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hello everyone karen glasser here and
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global scale
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today i welcome andrew king to the show
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he is the author of
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cruising alaska a visual journey to
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alaska
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andrew is a 25 year old author from a
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town north of toronto
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aurora ontario as a struggling high
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school student during his younger years
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he dealt with stress and anxiety but was
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fortunate enough to have a teacher step
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up who helped turn his life around he
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says she helped him become a
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better person overall and credits her
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for helping him graduate high school
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he has two degrees in travel and tourism
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as well as hospitality
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after college he traveled on cruise
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ships my
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favorite way to travel and explored the
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world and used
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his photography background to create
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great travel photos that are included
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in the book so without further ado we
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welcome
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andrew hey welcome to the show andrew
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how are you today
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good i'm i'm thrilled that you're here
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today
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um we're going to be talking about your
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book and we're going to be talking about
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and what looking at some of the
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photographs that you have in the book
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and then we're going to send people to
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go buy your book because it is amazing
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and it's launching
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in november so it's just around the
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corner the book is coming out really
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it's very exciting
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um and so we're kind of like the first
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to to preview this and to launch it i'm
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very very
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very excited about this so andrew let's
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first talk a little bit
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um about your education you're quite
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accomplished you have degrees as we said
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in travel tourism and hospitality tell
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us about that a little bit
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um the degree of
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tourism is from toronto i did that
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education in toronto
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and then did the hospitality degree out
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in vancouver british columbia
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so what made you look into that what
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made you say i want to get my
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education my degrees in travel and
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tourism is it
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because you love cruising it's because
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of
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loving just travel overall and seeing
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different places all over the world
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well you did a beautiful job in the book
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so
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let's just let's just jump in um you
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told me that you love to cruise so do i
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i love to cruise why do you love to
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cruise what is it about the ship what is
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it about the activity of going on a
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cruise that you love so much
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uh for me it's all about being able to
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go see new places in the world
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get away from the stress of the everyday
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life that we have
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and just being able to create new
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memories with cruising
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well and you did that you totally did
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that so let's talk about your book i
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want to pop your book up into the stream
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for a second so everybody can see it
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it's called uh cruising alaska a visual
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journey to alaska
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so what's your book about my book is all
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about
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seeing alaska by cruise ship but kind of
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through my
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eyes instead of like through other tour
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guides
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or other people who do
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work in alaska and you're a photographer
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and so you decided to go out and take
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photos
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of of different places i'm going to put
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some of your photos up on the screen
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and i'm going to ask you what your
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inspiration was with these photographs
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that you did
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um the first one where is this taken uh
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in a fjord up in alaska that
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is just a beautiful scenic
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overall great area to see and travel
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down it's so
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quiet it's peaceful it's
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it's just a whole new experience and i
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can tell and what i'm fascinated by is
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you were able to get
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not just the beautiful mountains and the
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water but the shadings in the water i
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mean you just did a beautiful
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job on this picture um what about this
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one this is in the book as well where is
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this from
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uh ketchikan alaska it's a beautiful
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little town
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out in the out in the alaskan kind of
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southern
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alaska area and as you can see it's just
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a beautiful scenic area
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that you really don't want to miss
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seeing ever
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so andrew what time what time of year
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did you take these pictures because it's
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the ocean is so blue and the mountains
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are so green
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what time of year did you take these
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this would have to be between the months
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of
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may and late september absolutely
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stunning
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absolutely stunning and i see uh some
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eagles i think
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hiding in the trees up there yeah
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it's the two american bald eagles just
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out during one of my
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excursions during one of them and the
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two of them are just sitting up in that
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tree
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just really perched up there and just an
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amazing
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sight to see absolutely and were you
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surprised that you were able to get
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these into your photograph
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uh it was a little bit surprising but
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with kind of people pointing them out it
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was easier to
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have a good shot like that
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so here's another gorgeous gorgeous
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photo you can see snow's still on the
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hills where is this
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uh this is actually in the
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outside of uh juno alaska area
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and it's this was a seaplane that took
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us up
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and and it's a great experience to see
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all these
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glaciers and seeing these
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the beautiful colors and everything from
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there
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it makes me want to go right now it
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makes me want to go right now though
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this is an
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awesome awesome picture i'm assuming
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that that is part of an iceberg
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uh it's actually part of a whole glacier
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as you can see the
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that between the green and the mountain
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there is
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that's a whole glacier right in the
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middle wow
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and you and it's and then the blue color
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that's within it looks like somebody
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took a big bite out of it
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it's gorgeous beautiful beautiful
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picture and here's the last one i want
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to share
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um where is this taken uh this is
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actually taken within uh
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the yukon territory of canada because
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it's one of the poor areas i talk about
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my book
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it's actually like only about a couple
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hour drive
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into and you can get into canada through
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that way and
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there's these beautiful hills on the way
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to
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a little town well it's
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they're absolutely beautiful and uh you
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know i'm not sure
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what came first the photos or the book
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um the photos and then just kind of
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went from there with it why did you
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decide i mean i know you like to cruise
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but why did you decide to write a book
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about cruising alaska is that your
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favorite place to cruise
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or or it was just more
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somewhere to start with more than
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anything
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so andrew are you are you saying it here
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first and people are going to hear this
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this is only the first book you have
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others that are coming out yeah there's
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other ones i'm going to be
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writing over time wonderful and are they
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going to be these kind of books travel
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books and
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and using your photographs yes well
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they're beautiful you did an awesome job
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um so you told me when i asked you when
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we first met
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you know when you wrote the book you
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wanted you wanted
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um to give people something to look
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forward to
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right yeah after all that we're
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we're living in right now so let's talk
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a little bit about that
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why why is that so important to you um
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well i think it's the big thing is we're
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just a lot of us are getting tired of
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sitting at home
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seeing the same thing day in day out and
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when this is over we're all going to
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need something to get away from
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all this craziness
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agreed agreed so what do you hope your
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readers are going to take away after
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reading your book i mean i know that
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people are going to rush out now and
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want to get this book
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for the photographs alone i keep saying
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that because i'm so impressed by your
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talent
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um what do you hope people after reading
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this book are you hoping that they're
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going to say
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i need to go on a cruise or i need to go
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get a camera and start taking pictures
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just like andrew what is your hope
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that will happen um i think the big
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thing is is for people to
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want to go travel after all this
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and the other big thing of course is
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with traveling
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this these areas that i went to in
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alaska are only actually accessible by
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ship
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except for the one area but the
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residents have to
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access by cruise ship
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so now that you've written your first
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book
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have you learned some skills and some
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things that you didn't know that will
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make your next
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book a little bit easier or it doesn't
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matter
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i to me it doesn't matter but to me like
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the big thing was
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this really brought me forward with
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bringing a talent that i didn't even
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know
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i had of writing and
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and partnering it with your photography
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how long have you been doing photography
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oh i've been doing photography since i
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was maybe
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seven years old wow
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wow wow and and did you did did you
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realize you had this talent
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with the camera or it was just something
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you didn't know i started doing the
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cruises
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interesting interesting um let's talk
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about your your writing process you said
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that the pictures kind of came first and
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then you wrote
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a story around it you wrote the travel
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around it
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do you just sit down with a notepad and
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you take your pencil out your pen out
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and you just start to write
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or you do an hour no actually tell me
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how it was
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more uh kind of taking the photos from
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each area
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and just kind of start writing and see
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what kind of fits and then kind of
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rearrange it as needed to
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make it sound better interesting
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and so when you're when you're using the
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pictures and then writing around it
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this is not fiction this is non-fiction
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this is actually a real place that
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you've been to you're not actually
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writing a story you're actually writing
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um the information around this going on
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a cruise
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and and the photographs and all of that
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so
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it just flows you're not you don't sit
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down and first do an outline and then
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you come back later on and do a couple
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of words here and a couple words there
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it just flows
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yeah exactly it just flows as i go with
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it
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so you went to school you have your
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degrees
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in in tourism and in travel and in
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hospitality do you plan on using any of
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those skills
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as we move farther along are you are you
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going to maybe be a travel
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um advisor are you gonna be a travel
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guide what are you
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gonna use any of those skills um i would
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like to
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either be a person who sells cruises
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or actually work for a cruise line
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and which okay so i have to ask what's
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your favorite cruise line
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um i would have to say one of my top
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ones is uh royal caribbean
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me too me too i i either it's either
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princess cruise or royal caribbean i
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think they
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one of them owns the other i think but
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they're their own separate companies
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oh they're apps okay so i like them both
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i equal opportunity for both
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i love to cruise i have been all over
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the world cruising and it sounds like so
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have you
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where else have you gone i've gone
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with uh several other lines as well and
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i've gone to across the atlantic
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over to europe i've tried i've cruised
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around
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europe like from rome going to like
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malta
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greece i've done cruises of course in
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the caribbean
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cruises uh first cruise ever was to
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hawaii
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and a cruise in australia and new
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zealand
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wow i'm exhausted i'm totally exhausted
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right now
12:42
and i i know i said why do you like to
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cruise but for me i like to cruise
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because i unpack once
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and then i get to go off the ship and
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then come back i never have to go in and
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out of hotels what is it that you like
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so much about cruising
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uh i think the big thing is just
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experiencing new areas and seeing new
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places and
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experiencing new lifestyles and seeing
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the way people live in all these
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different countries
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and different food yeah yeah
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definitely different food um so
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did you have any challenges when you
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were writing this book
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i guess he was just sometimes just
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trying to keep focused at times because
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like
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you got other things going on in life so
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it's like you gotta sometimes try to
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find a way just to completely
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focus and just stick with it
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yeah and i think that's an important
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message for those of you who are
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watching either live or on replay this
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is it's a matter of sticking to
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something is making a decision
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right and then just doing it and that's
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what you have done
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right yeah so
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on on november 13th is when your book
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launches right
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comes in it'll be in the bookstore we're
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going to put the link again into the
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comments so that you can go pick up your
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copy
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how are you going to celebrate your book
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being published
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i think this course being around family
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and
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experiencing it with others and i have
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to assume your family is really proud of
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you
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to be a published author to be able to
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say my name
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is andrew king and i'm a published
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author that's pretty impressive
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and i again i want to thank has mark
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publishing um for introducing you
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to me and for being our sponsor and and
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doing the show
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again i want to put the book back into
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the
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uh window and it's very easy to get a
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copy you just click that link that's in
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the
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comment area and you will be taken over
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to a page that you can purchase the book
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i am sure that um andrew would be
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thrilled
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to hear that you picked up a copy of his
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book and you're wondering how do i let
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andrew know
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well andrew has an instagram account at
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cruise picks by kinger which i
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absolutely love and i am sure that if
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you send if you go over to instagram and
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you send a message over to andrew and
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let him know that you have a picture of
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you have the book take a picture of you
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holding the book and send it in
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i am sure andrew will be thrilled am i
15:09
right andrew
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yeah yeah i i think i would love to if i
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was a published author
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i would love to know that uh somebody
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bought my book
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and took a picture of it the other way
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that you can get in touch with andrew is
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to go to
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thehasmarkpublishing.com website because
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that is who publishes
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andrew andrews fortunate there are lots
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of different ways to do
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to write a book but andrew has a
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publisher which is awesome it happens to
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be has mark
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publishing and they have helped him get
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this book out from the beginning
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is there any last minute comment from
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you andrew or
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last minute thought that you want to
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make sure that our viewers
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hear from you um the big thing is of
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course
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if i didn't have those couple teachers
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in high school
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i don't know what position i would be in
15:55
right now
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let's okay you know what let's back up
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let's talk about that
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um i it's a very important very
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important statement i think that a lot
16:04
of kids i don't know what your
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challenges were when you were growing up
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in school but it's fortunate you had
16:09
teachers and you had adults that were
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there to help you um
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did you ask for help or they just they
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were just
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they saw it and they wanted to help you
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uh it was kind of a mix of
16:20
both because they noticed that like i
16:23
was a
16:23
student who didn't really like school at
16:26
all very much
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because i think a lot of it had to deal
16:29
with one of the schools i was in
16:32
it the teachers just didn't really
16:35
have a good respect for helping students
16:38
who are challenged
16:39
with like the learning type or
16:43
just being able to help them without
16:46
causing problems for them
16:48
so you're fortunate that you had
16:50
somebody and somebodies it wasn't just
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one that was able to help you along
16:54
have you let them know that you have a
16:55
public that you have a book that's
16:56
coming out
16:57
yes i have i bet they're excited
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and i i think it's a credit to you
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andrew
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good did you want to say something
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no that was it so i think it's a credit
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to you
17:13
i am sure that um to be able
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the teachers to be able to look back and
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now to see you as a published author
17:19
and to see your photography um i'm sure
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that they are pleased that they decided
17:24
that they wanted to help you and and
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help you succeed
17:27
and i am thrilled because you wouldn't
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be here with your book
17:31
had that not happened so thank you to
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the teachers and thank you for all the
17:35
people along the way
17:36
that have helped you get your you know
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help you get to the place that you're at
17:40
right now and to have this book
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published
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again if you are interested in picking
17:43
up a copy of the book it's sitting in
17:45
the comments
17:46
if you would like to follow andrew on
17:48
instagram you can follow him
17:50
at cruise picks by kinger you can also
17:53
go visit the website
17:55
hasmarkpublishing.com to find out more
17:56
about andrew
17:58
and andrew i want to thank you for
17:59
sharing time with us today um
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it's it's always fun to have authors on
18:04
and i see and you i know you're not in
18:06
myrtle beach
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but you must like the beach right yeah
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i've
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gone there quite a few winters over the
18:13
winter time i bet
18:14
to get out of the cold i bet i bet um i
18:17
want to thank you for spending time with
18:19
with us today and i want to thank our
18:20
audience for spending time with us
18:21
because you have a choice as to where
18:23
you spend your time and you chose to
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spend it with andrew and me today
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and we want to thank you we are very
18:28
very appreciative so go out and give
18:31
somebody an awesome day and we'll see
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you next time on the next karen glasser
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live
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goodbye everyone
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