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Stephen Holgate

Stephen Holgate

British physician

Aug 14, 2026

SamHOST
25:51
Let's put it that way.
25:52
Yeah.
25:53
I was so not myself day one because we, we had been, since the, we went on the Wish in 2023, we had only been on the Magic, like, five or six times.
26:02
So I, the Magic is, you know, I s- my first cruise was in 2011, and so I sailed when it was just Dream, Magic, or Wonder, and so I was just used to that theming, the way that the vibes felt.
26:14
And getting on the Destiny felt, it was so overwhelming because everywhere you look there is something super fabulous to take in and there's, I mean, just so many lounges and bars and experiences that I, I was telling Kim, I'm like, "My brain is getting overwhelmed with the thought of, like, we should rush and do everything today," you know? And so, and I also accidentally had six shots of espresso, so it was like my brain turned on, but it also turned off in a way.
26:44
And so we were trying to have fun, and we were ab- and I was, like, just completely mute and so, so overwhelmed.
26:52
And then we had the incident with, um, our friend's son hitting his head, and everything just went, like, complete bonkers that day.

34 MINS LATER

SamHOST
61:12
... of this series of vlogs.
13:51
Stephen had spent his entire career researching asthma, getting to know the lungs inside and out, and here was his life's work sitting in front of him in the form of a medical mystery.
14:04
I, I mean, I'm a doctor, you know, and, and there was clearly, um, an opportunity to try and unravel what had happened.
14:14
And I know Rosamund couldn't do that, and none of the doctors in all these hospitals could do it either.
14:19
But because I, I had spent, you know, my life researching asthma, you know, I knew a lot about the disease.

16 MINS LATER

30:39
Stephen told us that this case, this little girl, was able to break through and stir up real change when tons of research, I mean, mountains of papers on air pollution and asthma didn't
30:55
I can't tell you how, what a big impact this has had.
30:58
You can have all the epidemiology in the world, but having the story of a single mother and a child, you know, with real facts actually is more influential in many ways than all of the sort of complex statistics and everything else put together.
BrianHOST
14:14
Yeah.
14:16
Yeah.
14:16
So I'm like, my parents didn't take a lot of pictures or videos growing up.
14:21
And so as an adult, it's put me in this thing where I'm like, I feel like I have to document everything because I don't have a lot of things to look back on from my childhood.
14:30
Maybe in my childhood, I have 200 pictures.
14:33
And so for Kenzie, she has like 200 a week because I'm like, so like, I don't want to forget a thing and so i've always video recorded everything since she was a baby you know us getting to know one another and i would always turn them into little like family home movies and then my family and my friends and brian would be like you should share those online and like i said being an introverted extrovert i'm like no way i'm not comfortable sharing so we went on Our first Disney cruise after the pandemic, we went on the Disney Wonder out of Galveston.
15:05
And afterwards, Brian was like, you should turn them into vlogs for the cruise.

38 MINS LATER

BrianHOST
53:07
me yours.

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