Press play
Listen to this episode
Plays here stream straight from our feed. Prefer your own app? Hit “Listen on Spotify,” or find us wherever you get your podcasts.In this episode
Our first-ever repeat guests are back! Josh and Amanda of Have Luggage Will Travel join the Golden Boys to relive the Vista sailing from their side — including a genuine spider-monkey attack that required Josh to, in his words, beat up a monkey. Along the way: nudist-charter intel straight from the cruise director, the great comp-dinner grudge, travel-agent life during Carnival’s record booking week, and the first real plans for a small-creator group cruise. Best friends? Number one? The competition is fierce.
What they covered
Topics on deck
Vista trip debrief
Maya Key monkey attack
Nudist-charter intel
Travel-agent life
Casino comps
Creator group cruise
Loyalty-tier race
Deck-plan philosophy
Don’t miss
Moments worth the wait
- The monkey attack — a spider monkey grabbed daughter Mallory by the hair, and dad went in.
“It commenced me having to beat up a monkey. And the poor little monkey ran away.”
- Nudist-charter intel — the cruise director spilled the details, main dining room included.
“They are nude the whole time, even in the main dining room… people at the door handing out towels for them to sit on.”
- The comp-dinner grudge — Tom’s mom scored free steakhouse and Italian, and somehow never invited the guests.
“That was not my fault. That was my mother’s fault.” — “We’re having steaks at Trevor’s house.”
- Josh’s height bit — the shirt idea that basically writes itself.
“Yeah, I know I’m tall, just keep going.”
- The loyalty-tier drama — the Golden Boys sort out who becomes what.
“You’ll be a platinum waiting on a gold. I’ll be the Platinum Man. He’ll be the Golden Boy.”
- Amanda closes cruises in her sleep — two bookings off a single tagged post.
“One of them about 9:30 last night.”
In the guest chair
Special guests
🎤
Josh & Amanda Barmore — Have Luggage Will Travel — family cruise vloggers (Amanda’s also a travel agent) and the show’s first-ever repeat guests. They bring the Vista sailing from their side of the ship, hard-won monkey-combat experience, and the seed of the creator group cruise.
Golden nuggets
Running bits & lore born here
- First repeat guests — HLWT become the first guests to return, cementing the “best friends” bit.
- “Golden Boys” & the loyalty tiers — the Platinum Man / Golden Boy split gets its formal wording: “so much discord.”
- Speedo-in-the-MDR callback — the formal-night Speedo bit returns: “Thomas in the Speedo in the main dining room.”
- The creator group cruise — the “family reunion” cruise plan is hatched, and it dominates the next few episodes.
- Tom botches the outro again — so reliably that the guys joke the outtakes could be their own whole episode.