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My name is Doug Parker.

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. This week, a review of Carnival Venetia. Dan Skilkin, president of trip insurance.com. Stop spite to answer a couple of your listener questions. And staff writer Richard Sims on deck, but not only on deck, right here next to me at the boat ramp at the, what's this,

jetty park at Port Canaveral?

Apparently so.

Yeah.

We were going to watch a SpaceX launch, but it got canceled at the last second, literally the last second.

So we have that going on.

So we'll jump straight to news here.

We begin this week with how the situation in Venezuela impacted thousands of cruisers.

There's an old saying that a butterfly flaps its winds in Japan. It triggers massive storms in

the Amazonian jungle or, you know, something like that. I don't remember. You've never heard of

the butterfly effect? No. There's even a whole series of movies called the butterfly effect. Anyway, it basically means that one small event can have massive consequences far beyond

what you might anticipate because, hey, everything is connected. In this case, the U.S.

government's actions in Venezuela wound up causing chaos for thousands of travelers. Why? Well,

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