joining us to discuss is carnival ceo josh weinstein. welcome. it's good to have you. you finally turned a profit, first time since the pandemic, and sounds like you're pretty bullish still on demand. what's happening? >> good morning. yeah, absolutely. the one word we could use to describe our third quarter is record. we had record revenues, record customer deposits, record booking levels for the future. all signs are incredibly positive and we are bullish. >> what about that outlook, which was disappointing? i know fuel cuts have been on the rise. is that it or is there something else happening here? >> well, i mean, i can tell you what we delivered, which was that record position for our third quarter. i can also tell you for the fourth quarter we're projecting continued strength in revenue. our deddeper diems will be up a effectively the third quarter. we're doing the job. we're delivering the performance we said we would deliver, despite the spike in fuel. absolutely, which is a big piece of our cost structure. despite that spike what we said is we're going to rai

carnival ceo josh weinstein will be on "squawk on the street" tomorrow morning to discuss and react toy ask about, is it still a meme stock, blackberry? they preannounced earlier this week, by the way, they disappointed on cybersecurity and tech revenues. shares are down since then by about 14%. anything to watch for here? >> you know, i think the meme rally could have died over 2022. it could -- you know, this is one that, you know, i think they have some struggles, as you mentioned, you know, the revenue -- on the revenue side. the sales cycles, some of those things with their partnerships, obviously idle makers going to be prolonged going on in that area. the shifting of business over the past years is tough thing to do. i would like to see it play out and probably be seen on the sidelines waiting for more of it to play out before i would jump into the stock. >> let me broaden out for a second because you mentioned concerns about the economy, the market. when you see, for instance, bond yields doing what they're doing, any temptation here to say, you know, why play around with any o