: a full service travel agency under the Cruise Planners franchise.
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  Speaker 1: She helps individuals, businesses, family reunions, churches, fraternities, sororities and
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  Speaker 1: organizations plans stress free, high value trips. That's what we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. We about to go cruising. Everybody, Please welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations Masterclass and long, how you doing this?
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  Speaker 2: Long? Hey, hiray Sean, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I added some mustard to the sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: I added fraternities, I added soroar dies. I added churches.
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  Speaker 1: I added family unions, because all these groups need to
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  Speaker 1: understand and value the cruise experience. Tell us about it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so cruising is one of my favorite form of
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  Speaker 2: vacation in there's nothing like packing once getting on the
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  Speaker 2: ship on the wide open seam and you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to unpack again. You wake up every day in a
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  Speaker 2: new destination.
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  Speaker 1: With food, food, food food. Only.
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  Speaker 2: Cruising allows you to vacation in that way.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me just let me just go and do
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  Speaker 1: the disclaimer. I called Angelita, let her know my background.
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  Speaker 1: I used to stand I used to perform as a
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  Speaker 1: stand up comedian, and I performed on at least eighty
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  Speaker 1: cruise ships around this world. You know, Norwegian Cruise Line,
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  Speaker 1: Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. I've been on Disney's Line, Disney
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  Speaker 1: Cruise Lines, I've been on Viking. So I told her, look,
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  Speaker 1: I am a fan and advocate of cruising, and she said,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Now, what I want to do is, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the background of cruising and why people
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  Speaker 1: find it soul inviting and those little details I want
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  Speaker 1: to know about from you. Let's talk about the black
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  Speaker 1: experience when it comes to cruising and that's what you're
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  Speaker 1: in an African American and when you're approaching people of
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  Speaker 1: color about cruising, what are the big cell points for
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  Speaker 1: cruising for them?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so the big sale point for cruising, especially for
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  Speaker 2: African American. So in recent years, I find that we're
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  Speaker 2: doing a lot of multi generational traveling, so grandparents are
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  Speaker 2: traveling with you know, parents with their children and then
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  Speaker 2: their grandchildren. The appeal is the all inclusive convenience because
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  Speaker 2: cruising it takes the stress out of the travel. When
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  Speaker 2: you cruise, are your cruise fear, it covers your accommodation,
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  Speaker 2: you're dining and like you said, you used to perform
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  Speaker 2: on the cruise ship. So the entertainment and transportation to
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  Speaker 2: the multiple destinations that you get to visit. And that's
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  Speaker 2: another big point is you get to visit multiple destinations
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  Speaker 2: in one trip on a one week crew depending on
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  Speaker 2: the itinerary, you need to see anywhere from three to
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  Speaker 2: even seven depending on the itinerary, again, seven different locations.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing is cruising has something for everyone. So
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  Speaker 2: whether you know the adventure lovers, because some of these
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  Speaker 2: cruise ships they're floating hotels plus more, you have you know,
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  Speaker 2: rock climbing, rollercoasters, Yes, yes, go karts, Come on, baby,
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  Speaker 2: it's all there. So you know, we satisfy the adventure lovers.
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  Speaker 2: If you want relaxation, there's some of that there for
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  Speaker 2: you too. You know those to one entertainment Again, you
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  Speaker 2: said you performing cruise ships. Some of these cruise ships
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  Speaker 2: they have broad Way shows, you know, Broadway productions every
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  Speaker 2: night on the ship.
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  Speaker 1: Now exciting, that's exciting to know. Now let me ask
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  Speaker 1: you this MS long. You know, you know you're twenty
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  Speaker 1: four year veterment. Thank you for your service to this country.
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  Speaker 1: Now that was in the military. How did you make
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  Speaker 1: a transition into travel? What made that? What was the
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  Speaker 1: drive that got you from the military to become a
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  Speaker 1: travel or a cruise expert.
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  Speaker 2: So that goes back a long, long, long way more
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  Speaker 2: than twenty four years. See, I grew up in Jamaica
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  Speaker 2: where my mom ran a villa and I used to
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  Speaker 2: watch my mom turns people vacation into lifelong memories. So
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  Speaker 2: I learned at an early age the transformative power of travel,
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  Speaker 2: how travel can change your life, how it can build connections,
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  Speaker 2: how it opened doors and again, how it can turn
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  Speaker 2: strangers into friends. And so as a kid, I always
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  Speaker 2: wanted to travel. So I joined the military and my
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  Speaker 2: first employment was to Iraq, rightow. Definitely not the glamorous
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  Speaker 2: adventure I hoped I would, you know, I hoped I
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  Speaker 2: would you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you went to Iraq? What was joining the military?
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  Speaker 1: What did you expect and travel? Just help me out
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  Speaker 1: what what? What did you expect that they may station
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  Speaker 1: you are, you may go that you felt would be
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  Speaker 1: adventurous or glamorous.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, my recruiter told me I could travel
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  Speaker 2: the world and Uncle Tom's done. So when you hear that,
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  Speaker 2: you're definitely not picturing Iraq. You know, your picturing places
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  Speaker 2: like Hawaii, which I did get to go after all.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're thinking of Hawaii, Germany, those places, right right.
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  Speaker 2: So nonetheless, going to Iraq was an exposure to It
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  Speaker 2: was a great exposure. I was exposed to different culture,
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  Speaker 2: which you know, it's something that we all need to
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  Speaker 2: learn about when we travel and we get exposed, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we get exposed to the different culture. We understand why
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  Speaker 2: certain people are the way they are, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: in a way that reduces the stereotype that we have
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  Speaker 2: in our mind about certain people.
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  Speaker 1: That's true, that's true. I know that I travel a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you only you only know what you
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  Speaker 1: learn or you see. You know, I will tell you this.
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  Speaker 1: When I went to Africa, I went to South Africa.
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  Speaker 1: I was so I want you to say, stupid, because
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  Speaker 1: I had bought into the stereotypes that I was going
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  Speaker 1: to an area that may not have the technology, and
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  Speaker 1: I was going. I went down to the Durban, which
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  Speaker 1: is just south of Johannesburg, and UH was doing the
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  Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Morning Show live broadcast and I just did
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  Speaker 1: not believe that we could do a live broadcast in Durban,
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  Speaker 1: South Africa, let alone Johannesburg. I was going to Durban.
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  Speaker 1: And because if you don't travel, you kind of be
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  Speaker 1: you're only going to see what you know are you've
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  Speaker 1: been told or you've been brainwashed to the perception of
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  Speaker 1: And going to Durban was just like landing in Atlanta, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: just like landing in Houston, Texas. Is just a lot
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  Speaker 1: more black people. That's all. That's what I think travel
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  Speaker 1: brought to me. And I've been to Italy, I've been
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  Speaker 1: to France, I've been to all the Caribbean islands. I've
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  Speaker 1: been to Bermuda. Of course, probably forty two out of
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  Speaker 1: the fifty the United States and states in the United States,
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  Speaker 1: and that really has changed my understanding. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: always recommend travel. And that's my big takeaway is that
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  Speaker 1: you do educate and you do learn learn a lot
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  Speaker 1: about yourself in this world when you do travel.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, Oh, definitely. So yeah, it changes your perspective. It's
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  Speaker 2: every time you travel, it's an education. It's you know,
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  Speaker 2: you learn about history.
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  Speaker 1: Here's here's my thing about you. You know, this military experience,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you've been training, you was in there for
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  Speaker 1: twenty four years. How did it prepare you for business ownership?
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  Speaker 1: Because I was like, because a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 1: know how to pivot, you know, they've been doing something
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  Speaker 1: for so long. Now were you doing certain things in
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  Speaker 1: the military they prepared you for business ownership? Or it
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  Speaker 1: was just a natural calling because your mom was doing
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  Speaker 1: this when you was in Jamaica.
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  Speaker 2: So I would say, it's a little bit of boat. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like I said, I was trends. I was
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  Speaker 2: indoctrinated into the travel industry at an early age. But
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  Speaker 2: being in the military, you learn, you learn resiliency, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you learn how to plan. You know, you get good
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  Speaker 2: at logistics and being resilient. Yeah, it's a part of
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  Speaker 2: knowing how to pivot. And you're right, not everyone knows
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  Speaker 2: how to do this. But I was as I was
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  Speaker 2: preparing for my transition out of the military, and I
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  Speaker 2: was sitting in one of the transition classes, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of my peers were there stressing about their next job.
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  Speaker 2: And It's just dawned on me, like, I've done this
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  Speaker 2: for twenty four years, you know, I've I'm going to say,
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  Speaker 2: you know, punch the clock. Why do I want to
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  Speaker 2: keep doing this? You know because in the military, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're in schedule. There's a schedule, and everything you do
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  Speaker 2: relates to something that is bigger than you. So I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, why do I want to keep Why do
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  Speaker 2: I want to keep punching the clock? And you know,
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  Speaker 2: it just dawn on me that after so many years,
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  Speaker 2: I've been exposed to so many different things, you know,
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  Speaker 2: why not do something that I love that I want
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  Speaker 2: to do. In addition to that, I also I have
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  Speaker 2: a young child, and I'm like, I wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: more available for my son and travel. I we love
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  Speaker 2: to travel, even before you know, I became a travel
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  Speaker 2: advisor and I would always help my friends with with
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  Speaker 2: their travels. They would always call me up like where
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  Speaker 2: can I find this deal? You know I want to
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  Speaker 2: go here? You know, who should I book it with?
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  Speaker 2: And so my friends was like, why don't you go
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  Speaker 2: be a travel agent? You're already doing it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so so you were just hooking up everybody. You
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  Speaker 1: were the person they came to. What hotels should I
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  Speaker 1: stay in? What's the airline? Freaking flyer plans, things like that,
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  Speaker 1: vacation packages, and you was just kind of like doing
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  Speaker 1: it as a friend to a friend, and that became
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  Speaker 1: your path to your success. And I always tell people
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of people ignore revenue because they don't
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  Speaker 1: see it being possible. How did you see it being
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  Speaker 1: possible getting into the travel agency business or travel business
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  Speaker 1: and eventually becoming a cruise line expert?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you know you can't be what you can't see.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember who said that, but that's the saying
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  Speaker 2: that's always stuck stuck with me. And thinking back to
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  Speaker 2: when I was in Jamaica, like I said, my mom
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  Speaker 2: r and the villa Jamaica is big on tourism and
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  Speaker 2: we have for a long time. I would think, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: how is it that you know black people are always
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  Speaker 2: the workers, but I rarely ever saw any black leaders
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  Speaker 2: at the top of the industry. And so you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I say, at an early age, I always wanted
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  Speaker 2: to travel. And then when I decided to get out
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  Speaker 2: and be a travel advisor. Early on, I went to
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  Speaker 2: a travel show and as I looked around in the room,
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  Speaker 2: I could count the amount of black professionals in that
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  Speaker 2: room on one hand. And I'm like, nah, nah, nah nah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, black people, we spend a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money in travel. I said, if the table isn't
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  Speaker 2: big enough for us to fit there, we don't have
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  Speaker 2: to make our own table.
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  Speaker 1: When I was growing up, Smoking Robinson had this cruise
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  Speaker 1: and I know he wasn't talking about the cruise that
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about. But it was such a cruising song.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been cruising a long time personally. I take
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  Speaker 1: my family cruising. I've been on the Disney cruise, i
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  Speaker 1: went up to Alaska, I went out to the Caribbean
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  Speaker 1: for several days. I've been on the three day cruise,
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  Speaker 1: I've been on the seven day cruise. I've been on
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  Speaker 1: the river cruises all along. I come back Miss Long
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  Speaker 1: talking about that food. That food, the food in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: the food at lunch, the food at dinner time, the
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  Speaker 1: food at midnight. And also they have a little specialty
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  Speaker 1: restaurants on these cruise ships. Talk to us about that
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  Speaker 1: food experience on these cruise lines. Miss Long.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you know, like you said, there is food here,
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  Speaker 2: There is food there. There is food everywhere. The one
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  Speaker 2: thing that you're not going to be on a cruise
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  Speaker 2: is hungry. Yes, So I'm included in your cruise sphere.
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  Speaker 2: Your food is included. So on every cruise, well except
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  Speaker 2: for one, there's going to be a buffet. That buffet
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  Speaker 2: is almost open almost all the time, and every kind
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  Speaker 2: of food you can think of is on that buffet line.
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  Speaker 2: It's there, and a lot of times each day. They
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  Speaker 2: have like a little space shelter section and they change
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  Speaker 2: up that section every day, you know, just to bring
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  Speaker 2: in something fresh and new and jutt it up, jutt
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  Speaker 2: it up. Yeah. You know.
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  Speaker 1: The thing about it is they do have a little
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  Speaker 1: gym there. You know, if you want to be a
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  Speaker 1: person who act like they want to stay in shape.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know why you want to go on
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  Speaker 1: a cruise with all this great food. I mean, she's
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  Speaker 1: not kid ice cream beyond that, desserts, beyond their cookies.
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  Speaker 2: Everything everything, and yeah, you know if you're that gym time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they do have state of the art gems, all the ships, right, yes,
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  Speaker 2: everything of the food is there. So in addition to
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  Speaker 2: the buffet, and we ain't even like the Google part yet,
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  Speaker 2: but in addition to the buffet, you know, they have
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  Speaker 2: the burgage ones, they have the hot doll joints, they
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  Speaker 2: have the piece of shop. Yeah, they have the little
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  Speaker 2: ice cream parlor. Everybody walking around, you know, the kid,
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  Speaker 2: the kid and you come out because you know, growing
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  Speaker 2: faks who don't eat ice cream at home. They walking
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  Speaker 2: around with their ice cream cone.
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  Speaker 1: And then something some cruise if you do where they
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  Speaker 1: walk around with food on a little tray, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like act like you can't see the food. They just
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  Speaker 1: come by. You want some snacks while you sitting by
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  Speaker 1: the pool. You want this for you, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: they also I have alcohol out there, and I feel
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  Speaker 1: all alcohol is extra correct if I'm not mistaken. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: that correct?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Alcohol is extra. So the vast majority of the
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  Speaker 2: cruise lines they have the drink package. You can either
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  Speaker 2: buy it when you buy your cruise spear or you
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  Speaker 2: could buy them the app. All the cruise lines have
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  Speaker 2: an app, so when you book your cruise, you just
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  Speaker 2: download that by boy, and you know, you start familiarizing
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  Speaker 2: yourself with the shed and what it has to offer.
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, you could buy your drink package in they're.
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  Speaker 1: Also now you know, getting that group. So let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. Like I said before I want to break
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  Speaker 1: it was talking about the NCL Aqua twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: cruise experience. You said that's a must join experience. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us what that's all.
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  Speaker 2: About, russhean, I can't wait to get an NCL Aqua.
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  Speaker 2: So NCL Norwegian Cruise Line NCL Aqua is their brand
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  Speaker 2: news ship that's coming out here. It's not even number
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  Speaker 2: water it, but how.
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  Speaker 1: Many passengers did it? How many passengers I've been on
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  Speaker 1: the seven hundred, which is small, I've been on a
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  Speaker 1: three thousand passenger cruise ship. How many passages on this? Awkward?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know? Off hand?
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  Speaker 2: So this tis over thirty five hundred people? All? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: But you know, Rashan, that's nothing. I know. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about NCL, But they got some cruise ships out there
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  Speaker 2: that can sit up like seven thousand people on that.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna just tell people this. I'm gonna just
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  Speaker 1: tell people because you're gonna answer this too. When you
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  Speaker 1: don't let that thirty five hundred fool you, you will
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  Speaker 1: not be waiting in line for food. They got different
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  Speaker 1: times that you're gonna go eat. You will eat on
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  Speaker 1: different sides of the ship. They got different buffets, they
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  Speaker 1: got different they got everything. And that's they are really
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  Speaker 1: one of the most organized formats. Four meals for entertainment
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  Speaker 1: because you kind of mentioned the entertainment it early because
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  Speaker 1: you said, Reshine, you performed on the cruises, Yes, I did.
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  Speaker 1: I performed on Norwegian Cruise Lines to stand up comedian.
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  Speaker 1: I perform on the Royal Caribbean Cruise lines and stand
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  Speaker 1: up comedian. I will get on the cruise on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: I perform on Tuesday, and I perform on Thursday. Because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times, some cruise have what they call
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  Speaker 1: dress up night. They want you addressed in a nice suit.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of like a formal night with the captain's dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Some cruise lines do that, and some cruise lines they
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  Speaker 1: just want you to be casual the whole time, depending
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  Speaker 1: on the type of cruise that you own. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: you talk about the NCL ARC or twenty twenty five cruise,
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  Speaker 1: which has never been cruised before, how do people get
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  Speaker 1: to share in that experience or gett an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of the experience A jelita.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So if you want to be a part of
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  Speaker 2: that experience, all you got to do is reach out
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  Speaker 2: to me. Am. I allowed to give up my phone
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  Speaker 2: number here, give.
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  Speaker 1: It out, give it that nigga can't reach it, don't.
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  Speaker 2: So four seven eight three three four zero one seven seven.
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  Speaker 2: But before you call me, go ahead and check out
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  Speaker 2: my website of my dream vacation travel dot com. And
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  Speaker 2: one of the best things about this so we've been
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  Speaker 2: doing all of the passport passe since twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you the first time we did one
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  Speaker 2: of these strips, I had a young lady who's never cruise.
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  Speaker 2: That lady was so scared a cruising Rashaan. Two of
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  Speaker 2: us had to hold her hand to walk her onto
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  Speaker 2: the ship.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's how scared she was. And now every year
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  Speaker 2: she's one of the first one. Sim Buff and I
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  Speaker 2: mean he is one of the first ones.
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  Speaker 1: And let's let's kill out this rumor. They have nightclubs
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  Speaker 1: on cruise ships. They have some cruise ships have gambling
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  Speaker 1: on cruise ships, and so you know, if you're single,
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  Speaker 1: you can mingle, as they say, on these cruise ships.
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  Speaker 1: So don't look at it as a family only experience.
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  Speaker 1: Don't look at it as an old folks experience. It
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  Speaker 1: really is a well rounded experience for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you think it's for everyone. It's for first time cruisers,
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  Speaker 2: because I promise you once you come the first time,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna keep coming back. It's for professionals if you're
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  Speaker 2: looking for luxury travel experience or you know, ways to
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  Speaker 2: connect with light minded professionals. It's for groups and families
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  Speaker 2: who want to have fun, without the planning. It's also
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  Speaker 2: for singles. You know, if you're scared of traveling by yourself,
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  Speaker 2: come on out travel travel with us. And a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the crews they know, they know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: single people travel, so they have events set up specifically
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  Speaker 2: for single people and when you check in, when you
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  Speaker 2: check in on your cruise, they'll ask you it should
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  Speaker 2: be annotated on your booking, but they'll also confirm that
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  Speaker 2: you're a single person, and sometimes, depending on the SAILY,
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  Speaker 2: you'll get an invite to a singles only party.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's let's talk about it. Let's go back to
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  Speaker 1: your military exit experience, because as a veteran you help
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  Speaker 1: fellow service members maximize travel benefits. What benefits can veterans
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  Speaker 1: get or travel perks they can get by being in
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  Speaker 1: the military to cruising.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you know perks are always great and travel
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  Speaker 2: is great when you get a better price, when you
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  Speaker 2: get a better discount. Right, So if we're talking about that,
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  Speaker 2: you know specifically Norwegian Cruise Line. Norwegian Cruise Line gives
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  Speaker 2: you what extra ten percent to offer you cruise fare
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  Speaker 2: and so that's not the only thing. So if you
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  Speaker 2: are familiar with the different cruise lines. Think Margaritaville. Margaritaville
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  Speaker 2: gives each veteran once a year, you could get a
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  Speaker 2: three night free cruise no cost to you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, repeat that now, Margaritaville gives what to a veteran.
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  Speaker 2: Margaritaville, each veteran, you can get a three night cruise
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  Speaker 2: at no cost to you. Margaritaville sales out of West
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  Speaker 2: bomb Beach and you can have that access once a year.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome, it is if you've never heard.
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  Speaker 1: Of that, that's awesome. Thank you for providing us with
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  Speaker 1: that information. Do they can they go through you or
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  Speaker 1: contact you for that information or they go straight to
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  Speaker 1: Margaritaville because I'd never heard of that.
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  Speaker 2: So they have to move directly with the cruise line.
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  Speaker 2: But they could reach out to me and I will
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  Speaker 2: help them with the information. But you know, Rishan, veterans
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of travel benefits. You know, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of time we go out and people say thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you for your service, thank you for this.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, when you want to go on a trip,
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  Speaker 2: you got to bring out the money and thank you
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  Speaker 2: don't pay for those trips. So I make sure veterans
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  Speaker 2: know about the travel benefits that's available to them and
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  Speaker 2: how they can maximize their benefits, and you know, perfect example,
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  Speaker 2: I had a neighbor only recently that told me, Hey,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I want to go to I want to go to Universal,
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  Speaker 2: but I looked on the web door. I looked online
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  Speaker 2: and it was over four thousand dollars. So it's like,
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  Speaker 2: can you hook me up? And I looked and I
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  Speaker 2: sent her a quote and it was for like twenty
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  Speaker 2: two hundred dollars. And then I sent it back to
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  Speaker 2: her and she was like, so, you know, I called
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  Speaker 2: her up. I'm like, hey, did you see it? She
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I saw it, but I want to
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  Speaker 2: stay in the park. I'm like, did you read my email?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: She was like, for that price, I can't be staying
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  Speaker 2: in the park. And I'm like, yes, but that price
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  Speaker 2: is staying in the park because I used their military discount.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, congratulations. And provide that type of information to
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  Speaker 1: our service individuals, because you know, we know they like
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  Speaker 1: in the military and they're not paying you six figures
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  Speaker 1: sometimes to protect this country and these type of benefits
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  Speaker 1: are blessing a blessing, and we should know about that.
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  Speaker 1: So give out your number. One more time. It's long
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  Speaker 1: so they'll know about what you're doing out there in
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  Speaker 1: the cruise industry. And before we wrap up, we want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about some specialty cruises that you may be
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  Speaker 1: working with as well. Give out your number then, okay.
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  Speaker 2: So my number is four seven eight three three four
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  Speaker 2: zero one seven seven cool.
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  Speaker 1: Now, now you know Tom Jonah made it famous. You
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  Speaker 1: know all these cruises.
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  Speaker 2: I love that show Growing Up.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Jonah made it famous. Now there are specialty cruises
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  Speaker 1: going around, jazz cruises, R and B cruises. Are you
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: involved with any of those type of cruises? Are those
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the cruisers? There's just specialties and you have to know
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: what they're going on at the time, and you just
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: could book traditional cruises.
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  Speaker 2: So no, but you know what you're talking about, you know,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: growing and Sexy guys. If you haven't heard about it,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: put it in Google.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Growing.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: These are charter ship right, nothing but black people. And
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: let me tell you this, it's black people and no
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: drama though on these ships. You know, you know, black
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  Speaker 2: talks ain't happening in the corner. They are center stage.
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  Speaker 2: We got it's full of black people, we got black entertainers.
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  Speaker 2: You know, everything on there is all about black history,
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  Speaker 2: black culture, black power. So yeah, and these cruises, they
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: normally happen in the summertime. But here's the thing, a
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: lot of times they're hard to get into because unless
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: you know somebody, because when, yeah, once you go on
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  Speaker 2: the trip this summer, those same people they rebooked before
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  Speaker 2: they get off the ship.
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  Speaker 1: Right right, I'll tell you something, Angelita, this has been fun.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: You know you started out slow. Well, boy, you just
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: you need another year after the break. And I'm happy
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: because people need to understand. So I'm gonna bring you
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  Speaker 1: back on the shoulder right now in a couple of
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: months if your schedule permits, because I want people to
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: understand that summertime, a lot of black people cruise doing
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the summer. We're going to talk about that experience that
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: that is happening, and then I want to talk about
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: specially the cruiser is even more. But more importantly, thank
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: you for coming on my show, money making conversation and
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  Speaker 1: sharing your again. Thank you for your twenty four years
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  Speaker 1: of service to this country. Thank you for telling military
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  Speaker 1: people there are benefits out there that they can take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of. Contact you and you can help them mind.
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  Speaker 1: But more importantly, you have an experience that you want
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  Speaker 1: to share with people of color in the cruise industry,
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  Speaker 1: and you are making it happen. Thank you for coming
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  Speaker 1: on my show.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.
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