Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 3001.

In celebration of reaching 300 episodes on this podcast, this week we're flipping the tables,

and I get to be interviewed to talk about myself and how this podcast and Royal Caribbean Blog got started.

I hope you enjoy this peek behind the curtains of what we do here.

Thanks.

Here we go.

This episode of the Royal Crimean Blog podcast calls for a somewhat unique introduction

because, as many noted, last week we hit episode 300, and that is a milestone.

I'm not going to deny that.

It's always cool to be able to celebrate a little bit.

And today's episode is just that.

We're celebrating the 300th episode, and in this case, the first episode of the Real Green Blog podcast.

And joining me on today's show is my good friend, John Bambor, to talk about, well, I'll let John talk about it. John, I'm going to throw things over to you. You are now in charge, sir. You have the call. All right. Well, all right. Well, thanks so much, Matt, and I appreciate you having me on yet again. And this is kind of an idea that I had some time ago. We were trying to get this in for number 300, but we're going to

officially start off the, you know, the 300th season with the first in the season, I guess, of

the episode. So first of all, Matt, I just want to extend my personal congratulations to you on,

you know, the 300th episode of the podcast. It's really incredible what you've been doing.

You've been putting out some amazing content.

And I figured that it would be a cool kind of change of pace a little bit to give people a little insight into the man behind the magic, the man behind the microphone.

So, you know, first off, congratulations, Matt.

Thank you so much, John.

I really appreciate that. It's, I think the number first off, congratulations, Matt. Thank you so much, John. I really appreciate that.

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