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Broadcasting on the shores of Texas in Galveston Bay.

This is Cruise Radio.

Hey, I'm Matt Baskford. And I'm Doug Parker. We are at Pier 21. Maroon 5 is just about to hit the stage, and there's lots of excitement in the air. And by excitement, of course, I mean, screaming young girls wanting a piece of Adam Levine. Yeah, the reason why we're here is because Carnival Magic just made its first U.S. appearance here in Galveston, Texas earlier today.

The ship is home ported here for, well, as far as we know, offering seven-night Eastern and Western alternating Caribbean itineraries. On this show, we'll talk to the mayor of Galveston, Mayor Joe Jaworski, and we'll highlight some of the attractions around Galveston as the Visitors Bureau was kind enough to take us on a number of tours yesterday and I'm sure we'll find a passenger or two to talk to about their magic experience. But first, Stuart Sheeran on the cruise guys here. Hello, Stuart. Hey, Doug. Hey, Matt. Since you've been covering the industry, have you seen a lot of big concerts kicking off things like this? Well, besides Queen Elizabeth, the second, doing her inauguration of her Queen Elizabeth. I mean, it's just pretty exciting. I mean, it's nice. I mean, Carnival went all out. Now, Carnival Magic's going to be home ported here in Galvest, Texas. Is this kind of an indefinite thing? Like, it's not leaving to go to Europe in the offseason or anything?

Not now.

I mean, of course we know that Carnival Breeze is going to debut in Europe, and then she's going to Homeport in Miami. But Carnival Magic will homeport and Galveston for the foreseeable future. Stuart, who's here year-round? Well, Carnival's the only cruise line that's here year-round. They're going to have, you know, the two ships, Carnival Triumph and, you know, the brand new Carnival Magic doing their thing. And, you know, there's some other ships that are coming in. A Royal is going to be here with Mariner of the Seas. Later in the year, you're going to have Princess returning with one of their ships. and then of course Disney's going to make its triumphant debut here in 2012.

But I think Galvis is going to make its triumphant debut here in 2012.

But I think Galvis is going to be pretty excited to see this beautiful 130,000-ton ship sailing here year-round,

sailing, you know, to the Western Caribbean and Florida, Bahamas.

Stuart, can we expect to see any of the fun ship initiative 2.0 improvements on The Magic?

We're going to see a lot of innovations coming. Carnival Breeze is going to be the next one

to receive part of that $500 million fund ship innovation.

And they're going to add some really cool stuff.

The only thing really missing here is George Lopez's comedy club and what I have really been missing, and I know Doug has too.

No, we're missing as Guy Fieri Burger joints. That place is amazing.

It's safe to say that Carnival Magic kind of spawned Funship 2.0 with the Red Frog Pub and that kind of whole vibe thing, isn't it?

There's a lot of features on Carnival Magic that are going to be, you know, brought across, you know, fleet wide.

But these initiatives, you know, where they were going to, I mean, Royal Caribbean's doing it,

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