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Speaker 2: Let's turn our gaze to the cruising business. I know

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Speaker 2: nothing about the cruising business.

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Speaker 3: That will change in October when I take my first cruise.

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Speaker 4: I know he's finally taking the plunge.

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Speaker 3: Finally taking the plunge.

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Speaker 2: But with the guy we have here now, our next

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Speaker 2: guest is an expert on all this stuff. Brian Eggery

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Speaker 2: covers all the fun stuff gaming, casinos, hotels, and cruises

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Speaker 2: for a Bloomberg Intelligence Carnival.

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Speaker 3: What's going on in carnival here.

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Speaker 5: So they came out with but otherwise would have been

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Speaker 5: a very good quarter in terms of bookings demand. Eighty

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Speaker 5: five percent of the year sold actually raised revenue old guidance,

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Speaker 6: To the war I ran.

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Speaker 5: And so the underlying demand part of the business is

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Speaker 5: The concern would be if that warn't persists. They are

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Speaker 7: The thing that people like about these cruise lines and

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Speaker 7: visibility into their bookings because people book years in advance

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Speaker 4: But that also locks in the revenue that they brought in.

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Speaker 7: Do cruise lines add a fuel surcharge later on because

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Speaker 7: you know oil prices have gone up so much, or

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Speaker 5: I think the revenue youild management part of it is

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Speaker 5: always the science behind it because eighty five percent of

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Speaker 5: you're left with inventory that could have been sold at

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Speaker 5: mean the reality is even with one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 5: is that the full year impact on their adjusted income

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Speaker 5: be about five hundred million dollars, and our concern is

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Speaker 5: that assumes eighty to ninety rent in the second half,

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Speaker 5: and what if that's much higher, that's the concern.

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Speaker 2: What's what are these cruise lines saying about their underlying

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Speaker 2: maybe we initially thought fuel and in particular about other

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Speaker 5: So I think generally think speaking, cost inflation can have

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Speaker 5: an impact. The assertion of the industry would be that

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Speaker 3: On fuel for these big cruises. They don't use a

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Speaker 3: Well, they knows. I'm sitting on the beach in Aruba

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Speaker 4: And you're thinking, well, I'm going to enjoy those people one.

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Speaker 2: Day exactly exactly, But boy, I could just say that's

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Speaker 5: Carnival has not hedged historically. They've had over in past

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because George Ferguson was just telling us that the airlines.

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Speaker 2: So yep, all right, Brian, thanks so much, Brian Nigger

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Speaker 2: appreciate that senior gaming and logic analyst Bloomberg Intelligence joining

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Speaker 4: I have a cool question hermy cruises do you go

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Speaker 5: That's that's over time. I have gone on a number

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, but that's that's as an analyst exactly.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean I have taken a vacation cruise

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Speaker 2: Well, if you're anything like me, you probably feel like

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Speaker 2: There's actually been the subject of a lot of litigation

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Speaker 2: media litigation analyst Bloomberg Intelligence. Hey, Matt, it seems like

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Speaker 9: Yeah, So this is litigation that has been developing for

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Speaker 9: three hundred and seventy five million dollars. We also, as

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Speaker 2: So I think pretty much if your parent out there

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Speaker 9: So these personal injury lawsuits probably not. You know, this

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Speaker 10: of you know, we're not paying anyone more than show hey.

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Speaker 10: But for owners like you think about the Dodgers, they

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Speaker 10: just retool every single year because they can. They don't

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Speaker 10: have a spending limit. And if you have an owner

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Speaker 10: might not have that, then there's going to be complaints

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Speaker 10: and be like, listen, we to get control of spending

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Speaker 10: because at the end of the day, this is going

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Speaker 10: to become a game in which if you spend the

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Speaker 4: Let me just bring this full circle.

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Speaker 7: We're talking about NBA expansion to thirty two teams from

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Speaker 7: the current thirty. The NFL already has thirty two teams,

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Speaker 7: as does the NHL. Baseball has thirty teams. I mean,

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Speaker 7: are we going to potentially see expansion of MLB franchises.

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Speaker 10: I think that Baseball will consider expansion after collective bargaining

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Speaker 10: when if slash, when that ever ends. All of these

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Speaker 10: things seem very dire at the beginning because they are clashing.

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Speaker 10: You think about the conversations we were having about the WNBA.

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Speaker 4: A year ago.

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Speaker 10: It seemed like they were never going to come to

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Speaker 10: a deal. But the reality is they will at some pointed. Yah,

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Speaker 10: right exactly. They both have a vested interest in playing,

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Speaker 10: and I think baseball will probably expand to Nashville. I

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Speaker 10: think Nashville's could be a good baseball town. And then

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Speaker 10: I'll find another city, slash location, and they'll go from there.

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