Brightline

And they do show up to these games.

I will say, like, And it can be if you don't know kind of the right cheat codes of of, you know, Brightline, the train that can get you down here and things like that.

It can be difficult to travel from up north to get down here to the stadium in Miami.

But there are ways to get down here.

We were coming up.

I don't know what we were doing at Brightline.

We were

coming up from Disney Destiny.

And he was on a Brightline sitting and we just started chat with him on the train.

And it was really him.

And so we may have to pull some strings so we can either he can help us out and get us a place there or we use our friends at Cedar Trans so that we're not driving back and forth.

Yeah, that's what travel will do for you.

One of the cruise highlights for me personally was getting off the Holland America, the Rotterdam, and then riding Brightline train down to Miami where I got to see Mark.

He handed off some MSC crew shirts that said holiday mode on.

I love those shirts.

Very great shirts.

Thank you, Laura Okanowski, for getting the shirts.

And thanks for meeting me at the Brightline station because I haven't seen you for a while.

Yeah, it was a while.

You could imagine building something.

If you actually look at Brightline in Florida, not the hottest time to bring up American examples of things, but the way that they built Brightline along the Beachline Expressway from Orlando to Cocoa.

It's totally easy to imagine how you could do the exact same thing along the highway from Calgary to Edmonton.

And it's a real mistake on the part of politicians at the federal level for not saying like, hey, like the Albertans are left out and they should feel left out.

And then you've got other people who would be unhappy if Royal Caribbean didn't change it at all, and it just becomes this like, They can't win.

Anyway, the point is, is that they could change it all the way up to, remember that icon example I gave earlier in this episode? That one, I was literally on the Brightline train going from Orlando to Miami, and I got the email the day before the cruise that our itinerary had been changed.

They could change it on board the ship.

This wasn't a, what was it, a hurricane? Maybe it was.

And in the U.S., we have this drive for profitability from the start.

We're looking at this at the Brightline is a good example.

We did a whole episode on Brightline.

If you haven't seen it, definitely go and check that out.

But we talked about their economic model and how they are $6 billion in debt.

And the vast majority of that debt is from the initial build-out of this system.

You know, if we had approached the high-ish speed rail in Florida, similar to what Canada's looking at, the U.S. could have taken on that debt as an investment, and then Brightline, you know, could be operating it, maybe at a profit, maybe.

with the current payers they have.