ANCHOR POINTE THE GENESISANCHOR POINTE, The Faith and Fitness PodcastFaith, Diet, Exercise, Attitude, Positive Imagery, Music and ResearchTRANSCRIPTCharlotte (00:00)This is the XBHS Radio Network.Skip Orem (00:03):Hi, everybody. From Nashville, I'm Skip Orem, and this is the Anchor Pointe Podcast.(00:12):Hey, everybody, from the Nashville studios of the XBHS Radio Network here on Printers Alley in Nashville, Tennessee, I'm Skip Orem and welcome to this late January episode of the Anchor Pointe Podcast. This is your faith and fitness podcast designed especially for us older folks, baby boomers in our 60s and 70s and beyond, working together using the seven elements of the anchor pointe disease fighting and fitness model. Those seven elements, faith, diet, exercise, attitude, positive imagery, research and music. On the Anchor Pointe Podcast, we use those seven elements to stay healthy, to fight off those diseases that are out there just gunning for us older folks. Our ultimate goal, to live a long, happy and healthy life.(01:17):This is, everybody, a little bit different episode today. I've titled it Genesis, and my plan with this episode is to go back in time and give you, especially some of our new listeners, some insight into why I started this podcast in the first place and how faith and fitness is just so important to us older folks, as we all navigate through life here in our senior years. I started this podcast back in May of 2020. I started it because there had been a major change come about in my life. Cancer had attacked me and tried to take me out. That experience was the beginning of Anchor Pointe.(02:07):I called the podcast, when I started it, Web Radio Today and then late last year I changed the name to Anchor Pointe. I think it so much better describes what we do here on the podcast. We are putting an anchor point in place as we focus more on our faith and fitness. Yeah, that year, 2020 was a strange year for most of us with Covid and everything that was going on. However, I kind of view it as an awesome year for me because what came to destroy me brought me back to God.(02:50):Spend some time with me now, the genesis of Anchor Pointe, the story of my experience with cancer. It talks about how Anchor Pointe was started, but most importantly, it's my testimony, and then I'll be back at the end of the episode to talk with you about next week's episode.(03:12):I am going to start my cancer story on December 24th, 2019. It begins on Christmas Eve in Columbus, Ohio. I was in Columbus to celebrate Christmas with my daughter and her family and my wife's family. What a wonderful evening. Everybody together, few of these people I only see them once a year, but I love them all and we're all thinking, "What a great year 2020 is going to be." All of us looking forward to exciting things in the new year, especially because my daughter, Diana, is going to have another baby in May, a new grandchild, wonderful.(04:14):You know, everybody, thinking about that night, looking back on it now, it's funny and I was thinking that you really know nothing about the future. No way that you can predict what's ahead. You really only can say hey, today's pretty good. Tomorrow's looking okay, but beyond that, we know nothing about our future.(05:05):Little did I know on December 24th, 2019 that there was a pretty good chance that I wouldn't be around on Christmas Eve 2020. During the last few months of 2019, I was having some, what I'm going to call, old man problems, needing to get up too many times at night to use the restroom. So I was pretty happy there on that Christmas Eve I was looking forward to January 16th, 2020. I was scheduled to have an appointment with a urologist and to get this problem,