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Tom skips his favorite holiday (it's tradition!) to spend Thanksgiving with his mother in Dallas, so Trevor and a possibly-duct-taped Reese host a bonus clip show stuffed with flashbacks. Between hostage-video disclaimers and lobster-tail economics, they revisit the mermaid-dip incident and Trevor's legendary Long Island Iced Tea clamshell saga. A warm, weird, giving-thanks kind of episode.
What they covered
Topics on deck
Thanksgiving bonus special
Flashback clips
$5 third-entrée charge
Royal Caribbean lobster fees
Celebration's first Thanksgiving cruise
ReeseGate t-shirt fundraiser
Kathie Lee Gifford
Holiday-decorating debates
Don’t miss
Moments worth the wait
- The hostage-video cold open — Reese opens with a disclaimer that no kidnapping occurred, then spends the episode quietly begging for a beverage.
"They did not kidnap me or tie me up, repeat, they did not do this."
- Lobster economics — A perspective check on the outrage cycle: Carnival's $5 third entrée versus Royal Caribbean charging $16.99 plus gratuity for a second lobster tail.
"I get down on some sea bugs."
- The #CCPtoJubilee flashback — A clip resurfaces of the campaign to get "the premier Carnival podcast" invited to the inaugural, settling humbly for "the captain's suite with the balcony on top of the bridge."
"Not the Chinese Communist Party... we really need to rethink this."
- The mermaid, retold — Blue-card baby Reese tries to dance-dip the Cozumel mermaid photo model for a sixth Wall of Fame appearance, and she nearly hits the deck.
"I made a mermaid scream." "You angered the pixel gods."
- The clamshell saga in full — Trevor drinks every bar's Long Island Iced Tea on the Sunshine, passes out in a Serenity-deck clamshell, and wakes to a barefoot walk of shame to retrieve his shoes.
- Celebration star power — Kathie Lee Gifford (godmother of the original Celebration; her daughter christens the new one) and John Heald aboard — plus a pointed refusal to name a certain YouTuber.
"He's a dirty liar that should never be on YouTube ever."
Golden nuggets
Running bits & lore born here
- Tom skips Thanksgiving — Establishing the tradition that Thomas, whose favorite holiday this is, will never be part of the Thanksgiving show. Founding entry in the annual bit.
- ReeseGate merch — The t-shirt fundraiser whose proceeds send Reese on the Family Reunion Group Cruise gets its official launch here.
- The unnamed banned YouTuber — The "dirty liar" who "should never be on YouTube ever" enters the lore as a recurring he-who-must-not-be-named.
- Canned cranberry sauce — The immortal "ribbed for my pleasure" ruling on canned cranberry, plus Reese defending Halloween against "your favorite holiday is a marketing ploy."
- Sign-off mutation — The classic sign-off shifts to "whatever transpires on a cruise stays on social media."