they're starting to come onto cruise ships and so as you cruise now like you know i haven't seen much diversity in the cruising that i've done previously like uh you know international diversity and and now we are uh even like in the casino it's an interesting thing on the odyssey of the seas uh they they didn't have a bacharach table until this cruise and now the profile of some of the cruisers coming in they like to play bacharach and so there's a bacharach table there uh there's definitely more international flavor in the casino and uh yes so a positive sign for cruising definitely helping the cruise industry with the restart because the goal is to get as many people on the cruise ships as possible to keep these companies viable and that's certainly happening so just be aware that on your next cruise that if you've cruised any in NUMBER_TOKEN out of the u.s you may not have had a lot of diversity international diversity but uh certainly that's happening now big cruise news story number two celebrity has announced the name of their next cruise ship in the edge class and the edge class is getting bigger by the year as it were we have the celebrity edge the celebrity apex both of those are currently sailing we have the celebrity beyond uh coming out next year in NUMBER_TOKEN and now in NUMBER_TOKEN we will be welcoming the celebrity ascent ascent uh i'm fascinated by these names but more about that later of course the big story inside that celebrity edge family is uh captain kate mchugh she has been tasked to bring the celebrity beyond all the way from construction into where it has paying passengers this is the first time that a female captain has ever done that for a cruise ship so that's the big story that we'll be tracking along with into NUMBER_TOKEN and let me just say this i've seen some pushback before you know it should it be a big deal that kate mchugh is the the first female to do this or to do that uh you know i take my cue from her i listen to her on the celebrity edge she had a very good talk and she said at the beginning she wanted to resist that idea that there was some sort of label she just wanted to do the job that everybody else had done and she didn't necessarily want to uh really promote this oh first female this first female that but then she had a moment where she realized that she was blazing a trail for females in the industry and she wanted to uh be that point of inspiration and so she fully embraces the idea that she is blazing a trail that she is the first female to do some of these things in the industry and uh so uh yeah i celebrate that with her like i said i take her cue and as long as she celebrates being the first female then we will continue to encourage that and to celebrate that with her and so i'm excited as the edge class has rounded out with the new cruise ship the ascent we're seeing a lot of new cruise ships come online uh carnival just announced their newest cruise ship coming out of galveston the next one in the xl class the carnival jubilee and all this ship name talk has made me wonder this what would you name a cruise ship that's
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