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Hey, how's it going?

My name is Doug Parker.

Thank you so much for checking out Cruise Radio. We are on Carnival Benetcia, sailing between Malagos, Spain and Gibraltar, where we'll be tomorrow morning. On the phone with me right now, staff writer Richard Sims. Hey, Richard.

Hey, Doug, and let's not say we, because as much as I wish I was on that ship, I am not.

I'm jealous as hack.

You are 4,000 miles away from me, so we're going to do news this way if Starlink can pull it off for us.

And we'll start with a carnival story and a rough ride to the end of a cruise.

Yeah, this is one of those things that the mainstream media loves to blow out of proportion.

They find one or two people who had a really bad experience and report it that way.

And I don't mean to sound like, you know, a cruise polliana.

I mean, I have been through rough season.

I know it is not fun.

But, you know, some of the reporting I've seen on this made it sound as if the Carnival Sunshine went through, you know, something worthy of a disaster movie.

The fact is that Carnival Sunshine on its way back to Charleston, South Carolina, did go through some rough weather.

There was a storm that everybody kind of thought would move quicker than it actually did. And so it delayed their

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