00:00:33.980And that's what we're going to talk about today because we watched this and I had all of the feelings.
00:00:40.780And I was like, I got to talk about this with someone.
00:00:45.420And so here we are prepared to be so grossed out, prepared to never want to get on a boat ever again.
00:00:53.080Before we dive into it, I have to do the quickest of promotions to let you know that Everyone is Lying to is coming out in two short weeks.
00:02:05.500So first off, we had a free night last night.
00:02:08.960But we're in between TV shows because we've tried out a lot of shows and we didn't get into them.
00:02:14.800And I think it's harder than ever to find what you want to watch.
00:02:18.040I miss the days like I don't miss the days of all commercials, but I miss the days of seeing movie trailers like when I was watching TV, because I feel like we all used to have a collective sense of what movies were available to watch.
00:02:31.200And then we'd go to Blockbuster to get them.
00:06:48.120how can you float by a glacier when you're
00:06:50.540right next to Newt Gingrich and not be like
00:06:52.140don't you think it's melting that's a whole again story for another time a whole other podcast
00:06:57.420anyway so back to poop cruise so the thing ran out of power you know what happened first that
00:07:03.220you know electricity's out everybody gets woken up at five in the morning of course they're all
00:07:07.240hung over because it's carnival cruise line they're so hung over like everyone all of it
00:07:11.440all of the videos is just of them getting hammered and three of the people interviewed in this are
00:07:17.120women on a bachelorette party and like all they want to do is get blasted and so they land in
00:07:23.600cozumel before before the power goes out and there's actual videos and pictures of these1.00
00:07:29.440women crawling on the floor to get back to their cabin because they drink so much at this beach
00:07:34.160in cozumel and look i've been there okay yeah i i've i've done that i get it like she's having0.99
00:07:39.860a bachelorette party but one of the number one one of the first complaints when everything stops
00:07:45.940working is they shut the bars down and people are pissed that they can't drink and then they realize
00:07:51.860that the toilets won't flush yeah and there's this one there's like a cruise ship director who's kind
00:07:58.400of like julie from the love boat and she's the voice of god here and i love her so much she has
00:08:03.340this british accent jen like hello it's jen um that's my bad british accent and she has to keep
00:08:10.460announcing these terrible things like oh my gosh the toilets are no longer flushing you're going to
00:08:16.760have to urinate in the showers and if it's a number two bags will be distributed so they
00:08:24.920distribute these red like biohazard bags and tell people they have to poop in them and then put them
00:08:31.220in a trash bin outside their room and no one wants to poop in them and there's this one guy who's
00:08:37.020there on his first vacation with his father-in-law and all he wants to do is impress his father-in-law
00:08:41.300so he decides he will not poop until he gets off this ship or he will not poop in the red bag
00:08:45.340yes good characters well chosen well chosen characters well and then my my other favorite
00:08:50.640character is a russian bartender because they try to do their best we don't know if she was
00:08:55.440russian she was former soviet union could have been ukrainian belarus yeah okay yeah she said
00:09:00.340former Soviet Union uh I'm typecasting her but she she loves being a bartender on this cruise ship
00:09:09.800and they really they do a good job of doing the upstairs downstairs of the cruise the paying
00:09:14.060guests and then the people that are are working for them and you know she's she she she likes to
00:09:21.180point out that everyone on the staff is doing it all the time and that when she is awoken by this
00:09:27.000alarm at five in the morning she is in bed with one of the engineers yes who leaps out of bed
00:09:33.100puts on his you know whatever your safety outfit is and races down to the engine room to find it
00:09:39.560engulfed in flames they manage to put out the fire they realize it's a much bigger problem than they
00:09:45.460had previously thought the electric system is totally shot the boat is just dead in the water
00:09:51.620And my other favorite part about this bartender is, like, as this progresses and this becomes, I'm not going to say it's full Lord of the Flies, but it's not good what happens on this boat.
00:10:02.400These people cannot handle hardship at all.0.83
00:10:07.080And the former Soviet Union-born bartender is just mocking how soft all of these Americans are.
00:10:14.460She's like, now you know what my life was like.
00:10:16.420We should never do Russian license, by the way.0.99
00:12:05.960You don't see a lot of them because it's really just a lot of people getting wasted in very small.
00:12:12.380like a lot of fat men in very small bathing suits is what you say um and i don't care if i'm body0.77
00:12:17.480shaving gross men i really don't i never feel bad about body shaving men uh anyway big men large0.95
00:12:23.300large men who should not be wearing tiny wiener bikiners and so yeah they open the bar and then0.99
00:12:30.100people are like peeing off the balconies and it's just it's madness so then they have to shut down0.98
00:12:35.440the bar again and everyone's pissed off again and then one of the sister cruise ships comes by
00:12:43.400but they can't like just jump off and get on like logistically that's impossible it was unclear why
00:12:49.360the sister cruise ship even bothered because they were giving food they gave them food because all
00:12:54.760the food was going bad um they didn't rescue anybody i mean every all the people on the other
00:12:59.440ships are waved and partied and they're just like mocking them they're just like taking videos of
00:13:03.640them and mocking them and like they're continuing on their bar is still open they're still like
00:13:07.600well fed and these people have built tent cities at this point on top of this boat uh but the ship
00:13:14.960came close enough that they got cell service right because all the cell service on the boat was out
00:13:19.480you know junkies everyone hurls themselves to the railing to make them calls and text messages and
00:13:27.240that's how the media found out that's how the media found out and then cnn took advantage of
00:13:31.800this because this is when like 2013 cnn's not doing great in the ratings and they're like we
00:13:36.560are going to capitalize on poop cruise yes yeah and they did um and i mean that's that's about it
00:13:43.040like they it's very entertaining it was more entertaining than it should have been i liked
00:13:48.960the characters i mean i was just like i really was laughing out loud the whole time it made me
00:13:55.820never want to go on a cruise ever literally ever um i mean even the but the riverboat cruises i'm
00:14:06.200like i could just swim to shore right and i kept thinking didn't you keep thinking what you would
00:14:10.460do on poop cruise because i'm like what if i may i mean i have a whole download of this you know
00:14:16.600no it didn't look i've never been particularly enthusiastic about taking one of these maybe
00:14:22.040cruises anyway i'd be willing to do it just to say i've done it see i like the idea of children
00:14:26.940being contained in one place and also with like some level of child care occupation and you know
00:14:33.500you go someplace there's a beach and it doesn't really matter where it is totally totally i mean
00:14:37.820but i've only and i've only been on one cruise when i was the editor of yahoo travel they sent
00:14:42.080me on a top chef cruise that went from new york where i was living to bermuda and i don't even
00:14:47.040remember there were two top chef contestants on it and they're like the celebrities on the cruise
00:14:51.040and they were a bunch they were like total douchebag dudes who were just trying to like
00:14:54.500do it with as many girls on the boat as possible but they did all these cooking demonstrations
00:14:59.980and stuff i felt a little bit claustrophobic yeah on this cruise um you know so yeah i don't know i
00:15:09.000don't know if we are cruise people a lot of my friends like the disney cruises um i'm willing
00:15:14.240I'm willing to try anything once, but I have to, like, this did make me, I definitely won't go on a carnival cruise.
00:15:22.600Have we jumped carnival stock price since this became the, like, number one show on Netflix?
00:15:26.240If I may, I'm going to get to the whole thing.
00:15:27.900I mean, you know, evidently it didn't ultimately hurt carnival very much because they managed to handle it, and there's more to that story.
00:15:35.000Oh, I was thinking maybe we should take one quick break, but you know what?
00:16:43.200Well, but anyway, here's why I thought it was so great.
00:16:48.880Number one, first of all, I don't remember.
00:16:51.420I vaguely remember seeing like one news item about this and thinking, well, that's interesting and drugging it off.
00:16:58.140I do not recall this being a media sensation.
00:17:00.240I don't either. But I'm trying to figure out when we launched Yahoo Travel because I was a travel editor at this point. And I was texting my former colleagues from Yahoo Travel and was like, did we cover this? And Laura, Laura Begley Bloom was like, I do like, I do think we did this. I do. But I'm like, we loved traffic so much that I can't believe we didn't just fully capitalize on this. But it might have been right when we were launching.
00:17:25.280Maybe it was just before. It was like two years.
00:17:27.700You and I got married in 2015 and Yahoo was almost done.
00:18:48.740But the fact that no, like, everyone was so freaked out about the bag poopage was very interesting to me.
00:18:56.880Well, but what I think they did was they took what was, you know, a potentially humorous, you know, situation with some trauma, some mild trauma.