The Carnival Ship that Never Was!

In this episode

The Golden Boys dig up Carnival's greatest ghost ship: Project Pinnacle, a ~200,000-ton mega-ship designed before Oasis class existed — grotto pool, lazy river, ten-story water slide, and a walkable whale tail stuffed with restaurants and shops — that never got built. Along the way there's the Jubilee keel-laying ceremony, cowboy-hat hard hats, hidden-coin lore, a shout-out to a no-BS cruise news source, and a fully staged on-air rage-quit over baseball.

What they covered

Topics on deck

Don’t miss

Moments worth the wait

• Project Pinnacle deep dive — a ~200,000-ton behemoth before Oasis class, with a usable whale tail — before cost killed it, morphed it into Project Genesis, and finally shelved it for Spirit-class.

  “With restaurants and bars and shops in it.”

• Trevor's segue victory lap — a transition so smooth he had to celebrate it on the mic.

  “That was my segue, dude... I segued the [bleep] out of that.”

• Cult upgraded to church — the bit levels up into full religious lore.

  “They're not cult followers — they're members of the Church of Podcastaways. We're your bishops.”

• The staged rage-quit — a baseball argument ends with Trevor fake-quitting and Tom instantly reintroducing the show solo.

  “With your host Thomas... Trevor just quit.”

• Galveston lore — a fun fact about the island's rowdier past.

  “Galveston used to have the biggest Mardi Gras party in the world.”