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On this show, Travel Writer, Chris Owen, and from the Family Travel Network, Nancy Shredder. Talk all about the Disney Dream. Speaking of the Disney Dream, who recently appointed Jennifer Hudson as their godmother, I understand you got to see a godmother as well of a cruise ship. Reba! Yes. She's the Epics godmother. In a song concert, she was here in Jacksonville with George Strait. Uh-huh. You were there, which is how you lost her voice. I was screaming. Yeah, George Strait, because you love him so much. But you got to talk to her, right? I did. And I'll tell you right now, I was so close to getting audio with my iPhone recorder secretly slipped into my pocket. And just how I was pressing record, the Reba Gestapo totally nailed me. He said, put the phone away. Oh, boy. But I did talk to her. I said, how does it feel to be the godmother? And she goes, I love it. It's great. I said, you're a big fan of NCL. Isn't that right?

She goes, yeah, I sail on them quite a bit.

I said, you took a cruise to Alaska last summer, right? Now, see, at this point, I'm coming across like a stalker. Right. The Reba police was honing in on me. but she said yeah she said i love it and uh it was a lot of fun and and uh try and cruise as much

as i can so that was really cool very cool

thank you But she said, yeah, she said I love it. And it was a lot of fun and try and cruise as much as I can.

So that was really cool to talk about.

How do you get the funky?

Walk like an Egyptian lover.

And there's our segue into the Egypt question with Stuart She-Ron, the Cruise guy.

Well, these are also a lot of fun songs that a lot of people will remember.

Of course, that's great.

Especially Egyptian lover.

Right.

All right, due to the political unrest in Egypt, are our cruise lines going to continue to cancel?

It's a good question.

You know, we talked at NCL and MSC canceled sailings this past week. You can actually add

Costa cruises to the mix, who canceled their upcoming sailings. And instead of their turnarounds,

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