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On this week's show, I have Stuart Shiran the Cruise Guy with us. He's America's most quoted cruise expert.

I've been getting a lot of emails since all this

Venice talk. Cruise ships being banned from Venice. Are they? Are they not? People that are

sailing Venice coming up. Have someone coming on Norwegian Star. I have a celebrity and one other

person emailed me. I think they were going on Holland America and they were worried about

Venice. So Stuart Shiran, the cruise guy, is here to clear the air on this.

And tell us exactly what's going on because he's been making numerous media appearances to

talk about the whole Venice situation.

Also have a couple of listener questions to ask him, kind of the state of the cruise industry

type questions, one regarding cruise line stocks and where

they're going and where they're headed, another one with private islands. So let's jump right

to Stewart. Stuart Sheer on the cruise guy. Hey, buddy. Hey, Doug. How you doing? Good man. Unpacked

this whole Venice situation for us. Well, unfortunately, Doug, there's a lunatic fringe over there. And like certain places,

including our country, we have a group, a small group of people, a vocal minority that don't have a

grasp of history. And, you know, they like to live by the moment and think that there's history

behind them. The reality is that they're scapegoating,

cruising to trivialize and, you know, personify their propaganda. So right now, the cruise

industry is being scapegoated. Originally, they're saying that, you know, the cruise industry

was, you know, was a cataclysmic cause to the

over-tourism in Venice. Well, let's unpack that. Venice has got almost 40 million

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