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With Trevor down for the COVID count, Tom and Jenn tackle a runaway lifeboat, a heartbreaking man-overboard, and eight-hour port delays — then pivot to Jenn's grand plan to conquer Princess's “Voice of the Ocean.” Bonus: the full, glorious tale of Tom's “I bet against the Chiefs” street-corner shame.
What they covered
Topics on deck
Runaway lifeboat on Carnival Dream
Man-overboard search on Carnival Radiance
Carnival Horizon port delay & missed flights
Princess's Voice of the Ocean contest
Tom's Kansas City grave tour
Don’t miss
Moments worth the wait
- The cold-open jab — Tom explains Trevor's absence with zero mercy, and Jenn counts her blessings.
“As you can see Trevor is not here because he's a loser and got covid again.”
- The lifeboat mishap — A test goes sideways and nobody quite knows what an “unmanned test” even is.
“In a bizarre incident a lifeboat Carnival Dream broke off the ship and fell into the water.”
- A sobering man-overboard — The Carnival Radiance report lands quietly and heavily.
“The passenger was watching dolphins near the back of the boat.”
- Vindication for the early birds — The missed-flight saga proves the “arrive four days early, leave seven days late” cruisers right.
“I see, that's where they have a point.”
- “Voice of the Ocean,” explained — Jenn breaks down the contest she fully intends to win.
“An onboard singing competition on select Princess cruises modeled after the TV show The Voice.”
- Jenn, heir to Cronkite — She signs off as the last real journalist standing.
“The last real journalist according to Mr. Kennedy… and that's the way it is.”
Golden nuggets
Running bits & lore born here
- Frozen-Jenn callback — The crew confesses to spreading “the rumor that you were actually frozen last week” — and pins the picture choice squarely on Trevor.
- The rigged poll — A group poll with exactly one option: camp outside Travis Kelce's house for a Taylor Swift sighting (84%), with Jenn casting the lone dissenting vote.
- “I bet against the Chiefs” — Tom's Chiefs humiliation bet, paid off on a Tulsa street corner and immortalized as his very first TikTok upload.
- Reese's karaoke obsession — The crew's karaoke king resurfaces once again.
- Thanksgiving sign-off — Jenn's Hawaii countdown hits 43 days, wrapped with the holiday warning that “your grandparents will still slap you.”