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Hey, how's it going?

My name is Doug Parker.

Thank you so much for checking out this, well, last

episode of 2022, which means it's time to take a quick look back at the year's biggest cruise

stories, as we do every year. Obviously, the cruise industry continuing to bounce back from

the shutdown continues to be a hot topic. But today, we're going to look a little

bit beyond that single headline to some other stories that made the news over the past 12

months. And joining me now is someone who loves nothing more than to talk about cruise news.

Staff writer Richard Sims. Hey, buddy. Hey, Doug, slightly early, happy new year to you and yours.

Yeah, man, same to you.

We've got a lot of stories to hit here, so let's dive right in.

Now, we're going to do these in no particular order.

So let's start with some of the strangest stories first, I guess, which is the fall and then resurrection of Crystal Cruises.

For a while there, this whole story was like something right out of like a Tom Cruise movie,

except instead of chasing a bad guy, like the boat was sort of the villain. So a judge

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