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Hey there, hi, there, and welcome to episode 321, oh, 321 of connecting with Walt.

I am your host and is historian Michael Bowling, and I am joined by my co-host, producer, and good friend Tom Bell.

Tom, how are you today? Or should I ask, where are you today?

Hopefully I'm relaxed. I have a

a fruity drink in my hand and enjoying your song. Yes, yes. So when the show goes up,

I will be on the Carnival Radiance and we will be docked outside of Catalina, Catalina Island, off the coast of California 26 miles.

Is that what it is?

Yeah.

I've never been to the nice part of Catalina.

I've only been to the Boy Scout Camp, Camp Cherry Valley with my troop.

That's on the other side, the dry, dry, desolate, God-forsaken

side. Where all the bison are? The island. Yes, there are bison there. And I think it's in

the bay where Natalie Wood drowned. Oh, okay. So it's there nearby.

So most of, if you do like a four night cruise out of L.A. area, usually they'll stop in

Ensenada and also Catalina.

So that's the extra stop that they make to enhance and extend the cruise.

Oh, Catalina is a very cool place.

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