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Trevor thaws out enough to deliver a genuinely great Alaska travelogue — glaciers, gold-rush ghosts, burping sea lions, and a saloon full of “good time girls” — while stubbornly refusing to admit he ever actually saw the northern lights.
What they covered
Topics on deck
14-day Carnival Spirit Alaska cruise
Ketchikan
Tracy Arm Fjord
Skagway & the Red Onion Saloon
Juneau & the Red Dog Saloon
Victoria
Wildlife & excursions
The northern-lights debate
Don’t miss
Moments worth the wait
- Gary’s morbid running bit — a dark thought experiment about who would show up.
“I honestly thought about the other day of faking my own death and just having my own funeral just to see who would show up.”
- The Ketchikan power outage — the lights go out mid-meal at The Fish House.
“we were in that restaurant when the power went out… their fryers, everything shut off.”
- Skagway’s “good time girls” — the Red Onion Saloon walking tour led by Madame Purity.
“we were all like her whores and training… every time we came to a street she would go, ‘whoa, look at all this traffic.’”
- The burping sea lions — Trevor’s unforgettable description of the wildlife.
“you’ll know they’re there before you see them. Because it just sounds like 500 old men burping.”
- The northern-lights hot take — Trevor stands firm on what counts as “seeing” them.
“Until I see that with the naked eye, I don’t feel like I fully have seen the northern lights… I saw the green tint of the sky.”
- Megan’s casino cameo — Trevor’s wife loses her whole free-play in one push.
“It was a $25 spin. It was gone. One button push.”
- Trevor’s verdict — Alaska cracks his all-time top two.
“I like Alaska way better than I like Caribbean.”
Golden nuggets
Running bits & lore born here
- “There’s a whale!” — the glare gag mocking Trevor’s barely-visible wildlife sightings continues.
- Beaver tooth vs. squirrel — Gary’s giant “beaver tooth” versus Trevor insisting it’s a squirrel — a running visual bit for Spotify viewers, plus the “grackle”/trash-bird tangent later paid off by Tim’s “bin chicken.”
- Bears after Trevor — the bears-at-every-stop gag rolls on, complete with a trigger-warning callback.
- Monster-energy investment — Gary’s stock bit: “I’ll give you two pennies… for every monster you buy.”
- FRGC3 / CCP crew cruise — the Alaska trip framed as the scouting mission for the group cruise, plus a plug for the Josh & Amanda group cruise.
- Breakfast-burrito sign-off — the breakfast-burrito outro sails on.