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Clothing optional, jokes mandatory. The Golden Boys tackle the buff-and-breezy world of the nude cruise, dismantle chair-hog schemes, and stress-test travel insurance with a pregnant-passenger cautionary tale — all while Tom infiltrates the Platinum party he technically wasn't invited to.
What they covered
Topics on deck
The annual nude cruise on the Pride
Carnival's chair-hog crackdown
Pregnant passenger turned away in Brisbane
The Platinum/Diamond gift saga
Coming VIFP loyalty changes
Tom crashing the Platinum party
Trevor's beard is gone
Don’t miss
Moments worth the wait
- The buff-and-breezy hook — The yearly nude cruise out of Tampa drops the day after this episode.
“The people who are getting on after them is going to get on late because of all the disinfection… it's mainly gonna be old guys like us.”
- A bartender's honest review — Word from someone who actually worked that sailing.
“it is not the most rewarding experience to be on that cruise… there's gonna be a lot of butts.”
- Chair-hog entrepreneurship — A “entitlement of the seas” pool-seat racket.
“and if you paid them $25 they would… let you know which book was yours.”
- Travel-insurance lesson — The pregnant passenger denied boarding at 26 weeks.
“it's still her responsibility to know what the rules are.”
- Tom, undercover — Caught sneaking into the Platinum & Diamond party on a Gold card.
“I snuck in… this over with the espionage.”
- A new mock ship — Trevor's prediction bit debuts another name.
“The fourth carnival ship is going to be called the Fiesta… out of Long Beach.”
- Big change — Trevor reveals the beard has been retired.
“The beard is gone. I'm beardless… it was time for a change.”
Golden nuggets
Running bits & lore born here
- Gary's rotating surname — Our co-host's last name keeps happily reinventing itself week to week.
- “What did you say to John Heald?” — The interruption gag returns, and this time Tom takes the bait.
- “Margaret” the double-Diamond diva — Madison's status-obsessed persona flexes her tenure: “my 300 days just dwarfs whatever you got going on.”
- The card-status war — Blue vs. Gold vs. Platinum bragging rights rage on, plus Tom's ever-present breakfast-burrito countdown.
- FRGC3 plug — The group cruise gets pitched again via Have Luggage Will Travel.
- “Katy Perry” the baby — A true story of a couple who got pregnant on a 2017 cruise fuels Trevor's push to name the baby Katy Perry.