5 Years Later: Grading Our First-Ever Cruise Tips

In this episode

Five years, 200-plus episodes, and one gloriously cringey comb-over later, the crew rewinds to episode one to grade their own baby-podcaster advice — a warm, self-roasting victory lap that proves the drink-of-the-day cup is still a $30 mistake.

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Moments worth the wait

• The milestone framing — the crew marks half a decade of a show nobody expected to last.

  “This show has been going on for five years, which is ridiculous. I don't know how that happened. And the longest-running thing we've ever done.”

• Comb-over cringe — rewatching Trevor's original comb-over video sends Tom into on-camera despair.

  “You can see me physically die.”

• Tip #1 still holds — follow John Heald on Facebook; a callback that Heald once replied to their launch post, and lore that 20-plus cruise directors' favorite onboard meal turned out to be "a salad."
• The best surviving advice — the drink-of-the-day cup trap, still a rookie tax.

  “Get the drink of the day, but don't buy the cup. The drink is $15, the cup is $15. That is a $30 drink.”

• Graded down to “just a task” — get your key card, download the HUB app, airplane mode — warm ribbing at their 2020 selves "still finding our voice."
• Tim finally pays out — the time-traveling correspondent coughs up his long-promised numbers.

  “27 13 15 19 14 3 7 and the Pellball was 18.”