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Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. Coming up on this week's show, we'll get a review of Norwegian Jim. Sherry Kennedy stops by with Cruise News, and we're going to answer some of your listener questions. And let's see, before we get to Sherry, what else do we have going on?

Yes, Cruise Radio News. It's our Facebook group. Come in there and kick around the cruise conversation. We'd love to have you. All right. What's up, Sherry? Hey, Doug. So a big anniversary week for Carnival Cruise Line senior cruise director, John Heald. It is. This is the 30-year mark this week that he's been with the company.

And, you know, looking back over the years, I probably saw him, oh, 22, 23 years ago on the carnival imagination. And I don't, so I don't know where the time is gone. But hey, happy anniversary, John. Yeah, he kind of came out of nowhere, didn't he? Like, people loved him. They sailed with him and all this, but then probably like what, the mid-2000s, he started that blog, and it just like, he took the internet by storm with that. Yeah, he became, you know, a superstar in his own right. It's kind of interesting, you know, it's cool. It's nice to have, you know, he's like an iconic cruise director, and I think probably raised the bar

pretty high for a lot of others. Carnival has set him up when he leaves there. He could probably do a book

deal, a web series, or make some serious money. For sure. I can tell all books, right? Right, exactly.

He would. Yeah, oh yeah, you know he would if you look at his Facebook posts. Moving on here, Norwegian Cruise Line.

So Captain Kirk, William Shatner from Star Trek, says to NCL, Save the Dolphins.

What is this all about?

Norwegian Cruise Line is doing their second Star Trek-themed cruise called, whatever, Star Trek, the cruise.

And last year, William Shatner was the host for the event.

And it seems that, like most cruise lines do, they offer a dolphin swim encounter excursion, right?

Well, he's teamed up with PETA, the Animal Rights Group, and he has proposed to Norwegian Cruise Line that they discontinue their popular swim at the

dolphin shore excursions.

And it's kind of interesting.

He wrote a letter to the president of Norwegian Holdings, and he personally requested

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