Getting Married on a Cruise, Man Overboard and Much more

In this episode

A miracle man-overboard rescue off the Valor kicks things off before Trevor delivers his complete, warts-and-all guide to getting married on a Carnival ship for his sixth anniversary. Expect an instant Long Island Iced Tea, a vetoed "Milkshake" first dance, and a best man who wandered a drunken muster drill asking strangers for C4. Cruise news, listener questions, and the definitive human-soup hot-tub ruling round it out.

What they covered

Topics on deck

Don’t miss

Moments worth the wait

• The overboard timeline — A 20-year-old takes a "bathroom break" at 11 p.m., isn't reported missing until noon the next day, and is pulled from the Gulf alive.

  "Sounds to me like he's off the side of the ship."

• The instant drink — At Trevor's rainy Carnival Breeze wedding (Dec 4, 2016, 28 guests, ~$4,000 all-in), the coordinator senses his stress and produces a Long Island Iced Tea "within an instant" — and Tom, the best man, is still bitter.

  "I'm the best man and she didn't offer me a drink."

• The best-man speech that never was — Tom had grand plans, all cut to four minutes.

  "There were going to be costume changes. I was going to have Eddie Vedder play a guitar solo."

• First-dance chaos — Trevor lobbied hard for "Milkshake," Megan vetoed everything, and neither man can dance.

  "Circle, circle, circle."

• Have you seen C4? — Drunk post-reception Tom roams the ship at the muster drill hunting for station C4 and gets the drill stopped for being too loud.

  "Have you seen C4? Do you know where C4 is?... I'm surprised I didn't go to the brig."

• Human soup — Listener Catherine's hot-tub question earns an immortal ruling.

  "Hot tubs are human soup... the kids and the baby-makers can keep it."