Madison McGhee - The Dark Side of Sorority Life

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We are back from seven long days at sea. I love the Kirifi. We're still on cruise. I'm OK. Yeah, I still feel and I can't even say this. I call my parents. That's they. They're like, How is a cruise? As like, it's amazing how exhausted they were like Bashar right now. Don't you ever b***h about being exhausted workers? But between me and you campers? I am. I'm still I'm still catching up. Yeah, it's a lot to do. A lot of nothing. A lot. Yeah, but you know what, though, if you watched us online, we didn't stop posting. We didn't stop performing. We didn't even stop drinking for y'all. OK, the antics were on high alert and welcome to the cruise episode. Oh, so yeah, we were on the Royal Caribbean Wonder of the Seas Cruise to the perfect day at Coco at Coco Cafe. It was so much fun. We could joke at Coco, OK, you can have it your way at Coke. OK, your way. That's the big joke. Don't you see that me and John think that that should have been a song of the week? It's not, but I know. So we got to do the seven day Royal Caribbean cruise and try to explain to the campers why we did the cruise. Full transparency A couple of months ago, I did an ad for Royal Caribbean, for their cruise ship that's coming out next year, the icon of the seas and oh, excuse me, sorry. And as part of the payment, they were like, Hey, we'll send you on a cruise. I was like, Say no more. Let me just back. Yeah, so we got to do this cruise pretty much. And I just say, bugger. Yeah, I don't know. OK, OK, well, I just was going to keep going. All right. Well, we got this cruise pretty much for free. Thank God it was. So I just want you guys know, this isn't an ad, but a lot of this stuff you got to do was calm, for the most part. We had a great room. It was like a balcony. We paid for a couple of things, but we'll get into the nitty gritty. But we want to be fully transparent in here that the reason why we did this cruise was because Jonathan did a glorious ad for Royal Caribbean. So thank you, Royal Caribbean. Thank you, Rob. A fun week. But hey, this is not sponsored and we're going to give you the T. We're going to tell you what was great, what was bad. But for the most part, yeah, though it was fun. OK, so what we're going to do, like we're coming out with like a little scorecard a camp counselors Caribbean cruise scorecard. Yeah. So this entire episode, you guys, we're gonna be talking about our cruise adventure, some great cruise stories that we got, but the entire episode is cruise theme. So our intro this week is going to be a little bit longer because we're going to break down in categories what we like. You know, if you've seen Instant Hotel, we're kind of vibing with that. But if you haven't seen that, I'm sure you've seen Four Weddings on TLC, another favorite of mine. So we're gonna break it down in a couple of categories. Jonathan, what are the categories we will be featuring for Royal Caribbean Wonder of the Seas? So we will be ranking the ship layout, excursions and islands. We visited the show's on board and food and beverages. Yeah, I think it's perfect. Yeah. So those for the quadruple, the one, I don't know if these words that are coming out your mouth are just so exciting to that. I'm on ship time, babe. I don't know. You don't know. Want to do? OK, let's start with the ship features. Oh, so if you've never been on a cruise, they have like the promenade, which for us I think was on the fifth floor. It's where we walked and we first arrived to the crew. It's like the downtown. It looks like a little outside area. If there was a mayor of the crew, as you would probably be living there. What else did they have? They had weird shops that for some reason we waited outside of like it was Black Friday. There was a little crowd and all we wanted were land. Well, let me explain this to you, OK? We were on the cruise for about two hours and I knew you get these little cards. And basically the card is where everything works. Or you can charge and back to your room and has your drink package on there. It has everything. So I'm looking around at these girls and guys and I'm like, I want a lanyard, I want it on a necklace. It just seems so hands free, and I think it was the best I was. It seemed like a very I wouldn't lose it if what I'm trying to say here. So the crew's gift shop open at 6:30, we got on the boat around two and I'm looking at everybody, so I'm like, Oh my God, we have to go the gift shop. It's not open to 6:30, so we waited outside of this cruise gift shop and it was like six twenty five. And there's like five couples. There 630 hits, there's 10 couples there, the doors are not open, they're later opening this cruise gift shop. It's 640. It's a mob at this point and I'm like, Oh my God, this guy, the best stuff in here. Why is everybody waiting outside? I see the lane door to the window. I'm like, Oh, we're going to wait for the lanyards we get inside at like six, 45, 50 minutes late. They were, hey, they were on cruise time, they were on cruise. We were going to get those lanyards. They were fine, they were pretty average. And the gift shop as a whole are not. I was I was not gagged. I was not gagged either. But we definitely were wiped up in the hype. Oh, we were. But I also feel like what I love about like Disney. I just take it to a different vacation here. Disney merch really like they have a great design team. It gets like there's the kind of the corny, like, 50 80 animal, whatever castle march. But there's always some kind of clever, cool merge Royal Caribbean. I need someone to get on that design team and make some better merch. I feel like it was very like plain Jane expensive. Not not really giving. Yeah, but we got our land nerds and they were pretty plain. They did wait outside like we were waiting for a meet and greet. The ladies were nice, though, and continuing on with the prominent to me, it kind of gives if you've ever been to a casino and you kind of are in that lobby area. Lot of like shiny platinum railings, all tile big up lightings, live music kind of coming from every direction. They had a big steel giant cowboy hat. A lot of hullabaloo and a lot of chaos. Do we ever get to the bottom of the cowboy hat? No, I think it was tonight. I think it was just four groups and gags for photo opportunities. We didn't take a picture by it. We did not have an video. I think we have on a video on another feature Rob mentioned later. It's definitely in that video. But yeah, so the starting off in the cruise, you have the promenade, a long hallway of stores, little shops and little restaurants. Moving on, we have Central Park Central Park. It's a neighborhood. This was outside on the floor right above and it was like it was like futuristic, least simulated. If the world ended and you had to keep your sanity, somehow this would be the simulated park it would be, and they played bird noises. They was like we were in the middle of the ocean was like, Arthur Bird's on this boat. You were like, Absolutely not. I was like, Oh, they're playing it through the speaker. So it's built in the center of the ship and it's like, there's like there's a room's all on the sides of it and they have over a thousand live plants in there and it kind of wraps around. There's some more restaurants there. That's where the fancy jewelry store is. They call it Central Park. Ever, I've been to Central Park. As some of you may know, this was not a realistic Central Park. Where were the pigeons? Where were the people setting up marijuana selling tables and pop up poker tables? OK? Where was the couple's fighting? I didn't see any of that. This was like a very idealistic version of Central Park, but if you've never been in, that's your only reference. I am going to tell you you're going to be a little disappointed when you go to the road. Actually, that's not true. New York's Central Park is so gorgeous and beautiful, but this one was like a model version of what a cruise thinks it would be. It was nice, but it was spooky a little. It gave me the creeps at some point. It was beautiful, but something was a little off. I think was the robot. It was small. Moving forward, the robot birds. The boardwalk. The boardwalk. Another outside excursion. A simulated boardwalk. What did they had? A carousel that a damn carousel. They had a little mini arcade, which you were shooting hoops there. I was like, Wow. Sign me up for a wax Iron Man three hour. I did seventh grade basketball. I'm not ashamed. I was mostly a benchwarmer, but I did do some laps during practice, so I know my way around a metal hoop. You, Joe, and you serve warmed my bench. Later, they also had that zol tar guy, the robot guy who gives the he's like a fortune teller. If you've ever seen the Tom Hanks movie big. He was shady. I paid $3. Charge it to my room. They make that way too easy, but I charged it to the room and he basically was like, Hey, you're just, you're not doing enough. You need to do more. Your life's not going to go anywhere. And I was like, That was it. That was what I paid for. And then you did the same thing, and he told you something else shady. And he's like, If you give me three more bucks, I'll tell you more. Yeah, he was dragging us, wasn't he? He was like somebody programmed to tell. But anyway, what else was that? Oh, the Johnny Rockets? Boy, I don't think I've ever seen a Johnny Rockets. No, that's not show. I saw one in Philly, but the only Johnny Rockets I've really been to have been on cruise ships. I've been on John Rocker. There's one in Providence Place Mall, so I've definitely been on Johnny Rockets before. It was OK. It was very expensive and that one was that wasn't included in our package, so we did have to pay for that. It was $30. A person was a 30. I think it was 20. Yeah, it was 30. And they give you an appetizer, you get an entree, you get a free drink, you got a dessert, whatever. It was overpriced. We had a grilled cheese. I just have a grilled cheese, but not for thirty dollars. No, we really got scammed on that one and it was OK. And like, the onion rings were bottom. But when you give me six and I ask for a second portion, I don't feel comfortable asking for a third. I feel like a glutton. Even though I could have had four portions of the onion rings, the birbeck was, Oh, OK. It was fun. We don't really spend much time. It was great for kids because they had the the big Aqua Theater, which is like one of their big selling points for this ship, was like under it. Yeah, which we did see show there. We'll get to that later. But but yeah, that was the boardwalk, which I thought it was fine. It was one of the kids. Yeah, but Johnny Rocket, I don't think of, was left to Johnny Rockets satisfied in my life. So it wasn't just a cruise ship, it's just Johnny Rockets all around. You need to get it together. J.R. Thank you. Know what was next? Oh, the pool deck. So we're into with the pool deck. So on Dec. 15 and 16 is kind of the combination products. There's four pools on Dec. 15. They have a little kids zone area. They have hot tubs everywhere. And then Dec. 16, it's kind of just all more seating a box, plenty of seating for the girls. But I will say, if you want a good seat. You better get out there early because people are gunning for those seats, OK? It's six a.m. people already dropping their bags up on the seats and then going to get breakfast. I think that's shady. I don't think that's fair. But hey, it's a lawless land on the cruise, on the seven seas. It's true. I hate when other people do it, but it's OK when I do it. What else was up there? Oh, zip lining. They had zip planning on this one where you could zip, zap, zap like all the way across the little thing. We didn't do it. You tried. I tried to do it, and they saw that I had a drink in my hand and they were like, If you've been drinking, you can't do it. And I was like, What if I can't have that drink? And they're like, No, Erin saw you holding the drink. And I thought to myself ever since my Instagram Story if I've been drinking. OK, what does it matter if I'm on a zip line because I should be securely strapped in whether I have been drunk or have been sober? Either way, I guess they're afraid of people vomiting over Central Park. True or with a Central Park was or no, it was over the boardwalk. It was over the boardwalk. Yeah, they pop it on. People like curling up a whirlwind, but I'm a professional. OK, I don't hurl. I twirl, baby. OK? Well, we did almost hurl a couple of times. That was from from the show. Yeah, that's a different story. What else do they have? They had the surfing excursion. They had this. What was that call? I call it the surf extreme section. OK, Johnny Tsunami. Yeah, we're calling it the we're calling that Johnny Tsunami Zone. We didn't spend a lot of time there. I thought I would spend more time there, but there was like limited seating, and every time we went by, people were killing it. I was like boring. I always saw people wiping out, breaking limbs, smashing their face against that water jet. But meanwhile, there's an 80 year old man there and he was slaying it. I was like, Fall over, grandpa, I'm bored. You literally were like, Take a picture of me, but take it as he falls and I'm standing there for like a full 60 seconds. You're like, Are you? Did you go like, this man is good? Like he? He has not fallen and he was old. He was old, but he nailed it. And hey, congrats that, grandpa, we love you so much. But I wish you would have broken a spleen. Mahalo, Ma ! You know what else they. So right next to that was it was called the abyss, and it was like a little racing slide that went down from the 16th floor to the sixth floor, 10 floors that went down. It wasn't a water slide. It was like, you get on, you get in your little knapsack, which was a lot heavier than I thought it would think about a designer potato sack. Yeah, precisely that. So you and I got down here and he was yelling at me because I had my phone out. He was like, Put your phone in your pocket. I was like, Don't tell me what to do, but I did, because I am scared of authority oftentimes. But it was so cool. They it was really dark. And then all of a sudden they have like a lights going on in there and they're like bumping music from outside. I felt like Rihanna's unborn child during her Super Bowl performance, and now that's what it felt like to me. And then you got birthed at the end and I was like, Whoa, that was really funny. I know you're like, that joke in there. That's what it felt like. Just come up with that. And that's why I did it. Because that's. That's what it felt like. It was a fun side. OK, but you're really you're denying. You're denying the campers. The truth of the story was that you weren't going to do the side. The dry side you weren't going to do wasn't going to do it. I don't love enclosed slides. Yeah, you hear. You need to give them a little more context. If you're so there were big water slides was more of my fear and I don't love water slides. I had this nightmare one time that there was like a screw that was loose. And when I went down it, the screw cut open my back and it ripped out my my umbrella cord from my back, my spleen. What is it? Your umbrella? What's more funny or something that inside of me? And I got to the bottom and it was close and it filled up with water and it was like, Slingshot me back. All this to say, I don't love water sides. I don't like the idea of them. We don't really scary graphic. Final destination for about is not going to happen, and I'm glad. But but now let's there's some light at the end of the tunnel came from right at the end of this, at the end of the slide, at the end of this light, because the water side we didn't end up doing after a day of drinking, it was freezing cold. I got chlorine and other chemicals probably pass up my nose and I didn't like it. I'm proud of you, though. You didn't want to do it the entire trip and I wasn't going to push it and you knew that I really wanted to do it and you had some drinks. And you and we did. We did a zipline excursion that I'll talk about later, and I was like, Babe, if you can zip line, you can do this waterside and you said, You know what I can, and you did it. The waters I was carry with them, and that's not OK. But anyway, the abyss, which was the dry slide, the potato sack that was so fun I loved that was really fine. The wires that's referring to the pool that. Were great. They had a lot of great seating and the vibes were high. I will say I am jealous of Carnival moving forward because I'm going to be honest here with my my, my description of the ship. Carnival, I've heard, has a lot more of a party scene. Royal Caribbean's really great for all ages, right? You have someone something for everybody there. A lot of the crew, a lot of the people on the board were a lot older, but that's just kind of a cruise demographic anyways. Carnival, I've heard there's a lot more like partying out on the pool decks. This was nicer because you could kind of like get a little bit further away and read if you wanted to, but which we did. The pullbacks were really nice and we love them. You of the next section, I think, Oh, wait, no, the solarium, that's the next section. Oh yeah, yes, sir. Yeah, the solarium was I was giving a presentation working for Royal Caribbean. The solarium was probably my favorite section of the cruise, so it's an adult only area. I think it was 16 plus, right? I think so. And it's like the front of the very the front of the ship, and it is entirely glass dome, which is a sailboat. Solarium actually is. And they had like three hot tubs in there, lots of long chairs. They had a bar. The vibes were very light green and lush in there, and it was just like, really pretty and there was light music playing. It was really great to like, relax and like, read a book. But you were also getting direct sun because it was gla*s. It was warm in there. It was really nice. It was beautiful. It was a little hot because it was definitely giving greenhouse greenhouse, said Tree House vibes. That too. But we did meet two of our favorite people there, which again, that's going to come a little bit later. We got some stories. I think you might know if you've been following us on social media who we met at in Solaria, but we'll get back to them. So, OK, so that closes out our first little ship layout. What would you rate? Give us the scorecard. What are we giving out? Honestly, I'm giving a tired 10. I had so much fun. What are you getting at? I'm giving out $10. It was great. There was always somewhere to go or something to explore. Something new, something fresh. Something fun. Yeah. All right. So let's move on to our excursions in island. So for the cruise that we did, there were three stops that we made. So our first was at St. Kitts, couldn't point it out on a map. So we got there. I don't know what time we ended up getting off the boat, but the excursion that we had was zip line zip lining in St. Kitts, y'all. So it started off really scary because they make you weigh yourself in front of everyone. First of all, yeah, we're in the middle of the St Kitts promenade like their downtown area and we're like all meeting our excursion people and four zip lining. Yeah, like, I'm sure you should have to wait people. OK, like it's a safety concern, but the fact that they put a scale in the middle of the town centre and make you line up one by one and then like, write down your number. I was triggered. Yeah, I was brave and I didn't. And this is something you can't fudge. You can't lie about your number because you want to make sure that, but also you couldn't if you tried because everybody's huddled around like a damn football huddle. Yeah. And then when you get off scared, they go, Oh yeah, everyone's like, Oh, and that is like, it's up 140. For me, it's wrong. There's absolutely no way I was like, Yeah, I think mine was wrong for sure. I can get all of it was off, but that's neither here nor there. Well, what happened when we were getting in line? Tell them so we're waiting in line, and the woman who was checking us in comes up to us and is like, Can you guys? How did how did she? I need a favor. I need a favor. Can you be? Can you sign off on this under-aged zip line or her mom can't go and we need you to sign her office or guardian? And she's asking me. And at this point, I think she's going to be writing attached to me. And I said, I said, I literally I feel bad. I volunteered you to do it because I was just sweaty person. I can't somebody on my back. I just can't like tandem to me. I'm already saying enough and I saw that entire excursion. I got it. So I don't want you dead. I look at you and I think Jonathan will do it. So I legally, in a legal binding contract, signed off on taking temporary guardianship over this minor. She's 15 years old for her protection. We're going to call her Lily. She was from Argentina and she was nice. First of all, she had a back tattoo. Yeah, we saw her beforehand. And then that was like, How old was this girl's got a bath as you? And then we asked, Let's do the 15. They're going to 15. Those tattoos in Argentina. She was rebellious. She was nice, but she had she had a little bit of a nudge to her. Let's tell her after we talk about what she was, do it. Oh, I well, I have that already. So naturally now I'm nervous because I'm like, OK, well, is it binding is dangerous. We're in a completely different country. I don't know what I just signed, which honestly was me and her mom was there and happy to put on her off on these two random men. Maybe it's because we're not intimidating because we have breasts. I don't know, but I'm really shaking. We're like shaking your a*s. It's been like, Woo girl, you've got, Oh yeah, okay, the moms like, they'll take you. So the mom didn't say a word to us, just nodded and went on her own. There was a language barrier for her, for sure. She spoke Spanish, so she was like, OK, like that woman handled it. You know what I mean? So I asked Lilly, where her mom? Going, she's like arms crossed, like, I don't even know she's doing some excursions, she told me to meet her on the boat later. I was like, OK, so here we go. So we all pile in we go. We we straddle up to do our zip lining. Absolutely the most second embarrassing thing that I've wore in public in a very long time. Was this the harness? It felt like a big diaper because you had to be ready to sit in it. It was full, nearly full frontal. I was out. It was it was not comfortable. But then we got on our little zip lines and the first one was fine because it was a tester. Well, they take you up. It's like a really rickety like truck up to this mountain that you're all kind of like huddled in the back of. And it's like pothole city. And you're basically like being like rock the f**k around before you even get to the top of the mountain and we get to the very top. And that's when the zip line starts to like, go back down, I guess, right? Like that? Yeah, we zip line down, and that's when we literally zip like down. But that was fun. You used to you fly right over right over all the greenery, the shrubbery. I I don't know what's wrong with me because I was excited and I don't love heights necessarily, but I didn't. My adrenaline wasn't going as I thought it would be like I wasn't nervous or scared at any time I was having fun. Don't get me wrong. But when you got off, you were like, I couldn't break city. I couldn't breathe. You literally are like suspended over this. Like, I couldn't even tell you, I can't even tell you how far six feet is. It was higher than six feet, though. Like hundreds of feet over this mountain top ocean of left trees. Below, you look like there's no Tiger Pandher. And then when you get to the end of the zip line you smash against this spring, so it doesn't hurt, but it's very jarring and it drops your body back and forth. Now, when I unclipped, I could even catch your breath. My heart was racing so much I had fun, but like my body was taking over, it was a really it was scary. We had never done it before. That's how I felt in line for the water side. OK. I'm holding my comments to that's where the adrenaline came from. I'm just and I refuse to be bullied. So anyway, so then I'm talking to this girl who I'm like, OK, she's my temporary daughter. I have to take her under my wing, right? And at one point, I forget what I asked her, and she gave me a little bit of attitude and I was like, OK, first off, I'm the parent here. Like, Watch your second off. I respect the SAS because if you're out here by yourself, you've got to be a little sassy. You got to have a little sassafras in your cup. You know what is she was? She adds you. I asked her if she'd ever done it before she'd ever done pining before. And she was like, I have been out this long. This is like four hours. I was like, Well, I think it includes like the drive. And she's like, Yep, that was only an hour and crossed her arms and did the head thing. Yeah. And I was like, Pau Gasol was right as she was correct, but that was only an hour. Hold the sassafras. Yeah. So after we do the zip lining, we get back and she starts talking to like a random, fully grown adult man who lived like in St Kitts, who, like, lived in the town that we were zip lining and and I was like, girl, like giving numbers. And I was like, first up, he probably doesn't know because I know she's lying about her age, and I was like, This girl is going to get kidnapped or something. Something bad is going to happen to her. And legally, if that happens, what happens to me when I go to court? I'm concerned for her safety and also what happens to me. So this man was going, to be honest, the guy I could tell he had gray, a gray beard. This man was in his late 40s, early 50s, and she's exchanging social media them. And I'm like, What is Lily doing? But I knew that like, it was going to be fine because there was no way we're going on a cruise ship. OK, we're fine, right? But while this is happening, she's like side eyeing me. Like seeing that because I moved closer and like Liliana Marie, get your a*s over here. So that was gorgeous thing, cats. We had a great time. That thing was great. The next day, we went to St. Thomas. I love St. Thomas, and it's so gorgeous there. Now I know why they call it Tommy Bahama. Is that from St. Thomas? You made that up anyways? St. Thomas was a very chilled day. We did the excursion that was a beach tour, so basically on a big van, they dropped it off to Meghan's beach and that was really fun. We met our friends there again that we'll talk about later. So we got to hang out with them all day. And then we took our bus ride up to the mountaintop of St. Kitts and they have a gift shop up there and they meet these famous banana daiquiris that were crazy, crazy, crazy. I got drunk. And this entire time we were riding around in this van with this man named Roy and we got on the van. They were like, We need two more people to more people. So we were like, Whoa, whoa. And then we got there. OK, like one of you has to sit in the back with everybody else on the open air van and then someone's out front as like I will volunteer to sit up front. So me and Ray are kicking up front. He's a very he's an older gentleman who lives from he's from St Thomas, Roy and Roy, and he's just like he has a mic and is giving the whole spiel to everybody in the back. And then he put the mic down and he would give me some like sight. And I was like, I'm loving, right? We were kicking up front. It was like we were watching the DVD and you were watching the DVD with commentary. Yes, exactly. So he drove us off the beach when we got back on the van. Was it from there? Yes, he said yes. It was at the beach. Yeah, yeah, the beach. So he was like, Be back at eleven thirty five. We walk up to the van at 11 thirty six. The entire van is packed right and everybody starts throwing these words at us. Oh, your leg, your leg. We're going to leave without you. A huge level. Thirty five. And I'm like, I'm a I'm are you drunk at this point, right? I had three Bloody Marys at the beach. I'm like, Excuse me? Who the hell are you, people? I'm like, It's 11:36, and Roy looks at me. He's like, They need a chill. It's your one minute. You're good, we're we're going to leave out you. And I'm like, Exactly. So if Roy is not pissed, then why are you pissed? So then you climb in the front cabin in first cla*s. So you got Zac is in a totally different part of this. Like, he's like in the car and we're hanging out the back. Zac's kicking up from where he's like, Yeah, you're totally fine. People are much later than that. You're fine. I'm in the back doing damage control. Sorry, I'm apologizing. People are like, you guys were like almost late, like, this is our vacation to started off as a little joke. And then I got a little. I was like, Sorry, guys, like, I'm so sorry about that. Sorry, guys. And I'm texting you up front. And they were like, they saw that I was texting and they were like, Ask Roy about the trees, what's going on with these trees? I was like, OK, anything for you people now again trying. And I asked for trees, and he was like, I don't know how it was like a normal tree. Yeah. And I'm like, first of all, these people, I am so pissed about this because I'm like, If I'm a it's our vacation, do, oh, wait a minute, we're. It wasn't even ten. It wasn't a five. It was 60 seconds. And y'all have an attitude and it's me to sit there and to take it. You were your red, sombre skin and your ugly hairdos and your s**tty clothing. b***h, get f**ked. I'm sorry that really pissed me off. And Roy had my back. I mean, where former like they needed Shellback. They're sorry that you had to hang up anyways. And then we had our band in a dark band and bananas. Yeah. And guess what? We had 30 minutes at the Banana Daiquiri factory over there at the gift shop. Yes, who is first back to the man? Me, b***h. You weren't going to catch me twice, OK? And we were like, Oh, I'm here and there. This is what made me one rare, you know, from talking s**t while everybody is getting back on the vent. And he's like, Where is everybody? And then we go back in the boat. Everybody's east again. But we didn't realize that because we were a front. We were to band bandana daiquiris in and didn't realize that everybody could hear us talking s**t about them and they were right behind us. So like, we got in the back, you didn't see us walk in the back when they walked in the back way and again I had to sit in the back with the people and you got to kick you out. That's fine. We get back to the ship. What happened? Oh, I remember I lost my phone and I'm panicking. I can't find my phone anywhere. I'm drunk. I'm like, Oh, no. But I wasn't upset. Like, I wasn't angry. Like, you weren't. No, I wasn't. I was very like, OK, like, if it's gone, it's gone. I can't do anything about it. It's 100 percent my fault. So all could show I was not upset. We go down a guest services. I talked to a it wasn't her name. I don't know. I said that it was something sweet like that. They're like love. And I was like, Man, I lost my phone on my boat excursion. I am so sorry. Please don't yell at me. And she was like, I'm going to hate you. And I said, Don't hate me. Don't hate me. Know. And she was like, OK, we'll take out all your information. It's OK. Like, We'll we'll call you and I'm telling Jonathan, I'm like, It's time, like I lost my phone and I'm going to deal with it. The lady next to her who's working next to her is shaking her head. She's like, If I were you, I'd be panicking. I'd be I'd be a mess. I don't know how anonymous I'd be panicking. She said that I was so drunk. I do remember, yeah, I was a girl. You are front like, you're supposed to keep us calm and we are. And she's like, I'd be freaking out. Calls up the navy, the navy shows. I'm just getting down on the Coast Guard. I wasn't worried because I had AppleCare. OK? I had AppleCare. I'll get when I get back, I get back to the room. I'm like, Let me look at my back of our time. It was in the side pouch where I keep my water bottle. I would never put my phone there, but also I was under the influence of those famous St. Thomas banana daiquiris brought to me by my friend Roy, and I had to call back down and be like, Hey, guys, hey, please delete that form. And they're like more. I was like, I don't care, it's OK, I'll delete it. And then they call us back where, like, did you find your phone? We can't find it anywhere. We're so sorry. And I'm like, because I called back. I think I found it, but they were really sweet about it. But I did find my phone. It was complete and utter chaos. I'm sorry. No, it's OK. We found that we handled that. So then I think it was two days later we ended up at Coco. OK, again. Couldn't point it out on a map. Well, it's an island owned by Royal Caribbean. It's a very small L.A. It's not even a real island. Maybe it's like purchased it just for cruise ships to go there and you guys, because it was owned by Royal Caribbean, the our drink packages that we already had worked everywhere. They had free food. It was just like everything to live. Oh my God, it was. It was literally paradise. It's an extension of the ships. If you're looking at a Royal Caribbean like trip, I would really recommend going one that stops a Coco because it's like it's like being on the cruise, but just being on an island because you can they have a towel place to have it. You get your free towels from. It gets everything is included in your cruise package. The island is broke up in a two islands. It's like two parts. It's like Gold, Chill Island and Thrill Island. Thrill Island has about like five six roller like water slides and like a water coaster, it's $100 extra. We were like maligns of that. I think it was more than that. I was 118. I looked 18 and you can pay for that extra. But unless you have kids are like dying to go in Whitesides. I wouldn't recommend it. I think there's so much fun to be had at the beach bars on Chill Island. The swim up bar and the pool from the beach itself. And I just thought we had so much fun. We just drunk the day away on the island. I read the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I was crying, had to excuse myself to the restroom twice. I was like, I did not want to have this luxurious beach day turn into this. But it was. It was a cut back and I finished it there. So then we finished up our time at our little chill vibe on the island. We hopped in the pool and we, yeah, we just we parted with a bunch of strangers in a pool of people. Bros. Yeah, everyone's like, Oh my Instagram Story, people pee in that pulls out people pee in that pool, guys IP in that pool. I don't want anyone to say to me, I don't pause. You're either a liar or you're a psychopath, OK? If I made partying in a pool, I'm not getting out to go. That's what chlorine is for. OK, I'm going to jail and I'm honest with myself and I can see the judgment coming from you. I'm not judging you, but I would never peed in a pool. I have peed in a pool. Whether it is, I do not. I don't pee in pools anymore, and I know it sounds like I'm like lying, but my body like, won't let it happen. I'll be in the ocean. And I did. In fact, I did someone. Do you? I mean, they were like, Grow up, you can't be imposing or grow up. What would we rate all of our excursions in islands? Ten out of ten, I would give them a ten out of ten as well. Moving forward, the shows the entertainment on the cruise ship, so cruises they come with these like shows that you can do at night and there's a bunch of them. Royal Caribbean had, I think, like six shows. We saw about four or five of them. I would say they were hit or miss for me. What do you think? I would agree? I would agree. Let's start. There was the good and the bad. She was out with the good, the bad, the good, the good, intense, the water show. So when Jonathan was talking earlier about the awkward theatre, it's at the back of the ship. It's like this giant like stadium outside, and we weren't really sure what it was going to be. And we're sitting in the seats and we know that there's a diving component. And as soon as the show starts, there's a woman at the top, the hot like that with a line 4ps. Yeah, she was getting trapeze on the top of the ship and that Chinese started. Yeah, OK, they're sold. We're still listening to that. And she's on this like high wire. Like 10 stories up doing her little line and the show starts and it starts to the message on the screen is dedicated to daughters, so I'm already crying. I'm sentimental now, and it's a dive show featuring all women and they do kind of like this water dancing. The stage kind of moves open and close, and when it's open, it's a 30 foot like tank that they can dive into and they'll seamlessly close it in the middle of a show and they'll do these water dancing. I post that on my story as well. If you probably saw that and it was just it was breathtaking. I was so in love with that show. Yeah, it was really cool. Our full hour, they were just like doing the absolute most. I absolutely loved it. I was so proud of those girls. I was crying, I was screaming. I was throwing my hands up and down every single minute of the show. It was just so breathtakingly talented. I can't swim as you guys now. And they were just they were leaping from the top of the cruise ship into these pools and doing tricks. It was just beautiful. Moving forward, there was also an ice skating show. Yes, there was an ice skating rink at the bottom of the ship and it was a beautiful little tiny stadium. And there it was really cold in there, which I loved. And they had this a great ice skating show that was. At two, like the seasons of like every month, they had like a different light, it was like a song for the month. Is that what it was? Yeah, it was called three. Sixty five, I think, and it was. It just went through the month. Jonathan was like, You think it's called 365 because you can see it from every angle. And I'm like, Jonathan, it's that's not 360. It's 365 days of the year. And it was really it was really beautiful. They had like a snow machine in it, and they had it was all according to light. I loved it. But, you know, I talk about, I want to vigil it out. What shows were bad? I'm sorry. We had a disagreement on one of them. So why don't you go ahead and Typekit? The one we disagree about is called effectors two. It's clearly the sequel to another. Another story what is the concept of that? It was a superhero thing, and they were like, it was so good on the last cruise ships that we brought it back, which makes sense for people who go on cruises, often with probably kids. But we didn't see the first show and they recapped it in these fake like tweets on the screen. And it wasn't making much sense. And I feel like we just like turned on the TV and it was halfway through a movie. But I liked the music and I liked the dancing a lot. Yeah, it was OK. It was like, I don't know how to describe it. It was like just a very loud, bright, full show of superheroes. I've never been in superheroes. I mean, that's why it was like we were watching them film. Those models just dance for the video game. Oh, it felt like very much just dance to music. All. I like that. I didn't like the show, though. Sorry, guys. And what I hated the most, which I was so disappointed by because I was so looking forward to at the comedy club. I've been on another cruise and the comedians were so funny. Laugh out loud and you can only see the comedy show once on a cruise because they do the same show every single week, so you're not going to see it twice. It was these two guys. The first guy was like, OK, the second guy was just like, Not funny. I don't like comedians that just make fun of people as they're bad. I'm like, If you don't me funny stories or you're not funny and you're using people as the like the punch, it was homophobic. It was Tyler's transphobic. He was making fun of the crew from different countries. And I was like, they was like low hanging fruit, basic jokes. What was the one that he stole from Reddit? I know a girl whose name is l a hyphen. How do you think it's pronounced? And everybody's like, I don't know. And he says Dash, because I know how crazy kid's names were. And I was like, They say, boring tomato, tomato, tomato. It was like, if we're not laughing and all you're doing is making fun of people who are working on the cruise line like these people worked our asses off and you're thinking, it's funny to like, make them the punchline of a joke. First of all, are you working your a*s off? These jokes sucks. I got out there and on 10 times the show that he ever did, I hated him. I'm sorry, I don't. I don't need to see a straight white man with a microphone doing the accent of people who are going above and beyond, like the first service on the ship. He was literally mocking their accent. I was like, I, I understand that when you enter a comedy club and you're entering a comedy space like, I'm not trying to be woke, but I know I thought I really thought we moved past it. It wasn't funny. Yeah. Like if your joke about the LGBTQ or whatever community is, there's all the letters and they're like, boring. Like, if you want to drag me, drag me, like I will laugh myself all day. But if your main punchline is the alphabet thing, it's like we've heard this been done and we've heard it been done a lot better than this. I was like, Who's paying this man? And guess what? It wasn't just us. It was like crickets out there, and I was like, Bro, you're getting paid for this. Like, you need to be working a lot harder than everybody else is. You only mean it was bad. It was really bad. Overall, the shows were, I'm going to give the shows a seven point five at a time because half of them, I liked half of them. I didn't. The ones that I loved, I was gagged. I was duped. I was throwing roses, the ones I didn't. I felt like I wish I was just at the bar. Yeah, I'm going to give it an eight out of 10. But the one show that I would like to mention that hasn't been mentioned was on Channel five. It was Red Bull TV was Channel five, and they have the 2015 Soapbox derby races. If you haven't watched it, you should watch it. We were addicted. It was like the only thing that was on TV, and we were like, Why can't we turn this off? I wonder if it's on YouTube, the 2015 London Soapbox derby sponsored by Red Bull? Guys, I don't think we can get that much further. I think you have to look that up if you're ever interested. Had nothing to do with the cruise. Just happened to be on a TV and we loved it. So last up for our little booze cruise kit and caboodle. We've got food and beverages. Yeah, a very important category for anybody on a vacation. Am I drinking well? Am I eating right? No, both, yes. A.. Overall, the food was great. So Adam Cruise, you have an Inclu dining package, which includes like your buffets, your kind of free options, some of like the my type dining like relaxing down those for good. Overall, I would say very good. Yeah, the effect, I suppose the best one I've ever had an icon. Yeah, that was great. What were some of the free food options on the cruise? If there's a buffet on a cruise, it's going to be called the windjammer. I'm not sure what a windjammer is, but there's always going to be a one on a cruise. They've also got 24, so I think it was 24 hours and it must have been Sorento. They got pizza coming out the AC. Can't wait for seven like 4am. I think so. Probably 24 hour pizza. I went there around like to ask the one time when we left the nightclub, which there was a nightclub on the ice skating rink. It's all very imagine explaining a cruise ship and your day on a cruise to a pilgrim. Well, we're doing it to the campers. Yeah, but the campers know cruises exist, but a pilgrims like, Oh yeah, right. My father, a Quaker, took months to get from Coco to hear my father, Quaker Oatmeal Turton Hi. OK, what else was the extracurriculars that we had to pay for? Was Giovanni, which is an Italian hooked which you didn't like, and Wonderland, an Alice in Wonderland themed restaurant that had the craziest food. Yeah, you got it. When you walked in, you had to paint your menu with it's. It's so hard to explain. I feel like this is just like, very difficult to get across. Very cool, though. Yeah, I was very calm. Food was great. Alcohol was even better. We had the drink package. You know, we were drinking all day, every day. What were your top three drinks you were drinking on the cruise? Strawberry Zachery, Diet Coke and Captain Morgan? And what was my last prosecco? Yeah. What about you? I was drinking pina coladas, Tito's meals and Bloody Marys. Yep, and we drank them all day every day. As you saw online, we were consistently lit the entire trip on the last day of the cruise. We were in bed by nine p.m. because our body said, Stop, stop it now. I had just downed an espresso martini and we went back to the room and you're like, I don't know if I feel like going out because we were supposed to meet our friends and I was like, Oh, I guess I'll sit down and then you turn around and I had shoes off contacts. I was under the covers. I was ready to go to bed. My body was not allowing me to leave my room. We did our best and we ate and we drank like kings. Overall, what would you rate the food in bed together? I would say 10 out of 10. If I had to separate them, I would say food like eight and a half and then drinks for ten minutes, for sure. I'm going to say eight point five out of 10. Honestly, I was on Norwegian Cruise and I didn't love the food. Overall, this food was really great. I think if I were to suggest it, be really conscious of what you pick for additional dining. I think the buffets and the dining, the dining room dinner thing is really comparable to the extra add ons. We got a lot of those extra add ons free because of what Jonathan did for work had we had not done them for free. I would have been a little bit like, Oh, why don't we pay this extra money for it when the buffet is just as good because they really be killing it on them? Buffets, you guys. So if you're looking to do a Royal Caribbean just really researched the restaurants look online what people think because they're OK. Buffets, though fantastic. I love the hotdogs. I'm sorry. Something about, oh, not the gag. Or I will say the Gallaghers on Norwegian were amazing and these were just good and service. Overall, I'm just gonna say it was 09:50. Everybody was great. However, we didn't get a single tower swan. We did not get a towel, swan or a towel. We got no towel animals the entire trip. I was shocked. I was so sad, not disappointed because he still did a really good job. He's a really nice guy, so I'll give him a good tan. Oh my god, amazing. The entire the entire cast and crew on Royal Caribbean, they worked our asses off. You bring cash. You better tip these people with cash because they deserve it. Love you, royal attention, campers. Please meet at the old flagpole under the tall pine for morning announcements. Attention, campers, we just want to thank you all for being so good last week. OK? You know, me and Councillor Jonathan were on vacation and Sandwich reported back saying that you were fantastic to him. So thank you so much. But there was an incident in the mess hall that we were brought to light brought to our attention. We said no more jam in the mess hall because of what happened last year, and I'm not going to get into it any further. But whatever camper snuck in the Smuckers, you're on our s**t list and we'll get back to you later. You Smucker's f**kers. I have a little bit of housekeeping this week. We got a really funny email in from a camper and I am just obsessed. It was from Lydia, so she emailed us and said Today, while I was cleaning my house, I was wishing that I would have saved the newest episode of the podcast for my manic, deep clean. I decided to go back and listen to an old episode hoping to hear parts that I may have missed, not even three minutes into this episode, you say, and I quote, I was like a scary clown. And if you know me? Come on, guys. I'm not going to dress up as a clown voluntarily. That's just not my vibe. Pardon me, Mr. recently turned 28 years old and did a clown photo shoot. I'm expecting an apology in the morning announcements in the near future. And if not, it's fine. We will, of course, forgive you. Love you both clowning around in the shady bridge downtown. That was the Halloween episode I was talking about growing up, and I said I would never jump as a clown voluntarily because I had two kids out of. Ben, and then for my birthday this year on Instagram, I did a clown photo photoshoot, she really caught my eye as she died. Lydia, you're dragging me and you know what? I take it raked over the coals and gave me a spanking. I deserve it. You are correct. That was just a little thing I want to mention that made me laugh. Thanks, Lydia. Thanks for going back and listening to older episodes. I love that. OK, so morning announcements. I'm going to keep a cruise related, all cruise related. So this article comes from Business Insider dot com, and it's titled A retired couple sold their homes so they could permanently live on cruise ships for less than forty three dollars a day. Oh, with that equate to a month. Multiply that by how many under two thousand? Higher or lower, just kind of guy. All right. So Angela Lynn and Richard Burke, they're retired and they're like, Hey, why don't I have this crazy idea? And Angelina is a former accountant, so she's got numbers buzzing all in her head. And she figured out that hello. She figured out that for close to forty three dollars a day, it would cover like meals and drinks and everything that they need. It would cost less than than their home. And again, you know, they're retired and they just want to travel. So it kind of makes sense. So in 2021, they sold their home and they hopped on a ship and they haven't gotten off of it since. And it is now twenty twenty three as we record this. So the couple visited Italy. They visited Iceland, Singapore, the Caribbean, and they've they actually just started their 51 day cruise from Seattle to Sydney. Oh wow, they do cruises that long. No, I think they figured out how to hop along. And I think third. Can you imagine we get that's that's a long time. I think they're just hopping along. So it's their own fifty one day. A lot of planning for this, though I would say, Well, hey, if you've got nothing but time to plan and go off queen. So I thought this was really interesting because then this article linked to another article, there's a cruise line called storylines, and they have a ship that is coming out. That is for people who are going to choose to fully rent or own a home on board. So it's going to basically be an apartment building on the water. Oh wow, I wonder what features it comes with. If they looked really luxe, I will say that it looks like a normal cruise ship, but the rooms are really luxe. A home on board will cost residents between 400000 and $8 million. Oh my God, it's launching in 2024 and the ship does offer two storey penthouse is a solar powered hydroponic garden, and there is even an onboard school. Oh my, yeah. Like an accredited school that you can send your kids to, which is absolute insanity. So the company is selling leasehold agreements for 12 months, 24 months or sixty years. Sixty years. Jesus Christ, what a job. Yeah. And it again is going to start in twenty twenty four and they're going to journey to six continents. I will say I think that that makes sense because when we were getting off our ship, they had an announcement being like, OK, if you're getting back on, you have to board Debord the ship regardless of how long you're doing your cruise for. So some people were like getting off at night and then getting back on at like 12 to like a recheck in a lot of people do that. A lot of older people do. They love or people love cruises. I was going to say, I can't blame them. Do you think those old people are the same people have those upside down pineapple on their door, you post on Instagram and people think we're swingers now. But that wasn't our door guys. That wasn't our door. If you don't know, an upside down pineapple is a sign first swingers. Well, I say love, love, love, love, love a swinger. If you love a swinger and love thy neighbor, love them. Good. Oh, he loves them. Good. Get out of the water and onto the dock. You're not going to believe what I just heard. Welcome back to gossip talk I love it's called gossip talk and this is a cruising episode and that has nothing to do with boats and docks, so it all ties in. We also have been getting a lot of emails and gossip talk, and it does make sense that if you're listening to this and not watching it on YouTube because we have the little visuals that say Gossip Doc, and I also do mumble often when I say it, but it's gossip doc. Oh, it's gossip. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, it makes sense. It's gossip talk, gossip doc. But it's not a doc with a D, not t. OK, anyway. Anyways, this gossip doc was submitted by Kirsten. I believe it's pronounced because we ask people online to in some cruise drama, some cruise stories, and she sent something so simple, so sweet, so chaotic, and I'm obsessed. There was a DM on my Instagram. She starts off her dealing with saying, I'm leaving your cruise and the fake police officer stripper mustache kind of works. Thank you. Here's Jim. So cruise drama is real. My family, me husband. Two kids took a cruise of a Christmas New Year in 2019 2020. Keep that in mind, people. It was epic drama. There was a murder, a wife, server, husband, divorce papers on the ship, and he strangled her to death. That was number one number two. Two parents got wasted and left their kid in port in Belize. They had to be airlifted via helicopter port back to relieve to retrieve their children. So they got to the helicopter back to get the kids and the cruise is gone. Number three Someone died of a heart attack. The whole ship went on lockdown with a crazy alert at three a.m. Wow. No for a knockdown fistfight at the pool and that that fistfight filled the entire brig. So they arrested that many people that the rig was filled on this cruise. I'm assuming the Brig is the is the jail, the Brig. Is the Cruz jail, everybody. And they filled it with this crucified end to rounded off. Half of the group complained after the crew that they got the worst flu ever, likely the beginning of the international spreading of COVID. And they did not know. They did not know is Anna 2019 20? We didn't know there was like six weeks later were like, Oh, there's COVID, but that's all the symptoms matched up to COVID before we knew what COVID was. And also people were really just like nasty on cruises beforehand. Oh yeah, the one that we were on had sinks at every buffet. She was she. Everywhere you go, everybody's picking up the spoons with their mouths beforehand. That's real drama. To recap, everybody on this cruise had a murder missing children left in international waters. Someone died of a heart attack, an entire fight breaking out that fill the entire Cruz jail and the start of COVID. That was a drama filled ship. And thank you for submitting that, Kristin. We loved it. How many days that was? Probably seven o'clock can even happen in one day. Grab your book Juice and bear spray campers. It's time to pack it up and take a hike. Welcome back to take a hike. This is the part of the show where we talk about things that are grinding our gears, pissing us off, and we just want to b***h a little as if we haven't done that enough already. So I'll kick it off like it's the Super Bowl. Gobert's What's been pissing me off lately on this cruise was people who are just Debbie Downers on a cruise. Zach and I went to the lime in the coconut. Yes. Oh no, it wasn't called that. Was it something like that? Lime and coconut sounds more fun. Fancy that the lime in the coconut and we're sitting there, and while we're waiting for our drinks to be made, there's a man sitting by himself. It's about 11:00 a.m. Oh, and he's reading a book, and he keeps looking up from his book looking at us like I can see that he's attempting to wedge himself in and start a conversation which is normal in a cruise. People talk to everybody in the course I'm always down to talk to thy neighbor. But what was wrong with this man? He just wasn't happy down downer. Well, first off, he started off by trying to impress us with how much he's drank. Let it be known that this man is probably late 40s, early 50s, early 50s, for sure. He's well in the 40s, and he was talking about how he was listing a bunch of drinks, things like an atlas for breakfast. And I'm like, That sounds like an issue which if it's an issue, that's OK, but get help and not brag about. But it wasn't like a thing. I had three dark and stormy. And it was like very like my mom and I. But I but I felt like it was trying to impress us and we're like, Oh, very cool. And when we weren't impressed by that, he was like, Yeah, and this is my second book of the day. I was like, You're telling me you drank all that and you could read. No, exactly, exactly. And he wasn't really reading his holding as a prop. And the book looks stupid. He wanted to talk about it. Oh, he was like, Oh, it's called the murder in the kitchen. He's like, There's a real crazy book. I'm like being sure it is. I'm sure it is, and I don't care. And then he started. He asked us what we do, and we told him what we do. Not in-depth, but we were like, Yeah, we make content online. And he goes, Oh, so you work for China? And I was like, Oh my God, OK? And he was like, Oh, well, all those apps are China. And I was like, Well, well, they've been really good to me. What do you do? And he's like, I run a. Business and I can work from wherever I am. And that's why I'm here, I'm currently working right now with a drink in my hand at the bar. And I'm like, Nothing you're saying is coming out with anything lovely or nice or even a talkative energy. It seems like everything we said to him. He just s**t on. You couldn't say anything for him to be like, Oh, look, I got a drink. He was like, Oh, that's all you're drinking. Can water can water. You have Michelob Ultra. You know, I love Michelob Ultra going to find that till the day I die, and you're making fun of my drink because I want to make making fun the way that what we're doing, making fun of what we do for work. And I was like, Bro, we got to go, bye bye. And then he wanted to show us a Facebook thing or randomly, he was like, Here's this guy who sings on Facebook. He's really good, but he'll never go on tour. You think how talented guy was going to do that like that? Like, we people say, How are you? How he like, harmonizes with himself? So he'll do a bunch of like six to nine videos of this man singing by himself over a song. Everything done vocally like pitch perfect style. Very great. And the guys like, what a shame. He'll never go on tour. He'll never make a dime. I'm like, he I'm looking at his page right now and he's got a checkmark. He's doing things. You just can't comprehend it yet. And that's why I'm saying, like even the thing that he enjoys, he still finds a way to be negative. Babic, you love this guy so much, and the next thing you say about him is he'll never toy, though it's like, I think technology works pretty well, OK? I think he probably could figure out how to do it. He sucked and we saw him again and we avoid him like a play. I'm I don't talk to me ever again, sir. Literally went up the next day and I tried to, like, turn my back to him. He was reading the same book. He was on the same page. He was telling the same story to a new new group of people on the other side of him. I was like, I heard this story. Like, yesterday I didn't. I was like, Please give me my drink so I can get out of here. But it's funny because it's like of all places in the world, the most talkative place in the entire like place ever. If you want to go, mingle and talk to people across the way, you do it. Everybody is talking to everybody. Everyone's super nice, but I'm like, You're not going to make friends, you're not going to meet somebody that you're going to hang out with you. If you're miserable, man, like, Oh, I hated him. I also group him into the people that were miserable on the bus tour that told me that I was like, Yeah, I would agree. And that's my that's my take. Yeah, those people were miserable. Everyone else. Fans have, uh, we met great people. So what are you trying to take a hike? Oh, it's nobody's fault. It's just the way the world is. Motion sickness on a cruise is real, you guys. People will tell you. Don't feel that you do. Actually, the first cruise I went on a couple of years ago in Norwegian. I can feel it. This one I did. We were going so fast. The first two days to get to St. Kitts and the ocean was a little rocky and we could really feel it. I really wish we would have brought Dramamine or ashes. I was kind of like, We don't need him. I didn't know him last time. We definitely did, you guys. And when people are like, Oh, just get drunk and yell even out, no, because we were drunk and it was rocking and I just felt even worse. So I was like, really sick the first day. It was bad. So I'm not sure if this is a lie or not, but I looked it up and people say that day one they give. They put like laxatives in the food and like a higher fat content and more like butter and oil and stuff for the plumbing situation. Just so people are just like having soft stool just on day one or the whole time. I don't know if it's day one or the whole time, but you and I were both like an unnatural amount of sex. The first, oh, I was dropping, I was dropping them in there and it was I felt sick to my stomach. It honestly was pretty, though I really overcame. I don't want to, like, deter people from going on cruises, thinking music the entire time. You're really not going to be. But if you do get motion sickness like you need to prepare for it because I am not going to lie to you guys. It was rough. There was nowhere to go. Where do you go? What do you mean? Like how to escape the motion sickness? It's just like you just have to lay and and pray. We also had so much booze in our stomach that like it was really sloshing a lot, which I don't think helped the cause at all. Yeah, but it's nobody's fault. I'm not blaming anybody for that. That's the that's mother nature. That's the ocean. That's the way of the world. But if the worst thing we're complaining about guys is rock and boat on day one and a man we met for 20 minutes at a bar early in that day, it was a great it was a great cruise to the new counselor likes the top or the bottom line over. Either way, I'm giving them. I've been talking about crushes on the open sea and kissing girls, and I'm hugging boy and I'm living in the sun on the Caribbean air. Welcome back to Class of the week. I don't know what I was. I never know what I'm going to say when I start this segment. This is the part of the show where we tell you who requested on Christmas edition. All right. So who am I crashing on? I've got two questions for you guys. And we start, if you were following us on social media, you already know who it is. Everyone makes cruise friends, right? But you just it happens in the most unlikely of times, in the most unlikely of areas. That's a total lie. This is a completely likely area for this to happen. I'm sitting there reading my book as I do. Zachary in hand and I'm getting to the bottom of my strawberry daiquiri, and I don't notice because I've had phone them listening to smooth jazz instrumental only to help me focus with my reading. And I hear someone say, What are you slurping on? And I looked up and I had to take my my thing out. And this woman repeated again. She said, What are you slurping on? I was like, embarrassed because I like, I'm slurping loud, and I didn't realize it because my headphones were in. I told her I was a strawberry daiquiri. So she orders one. And that was when we met Wanda, our cruise mom. We became friends with this woman, Wanda and her daughter, Latasha, so quickly we'd like. We hit it off instantly, and we just started chatting for like hours in the quiet area of the solarium, mind you. And we just we just hit it off. It was like effortless. It was like Wanda and Latasha. They're just the most beautiful women ever. They're so funny. I also want to note that I made a joke on tech talk radio this week on the Valentine's Day episode that you chew out, and I got dragged a lot. They're like, Don't say hi to him. He looks so upset and you weren't upset. No, but people really read the comments. They're like, they're like, You're going to cry right now. He was not. But how did wanted figure out who you were? You allowed that slurping? You do. But Wanda is so sweet and Latasha is so sweet, and we were sat there for like two hours just talking about our lives and who we were. And it was really funny. So we're like maybe an hour and a half, and I've already gotten them food at this point. Get them hot dogs and hamburgers, and we're chillin and this girl comes up to us and she's like, I just want to say, like, I love you so much. You're such a talented like comedienne and you mean so much to me. And they're like, Who the hell? They didn't know who we were, which was kind of like fun because I got to meet a lot of people on the cruise that had seen my videos or knew who we were. But one day in the Taj, I had no idea. And when they found out that we did videos and we made videos with them, it was like other layer of just fun because it was such a pure interaction. It was, it's like truly like, Oh, who are you? Let's talk. And they had the most interesting stories. Yeah. Oh my God, because they both could. Seriously. But yeah, we ended up kicking it with them for like the rest of the time, we would meet up almost every day at some point to get drinks or something out. One time we went out with Latasha was the Day of Coco No. Of St. Thomas. Because Wanda was back at the room. We went to dinner with Latasha. We went out to go to the show and literally they switched places. I swear they hadn't had this plan, but one got on the elevator, the other one came off and then we went to a bar with Wanda, and they both came to the show. It was so funny and it was great because we had that perfect interaction the first day with the second day and saying, can't say we didn't see them all day and were like, I hope we run into them again. We're not going to see them. Where are they? And then we're getting on the beach, on St. Thomas, on Melgen's Bay, and I'm sitting there, put my towel down, and I hear this woman like telling a guard like a ton of person at work that she's like, I want this chair. This is the chair that I want. I look up, it's Wanda. And I was like, Oh my God, mom. And then we ran into them again. So like, even if we hadn't met them and talked to them, we just like kept crossing each other's paths constantly without even planning a salt of the Earth. The best kind of people. Funny. Amazing. So generous. She brought us those keychains just because she was thinking about her boys, like ran into her at the souvenir shop and she was buying a daiquiri, a strawberry daiquiri keychain for me. And then a little bottle opener with a turtle on it for you didn't see the turtle on the shore. And she was sadder and sick because you saw and she met you through the strawberry daiquiri. Like, so thoughtful. Yeah. So we saw her that night. We saw them again and we saw them at the karaoke bar. We went out with them. We were in the club with them till two a.m. We did the family portrait package with them. We did the family portrait package with a wand. I was Tasha was there, but she wasn't there for that part. But we keep up with them now where cruise friends for life. Hopefully they'll come to camp shady. But they would love it here. I know we, Tom was like, If you ever come to New York girls, you have a place to stay. They were just so good and it was. It was easy with that. Yeah, it was. We got to know each other and we got to share really funny personal stories from our lives. And they just really remember everything. And they're just sweet. And we met them like the perfect way. Yeah, and I'm happy that we met them. Like what? Day to day three? Yeah, day to day two we met them. Oh yeah, it was. Yeah, it was daytime. So we had them all night and the last night we wanted to go out so bad they got drinks to them. But we were so dad and we messaged, we messaged, Latasha, we're like, Hey, girl, I don't think we can make it out. We're so dad, we're already laying in bed. And she goes, Don't worry me too. So she will say she was like, I'm already in bed and she was cruise out. That happens. So you get to that point where, like, too much sun, too much alcohol, too much fun. But this episode is dedicated to Wanda and Latasha for like being genuinely the highlight of our entire trip was meeting them. Yeah, they were so great. They were really fun. So who are you crushing on? I wanted to say the same thing, but for the for the show, I will say a separate one. But they are my true crush the week, but also kind of vibe them. I love that karaoke bar, guys. A karaoke bar is fun anywhere in the world. A karaoke bar on a cruise is probably the most fun you can have. Because these people are from everywhere and they are down to be spotted, they are down to be seen. You're going to see amazing performers. You're going to see some weird performances and you just never know what you're going to get. They fill 50 spots in 10 minutes. OK. And let me tell you, it's probably the same people every single night. So I have a couple of honorable mentions. OK. Some of my favorites. OK. Yeah. Coming in number one. Sam, it's got to be sans copies here. Sam was a small, very, I don't know, quiet Asian man that went up there and he's saying, I did it my way by Frank Sinatra. Boy, did he do it his way? This little tiny karaoke bar erupted in the most monumental applause because you just didn't see it coming with that guy. He was amazing on fire. But then I came back the second night and he got the wrong version of his song. He wanted to do Elvis. I can't help falling in love. And it was a little sped up or something like that, and he was upset. And I was like, Sam, I know this is your moment, but also like we are at a cruise karaoke bar. It is not that serious, but he was a little tense. Someone dummy. They said, I've seen that same black man on a different cruise. He's a performer. He's a performer and he loves that. Coming out number two, it's me. Josh has to be Josh. Josh is one of those people. It's like, OK, karaoke seems a little too beginner for you. You were a little too good to be in the room right now. You're kind of showing people up. Josh had a voice like butter, if you will. He would sing, he would sing John Legend and he would, and there won't be a dry eye in the audience. Josh was fantastic. Josh and Sam are in the same category. People that would be there every single night, like on the fifth night that we saw Josh. I'm like, OK, cut the sky, cut the sky bet. OK, Josh, you know what you're doing because they're like, Oh me, like, I don't know if I can do it. Haha, it's like Josh. We know you have pipes. It's the same crowd every night. And he was he was so good, so good. But number three, whose number is very minimal over three. This is a little woman who who gave me what I like a sea bass on karaoke. Her name is Celeste. What did she sang? It was Whitney Houston, something I did not recognize, but it was Whitney Houston. Don't remember what it was. By 30 seconds, and this woman was had her head all the way to the ground with throw it up. The left might actually be pointing she. She used the stage. Her voice was a karaoke voice. I don't know if it was. It was on American Idol ready. Not like Sam, but it was funny. It was entertaining. And she put on a show. I will say, if she didn't have the full voice, she had the karaoke voice. But the stage presence was incredible, unmatched. She used the wheelchair ramp. Never have I seen someone use a wheelchair ramp in a karaoke bar is that we're going to talk shows like not her using the handicapped ramp and she worked. It was her runway, always so funny, went to the Caribbean. I think four or five nights of the day it was at 10:30 10:45. Every night. It was just a fun place to end up because the vibes were high in there and everybody in the audience was very supportive of everybody. Like everybody would freak out and scream and clap for everybody, which was fine. Like, you know, we, however, did not karaoke and it wasn't because we like didn't. I guess we just didn't really have the drive to get up there. We were tired. Lord knows what would have happened if we weren't up there. I'm still struggling finding my perfect karaoke song in the back of my head. It's always been. He wasn't man enough by Toni Braxton, but not everybody knows that song. A lot of people do, but not everybody. I think you would have been surprised that was an older audience, first of all. You mean, like Toni Braxton is a champion with her vocals, and I think you would have been surprised. But also like it was a little intimidating. They were saying like, Hey, like Sam and Josh, they were up there every single night, along with a bunch of other people like people would come just to sing and then they leave, which I'm like, OK, like, don't sing in the not from support other people. Sam would walk in and he would leave them, and he was done. He wanted that applause. Sam was addicted to the applause. I think we all are to an extent. Well, I think that's why we didn't do it. And I think we were we were performing enough online that we didn't need to get up there and take the spotlight from anybody else, OK? We were loving and people were loving. I loved it. Back here was probably another highlight of my cruise, and it was even more fun going with Wanda, Latasha, and they love it till they died. What has been stuck in your head all week? Welcome to camp songs. Welcome back to camp songs. This is the part of the show where we talk about the songs that have been stuck in our head and this one boy, Oh boy, this one has been stuck in our heads. We've been singing it all week since we heard it, which was in St Kitts. Yeah, we were going up to ziplining and we heard it and we couldn't stop. So the song is called Mind My Business by Patrice Roberts, and I had never heard of it. But let me sing a little ditty for you. Maybe we can both do it. This can be our karaoke moment. Eight. One to three drink water and mind my business. I'm gonna drink water and my my business as the whole thing. It's so, so good. It's OK. That one's candy for the brand Fresh Island. It's steel drum, it's vibes galore and I love the message behind it. Drink water and mind my business, I think. We all need to do more that I know I person do, I don't drink water and I'm on everybody's business. Mm-Hmm. It's true, but I don't buy it on the beach. I played on the show where it played, played everywhere. Yeah, and now it's a former saying it, and now it is. It is blasting through the speakers through Camp Shady Birch. So I'm going to put it on our Camp Songs playlist, which is you can listen to it for free on Spotify as well as YouTube. And if you guys just listening, if you're listening to this like sometime in the distant future and this song comes on, I want you to stop what you're doing. I want you to to pop that pussy and just drink water and mind your business. It is such a great song. I know, and I don't expect people to listen to it this summer, wherever you are when it's warm. You don't have to be on the island, guys, but it's like such a fine, fun song. It gets me hop and it gets me jump in, and it's very simple to learn. You listen to it once and you're already like, You're already going wrong with it. You know it grows. So will my reminder drink water in mind your business? Yeah, I don't have a camp song because that was the one I lived in was too. So we're sharing that camp song. Sorry, scary stories around the campfire. Oh no. Who's at the door? It's the IRS. Welcome to scary stories around the campfire. This is the part of the show where we read little stories written by our campers that make us scared or embarrassed. And this week, Oh my god, it is. Curse related. Oh my god, is it terrifying? They're there. This is the best submission for this episode. This is actually scary. I can't even believe it. Jonathan, you got to take this one way and usually I like I might like tell you a little bit. That's another story before we record, but this one I just had to forward to because I was I kept gasping while I was reading this and I was fact-checking and the story checks out, you guys. This is a scary story around the campfire. Mm hmm. Let me paint the picture. It was January of 2007 and I was feeling fierce, determined that this was going to be my year. I was a junior in high school and finally gotten past the awkward high school phase. I made friends and I was thriving. One of the clubs I joined my sophomore year in hopes of revamping my social life was doing their annual E.F. Tour trip. Oh, OK. So I was just going to ask you about that as if is a company that offers trips and tours for large groups? Got it. Doesn't know. I don't know what it stands for, but we're just going to. Yeah, it's very high school and they always are the E.F. towards the ones that like, take like high school, like kids on like international trade. I've definitely heard of it. They're still in business. That year the trip was to Greece and we were here for it. After begging my parents, my brother and I convinced them to let us go. Spring rolled around. We packed our bags and embarks on the journey. We arrived in Greece and spent four days exploring Athens first. On the fifth day, we were scheduled to set sail on a cruise of the Greek islands. I was particularly excited for this part of the trip because it was my first cruise experience. And although it wasn't a big American cruise line, we were about to visit some iconic places, including Santorini. I was living my best sisterhood of the traveling pants fan this year, so we set sail on our adventure at sea. We had the best time while at sea and docking at all the islands. We drink, we ate and we partied our little asses off on the last day of the cruise. We were set to visit Santorini. My friends and I were so excited. We met in my cabin to pregame with a fresh bottle of Smirnoff that we were able to get our hands on because drinking age was probably 18. We felt on top of the world dancing and taking shots as we kill time before we were. We were supposed to dock in Santorini. All of a sudden we hear a loud thump and a scraping sound. We thought it seemed odd, but we brushed it off, thinking we had probably just docked again. She hadn't been on a cruise before she was 17, so we were feeling nice and tipsy when the loud bang, when the loud banging interrupted the partying, we quickly hit the vodka under the bed and I rushed to open the door on the other side. Was the trip chaperone in a panic? And she screamed, Get your life jackets and come up to the deck now ! She continued running down the hall, knocking on all the doors of the other people who are part of our trip. In that moment, I didn't know what was happening, but I went into survival mode and grabbed my lifejacket and ran. The place was total chaos. We were finally able to make it to the top deck when we found our group. I took a look, I took a look around and I noticed my brother was missing. My stomach sank and I went into a panic. I ran around the deck looking for him frantically and nothing. After an hour of waiting, I hear my name being called. I turn around and I see my brother. Relief came over me and we ran towards each other and hugged for what felt like an eternity. While I hugged him, I noticed his pants were soaked and I asked him what happened. He told me it was because his cabin was at the lowest level and the hall had quickly filled with water. Him and his roommate had to swim to get to the stairs. Titanic. I couldn't believe it, and I was so relieved that he was OK. After several hours of waiting with no updates from the staff, we finally heard that we were being evacuated onto smaller fishing boats. As I climbed down a ladder on the side of the boat barefoot as I had left my room like that, it finally sunk in. Pun intended that I had totally lost all of my belongings. We finally made it to land and I finally started to feel safe. I had to buy a pair of flip flops at the local souvenir shop next to the docks as the waiting game continued. The cruise company had said the cruise company had sent other cruises to transport us back to Athens since it was the only way we could get home from the island. You truly cannot make this up. Two days later, we finally made it home and we were reunited with our families at the airport. It definitely was an unforgettable trip and a story I'll always remember. Sincerely lost at sea in Cabin Thirty four, guys. I'm surprised she didn't just come out and spell it out for us. So she was on the Sea Diamond or the Diamond Sea, and it was a cruise ship that had hit an underwater caldera. So there were like all these rock formations, which in the news articles I had looked up from 2007 were saying like it was very well known to anybody who was in a boat or could read in that area. Of course, it was noted everywhere that there was a caldera that made it seem shallower and there was rocks. It was a dangerous situation, OK? The rocks damaged the ship. There's photos of it. It is. So it is my worst nightmare, anyone's worst nightmare on a cruise ship. And the captain was charged with negligence, but luckily our camper got out unharmed along with her brother. I cannot believe she little. Her parents are like, It's fine. They're all going to cruise in the Caribbean with a high school group. The damage to the bottom of the ship caused the bottom floor to flood, so her little brother is wading swimming through a hallway. Titanic style to the top of this probably very tiny cruise ship because it's the Mediterranean one. Yeah, because he hit a caldera that was clearly marked. If you're a cruise driver in this area, I'm sure you know you can't just become a cruise ship driver. Pilot, captain, captain. Thank you and not be good at this with a drunk. I didn't say, however, I do know because it's like that sometimes. Well, it used to be a lot more common for airplane pilots to be drunk because a lot of it's like, Yeah, it's like fake. Yeah, it's autopilot. But it did not say anything about him being drunk that I saw. However, I didn't do a deep dive of research, so that could have been the case. But yeah, that's crazy. The cruise went down. That was the horror story that I was looking for, but it's upsetting to people that go missing. I think it was a Frenchman and his daughter, for sure. Probably I don't think they were ever found. That's why it was crazy, because we read this story and John was like, I have to look it up. And immediately there was like 100 news articles about it, so it's very real. She was on this cruise in 2007. I think she's about like four years older, maybe three or four you like. She's like, she's like our age. I just I can't even believe it. And she has good spirits about it, and I'm glad they were OK. A tragedy, for sure, but that is a nightmare. Titanic in 2007. I can't believe it. Sorry to end on that note, but but we loved our cruise, which didn't think we did. We had so much fun on the cruise and this is a longer episode than usual, but there was just so much we couldn't cut out and we wanted to give you all the nitty gritty. But we are like kind of cutting out one part an entire day at Universal Studios. We went to Universal first and we had never been before and we had so much five so many stories from there. But I think we're going to hold off on that. Yeah, we're going to hold off on it. And if you guys want to hear it, we are starting Patreon, where you can pay for some bonus content. So head on over to Patreon.com/ camp counselors to hear a little bit about that. Yeah, so pay TRANSCOM slash camp counselors and we're going to have a bonus episode like a smaller episode talking just about Universal Studios. You also have a couple of vlogs going on there from where you guys from a while ago, from episode one and two. When we went to Disney, we've logged that in anticipation of eventually doing a Patreon and the VMAs. When we went to the VMAs in episode two, we talked about a little. But if you want to get the full visuals we got, those videos are going to be posted up over there too, and we're going to continue to like vlog our crazy fun expeditions. We did walk a little bit on the cruise, so you'll see some videos over there too of that crew of this crew. What am I saying? 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