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The one-year anniversary Facebook Live, warts and all — and, they declare, "technically the first episode of season two." A record-breaking seven loyal cult members pack the chat for a live, unedited Q&A spanning flying deck furniture, a Shaq-and-Heald dream-guest wishlist, six-toed Key West cats, and enough food worship to make you weep. No editing to hide behind, and the year closes on a unanimous vote to do more lives.
What they covered
Topics on deck
Live unedited Q&A
Things thrown overboard
Season-two plans
Dream guests
Food worship
Galveston's fourth pier
Virgin Voyages & Margaritaville
Key West overnight wishes
Don’t miss
Moments worth the wait
- Seven viewers, ranked — A homemade "inaugural episode" recreation is sabotaged by stream lag; a record SEVEN viewers attend, and every one levels up a cult rank.
"If you're listening on the podcast and didn't watch live, move down a step."
- Overboard stories — A viral clip of a crewman hurling wicker spa furniture off the MS Baltic Princess, the time ice rained down at the RedFrog ("basically a giant BB gun"), and karma for a cigarette flicked off the stern.
"I've been tempted to toss the person I was with once or twice."
- Dream-guest draft — John Heald and Shaquille O'Neal top the list; Tom wants Neil deGrasse Tyson to relitigate Pluto.
"We could maybe get him to change his mind."
- Food gospel — Blue Iguana breakfast burritos ("two burritos every morning"), 12-hour French toast, and Cucina del Capitano lasagna.
"If you have had it, why didn't you weep?"
- Six-toed cats — Hemingway's Key West cats spark a Princess Bride bit, plus the key-lime commandment.
"Don't start at Kermit's. You END at Kermit's."
- Standing ovulation — Reese signs off to go do karaoke at Indigo in Oklahoma City, and the year closes on a unanimous vote for more lives.
"I always get a standing ovulation."
Golden nuggets
Running bits & lore born here
- Cult ranks go official — The listener community is formally addressed and ranked live, with viewers leveling up and podcast-only listeners bumped down a step.
- Bobby's fried chicken — The beloved menu item that Carnival "put on the menu just for you, buddy" — and yes, someone in chat already paid the $5 third-plate charge for it.
- Cruise-director hall of fame — Cookie ("lady, you're barking up the wrong tree") and Lee, "the cream of the crop," awaiting them on the Family Reunion Group Cruise.
- The YouTube-channel rule — ReeseGate hazing hardens into law: "when you go on the group cruise you're going to have to create a YouTube channel — that's like a rule."
- Crazy cat man Tom — Tom is outed as a feeder of Key West strays named Boots and Winky — and "we have merch" caps the sign-off.