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Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

So happy to have you here, my friend. Don't forget, we are online, cruiseradet.net. Also, Facebook, Facebook.com slash Cruise Radio. Just slide your little mouse over there, and you'll find us right there on the web. So before we get to the interviews for today, big announcement from Sir Richard Branson, himself in Miami later on this week,

and we'll be there covering it.

So I don't want to say wall-to-wall coverage, but we'll do a 360-degree

coverage of the possible Virgin Cruises announcement from Miami a little later on this week.

All right, well, on this show, Richard from Virginia Beach just returned from a seven-night

Eastern Caribbean sailing aboard Norwegian getaway from Miami, and he'll be here to share all of that.

But first, we always love getting your listener questions. If you have one you like to share

or ask, just email comments at cruiserradiot.net, and we'll get you on the show and get your

question answered as well.

Fielding today's questions. Is that the word, Jason, fielding? Are you vetting them? What are you doing?

Fielding sounds like too much like a baseball question. Yeah, we'll say answering today's

questions is Jason Coleman from vacation evangelist.com. Hey, man.

Hey, Doug. How's it going? Good. First question. What is the purpose of customs?

Why is it necessary?

And what can we bring back into the states with us so we can clear customs without getting in

trouble?

Well, customs and immigration, because they're so closely linked, these two terms frequently

get confused.

So let's start out with what they are. So immigration is all about

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