Carnival Echo Offers and lots of Cruise News!

In this episode

The Golden Boys christen their shiny new Riverside.fm studio — which mostly means Trevor abusing a soundboard for 40 straight minutes. They relitigate the infamous “funniest host” poll (spoiler: a mic stand did suspiciously well), dig into Carnival's new “Echo” casino offer tier, react to the fresh 1 AM curfew for kids, and officially open the SpeakPipe voicemail line so the community can start calling in.

What they covered

Topics on deck

Don’t miss

Moments worth the wait

• The poll goes off the rails — listeners could add their own options, so Reese wins among the actual hosts while non-host Julia Addison Hayes takes first overall — and both Trevor and Tom lose to “Trevor's mic stand” and Trent.

  “I'm going to scrub these results because people voted twice... I'm going to call myself the winner.” — “There were chads that were not fully punched out.” — “Stop the steal!”

• Same-brain math — the hosts attempt some face-saving arithmetic to reclaim their dignity.

  “We share the same brain, so we technically won.” — “If you add our scores together, the best we do is freaking tie with Reese.”

• Container-ship fan-fiction — the ~$100/day, no-frills container-ship “cruise” pitch spirals into a very specific vacation scenario.

  “Say the line! Say the line! 'I'm the captain now!' ... Look, honey, there's a pirate with an AR-15 to my neck. Quick, take a picture!”

• Curfew hot take — Carnival's new 1 AM cutoff for kids 17 and under gets the crew brainstorming escalating (and entirely invented) consequences.

  “If you've got a kid staying out past 1 AM, what are they doing on the ship that early?”

• The rival-channel tease — a brand-new intro line is born to poach viewers from the other cruise-news guys.

  “When you want better cruise news... when you're done with them, come to us. That's going to be our intro.”