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It's a newsy one — priority boarding returns, the steakhouse jumps to $48, a third main-dining entrée now costs $5, lobster drops to one night, and, most catastrophically, 24-hour ice cream is dead. That last one triggers Tom's finest on-air grief spiral. Along the way Carnival takes possession of the Celebration, the Ecstasy gets tracked through the Mediterranean toward the breakers, and Reese finally debuts his long-promised History of Cruise Ships segment.
What they covered
Topics on deck
Priority boarding returns
Steakhouse $43 → $48
$5 third entrée
Lobster cut to one night
No more 24-hour ice cream
Celebration handover
Ecstasy tracker
History of Cruise Ships
Don’t miss
Moments worth the wait
- Tom's ice-cream meltdown — losing round-the-clock soft serve is a genuine wound, and Trevor announces a “support group” with a class-action attorney.
“Why take away my 24 hour ice cream?... you're taking away my breakfast ice cream.”
- Newly platinum, freshly roasted — Trevor enjoys perks he only just earned, and Tom won't let it slide.
“None of y'all are platinum... waiting till 1:30 like the plebs should.”
- Three downloads from Australia — a kangaroo-and-koala riff meets a live analytics check.
“We've had three downloads from Australia, guys.” — “Oh, there goes those three listeners.”
- Throw them under the boat — Trevor's third ignored media request to Carnival sparks a keel-coin crusade.
“Until someone answers what happens to a scrapped ship's keel coin.”
- History segment, finally — Reese debuts with the 1889 Augusta Victoria after Trevor's soundboard sabotages the intro.
“A fast cruise seems to defeat the purpose to me.”
Golden nuggets
Running bits & lore born here
- The cover-art campaign — mounting community pressure pushes Trevor to finally agree to add Reese to the podcast artwork.
- A mustache over the eyebrows — Reese pitches a doctored clone photo “to lower expectations for when people meet me.”
- Ignored media requests — the running “throw them under the boat” bit is born as Carnival keeps leaving the keel-coin question on read.
- Pineapple heresy resurfaces — Reese's pro-pineapple-pizza stance returns: “We're losing pineapple under the sea.”
- The support group — Tom's ice-cream “peaceful protest” is instantly rebranded a “disgruntled protest.”