And I mean, my cheeks, I mean, kind of like I feel now, they're just like throbbing from the grinning. You know, I was just grinning so big. And I kept thinking, this was so surreal. Like, when you think of about something for so long and it's just in your mind. And then it's real. It's like not real. It's a weird, surreal feeling. It really was.

Welcome back, everybody to this week's episode of the DCL duo podcast brought to you by my Path Unwinding Travel and go review. Got a list of review, Sam, listen to review. We need like intro music. Like, here's the review. The review is. I don't know. All right. But you won't hear me. Apparently, you just came up with a jingle on the fly. I kind of like that. I think we might have to use. You're not to sing that every time now.

Yeah, there we go. No, I'm not saying it every time. We were recorded and play it, but we're not singing every time. All right. This review comes from Cat Urban, who writes, Great Cruising Podcast, exclamation point. The DCL Duo podcast delivers information and entertainment. Sam and Brian are a great host who keep things light,

but still deliver lots of different perspectives.

I appreciate that they bring on guests to talk delivers information and entertainment. Sam and Brian are great hosts who keep things light,

but still deliver lots of different perspectives. I appreciate that they bring on guests

to talk about other cruise lines and compare their experiences to DCL. Definitely a must listen.

Keep up the good work. Well, thank you, Kat Urban. Your review helps motivate us to keep up the work.

So thank you for sending us that review. We really appreciate it.

And I just, I was talking to this by earlier this week. And I wanted to highlight, you know, the guest aspect of this show. Our show does not happen without great guests. We've got a great guest today. And we try to make this show not about us, but about our guests. So, you know, I think there's lots of creators out there that are just the two of them talking to you all the time or one of them, whatever, about stuff. We prefer to bring on real people to talk about, talk about the cruising experience. So guests are an important part of our show. If you want to be a guest on the show, you just have to reach out like Shelley. Our guest today did. And we're happy to have new cruisers, new guests, new experiences on the show. So if you like the show, please remember the easiest way to help us out. Hit those five stars over on Apple Podcast. Leave us a written review and we will read it on one of our episodes at the top of the show as we did with this one. Head over there. Hit those five stars. We really appreciate it. Yes. And don't forget to like and subscribe on YouTube, right?

That's right. Not enough of you are watching the... We record every episode now, and we put it over on

YouTube. And so if you want to see the magic happen, the behind the scenes, what is Brian

wearing today? Right. You can see my recording studio. Brian's got a fake background, but I have my, like, you can see my popcorn buckets. You can see my towel animals. Like, I have a fake background because you want to see the mess of our bedroom behind me. So anyway, with that, Sam, let's, I've already previewed. We've got Shelley as a guest coming on, but why don't you welcome her on and let folks know what we're going to be talking about? Yes, I'm super excited to welcome, Shelley. First time guest, first time cruiser

to the show. She reached out to us. She got some really fun stuff to talk about today. Her first

time cruising, we're going to talk about motion sickness. We're going to talk about sailing with

virtual strangers, but I'm super excited to talk about motion sickness. We're going to talk about sailing with virtual strangers,

but I'm super excited to welcome Shelley to the show. Welcome, Shelly. Hi, everybody. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, we're so happy to have you. Your email was kind of mind-blowing to me when you reached out to us to be on the show

because you hadn't sailed before and

you decided your first time sailing was going to be with a bunch of people you met on a

Facebook group. And I was like, that's amazing and awesome. I mean, we have met people and

become friends with people through Facebook and obviously through our podcast in particular.

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