Man, there's some wildly divergent opinions in that crowd over Lookout. Were you concerned heading into Lookout Key around what it would be like? Or were you like, it'll be fine? Listen, I was concerned about a lot of things DCL Duo podcast brought to you by my Path Unwinding Travel.

And Sam, do your little jingle.

Yes, simply the best, better than all the rest.

That's right, it is review time.

And so this week's review comes from Lauren Ray 21,

who writes, really is the best DCL podcast.

This podcast is the most thorough DCL-centered podcast. The variety of topics

will have nearly anything a listener could be searching for, Sam and Brian are fantastic hosts.

You tell how much work they put in to make this what it is. They are so engaging and easy to listen

to. This is my favorite Disney Cruise Line podcast. Well, Lauren, thank you so much for that very kind review.

We greatly appreciate it.

Yes, love that.

Yeah. And for all of you out there, you know, we don't do this show for that sweet, sweet male chimp money for anyone out there who gets the reference.

We donate all the proceeds to charity. And so what really keeps us going here is just the community we've built and the positive listener interactions we have and those great reviews that you leave us. So please, please, please, the easiest way to support this show, head over to Apple Podcasts. Hit those five stars. If you leave us a written review, we will read it on the air at the top of one of our main episodes as we did with Lauren's review. So head over there. It's so easy. So easy to do. Yes. And don't forget to like and subscribe to us on YouTube because we are putting out tons of YouTube content now. All of our episodes, if you're listening to this on one of the podcast channels, if you want to see video, we're putting out all of our episodes over on YouTube as well with videos. You can see us talking. You can

see our guests talking on our live shows. Oftentimes we have lots of visuals, PowerPoints, you know, it's fun. The selling place, you can see us talking. You can see it. You can see the, yeah. You can see my, you can see how I talk with my hands. If you want to see how I talk with my hands. You got to watch me on video. You can't hear it in my voice. So, well, Sam, we got a fun topic today. You want to intro our topic and our guest for the day. Yeah, I'm, you know, I'm always excited to have a first time cruiser on our show. It's, as I have said, many times before, it's reliving our first cruise through somebody else's eyes. That's how I always feel when we have a first time cruiser on.

So today is no exception, but I'm super excited to welcome to the show. Alex, welcome. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am grateful to be here. Having listened to many of those first-time cruise episodes, really grateful for those, I eat those things up. So thank you for having me. Awesome. Well, thank you for joining us. Thanks for reaching out to be on the show. You know, we tell people all the time without, you know, great guests that are willing to come on the show for the first time, for the fifth time, for the 10th time. We'd just be the two weirdos with mics that we are.

And you would just be listening to us drone on. So it's always really fun to have new folks come on.

They're such nice. There's such nice. There's just weirdos with really nice microphones.

With really nice mics. True. True. Well, Alex, we're super excited to talk about your first time cruising on Disney and your first time cruising period. But let's back up and talk and hear

about what your connection to Disney comes from, where your connection to Disney comes from.

Because we always find that people who cruise for the first time on Disney Cruise line in particular, not just

having cruise someplace else, generally have a background or connection to Disney. So I'd love

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