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science and spirituality. A better life with Ageless Blueprint starts now.
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Here's your host, Doctor Eldrick Taylors.
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Hello, Hello, Hello, good morning. I am back. If you've
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watched the podcast over the last two weeks, you may
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realize that those actually weren't live those were repeats of
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previous shows. Because I have been out of the country
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for two weeks and I just got back two days ago,
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I still got a little bit of jet lag. I
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woke up like at two o'clock this morning, that's where
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we were. That would have been but like ten o'clock
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in the afternoon, So I'm a little bit off. I
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got a little bit of sleep before I started the podcast,
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so I should be okay. So Happy New Year. I
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hope everybody had a merry Christmas. I actually spent Christmas
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in Africa, and you know, to be honest with you,
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I started we started Ageless Blueprint really a little bit
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over a year ago, and primarily I started Ageless Blueprint
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because I went through a transformation course called Reality Creator,
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and it talked about how you can create your own reality.
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And I was at a crossroads almost sixty five years old.
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I am sixty five now, and I had to decide
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what kind of reality I wanted to create for the
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rest of my life. And it was an amazing course.
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I'm actually going to have him on as a podcast, yes,
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because it really really changed my life. And so last year,
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if you don't remember, I went to Egypt, and that
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was really a part of this transformation, me getting over
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my fear. One of the fears was getting over one
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of the things too. In order to have a new reality,
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you have to get over your fears. So one of
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my biggest feels was the water. So I took a
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scuba diving lesson and it really kind of opened the
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door for me. And from that we decided, my wife
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and I decided to go to Egypt last year. Was
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an amazing experience and that really spearheaded this ageless blueprint
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is I went back saw what was going on six seven, eight, nine,
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ten thousand years ago and saw how there was a
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blueprint for life there. So anyway, so from that, I
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have really really become fearless. And so my wife and I,
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we've both gone through this transformation. It has transformed every
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part of our lives. Has transformed our marriage, our relationship
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with our kids, how we look at work, how we
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look at what we do. We see it in a
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different light, and we are creating a reality that we
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want as we age, and not a reality that people
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think someone sixty five or older should do. So, to
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make a long story short, this is why we went
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to We went to Rwanda, and we went to Uganda.
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Actually I had a patient who we were talking about,
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you know, going to Africa and all this, and he said, well, hey,
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you ought to go and track the gorillas. And this
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was about a year ago and we said, oh, wow,
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wouldn't that be amazing, you know, to track to gorillas,
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and we could go do it so far because we
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did one about fourteen years ago with our kids, but
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we decided we're going to do it just me and
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my wife and have an experience together. So anyway, what
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I want to do is kind of you know, they
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call it a travel blog, but I want to show
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our trip and how it transformed us once again and
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it pushed us to our limits. And when you get
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pushed to your limit and you start to see that
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you can do things that you never thought you could
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do or you would do it, really it really reinforces
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this ageless living. It really enforces your fearlessness and primarily
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the fear of the unknown. So I want to stop talking.
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I want to you know, let's look at some of
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the some of the slides, and I actually have a
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couple of videos, and it's not just a travel blog,
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but it's really trying to encourage everyone to do some
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of the things that you've always wanted to do. Don't wait.
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As you get older, you start to realize that you
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do not have unlimited time, and especially if you have
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a partner or significant other or family members that you
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want to share life experiences with. You need to do
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it as soon as possible. Now, you don't have to
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go to Africa, you know, I have to do all that,
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you know, just plan a trip to the rocky mountains,
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or you have a picnic or whatever. Just do something.
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sometimes later doesn't come. And that's what I'm figuring out.
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And I know you're you know, I'm a spiritual MD
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and the hormone doctor, and we're going to get back
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to that. But a lot of times at the end
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of the year and the beginning of the year, you
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want to kind of recalibrate and figure out where you
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are and where you're going. And so this is what
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we usually do at the end of the year. So
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let's go and do the sladest Okay, see how much? Okay?
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All right, so let me make this a little bit
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bigger stur see. So why we'll do it later is
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the most dangerous line we tell ourselves. A reflection on aging, marriage, fear,
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and a liveness. And this is a certificate. So before
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you start, they get your names and everything because they
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want you to have a certificate to say that you
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track the gorillas. And at first I thought I had
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a big deal a certificate, but hey, I cherish the
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certificate because you'll see what we had to go through
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to see these silver backed guerrillas. They're mountain gorillas. And
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when they say mountain gorillas, they're really mountain gorillas. They
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live in the mountains. So if you want to see
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the gorillas, you have to go up to the mountain.
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something called Stone Mountain, and we've hiked up Stone Mountain.
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It's difficult, but this is a whole different and we'll
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go through it. I don't want to give it away
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too fast, too quickly, but you'll see, all right, So
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let's go all right. So this wasn't necessarily a vacation.
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See I call a vacation when you sit on the
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beach and drink peanut coladas or whatever and everybody is
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serving you and all that stuff. So this was not
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a vacation. This was a shared experience that really changed us.
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volcano behind us there, and so this was our first
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day there. So we were all happy and set out
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for adventure, and that's what we call it. We try
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to go on adventures together. Because Egypt was an adventure.
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We went to Ghana, it was an adventure. It's not
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a relaxing vacation. It's an adventure. But all of those
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experiences have changed me profoundly. The beach is nice, but
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if you want to have a life changing experience, you
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need to do something that you've never done before. Are
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you just was in a fantasy or whatever? And you
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know again, you don't have to do something as wild
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as as this. Hey, we've we've worked, you know, thirty
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years in medicine and doing other things, and we've you know,
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I'm used to delay gratification. When you go to medical school,
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you get a lot you have to deal with a
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lot of delayed gratification. And so in this part of
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my life, I'm not delaying gratification anymore. Is that if
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we want to do something, we'll do it, and so
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this is one of those and believe me, it's brought
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us closer together. All right. So this is where we went.
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This is Welcome to Rwanda, the Republic of Rwanda. I'll
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tell you if you've ever seen the movie Hotel Rwanda.
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You know, there was a genisat there in nineteen ninety
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four and they have really recovered. It's really a beautiful
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The capital city city is kill Golly. It's really a
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beautiful place. I think I have a picture of a
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hotel that we stayed in when we were there. But
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it's a clean city. Every at the end of the month,
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everyone has to go out and clean their area, so
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the city is spotless. Is very mardern. It's not what
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you might think Africa is stay in a beautiful hotel.
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But then the other part is that you go on
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these safaris. So these are the two safari parks we
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went to, and there are huge parks and I'll show
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you some of the things that you see there. And
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to be honest with you, I didn't really realize my geography.
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But we were only about ten or fifteen minutes away
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from the equator, and so we're standing on the equator
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right here. So another shared experience that most people don't
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get to do. So we've been to the equator, you know,
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We've been to these two countries that a lot of
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people don't go to. And we really encourage people and
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we love to travel. We've been married forty years. We've
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traveled almost all of those years. Where we didn't have
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any money in residency, we took the cheap cruises, the
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carnival cruise, we did all of those. We did it
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during hurricane season, so that's when the prices were down
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and we just had to take the chance. So we've
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always loved to travel, even with our kids, and because
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it opens your horizons, it makes you see things the
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world and how big and beautiful it is, and beautiful
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it is, and how different different cultures are. But those
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cultures have adapted to their environment and that's just how
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they live. So these are the places that we went,
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and you can go go look at Google Maps and
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see exactly where they are in Africa, but they are
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actually in the eastern part of Africa, all right, So
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let's go to the next one. Now, this is why
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we went to get these pictures. Now I probably have
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about thirty and forty of these pictures. But these are
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what they call silver back gorillas. They live in the
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mountain and you see all of this jungle around them.
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ten feet from these gorillas. They are used to people
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being around them. You can't go in large groups. It's
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only like four or five at a time. And here's
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what I want you to see. You've gotten the gorilla tracking.
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We tracked four hours, We climbed four hours. We were
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up ten thousand feet. Okay, so ten thousand feet that
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is really high. It took us four hours to climb
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that mountain. So here's the fan print. My daughter said,
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we should have read the fanprint. They say it may
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take up from one to four hours to get to
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the gorillas. And we were like, oh okay, we can
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hike four hours. We've gone up Stone Mountain. We didn't
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realize how high that mountain was. And you also realize
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that this is the jungle. There's no trails. These gorillas
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go wherever they want to. They don't follow trails or anything,
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so they're actually trackers. There's people with guns who go
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and find the gorillas, and they're not to shoot the gorillas.
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in case the elephant or loose. And they still don't
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kill them. They just tranquilized them. And that never happened me.
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It didn't happen while we were there, but anyway, that's
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how it goes. So we climbed up ten thousand feet.
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We're in our mid sixties, you guys, it was. It
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pushed us to the limit. Let me just show you.
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when we got up to the top of the mountain.
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And you see my wife here, she is not she
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is not doing good. And so we sat there, we
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had lunch, and then all we could think about is
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now we've got to go down. And going down is
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almost as hard as going up. And so at any
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age when most people are told to slow down, we're
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doing crazy stuff like this. And so I want to
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tell you is that at several points going up that
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mountain we wanted to turn around. But get you get
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to a point and no guide is going to go
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down there with you, and you paid money and they
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are determined for you to get to see those gorillas.
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the even with all of the help, it was still very,
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very difficult. So we started at seven in the morning.
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four or five hours so anyway, from seven in the
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morning to seven at night, we were hiking this mountain
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and either going up or down. It is the most
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strenuous physical thing we've ever done. And we did it
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in our mid sixties, not in our mid thirties. We
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were actually with another couple who were in their forties,
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and it was even difficult for them. So, so rebel,
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this is what I'll tell you. If you want to go